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Post by Jason on Dec 18, 2015 4:18:12 GMT -5
The original default layout was killer, and it sucked when downtime was extensive on this thing. It's no HMF, but at least we're able to achieve goofy cousin status. Banner is clickable and takes us to recent tabs page, btw. For those who navigate like that at HMF.
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Post by zombie on Dec 18, 2015 7:35:41 GMT -5
i miss hmf. this board does not help. i'll leave it at that.
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Post by Dream on Dec 19, 2015 23:12:29 GMT -5
so update with tonight's tech chat: On the 14th of December they switched our site over to their new server code and that basically blew up HMF. Until we update our code, they won't/can't do anything to get the site back cause the clash is between their new code and our old code. If we update the code we should be able to get HMF back up and running but unless we update our code fairly regularly this is likely to happen again whenever they update their server code.
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Post by Foo on Dec 20, 2015 0:45:00 GMT -5
This may be our best hope: www.ultrabb.net/They basically took over where wowbb left off. This issue with globat was one I kinda knew would happen at some point when we lost support for wowbb.
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Post by Jason on Dec 20, 2015 0:47:08 GMT -5
Are you saying it's to merge the board to that site's program?
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Post by Dream on Dec 20, 2015 0:49:28 GMT -5
This may be our best hope: www.ultrabb.net/They basically took over where wowbb left off. This issue with globat was one I kinda knew would happen at some point when we lost support for wowbb.that is basically what the girl said.
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Post by Jason on Dec 20, 2015 0:58:00 GMT -5
I can create a free 30 day trial message board at ultrabb. I don't know if I'll have similar access to the coding/admin type functions that there are at HMF, though.
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Post by Dream on Dec 20, 2015 1:04:33 GMT -5
i think foo was looking beyond the 30 day trial and I'm pretty sure it's the same general set up that the old board had with a few extra features?
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Post by Jason on Dec 20, 2015 1:12:02 GMT -5
I know we're looking beyond thirty days. I'm saying I could try to get into their layout and compare it to HMF's or something. I just need to know exactly what needs to be fixed on our end and where to go to fix it, etc.
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Post by Dream on Dec 20, 2015 1:22:59 GMT -5
yeah, that's what I don't know. I know crap about coding. I was hoping it was just like "download and everything is magically fixed!"
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Post by Foo on Dec 20, 2015 1:29:26 GMT -5
Are you saying it's to merge the board to that site's program? Yes, it would be compatible
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Post by Jason on Dec 20, 2015 1:32:00 GMT -5
Are you saying it's to merge the board to that site's program? Yes, it would be compatible Is there anything that would be different about the board? Or does that site just serve as a host for the board...
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Post by Foo on Dec 20, 2015 2:21:41 GMT -5
I can't speak to the differences, but they bought out our old board's client base, and could migrate the old data to that format. No guarantees that globat would not be a clusterfuck, so we would be wise to use their hosting as well.
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Post by Jason on Dec 20, 2015 2:32:48 GMT -5
Sounds like our only option at this point, aside from upgrading HMF's coding/software.
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Post by Dream on Dec 20, 2015 2:49:33 GMT -5
is it something that is financially feasible to do? Any idea on if the old content will merge with the new board?
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Post by Sebastian Taro Groth on Dec 20, 2015 2:50:43 GMT -5
Part of me wishes we'd advanced the bludge project. Hindsight. I know nothing aboutvthisxdtuff but let me know if I can help/shoulder some costs.
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Post by Dream on Dec 20, 2015 3:32:19 GMT -5
Part of me wishes we'd advanced the bludge project. Hindsight. I know nothing aboutvthisxdtuff but let me know if I can help/shoulder some costs. none of us know anything about this stuff. There was no guarantee that Bludge or anyone else wouldn't have made things worse when this update went through, or wouldn't have made it or something else happen earlier. I dunno about you guys but I feel better having someone screw around with an already broken board than having them "fix it" and potentially break it when it is working
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Post by Jason on Dec 20, 2015 3:58:56 GMT -5
Well, I don't know how it works, but I picture it like this:
Our current host upgraded their software, so now the coding that makes up our site doesn't work for it. The coding still has all our history stored in it, etc... If that gets fucked around with and the attempt fails, if we do move to the new forum that Foo posted here, it doesn't really matter, because someone screwed our original coding up and everything is lost.
I could be way off base, but I don't think any of us are sure.
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Post by Jason on Dec 20, 2015 4:42:05 GMT -5
I just want HMF to not be dead/paralyzed. I know most of the community has found their way here, but it ain't the same with the actual HMF in a coma.
It's still real to me, dammit!
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Post by Sebastian Taro Groth on Dec 20, 2015 4:56:01 GMT -5
Would rather start fresh with everyone than to keep having issues and having site go offline regularly. That's my feelings. Would miss the history though. They should create an HMF archive that we can peruse.
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