Welcome to the new JGO forums!

General Discussions
#1

All,

I know it was a long time coming, but the boards are finally up and running! A few notes:

  • Mail does not work yet. We have to install a new mail server and then everything should be fine. I know this was a complaint on the last forums and it will be a priority.
  • There is a Karma system now on this board to aid with spam/filtering
  • Still looking for volunteers for moderating
  • URL changeover will happen within 2 weeks now that the provider has a domain change

Let me know how everything works!

-Chris

#2

If no one else wants to I’m happy to moderate a few more forums since I spend most of life here anyway :slight_smile:

Kev

#3

Looks great. Thanks for all the hard work over the last couple of days

Alan :slight_smile:

/Edit would it be possible to add hyperlinking to:

#4

Thanks! This move was NOT a trival excercise as there are many issues with moving from a flat file system to a db system. A ton of issues with the conversion tools that forced me to hand tool the move in a couple of key aread. Anyway, I plan on cleaning up the structure and rebuilding some boards, using a duatgher structure to clean up and allow for better grouping.

-Chris

#5

Ye, looks pretty good. Except those smilies… the old ones were antialiased.

#6

What for?

-Chris

#7

Chris,

The new forum is great, and I can only guess the difficulties encountered in the transfer (I remember having to convert all my MS Access2 to Access97 databases. The automatic translator did most of it but through a few funnies in.) So consider this more of something for the wish list, after things have settled down:

The hyperlinking made it easier to go up a level to check other threads in the same area. The forum ‘jump’ feature at the bottom of the page does something similar, but you have to select where to jump to first, so it takes a bit longer.

/Edit - I just noticed that the Forum Jump is initialised to the current forum, so you just have to press ‘GO’ to get back. Maybe I should keep quiet… Although the hyperlinking was nicer.

Alan :slight_smile:

#8

Done! Give it a shot.

-Chris

#9

Chris,

Thanks, much easier

Alan ;D

#10

NIIIIIICE

#11

Chris,

the new forums look very good! Thanks for your hard work! :slight_smile:

#12

Yey!

Everything looks nice and slick too. :smiley:

#13

Uh oh, I notice the applaud and boo near our names. Karma has come. I’m in trouble. :stuck_out_tongue:

#14

You’re in trouble? :o

#15

Looks good! Nice job Chris (and whoever else helped)

The close/open header button looks a little messed up and has some transparency issues, though. So you can use these buttons I made that uses the same font as the rest of the buttons and has correct transparency :stuck_out_tongue:

http://woogley.net/misc/open_header.gif
http://woogley.net/misc/open_header.gif

http://woogley.net/misc/close_header.gif
http://woogley.net/misc/close_header.gif

edit: it would be nice to have Flash back in the sigs too! ;D

#16

Yeah, nice buttons.

Um…everyone might want to go to their profile, find “Return to topics after posting by default.” and turn it to on, to get rid of the annoying default behaviour that’s different from the old forum and most otehrs.

#17

Thanks! And I have to say, no one helped me with this migration. Did the whole thing myself including the moving of whole boards by individual threads :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks for the graphics as well :slight_smile:

-Chris

#18

Turned it on in the general settings for everyone. Thanks.

-Chris

#19

And I even beat Duke Nukem to release! :wink:

-Chris

#20

Didn’t someone previously suggest some catch-all moderators, to cope with the fact that moderators come and go, so you really want a backup for each forum (e.g. GerghisKhan, who’s not been around for ages, but used to be around a lot)?

Several of the current moderators have volunteered to moderate every forum that has no dedicated moderator, so if we can’t have “catch-all” moderators then at least assign them to existing mods for now, and then hand them over to other people as they come along.

The following forums I read every day anyway, so I can particularly easily mod:

Java.Net - Games General Discussions
Your Games
OnLine Game Development
Shared Code

although like most of the others I’m happy to be a backup mod for all of them, since I read pretty much every forum sooner or later