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Post by Mooncow »

OK, so I've decided to go along with creating a new forum.
Here's whats going to happen:

I will be disabling the board on Sunday morning (GMT- about 8-10 hours from this post).

I will then convert everything over to the new board. After this is done, the board will stay disabled while i set up a few things.

Something is bound to go wrong, so in that case I will either re-enable this board again and think of a plan, or everything will stay disabled while i fix it.

If it all works out, you will be greeted with a weird new board.
Some features will not work right away, so these are the things that will be missing:

Chatbox
Rings
Chao Points
Shop and Items

I will be looking to get them back in the same order.

I should add, that if you try to log in and it doesn't seem to work, use the forgotten password option. Here is the reason:

"Password conversion Due to the utf-8 based handling of passwords in phpBB3, it is not always possible to transfer all passwords. For passwords "lost in translation" the easiest workaround is to use the "forgotten password" function."

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Post by Gondi »

will we still have our accounts
just to make sure
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Post by Nano »

this sounds like a bad idea for some reason....
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Post by kinggir »

whats wrong with the board as it is???
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will we keep our avi's??
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Post by Nano »

think about chao points. if they're lost we may have to start all over again. DON'T DO IT MOON!!!
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Post by Furyal »

THANK YOU. This board has too small capacity.

I dont care about Chao Points and such, Ill just write them down so I theyre screwed up so I can tell you 'em. :P
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Post by kinggir »

fox boy wrote:think about chao points. if they're lost we may have to start all over again. DON'T DO IT MOON!!!
yea seriously plz dont do it. u said it urself that if u do a disaster is imminant
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Post by Furyal »

Its post amount, not chao points that matters...


BTW, What is the new site name?
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Post by Nano »

it's gonna get renamed too?!?! i gotta read better XD
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Post by kinggir »

Furyal wrote:THANK YOU. This board has too small capacity.

I dont care about Chao Points and such, Ill just write them down so I theyre screwed up so I can tell you 'em. :P
yea thats totally gunna work
*cough* stupidst idea ive eva heard *cough*
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Post by Mooncow »

gondi67 wrote:will we still have our accounts
just to make sure
Yes =)
fox boy wrote:think about chao points. if they're lost we may have to start all over again. DON'T DO IT MOON!!!
The values should be stored (I hope XD)
gondi67 wrote:will we keep our avi's??
I am pretty sure.

Wow.. i sound really un-confident :darksuprise:
It shouldn't be that bad!
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Post by Furyal »

Look, if we kept this board, do you WANT to have messages all the time saying that the capacity has reached its limited and you have to wait five mintues before you get to play again!? I'd rather start anew. :P
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Post by Nano »

ugh...fine. if it's for the better.
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Post by Drouge »

OK let me clarify.

Chao points might be lost in the conversion. IF THEY ARE write down your amount so we can give them back to you.

The avatars and Signatures will stay.

We will have a bunch more features, including a capta for registering which means no more spam bots (that doesn't mean no more spam)

Go here for a full list of functions in the new board.

And no, the name isn't changing. Silly people
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Post by Furyal »

Mmk. Writing them down now.
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Post by retrolinkx »

so for the 8-10 hours of the forum change can we post send pms or go in the chatbox etc what can't we do
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Post by Nano »

if the sigs are staying i may as well put them there XD
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Post by Mooncow »

Just to expand on these, since a lot of people are wondering,
Drouge87 wrote:We will have a bunch more features, including a capta for registering which means no more spam bots (that doesn't mean no more spam)
Captcha is not the reason for the spam attacks, ive set up the forum in a way that it is really hard for spambot to post on the site. The ones that get through are kind of advanced ones, which will be able to get past the captcha's anyway.
This is probably because phpBB2 (this forum) is very old and has been easy to figure out ways to register. The new forum should have features to make it harder for spambots to get into.
Drouge87 wrote:Chao points might be lost in the conversion. IF THEY ARE write down your amount so we can give them back to you.
They shouldn't be lost, just unable to be seen. I will have a record of all of them anyway.
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Post by Nano »

i put them in my sig just in case. XD
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Post by chowchow48 »

ugh fox boy no need to worry XD
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Post by Kosen »

I already knew that a lot of things could go wrong while you make the new baords, but I am not too worried about those problems. The one thing I am worried about is how long it will take me to figure out how the new boards work! XP


Good luck making the new boards, Mooncow! :D
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Post by KevinBushy »

Well this is going to be great.

Finally, PhpBB3
sounds sexy(:

anyway, looking at the moderating/permission section on the page drouge87 provided for us, Pikachu533's amazing idea of CI cops (policemen) could actually happen.

I thought it was a great idea, and so are the new boards.
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Post by BTC4 »

This is a good thing people, nothing to worry about

he's not changing it to anything weird like vbulletin or anything, it'll still be phpbb just the newest/best one
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BTC4 wrote:This is a good thing people, nothing to worry about

he's not changing it to anything weird like vbulletin or anything, it'll still be phpbb just the newest/best one
Thank GOD not vBulletin.
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