[HoosierDaddy]

Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping."

[worry]

^^^^This man gets it.

[Aptorian]

How about Mmmmmh by Crash Test Dummies?

[Gnaw]

Silencer, on 09 August 2019 - 03:12 PM, said:

...given the generally non-critical nature of the content here...

Bite your tongue! The past mafia games are VERY critical. It's our history dammit!

Now that whole "The Malazan Book of the Fallen and Novels of the Malazan Empire" section could easily be abandoned. Oh. Wait. Raison d'être...

[Gnaw]

Aptorian, on 09 August 2019 - 04:14 PM, said:

Regarding financing I'd also suggest that if moving/building a new forum is very time consuming, let us now and I'm sure we could pool some money to reimburse Xae and Silencer for their time.

I agree.

[Abyss]

Vengeance, on 09 August 2019 - 06:31 PM, said:

Abyss, on 09 August 2019 - 05:45 PM, said:

Aptorian, on 09 August 2019 - 04:14 PM, said:

Regarding financing I'd also suggest that if moving/building a new forum is very time consuming, let us now and I'm sure we could pool some money to reimburse Xae and Silencer for their time.

No money for the mods because they all suck anyway!

I accept whiskey, sex, cigars, baked goods.

If you have never felt the embrace of Chulhu, now is your time.

Been there, done that, got the mad mindscreaming living blood ink tat.

[Tsundoku]

No rep? Shit, it took me all this time just to get to 999 ...

Still, I think Whisperzzz (always forget how many zzz's), Ando and Silencer are onto something.

I'd be willing to kick in some $$$ to assist (but not much sorry, damn this "family" thing), but other than that my contribution would mainly be to nod and say "I concur" occasionally. Like the last 17 years, really.

And any forum theme song list MUST include Regurgitator's "I like your old stuff better than your new stuff".

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 10 August 2019 - 09:45 AM

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Tsundoku, on 10 August 2019 - 09:43 AM, said:

No rep? Shit, it took me all this time just to get to 999 ...

Still, I think Whisperzzz (always forget how many zzz's), Ando and Silencer are onto something.

I'd be willing to kick in some $$$ to assist (but not much sorry, damn this "family" thing), but other than that my contribution would mainly be to nod and say "I concur" occasionally. Like the last 17 years, really.

And any forum theme song list MUST include Regurgitator's "I like your old stuff better than your new stuff".

That's okay, I don't even know how many Z's are in it! I think Abyss changed it years ago.

[Andorion]

Tsundoku, on 10 August 2019 - 09:43 AM, said:

No rep? Shit, it took me all this time just to get to 999 ...

Still, I think Whisperzzz (always forget how many zzz's), Ando and Silencer are onto something.

I'd be willing to kick in some $$ to assist (but not much sorry, damn this "family" thing), but other than that my contribution would mainly be to nod and say "I concur" occasionally. Like the last 17 years, really.

And any forum theme song list MUST include Regurgitator's "I like your old stuff better than your new stuff".

I was on 666 for so long I was considering applying to join Iron Maiden

[Xae]

We're on IP.Board 3.1.4, released back in 2010.
The current setup isn't going to break anytime soon (provided an experienced hacker doesn't decide to trash the site and force me to restore a backup). But it is time to plan and prepare for something.

IPS offers a cloud-hosted version of their software but the pricing is ridiculous. (For reference, hosting ME costs me $12 a month with very little maintenance time.) Self-hosted, like right now, is definitely possible. I migrated DC from 3.x to 4.x and I've no doubt that I could do it with ME but it'd take a bit of work in addition to the automated upgrade tool. (Even DC had stuff that needed manual work to fix.) It'd need to be kind of a clean break; all themes, plugins and extensions gone. That said, I may be able to migrate the current reputation data to the new system. It depends on how it's stored in the database.

[Aptorian]

As an aside, is it possible to enable reputation for the mobile skin? I barely ever use rep any longer because I mainly use the mobile skin.

[Vengeance]

Aptorian, on 11 August 2019 - 11:02 AM, said:

As an aside, is it possible to enable reputation for the mobile skin? I barely ever use rep any longer because I mainly use the mobile skin.

This is a good point how many people use the different skins?

[D'rek]

Xae, on 11 August 2019 - 10:41 AM, said:

We're on IP.Board 3.1.4, released back in 2010.
The current setup isn't going to break anytime soon (provided an experienced hacker doesn't decide to trash the site and force me to restore a backup). But it is time to plan and prepare for something.

IPS offers a cloud-hosted version of their software but the pricing is ridiculous. (For reference, hosting ME costs me $12 a month with very little maintenance time.) Self-hosted, like right now, is definitely possible. I migrated DC from 3.x to 4.x and I've no doubt that I could do it with ME but it'd take a bit of work in addition to the automated upgrade tool. (Even DC had stuff that needed manual work to fix.) It'd need to be kind of a clean break; all themes, plugins and extensions gone. That said, I may be able to migrate the current reputation data to the new system. It depends on how it's stored in the database.

Stuff like reputation, gallery, etc, even if the data[base] can't be migrated to a new system as long there is a new system of some sort on the other side we can always re-create it by hand (e.g. for rep someone can literally write down all the current amounts and we can admin set it on the other side to those starting amounts. Lots of tedious work, sure, but I'm sure we'll have many idle hands here willing to help. Likewise saving all the gallery images and manually re-uploading them on the other side).

[Gnaw]

D, on 11 August 2019 - 06:12 PM, said:

Xae, on 11 August 2019 - 10:41 AM, said:

We're on IP.Board 3.1.4, released back in 2010.
The current setup isn't going to break anytime soon (provided an experienced hacker doesn't decide to trash the site and force me to restore a backup). But it is time to plan and prepare for something.

IPS offers a cloud-hosted version of their software but the pricing is ridiculous. (For reference, hosting ME costs me $12 a month with very little maintenance time.) Self-hosted, like right now, is definitely possible. I migrated DC from 3.x to 4.x and I've no doubt that I could do it with ME but it'd take a bit of work in addition to the automated upgrade tool. (Even DC had stuff that needed manual work to fix.) It'd need to be kind of a clean break; all themes, plugins and extensions gone. That said, I may be able to migrate the current reputation data to the new system. It depends on how it's stored in the database.

Stuff like reputation, gallery, etc, even if the data[base] can't be migrated to a new system as long there is a new system of some sort on the other side we can always re-create it by hand (e.g. for rep someone can literally write down all the current amounts and we can admin set it on the other side to those starting amounts. Lots of tedious work, sure, but I'm sure we'll have many idle hands here willing to help. Likewise saving all the gallery images and manually re-uploading them on the other side).

Definitely Let me help: Khell has -356 rep.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

So, what's the plan?

[Abyss]

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[Brujah]

I don't know crapola about what it takes to run the site. I do know that there's a ton of us who've been here for several years to decades now.

If there is a way to upgrade the things we need, I'd be willing to help financially, even though it was mentioned the war chest was in good shape.

The combination of all of us could generate tons of cash. This might be a stupid question, but could we hire someone to do the necessary changes if needs be?

I don't want to go anywhere, or lose all our old posts and history.

[Xae]

Well, since ME doesn't use that many features, one option would be to migrate over to phpBB and re-develop the reputation system plus any styles that people are attached to. phpBB has been around for 20 years and is still actively developed. Free, open-source forum software without any bells and whistles, and it can be easily extended. You could stay on that pretty much indefinitely and not have to pay any licence costs.

It's not a big job but it is a bit more than I can do for free.

[Slow Ben]

Whatever we need to do to keep the old joint going. I'd chip in.

This post has been edited by Slow Ben: 08 January 2020 - 02:16 PM

[Abyss]

Brujah, on 19 October 2019 - 04:17 AM, said:

I don't know crapola about what it takes to run the site. I do know that there's a ton of us who've been here for several years to decades now.

If there is a way to upgrade the things we need, I'd be willing to help financially, even though it was mentioned the war chest was in good shape.

The combination of all of us could generate tons of cash. This might be a stupid question, but could we hire someone to do the necessary changes if needs be?

I don't want to go anywhere, or lose all our old posts and history.

Xae, on 08 January 2020 - 01:35 PM, said:

Well, since ME doesn't use that many features, one option would be to migrate over to phpBB and re-develop the reputation system plus any styles that people are attached to. phpBB has been around for 20 years and is still actively developed. Free, open-source forum software without any bells and whistles, and it can be easily extended. You could stay on that pretty much indefinitely and not have to pay any licence costs.

It's not a big job but it is a bit more than I can do for free.

Slow Ben, on 08 January 2020 - 02:15 PM, said:

Whatever we need to do to keep the old joint going. I'd chip in.

Confusion.
OP was Oct 2019.
Xae, is this a thing at this moment?