Some have asked why I decided to do the change in the first place. Well here's my reasons:
- I continually grew unhappy with the lack of updates here on Shivtr that helped out those with LOTRO kinships. They've focused more on RIFT and WoW and I had continually made suggestions for them to add more options for LOTRO websites.
- At the time I decided to move us, we were looking into raiding, and Guildportal could offer up some nice raiding additions to a website that Shivtr doesn't quite have.
- These were two of the biggest things, the others are mostly just small things that I personally had issues with, but I can deal with them.
One of the things that really caught my eye with Guildportal was the fact that the site communicated with LOTRO and sent back the roster as up to date as possible according to my.lotro.com. This was very handy for everyone, as all you had to do was claim your individual characters. No need to update other than crafting info. I keep pleading with Shivtr to do something similar, but so far I have not had any luck. I will continue to plead with them until it becomes a reality.
All in all, I think for what we need as a website, this will definitely do what we need. Yes, it's a tad more expensive than Guildportal, but I realize now that it's worth the money to be able to modify the site the way that you want. I apologize to all for having you to switch sites and I hope to continue seeing you use this site.
