[July 8 2010] New Site Discussion

dfusioness · September 09, 2010, 01:36:23 PM

was beginning to wish i had never suggested the chatroom, how much crap did that cause, sorry everyone, ah well at least its ok now

Failed · September 12, 2010, 09:32:55 PM

chatroom is awesome though.

dfusioness · September 16, 2010, 06:54:14 AM

thnx honey,

dfusioness · November 03, 2010, 07:00:26 PM

Quote from: Jaynestown on July 09, 2010, 06:08:41 PM
OK, I don't mind being the "eye candy" as long as I don't have to lay semi-naked over the hood of 1969 Camaro, I may do my back in!!!

can i have mine changed to community wife please x

zerosum · March 01, 2011, 05:28:55 AM

Just wondering - and this may have been answered somewhere, if it has, advanced apologies; but I wasn't able to find it via a search -

Is there any sort of [spoiler] tag implemented into the forums?

nCogNeato · March 01, 2011, 06:35:49 PM

Quote from: zerosum on March 01, 2011, 05:28:55 AM
Just wondering - and this may have been answered somewhere, if it has, advanced apologies; but I wasn't able to find it via a search -

Is there any sort of [spoiler] tag implemented into the forums?

Not right now. This summer I'll be upgrading our site to a newer version of SMF, along with some added features like [spoiler] tags. Thanks for the reminder.

Failed · March 01, 2011, 07:44:54 PM

Perhaps a 'Shout Out Box'

nCogNeato · March 01, 2011, 07:56:37 PM

Quote from: Failed on March 01, 2011, 07:44:54 PM
Perhaps a 'Shout Out Box'

Last year when I released my first round of updates, I did add a shoutbox for roughly 1 hour. It ended up crashing the forum and I had to resurrect a backup. Fortunately, it was a slow day and I don't think anyone lost any posts.

My fingers are crossed that the new SMF is more stable and add-on friendly. We'll find out in a few months.

zerosum · March 01, 2011, 08:32:21 PM

Quote from: nCogNeato on March 01, 2011, 06:35:49 PM
Quote from: zerosum on March 01, 2011, 05:28:55 AM
Just wondering - and this may have been answered somewhere, if it has, advanced apologies; but I wasn't able to find it via a search -

Is there any sort of [spoiler] tag implemented into the forums?

Not right now. This summer I'll be upgrading our site to a newer version of SMF, along with some added features like [spoiler] tags. Thanks for the reminder.

Cool deal, sent you a PM that may or may not help in the venture.

Failed · March 01, 2011, 08:48:52 PM

Quote from: nCogNeato on March 01, 2011, 07:56:37 PM
Quote from: Failed on March 01, 2011, 07:44:54 PM
Perhaps a 'Shout Out Box'

Last year when I released my first round of updates, I did add a shoutbox for roughly 1 hour. It ended up crashing the forum and I had to resurrect a backup. Fortunately, it was a slow day and I don't think anyone lost any posts.

My fingers are crossed that the new SMF is more stable and add-on friendly. We'll find out in a few months.

Months? can't you just go into admin and update it. Or is it a case of you need a free weekend incase you blow us up ?

nCogNeato · March 01, 2011, 09:58:26 PM

Quote from: Failed on March 01, 2011, 08:48:52 PM
Quote from: nCogNeato on March 01, 2011, 07:56:37 PM
Quote from: Failed on March 01, 2011, 07:44:54 PM
Perhaps a 'Shout Out Box'

Last year when I released my first round of updates, I did add a shoutbox for roughly 1 hour. It ended up crashing the forum and I had to resurrect a backup. Fortunately, it was a slow day and I don't think anyone lost any posts.

My fingers are crossed that the new SMF is more stable and add-on friendly. We'll find out in a few months.

Months? can't you just go into admin and update it. Or is it a case of you need a free weekend incase you blow us up ?

Free weekend. It may be as simple as updating the files, but in my experience it's never been that easy due to all of the 'mods' we have installed.

I plan to shutdown the site, make a full backup, and then test a couple different approaches. Hope it's simple and upload the new SMF update. When that fails, I'll remove all of our mods, and attempt to update again. Worst case ... if that doesn't work, I'll remove all mods, export the database, remove the old forum completely, upload an entirely new forum, import the database, and start fresh with an entirely new site with all posts hopefully preserved. Then I'll test some mods (like shoutbox & spoilers).

If I don't have a 100% free weekend to devote to it, the site will either remain shutdown until the following weekend, or I'll just have to revert the backup which would mean everything I did was a waste of time.

Failed · March 02, 2011, 01:24:05 AM

A whole week without the forum?? AMG!!

Give us all due warning so we can go on holiday to a tibetan mountain with no internet, we won't miss anything and can contemplate world peace and dream of Gears of War 4

nCogNeato · March 02, 2011, 04:09:15 PM

Deal.

dfusioness · March 04, 2011, 01:45:50 PM

you are kidding, ive just spent the last two weeks without internet, bugger !!!!

nCogNeato · March 04, 2011, 03:09:55 PM

Quote from: fizz on March 04, 2011, 01:45:50 PM
you are kidding, ive just spent the last two weeks without internet, bugger !!!!

I'm not going to let the site be shutdown for a week. I'll shut it down for 48 hours (at most) sometime later this Summer. Not anytime soon.