Some time in the last year or two, domain names asking a simple yes-or-no question have started popping up.1 The earliest examples I can think of would be Is it friday? and Is it Christmas?, neither of which have a hard-to-guess URL.
While an almost absurd amount of minimalism (coupled with unorthodoxly large font sizes) is typical, such sites have become somewhat less devoid of content recently. One such example, Are the iPhone APIs public yet? by Peter Hosey, even goes so far as to detail the provided answer in several paragraphs. An RSS feed alerts you when the answer changes (which, by now, it has).
And then there’s MORE. Uru, and the inevitably coupled Cyan Worlds, has been a rather tragic story especially for us more involved fans, and the most recent (vague) prospect has been MORE. With the indefinite hold of that, fellow fan vid has been asking “Is it MORE yet?”.
You can question, as I do, the effect (or lack thereof) this may have on much of anything. If the goal is the change the answer to the question, whose responsibility is it to do so?
Well, I have taken it on my responsibility to at least pose the question at a more public, permanent place. Is It MORE Yet?, in addition to giving a straight answer, also encourages visitors to do something about it, even if it is so little as to read or reply to vid’s thread.
After so many years, it is easy to give up hope. I personally find, as a hidden gem on the site suggests, that the goal isn’t quite as clearly defined as “just bring Uru online again”. But I’m also interested in everyone else coming up with their own answers.
- Has anyone coined a term for these yet? ↩
Others' Thoughts
Comment on November 2nd, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Good idea! Even with an RSS feed like those other websites you mention.
I wonder if people who don’t know about MOUL/MORE will happen to come across the website as well.
Comment on November 2nd, 2008 at 10:59 pm
This is a bit offtopic, but sort of on the subject of community:
I’ve been mostly locked out of my account on MYSTcommunity and haven’t been able to do anything about it or contact you otherwise (I’m not allowed to send any PMs or e-mails through the board or make any posts, and none of the e-mail addresses I’ve been able to find for you through MYSTcommunity or MYSTlore have worked for me.)
This started when I updated the e-mail address in my profile and the board software required me to re-validate my e-mail address. The server must be unable to send e-mail, as I’ve tried having it resend the validation message numerous times to various different e-mail accounts. In the meantime, I’m unable to post or use most other features of MYSTcommunity.
If you could either contact me via e-mail so we can figure this out, or manually validate my Mc account again, I’d be most grateful.
Once again, I’m sorry for posting this here, but I haven’t been able to contact you otherwise. Feel free to delete this comment.
Comment on November 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 am
Hi Ro’tahgahm,
sorry for the troubles. I’ve activated your account manually. Just post another comment here if it still won’t work.
Comment on November 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 am
Thanks. However, when I visit the board now I get the following:
which appears at the top of the page, and a normal IPB error message that says:
If I load the site on a computer that doesn’t have my login cookies set, the site loads normally, but when I try to log in, it tells me I have an invalid username or password.
Comment on November 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 am
Ouch. Try again? :\
Comment on November 3rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Yay, I’m back. Thanks!
Comment on November 9th, 2008 at 5:10 am
The original (AFAIK) was Is it November?. Sadly, it no longer exists.
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