Addventure index update

[Adama]

The April update is now posted.  Sorry it's so late, but I've had to spend too much time on work this week to have any time to devote to indexing.

We had a bit of a dip in quantity this month.  Maybe most of our writers are trying to study for exams...

Crazy Diamond came in first this month.

There's also a few new Story Tree updates from Booby Fett.

As well as The usual updates to other lists....

[Shendude]

It is? I'm not seeing it.

[JH_]

It is? I'm not seeing it.

You should be. Do you need to flush your brower's cache?

[Shendude]

You should be. Do you need to flush your brower's cache?

Yup. Thanks for the tip.

BTW, a question for you Adama; you used to make sure that the Character Index got updated monthly, while leaving the Storyline Trees fallow; now it's the other way 'round.

Why'd you decide to re-prioritize? This is not intended as a criticism; I'm genuinely curious.

[Adama]

I'm putting almost no effort into the Storyline Trees myself; the updates there are almost entirely dependent on submissions from other people such as Booby Fett, Eskalion, and FlySpek1947 (and others in previous years).  When an update is posted, it's because I got new updates from those people.  The only trees I update myself are the "easy" ones, the Numbered Restarts trees.  So there's no real prioritization from me there.

The Character Index has stuttered a bit in the last few months, true; part of that is because I recently gave myself two new tasks, the Story Tags and the Author Recounts.  I'm spending more time on those lately than on the Character Index, but I really should get back to getting that updated...

Of course my _real_ shame is that the Character Index has been "fragmentary" since 2003, when I stopped having the time for or interest in reading every single episode in the Addventure to search for character names... I do feel guilty about that, but if I had stuck with the full-and-complete indexing I had done up till that point, then the CI would be completely blank for the last several years, rather than the fragments we at least have now.  I had been falling further and further behind, you see -- I'm pretty sure I was a few years behind at the time I stopped doing the Complete updates.

I had been keeping the Codes / Language page updates in synch with the Character Index updates, but the CI had gotten so far behind recently that I disassociated them so that the Codes / Langauge pages could be more up to date.

[Catfish]

Can't blame you -- why, there may be even more characters in the Addventure than there are in "The Simpsons"!

[JH_]

You shouldn't feel guilty, Adama. The amount of work that you've put in on the addventure over the years is enormous. You're entitled to have a life.

[DruulEmpire]

Yeah, honestly, I know I've added a fair number of characters over time -- which you've tracked very conscientiously, I must say -- but some episodes are simply insane, they're practically nothing BUT a lot of rattled-off names we never hear from again strung together in episodes in rapid fire sequence.  I frankly wish we could outlaw that -- I'm not even sure they've ever even led to any particularly good story.