"Oh God," I hear you say. "Another links database."
Well, yes. It is, but I think it's the oldest and I know it's the largest directory of its kind out there.
Some of the older members of the community will remember the site starting up under the watchful eye of André 'Cosmic' Vandal, and they'll also remember that it kinda faded off into insignificance. Some may even remember me taking it on last year when Blazer's Realm folded up.
However, it's back. I've finished writing a PHP/SQL back-end for the site, it's all automated and (aside from a few temporary graphics) it looks a lot better than either of its incarnations before.

So, what's the point? The truth is that EV/O/N sites have become fractured in the past - there are quite a few excellent sites that people have forgotten and that newer members of the commmunity never see (Grand Novice, for example) - but who's owners spent hours on, only for them to be forgotten.
The Hotlinks directory groups all of these in one place so that sites aren't neglected. Unfortunately, the community sort of tailed off as far as websites were concerned, and the site was forgotten.
So, with the imminant release of Nova, and the profusion of sites that this is likely to create, I have put in several days work to redo it.

Anyways, if you have an EV/O/N site that you want more people to see - submit it to the directory. I've added three new categories for Nova and stories, so it should fit in somewhere.
Webmasters who are already listed there - please confirm your entries if you want to remain on the database.

< (url="http://"http://www.jonpearse.f2s.com/hotlinks/")http://www.jonpearse.f2s.com/hotlinks/(/url) >

-Jon 'Gildor' Pearse
(Doing his level best to improve the community )

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Whoo! Great news, Gildor.

The link to uEV is dated. It should be changed to (url="http://"http://www.oxy-web.com/uev")http://www.oxy-web.com/uev(/url). Also, the person to contact should now be UE Crusader at crusader125@hotmail.com (hey, don't I know that guy?)

A suggestion. I wouldn't necessarily delete any links not confirmed by their site's owners. Hotlinks is so cool because its an exhaustive links directory, by going there you can dig up sites from the past you and others may have forgotten about. If you delete anything not confirmed, you'll probably be deleting at least half the archive. To me, that'd be a terrible shame.

Anyhow, way to go Gildor!

UEC

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Uh, how do I confirm my entry?

More to the point, how do I un-confirm it?

My old webspace is (checks) still intact, but it's not supposed to be. We've cancelled the old service, but it seems they're just lazy in taking down my webspace. Anyway, Weepul 884's Free Graphics shouldn't exist - take it out of the listing, please.

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Originally posted by UE Crusader:
**Whoo! Great news, Gildor.:D

The link to uEV is dated. It should be changed to http://www.oxy-web.com/uev. Also, the person to contact should now be UE Crusader at crusader125@hotmail.com (hey, don't I know that guy?)
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Just because it's you, I'll change that for you. Everyone else'll have to go to the website and edit their own bloody entries. (Look, there are 146 entries in there -- you see what I'm getting at.)

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Originally posted by UE Crusader:
**A suggestion. I wouldn't necessarily delete any links not confirmed by their site's owners. Hotlinks is so cool because its an exhaustive links directory, by going there you can dig up sites from the past you and others may have forgotten about. If you delete anything not confirmed, you'll probably be deleting at least half the archive. To me, that'd be a terrible shame.
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Hrm. You have a point. I may just make another links category called 'arcane links' - the whole point of the confirmation is that I can get rid of some very dead links from the database. Right now, I've had 21 entries confirmed (plus two more edits, which get confirmed when I authorise the modification, plus two new links - ditto)
This makes for a list of 25 sites...
I can see your point

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Originally posted by UE Crusader:
**Uh, how do I confirm my entry?

More to the point, how do I un-confirm it?

My old webspace is (checks) still intact, but it's not supposed to be. We've cancelled the old service, but it seems they're just lazy in taking down my webspace. Anyway, Weepul 884's Free Graphics shouldn't exist - take it out of the listing, please.
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" The entry id we01 has been deleted. You will be redirected to the main page. "

As for the confirmation thingie, I sent out emails to all 119 listed webmasters yesterday with details of sites that are linked to that email address, saying please confirm or have the site deleted, along with the links to edit/delete entries and to confirm. Of course, if you've since changed your email address, you won't have gotten the email.
Sites are also confirmed when you edit them, surprisingly enough

-Gildor

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Aw, no entry for Cerberus Station. pout What do you want: personal mail, a post here, or is there an on-line registration process?

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Originally posted by VoinianAmbassador:
**Aw, no entry for Cerberus Station. pout What do you want: personal mail, a post here, or is there an on-line registration process?
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Online signup thingie. On the side menu under "hotlinks"

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<Front page>
<Site news>

Show sites:
<EV Info>
<EV Plugins>
<EV:O Info>
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<EV:N Plugins>
<Graphics>
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< Add your site>
<Edit an entry>
<Submission Guidelines>

-Gildor

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