To move the board or not to move...

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Gameboy9

To move the board or not to move...

Post by Gameboy9 »

That is the question posed to you. All in favor of moving to forums to seymour's
<a href="">http://forums.marpirc.net</a> will signify by saying "aye", all opposed will say "no". This motion expires March 11, 2002 at 2359 GMT.
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Regardless of the result, this forum will stay intact for historical purposes.

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I give you this motion because seymour's forum is a hell of a lot better than this one. You can still do email alerts like greenspun, and you can still categorize the board like greenspun (something that I'm going to work to improve - the categories that is), and searching the forum is a heck of a lot easier. The forum looks nicer as well. I'm sure seymour can find several more reasons why his forum is better than this one.

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Therefore, I say "aye". GB9

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J.D. Lowe

Post by J.D. Lowe »

Aye. Plain and simple.

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DRN

Post by DRN »

Yes definately. That forum is much better like you say and it seems a
waste because no one really uses it. So thats an 'aye' from me too!

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Guest

Post by Guest »

can we "transition" the old board entries into the new one, so when
we do searches we can find old stuff? seymore's looks good but it
took me 10 seconds to load the first page, i'd hate to think what
would happen when we put a bunch of messages onto it (note there
aren't many at all right now.) greenspun does suck but at least it's
relativly snappy.

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i'd vote aye if seymore's page can handle the load of 1000's of
messages and somehow we could import the old ones.

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Chris Gushue

Post by Chris Gushue »

I vote yes. I never did like the greenspun forums much :)
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Chad: depending on greenspun's export abilities, it -might- be
possible. If it is, I can work on doing that. But the main page loads
pretty much instantly for me - I think you might have tried to view
the page while I was upgrading it to a newer version of phpBB, which
didn't take very long. To see an example of a heavily used phpBB -
look at http://phpbb.sourceforge.net/phpBB2 - which has close to 40000
articles.

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Another good reason to move would be that I'm usually around in some
form or another, so if something breaks (not likely, but it's
possible), it can get fixed pretty quickly :)

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Barry Rodewald

Post by Barry Rodewald »

I vote yes as well. Greenspun isn't always snappy, and right now, Im
wondering where e-mail notices from this board are. Only knew about
this from #marp (EFNet). Not that it's a function I necessarily care
for.

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Chris Gushue

Post by Chris Gushue »

After taking a look at the greenspun admin interface, it has the
ability to export all of the content to a file, so I should be able to
script something to import to the forum software I'm using. Should
make searching old posts much easier :)

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Chad

Post by Chad »

my vote is no longer conditional, it's all aye. importing of old
greensperm articles is possible and loads fast with lots of articles.

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Chris Gushue

Post by Chris Gushue »

One more thing - currently phpBB allows a user to get replies to a
topic they post. There are some mods in progress that add an option to
get notified on any new post/reply, so I'll work on that this week.
Hopefully I'll have it done by the time this vote is over. I already
modded the forums to have <a
href="stastics.php">statisics</a> :)

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Chris Gushue

Post by Chris Gushue »

Maybe I should learn how to spell:
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<a href="statistics.php">Forum Stastics</a>

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Chris Gushue

Post by Chris Gushue »

That should be "Forum Statistics", of course. I don't know what's
wrong with me today...

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BBH

Post by BBH »

Aye, aye, oh god aye.<p>

Surely I can't be the only one tired of receiving mail notices from
idiots who found ancient threads here via Google, then proceed to make
a post asking for people to mail ROMZ to him. Thus spamming everyone
who has mail notices on.

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-BBH

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Joe Ledesma

Post by Joe Ledesma »

Aye. Actually, I find it quite amusing BBH.

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Chris Gushue

Post by Chris Gushue »

Just an update - I finished the feature on the forums that can email
you when there is a new post on the forums. If there are any problems
with it, please let me know so I can fix them.

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Tim Morrow

Post by Tim Morrow »

After having to type the email addy and my name yet again because of
the persistent cookie bullshit I say

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AYE! Yes! Affirmative!

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