The amount of Pokémon websites is way too many to count. But there’s only one that has always stood above the rest. For 20 years and counting, Serebii.net has been the most popular Pokémon news site in the world. It’s safe to say that every single hardcore fan uses it or has come across it several times in the past. To find out how it has remained the most important Pokémon news site, the folks at USgamer interviewed Serebii webmaster Joe Merrick.
“Back in late 1999, I was starting to learn about websites and a group of friends and I all decided to start testing things out,” Merrick told USgamer via email. “I focused on Pokemon as it was just coming out in the UK and all my friends were getting obsessed too. It made the most sense to me.”
“Back in 1999, most of the fan sites around were called things like Mew’s Paradise, Mew’s Place and things such as this due to Mew being the rare Mythical Pokemon,” he says. “As Gold and Silver started coming out [in Japan], we started to get information. The Mythical Pokemon of those games, Celebi, was shown and its direct translation of the Japanese characters is ‘Serebii.’ Celebi grew to be one of my favourites.”
“I always make sure to try and get everything up as soon as humanly possible,” Merrick says, “which is tricky as I’m the only one updating the site.”
“Modern layout designs do not work for sites which aren’t blogs and have more than a dozen pages,” Joe says. “As such, finding a solution for desktop and mobile in conjunction with each-other is an incredibly hard thing.”
“A simple frontend lowers server requirements so more processing capabilities are pushed to the user,” Joe says, “and the server can handle far more connections than modern sites on equivalent servers.”
“People definitely still get excited [about Pokemon games],” he says. “The build-up to Pokemon Sun and Moon in 2016 is indicative of this.”
“[I’m] as excited for 2019 as I was for 2016, and I fully hope Serebii will continue its roll,” Joe says. “I have no intention of giving up or relaxing how I do things. I plan to hit each game release with the usual thoroughness and speed as I have done for every game in recent years.”
To read this interview in its entirety, click here.
Until Next Time, See Ya.
Source: USgamer.net
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To be fare, he is the only site to get that information from (Otherwise you need a guide book).
o-O I personally find the site to be a horrify mess.
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“Modern layout designs do not work for sites which aren’t blogs and have more than a dozen pages,”
T-o The words of a guy in denial. There is no excuse for not organising your website in a way that makes it easier to navigate (people design website layouts for a living).
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