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		<title>A new beginning.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yiannis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back I had this idea of creating an interactive community for our magazine&#8217;s readers where we would get to know each other better, see what they want from us and complete my vision of a magazine that was made by metalheads for metalheads.
I wanted something far more than a simple forum, so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few years back I had this idea of creating an interactive community for our magazine&#8217;s readers where we would get to know each other better, see what they want from us and complete my vision of a magazine that was made by metalheads for metalheads.</p>
<p>I wanted something far more than a simple forum, so I added games, an image gallery and several other things to spice it up. The process was painful since I never setup a php forum before, let alone something complicated as that. Endless hours of debugging and manually changing code to make all the plugins work together. During that time Katrina&#8217;s and Orpheus&#8217; help were priceless so I have to thank them.</p>
<p>Proudly the forum was announced and soon we got our first members, hi-scores, you name it. But time passed by, people were replaced by sex-bots submitting 20 new shit no matter what security measures we used and the forum slowly died.</p>
<p>It was tough to hit the delete button and erase with one keystroke countless hours of relentless personal brainstorming but the fact that I had an idea that would actually help to improve the magazine made it easier.</p>
<p>Through our meetings we decided the magazine needed some things, like an articles section, a live dates section that was easy to manage, stuff like that. So I thought that a blog would be the best solution to fit our needs and it could still be a way to get in touch with our readers.</p>
<p>Presenting the new Metal Temple blog. A place for our thoughts and your thoughts, we hope you will enjoy it.</p>
<p>A huge thanks to all the members of the old forum and an apology for the sudden removal of it, we hope we&#8217;ll see you supporting our new effort as well!</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Yiannis</p>
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