Buffy The Vampire Slayer

30 May 2007: BMVD up for new ownership

The current maintainers of the BMVD have decided to give up responsibility for the site. If we can find new maintainers willing to take it on, we’re happy to pass along information and backups; if not, we’ll be retiring the site.

There are still vids being posted to the database, but not many. This is not surprising, given that both Buffy and Angel have been off the air for several years and the number of new vids has gone down correspondingly. There are still visitors to the site, but the number’s been going down every month for the last year: 20,000 visitors last May, only 7,000 last month, with a steady decline over the intervening months.

I feel fairly certain that interest has been waning partly because the database itself needs work: it needs to have dead and broken links fixed or removed, it needs additional search terms added to the database and to the Quicksearch function, it needs a software update (which I have downloaded but never got around to implementing), it could use a makeover from someone with more graphics skill than I have. These things are not difficult, but they would be time-consuming, and I am spending my time elsewhere these days.

Boniblithe and I have decided to let the Buffyverse vidding (and vidwatching) community help us make this decision. If anyone’s interested in paying for the site and maintaining the database, we’re happy to pass it along to the next generation of managers. If the interest isn’t there, we’ll take it as a sign that the BMVD has reached the end of its natural lifespan.

Click on the link :

http://www.buffyvids.com/