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The Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Guide

Been a bit since I did a general update post. Once I finished my Klingon calendar pages revamp a while back, been able to get back to the more normal improvements and updates to the site that I hadn’t focused on for a while. Got all the recent 2378 era IDW comics added to the various reading lists and organized chronologically.

I continued my slow progress of making more mobile friendly versions of each reading list, and using that as an opportunity to go over each bit of info on the page as I go, confirming and organizing everything meticulously, and making simplified suggested reading lists when called for. I’ve done this project on the Early 24th Century and IKS Gorkon Reading Lists recently.

Just today I started a process of using Grok (the AI in X) to do some mass editing of the reading list’s html code. I'm certainly no pro at coding, but have just found some things that work over the years. So when I found out a simpler way of doing the hover text on the main reading lists that didn't force them to have hyperlink underlining, I wanted to change to that method for all the entries on every reading list. Letting AI do it quickly is working out well, and I'm also having it clean up the formatting of things so it's easier for me to see and edit in the future. Still a slow process, but alot better than doing all these tiny changes myself.

I also discovered today that Grok can do a really fast job at converting the html code of the regular reading lists to the formatting used for the mobile versions of the page, so that will help me finish that process up in the coming weeks a lot faster than I otherwise would have been able to.

And I’ve done quite a bit of minor formatting and housekeeping fixes on a bunch of pages over the last few months, along with my regular process of adding each month’s new releases to all their relevant pages (including the final short stories from Star Trek Explorer. :wah:)

As always, I hope the site is useful for folks, and if you wanna help support it in any small way, there’s a patreon page with some tiny perks.

www.startreklitverse.com
 
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You do a great job with this website. Thanks for your efforts.

I do hope that an updated, detailed new timeline of the novelverse is realeased one day.
 
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Hi @ryan123450 ,

I appreciate all the effort you put into this for the benefit of the TrekLit community.

Unfortunately, due to board rules, we can't post links to fundraising sites, so I had to remove your Patreon link, sorry.

A link to Patreon in your sig continues to be OK, of course.
 
I don't think there was a better place is this subforum (the only one I look at anymore) for acknowledging this, so here goes.

As of today I've been on the TrekBBS for 20 years! I would say this forum has tremendously shaped my fandom, inspired my personal hobby time more than any other influence, introduced me to podcasting, and allowed me to meet several people who I can truly call friends. Insane when I set back and think about the influence this place has had on my life. I'm truly grateful to have been around here and for everyone on the Trek Lit subforum.

Any other old folks around?
 
I don't think there was a better place is this subforum (the only one I look at anymore) for acknowledging this, so here goes.

As of today I've been on the TrekBBS for 20 years! I would say this forum has tremendously shaped my fandom, inspired my personal hobby time more than any other influence, introduced me to podcasting, and allowed me to meet several people who I can truly call friends. Insane when I set back and think about the influence this place has had on my life. I'm truly grateful to have been around here and for everyone on the Trek Lit subforum.

Any other old folks around?
I think I've actually been here longer than my profile says: I started lurking the summer before Enterprise came out, clicking through the occasional interesting topic in the sidebar of TrekToday when I was reading Series 5 rumors and leaks (Jackson Archer! Spike Tucker! T'Pau!). I'm pretty sure I registered, but then there was a board crash that wiped out a few months of data, so I had to re-register, so my join date is a bit later than it should be.

Which means I've spent more of my life as a poster on the TrekBBS than I have not, if we don't count the two or three years I stopped posting after having an existential crisis when I realized I was writing the same reply to the same poster on the same topic and we were both repeating a conversation we'd already had months earlier. I can't find it, so I guess it must've been in the fallow period between the end of Enterprise and ST09.
 
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