THE MOVE - Coming March 21st to a JC near you

Question: Will PM's all be saved and moved to the new forums? I have notes and items saved in my PM that I would hate to lose...and yes, I know I could save them to another place,and I might, but I just want to know if our personal PM's (including PM to others and from others) will be saved intact through the move?

WE won't be able to update stories during this time? I'm getting that that's the case, but just confirming....

And if so...boo hoo!! I can't WAIT till the move is completed...

Maybe I can at least get my next chapter up before it starts...

And do you know how many updates will be happening all at once when the new boards are up?? It will take us readers at least a week to catch up on everything!!

 

Still not convinced it's actually happening.

 

PMs should be moved. If you are really worried you might want to save any information you want to keep. PMs might not be available on day 1 of the new boards though.

 

Why the heck did some of you create so many socks anyway?

 

Will we have the ability to delete PM's if we wish?

 

It's funny... I was just thinking about how much we all hated Snowball/"Snowhell" right after the move from UBB.

No mark-up codes like bold or italics.
No emoticon images.
No ability to lock threads.
No private forums (the entity now known as MS was an email list).

And yet, after all this time on this system and the countless hours staring at these familiar page layouts, it feels like IGN's design is a part of our community now. So many things that changed my life in some way happened here on these boards. I can't help but feel this isn't just the end of an era... it's a loss of an old friend.

 

Because our toes were COLD!

In the fanfic there are a couple of reasons. If a sock is used to initiate a challenge thread, then it and the password can be passed on to another user to keep the thread going.

Another reason is to have multiple user profiles. You can post links to your stories in the profile, but there is a limit on the number of characters. If you have a lot of stories, then one profile won't be able to handle them all. The fanfic mods solved this problem by starting a thread specifically for users to post links to their stories. But the old socks and their profiles are still there.

 

Well, there goes talking **** about anyone via PM.

 

That change (along with the ability to like posts) is very, very intriguing.


Los Angeles Lakers: Drama, guaranteed.

 

I hope the "like" function can be turned off. Can't people actually reply instead of clicking some dumb button?

 

Such as it is on Facebook, you can do both.


Los Angeles Lakers: Drama, guaranteed.

 

It contributes nothing.

 

EDIT: Oops, didn't realize I'd already posted.

 

Well, there are many features that we have here that contribute nothing, and yet still exist (ie: the stars). So, consider it a part of a JC tradition.


Los Angeles Lakers: Drama, guaranteed.

 

It's lifted from Facebook. It's not a "tradition" here. The stars are stupid too, but they work differently.

 

Like.

 

Despite problems here & there I have, I'm still very much a unabashed fan of Facebook, so any good that can be imported from there is a wonderful thing.


Los Angeles Lakers: Drama, guaranteed.

 

Ugh... I'm not a fan of the like button. I prefer when people reply to posts with actual words.

 

I agree. It's the equivalent of '+1' - doesn't add a whole lot to the thread.

 

Very late in the day for me to suddenly wonder this; how do we access the Temp Boards?

Am I just typing boards.theforce.net as normal, and end up at the temp location where I have to register anew?

Also, I assume that the Powers That Be have tested the email server is happy to do the level of mass-sending that would be necessary to send passwords out to the TFN population?

 

Last we heard from Grimby was that he's still waiting for the server setup. So we haven't gotten on the temp boards either.

 

What about the markup codes, will they be the same or something quite different?

 

Thanks, LAJ. This close to the Move, not feeling that confident now.