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G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 20 Feb 2003 : 06:23:56 Thank you for fixing our little den of 68k happiness. Most sincerely, G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 20 Feb 2003 : 06:43:03 jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
SpaceBoy Full Member USA 631 Posts	Posted - 20 Feb 2003 : 17:26:04 Has anyone looked seriously into relocating the Forums to a more, err, stable platform? Whoever comes up with a good plan will get my vote! :-) SpaceBoy Official MLA Raconteur AppleBASIC FOREVER! TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PowerMac 6500/275 Performa 6400/180 3x PowerMac 7600/132 SE/30 32/250, "Wang" PB 1400/133 PB 180/33 PMac 7100/G3-266 Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" Newton 120, "PADD"
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 20 Feb 2003 : 19:43:22 quote: Has anyone looked seriously into relocating the Forums to a more, err, stable platform? Whoever comes up with a good plan will get my vote! :-) SpaceBoy Official MLA Raconteur AppleBASIC FOREVER! TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PowerMac 6500/275 Performa 6400/180 3x PowerMac 7600/132 SE/30 32/250, "Wang" PB 1400/133 PB 180/33 PMac 7100/G3-266 Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" Newton 120, "PADD" Anything with php would get my vote (hinting to phpbb ). -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 20 Feb 2003 : 20:11:04 why don't we use PHPBB2 on my server when I get it??? of course... I'll just come back here when I have free T-1 and unlimited power... and a newer server that can handlemore... not that the Athlon700 with Deb linux can't handle all of us :P Official 68k videographer
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 20 Feb 2003 : 21:33:40 I don't see what's so good about phpBB. If anything, vBulletin is the best. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City v3.0
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 20 Feb 2003 : 21:48:44 quote: I don't see what's so good about phpBB. If anything, vBulletin is the best. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City v3.0 phpBB is free vBulletin costs money. -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
Da Penguin Senior Member USA 1094 Posts	Posted - 21 Feb 2003 : 04:49:14 I'd suggest more reliable hosting first, before we work on a new format. The forums have been great for 3/4 of the past year I hav ebeen here, but lately, they have been going down alot. They still work fine, when they are up, so I suggest that is what we fix first. I'd offer to host, but there is NO way my line could handle that. My server is more than powerful enough, however. Oh well. If someone wants to help pay me for a $150 a month bill.... I will GLADLY get a SDSL line If we do change formats though....I'd go with phpbb. Lots of features, and able to script more if you know enough php (cats! ). ~The Penguin \| Want free 68kmla email? Drop me a line \| \| Captain, Intelligence Operations / Space Cowboy \| \| 68khotline.no-ip.org <-- Official Hotline Server \|
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 21 Feb 2003 : 06:24:18 quote: I don't see what's so good about phpBB. If anything, vBulletin is the best. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City v3.0 I agree! I really really really like the "Active Topics" feature of Snitz. As far as I can tell, both phpBB and YaBB lack this very useful feature (at least I have yet to find a forum that has it). I like that I can see all the topics that have updated "since Last Visit" or "Since 1 hour" etc. To my knowledge, both phpBB and YaBB force one to visit each forum and manually cross compare posting dates with when you think you might have last visited. Please, Please, Please make sure that what ever is choosen, it has a "Since Last Visit" feature for showing all of the recent postings. Thank you for all you work on creating this wonderful place. Sincerely, G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent
foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 21 Feb 2003 : 06:38:12 quote: I agree! I really really really like the "Active Topics" feature of Snitz. As far as I can tell, both phpBB and YaBB lack this very useful feature (at least I have yet to find a forum that has it). I like that I can see all the topics that have updated "since Last Visit" or "Since 1 hour" etc. To my knowledge, both phpBB and YaBB force one to visit each forum and manually cross compare posting dates with when you think you might have last visited. Please, Please, Please make sure that what ever is choosen, it has a "Since Last Visit" feature for showing all of the recent postings. www.macfilmforums.net has YaBB and they have since last visit feature... I don't know how they did it, but I wish Fritter would do that.... Of course with their traffic I'd never get done sifting through the new posts! ________________ foetoid, that's (fee-toy-duh) http://www.foetoid.doesntexist.com
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 21 Feb 2003 : 06:40:15 quote: I agree! I really really really like the "Active Topics" feature of Snitz. As far as I can tell, both phpBB and YaBB lack this very useful feature (at least I have yet to find a forum that has it). I like that I can see all the topics that have updated "since Last Visit" or "Since 1 hour" etc. To my knowledge, both phpBB and YaBB force one to visit each forum and manually cross compare posting dates with when you think you might have last visited. phpBB has exactly that a since you were last here, example: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/search.php?search_id=newposts there is a link from the index. -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 21 Feb 2003 : 06:49:23 quote: Anything with php would get my vote (hinting to phpbb ). Anything that doesn't run off a Mordor$oft server gets my vote, even if it means running it off a Plus running MacHTTP. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 21 Feb 2003 : 07:27:09 quote: phpBB has exactly that a since you were last here, example: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/search.php?search_id=newposts there is a link from the index. -danny Thank you for showing me that little trick! I assume that it works on all phpBB boards? If so, I am feeling less anxious about a post-Snitz brave new world of phpBB. I still prefer the clean compact interface of Snitz, but the fat crayon font style of phpBB is not unacceptable. BTW, what is the likelihood of being able to import the old 68kMLA postings into phpBB? Cheers, G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent
Clinton Full Member USA 700 Posts	Posted - 21 Feb 2003 : 11:32:29 to copy the MLA archives to the new board would require a lot of manual labour, copying and pasting between the databases and the like. as for the interface of PHPbb2, you can install other interfaces, and let the user set in their profile which theme they want the board to go to when they login. phpBB2 has a lot more addons that can be scripted for it, like outputting posts to websites, or adding file attachments to posts, and most of them are well documented. anyway, just me million or so turkish lira, what ever equals 0.02$ CCC Lieutennant Commander (Pronounced Leftennant) 68k Macs Rescued: 2 Pluses, a 512KE, a Classic II, a Q650, a Q660AV, and a MacII Contraband rescued: Power Computing PowerBase 200, a PM 8600/300, and a PM8500/180 Apple //s rescued: Apple //e
AnubisTTP Junior Member USA 308 Posts	Posted - 22 Feb 2003 : 06:58:05 If an attempt is being made to keep the forum compatable with 68Ks, I would not go with PHPbb. On my (compatarively new) rev2 iMac, PHPbb forums are painfully buggy. Text is rendered below pictures, searches do not work, text is drawn on top of other text, and pages sometimes do not load at all. I ended up not reading the MacAddict forums anymore when they switched to PHPbb. Personally, I prefer UBB, it seems to run fine on older Macs, and it has an active topics link that actually works, but I think it costs money. AnubisTTP, Tank Commander, Bolo Division 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:22
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 22 Feb 2003 : 15:14:43 quote: If an attempt is being made to keep the forum compatable with 68Ks, I would not go with PHPbb. On my (compatarively new) rev2 iMac, PHPbb forums are painfully buggy. Text is rendered below pictures, searches do not work, text is drawn on top of other text, and pages sometimes do not load at all. I ended up not reading the MacAddict forums anymore when they switched to PHPbb. Personally, I prefer UBB, it seems to run fine on older Macs, and it has an active topics link that actually works, but I think it costs money. AnubisTTP, Tank Commander, Bolo Division 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:22 Interesting. What sort of browser do you use? During the few days a couple of months ago when my iMac temporarily died, and the LC475 was my main Mac, I did several visits to MacAddict on the 475, and the forums worked flawlessly. Btw, this was in both iCab and Netscape 4.0.8 -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Gothikon Full Member Australia 537 Posts	Posted - 22 Feb 2003 : 15:49:58 One thing I wondered is is Coxy or someone playing with the boards a lot of the troubles seemed to stem from those banner ads we had for a while. Or is it the hosting? Or is it the forum actual software? I don't think theres any need to go changing everything and I agree that importing the forums in to a new system would be a pain, it would be nice if it wasn't based on ASP, however... If the hosting is free (is it?) I can understand why we wouldn't want to change. Anubis, I think it's something to do with your setup, I've used all sorts of forums on all sorts of browsers on everything for an LC2 upwards and rarely had any problems. Most forum software seems to produce pretty basic HTML anyway, lots of tables, old tags like <b> etc etc... Finally moving the forums to a users machine may not be the best idea, what happens if there's a fall out? Someone hosting on their home cable connection, not good either. I suppose if someone works for an ISP or a large web design firm, big business, something like that where they could just cut a good deal might be alright. But it's Coxys descision in the end. -------- LC 2, LC 3, Q605, Perf 638, Colour Classic (160 603e) 6100, 7200, PTP 225 (Quad 604), PM 9600, G4 Cube
AnubisTTP Junior Member USA 308 Posts	Posted - 23 Feb 2003 : 06:11:00 I am running Netscape 4.5.1. The most easily duplicatable problem is, when reading a thread where people have posted images or have images in their signatures, the images will be drawn on top of the text in other peoples posts. In a thread where nearly everyone has posted an image in their signature or someone has posted a large screenshot, it is nearly impossible to read the thread without viewing the pages source. The problem also shows up on several other Macs using Netscape 4.5.1. AnubisTTP, Tank Commander, Bolo Division 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:22
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 23 Feb 2003 : 07:02:07 They had exactly the same bugginess with 4.73 over on the AAF forums, it was most notable in the threads with a lot of images, but browsing over there was so slow I never did it much. I just plain don't like the look and feel of the new MAF, so I haven't been in unplugged at all. jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF

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