We're Moving v2.0

Absolutely not. Remember, the original announcement came on the 31st, and many people read it on April 1st, thinking it was an AFD thing. As did I. Thus, that post of mine wasn't exactly, oh how should I say this, serious. Sorry. However, my beard will be up for shaving again in June if the Lakers make it to the NBA Finals and lose.

2008-2009 L.A. Lakers: World Champions!

 

I am kind of excited about this, to see how everything transitions over. This is probably not worth saying, but if any help is needed, I'd be willing to offer up my time to you guys.

Question: Doesn't the largest board on the internet, in terms of post, use phpBB? I don't see why it would be much of a problem if given the right precautions. (Note, I am not advocating against vB, just saying.)

 

But you have some of us here who refuse to even venture to those boards for fear of getting hacked/viruses.

 

Absolutely not. Remember, the original announcement came on the 31st, and many people read it on April 1st, thinking it was an AFD thing. As did I. Thus, that post of mine wasn't exactly, oh how should I say this, serious. Sorry. However, my beard will be up for shaving again in June if the Lakers make it to the NBA Finals and lose.

Sorry, this is not an acceptable excuse for going back on your word when you got fooled

 

I don't care. Not everything posted here in the history of the JC is 100% serious. Get over it.

2008-2009 L.A. Lakers: World Champions!

 

Actually at times due to the amount of posts and users online the board goes down more times then I care to remember.

The only reason I know this is because I'm a mod on one and it goes down quite a bit. I wouldn't trust the servers on php boards with a ten foot pole. The JC sees a lot more then 200 users online all at once. There is no way the php can handle the traffic that we see here.

 

Jedi Ben - merging and splitting threads is a feature available in vB.


As the continuing questions on phpBB it's security is an issue for me. The skill-set we have available is more suited to front end module alterations than trying to work on back end security issues. I'm more than willing to admit that I'd be hessitant about playing with the user portal and forum security modules as there are some major issues than can arrise if we screw those up.

 

I remember six years ago the DLC had moved to a php, someone hacked in and destroyed the boards. They lost all the posts and had to start over. I would be very hesitant and would not highly recommend the boards be moved to PHP.

 

Oh, I definitely assumed as much. I would assume any board of that size would need considerable amounts of security. Hence my "given the right precautions" statement.

JediFalcon: I was unaware of that fact, mostly because I've never actually posted on that board.

 

phpBB just isn't secure unless you have a whole host of webanarios sitting ready with their virtual fire extinguishers ready to come to the rescue 24/7 and even then there is going to be downtime. Years ago these forums went down but I cannot remember the last time they were down. I'm not as familiar with vB but from the little I do know it is better protected.

Just please don't ever go with Fireboards.

 

I hope when the time comes you'll be giving users a fair warning so if they want to back up stories or things, they can do so. What about people with socks, such as fanfic posters who have shared usernames, will those probably be as safe as regular usernames?

 

^Well, what's stopping you from doing that stuff now?

 

Re: Halloween icons: attempting to get through those before the move. I'm going to try to speed that up a bit. (And I realize it's been a bit since the last round; I got hit hard after break.)

 

Thanks, I think that function could have revolutionary impact on the boards, if handled right - it could definitely be for the better. It might also show up what the dominant and recurring topics of discussion are on a board - which in most cases will be known to regulars, but will likely be more visible to Mods so hotspots are more easily spotted.

 

Erm... so are we moving or is this a big joke? I'm genuinely unsure.

EDIT: We actually are? Cripes?

Or are we?

 

We are, I forgot about the agreement we had with IGN until Grimby posted the reminder, so yes we are getting kicked to the curb.

darth_nemisis Well now you know the reasons not to trust phpb

 

Oh well. I recall the test boards we had back in 2005 being okay to use. I'm sure that all the crap you see on other forums will be avoided here, and hope that we get fair warning to bid farewell to the old place.

 

I've also run into a lot of spambots on a the Talon Intelligence Squadron board, which is a php board.

 

Yeah, I had a phpBB myself (that I actually made look like IGNBoards) and had problems with spambots as well.

 

Good. Snowboards sucks. The UBB was much better. We could use smilies. We had icons. We could have spaces in usernames.

Crap. I'm so old I can't even make a good oldbie rant.

 

Tell me about it, I lost track on the amount of spam I had to clean up on those boards.