Red Dwarf Official Website is on Downtime (For the time being)

[Niki Hutchinson]

So I don’t know if this has been already talked about on here but… The Official RD site is down (apparently since Feb 25th) with it switching to a new provider. I bring this up just in-case any of the old stuff isn’t going to be on there when it’s back up. (old blog post, features & some of the RD Movie Storyboards) Unless some of that has been saved by one of you dwarfers out there. 

Link to the site as is: https://reddwarf.co.uk/index.html

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[Jonathan Capps]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Niki Hutchinson]

Hey, if you don’t try. You’ll never know… 😛 (Also, been busy with some other things lately and haven’t checked things in a bit so… there you go)

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

[Jonathan Capps]

Hey, if you don’t try. You’ll never know… 😛 (Also, been busy with some other things lately and haven’t checked things in a bit so… there you go)

Hah my gif was aimed at me, I’d not noticed until your post!

[Dave]

I saw the message a while back so was a bit surprised when I checked in last Friday and it still wasn’t back.

Maybe Rob has a new website coming out of his buttski too?

[Niki Hutchinson]

Hey, if you don’t try. You’ll never know… 😛 (Also, been busy with some other things lately and haven’t checked things in a bit so… there you go)

Hah my gif was aimed at me, I’d not noticed until your post!

Fair enough

[Niki Hutchinson]

I saw the message a while back so was a bit surprised when I checked in last Friday and it still wasn’t back.
Maybe Rob has a new website coming out of his buttski too?

Who knows… But for the moment, like any other official bit of RD news.

[Flap Jack]

Us all discovering TOS has been down for weeks like

(Appreciating the revamped Smega-Drive footer btw!)

[Jonathan Capps]

(Appreciating the revamped Smega-Drive footer btw!)

😙

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

[Dave]

[Moonlight]

There’s also this: https://grantnaylor.co.uk/

[International Debris]

Well, that’s certainly… a website.

Where on Earth is that ship model picture from?

[Dave]

Where on Earth is that ship model picture from?

I’ve definitely seen that CGI model floating around for years, but I’m not sure where it originated. Weird that they’d use something (presumably) unofficial and fan made.

Still, at least it’s marginally better than the one on the Blu Ray box art.

[Warbodog]

It’s not really my area, or any of my business, but it looks like that domain’s been owned since at least 1999 as a placeholder and they’ve just decided to start using it.

[si]

Well, that’s certainly… a website.
Where on Earth is that ship model picture from?

I think it’s a poorly ‘restored’ version of an old model shot. I definitely recognise the photo that it’s *supposed* to be. I’m sure it must be online, maybe even on G&T somewhere. I remember first seeing it in an old Smegazine many years ago. If I had time to find a link, I’d plonk it here, but I’m sure there are other folks who know exactly what I’m on about, and will go and do just that. 

[GlenTokyo]

That ship picture makes that site look proper pony.

Not to say anything of the image, just you’d think GNP would get an actual photo of the ship.

That picture looks like a Deviantart special to me, there are other ones floating around the internet that look of a similar vintage, done on things like 3DS Max 2 and Lightwave. They’re late 90s/early 2000s.

I usually check TOS every Friday but clearly completely forgot for the last few weeks, so I too missed it. Hope it comes back intact.

[Moonlight]

This?

It’s 100% an old deviantart render. I’d know it anywhere.

[si]

Ah, this is the pic I’m thinking of. 

[Dave]

Yes, it certainly feels like it’s based on that.

[International Debris]

It has the same issues as the pencil in that it doesn’t feel like there’s much sticking out of it, whereas the original model was very heavily textured.

[RunawayTrain]

It’s not really my area, or any of my business, but it looks like that domain’s been owned since at least 1999 as a placeholder and they’ve just decided to start using it.

It’s looked like that for a couple of years at least (can’t quite remember when I first visited it).  The Wayback Machine shows it was certainly a placeholder until 2016, then the captures in 2018 and 2021 are broken links – but I definitely visited when I first got back into Red Dwarf, before the pandemic.

[Moonlight]

Me and Cappsy found that link not long ago and dug into it a bit and it’s clearly only become recently active.

[Stephen Abootman]

“Please note that regretfully we cannot currently accept unsolicited scripts for consideration.”

What if they haven’t updated that part of the site in a while but since changed their minds and the only reason Dwarf isn’t being made right now is the lack of unsolicited scripts?

[Moonlight]

I’m sending them a couple pages of script I wrote at age 13. It’s really good according to my memories from the time.

[loadoftottnumb]

I wonder why it says ‘since 1990’? Were the first few series produced by someone else or is it just a minor error? 

[Warbodog]

They at least had producer credits from series III in 1989.

[Dave]

I wonder why it says ‘since 1990’? Were the first few series produced by someone else or is it just a minor error? 

GNP the company wasn’t formed immediately – it was produced by PJP from the start all the way through Series III wasn’t it. Camille is the first episode to have the GNP logo at the end instead.

The information from Companies House shows 8 February 1990 as the start date.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02468538

[si]

“Please note that regretfully we cannot currently accept unsolicited scripts for consideration.”
What if they haven’t updated that part of the site in a while but since changed their minds and the only reason Dwarf isn’t being made right now is the lack of unsolicited scripts?

Let’s send them a link to the Idea For An Episode thread and see what they can do with that.

[Dave]

Let’s send them a link to the Idea For An Episode thread and see what they can do with that.

I think that’s why they cannot currently accept unsolicited scripts for consideration.

[Flap Jack]

Well, they said no unsolicited scripts. Therefore, pitches and ideas must be fair game.

[Dave]

It’s finally Bread Wharf’s time to shine!

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

So who wants to phone up Reg and tell him?

[loadoftottnumb]

Makes sense, thanks 

I wonder why it says ‘since 1990’? Were the first few series produced by someone else or is it just a minor error? 

GNP the company wasn’t formed immediately – it was produced by PJP from the start all the way through Series III wasn’t it. Camille is the first episode to have the GNP logo at the end instead.
The information from Companies House shows 8 February 1990 as the start date.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02468538 

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

[Jonathan Capps]

[Dave]

[Flap Jack]

[Flap Jack]

Side note: seeing Cappsy’s gif in between Future Producer and Dave’s gifs has made me extra curious about the secrets of image resizing.

I tried messing with the width attribute at one point when I was doing a sequence including standard Smega Drive jpgs and gifs, and it worked in the text editor but not after I actually submitted it. I suspect it was either because I was trying non-whole numbers, or because I was scaling in the wrong direction, but it would be good to know for sure.

[si]

Side note: seeing Cappsy’s gif in between Future Producer and Dave’s gifs has made me extra curious about the secrets of image resizing. 

Ah well, it’s Cappsy’s site and he’s clever.

That’s what it says here. 

[Jonathan Capps]

I have a feeling this editor auto scales the images based on whether you’re on mobile or desktop. It’s annoying and I will fix it.

[Flap Jack]

Ah! OK, thank you.

Could still be an input issue I guess, but best to know either way. It wouldn’t be the weirdest thing if the text editor didn’t allow you to use all the HTML attributes in general, but it would be weird to only stop you some of the time.

I have noticed that on mobile still images get squashed so that they’re the same width as gifs, so when you think about it, mobile is the peak Ganymede Dot TV experience.

[Jonathan Capps]

mobile is the peak Ganymede Dot TV experience.

How times have changed.

[Dave]

[Flap Jack]

[GlenTokyo]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Maybe a dying TOS will turn up, give G&T a wig and ask them to take over.

[Dave]

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

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