New Look Forum

[Orda Khan]

.......Sigh
Well hasn't Mediaeval changed a few things? It will take some time to get used to this ' new look ' forum. I know I mentioned Mediaeval but I post here because this is where my heart is. I feel that we are no longer a community, or at least not in the same way as before. The warmth of the old forums has gone. I'm sorry I just don't like this new ' clinical ' appearance.
People complained about being patrons, I wonder how they will react to becoming one of the [/I]Junior Members and then on top of that, as a Mercenary[I], one who sells his service to the highest bidder.
Change is inevitable, nothing is permanent, as a Buddhist I can appreciate this.......but it could have been so much nicer

.....Oh Shogun, whatever happened to you?

.........Orda

[Taohn]

I don't mind the new forums at all. It has lots of handy features. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif The old boards did have a certain charm to them though. The problem I have is that ever since a few months ago the atmospehe of this place has changed. For the worse, I think. All the issues (DD incident, Tera) dragged the Org down a level. It's been less than a year since I joined, but I remember a nice, close community, with little flaming and people generally treating each other in a civil manner.


BTW, you can can make it so that every forum has the shogun forum background and colours. Just go to your account options.

[Mithrandir]

Your control panel (upper left),account options,board skin,sword dojo.

I too like the STW skin better http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif.

[Whitey]

I wonder how many of the STW members are using the Sword Dojo skin?

reminds me of the old board, but different, more like the old old board...but with no stars...

[Orda Khan]

I must apologise for sounding negative. On reading these replies maybe it just seemed clinical because of a dark cloud that blocked out the 'old light'

.......Orda

[Orda Khan]

Oh and BTW I've left the skins as they are, so coming here reminds me I'm home http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

.....Orda

[ShadesWolf]

Info posted about the new forum by TosaInu


Quote[/b] ]Konnichiwa,

The forums were running on UBB 5.45a for two years.

The org staff has searched for a new version/entirly new forum application since early september 2002. The choice was Ikonboard 3.1.1 by Jarvis (one of the first choices).

It took a while to decide that this software was good, some reasons:

-MySQL database: everything is stored in one of the fastest databases around, is password protected and not stored in the root of the org server.
-Encrypted passwords.
-Sticky threads.
-Small in size.
-Free, UBB license is $199
-Great support, both from Jarvis and 'fan'sites.
-Customizable (the badgesystem isn't standard in Ikonboard).
-Different userlevels.
-Polls.
-Skins.
-Supports multiple language interfaces. I haven't found Spanish yet, I'm sorry.
-Extensive user control panel.
-Tools to help patrons keeping track of discussions.

A real problem for using a new board was that, the old UBB topics would be lost, combined with the user database.

Allow me to refresh some memories and explain to new members: the only reason that the totalwar.org forum has password protected accounts is that a minority of internet users (not necessarily a member) used the nick of a member to post bad messages. Allowing the public to re register established nicks was not desirable.

Yet another reason for choosing Ikonboard 3.1.1 was that there was a converter that allowed to import the UBB forum into this new board: topics would be saved and I wouldn't have to register 2400 (I prunned the old userdatabase, members with 0 posts were considered mis-registers) manually.

The import had some problems and the UBB forum was down for some 5 hours, while it could have been done within 30 minutes. The UBB is running for 2 years, and it's getting bugged.

This new forum could have been running modaynight, but there was a problem with the converter. It could import into a DBM database (stored in the root and not password protected) but it refused to import into MySQL. Importing UBB into DBM, backing-up that database and importing into MySQL like is supposed to work failed as well. That should work. The Ikonboard 'fan' support helped us out, but I live in The Netherlands and he in the USA. It was also a complex problem. The entire UBB board would be down for a long while (some 4 days). I posted an announcement that the conversion was at least 99% successfull (some UBB topics were technically corrupt), told that new topics/post couldn't and wouldn't be imported (it's an 'all' or nothing converter), that new posts could be manually copied and pasted when this new forum was running and that the old board could be used like usual until this one was ready.

It took 4 days: support had to made a customized import file, a new SQL table scheme and another small edit to allow me to import into MySQL.

I could have done a new import, there was a risk that it would fail (the UBB board is still wacky), some of the topics saved in the monday import were lost (UBB is wacky).

No posts from this discussions are deleted, not by me and I don't think the moderators have deleted any either.

The UBB forum is still open as read only, all topics and post are still there. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000667.html

Enjoy the new forums.

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Ja mata
TosaInu
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[Wavesword]

Yeeech, I'm too old to change. I always have trouble logging into these 'child proof' forums too... and I see we have new mods- I'm used to authority figures with kukris by now but Mithrandir?? I remember when he was but a spammer of 972 posts with an archery fetish.

[Mithrandir]

Quote[/b] (Wavesword @ Nov. 12 2002,09:23)]Yeeech, I'm too old to change.

I'm used to authority figures with kukris by now but Mithrandir?? I remember when he was but a spammer of 972 posts with an archery fetish.
I'm not too old http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif.

[Ithaskar Fëarindel]

Mith is only a year and a half younger than me. That makes us the "baby mods". http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Or is that a lie and Mith's age is in Elven years, ie 18 = 180?

[Mithrandir]

I actually live since day 18...

I meant; not too old to change http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif.