Hey everybody,
If all goes as planned, merging of the 3 Balloon Juice iterations will be happening – sequentially – on Thursday 7/21.
When I wrote a little while ago to let the front-pagers know, there was a typo. At least I hope that’s all it was! I wrote:
“As such, I am making reparations for merging.”
That was supposed to be PREPARATIONS, and I dearly hope that there will be no need for reparations related to the merging of all the iterations of Balloon Juice we had after the fire.
We plan, god laughs. That said, here’s the tentative plan.
First, I will define some terms.
20-year Balloon Juice – Jan 2002 – May 14, 2022
Jackal Action – Home Away from Home (from 5/20 – 5/29)
new-old Balloon Juice – 5/29 onward, just shy of 2 months
Tentative Plan (insert “with any luck” in front of each item below!)
Our original Balloon Juice will be the mother ship.
First we will bring in our 16 days of Home Away from Home. While that happens, we will all be happily commenting here.
If all goes well with the first mini-merge, sometime between 9 am and 10 am we will all lose access to new-old Balloon Juice, and we will not yet have access to any BJ iteration at all. There will be no commenting anywhere Balloon Juice for what might be maybe an hour or two? Or three or four.
When that commences, a message will appear on balloon-juice.com, instead of the website. (Note to self, write calm, reassuring message.)
Then the merging of our last 2 months begins. (imagine the cartoon with the ? on the blackboard “and then a miracle occurs”)
When the merging is done, John and I will have access and I will be (hopefully) verifying that all is well!
We then go live with the merged sites.
As I said, insert “with any luck” or “if all goes well” in front of each item on the list.
Open thread.
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