WTF Is Going On?

[CowbellGuy]

So I had to do an emergency server upgrade on Friday night to, you know, an OS that wasn't, you know, 11 years old. Moving to a new version of PHP put the last nail in the coffin of Phorum, which hasn't been updated since Cornell played on Beebe Lake.

So it was time. SMF seems like a good, robust, free, and actively developed solution which included a migration script from Phorum... that really, really didn't work without a lot of massaging, but I got there. Everyone's accounts should be converted, along with your existing password. Posts and messages should all be here. Avatars, apparently did not make the trip.

This theme is a placeholder. There are likely a lot of broken things, but as I'm still putting out other fires with the server swap, I'll look into them when everything has settled. No need to tell me about what you find. Yet.

Sorry for the inconvenience. It certainly wasn't planned, but it's definitely the best thing to happen for this forum's future. I can implement some proper spam checks and stuff, for starters.

[upprdeck]

wait until people realize it matches the new team colors we are rolling out.

Go Big Silver/grey

[Trotsky]

Holy shit, it's gorgeous Age!  I love it!

[scoop85]

Thanks for the swift transition. Seems easy enough to get around this new place. Your work to keep and maintain this site is appreciated.

[Beeeej]

So far it seems pretty good, though in comparison with the old version it's seven feet further away and has less cheese.

[CowbellGuy]

wait until people realize it matches the new team colors we are rolling out.

Go Big Silver/grey

There are three little color circles at the bottom of the page. You can click the red one if you prefer. I couldn't select that by default. Temporary, at any rate.

[Trotsky]

This is honestly perfect.  Just leave it like this.  Don't put any of your time into aesthetics, this is so clean and easy to read I think any change would probably be towards enshittification.

Thank you again, this is a gift!

(Note: speaking from the perspective of a desktop user; I haven't tried it on iPacifier yet.)

[Trotsky]

Also I think I speak for... well, just me but maybe others would agree.  If the back catalog of 260k posts is holding down efficiency or costing $$$, I for one, as the author of 8% of them, and probably 40% of the total bitcount of the content of this site, would be fine if you just flushed everything and started us over fresh and clean.  Or everything before say 10/1/24 if that freaks people out.

[Trotsky]

Oh shit not IMs tho, please keep them.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Just an FYI, my username includes an apostrophe, which is apparently an illegal character.  Fortunately, I just deleted the apostrophe and it let me log in.

[Beeeej]

Just an FYI, my username includes an apostrophe, which is apparently an illegal character.  Fortunately, I just deleted the apostrophe and it let me log in.

I think we call them "undocumented characters" now.

[CowbellGuy]

Just an FYI, my username includes an apostrophe, which is apparently an illegal character.  Fortunately, I just deleted the apostrophe and it let me log in.

Oh yeah. Forgot to mention that, thanks. Obviously screen names are separate and can contain special characters.

[CowbellGuy]

Oh God. The moderation tools are so nice...

[Trotsky]

Just an FYI, my username includes an apostrophe, which is apparently an illegal character.  Fortunately, I just deleted the apostrophe and it let me log in.

I think we call them "undocumented characters" now.

Surely "TERRORIST characters." 

They're not sending their best. They're not sending U. They're sending special characters that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems here. They're bringing dipthongs. They're bringing ßs. They're punctuation.  And some, I assume, are good characters."

[Trotsky]

Oh God. The moderation tools are so nice...

So.  This century?