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Post by Reign in Blood on Sept 18, 2016 18:15:02 GMT -5
I'm all for it. Even if you or someone you find can bring it back, it's not the future though. We can't go back to the HMF as we know it. That board and Globat are not the way. I thought Foo made a more salient point about restoring old HMF, which is that the people who do it might then have access to all PMs. Be a bit shit really. I'm fine with all dick pics sent to me and vice versa. But if people aren't fine with that Photoshop makes them better, that's cool too.
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Post by Foo on Sept 18, 2016 19:35:07 GMT -5
Jason, how about I download the databases of HMF onto a thumb drive and keep it in a secure place. Then if you find a way to bring the old board back, the data will be there. It will be like freezing someone with a terminal illness.
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Post by Jason on Sept 18, 2016 20:09:10 GMT -5
Winning?!
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Post by Jason on Sept 18, 2016 23:13:59 GMT -5
Jason, how about I download the databases of HMF onto a thumb drive and keep it in a secure place.
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Post by Sebastian Taro Groth on Sept 19, 2016 9:55:21 GMT -5
Nice idea. Let's kick some. . . ICE
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Post by Ava on Sept 20, 2016 12:59:51 GMT -5
From the research I have done and what you and Dream have said here, phpBB seems like the most viable to at least try. Foo could come in and blow it off the handles but we have to at least try. Again, we hate it, we move to another. The advantage of phpBB is that we don't need to put a lot of money into that aspect of it. It's free. So a good place to start. I think we need to think about how we want the forum structured. So many people use the recent tab and mainly random chat and general, I wonder if we can start without the massive plethora of sub-boards. Seems we may look slicker without it. www.phpbb.com/demo/It looks like there is a demo that we can play around with. Says it will only last an hour. Might be worth having one of us tinker with and get a few screenshots.
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Post by Laz on Sept 20, 2016 19:33:00 GMT -5
I'd just like to take a moment and give a big KUDOS to Jason, Seb and everyone else here who's been working on this project. It's great to see the rebirth of HMF moving forward.
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Post by Laz on Sept 20, 2016 19:35:48 GMT -5
Touche. You were in contact with that crew (and in particular Chucky, who I never interacted with) more than me, so I easily take your word. And god damnit Foo, I said I "believe", not know, you come here just to break my nuts on lack of Chucky knowledge, gosh! Leave him as a pedo who wants to rape the soul of a child with voodoo weird talk for all I care! Here's the thing. We all know you're busy, but I think you know as much as we do, we can't do this without your help. I appreciate you coming in and sacrificing your time as is with great advice, and we're gonna need more. Lest we run the chance of creating a dumpster fire and you have to later drag all our charred bodies out. HMF will never leave my blood and ya'll are my family. I just want to see us avoid the pitfalls I learned over the years running stuff behind the scenes. Of course I will help. I wish we had 30 hour days so I could give you guys 6 of them. You and I both know the "Ya'll are my family" part does not apply to me. (and vise versa)
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Post by Reign in Blood on Sept 20, 2016 19:58:57 GMT -5
I'd just like to take a moment and give a big KUDOS to Jason, Seb and everyone else here who's been working on this project. It's great to see the rebirth of HMF moving forward. Big fucking kudos to Jason who wants to live in a freeze locker with old hmf forever.
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Post by Jason on Sept 20, 2016 20:07:22 GMT -5
I don't give a fuuck homie
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Post by Tiggnutz on Sept 20, 2016 20:18:26 GMT -5
I'd just like to take a moment and give a big KUDOS to Jason, Seb and everyone else here who's been working on this project. It's great to see the rebirth of HMF moving forward. Big fucking kudos to Jason who wants to live in a freeze locker with old hmf forever. And Walt Disney's head
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Post by Jason on Sept 20, 2016 20:19:37 GMT -5
I just want our history to be accessible in some form.
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Post by Laz on Sept 20, 2016 20:35:30 GMT -5
I'd just like to take a moment and give a big KUDOS to Jason, Seb and everyone else here who's been working on this project. It's great to see the rebirth of HMF moving forward. Big fucking kudos to Jason who wants to live in a freeze locker with old hmf forever. I honestly don't get the obsession over saving every bit of the old history or whatever but to each their own...right lol
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Post by Sebastian Taro Groth on Sept 22, 2016 16:56:24 GMT -5
The advantage of phpBB is that we don't need to put a lot of money into that aspect of it. It's free. So a good place to start. I think we need to think about how we want the forum structured. So many people use the recent tab and mainly random chat and general, I wonder if we can start without the massive plethora of sub-boards. Seems we may look slicker without it. www.phpbb.com/demo/It looks like there is a demo that we can play around with. Says it will only last an hour. Might be worth having one of us tinker with and get a few screenshots. I tried it out, and I could do a lot with it, lots of things around creations, and the admin tools are very intuitive, but I couldn't do much by way of design. I think they might have limited the options for that... I may actually take up coding (in my old age) for work, so I may be able to learn some tricks to go along with this.
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Post by Sebastian Taro Groth on Sept 22, 2016 16:59:33 GMT -5
Can anyone else try the online Demo (I would hope specifically that one of Reign, D, or Z who are also admin on the old forum and here do so) to see what they think. You get an hour, you can play around with a lot of stuff, and perhaps people can see something I can't that might be a hindrance (or a benefit). I spotted a "recent activity" view that can be accessed, so that must work pretty well for us, since regulars like the recent view pathfinder. I should add, there is a significant risk that moving to the new board won't help bring more people to us, forums are becoming a thing of the past with the new Twitter/Facebook/Instagram crowd. Just so people aren't under too many illusions about that fact.
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Post by DancesWithWerewolves on Sept 22, 2016 17:03:10 GMT -5
I can probably try it out this weekend. I'll be Blind Squirrelling it, but I can give it a go.
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Post by Sebastian Taro Groth on Sept 22, 2016 17:05:29 GMT -5
I can probably try it out this weekend. I'll be Blind Squirrelling it, but I can give it a go. We are all blind squirreling. The idea is that with enough of us we may actually find our nuts.
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Post by Reign in Blood on Sept 23, 2016 10:41:04 GMT -5
Was already planning to try it out this weekend.
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Post by Sebastian Taro Groth on Sept 23, 2016 12:02:06 GMT -5
Awesome. Thanks guys.
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Post by DancesWithWerewolves on Sept 24, 2016 13:31:00 GMT -5
Before I start the demo, what exactly am I looking for in it?
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