Well folks, the numbers are in the consideration has been given and the conclusion is inevitable.

The traffic leostableford.com gets does not justify paying for the hosting. Besides, I opened this site before it was wordpress some time in what, 2004? 2005? The web has moved on since then. I can host a free journal at blogger, I can link to my shopfront on lulu from there, nothing much changes. Managing functionality is easier. Also being on my own little island site is not a way to hook into the world wide community. So from this spring this place will cease to exist in its current form.

To be honest this is a good thing. Like I say I want my work to be more of a community effort. I am designing what may be the most social role playing game in the history of the world. I am a weird contradiction of a person, I hate crowds but I don’t mind people in small numbers. I need people for my work to be worth anything. Shutting myself away even online in a journal that’s so off the beaten track (electronically speaking) doesn’t help at all.

So I’m going to be working on that, and the role playing game and the novels over the next few months. Don’t expect many posts until then. But trust me, when the RPGs hit I expect I’ll be out pressing the virtual flesh, so to speak. I’m expecting a lot in 2009 time will tell how much a lot turns out to be.