The End

By Cyrris

Three months without an update can only mean one thing.

But that doesn’t mean I am taking the site down. Not at all. The fact is, our archives are an absolute gold mine of information and well-thought opinion, and the number of googlers still finding them certainly justifies their continuance. I like to think we have helped a good deal of people get their questions answered over the years because of that. Going through our mostly-complete visitor logs from the past four years, the site appears to have had somewhere in the region of 350,000 unique visitors since it began as a blog, with around a million visits in total. Proudly, it has for some time had Firefox as it’s most viewed-with browser.

Aelon has certainly been an interesting experiment over the years. It’s made me a better writer, a better designer, and hell, it even got us a few free t-shirts. We were accepted in to a fairly exclusive group of quality blogs. We’ve also had some incredibly popular posts linked to from all over the web, from a showdown with Jack Thompson to Mactastic reviews. We even had a pre-release scoop on the Xbox 360.

The fact seems to be that with so much less free time, we’d all rather be spending it playing games than writing about them on this blog. Vermouth is now studying journalism and political science at university. Holliday is also balancing life between uni and his flashy new IT job. Plagiarize is running loose somewhere in America, though details are sketchy. Kelmon is still stuck in Belgium, armed with a new budget for his Apple habit. I am just over a year in to my new job, and still playing Civilization IV.

Thankyou to all those who contributed via posts, comments, or email. Getting good discussion happening was one of my primary goals for the site, and it certainly succeeded there. If I have one regret, it’s from not giving the site a proper name.