Nihonto Club Japanese Sword Information Exchange

I would like to share some news with you. It’s about something which was promised long time ago: a solution for drawing smith & school lineages. Every time I attempt writing comments on a particular school or smith, I keep coming back to the same issue (on top of incompetence, of course :-) ) of being unable to show relationships between numerous smiths of the same school or lineage in a clear way. Moreover, currently smith records hold all the information needed to do it, but it’s just a matter of choosing a right solution and putting it on the site.

Almost every serious Nihonto website has an article or two which contain smith lineages, most likely in a form of custom-made images. It’s a good old-fashioned way which works, but prohibits any cooperation, hard to change and also sometimes a subject to copyright. There are also two major Nihonto sites which offer genealogical trees on a wider scale: Sho-Shin and JSSUS’s NKB.  read more »

As promised, I'll be posting few ideas which I plan to implement on NihontoClub.com. I'd like to know you feedback whether a particular feature is worth implementing or if it's clunky/cumbersome/useless or needs to be somehow modified/improved/re-evaluated.

Subscriptions

This doesn't need any development as it's already available as a plug-in module. Once enabled, almost every page on the site will have a 'Subscribe' option (for registered users only). It will also be available in the submission form of any content type (collections, profiles, smith & school records, stories, articles, forum threads).  read more »