Outpost AvP
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WHAT IS OUTPOSTAVP?
OutpostAvP is a community and news website devoted to the Alien, Predator and Aliens vs. Predator games and movies. It was officially founded by four veteran members of PlanetAvP, as a successor to the now-moribund website after its site director, David Shipley, disappeared five months earlier. While not as large or as active as other, older websites, it carries on PlanetAvP's legacy — a new, better home for the veterans the PlanetAvP community. Welcome... to the Aliens vs. Predator frontier.
A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR.
OutpostAvP is something more than "just a site". It is a community. It is our home, our place to gather and mingle on these mostly insane seas of the interwebs. Although money and victory are noble goals, OutpostAvP wasn't built to rake in mad profits or win popularity contests. It was built with the sole intention of giving us a new home, giving us a site we actually want to go to. We wanted a site that could be called "home".
OutpostAvP's history is directly tied with the Aliens vs. Predator fansite PlanetAvP and its site director, the infamous David Shipley. A long time ago, PlanetAvP was the one-stop-shop for all things Aliens vs. Predator, and, buoyed by GameSpy's Planet network, it was once the biggest AvP fansite on the internet. Our beginnings are with PlanetAvP. All of our founders and the vast majority of our staff are veterans from PlanetAvP. So what happened? Why did we jump ship to make a new website? Well, all things that rise must also fall.
Things were great at PlanetAvP for a long time, except for the occasional flame war, but it wouldn't last forever. In 2007, GameSpy rolled out a brand-new forum system, and PlanetAvP was selected to receive it first. This was the beginning of the end for us. The new forums were so sluggish, they was so ugly, and they was so atrociously bad that they eventually drove away almost all but the die-hard members of the PlanetAvP community. There were no more of the dozens of occasional visitors or one-time guests who helped PlanetAvP thrive.
After the release of the new forums, almost all contact between the community, the site staff, and the site director fell apart. The original content that PlanetAvP was known for, such as AvP art and stories, and official features like Bob and Progg's World and staff columns, slowly withered away. There was a great rift between the main site and its forum. Over the next few years, the forumers (and the remaining site staff) stayed in the forums and the site director, David Shipley, continued to post news on the front page. The forums were withering away as well, as members disappeared without goodbyes and activity slowed.
In 2009, the remaining members in the forums realized their predicament. It was do something or watch this great community completely die out. The ones who were left banded together and decided to act. First, we decided to send an email to PlanetAvP's site director, Shipley. We wanted to reach out and offer new ways to communicate between site and forums. We wanted to re-staff PlanetAvP and get the site moving again. Instead of just news posts, we would have original content again. We hoped that this extended hand would finally give at least a tiny boost to our community. David Shipley had left just days before the email was sent. We waited weeks, but there was no reply. We even contacted GameSpy to see if our missing site director could be replaced, but unfortunately, there was nothing they could do. With no one left even to post news, and no staff who could control the website, PlanetAvP had finally died.
We were stumped. What else could be done? And then someone proposed making a new site, which seemed like an unrealistic idea at first, but concepts and ideas started to fly around. We didn't want just a mechanical newsfeed or encyclopedia, but a site about a hardened and determined community. By the community, for the community.
And so... here we are.
OutpostAvP is a community and news website devoted to the Alien, Predator and Aliens vs. Predator games and movies. It was officially founded by four veteran members of PlanetAvP, as a successor to the now-moribund website after its site director, David Shipley, disappeared five months earlier. While not as large or as active as other, older websites, it carries on PlanetAvP's legacy — a new, better home for the veterans the PlanetAvP community. Welcome... to the Aliens vs. Predator frontier.
A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR.
OutpostAvP is something more than "just a site". It is a community. It is our home, our place to gather and mingle on these mostly insane seas of the interwebs. Although money and victory are noble goals, OutpostAvP wasn't built to rake in mad profits or win popularity contests. It was built with the sole intention of giving us a new home, giving us a site we actually want to go to. We wanted a site that could be called "home".
OutpostAvP's history is directly tied with the Aliens vs. Predator fansite PlanetAvP and its site director, the infamous David Shipley. A long time ago, PlanetAvP was the one-stop-shop for all things Aliens vs. Predator, and, buoyed by GameSpy's Planet network, it was once the biggest AvP fansite on the internet. Our beginnings are with PlanetAvP. All of our founders and the vast majority of our staff are veterans from PlanetAvP. So what happened? Why did we jump ship to make a new website? Well, all things that rise must also fall.
Things were great at PlanetAvP for a long time, except for the occasional flame war, but it wouldn't last forever. In 2007, GameSpy rolled out a brand-new forum system, and PlanetAvP was selected to receive it first. This was the beginning of the end for us. The new forums were so sluggish, they was so ugly, and they was so atrociously bad that they eventually drove away almost all but the die-hard members of the PlanetAvP community. There were no more of the dozens of occasional visitors or one-time guests who helped PlanetAvP thrive.
After the release of the new forums, almost all contact between the community, the site staff, and the site director fell apart. The original content that PlanetAvP was known for, such as AvP art and stories, and official features like Bob and Progg's World and staff columns, slowly withered away. There was a great rift between the main site and its forum. Over the next few years, the forumers (and the remaining site staff) stayed in the forums and the site director, David Shipley, continued to post news on the front page. The forums were withering away as well, as members disappeared without goodbyes and activity slowed.
In 2009, the remaining members in the forums realized their predicament. It was do something or watch this great community completely die out. The ones who were left banded together and decided to act. First, we decided to send an email to PlanetAvP's site director, Shipley. We wanted to reach out and offer new ways to communicate between site and forums. We wanted to re-staff PlanetAvP and get the site moving again. Instead of just news posts, we would have original content again. We hoped that this extended hand would finally give at least a tiny boost to our community. David Shipley had left just days before the email was sent. We waited weeks, but there was no reply. We even contacted GameSpy to see if our missing site director could be replaced, but unfortunately, there was nothing they could do. With no one left even to post news, and no staff who could control the website, PlanetAvP had finally died.
We were stumped. What else could be done? And then someone proposed making a new site, which seemed like an unrealistic idea at first, but concepts and ideas started to fly around. We didn't want just a mechanical newsfeed or encyclopedia, but a site about a hardened and determined community. By the community, for the community.
And so... here we are.
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