REPRIEVE! Radio Wibbi to stay on air

WRITTEN ON October 23rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project

IdealGov can continue. Delighted to say the powers that be at GNM listened carefully and have had a change of heart. Given the community it has formed, and once they took on board the problems that changing domains would cause in terms of broken links etc they have – very kindly, I must say – decided simply to hand the site over with no strings attached. Very big thank you to them.

So we’ll get the domain transfer sorted outm then port the whole thing to WordPress (which no reader need care about but which will save me endless hassle) and see if we can bring back the original Platform1 design. Then we have a big fat new project. Hurrah!

5 Responses to “REPRIEVE! Radio Wibbi to stay on air”

Sam Liddicott wrote on October 23rd, 2009 6:49 pm :

hurrah hurrah hurrah !!!
1 hurrah for you
1 hurrah for GNM
1 hurrah for us all
(one ! each too, as I’m feeling very happy).

Thanks to all at IDEAL GOVERNMENT ant to the sponsors for being generous.

Dave Birch wrote on October 24th, 2009 12:36 pm :

Thanks GNM.

Chris Jakeman wrote on October 26th, 2009 12:09 pm :

Delighted to hear the good news.

There is so much to moan about in government, but this site takes a positive approach instead. WIBBI is such a brilliant idea, and I first saw it here.

Richard S wrote on October 28th, 2009 2:14 am :

Thanks GNM, both for this and for supporting the Ideal Government Project. Sadly, I can no longer claim that “I write for the Guardian”! 😉

When the blog is rebuilt, is there any way that we could return to “post” moderation of comments; especially the comments from registered users?

The “pre” moderation of comments, introduced to combat spammers, made everything so slow and reduced the old vibrancy where we would have several generations of useful comments within just a few hours.

I suggest disabling hyperlinks in comments, and particularly in signatures & authors’ names – allowing them only to point to an author’s personal page on the blog. Perhaps this would make the blog less attractive to spammers?

Also, with the approaching General Election which is bound to raise relevant issues; We’ll have to decide how to handle any political aspects.

Ideal Gov administrator wrote on October 28th, 2009 3:10 am :

Richard – i quite agree. The comment moderation has had a damping effect (and also is a pain to do being clunky in EE). Harry at DXW is helping with this – I’ll ask about it tomorrow.

Thanks all for comments & emails. – W