Kongming’s Archives

A big update (but small content-wise) featuring pretty extensive code revisions and improvements. A lot of effort, here, to deal with bots, handle email communication well, and support future user interaction forms. A behind-the-scenes transition of our website to the new theme continues.

2023 may have been a quiet year from the perspective of the Kongming’s Archives home page, but a massive amount of work has gone into the website and future content. The Development Project, behind the Three Kingdoms Encyclopedia, has been rewritten and is being expanded into new topics like locations, ranks and titles, reign years. A new Romance of the Three Kingdoms online novel has been in the works (RIP threekingdoms.com) and some chapters are already available on our website. Want to participate? Scholars of Shen Zhou and Simulated RTK have been restored to transitional themes. Heaps of content on Kongming’s Archives has been repaired or restored and the website is undergoing a transition to use a new theme with new code.

Most of these improvements have been architectural: laying the groundwork for site restoration and content yet to come. Thankfully, for many of these things, we are reaching a point where Kongming’s Archives can be updated again, so 2024 ought to look busier from the perspective of public-facing content.

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Simulated RTK has finally been re-designed. Have feedback? And Big Map (if you know, you know) has been restored! A new game is also being explored. If you are interested, head over and chime in.

With great thanks to Zhou Dadudu, we introduce the new Maps of the Three Kingdoms page. It features Zhou Dadudu’s lovely China and province maps and the long-familiar map by William L, along with an interactive China map which you can use to view the provinces.

Scholars of Shen Zhou has finally been re-designed. Have feedback?

Due to problems associated with the Fandom platform, including aggressive advertising, the Koei Tecmo Wiki has moved to a new address. Please use their new address to support them in this move.

Launched by long-time community members, friends of the website, and folks-simply-knowledgeable about the Three Kingdoms, enjoy this new podcast.

Thank you, everyone, for your kind words and support. As requested, and with sincere appreciation as a means to help in supporting this website and its maintenance, we have launched a Patreon.. Please support us if you have some coin to spare.

A few years we went offline. Our websites use old code which broke as hosts dropped support for security reasons (PHP 6). I was able to restore our sites for a short time, but a much larger code rewriting project was necessary. Due time demands of this project, in combination with simple ol’ fashioned struggling mental health, we remained offline for a few years. I have long regretted this fate, and this update kickstarts an earnest effort to not just patch but restore Kongming’s Archives, Scholars of Shen Zhou, and Simulated RTK.