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A little Q&A on V2.0
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A little Q&A on V2.0
#1I am a little confused about this whole thing.
I want there to be a VERY open discussion about what is going on. If you have any concerns, or even just a statement you want to get out, don't want you to hesitate to post. Get it off your chest and let it go. Posting will also help you get used to this new forum so even if you just want to post "test" I don't care, do it. Do your thing! and tell me if you find anything broken!
What is with the nasty color mismatch of the chat on the Citadel?
Well, you only noticed that if you changed your theme. Good for you for playing with that! The chat is a seperate entity and will be updated in the next couple days somehow. Ancient Gamer is recoding it to be a little more user friendly and I will try and match themes at that point.
OK, that explains the ugly color of the chatbox, whatabout the two different themes between the Citadel and this new forum?
You got me there too. Been concentrating on the Citadel portion so much that the forum got neglected a little bit. Once we are steady and everything is working I will start to port over the themes to the forum. That is a somewhat annoying slow process but it should happen in the somewhat near future. Any theme skinner out there are welcome to help! The forum is freely downloadable and I can get you the graphics if you want to help!
Ok, so whay a new forum anyway? I am used to the other one!
Mostly for coding reasons and security. Everybody knows phpBB has had difficulties later, but that is not the main reason I changed. I have been waiting for the newest version of phpBB to come out for years and was waiting to build my V2.0 because of it. They took so long that I needed to move on and I didn't want to code all V2.0 to an old bulletin board and then have to recode it all when it finally came out with the updated version. SMF is based on solid code, is beautifully written, has an excellent support forum, and has all the integration bits and pieces I need without me having to write it all.
Plus, it is frickin awesome! Have you looked at your profile yet and seen the options available. Give it some time, it WILL grow on you. It is a wonderful piece of work!
That's all great and stuff but what happened to the links in google and in other places because of this huge change in everything?
I spent a lot of time writing forwarding rules that will hopefully grab the main submissions and forum links and send them to their new location., I haven't extensively tested this so if you find something that doesn't forward and you think it should, please tell me!
Hey, the site url is showing rpgcitadel.com instead of strolen.com.
This will stay that way for a week or so. I don't want to do the full move till I know this place actually works. Once it does then I will officially tell the internet where to go, for now I am doing local forwarding.
I don't like it!
I really think you will get used to it. If you don't like anything, tell me! I try to cater to everybody as best I can but if I don't know what you need or want, then I can't do anything for you.
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Re: A little Q&A on V2.0
#2Absolutely Top Marks
I love the sort of chocolate anachronisms and gothic flourish.
I'm sure there will be rough spots with so much to gain but I'm betting it will all be worth it. Although I wasn't very much involved with your previous incarnation I have to say this looks like a huge improvement.
It is especially an improvement if.... It excites you as its creator and helps you keep your interest in the site. Everything else is, in some ways, secondary.
I really like it. I heartily approve.
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Re: A little Q&A on V2.0
#3Thanks Sigurd! The last one was my first attempt at a web application and I knew it wasn't going to last forever. Others will tell you all I do is tweak, but this time I got to rewrite it all...and there is plenty of tweaking to do! and other version improvements already established! and other version improvements on the drawing board! and...and...and...