New website URL + downloadable PDF versions

[alt_moderator]

We've moved! The new location for the Alternity website can be found on our brand-new Alternity domain, hpalternity.com.

We'll likely be updating the website further in the future as we get a chance, but this change of location brings a new and exciting feature: you can now download all of Alternity, month by month, in PDF format. Each month's PDF contains all the posts and comments made to the game during that month. So, if you're new to Alternity and want to read from the beginning, or have been reading for a while and want a local copy for nostalgia's sake, you can download the files. (They range from 2MB to 11MB or so, depending on how prolific we were that month.)

To download PDFs of previous months, scroll down to the "The story so far" section.

Comments

[aedifica]

Oh, that's AWESOME! Alternity ebooks, yay!

I have a question about how that works: If an entry gets comments well after the entry was written (say, a comment written years later on the last post of someone now dead, to use a not at all random example) would that comment show up in the PDF for the month in which the comment was written, would the PDF for the original entry's month be updated to include the new comment, or would the new comment just not be in any of the PDFs?

[alt_moderator]

As it stands, it wouldn't be in the PDF (we're not going to be re-PDFing the old months every month), but given that not-at-all-random example, we might re-run that particular month occasionally...

[lapin_agile]

Speaking of that not at all random example. There's been a quite recent comment added there. (In the last month.)

[aedifica]

Oh! I wasn't expecting to see one til the anniversary of his death, and I wondered if there would be one even then--I wondered if she was still thinking about him.

[jenett]

I think Pansy will stop thinking about Regulus about the point at which the sun goes supernova, personally :)

I'd missed the February one, too! (I make a point of checking back in May, because, y'know. May is a lousy month.

[aedifica]

It finally occurred to me today that I could turn on notifications for comments on that post, so now I have. :-)

And May is a very good month! Just not for some people.

[adeliej]

Yay! The pdfs look great - I started reading beginning of Year 4, and still haven't really read everything before that, so this'll be a great help in terms of convenience and being able to read offline.

[worthywords]

This is fantastic. Plan to put 'em all on my Nook. I think it'll be appealing for people who are just discovering the game now, too.