Random Thread 2: Social plane shifting?

[thinkslogically]

Aw no burns, I'm so sorry for your loss

Take your time, we're not going anywhere.

[M0rtimer]

I'm sorry to hear that, Burns. Hang in there, alright?

[Dlover]

We'll be here whenever you recover.

[thinkslogically]

Soooo.... We have a new forum area?

[M0rtimer]

I'm scared, somebody hug me.

[thinkslogically]

Lol! It might be a good place for the Game Tales thread to go?

[M0rtimer]

Hello? Are we back? Everything working?

[Theis2]

Your first day as a global mod was so bad they apparently had to erase it from existence!

[Dusk9]

Yep, last update on Trinity Isles is gone, Mort

(Also your post in The Heist got wiped too, Theis. Don't suppose you still have those rolls somewhere?)

[M0rtimer]

Best hold on to your horses, though, because there's a couple things that still seem broken

Also do I really need to rewrite the update, I'm pretty sure everyone remembers what happened and that you three rolled horribly on perception.

[M0rtimer]

Alright to give some more feedback for those who don't visit discord... It seems like for the largest part, the upgrade was actually successful. There's just one more thing that doesn't work, as it didn't manage to transfer correctly: tabs. So right now, using tabs doesn't seem to do much... But more worryingly, any post that previously used tabs now just breaks the whole page it's on. I tested to make sure it doesn't trigger on new posts so I didn't hand everyone a nuclear bomb, so I'm comfortable sharing that.

If anyone notices any other issues, you should probably note that-Right now it's going to be looking at seeing if there's any fix for the tabs issue, assuming that's the only problem. Assuming it is and we find a solution, we'll likely get some shiny new boards. Assuming it's not... This forum will probably be archived, and we'll get something entirely new instead.

In each case, if it's not clear, there's a high probability that anything you post right now will end up deleted, so this is the perfect opportunity to confess your deepest secrets.

[Dusk9]

Happy birthday Mort! Your presents are a broken forum and wiped game update

[M0rtimer]

Thanks.

[Dlover]

The new forum is weird and shiny. First things first, where the heck is the option to turn off the quick post. That thing's evil.

Also, blegh, there go my posts for PTU. Guess redoing those will wait for a time when things aren't likely to get eaten.

[M0rtimer]

[BBvideo=700,400]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHpdgHTINik[/BBvideo]

[Dlover]

Pretty much exactly.

[thinkslogically]

Yeah my only comment is that it would have been handy to get some advance warning that this was going to happen so we could make backups of stuff that was important. Given how many problems seem to happen when the forum is upgraded / changed, it would have been a little extra reassurance that we're not going to lose too much if it goes catastrophically wrong.

[M0rtimer]

Personally I would have preferred to done it the same way, being honest. Nothing was supposed to be lost, but Duke underestimated how big the DB was, so he had to resort to the last backup that was kept on the server.

Everything beyond that point should be a 100% safe though.

[thinkslogically]

Sure, I'm just having flashbacks to the last forum failure when we had to try and salvage games from Google archives...

I... Don't want to do that again

[M0rtimer]

That's because those forums were ran by the, pardon my french, douchebags over at blind ferret entertainment... Who apparently are either so tech incompetent they didn't have a proper database backup or couldn't do it, or just couldn't be bothered to do the most basic thing. They refused to even create a new forum, though, just saying we were "on our own"- There's a reason Thunt decided to leave those guys behind.

Duke apparently has like, 30 different iterations of backups going... So I doubt we'll be able to lose this one.

[Dusk9]

I'm just glad I didn't have time to write an update for my game yesterday

But yeah, the only one who seemed to know it was even coming in advance was Mort, and that's just because he's on the Discord. I didn't even know there was a Discord before yesterday, let alone how to find details on forum update plans

[M0rtimer]

Even I only knew it was coming like, at most ten minutes in advance, really. It wasn't as much as knowing in advance as suddenly hearing he was about to start, and it took ten minutes for the forums to get taken down and the real work to start. My only regret is not saving my own update "just in case" during that time.

[thinkslogically]

Yeah, that's just weird.

Oh well!

[WearsHats]

You can join the Discord if you want.

It was created for the livestream, but it doesn't usually have much traffic. Maybe that will change if people are interested. In any case, you can watch Duke and M0rt trying to fix the forum.

[M0rtimer]

Right now, it seems we're discussing the benefits of just completely migrating from the forums over to discord.

I suppose I should get a general idea of what the "population at large" actually thinks about the idea, though... Assuming every topic that'd want it would also get it's own channel and such. I admit I'm a bit hesitant to the idea myself, but discord is also "the future". And for most things I think there'd be a way to achieve the same effect as you'd do it on a forum.

Thoughts?