I was lead to believe that they would have to wait for the new incarnation of the boards.

The site says our most recent member registered back in April...

Those bots are accessing the pages to post (and hence show up in the magic mirror), but since their membership has not been approved, their posts don't succeed.

Likewise, real members can still register - they just can't post.

Manually approving real members just isn't possible for the Hierarchs anymore with this message board. The id of the bot who registered minutes before I wrote this is 7770. The id of the last member from before the bot storm got overwhelming (back in April) is 4201. That means there's well over 3500 registrations that'd have to be weeded through, with probably only two or three dozen registrations from real humans in the lot.

Given that there's an actual company working on the new site now (whereas Matt and Seoman had other dayjobs and thus couldn't spend nearly enough time on it all), I'd expect the move to happen within the month; with a bit of luck even within a week or two. The real members just need to have a little bit more patience (hard and annoying though I understand that to be).

Thanks for the clarity, Aan.

Kikisan wrote:

uh, new site?  Is this going to require anything on my part?  What exactly is changing?

This is what's going to happen. We're moving to a new shiny site as Tad takes over tadwilliams.com.

:)

You'll prolly just have to show up and register for a new forum.

I'm going to start emailing the people who had contacted me and were unable to post and the people who wanted to be notified of the change.

:)

Jendaiya wrote:

I'm going to start emailing the people who had contacted me and were unable to post and the people who wanted to be notified of the change.

:)

Good idea! *makes mental note to self to do the same*

They're turned off for the entire board, and that overrides any personal settings.

Just a quick thought, as there are alot of people from different timezones here and people get confused with the board time to real time conversion is it possible to have a clock somewheres like on this forum:

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/

Just a thought.

-X

Aan`allein wrote:

I'm not seeing what you mean on that page, but if you go into your Profile, there's a bit that says: "Timezone: For the forum to display times correctly you must select your local timezone." and there you can set which timezone you're in, after which all times on the board (when you are logged in) will show in your local time.

Damn. For me it just always comes up with the local time. Basically a clock that is on the main page that tells you the current board time. If I had an ftp thingo installed I'd show you a screenshot...

-X

Aan`allein wrote:

strangeshe wrote:

Any of those poor folks who were unable to post on Smarch should be able to post here now. If they remember their username and password they can get right in. Aan migrated everyone.

Actually that's not quite true. I only migrated people who registered up to April 2007. After that the ratio of spambots to possible real new members grew simply too overwhelming, and I wasn't able to effectively filter out one or the other, so no one beyond that got migrated.
So: if you registered on shadowmarch after April 2007, please re-register! (Sorry for the inconvenience, but we promise you can post this time!) :)

Oh, yes, that is true. Sorry for misleading anyone! I wasn't thinking about the spambot registrations and any poor souls who tried to register in the midst of all that, well, it would've been quite difficult to find them to bring them along. Thank Dog (and Aan!) we left the bots behind!

Some interesting stats from the Smarch roster (though I may have these off a little too, but Aan can set me straight *g*):
Our last registered member on Smarch who was approved to post to the boards was #4201 on April 4, 2007. As of Jan 14, 2008, Smarch had 11,162 "members" registered.

That's a lot of bots!!