The new forum is finally here!

I've done my best to provide at least the minimum of features for a forum. Hopefully everything works, and causes you no problems or frustration. If not, please report issues here and I'll quickly try to resolve them .

Some important links:
- Account Settings ( change password, upload avatar, change sig )
- Your Files Uploaded via Forum or Avatar ( view your files, get thumb links, and more as i code it )
- PM Center ( lookup user by name to PM )
- Forum Signup ( register a new account )

Features that are no more:
- [list] BBcode is gone
- Polls are gone
- email notifications


- THEME INFO -
I know many members came to like the Dark and Green theme from the old forum. While I wont be bringing it back, I do have something awesome in the works thanks to how the site handles CSS.

In short, I'll provide a live editor you can use to modify much of the site's CSS. We'll store your CSS in a database table so others can give it a try. Perhaps eventually the best member contributed themes will be made into optional themes!

I'll start coding this now. Keep an eye on:
- CSS Editor

私は日本語を少し読むと書くをできます。あなたも？

Just a useless post to let you know that I am glad you have finished with the new forum. I know it was hard. Congratulations !
Do not worry, I think members will get used to white soon. Do you think you will re-install pools, e-mail notifications and so on or did you "erased" (I, in fact, do not know how to say it.) them on purpose ?

(Hey, Admin-sama, what with this ecchi avatar ? *laugh*)

I'll have a look at the new forum, now.

I was merely testing the avatar upload feature. haha

Thanks for the encouraging words Laurah! The project started around November of last year. Dedicated all of April to finally getting it done. I don't think I've slept more than 2 hours at a time the past 2 weeks. Anyways, I shouldn't complain any more than that. ( I did find time to play 7 chapters of Portal 2, and watch Madoka after all ... lol )

Email notifications will certainly come back! And be expanded to be better than ever. I wrote a new email system, which I am slowly testing out with New Signups. If all goes well, I can expand it to the usual:
- emails when a reply is posted to a watched forum
- emails when a new PM is received

As for polls... they are a little complicated. { How does one instruct a computer to allow an infinite number of votes and choices to an infinite number of polls? } I'll take a closer look eventually at how the previous forum did them, then see what I can do to add them here.

私は日本語を少し読むと書くをできます。あなたも？

Good work getting the new forum up. Feels strange to finally be using it. Am I the last one to switch over?

Also, groan about the absence of a black-and-green theme and sigh at having to make it myself in the end. But it's not that important.

So far everything seems to work. I haven't been on too much lately, but I'll let you know if I find any bugs etc.

I think the staff from the old forum will be the last to switch over. haha. Will probably need to do a staff recruit campaign - which leads us to the issue of spam.

I've done a lot to make it difficult for any automated spam. Whatever gets through seems to be do purposely by an individual. And as such, falls to moderators to deal with. Delete. Ban-hammer.

We do have a LAME filter for anonymous posts. I tend to hold members to a high standard of conduct and respect - hence the Star Trek rank model. Well, one action I can take is creating something of an initiation or probation phase.

A few more tweaks to the rank system should make that possible.



Thanks for sticking with the new forum Kyareshi. It was a little rushed - I didn't want to be talking about doing it for years. haha. At least now any bugs or feature requests I can handle in a few days. Let me know if anything needs to be done, or could be improved.

[ Edited May 9, 2011 ]

私は日本語を少し読むと書くをできます。あなたも？

Speaking of which, where is my ban-hammer?

Still working it out. Involves setting a negative guild rank.

I could do User Profile pages next, then add a Ban User button for moderators.

Could also add a ban option to the guild rank page.

Or expand our damage evaluation center to include a ban option.


Where would you like your ban-hammer Kyareshi? ^_^

[ Edited May 9, 2011 ]

私は日本語を少し読むと書くをできます。あなたも？

In the rules section on this forum the hyperlinks for the two Japanese "forums" direct you to the "main screen" instead of to the Language "sub-forum".
Great work on the forum.
P.S. I'm done with university work for the summer so you'll see me around more often.

Thanks for reminding me CaptainBrain. I'll try to get some better redirects in place for old forum links. Just about everything in /forum/ will redirect only to the front page of the new forum. Plus the rules section could stand a little revision.

Glad to hear you're getting a break from University.

Edit: Added proper redirect for old links of the type
If any other links are broken, let me know and I'll work some regular expression Magic.

[ Edited May 12, 2011 ]

私は日本語を少し読むと書くをできます。あなたも？

Since we were getting a lot of Who's This Character Threads with no images... I finally updated the forum to handle Attached Images posted without previewing .

Hopefully this update does not break anything. ^_^ If there's any more forum bugs to report, let me know here!


One thing in the works is, an Extended User Profile / Public Profile. Any requests for details to include?

So far I just have some basics in mind.
Location:
Home Page:
MSN Addy:
Long Profile: ( supporting BBcode )

Maybe a Show/Hide option, Gender ( Male, Female, Other ), ?




[rant]
Also have a new temporary storage system in the works... A while back I started moving away from PHP Sessions to a MySQL Database backend temporary storage system... sadly, as expected, once I started making use of it, it became overwhelming apparent this would not scale well. It's common knowledge PHP sucks at arrays, and the serialize and unserialize functions are not efficient. Were I to store a lot of variables, taking up a lot of space... things would likely not go well. Anyways. Having been reading a book on Single UNIX Standard and POSIX specification, I've long wanted to learn a few topics... so... probably going to try writing a temporary storage system using UNIX sockets, SystemV semaphores, threads, linked lists, binary trees, hash tables, C structures, and POSIX environment storage. If by some chance anyone has experience doing stuff like this, PM me. hahaha
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[ Edited May 23, 2011 ]

私は日本語を少し読むと書くをできます。あなたも？