Site Downtime and Forum Upgrade

[Krisqo]

I like the revamp. Took some time (like 1 hour) but this place feels like home again. Though I agree with Anubus about the width but we shall see.

everyone who worked on this.

[dokidoki]

Just to clarify... I didn't upgrade the forum for fun. phpBB2 is an unsupported security hole which allowed the hack to happen. I didn't upgrade it before now since I was either busy or unmotivated, because I knew it'd be difficult with the custom changes/site integration. At least the hack/upgrade didn't happen during the busy summer/fall con season. (no offense to winter cons, and yes, I know it's not technically winter yet) So the old forum won't be back, sorry.

It's been a week... you can see what the old forum looked like again here. (That's an inactive forum, so it may not be able to be hacked. It's just a demo anyway)

Of course, since phpBB3 is the current version, security patches will be released. (I follow the phpBB news feed) Upgrading, for example, 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 is much easier than 2.0.23 to 3.0.1. (we're using the latest version as of this writing)

Will we see a return of the old board style eventually?

This is subSilver2, which is the phpBB3 version of subSilver, which we used before. I looked briefly but haven't seen an exact subSilver clone.

Any chance we could get the tag tweaked to accept relative paths f ... new posts?

umm, about the vidid thing, it might be worth pointing out that now every link in the recommended amvs forum is broken. :/

I know.

I love you guys Less so the new icon

They have chins.... Why do they have chins?

huh. I knew something was different, but at my resolution, and when I was tired/busy, I couldn't put my finger on it. I can put up the old ones, but I wanted to give the new ones a shot first.

Seriously tho how much caffine/energy drinks did it take to get it all running again

A lotta Coke Zero.

and do you accept payment in pocki for your overtime?

Yes.

(...and we have a friends & foes option.....weird ¬_¬)

You can read a little about it here.

I didn't have much time to work on it today due to work, another commitment, a meeting tomorrow, but the old smilies are back. You may need to shift-reload.

Thanks for the cupcakes, kittens, hugs, etc.

[Scintilla]

At least the .hack//UPGRADE didn't happen during the busy summer/fall con season.

Fixed.

[jasper-isis]

the old smilies are back. You may need to shift-reload.

The header logos have been changed as well. If you're still seeing the orange versions, shift-reload.

[godix]

Hey, wait a second. There's a huge flaw here, I'm not an admin on the new forum.

Is HTML gone for good or will href tags and the like be back someday?

[Brad]

First off, awesome job resurrecting the forums

Now that we're kind of "moving on" so to speak, how about we begin to loosen certain restrictions that have been with us since 2001. Such as, signature height. I'm certainly not in favor of taking out the restrictions all together (if you go to other non-regulated boards, you'll see RIDICULOUSLY huge sigs. Certainly not advocating that). However, we've had this whole, "no bigger than 600x40, but you can have 2 of them" thing in place for a while. So what many people do is just make 2 of them and have them stack for a resulting height of 80. Why not just give up the ghost and say "600x80 total"?

Keep in mind, it's honestly been a long time since I've actually gone through the official forum rules so this may have been changed long ago, but this is how I currently know it. Thoughts?

[Brad]

First off, awesome job resurrecting the forums

Now that we're kind of "moving on" so to speak, how about we begin to loosen certain restrictions that have been with us since 2001. Such as, signature height. I'm certainly not in favor of taking out the restrictions all together (if you go to other non-regulated boards, you'll see RIDICULOUSLY huge sigs. Certainly not advocating that). However, we've had this whole, "no bigger than 600x40, but you can have 2 of them" thing in place for a while. So what many people do is just make 2 of them and have them stack for a resulting height of 80. Why not just give up the ghost and say "600x80 total"?

Keep in mind, it's honestly been a long time since I've actually gone through the official forum rules so this may have been changed long ago, but this is how I currently know it. Thoughts?

jssssperr (1:19:10 AM): you didn't see my post on the front page of that thread
jssssperr (1:19:11 AM):
Atom is OK (1:19:24 AM): damn that was quick :O
Atom is OK (1:19:33 AM): I seriously like, hit submit, 10 seconds later, IM

Well okay then

[chambeyc]

Awesome work guys!

This phpBB3 forum looks like a lot to its fellow: http://forum.amv-france.com

[Nunchuck]

I guess it got mentioned before. Are you going to fix the width of the page?
Reading across a widescreen is seriously annoying...

Thanks for the old smilies

[aguelo]

Ohhh!!! Now the forum have a nicer look Nice job guyz