Site Updates

[Acriku]

The computer that showed online/offline is not there anymore, atleast for me :( I reloaded cookies, too.

[guusr5644]

what do you mean? i can see the offline/online computer why cant you see?

[Gobalopper]

Nope Devastator Mech is the main reason but I've been wanting to setup a system like this for awhile anyhow.

[exatreide]

i cant see it either

[DjCiD]

i warned you guys to go easy with that stuff... you still want to keep a few brain cells...

my cpu thingy is there to show whos on/off... but mu xbox is still talking to me....

[Inoculator9]

What's it saying? You should probably write it down.

[DjCiD]

i am in process of runing my xbox thru my pc monitor and dolby speakers... once i do i should be able to record what its saying....

[Gobalopper]

The "theme" colours will now stick around throughout the site. Not in the forums yet but everywhere else. Keep in mind it stores a cookie so you have to have them turned on for it to work. You can find the link on the main page right sidebar.

[Gobalopper]

Ok colours sorta work in the forum. I need a good combination for the table backgrounds though. If anyone has suggestions let me know. This is the forum default that needs porting to the other 5 styles:

http://dune2k.com/includes/forum/default.css

It should be ok if you just replace every instance with a certain color, ie all #808080/Gray could become #FF0000/Red, either way works. Just make sure it looks ok first, no yellow, red and orange suggestions. Here is a list of possibilities:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#x11-color

[Timenn]

New account creation has been disabled. I am going to be moving to an approval system where people are put on a waiting list before their account is created.

Why? because so many people register without using their account? It's a bit mean for people who want to sign in seriously

[Gobalopper]

It won't be a permanent thing, I'm making an approval system that requires people to go on a waiting list before they can become members. That will probably be ready this week.

[Gobalopper]

Registration is now back but all profiles will have to be approved by a global mod or myself before being able to post messages and login.

[IxianMace]

I don't understand what the purpose of this feature is, or how it will benefit the site. Why was it implemented (or why did you want to implement it) because of Devastator_Mech, Gobalopper? Am I missing something here? ???

[Timenn]

You mean we have to check all profiles which are altered??

Hmmm, only people who have a signature like: 'mods rocks' will be accepted, hehe >:D :P

But I meant my reply on the NEW system which is coming

It's a bit scaring away new people. Who just want to post a thing about a technical problem and they discover that they have to wait 5 days for example before they can post...

[Gobalopper]

In general it stops people who cause problems from registering and there won't be much of a delay at most a day.

[ethan]

why is the d/l server so messed up?

[Dunenewt]

...and when will it work again?

[Gobalopper]

No idea on when the download server will be back up.

[Gobalopper]

Somehow a post caused the internal counter of the messages table to increment to 2147483647 when it should only have been 90790. This made it so no one could post as that large number was the maximum possible value and there was no "next number" to increment too. Anyway I think it has been fixed now and everyone should be able to post.

[Lord J]

Thanks man...Now I can get back to my real mission in life...Terrorizing the Fan Fic forums!

[Gobalopper]

Thanks to sneezer3 for helping out with the test posting for me. ;)

[DjCiD]

Somehow a post caused the internal counter of the messages table to increment to 2147483647 when it should only have been 90790.

I bet Empworm was posting one of his page fillers again ;D j/k

[guusr5644]

what about the downloads server? its been 3 days that i cant download any thing ???

[Gobalopper]

I have no idea when it will be back up or why it is down. So you guys know as much as I do at this point.

[Gobalopper]

Download server is back up and running again.