Big Book of Amiga Hardware - new site and domain

[Nostalgiac]

bitman has a point though I'm afraid. http://bboah.de shows all menus and default texts in german. Granted there is a dropdown to switch individual pages to english, but it assumes  you know.

Personally, I dont care - read either - but I agree for english only people the german site is not really user-friendly/inviting :/

On the other hand... so sad to see:
- Ian holding on to the original domain without updates
- German site not having a better way of allowing english updates
- bitman opening another site
- http://amiga.resource.cx/ also being around

talk about duplicating effort ... guys (gals?) .. WORK TOGETHER !

Tom UK

[cgutjahr]

I've tried to get in contact with the other mirror - no luck yet.

I can try to help with that, if you don't get an answer.

Read carefully before shooting at people.

I was referring to post #8 in this thread, which you posted today. "last updated 3 years ago..." sounds a lot different to "I know they're still actively updating, if only the German mirror. I'm trying to contact them".

[bitman]

Yes, English section of bboah.de is from 2010. bboah.com is from 2010.
German version is up2date, which is nice. All data that I collect are free for the germans to use. And I hope to get permission to incoorporate the german updates in the new english version aswell.

Again, Ian thougth that the english version was dead, and let me make a mirror (me not being aware of the german version when i contacted Ian, and I wasn't told it by Ian that it existed)

bitman has a point though I'm afraid. http://bboah.de shows all menus and default texts in german. Granted there is a dropdown to switch individual pages to english, but it assumes  you know.

Personally, I dont care - read either - but I agree for english only people the german site is not really user-friendly/inviting :/

On the other hand... so sad to see:
- Ian holding on to the original domain without updates
- German site not having a better way of allowing english updates
- bitman opening another site
- http://amiga.resource.cx/ also being around

talk about duplicating effort ... guys (gals?) .. WORK TOGETHER !

Tom UK

[bitman]

"I know they're still actively updating, if only the German mirror. I'm trying to contact them".

You're right about that. Some answers tend to be too short .

Regarding contact with the guys at bboah.de would be nice. They have some data I'm missing, and I'm digging up a lot of great items atm.

All in all, it would have been nice to know that an active mirror existed - but since Ian didn't link to it, knowbody had a chance to know - I didn't know about it's existence until a few days ago (monday or so).

[Heiroglyph]

I knew it existed but since I don't read German I just assumed it was as dead as the others.

It sounds like an honest mistake that nobody actually involved has a problem with yet.

Let's just be happy that we'll have an English mirror and let the two sites work it out between themselves.

[Matt_H]

I was also unaware that bboah.de was still being maintained - I thought it was just as dormant as bboah.com. But the new site is forked from amiga-hardware.com which is much older.

I suggest working with the bboah.de guys to merge the content of the 2 sites so that we have active English and German mirrors.

[bitman]

I've tried to get in contact with BBOAH.de guys for the last week. To me it looks like bboah.com only had minor updates since setup (from what I can see, but I have not been through alle their content).

All content submitted to Ian to date, has been forwarded to me and is beeing added. I still hope to get in contact with bboah.com.

But it would ne great to have the updates from the german version incorporated in the english - unfortunately my german s****.

Since I setup the new english mirror, I have been contacted from a lot of users, who has some interesting content.

I suggest working with the bboah.de guys to merge the content of the 2 sites so that we have active English and German mirrors.

[ChaosLord]

@bitman

YAY!!!  Bitman for President of all 12 Colonies! :banana:

[cgutjahr]

I've tried to get in contact with BBOAH.de guys

In this thread (German) "novamann" acknowledges that he got your mails, I assume he'll get back to you. If not, let me know.

[bitman]

Sounds good.

In this thread (German) "novamann" acknowledges that he got your mails, I assume he'll get back to you. If not, let me know.

[bitman]

A small forum has now been added to the site - hopefully that makes it easier to correct/ enhance the articles in the database.