Aan`allein wrote:

Gaah! I actually made a point of it to search the forum for places where "weird" characters were used, to make certain they worked. And so I found Jaime's signature and the dogblog pages where those were first discussed, and all that looked fine, and so I thought "yay!, it all converted right at the first try!" (really, how could I have been so stupid as to believe something silly like that??!) and let it be.
But obviously I should've checked both old utf-8 input and old win-1252 input. Bleh. Ok, so it's official now. The conversion really didn't work.

Told you so! :D

And it was ME ME ME who found out!

*slaps herself evilly on the shoulder*


BTW: I just noticed your promotion to Hierarchy Aan, what a well deserved honour!

*bows humbly before the mighty hierarch*

Wait, can I be evil and humble at the same time? Where else if not here1

*glees*

And another question: What happens if I subscribe to a topic?

Do I get emails whenever someone posts there or what?

I subbed this topic, but no email after my last post. I may not have waited long enough, so we'll see. The main thing that I can see about subscribing is that you can use it to watch your favorite topics. There's a link at the bottom of the index page -- "show your subscribed topics" -- which you can use to get a list of just the ones you're watching.

Could be a handy feature.

*L* You're probably right about that. I just got the email when you posted to this topic, so, yes it does send emails when subbed.

I *could've* gone to look in Profile settings, but what's the fun in that? ;)

Btw, I realize I should give a shout-out to Sahi. The reason The Meeting Place forum is filled with some old topics is because she started the neighbourhood thread to keep track of such, and so I could quickly refind those threads and move them there. (In fact, probably the entire existence of the forum is thanks to Sahi; at least, she's been most persistent with requesting it, I think.)
So: Thanks Sahi! :)

(I also intend to every so often - whenever I'm particularly bored (like just now *moves over two dozen threads*) - dig through old threads to see if I can refind some other meeting threads to move to that forum. If you happen to stumble across any which definitely belong there as well, send me a PM and I'll move them.)

For something that probably wasn't going to work, this probably didn't work really well. I'm impressed. I really, really like the new digs. Huge amounts of thanks to everyone from Tad on down the ranks.

I am so groovin' on that show posts since last visit thing. That in itself gets everyone a round of drinks in the Mint.

Aan`allein wrote:

mabinogi wrote:

I'm assuming when it finally goes truly live, that it'll be on port 80?

Unfortunately no. :( The main website is on port 80, and that's ASP.NET on IIS, while this forum is PHP on Apache. We did mention the non-standard port would catch some people at work (including myself at my current project, I suspect), but... :/

Although! I didn't know as much about the current server setup at that point as I do now. There might be a way with the DNS setup. I'll have that looked into, but it could be a couple of weeks before anything is known for certain.

Well, I ended up setting up my own reverse proxy to solve this for me.
I'd post a link, but I suspect flood control is probably IP based like it was with UBB, so it'd become pretty useless with more than one user at a time.

Aan`allein wrote:

mabinogi wrote:

I'd post a link, but I suspect flood control is probably IP based like it was with UBB, so it'd become pretty useless with more than one user at a time.

*looks at the code*
As far as I can see, it's actually user based, checking purely on datetime of the last post by the current user.

That's terrible!, how will members of the same household be able to have flood control fights anymore?!?
That's completely ruined my fun for next time I visit Ceywren...hehe.

On the other hand - it means that for people behind work proxies that don't allow access to non standard ports, I can point them to http://twmb.stuartherring.net

I agree with most of that, but I don't think there's much chance of getting the design trimmed down. (The Vonnegut quote is easier to remove, but such content decisions are up to Tad & Deb. At least it's already hidden on all the other forum pages, because the way this board works, it was originally included there as well. (View source to see.))
What you can do if you use Firefox or another gecko-based browser is to customize the design to your own tastes. To do this, create a file called userContent.css in the chrome/ directory of your profile (or open it if it already exists) and - for example - paste in the following lines:

@-moz-document url-prefix("http://tadwilliams.com:9080/bbs/") {
  table#Table1 { display: none !important; }
}

...and poof, no more Tad eyes following you around on the message board. (For the tadwilliams.com domain. www.tadwilliams.com would remain as is with the above code, so you can toggle based on mood.) :)

strangeshe wrote:

Would you say that now it is better to have shorter pages and click through more, then? Just idly curious...

No, longer pages are actually even more preferable nowadays than they used to be, for various reasons:
1) Larger default screen resolutions.
2) Faster internet connections mean a "long" page still load swiftly, so the largest hit in loading a page is making the initial connection. The fewer connections to be made, the better.
3) Even the most novice internet users have grown used to scrolling. It used to be that content underneath the fold was never seen by them, but now everyone knows to scroll.

Also, most laptops scroll quite well. Might not be set up by default everywhere, but I know synaptics trackpads (one of the most common kinds) are surpremely easy to configure to treat a sliding motion along the right-hand side as a scroll (with speed of the slide determining how far you scroll, which actually works better than limited mouse-wheel scrolls).

*G*

I'm pretty happy with scrolling; especially compared with going hunting on sub-pages. On message boards it's not as obvious, but on sites like, oh, say, the United States Postal Service, I get so frustrated that really obvious links aren't on the front page - like holiday hours, or procedures for businesses to put holiday mail on hold. It usually takes me three or four clicks to get to a page that has what I'm looking for there.

As far as this site goes, I am quite thrilled with the board's top page, and because of the awesomeness of viewing new posts, I do most of my topic-reading either through that or through the active topics.