New Message Boards Now Open!

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The original notice is posted below the dotted lines (.........); this notice is for any late arrivals to the new boards now that the old ones are no longer online:

PLEASE BOOKMARK THE NEW BOARDS O' MAGICK URL: http://www.sorcerers.net/forums/index.php

LOGIN INFORMATION FOR THE NEW MESSAGE BOARDS - IMPORTANT!

1. For all the existing users, the USER NAME on these new boards is your PUBLICLY DISPLAYED NAME (PDN) from the old boards. If you don't remember what your PDN on the old boards was, please contact us with as much information about your old account as you can provide (user name, e-mail, etc.) and we will search for your login information. PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER ANEW ON THE NEW BOARDS IF YOU ALREADY HAVE AN EXISTING ACCOUNT FROM THE OLD BOARDS - IT IS STILL ACTIVE!!!

2. Your password on the old and the new boards is the same.

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THUS FAR WE HAVE HAD AT LEAST 1 CONFIRMED CASE WHERE THE USER'S PASSWORD FROM THE OLD BOARDS HAS APPARENTLY NOT BEEN CARRIED OVER PROPERLY, AND THE USER COULD NOT LOG IN WITH HER PASSWORD ON THE NEW BOARDS. IN SUCH A CASE, USE THE "LOST PASSWORD" LINK ON THE NEW BOARDS AND ENTER THE SAME PROFILE E-MAIL THAT YOU HAD SET ON THE OLD BOARDS (YOU WILL BE ABLE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD THIS WAY).

IF YOUR MAIL FROM THE OLD BOARDS IS NO LONGER ACTIVE, PLEASE CONTACT TAL AND DESCRIBE YOUR PROBLEM AND WE'LL FIX IT.
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IMPORT NOTES

Please read all of this carefully; most of the questions that you probably have are answered here:

1. As per this announcement, private messages (PMs) HAVE NOT CARRIED OVER TO THE NEW MESSAGE BOARDS. Now that the old boards have been taken offline, the only way to retrieve your old private messages is to contact Tal to do this for you. Please note that this is a PAID service which we provide as a last resort option to any members who didn't save their old PMs themselves in nearly a year of time during which this was possible.

2. What has been imported: Members, Forums, Threads, Posts and Polls (as textual archives of the entire poll contents & results).

3. There is always the chance that some threads/posts have not carried over to the new message boards during the import. If you spot a thread/post missing from the new boards that exists on the old boards, please send a PM to Taluntain on the new boards with the link to the thread/post and we'll arrange for a re-post, if warranted.

4. After logging into the new boards, you will need to reapply your profile picture, if you have had one set on the old boards. The profile picture is the large(r) picture that shows only when people view your profile; this is not your portrait/avatar! You can find the imported url of your profile picture from the old boards stored in your legacy "profilepic" profile field on the new boards. If the url was too long, it wasn't imported properly. In such a case, reapply the picture url here.

5. !!! Certain members have had their avatars/portraits and/or titles messed up during the import. This will all be fixed as soon as possible. !!!

6. The gem ranking system and stickies will be added back ASAP.

7. The style (colour scheme, etc.) of the boards will be adjusted to match our old boards. What you are seeing now is just the default skin.

8. Please keep in mind that this is currently a bare-bones, unmodified board. There will be MANY changes made to it in the following days and weeks, so please be patient while the settings and features from the old boards are being restored here.

Other notes:

- The "last visited in 1970" thing is normal; it defaults to that because that data is not imported. It updates the first time you log in.
- The private forums are password protected; this is just for so long that I can properly reapply permissions to users allowed to access them.
- Post icons in imported posts only show in the first post inside a thread.
- Wish list links in Members' Amazon Wish Lists forum will need to be fixed.
- The "more smilies" popup window will need to be resized.

If you have any questions or comments regarding the switch, don't be shy to post them here. If you spot anything broken or not working properly that isn't listed here, please let me know immediately.

Finally, explore the new boards and features and have fun - the next generation of Boards o' Magick is here at least!


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PLEASE BOOKMARK THE NEW BOARDS O' MAGICK URL: http://www.sorcerers.net/forums/index.php

LOGIN INFORMATION FOR THE NEW MESSAGE BOARDS - IMPORTANT!

1. For all the existing users, the USER NAME on these new boards is your PUBLICLY DISPLAYED NAME (PDN) from the old boards. If you don't remember what your PDN on the old boards was, simply log into the old message board with your old login information and look your PDN up in your profile area. If you have lost your old login information, you can retrieve it here. If you cannot retrieve your old login information via this link, please contact us with as much information about your old account as you can provide and we will search for your login information. PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER ANEW ON THE NEW BOARDS IF YOU ALREADY HAVE AN EXISTING ACCOUNT FROM THE OLD BOARDS!!!

2. Your password on the old and the new boards is the same.

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THUS FAR WE HAVE HAD AT LEAST 1 CONFIRMED CASE WHERE THE USER'S PASSWORD FROM THE OLD BOARDS HAS APPARENTLY NOT BEEN CARRIED OVER PROPERLY, AND THE USER COULD NOT LOG IN WITH HER PASSWORD ON THE NEW BOARDS. IN SUCH A CASE, USE THE "LOST PASSWORD" LINK ON THE NEW BOARDS AND ENTER THE SAME PROFILE E-MAIL THAT YOU HAD SET ON THE OLD BOARDS (YOU WILL BE ABLE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD THIS WAY).

IF YOUR MAIL FROM THE OLD BOARDS IS NO LONGER ACTIVE, PLEASE CONTACT TAL AND DESCRIBE YOUR PROBLEM AND WE'LL FIX IT.
----------------------

IMPORT NOTES

Please read all of this carefully; most of the questions that you probably have are answered here:

1. As per this announcement, private messages (PMs) HAVE NOT CARRIED OVER TO THE NEW MESSAGE BOARDS. Please see the announcement for details on how to save your old PMs.

2. What has been imported: Members, Forums, Threads, Posts and Polls (as textual archives of the entire poll contents & results).

3. There is always the chance that some threads/posts have not carried over to the new message boards during the import. If you spot a thread/post missing from the new boards that exists on the old boards, please send a PM to Taluntain on the new boards with the link to the thread/post and we'll arrange for a re-post, if warranted.

4. After logging into the new boards, you will need to reapply your profile picture, if you have had one set on the old boards. The profile picture is the large(r) picture that shows only when people view your profile; this is not your portrait/avatar! You can find the imported url of your profile picture from the old boards stored in your legacy "profilepic" profile field on the new boards. If the url was too long, it wasn't imported properly. In such a case, grab it from your profile on the old boards. Reapply the picture url here.

5. !!! Certain members have had their avatars/portraits and/or titles messed up during the import. This will all be fixed as soon as possible. !!!

6. The gem ranking system and stickies will be added back ASAP.

7. The style (colour scheme, etc.) of the boards will be adjusted to match our old boards. What you are seeing now is just the default skin.

8. Please keep in mind that this is currently a bare-bones, unmodified board. There will be MANY changes made to it in the following days and weeks, so please be patient while the settings and features from the old boards are being restored here.

Other notes:

- The "last visited in 1970" thing is normal; it defaults to that because that data is not imported. It updates the first time you log in.
- The private forums are password protected; this is just for so long that I can properly reapply permissions to users allowed to access them.
- Post icons in imported posts only show in the first post inside a thread.
- Wish list links in Members' Amazon Wish Lists forum will need to be fixed.
- The "more smilies" popup window will need to be resized.

If you have any questions or comments regarding the switch, don't be shy to post them here. If you spot anything broken or not working properly that isn't listed here, please let me know immediately.

Finally, explore the new boards and features and have fun - the next generation of Boards o' Magick is here at least!

 

From the first post:

"7. The style (colour scheme, etc.) of the boards will be adjusted to match our old boards. What you are seeing now is just the default skin."

Thank you for reading.

joacqin, the need for the switch has been discussed several times in SS over the years, but to recap... UBB (our old message board software) was flat-file based and completely discontinued over a year ago. The new message board software is modern, database-backed, chock-full of new features and actively supported. I've wanted to switch for a long time, but the stars have finally aligned properly now so that I was actually able to do it the way I wanted to - with minimal loss and as perfectly as possible.

 

I've edited the first post in this thread to account for login problems.

 

There'll be a lot of fine-tuning in the next few days... buckle up for safety!

If anyone is still seeing the default board style (colours, etc.), log out and back in and you'll see something more familiar. This is just a quick take on it, of course, still a lot to be fixed.

 

Well, well - I could *definitely* get used to this!

 

There are some places where the new board is CaSe-sensitive, whereas the old one wasn't. Most notably, when logging in, and with the smiley code. I'll check if this can be changed for the smilies, but the login sensitivity most likely can't be changed.

Kitrax, you actually didn't have to login twice on the boards. As soon as you were logged in with your SPS login, all ads would be disabled on the boards without any other action required. Initially, I'll most likely just copy things over from the old board since it'll be the fastest, but later on we'll come up with something more elegant.