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Migration, what's changed?
« on: July 20, 2008 »
First of all, welcome back!

I am happy to tell you that after a very stress filled weekend, the forum you are looking at is now located on a totally different host!



Lots of things have gone..

The portal has gone, you probably saw a blue screen with "CLICK TO ENTER"
This is going to be replaced with a hand coded portal which will contain our links, tutorials, shoutbox  and resources.
As it is me who is coding the portal and is dependant on my spare time, you will have to wait a while for it sorry!

Loads of stupid and defunct modifications were removed from this board, they had become unservicable and it had got to the point that we could not remove them due to the fact that this forum had been patched so many times.

We may add googlebot and spiders mod again, but that is probably the only one that will come back.

Please understand that these broken modifications put the security of all the data in this site at risk.
They had to go, we could not take a chance.



What else happened?

All accounts, avatars, sigs, personal messages  and posts were correctly transferred to the new host.
The old (and broken) arcade was removed, the latest version is installed, games have been limited to 50 for now (should be enough?)

You can now select between two themes in your profile. (look and layout preferences).

You can now embed Youtube into your posts easily:

[youtube]mZtoNxz3Rd8[/youtube]

easy to do..

[ youtube] mZtoNxz3Rd8 [ / youtube]

mZtoNxz3Rd8 is the video ID

[youtube]v0Eg3dBnsHk[/youtube]

You can now upload files of up to 1024kb in your posts.
Server space has been vastly increased, however please don't just upload a huge file for the sake of it as I will be asking the moderators to remove pictures and files that they feel could have been made smaller.

That's about it, thanks for putting up with the downtime and welcome back!


Shockwave.

« Last Edit: July 20, 2008 by Shockwave »
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Re: Migration, what's changed?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2008 »
Fantastic work mate done in unbelievably quick time well done
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Re: Migration, what's changed?
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2008 »
Stunning work, and fast as well  :clap:
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Re: Migration, what's changed?
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2008 »
Excellent!

I'd mix up a fantastic brew, but I'm currently working on a formula which can make people go from  8) to  O0

You did this a lot faster than I ever could.
You are our 9001st visitor.
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Re: Migration, what's changed?
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2008 »
wow nice one shockwave
real quick too
Glad to see Dbf back up :D

Thanks for all yr hardwork

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Re: Migration, what's changed?
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2008 »
Enjoy it :)

There's only one bug identified so far that I can't easily fix, I will get the little git though.
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Re: Migration, what's changed?
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2008 »
Googlebot and spiders mod has been added again because it was useful and the users online list was really confusing without it.
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