The Forums

[Jerome Scuggs]

instead of having a fractured conversation across several threads, let's talk about the forums and their future here

phpBB? vB? lock this forum/start a new one? try to fix/upgrade this one?

[Turban]

we can probably try to back up our forum database (such as user data, posts and threads) then perform a clean install (without any additional add-ons that break things) as an attempt to fix the forums. that is always an option, but we need someone with enough experience with vBulletin to do that task.

we should avoid ditching these forums at all cost unless everything else fails, and even then at least the user data should be transferred to the new forum.

[kthx]

I don't know much about forum stuff, but xogs idea seems pretty good, wonder if there would be a problem connecting that to the main site though

[Rab]

I'd be fine with a clean new forum.

[roxxkatt]

i would be fine with a new one only if this one were kept online and unusable for research purposes

[Jerome Scuggs]

Well, my initial feeling was that I would prefer to have the old forums upgraded and/or moved. However, in light of the amazing swampy quagmire that is "public-staff relations", I thought it would be interesting to sit down and go through the posts and start trying to pull out relevant information.

Quite simply, with so many formerly key leaders in Trench Wars leaving - and leaving abruptly in many cases - there simply isn't information for sometimes even the most mundane questions you might think staffers would be able to provide. For instance, the Anti-Warp thread - while everyone went back and forth over who said what, when, etc... fiS just fkn searched TWForums and found a precedent which had already been set.

So yeah, roxxkat hit the nail on the head - this forum is a fantastic tool for research, however, continuing to post here will only make the research harder. Locking it down but keeping it available will help with a little pet project i'm working on, which is basically going through these forums and trying to find every useful post ever, and maybe even organize them by topic or chronology.

that being said

last i checked Reckful was the admin of this forum, there shouldn't be 3 people running around changing shit leaving everyone in the dark. or if you do make changes at least fkn post about them, see above for why, fuckfaces

edit: this whole "posting as a staffer" thing is going to get me killed irl

[roxxkatt]

perhaps it is you that needs a xanax, as the reason shit is being fucked with is because we had to switch servers because shit broke and priit is useless, and more shit broke during the move and is being fixed

[Jerome Scuggs]

perhaps it is you that needs a xanax, as the reason shit is being fucked with is because we had to switch servers because shit broke and priit is useless, and more shit broke during the move and is being fixed

so you're saying that before this move over the weekend twforums worked 100% normally?

[roxxkatt]

because we had to switch servers because shit broke and priit is useless

what

[KrynetiX]

I'm backing up the users and forum structure .. disabling this forum (read-only) and importing the user data into a fresh phpBB. Everyone will get an email.

[Jerome Scuggs]

I'm backing up the users and forum structure .. disabling this forum (read-only) and importing the user data into a fresh phpBB. Everyone will get an email.

is there an ETA on this? mafia game just started and also i need to know when to snipe the LAST POST EVER MADE ON THE TRENCH WARS FORUMS

[Fork]

Ok now somethings happened to forums (in the past few days) that's stopped me from posting on my mobile phone... It used to show a black text box that wouldn't let you type anything on it anyway BUT i used to solve this by selecting a forum mode at the bottom left and selecting default mobile mode- or something like that... BUT these options have disappeared now???

Where have these options gone?

Edit: working now yay. Ty... I can post more trash now.

[Rab]

oh wow, forum is tons better on my phone now