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On Holiday: Hope your having a good time too...
« on: August 08, 2009, 09:31:03 PM »
I've tried to make the suggested changes to the Herald issue, but unfortunately it's not easy to do so from Spain with it's complete lack of internet facilities. I will make the changes the moment I arrive back, but until then you'll just have to relax.

Overall I think things appear to be going very well, we're now finally putting out an issue a month - which is where we should aim to keep things. Keep the faith and start getting ready for issue 4!
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Re: On Holiday: Hope your having a good time too...
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2009, 09:31:48 PM »
Oh and I'm glad to see the forum is back up! Thank Themodem for his work!
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Re: On Holiday: Hope your having a good time too...
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2009, 07:10:15 AM »
Ahhh, good stuff.

I hope you're enjoying your holiday, Maylna - while you're sitting out in the sun there seems no better time to bug you with irritating issues.

I don't actually understand whether this issue is finished or not. On the one hand I presume you're aware that it's publically available and more than one person has whispered me saying "why is the Herald so short". On the other hand there's been no forum or in-game publicity AFAIK, there are a few stories missing (the whole Cathedral stuff, my 'Origin of Words' advert), messed up title headers, and things credited to "A.J. Barlowe", who is of course dead and not writing for a respectable newspaper.
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Re: On Holiday: Hope your having a good time too...
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2009, 02:36:06 AM »
And.............. Back! Going to be checking the thread on problems with issue 3 and getting as many changes done as possible tonight.

As to your writing whilst dead - give us another name and we'll print it under that name - if you've left a name with the article I'll be rechecking it first and I'll change it to that.
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Re: On Holiday: Hope your having a good time too...
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2009, 02:55:41 AM »
As to your two other concerns - Yeah I know the Issue is printed and up there - but it's never bothered me as 98% of our audience comes from when we post up information and not from people randomly checking the website. It's not a good state of affairs but at the moment this is the only way to preview an issue, later we'll have access behind the scenes and we can avoid this problem.

The origin of words advert will definately go in - I had intended to do it on holiday and found myself without the promised internet connection. The cathedral article.. I don't know which one you mean, so if you would please post a link here I'll add it ASAP.

As to the issue being short...

Our punters are going to complain no matter what we produce, to be honest, if there's lots of articles they will complain that it contains low quality articles or that it took too long. We've made a decision to print more often but shorter issues, thereby hopefully maintaining a level of quality - and if anyone complains to you about short issues you need to point the finger back at them and ask them what articles they hope to help the Herald with  ;).

At the moment we're printing once a month - I'd love to print more often but without the system fully working that's not likely to happen - however printing once a month is still a fairly good performance as far as I'm concerned.
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Re: On Holiday: Hope your having a good time too...
« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2009, 04:16:02 AM »
Death at Light's Door. Unless I missed something it ain't there.

Other things I just noticed: in the contents page, page 2 is credited to A.J. Barlowe but I did not write it.

Let my alias be "Mendicant Bickerstaff" as it was with the last war article I wrote. I probably should have remembered to append it to this one, sorry.

I feel "News in Brief" should be retitled "Stormwind News" - That actually tells people on the contents tab what most of it is about.

Finally, if 98% of the audience comes here from publicity, why hasn't there been any publicity? Or was there, and I missed it entirely? I can do it if needed.

I'm not sure that once a month counts as 'fast', but it's a great thing that you guys are getting issues out regularly and reliably. That's why I'm slightly puzzled by this one, which seems to have spent a while half in and half out of the door.
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Re: On Holiday: Hope your having a good time too...
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2009, 04:52:26 AM »
Normally I do alot of announcing on forums and getting in touch with Blizzard - we've been a bit slower about this issue, true, but we shoud be announcing very soon once we get these last few problems out of the way.
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Re: On Holiday: Hope your having a good time too...
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2009, 04:57:01 AM »
Awesomecool.
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Re: On Holiday: Hope your having a good time too...
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2009, 05:09:50 AM »
Cathedral article added!
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Re: On Holiday: Hope your having a good time too...
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2009, 06:46:50 PM »
You Shall pass is written by a guest writer, Taminak Silverthorn.
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Re: On Holiday: Hope your having a good time too...
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2009, 10:40:08 PM »
Fixed.
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