Back in May, after talking to Dragon God (one of the regular staff), I have posted a thread on the staff forums to steer things up, since there was pretty much no activity for the past months. My plan was, if Lucy (aka Chudah, webmaster) would accept, to redo the site from the ground up, with new functionalities that would have revived the interest of the viewers in CC. It was an ambitious project. With the help of Jacen, my best friend, we would have used Django, a web framwork based on Python, has foundation to built the new site, adding to it functions like an universal layout, a dynamic search engine, a community section, an user panel... And the list goes on. It was without to say that she was really interested in this project.
So after a few meetings with the staff, I've started to work, around the end of June, on what would become the most beautiful layout that I've never created before, code-named "Rebirth".
I was really into this project, taking great pride in the creation of this layout. Unfortunately, after three weeks of hard work, my efforts were cut short when Lucy told me that her sister couldn't wait for me to finish it. A week before that, she told me that her sister would be coding for the new site. I was really pissed off, but I understood her. She was under a lot of stress from our competitor, VGMdb. Even though I was not sharing her view, I told her that I was alright with this. Nonetheless, I added that I would still finished my layout, if she would ever like to use it. The new site, coded and designed by her sister and brother-in-law, came online at the end of July.
Since this is my blog, and that I'm entitle to my own opinions, I will share my thoughts and feelings on this matter. This so-called remodeling was utterly ugly. It was far from my initial ideas that Lucy and the staff agreed upon. The layouts were a real mess... Yes, you read right... "Layouts", because there were more than one, one for each sections in fact. You can thanked her sister and brother-in-law for using pre-coded PHP scripts. Although, the worse part is that her sister charged her for this MEDIOCRE CI, in capital letters! Me and my best bud were going to it for free... FREE for god sake! I can understand that she wanted to give some job to her sister, who owns a web hosting company, but if she was my sister... I would have done it for free. Look at it in from any angles, it would have been free with me.
Anyway, after the new site was up and running, we didn't have any news from Lucy afterward. She completely disappeared from the face of the web. Me and Zane (an other regular staff member) wrote countless emails to her, hoping that she would give us some news... We were really worried, not for the future of the site, but for her well-being. We never received any reply from her... Zip, Zero, Nada. It was decided then that I would send an email to her sister, who also didn't replied at first. Thing really went downhill from there on. After a few tries, in which I wrote that if not replied we would send an email each week until we could know if Lucy is doing well, her sister responded "that threatening to harrass someone once a week to get an answer out of them is the way to go. It does not paint you as being merely being concerned, but as being demanding and pushy". For god sake, we were only concerned about her well-being. Suffice to say, we stopped sending emails, to either of them. If Lucy was going to give us any news, it was going to be on her own accord.
It might not be official, but Chudah's Corner is dead... The forums are empty. Most of the staff has not given any news. It has been months since the last update. It is painful for me, as I was seeing a lot of possibilities with my ideas, but I have to go on. Lucy, if you ever read this, don't be mad at me. I hope that you are doing well. If you ever want to talk, I'm here.
