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New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:53 pm
by Forceflow
Hello Folks!

Okay, I finally got the Forum up and running! And guess what, it's a completely new forum! It's a phpBB3, so it's pretty much top of the line all nice and shiny!
Now of course you think you'll have to reregister, so that sucks, but lucky for you, all your user information has been transfered, too!
Of course, wih all the posts gone it'll be really boring, right? Well, I guess it would be right, but lucky us I was also able to safe and transfer all posts into the new board, too! (Yay me, it took me forever to get that all working!)

Now I know it looks ugly and there's certainly quite some problems I still haven't fixed (like the not working search-feature) But it's a new start and will hopefully make sure that the XWAU will prevail for much longer!

P.S. Yes, I do know that it looks ugly as hell! Live with it, it took me a week just to get it working, you'll survive it looking sucky for a couple of days ;)

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:05 pm
by Adderfangs
Hi Forceflow. Congrats on the new forum. Don't worry about the looks we can definitely wait. I know what kind of work it entails and it is a pain in the ***! On the other hand thanks for making it possible for this huge and fantastic community to keep on going through the centuries :D

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:48 pm
by Atx
Looks awesome! :D

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:55 pm
by Dragon
Wow! Realy cool! Great work Foreflow. :gott:

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:59 pm
by WildstarBlue9
Very nice! :D

I did notice that everyone's signatures needed to be redone, so I redid mine. They'll probably allow images now, too, so I'll add that later.

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:04 pm
by darklord
Holly cow this is awesome!
Great job Force flow!

Though if you could change my user name back to darklord I'd be pretty thankful. the half email address was an old mistake i did when registering typing at a mile a minute, and I put up with it all this time because my displayed name was right.

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:06 pm
by Trent001
Yes, very good work man! The hard works paying off! :D

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:13 pm
by ANDREW L
OMG XWAU IS ENTEREING THE 21ST CENTURY!!!!

AWESOME JOB!

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:27 pm
by Forceflow
Yeah, the signatures need to be redone, and a lot of the old posts have some errors, too. (The old forum worked to much with html coding and stuff)

@darklord: I'll see what I can do, okay?

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:33 pm
by darklord
Thanks allot! :D Now i don't have to confuse myself when ever I try to post in these forums by typing part of my email address.

We can't use HTML anymore? :(
Ive also just noticed some of the smiles are a tad inappropriate

On the bright side we now have a working search though i think it only works with new threads

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:09 pm
by Will T
Wow, this is going to take some getting used to I think.
I hope you manage to get it looking a bit more XWAU though Force, just isn't the same without those X-wings telling me where the new posts are :D

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:45 pm
by DTM
Nice, really nice ! :cooler:

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:58 pm
by VPR
Looks a bit wierd at the moment but I'm sure it will be much better than the old forum and we'll have some new features to play with after all your hard work.

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:00 pm
by Forceflow
darklord wrote:Thanks allot! :D Now i don't have to confuse myself when ever I try to post in these forums by typing part of my email address.

We can't use HTML anymore? :(
Ive also just noticed some of the smiles are a tad inappropriate

On the bright side we now have a working search though i think it only works with new threads
Yeah, no more html, sorry about that. But you really shouldn't need it anyways, all that's necessary should be possible with the BBCode.
As for the smilies, yeah I still have to change some of those. I just ripped them off my other board, which is why all the signs are in German, too ;)

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:09 pm
by Vince T
Yay, here we go!

Hmmm, could you please check if the migration of the PMs worked? My inbox and outbox are empty. :(

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:12 pm
by Forceflow
I am afraid those might be lost, sorry :(

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:30 pm
by WildstarBlue9
Was going to add my helmet artwork (done nicely by former Red Squadron member Chelsey "Vape" Maxfield) to my signature, but I forgot I had the option of making it my avatar, too, so I did that instead. :)

EDIT: Forceflow, any chance of changing my name on the board from "WildstarBlue9" to "WildstarRed2"? I noticed you were able to do it for dragon, and the new name would be more in line w/ my current squadron and slot.

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:21 pm
by Drake26
Hey, Forceflow, can I get ShadowDuelist again? For some reason I didn't use that as my sign in name here, like I have everywhere else, so now I'm drake26, and it may confuse people.

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:09 pm
by Rookie_One1
good work forceflow!

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:13 pm
by K_Kinnison
GAaaaah. It is like going from black and white to Technicolor

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:37 pm
by WildstarBlue9
My avatar seemed a bit grainy when I resized it on my local machine, and it wouldn't take the original (6KB limit), so I resized it on PhotoBucket...looks a bit better now. :D

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:46 pm
by Dragon
WildstarBlue9 wrote:My avatar seemed a bit grainy when I resized it on my local machine, and it wouldn't take the original (6KB limit), so I resized it on PhotoBucket...looks a bit better now. :D
Thanks for this hint. :up:

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:55 pm
by General Edor Crespin
Thanks for the work, Forceflow!!! The color scheme is jarring, but I am confident in your abilities! :D

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:55 pm
by Timon Solus
Congrats on setting up the new forum - not an easy job.

Keep a close eye on it, though, I visit the Axis History Forum which recently upgraded to the same software, and they've had some reliability problems.

Re: New Forum

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:27 pm
by Vince T
@Force, are you going to set the number of posts per page back to 25 as it was before?
I'd do it myself, but I don't want to interfer while you're still in the process of setting everything up.