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Or ask the guy who can dig into the database itself. 🤪

This is a copy/paste straight from the admin section... I have not created rank badges (graphics) yet. That will eventually (tm) be done. TITLE MINIMUM CONTENT ITEMS PREVIEW Novice 10 Apprentice 25 Journeyman 50 Master 100 Knight 250 Lord 500 Baron 750 Viscount 1000 Count 2000 Earl 3000 Marquess 4000 Duke 5000 Peer 6000 Prince 7500 Regent 10000

On an iPhone you can request the desktop version of the site by clicking the aA button to the left of the URL box.

I have to manually configure reactions. I can add more as we want.

Watched content and search absolutely won’t work till the rebuild/reindex completes. These fully leverage indexes.

Ignored users may possibly not be working until the rebuild completes. It was not on my testing scenarios to confirm. I’ll see if I can play around with this to see if there is a setting I’m missing in the meantime.

Should be visible only to you.

The search is literally only aware of 25.43% of posts and 1.3% of topics as of a few seconds ago. It SHOULD get better over the next day or so. I was viewing a topic earlier when it said I had new replies. I refreshed and it had loaded in three older posts that were not there earlier. So they’re (very) slowly trickling back in. This was one of the drawbacks for opening the forums early. I intentionally allowed the boards to come back online without the full board being back and reindexed so that we would not need to have the site down for a day and a half.

A gentle nudge to save politics for the politics forum por favor!

In the upper right side of the post is three dots. Click it. You will see an option to edit or hide your reply. In the old Xenforo forum, it said "delete", but all it did was hide the post. Admins/moderators could still see the post. So if you make a mistake, feel free to edit or hide. No harm/no foul, and it will continue to work exactly like it did before. 😇

Where possible, I tried to have IPB use the same cookie data used by Xenforo. This means in many cases, your browser matched the domain name itself and the cookie ID to authenticate you. It may not have worked quite the same way for everyone depending on your OS/browser. But at least you made it back!!

Yes! On the home page, look to the LEFT of the "Start New Topic" button. It should be near the "Who's Online" widget. There are three view options: Table, Grid, or Fluid. Choose Table if you want it to look like it did on Xenforo.

Like any good cosmetic procedure, it will take a little bit of time to fully heal and recover from the major surgery. I know it will suck waiting for all of the topics/posts to reindex and rebuild, but I think the outcome should end up pretty nice!

If you don't like the card view that shows pictures of each forum name, you can change this setting! Next to the "Start New Topic" button is three buttons. Click the first one that says "Table". It will switch your view to look like the original Xenforo display!

The Message Forum is now running on Invision Community. All of our posts, topics, and private messages have been moved into the new forum. However you may see some errors and messages about posts missing as the system works to rebuild and reindex the full database. As I mentioned prior to the conversion, it will take approximately 24 hours for the full process to complete. During this time, posts that are not working will magically start coming up. There is no need to file a report. Please feel free to start a new post in the mean time as existing posts work to rebuild. (They will be back soon!)

I can confirm prior to COVID, Lucky’s did have regular nights with nude male dancers in the upstairs bar. The bar is a square in the center of the room with the dancers being on top of the bar. It was similar to Secrets in DC except instead of tipping them in their socks, you tipped them in a leg strap that seemed to be positioned very high on the leg.

Yes. I was a Community Leader. Specifically I was in the Guide program, the Online Gaming Forum, WorldPlay, and AOL Hometown (for building personal web pages). Back in the day... you had to pay by the hour to "go online". Being in various CL programs allowed me to not end up with thousands of dollars in hourly fees for being online.

I increased the limit on the number of stored conversations (Private Messages) that can be stored to 1500. You should be good now.

Just following up on this. Checked the firewall logs and don't see any new blocks/denies that have been logged since I made some changes.

In a few days, I'm going to post a system-wide message with the announcement.

UPDATE 5/13/21: Given the positive feedback from members, I'm going to look at plans to move forward with changing the forum software. My goal is to do this in approximately 2-3 weeks, most likely on a Friday or Saturday evening. (Once I know the specific date, I'll post it.) In order to make the transition, I will need to take the boards offline for approximately 6 hours. Once the initial conversion is complete, I will need to manually set group permissions and start configuring various features. I anticipate this taking another 1-2 hours... at that point, I'll be able to unlock the doors and let everyone back in. Once the forums are re-opened, legacy posts may look funny and some posts may appear to be blank. Given the sheer size of the forums, it will take around 24 hours for all posts to be reindexed and rebuilt. This will naturally straighten itself out as the posts rebuild in the background. (This may also mean the site is a bit slower for the first day since a lot of resources are going to be dedicated to the rebuild/reindex process.) IMPORTANT: Please take a few minutes to wander through the beta site. Feel free to login, post, send a PM, or whatever is most important to you. I want this transition to be as seamless/painless as possible for everyone. By looking around now, you won't have any major surprises as to what to expect later.

My use of the word growth was deliberate and intentional. Yes, my goal is to see this community grow. I've been around various online forums/communities for over 20 years. This included the early AOL days where I served as a Community Leader helping in chat rooms, message boards, online games, etc. Over that time, I've seen the rise and fall of many different communities. At the end of the day, there is not a "single" silver bullet in what will make a community successful. It takes EVERYTHING... from a good site, to good moderators, to good members contributing. You can have the most functional site in the world, with the prettiest graphics/UI, blah blah... but the site could never end up taking off. A forum without active and entertaining members is just another static page on the internet which will end up being forgotten. People come back to a site because of new/fresh content and ideas. As a result, it's ultimately going to be the people that make this place work or not. My goal is to provide tools/features that help the members express themselves and to enjoy their time. When people have fun, they stick around. If they're having fun, guests who happen to come across will see it and want to participate also. That ultimately creates a multiplicative effect making it easier for even more people to join/participate. That will mean thinking through things like the signup process and reducing the barriers to signing up in such a way that can still keep out spammers and people just looking to troll. I've always thought that Cooper did a great job moderating, but at the end of the day he was being overwhelmed. This place is simply too much for just one or two people to handle. Adding more people made perfect sense to help reduce the workload and to provide additional layers of redundancy for when people eventually burn out or need to take a break (short or long term). We'll continue to add additional moderators and super moderators going forward. I personally would also like to add another true admin as well eventually. As I said before, I don't see my involvement with the site in the same way Daddy did. All of the major things I've posted about here ranging from wanting to change the forum software, to the server migration, to rearranging the forum categories, etc were all things discussed among the moderating team first. They are helping shape and refine these issues before they're posted publicly. Once we have a consensus, it's brought out to the masses. Even once it's brought to the public, I've tried to solicit feedback from the members for additional improvements because at the end of the day I think we've gotten a better result with the suggestions ya'll have provided. My goal is to continue this going forward. Regarding the legal question... who knows what will happen in the end. As long as I'm operating in the interest of the community and it's preservation, I cannot be faulted for the actions I take. I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing and let the chips fall where they may. We can survive whether probate lasts for days/weeks/months/years.

By the way… hyperlinks increase your chance for flagging bad rules. Hyperlinks contain items in the background such as slashes, and potentially other symbols. While it’s not against the “server rules”, a firewall will inspect them more closely. Think of a security guard. If a person walks in to a store wearing a hat, it’s not necessarily suspicious. If they walk in wearing a hat, sunglasses, looking around nervously etc they might watch that person more closely. Part of what I’m dialing down is the level of scrutiny around hyperlinks so the firewall is a bit less sensitive about them. (Its racially profiling them just a bit less.)

Remember as you’re typing, Xenforo tries to auto save every minute or so. That is done by your browser triggering a JavaScript running in your browser to capture what’s in the post buffer and submit it to the server in the background to save. The firewall does not know the difference. It just sees a request with a payload in it. So many of the 56 attempts were most likely just the auto saves. You would not have seen those attempts because they’re done in the background. Regarding WHY… ultimately it’s what is known as a false positive. Meaning my settings are so high that they’re TOO sensitive. A firewall attempts to guess what is good and what is bad. Sometimes it guesses wrong and catches a good guy by mistake. That’s what makes it a “false positive”. You’re not doing anything wrong yourself. You’re just posting and interacting with the site. The fix is on me to figure out how to adjust the sensitivity settings so they’re strong enough to stop bad attempts but not so strong as to block legitimate requests as well. In an ideal world, this tuning process would have occurred over a period of a few months. Because of Daddy’s death, we did not have the luxury of time. We had to move fast and put things in place as we went. While this works, it does lead to situations where there can be “collateral damage” as you don’t have multiple days/weeks to measure the impact of what settings are being put in place. As you could see in this case, it was not a situation that was occurring on every request. Instead it only happened in certain situations so it would not have manifested in just a normal check of the site. So just keep doing what you do. If you run into problems let me know. The more details provided, the easier it is for me to get to the root of the problem and fix it. I’ll take care of the technobabble Mr Spock geek stuff.