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ALL MEMBERS: Up-, down- or non-grade?; Winter's coming
Topic Started: Oct 20 2008, 03:27 PM (1,356 Views)
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I recently discovered that from the Admin CP, I am capable of requesting a "board conversion" from Invisionfree to ZetaBoards.

ZetaBoards basically is the next generation of Invisionfree and the conversion means that we keep the same link etc. but I am not as of this post sure if all of our posts and members etc. will make it through the conversion.

I think it sounds sort of exciting to try out something new without having to start all over again with our posts (if the posts survive the conversion - I still need to figure that out, or maybe someone else would help find the answer? :unsure: )

It looks sort of next-gen, but I am not going to make this decision on my own or without preparation.

SO

I made a test board at ZetaBoards so that we can all try this new thing out and see if it something we want or not.

I will not put a poll up right now, because I want people to register and check it out and so on and there we will have the poll. The discussion of whether to upgrade or not, should take place here, because activity in Suggestions and Questions forum is teh awesome!

I even made a little fhag-inspired fanfic for the test website. It is nothing worth noting, but I was wondering what to call the test board and I had just seen a Fallout 3 trailer, so I came up with this rather random (and sorta lame) idea, but as long as we have fun it is all right, aye? :P

The link to the ZetaBoards test board:

http://s1.zetaboards.com/NuclearWinter_TWR

Now let's test, discuss and debate! Long time since we have discussed something about the board itself - like we used to in the good old days and the smiley thing sort of inspired me :P

P.S. I have not explored it a lot myself, but it seems to have a sort of more next-gen look and some neat features like "website maker", but I have yet to see what the fuss is actually all about. The first TWC moderator to register at the Nuclear Winter will be made global mod so that they can give me feedback on the moderator features. The first TWC admin (meaning Andy or Ariakas) to register at the Nuclear Winter will be made admin so that they can help me explore the admin cp.

P.S.S. Members who are active with this exploration and give a lot of useful feedback - meaning they are active both in the Nuclear Winter board and in this topic will receive special prizes for their work. Make me proud, people!
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NEWSFLASH!!!!

The members, avatars, signatures, forums, topics, replies, polls, smileys will all be kept to the ZetaBoard. The only thing that will be reset is the skin. Meaning I will need to find a new fitting ZetaBoard skin, but that is not that bad.

All of that is if we make the conversion at all of course. But I must say that it all looks rather neat over there. SOme things will require some getting used to, but it is cleaner, it is cooler and it will be refreshing for our ancient community.

I am kind of positive towards it for now, but I have not explored it completely yet!
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Hmm.... will the PM system work again
Alex,Dec 28 2008
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Is that a challenge? Have you not seen the Youtube footage of me? At my family New Year's Eve party, where I mercilessly chased my four year old cousin around in a drunken rage, attempted to hit him with a plastic, illuminating lightsaber whilst yelling 'Piñata, piñata!', before tripping over my own pair of slippers and falling over, crushing the fleeing juvenile as I did so? Well, neither have I.


Let's make cancer feel foolish!

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PM system works both places.

Come on, dudes. I really need feedback on the new system. Unless you start spamming excessively, I even have the following offer:

After we are done testing the Zeta Boards at Nuclear Winter, your post count there will be added to the one over here. Now that sounds nice, eh? ;)
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Will the posts definately be kept? Wouldn't want to lose any of the RP.
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chadden
Oct 20 2008, 10:12 PM
Will the posts definately be kept? Wouldn't want to lose any of the RP.

Sounds like we should test it with an old IF site.

Thing is, I don't want to lose posts on any of mine.
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It seems ok, not a huge difference, im neither here nor there about it. I think the prioriy is ensuring none of the history here is lost. That is paramount.
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Ok I'm actually reading the terms and conditions (shock horror I never do) and my understanding is that everything has to be in English or you have to purchase Ad Removal.

I don't like the password conditions =\
Password contains: uppercase and lowercase letters
Password contains: a number
Password contains: punctuation or symbols
Password is at least 8 characters
Has to fulfill 3 of those 4 conditions
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I think we should stay put. Nothing wrong with the current forum IMO.
chadden, Oct 15 2008
12:16 PM
HIC, I demand that you bludgeon yourself with a rock until your mental status returns to the level of a rapist who calls back to apologise! Your use of elaborate language and words is making me uneasy. Although, I am somewhat relieved to see that your punctuation remains shit-based.
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Jonno, I liked your idea on checking if all posts are kep, cause even though the guys at the official ZetaBoards assured me that everything would be kept (except for the skin design). I guess I can make an IF board and see if the conversion is successful.

EDIT: Louise has alredy suggested this - over at the test board - and if she is up for it, she will make an IF-test-board and those who want will help fill it with random posts so that we can try the conversion.

The terms and conditions thing - I don't see a problem with it. I don't think they check and even if they do, we do write English on here, right?

The password thing I did not know about. Did not think there were those limitations. Especially because my own password only fulfills two of those conditions, so I don't know about it - you tried without fulfilling 3?

Anyways - I do not want to sound like I am defending this whole thing. I am not completely sure if I am up for the conversion, but what I must admit is that I like to try out new things. We have had this board for 3 ½ years now. I like it and all - that is why I am happy with ZetaBoards being VERY much like the IF ones, but there are some cool features (such as the topic tags) and honestly I think it would be refreshing for the community.

I am not done trying it out and I have not decided upon my own opinion yet, but I just hope that people will at least try it out before they state their opinion - of course I will not force anyone to do anything, but arguments like Louise's are valid in my opinion. Stating that we shouldn't convert without even registering at the test board seems like a weaker statement - in my eyes at least...

So yeah - let's see what people think...
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So would the new name remain or would we keep The White Counsil as the board name?

I think that the new boards would be a good step to take for this forum, so long as we get to keep all our members, posts, and everything. Testing should definately be done to make sure that everything is saved, because I have some worries about how it will be done.

EDIT: Ok, according to the official site, this is what is converted:

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Topics & Posts

Forums & Categories

Board Settings, Admin notepad, Board rules

Member accounts and their settings

Permission masks

Groups

PMs, PM tracking, contacts

Polls

Board Stats

Moderator logs, warn logs, email logs, and admin logs

Calendar events

Badword lists

Forum and topic tracking

Moderators

Validating members

Emoticons (smilies)

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AutoTools (MultiMods)

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Nice find, Rudd.

And we keep the same name. Even the http://z10.invisionfree.com/TheWhiteCounsil link is still going to work.

The Nuclear Winter is just to test the features and such.

And I must say that the Admin CP is MUCH better than the one in the IF. Just saying.
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I like the idea of going ahead with this. And since Rudder posted the list of everything which will be converted, it has covered everything that I was initially concerned might be lost (topics and replies).
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Yeah and the people on their forum have confirmed this. There should be no problem moving everything over with the conversion.

But give the test side a try just to see if there is something that you do not like at all or something that catches your attention as awesome and share it all with us!
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It all sounds good on paper, but what is with the sudden urge to move boards?
chadden, Oct 15 2008
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HIC, I demand that you bludgeon yourself with a rock until your mental status returns to the level of a rapist who calls back to apologise! Your use of elaborate language and words is making me uneasy. Although, I am somewhat relieved to see that your punctuation remains shit-based.
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I already explained that. I think it would be refreshing, since we really have not done anything "new" to the board's design since I installed this skin 3 years ago. And the most recent "new thing" to the board was the creation of the Forum Game Forum. Discovering new features and having a slightly different experience would be nice. Besides - I liked it back when we added new stuff or enhanced the TWC experience. Even the horrible High Council had some novelty value.

I think change is good. When we can do it without having to get used to an ENTIRELY different board (there are more similarities than differences) and when we can do it without losing topics, members, PMs, etc. then it is an even better thing.

I am getting tired of this skin and these buttons and so on. I don't want to alter TWC's personality or atmosphere - just the looks and add some cool features such as - as already mentioned - the tag/search system and the better Admin CP.

When there are no real disadvantages I do not see why we should not convert to ZetaBoards.
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And whilst there is nothing wrong with the current board, I don't see why we should upgrade, but you are the admin and if you want to move then I won't argue.
chadden, Oct 15 2008
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HIC, I demand that you bludgeon yourself with a rock until your mental status returns to the level of a rapist who calls back to apologise! Your use of elaborate language and words is making me uneasy. Although, I am somewhat relieved to see that your punctuation remains shit-based.
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I respect your opinion, but you are basically saying that because there is nothing wrong with a certain thing, there is no reason to move on to a better or different one?

Oh well - you are allowed to have your opinion, Alex. I just think we should refresh the White Counsil experience without dramatically altering it. I will soon add a poll to this topic. I avoided it because I did not want people voting while they e.g. did not know if the posts would be kept. Now I feel more safe about adding a poll that will decide the matter, although I must express my disappointment with most people not trying out the ZetaBoards while we still can. We need to make sure we want the new boards, because a reverse conversion will not be possible.

Please - try the test site just so that you know what you are voting for or against!
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Ok, I'll make a random site if you want. I'll post the link up in a few hours, I'm at school at the moment so I don't have time right now, but I'll post the link up soon. If everyone can register and do a whole bunch of random posts and topics it would be helpful =]
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As long as i make it through it'll be fine.

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