Monday, May 21, 2007
Outposting No More
Martin Pollard has announced that his 20 May update of the Outpost Daria site will be his last, due primarily to personal matters. You can read his notes about the decision here. He expects to maintain the site’s presence on line until at least the end of this year.
Martin deserves a rousing cheer for keeping a site going for nearly nine years that has been a backbone of continuity, a richly detailed resource, and a storehouse of creativity — in, around, and (with fanworks) built upon the original series.
His clean and functional Web design, and comprehensive fanworks coverage, have both been huge assets to this fandom. As well as to me, and to many others, whose first sense of the richness and variety of the response to Daria came from his site.
I sincerely hope that Martin could ultimately transfer the Outpost’s contents and domain name to some other fan, or group of fans, who would continue it. Either later this year, resuming updates, or whenever he no longer chooses to bear the Web hosting costs.
In any event, he deserves our thanks, and his efforts will be sorely missed.
James will have his own perspective, I’m sure, from a much longer interaction with both Martin and his site. We want to hear yours, as well, so click on that link below and tell us about it.
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