Dear web-IT experts,
After many discussions of whether to keep the name "Immortality" (to have extreme goals) or to go mainstream (to drag enough movement to change the world), it seems possible to do both: Imminst is thinking of creating something bigger than Imminst: Lifespan Society. It will be bigger because it will be mainstream and concern life-extension-related-subjects rather than specifically aiming at immortality. But the Immortality Institute will remain, for those who specifically aiming at immortality and in case "immortality" becomes mainstream in some future. Clearly there is a synergy or even symbiosis by making this association. One question remains: whether the Immortality Institute be part of the Lifespan Society or whether the community is both the Immortality Institute AND the Lifespan Society. Part of this question is purely technical, so let's have a look at it: below I present technical solutions I have in mind, if you think I do not see big troubles or great potentials please communicate about it! Thank you.
Preface: at the time I am writing http://lifespansociety.org basically works as a single php file that dynamically reads a page from imminst.org and transforms it by replacing the title by a mainstream title, adapting the links to remain in lifespansociety.org, and replacing a list of extreme words by soft words. I will very soon adapt that last part to clarify the link with the immortality insitute and avoid the visitor to feel that he is tricked; this is not a technical issue.
IT technical solutions to be discussed:
Currently when someone logs-in in http://lifespansociety.org it is redirecting to imminst. I did this because I couldn't find how to do it differently. There are two solutions:
- a) The Immortality Institute is part of the Lifespan Society: when someone logs-in in imminst.org then it goes to the ImmInst forum of lifespansociety.org.
A way to do it: we keep the existing methodologies but we exchange lifespansociety.org with imminst.org: lifespansociety.org becomes the main website (containing the whole system: database, etc) and when someone logs-in then one remains in lifespansociety.org. Imminst.org becomes the secondary website.
Technical question: This seems easy to do because we are using the existing techniques but I'm just not sure how to exchange the websites: is it difficult to put imminst's system on on lifespansociety.org? Is a change of DNS instead sufficient (and more simple)?
- b) The Immortality Institute and the Lifespan Society is a symbiosis: when someone logs-in in any website then it remains the same website.
A way to do it: make lifespansociety.org an alias of imminst.org: such that it directly uses the system of imminst.org but remains on lifespansociety.org (as I did for http://longecity.com and http://lifespantests.com) I can the same manner as immortalityinstitute.org is handled today. In the php add something that detects whether the required url is lifespansociety (rather than imminst or immortalityinstitute; I have done that in the past, it is easy to do by comparing phpinfo()) so that the php decides to display the logo and text of lifespansociety (rather than immoritalityinstitute).
Technical question: how to make lifespansociety.org an alias of imminst.org? My webdomain provider proposes it (longecity and lifespantests) but I don't know how it works, and if the webdomainprovider or imminst allows it?
Edited by AgeVivo, 10 April 2010 - 11:51 AM.
