Magman 12 Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Greeting D6 community! Several months ago, I had to abandon the current setup for the forums because of continued hacks into the board. Each time I cleaned up and tried to secured the boards, I failed and the hacks persisted. I didn't give up but did abandon the outdated vbulletin board. I understand there are still many sites out there running this same version 4 of vbulletin without issue. I didn't have the time to dig deep into why my board had so many security issues - obviously, the software can be maintained by those with more of a background to its coding than I. So rather than running in circles, I opted to close it for a time while I decided on the next move. I had no intentions of shutting the board down permanently, but weighed my choices during this lapse. I choose to go with IPB over other forum software I reviewed. A decision I hope the community here can grow to accept and love. Most, if not all, of the background issues of maintaining the security and code of the forum now falls to their support team, rather than me. I am paying for their cloud service, having to worry only about managing the configuration of the boards. In time, when things all settle where they belong, the site should turn along smoothly hopefully with little maintenance. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Savar 4 Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 Thank you for the work and site. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magman 12 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 Again, been working with the site's customer support group and they are taking the old board content to hopefully import here. It would have been more challenging to link any of the images we have in the threads, which I recall really wasn't many. I opted to tell them just skip over the images. This will have an effect of having an empty space where the image used to live. If need be, as we uncover post with missing images, I can pull up the old archive files and re-insert them. But I felt the actual content of the posts were more important to get up and running now. For those wanting to see changes to the old board, here is your opportunity. Chime in and let me know what you want or do not want here. Might as well give the boards an overhaul while in the setup phase. The great thing about IPB forums running from their cloud is it comes with a host of built-in services: Pages, Blogs, Store, Downloads and images. Will measure them all up for their features and will try and implement them best for our purposes. Thanks all for sticking around. I know the boards have been quiet/dead for a long time as D6 continues to linger sluggishly about. Perhaps when Torg: Eternity finally gets released, new conversations will be brought here. Anyhow, glad to be almost back up and running! Magman! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Savar 4 Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 One thing I want to do is work on a setting, with the input of other gamers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magman 12 Posted February 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 You mean theme for the boards, as in formatting, colors.. etc. Or Setting, as in relation to Forum Topics? Magman! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Savar 4 Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 Sorry, as forum topic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magman 12 Posted February 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 Sure thing, no problem. Hopefully you can see the Chatter Box that is back online? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hisham 11 Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 Woot! Great job, Magman. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
descoto 10 Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 Welcome back! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magman 12 Posted February 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 Apologies for taking so long. Had lots going on and the forum being constantly hacked didn't help. Expecting good things here, a new beginning! As I mentioned, I want you all to voice what you would like to see, changed, or whatever on the boards. If I can make it happen, I will Magman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
D6JasonJPatterson 10 Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 (edited) Congrats on starting getting it back up and going! Is there a way I can change my username to something shorter? I swear when I made my account, there was a "put d6 before your name" requirement, but nobody else seemed to know what I was talking about. Edited February 18, 2017 by D6JasonJPatterson Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magman 12 Posted February 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 LOL yes there was, but it wasn't mandatory or forced. It was a way for me to weed out Bots. But let me know what you want your username to be, I will change it. Thanks Magman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tyrae Clouds 10 Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 Awesome work and thank you so much for coming back online! These forums have been a wonderful place to call home over the years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Havard 10 Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 Thank you for bringing this place back! I know how much work it can be running a site like this, especially when hackers, Malware and spammers begin piling up. I have missed this place though so I am really happy this site was not gone forever. I hope not too much of the old contents have been lost. -Havard Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magman 12 Posted February 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 All the old content is here, save for the images. Going to see if I can pull them off the old boards and store them here in the gallery. Another project added on the ToDo list. I will be slowly making the old content visible, but would like to get feedback and what "NEW" forums you guys want. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grimace 34 Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 Good to see this back up and running! Thanks Magman! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigJackBrass 14 Posted February 19, 2017 Report Share Posted February 19, 2017 Thanks for bringing the site back. I know from personal experience how demoralising it can be when a forum is hit by spam, hackers etc and it's a lot of effort to fix things. My old password was rejected, but that was an easy fix. All looks good so far. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lubidius 10 Posted February 19, 2017 Report Share Posted February 19, 2017 (edited) Been a while since I've been on here! Lots of old faces. Good to see everyone again. Switching to D6 as a core now for a bit (the wondering mind of the rpg GM), so I'll be on here a bit more. / Lubidius / a.k.a Peter Robbins on G+ and beyond.. Edited February 19, 2017 by Lubidius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cheshire 11 Posted February 20, 2017 Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 I understand the challenge. I had do deal with some hacks on a website at work. It's no fun, and it's a terribly frustrating ordeal. I'm glad to see that you had the committment to user security. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PetraWil 0 Posted February 14, 2018 Report Share Posted February 14, 2018 Great to have the forum! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rredmond 11 Posted February 14, 2018 Report Share Posted February 14, 2018 Back online here? I'll have to tool around a bit! --Ron-- Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dunell 4 Posted April 10, 2018 Report Share Posted April 10, 2018 Good thing it's back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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