Welcome to Halo Diehards – The Journey

7/24/12 10:47pm

Some interesting developments in the last month.

Halo 4 News breaks peaked, exploding with information overload, and now has devolved into less than a trickle of new content.

More Halo artists have written in with answers to interview questions, and three have gone up so far.

Work has started on creating a strategy team, as well as talk of videos that Halo Diehards would create and supply to the public for strategy lessons for teams and individuals to learn to take their gaming to the next level. Halo Diehards’ animated logo is in the works, as well as a banner to represent HD at other clan sites, community forums, events, etc. Attention is drifting back towards Clan Filter, and next up is for Halo Diehards to fill out an application and follow ups to occur with other clans who have expressed interest.

HD forums almost have enough members for us to join HaloUNITY as a Community, and Kings of Pain have taken Halo Diehards under their wing in supporting us for that membership, both by “advertising” in a bannerhead at their forums and uniting with us for an upcoming BTB Game Night.

More and more friends from days of old are making their way back to Halo:REACH in anticipation of Halo 4’s release in November. The excitement is like the distant rumblings of a storm blowing in that you know is going to rattle the windows, tear through trees and boom through your soul with concussive force.

I just got goosebumps.

 

6/21/12 10:37pm

Wow, it’s been awhile since an update on the Journey that is Halo Diehards has been made. The site has filled out, no longer the skin-and-bones creature it started out as. Seems to be providing a use for some gamers in keeping up on Halo 4 news and discussion with other diehards in the forums. Most of the updates to the site are being made in the forums, and posted there as well, come check it out: HD Forums

Weekly Thursday Custom Game Night is a hub for various gaming communities, who come together to shoot each other in the face, and more gamers are making their way back to REACH and Halo 3 with the hype of Halo 4 in their veins. Gaming life is good and it will only get better.

More interviews are underway, just waiting on content from the artists, and word of Clan Filter continues to be spread.

All in all, the site seems to be well received and is a joy for now to produce.

PS: As of yesterday, 10,490 visits – 6,762 of them unique. This does include the forums.

 

5/26/12 3:42pm PT

Updates being few and far between, work on the site continues daily. Working forums are finally up, and the to do list grows long, mostly focusing on those forums, which have become alive with the voices of diehards :D Up and coming features include breadcrumbs at the bottom of the pages as well as making the top ones more visible, and forum Ranks. There is another to do list that has vanished under the pile. In the future, content on the HD Home page will be organized by page and child-theme, making content more easily accessible and less cluster-****ed.

We conducted our first interview this week, and will continue to highlight and praise the Halo Diehard artists and creators. Writers are still needed for the site, and a possible perk will be an Xbox LIVE Gold gamertag on the “Family Account”.

The Clan Filter, which will point potential recruits to various clans by answering a series of questions, has been developed and is in the testing phase.

Trudge… trudge… trudge…

 

 

5/13/12 9:03pm PT

Just a few more days and it will be time to remove the “Under Construction” banner for the site! Forums are up and running, and seem to be working fine. Sheesh, about time. Getting plenty of traffic, but no members to date. Plans in the works for tomorrow include adding a link back to the main site from forums, log-ins that link the forums to the “blog” and the ability to register with different accounts like FaceBook.

Website tweaks should be coming to a close by the end of the week. What’s next? How about news stories with original content instead of cut-and-paste, with a side of entertainment, speculation and opinion? Future plans for the forums include creating a hub where gamers can come and describe how they play and what they are looking for in teammates, and a system that matches them with quality clans that currently display those qualities. Thinking big, you say? Why not?

 

5/9/12 11:48pm PT

Wow. Everything that can go wrong in trying to set up forums is going wrong. Failed installations, website host glitches, fix research dead-ends – it’s almost as if the Guardians have commissioned a rogue AI to inhabit the system and covertly mis-direct at every turn. What’s that!? Was that the tip of a tentacle just there, slinking back into that USB port? No, must be web-building delirium, it happens, you know…

But the show must go on! Diehards everywhere must have a place to converge and converse. Like that one dude in that movie said: “Never give up, never surrender!”

 

5/7/12 4:51pm PT

Well, attempt #*@#%!! at incorporating forums results in another big fat 0. Uploaded phpBB forums to server, followed directions for install and… nothing. “Page not found”. Good thing we’re Diehards. Someday we’ll have forums. Someday…

Back at it tomorrow. For now, it’s Halo Time! :D Spartanhawk Monday, and Jedi has a trick up his sleeve…

 

5/4/12 3:47pm PT

The forum saga continues! Stripping down to the bare bones and starting over, excited to see the outcome.  Should be good, but frustrated site isn’t ready to go public yet. In the meantime, will continue to post timely Halo 4 news and ideas for site content continue to trickle in.

Excitement for the release of Halo 4 is growing. There is a new addiction for this author, an addiction for Halo 4 news. Each new piece feeds the hope that dares to peek it’s timid head, reaching for the possibility that here is a game worth getting excited about. Is it possible that this game could wind up being the all encompassing, action-packed thrill ride that gamers have been craving for since Halo blew us away in the first place? Like the desperate, typo-filled ramblings of some kid commenting in all caps, seen recently at the bottom of a Halo 4 news story, I too beg: Please 343, don’t let us down…

 

5/2/12 3:26pm PT

On our fifth set of forums O.o It may have been awhile since posting an update, but there have been many changes along many hours that are seriously cutting into gaming time! It’s all for good, though, especially considering how things will slow down once it’s all in place.

Potential writers are coming out of the woodwork; who said gamers were slackers?!? Some of the most creative, talented and personable people can be found on LIVE.

The site continues to post up content sometimes days before the “competition”, something to be proud of. Graphics are coming along, and hopefully soon we can announce a working forum. Until then, in any spare moment, plug away, plug away – – and don’t forget to stop sometimes to eat, sleep and game!

 

4/26/12 9:05pm PT

Weird. Forums are installed along with an entire social playground, there is a page that is published that has a url, yet forums can’t be accessed… :/ Oh well, will play around with it more tomorrow. Read today that O’Conner has reason to believe people don’t like multiplayer, that most people play campaign because multiplayer is “intimidating”. This gamer wonders if the real reason isn’t because REACH multiplayer doesn’t perform like the game fans had come to love. I don’t know, maybe he’s just being PC.  >shrug<

 

4/24/12 5:33pm PT

Researching website ins and outs and a very sunny day was a bump in the road, but have added a bit of new content and worked out some major bugs since last update. Looking toward building forums now – – there’s an end in site! (misspell on purpose… ar! ar! ar! – yes, web building does make one crazy…)

Gotta write an “About Us”, FAQ, get the screensaver images up. New content will be added as we go along, including a blog and those forums. Think you can write? Message us: you can never have too many Diehards :D

 

4/18/12 5:18pm PT

Getting familiar with theme php and gallery settings. Finally working out the little things that can drive ya nuts! Persistence pays off.

 

4/17/12 9:16pm PT

Well, we didn’t make the deadline. Monday came and when somewhat anti-climatic as bugs in the website continue to be worked out. New Halo 4 information is being updated semi-regularly in a cut-and-paste sort of way until the site is well under way, then hopefully we’ll be able to add in some editorial spice. Currently working on bugs in the gallery so all the Halo 4 pics can be showcased, Halo:REACH noteworthy screenshots to come as well. Started the “Links” section and posted up Helljumpers. What’s next? Tomorrow will tell…

…later…

9:53pm PT   OMG can’t believe what just happened. One button reverted entire website to default setup. Thank the guardians all the images and info were still intact! Sheesh, the layout is all nerfed so will be tweaking on that to get it back to normal too. >sigh<

 

4/13/12 6:20pm PT

Almost have all the Halo 4 news up to date. There was a concern that the older content was posting side-by-side with newer content, which will be resolved by the addition of pages.

Categories to come include: Award Winning Screenshots (REACH), Competitive Halo info, Halo:REACH videos of various categories and Halo fan art. All content screened for quality: we much through the masses so you don’t have to!

 

4/11/12 5:38pm PT

The site is slowly coming together. We’ve been in contact with some potential writers/researchers/reporters today, and more research into the functionality of this theme. No word yet on the legalities of re-posting content, anyone out there in the know-how about this? Contact info has been added to the footer…

Will keep plugging away, hope to be able to announce the site by Monday of next week.

Any volunteers interested in writing for us, feel free to email…

 

4/6/12 3:32pm PT

Having trouble with the website theme. Have searched and searched for an answer and none is forthcoming. Can’t keep messing around with it today, will be back to continue troubleshooting tomorrow…

I’m sure once I get going content will explode. >sigh< I haven’t waited two years to start this project only to be stymied by stubborn php.

 

4/5/12 6:47pm PT

This site is currently under construction. Stay tuned for great things to come – we hope to soon be connecting you to the best of the best in Halo news and entertainment. Check back daily for updates. For now, I must go play Halo…

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