[Xae]

You guys seem cool, and at least half as weird as I am. So long as you make regular visits to the dark side of the moon, it'll be great.

[Silencer]

And with that, Xae gives both his benediction, and a nice "mission accomplished". We're satisfied the forum is running correctly, so congrats everyone!

And again, a massive thanks to Xae, for becoming our new System Administrator and putting us up on an awesome server. It's been a great start already.

[Primateus]

So, I take it that since Xae and yourself, Silencer (along with Abyss and whatever dregs you've managed to scrounge together as moderators), are in total and absolute control of the forum, yes?

[Silencer]

Primateus, on 19 March 2013 - 06:50 AM, said:

So, I take it that since Xae and yourself, Silencer (along with Abyss and whatever dregs you've managed to scrounge together as moderators), are in total and absolute control of the forum, yes?

As far as it goes, yes. Really it's no different than what we had previously, we're just hosted on a better server than we were, thanks to Xae, and he's pretty good at the server-side stuff so can do a lot more on that end than I could previously. And of course Hetan has stepped down as site owner in exchange for yours truly.


Oh, and I think I object to you referring to the rest of the administrators as "dregs", btw - show them some respect, they help keep the forum running, thankyouverymuch.

[Primateus]

Silencer, on 19 March 2013 - 07:04 AM, said:

Primateus, on 19 March 2013 - 06:50 AM, said:

So, I take it that since Xae and yourself, Silencer (along with Abyss and whatever dregs you've managed to scrounge together as moderators), are in total and absolute control of the forum, yes?

As far as it goes, yes. Really it's no different than what we had previously, we're just hosted on a better server than we were, thanks to Xae, and he's pretty good at the server-side stuff so can do a lot more on that end than I could previously. And of course Hetan has stepped down as site owner in exchange for yours truly.

So, a revolution to install Loki as our evil dictator is completely out of the question then?

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Oh, and I think I object to you referring to the rest of the administrators as "dregs", btw - show them some respect, they help keep the forum running, thankyouverymuch.

Hey, I was just trying, y'know, curry favour with our new evil overlord by separating the two of you from the other, lesser, moderators

But seriously now. With regards to the amazon link, I seem to be missing that. Where exactly is it supposed to be? Or is it simply gone af the move?EDIT: Nevermind, it's my browser that's messed up! Done and solved!

This post has been edited by Primateus: 19 March 2013 - 08:13 AM

[Silencer]

There are a couple of examples of Amazon link.

1) Can be found on the forum main page, below the reputation/recent topics added boxes, on the right-hand side of the page, and is only for Amazon.co.uk. If you cannot see this, *assuming* you are on the Malazan Empire skin (black and purple), there should be a little purple arrow in the same general area, which when clicked will expand the above boxes. If you are not on the (glorious) Malazan Empire skin (you heathen ) then see option 2.

2) On the main site page (malazanempire.com itself), there are three links for Amazon: .com, .co.uk and .ca. Click on whichever one of these, and all good, it will refer you to Amazon and theoretically anything you buy therefore earns us a bit of a referral.



And Loki is awesome. Whether or not she's officially the evil dictator of the forum or not...well...XD

EDIT: Oh, good. After I spent all that time typing that reply out.

[Primateus]

Well, now I feel like an idiot, because my messed up browser only let's me use the one on the front page. The link on the forum is gone once more. I hate my browser, it is evil and it must burn!

[Tattersail_]

Silencer, on 19 March 2013 - 08:17 AM, said:

There are a couple of examples of Amazon link.

1) Can be found on the forum main page, below the reputation/recent topics added boxes, on the right-hand side of the page, and is only for Amazon.co.uk. If you cannot see this, *assuming* you are on the Malazan Empire skin (black and purple), there should be a little purple arrow in the same general area, which when clicked will expand the above boxes. If you are not on the (glorious) Malazan Empire skin (you heathen ) then see option 2.

2) On the main site page (malazanempire.com itself), there are three links for Amazon: .com, .co.uk and .ca. Click on whichever one of these, and all good, it will refer you to Amazon and theoretically anything you buy therefore earns us a bit of a referral.



And Loki is awesome. Whether or not she's officially the evil dictator of the forum or not...well...XD

EDIT: Oh, good. After I spent all that time typing that reply out.

Maybe a thread dedicated to this would be good? Do you track them or is that impossible? i bought something the other day via the link for the first time, I use amazon a lot so I would keep doing it if I know it's working...

[Silencer]

Ganoes Paran, on 19 March 2013 - 08:48 AM, said:

Silencer, on 19 March 2013 - 08:17 AM, said:

There are a couple of examples of Amazon link.

1) Can be found on the forum main page, below the reputation/recent topics added boxes, on the right-hand side of the page, and is only for Amazon.co.uk. If you cannot see this, *assuming* you are on the Malazan Empire skin (black and purple), there should be a little purple arrow in the same general area, which when clicked will expand the above boxes. If you are not on the (glorious) Malazan Empire skin (you heathen ) then see option 2.

2) On the main site page (malazanempire.com itself), there are three links for Amazon: .com, .co.uk and .ca. Click on whichever one of these, and all good, it will refer you to Amazon and theoretically anything you buy therefore earns us a bit of a referral.



And Loki is awesome. Whether or not she's officially the evil dictator of the forum or not...well...XD

EDIT: Oh, good. After I spent all that time typing that reply out.

Maybe a thread dedicated to this would be good? Do you track them or is that impossible? i bought something the other day via the link for the first time, I use amazon a lot so I would keep doing it if I know it's working...

There is in fact a thread dedicated to this - it hasn't seen any action since the announcement, as we don't really like to push it on our members, though I do understand that a lot of people don't remember them/don't even know they exist.

As for tracking, we certainly don't know who purchased what, but we do have a comprehensive audit log (which I've just found...I've only been "in charge" of this for like two days, hehe) which lists exactly what has been purchased, what kind of product it is, and how much it sold for vs how much we got out of it.

Caveat: this is all for the UK Amazon site. The US one is not under me; we're currently figuring out how to deal with that (as they are a bit of a pain to deal with). But for the year to January 1st 2013, I'm most pleased to announce that we made: 41.61 Pounds, from 87 items purchased via that site.

Thanks guys!

(I do believe when we first set the links up, we planned to post this information yearly, but it hasn't happened all that often for various reasons...mainly because I think one year we made like $5 off the US one, which was not really worth reporting...)

So yeah, we do definitely get revenue from this and over the course of the year it adds up. Not necessarily all that much in the grand scheme of things, but if it pays for things like Chat, the Gallery, etc, it's worth it.

There are some things that need to be reviewed now that we've shifted sites and I'll probably make mention of all this stuff in that post when it shows up.

Uhm, yeah, so that's that, I guess. Any questions?

[Mrs Savagely Wishy Washy]

great job silencer-it all works fine except i was wondering whether you could help me out with this: the thread feed on the front page hasn't turned up yet on my work mac, and i haven't had a chance to check on my pc at home yet. i'm using chrome. what to do?

thanks a lot for taking over the forum from hetan. you're a star.

[Silencer]

Miss Savagely Wishy Washy, on 19 March 2013 - 11:32 AM, said:

great job silencer-it all works fine except i was wondering whether you could help me out with this: the thread feed on the front page hasn't turned up yet on my work mac, and i haven't had a chance to check on my pc at home yet. i'm using chrome. what to do?

thanks a lot for taking over the forum from hetan. you're a star.

Thanks Miss Savage.

Still got to look into the forum feed on the front page, I'm afraid. Aware of the issue, just haven't managed to resolve it yet. Thanks for making mention of it anyway, though.

[blackzoid]

I'm missing that Elder Scrolls forum already.

[Silencer]

blackzoid, on 19 March 2013 - 11:45 AM, said:

I'm missing that Elder Scrolls forum already.

You're welcome to visit, they're nice folks, and doing some very interesting things modding the game. darkcreations.org. XD

[Vengeance]

It looks good Silencer that was a very SMOOTH move. I did have to clear my cache out but I expected that.

[HiddenOne]

Did you expect any less of SIlencer? He is reputed to be top shelf in the area of smooth techniques

[Vengeance]

HiddenOne, on 19 March 2013 - 01:19 PM, said:

Did you expect any less of SIlencer? He is reputed to be top shelf in the area of smooth techniques

I always expect Silencer to be smooth. Like Keith Stone.

[Abyss]

Xae, on 19 March 2013 - 05:22 AM, said:

You guys seem cool, and at least half as weird as I am. So long as you make regular visits to the dark side of the moon, it'll be great.

I, for one, WELCOME our new Pink Floyd referencing Overlord, and point out that a an extensive list of derelicts, malcontents and other purge-worthy forumites is available at any time.

Primateus, on 19 March 2013 - 06:50 AM, said:

So, I take it that since Xae and yourself, Silencer (along with Abyss and whatever dregs you've managed to scrounge together as moderators), are in total and absolute control of the forum, yes?

We can delete you whenever we want, so yes.

Primateus, on 19 March 2013 - 08:08 AM, said:

..., I was just trying, y'know, curry favour with our new evil overlord by separating the two of you from the other, lesser, moderators ...

They can also delete you whenever they want.

Silencer said:

... this is all for the UK Amazon site. The US one is not under me; we're currently figuring out how to deal with that (as they are a bit of a pain to deal with)....Any questions?

amazon.ca?

[Gust Hubb]

Silencer, on 19 March 2013 - 11:38 AM, said:

Miss Savagely Wishy Washy, on 19 March 2013 - 11:32 AM, said:

great job silencer-it all works fine except i was wondering whether you could help me out with this: the thread feed on the front page hasn't turned up yet on my work mac, and i haven't had a chance to check on my pc at home yet. i'm using chrome. what to do?

thanks a lot for taking over the forum from hetan. you're a star.

Thanks Miss Savage.

Still got to look into the forum feed on the front page, I'm afraid. Aware of the issue, just haven't managed to resolve it yet. Thanks for making mention of it anyway, though.

[aside] Miss Savage not Grimm

[amphibian]

I'm in! Huzzah!

Did not know about the US Amazon affiliate not playing well with you guys. It's what I use... as I am in the US.

[Silencer]

OK, for everyone's notice:

There appears to be a small problem with a line of IPB code which is giving the occasional "500 error". Don't worry too much about it, this can usually be solved by refreshing the page you were on (if it asks about resubmitting data, just click "OK"/"Continue"), or if not simply through that, then by loading a new tab of the forums, and once that works coming back and refreshing the problem tab. And if that fails, a cache clear + refresh will almost certainly work.

Don't panic. Nothing major. And we're looking into it.

This is what it normally says:

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Server error
The website encountered an error while retrieving http://forum.malazan...&#entry1040591. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this web page later.
HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfil the request.