Tomorrow, instead of the usual Friday Roundup and Good Friday post, you will likely be seeing either a maintenance page or an error from your browser that HLS has dropped off the face of the earth yet again. HLS is making stage two of our move into our HLS 3.0 plan. Since MQ's departure, we have been working to get everything off his hands and into ours. The secondary goal was to get HLS completely off of GoDaddy as well in protest to their previous support of SOPA amongst other things. Even ...
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We See How It Is: The REAL Story Behind DMQ’s Departure
So, my former partner, the 'original voice' of HLS, and a guy that I have, for a long time, considered a good friend, recently 'retired' from HLS. He needed to spend time on other pursuits, he didn't feel like the conversation was moving anywhere, he needed a break. Cool! No worries! We all support you! Except, that's not the case at all. The case? This: DMQ HAS ABSOLUTELY SOLD OUT AND GONE TO FREAKING BLEACHER REPORT!!!!! W. T. F. He is dead to me. Have ...
PootND: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
Salutations! I'm still not sure what type of head injury DMQ suffered when he decided to invite me to contribute to HLS but whatever his rationale, I am humbled and honored to have been the 12th choice. This makes me the Charlie Weis of the Great HLS Writer Search of '11. I believe this requires me to make some bombastic statements in my initial couple of posts which you are all required to save and use against me years from now. For those that don't know, I'm a 2008 ND graduate. I lived ...
We’ve Been Recruiting
For the first 5 years of Her Loyal Sons, we've kept things, "in the family," if you will. Believe it or not, over the course of our blogging reign, HLS has had somewhere around 10 people contribute to the site as authors at one point or another. Yes, even Fr. Birdonell is real and not a figment of our imaginations. But over time our "family," all guys who knew each other all-too-well from our days at Notre Dame long, long, loooooooooong ago, has been handed responsibilities by this world (out ...
Introducing: Sideline – The HLS Forum
HLS has grown a lot. In particular, the community of HLS users who want to share their thoughts has grown quite a bit. We want to provide our community with the best possible channels to share those thoughts. So we've created Sideline. It's somewhat "vanilla," right now. It's actually hosted by a company called "Vanilla Forums," but you'll be able to access it directly within HLS. We plan to integrate further, but we're launching this as a sort of "pilot" program so we can feel our way ...
Better Discussion on HLS
Earlier this year when we unleashed hell the new look and feel of HLS on our readers, the response was mostly positive, but there were a few glitches (I'm looking at you, dude who keeps visiting with a 800x600 screen and Internet Explorer 5). The biggest, to me, was that the commenting system just wasn't working right as a result of trying to integrate a 3rd party comment system at first, and then quickly ripping that away when we grew uncomfortable with it. Well, hopefully that's no ...
We’ve Reverted the Comment System
In case you fell in love with our IntenseDebate comment system, sorry. I've shut it off. Over the few days it's been running, I've grown more and more uncomfortable with the feeling that some other entity has control over our comments. I'll work on pretty-ing up the main Wordpress commenting system instead. If you run into issues, let us know. Thanks. ...
Bracketitis III: It’s Chronic!
Hey-O Conscripts! It's that time of year again! Time for us all to discuss our brackets with co-workers as we pretend we've been watching college basketball for more than the last 2 weeks. And what better way to show off all that now-ledge than to sign up and play in Her Loyal Sons Bracketitis III!? Details: Follow this link: http://hls-3.mayhem.cbssports.com/e Enter this password when prompted: holtz Ponder that it's been more 15 years since we've had a head coach of ...
Got Pictures?
One of the constant struggles of blogging, particularly low-income blogging where we only make enough off the ads to pay for hosting and then maybe a few slurpies is finding Notre Dame images on the web that we can use without getting sued infringing on the rights of the owners of said images. So we were thinking it might be fun to start an image gallery to which our readers could contribute their own ND photos (it would also be fun if, while contributing said photos, you said it was okay for ...
Look Who’s #17!
In case you forgot to make your picks last week, don't worry. I remembered, and I'm still right in the middle of the pack. ...