Did your Forum dissapear?

Post by **STrRedWolf** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:34 pm

VT, since you are not the author of the comic that the forum would be linked from, your request was denied from the get-go.

I've laid out specific direction on how to unlock and move the forum back into KeenSpace Comics. I will re-iterate them: Get the comic's author on the line and have him link to his forum, and then have him post here. I will not waiver -- I don't want anyone "stealing" a forum for their own nefarious purposes. Also, WE AREN'T GOING TO DELETE THE FORUMS THEMSELVES. They are locked and moved out of the way.

Kisai's working on a custom version of phpBB with will allow a better setup of the forums for everyone. If you're familiar with EZBoard, then you'll know the direction we're heading. However, I'm cautioning Kisai as to not go full hog on it. I want it backed up and fully beta tested with willing comic (and therfore forum) owners. Are you willing to test it out?

Cricks5 · Post by **Cricks5** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:18 pm

Thanks.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:06 pm

STrRedWolf wrote:
Kisai's working on a custom version of phpBB with will allow a better setup of the forums for everyone. If you're familiar with EZBoard, then you'll know the direction we're heading. However, I'm cautioning Kisai as to not go full hog on it. I want it backed up and fully beta tested with willing comic (and therfore forum) owners. Are you willing to test it out?

Would that beta-testing offer only be open to willing comic AND forum testers, or to those who want a forum here but don't have one yet? I'd be a willing and eager beta-tester. I've been holding off on getting a forum until the Keenspace forums started offering them again. (well...one reason. The other is that I don't know if anybody would use it yet. Still have a teeny-tiny readership)

CW

Post by **Kisai** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:18 am

christwriter wrote:
STrRedWolf wrote:
Kisai's working on a custom version of phpBB with will allow a better setup of the forums for everyone. If you're familiar with EZBoard, then you'll know the direction we're heading. However, I'm cautioning Kisai as to not go full hog on it. I want it backed up and fully beta tested with willing comic (and therfore forum) owners. Are you willing to test it out?
Would that beta-testing offer only be open to willing comic AND forum testers, or to those who want a forum here but don't have one yet? I'd be a willing and eager beta-tester. I've been holding off on getting a forum until the Keenspace forums started offering them again. (well...one reason. The other is that I don't know if anybody would use it yet. Still have a teeny-tiny readership)

CW

The preference is people who do not yet have forums, as "moving" data from one forum to another looks like it's going to be a pain in the bum.

If you do not yet have a forum, I'll create one, but at the moment right now, I'm trying to determine the best way to roll out the code without having to duplicate phpBB2 6000 times and then have upgrade hell when a new version comes out. So what I'm doing right now is running phpBB2 off our comic server as a partial-slave so I can access the master user database, but have it use the local DB. If that works out, I'll modify the code necessary (right now I need to work on how to make comic owners be able to admin their forums without being able to admin everyone elses, looks simple enough, but like the problem with the "moderators", it seems that I might just have to gut all the admin code from phpBB and just leave the style and moderation panels.)

I think I have the bidirectional stuff working now.

Advantanges:
Users should be able to define a custom css setup for their forums, nomore system-wide blues.
One user database, no having to signup 6000 times.
todo: Single Avatar and Single signon for *.keenspace.com , looks like it will work, but people with their own domains forums.theirdomain.com will require logging in again. This is a browser security feature, nothing I can do about it short of using some XSS tricks that are not worth it.
Disadvantages:
Single user table means that writes have to be eliminated from it to prevent botching up the entire system. So "post count" has to goto a different table. Not sure quite how I'm going to do this.
Private messages/watches say they come from the right place... the problem is that this may trigger more AOL.com like responses to e-mails.

Right now the largest problem to overcome is time. I'm not paid to do this, and I have less than 2 hours per day that I can work on keenspace.

I'm not taking signups for this yet, but unlike the comic signup, there will be no delay required, all the DNS entries exist if your site exists (try it, the 404 error will come from sandy.keenspot.com / forums.keenspace.com )

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:43 pm

Well...just stick me on the list for potental beta-tester, and I'll stay patient. (Not like I got one hundred screaming fans begging for one, anyway

).

Thanks.

CW

Fukuni Takeni · Post by **Fukuni Takeni** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:24 pm

Thank you all

Vampz · Post by **Vampz** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:08 am

I sill can't get on it has it gone again?

Cricks5 · Post by **Cricks5** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 2:24 pm

My forum is gone again.

Post by **STrRedWolf** » Sun May 01, 2005 6:42 am

To double-check, this is a Kisai forum or a regular forum? Details, man!!!

Cricks5 · Post by **Cricks5** » Mon May 02, 2005 3:59 pm

It was called Sprite Show and I can't remember what type of forum it was.

Post by **STrRedWolf** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:11 pm

I've moved the forum on here to Space Comics Q-Z. I haven't sorted through all the old ones yet, of course.

Cricks5 · Post by **Cricks5** » Mon May 02, 2005 6:35 pm

Ok thanks.

Silverblue · Post by **Silverblue** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:50 am

Hello!

I've started updating my comic again after a hiatus of three years, and I see my forum got locked (fair enough). It's still linked from my main comic, and it's still the same forum for the same comic.

Is it possible to get it unlocked or have I missed a step somewhere?

Comic: Lacunae
Forum Name: Lacunae
Forum Number: 624

Cricks5 · Post by **Cricks5** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:08 pm

Maybe you should ask a moderator here.

Oualawouzou · Post by **Oualawouzou** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:15 pm

cricks5 wrote:Maybe you should ask a moderator here.

No.

As per the original post:

Please post over here instead of contacting Kisai or bugging us via IM or email. I got a notify on this, and I'll be checking it.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 5:23 pm

There's a sticky for this in the Message Board Request forum, so I'm locking this one to keep everything message board-related in one area. I'll look into your forum, Silverblue.

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Did your Forum dissapear?

I didn't miss them.

Forum unlocking for Lacunae.