FORUM UPDATES

RadJunk

Administrator
Staff member
So in an attempt to make everyone's quality of life a little better I've migrated to forums to a new platform.

There may be some quirks and kinks to work out but I think this will be a lot better. @dale_coop and I should have an easier time handling the bots and spam as well.

If you run into any issues please reply to this thread.

There is also a resource tab now where you should be able to upload assets for other people to download. I set up two test categories and will do more tweaking soon.

The forum should also look a lot better on mobile now. I will be adding a dark theme soon as well for those of us who prefer such things.
 

PasseGaming

Active member
Yeah they were, you know it's bad when they figured out how to break out of the gaming section! lol

Hmm, how to you mark all forums read now from your phone?
 

mouse spirit

Well-known member
Had to reset my password. Ofcourse i appreciate this forum,and any work that goes into it, but it would be considerate to give people more than 5 minutes heads up when someones going to change everything. Like a months time sounds reasonable and very very easy to do.
Maybe plaster it on the front page real big and flashy. Also, someone could have mentioned that i would be locked out and needed to change my password. Very annoying after not being able to access the site for 24 hours after i just released my first nes game to the world

Additionally i had to make a dummy account to even post , and that wasnt working right either. Wouldnt let me confirm my new account. But it somehow eventually magically let me post without even confirming my account.

Hopefully anyone who was caught off guard can read this then know to reset their password .
 

RadJunk

Administrator
Staff member
Had to reset my password. Ofcourse i appreciate this forum,and any work that goes into it, but it would be considerate to give people more than 5 minutes heads up when someones going to change everything. Like a months time sounds reasonable and very very easy to do.
Maybe plaster it on the front page real big and flashy. Also, someone could have mentioned that i would be locked out and needed to change my password. Very annoying after not being able to access the site for 24 hours after i just released my first nes game to the world

Additionally i had to make a dummy account to even post , and that wasnt working right either. Wouldnt let me confirm my new account. But it somehow eventually magically let me post without even confirming my account.

Hopefully anyone who was caught off guard can read this then know to reset their password .
Honestly the original plan yesterday was to do a non-critical incremental update on the previous platform.

That went down the drain after the update failed, wrecked the file system, and made the forum completely unreachable.

At that point I finally bit the bullet and bought the software I had been eyeing for a while out of frustration that had built over the past couple of years. The transition was supposed to be relatively seamless with their migration tool. I’m not sure what happened with everyone’s logins credentials but on the positive side we were able to retain all of the forum data.

Yes it was hasty, yes I’m sorry you have to reset your passwords but in the end this was needed.

The new platform makes things a whole lot easier on @dale_coop, myself, and my hosting when it comes to spam management haha.

Also with the resource module everyone should able to easily share assets and whatnot which is a feature that’s been requested for a long time!

I love this community and know I’m not always around to converse but having a stable platform for everyone is something I’ve been striving to build for quite some time.
 

mouse spirit

Well-known member
Understood. Much appreciated radjunk.but id be a liar if i said i wasnt aggrevated. Just wanted to be honest.
But thank you.
 
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RadJunk

Administrator
Staff member
Understood. Much appreciated radjunk.but id be a liar if i said i wasnt aggrevated. Just wanted to be honest.
But thank you.
Trust me, I understand the frustration. I really do.

I was up for 24 hours trying to get all of this to work correctly. Not enough coffee in the world to keep me going and not enough therapy to erase the mental image of being flooded by 10k bot accounts peddling porn and viagra hahaha.
 

dale_coop

Moderator
Staff member
Ha ha ha, the joys of computer science.
@mouse spirit A lot of those happen everytime on every platforms. It's normal, just accept technical issues are part of the game. And like me, you will just enjoy the job done. In fact, it's an incredible update! This new forum looks cool.

So far my only complain would be that I would prefer a darker theme... like the older one (or make a new logo that would fit with the theme) But maybe it's in the User Settings and I haven't found it yet :p haha
 

Atarath

Member
Btw, if you guys have links in your signatures that route to the old forum pages, it looks like you'll need to fix those.
 
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