RadioRob

As I've said previously, out of an abundance of caution, I've backed up most of the content on Daddy's server. The first priority was getting the forum itself back online which has been done. I've gotten to the point where I've been able to tackle restoring the review site.
 
This was MUCH more difficult as there was a bunch of things coded specifically for Daddy's server. I managed to get the data copied over and to import the mySQL database associated with the site. Once I did that, nothing really worked so I had to go look into the code to see what was going on. This involved changing a bunch of files to reflect where files are located on the new server.
 
It's not perfectly restored (meaning some of the commentary and news links are not fully working), but all of the reviews seem to be working.
 
Main Website: https://archive.m4m-forum.org/
Reviews Based on Location: https://archive.m4m-forum.org/cruise
Reviews Based on Name: https://archive.m4m-forum.org/search
 
I do not plan to try and maintain the system Daddy used to run the reviews. It is simply too much to try to manually do. So the plan for now is for the archive to stay as-is for historical purposes. At a later time, I plan to introduce a new review site that would collect the info and allow for a more streamlined method of management. Once it's ready, we'll need some volunteers to help us manually migrate reviews over into the new long-term tool. Once we're ready to do that, I'll post here asking for some help with all of the copy/pasting that is going to be involved.
 
Hopefully in the next half hour or so, I'll be able to have the main review website redirect to the archive. It's not perfect, but I hope it helps us preserve a vital part of our history.

After speaking with the other moderators, it has been observed the organization of the forums is a little unnatural and seems to be sorted based on when they were created. As a result I will be looking to reorganize the forum listings a bit. Below is an outline of how we plan to organize the display:
 
Updated 5/5:

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* New forum to be created.
** Expanded from South America to all North/South America travel outside of the US
 
I did not want to just spring this on everyone unannounced, so my goal is to share the plan here first and then make the change in the next few days. If you have any questions or would like to propose a name for the Lounge/Cabana container, feel free to reply below.

I have a long term strategy planned for the Gallery. Long-term the gallery will be pulled out of the forum into something tied to it, but not a forum itself. So for now I'd like to leave this alone until I can implement it.

I've been involved with development for nearly 20 years. It's funny... many of the objections are due to being being familiar/comfortable with the way it is, even if it's not the best way to do something. A few (like 10) years ago, we had a website that launched version 3. We had several people that complained about how horrible the changes were and wanted us to go back to version 2. Ultimately we stood our ground on the change and life went on. It was around 5 years later we introduced version 4 of the site. The same people complained about how they wanted the to go back to version 3 and that it was so perfect/great.
 
We literally went back and found their same people posting how they wanted version 3 back that a few years ago thought it was horrible.

I have a long term strategy planned for the Gallery. Long-term the gallery will be pulled out of the forum into something tied to it, but not a forum itself. So for now I'd like to leave this alone until I can implement it.

I found a way to get to the review admin area. I now have a password that works to let me in. There looks to be around 30 reviews in the queue.
 
I don't know how the tool works fully yet as I just literally got in. But at least I have a way to access data now.

I have a long term strategy planned for the Gallery. Long-term the gallery will be pulled out of the forum into something tied to it, but not a forum itself. So for now I'd like to leave this alone until I can implement it.

I have a long term strategy planned for the Gallery. Long-term the gallery will be pulled out of the forum into something tied to it, but not a forum itself. So for now I'd like to leave this alone until I can implement it.

After speaking with the other moderators, it has been observed the organization of the forums is a little unnatural and seems to be sorted based on when they were created. As a result I will be looking to reorganize the forum listings a bit. Below is an outline of how we plan to organize the display:
 
Updated 5/5:

Announcements
Site News *

[*]General Discussion

The Lounge
The Cabana

[*]Daddy's Den

The Deli
The Spa
Ask A Provider
Male Strip-Clubs
Fetish Forum

[*]Media and Entertainment

Political Issues
Movies
TV and Streaming Services
Music
Lincoln Center (Opera) *

[*]Live Theater and Broadway
[*]The Gallery
[*]The Sports Desk
[*]Literature


[*]Destinations

Traveling Providers
Traveling Members
The Americas **
Europe
Africa/Asia/Australia
Street Scenes

[*]Back Office

Tech Talk
Features and Feedback *



* New forum to be created.
** Expanded from South America to all North/South America travel outside of the US
 
I did not want to just spring this on everyone unannounced, so my goal is to share the plan here first and then make the change in the next few days. If you have any questions or would like to propose a name for the Lounge/Cabana container, feel free to reply below.

After speaking with the other moderators, it has been observed the organization of the forums is a little unnatural and seems to be sorted based on when they were created. As a result I will be looking to reorganize the forum listings a bit. Below is an outline of how we plan to organize the display:
 
Updated 5/5:

Announcements
Site News *

[*]General Discussion

The Lounge
The Cabana

[*]Daddy's Den

The Deli
The Spa
Ask A Provider
Male Strip-Clubs
Fetish Forum

[*]Media and Entertainment

Political Issues
Movies
TV and Streaming Services
Music
Lincoln Center (Opera) *

[*]Live Theater and Broadway
[*]The Gallery
[*]The Sports Desk
[*]Literature


[*]Destinations

Traveling Providers
Traveling Members
The Americas **
Europe
Africa/Asia/Australia
Street Scenes

[*]Back Office

Tech Talk
Features and Feedback *



* New forum to be created.
** Expanded from South America to all North/South America travel outside of the US
 
I did not want to just spring this on everyone unannounced, so my goal is to share the plan here first and then make the change in the next few days. If you have any questions or would like to propose a name for the Lounge/Cabana container, feel free to reply below.

I've been involved with development for nearly 20 years. It's funny... many of the objections are due to being being familiar/comfortable with the way it is, even if it's not the best way to do something. A few (like 10) years ago, we had a website that launched version 3. We had several people that complained about how horrible the changes were and wanted us to go back to version 2. Ultimately we stood our ground on the change and life went on. It was around 5 years later we introduced version 4 of the site. The same people complained about how they wanted the to go back to version 3 and that it was so perfect/great.
 
We literally went back and found their same people posting how they wanted version 3 back that a few years ago thought it was horrible.

I found a way to get to the review admin area. I now have a password that works to let me in. There looks to be around 30 reviews in the queue.
 
I don't know how the tool works fully yet as I just literally got in. But at least I have a way to access data now.

I've been involved with development for nearly 20 years. It's funny... many of the objections are due to being being familiar/comfortable with the way it is, even if it's not the best way to do something. A few (like 10) years ago, we had a website that launched version 3. We had several people that complained about how horrible the changes were and wanted us to go back to version 2. Ultimately we stood our ground on the change and life went on. It was around 5 years later we introduced version 4 of the site. The same people complained about how they wanted the to go back to version 3 and that it was so perfect/great.
 
We literally went back and found their same people posting how they wanted version 3 back that a few years ago thought it was horrible.

So I've been able to make a few changes to support any of the old direct URLs. If someone had a bookmark to a specific URL such as:
 
https://www.daddysreviews.com/cruise/newest/dominus_oakland
 
It will be automatically kicked to the new URL automatically
 
https://archive.m4m-forum.org/cruise/newest/dominus_oakland
 
This redirect only works as long as Daddy's server is online until we manage to get control of DNS which is something Team Washington is working on.

After speaking with the other moderators, it has been observed the organization of the forums is a little unnatural and seems to be sorted based on when they were created. As a result I will be looking to reorganize the forum listings a bit. Below is an outline of how we plan to organize the display:
 
Updated 5/5:

Announcements
Site News *

[*]General Discussion

The Lounge
The Cabana

[*]Daddy's Den

The Deli
The Spa
Ask A Provider
Male Strip-Clubs
Fetish Forum

[*]Media and Entertainment

Political Issues
Movies
TV and Streaming Services
Music
Lincoln Center (Opera) *

[*]Live Theater and Broadway
[*]The Gallery
[*]The Sports Desk
[*]Literature


[*]Destinations

Traveling Providers
Traveling Members
The Americas **
Europe
Africa/Asia/Australia
Street Scenes

[*]Back Office

Tech Talk
Features and Feedback *



* New forum to be created.
** Expanded from South America to all North/South America travel outside of the US
 
I did not want to just spring this on everyone unannounced, so my goal is to share the plan here first and then make the change in the next few days. If you have any questions or would like to propose a name for the Lounge/Cabana container, feel free to reply below.

Per Daddy's instructions posted at:
https://www.companyofmen.org/help/donate/

 
If you've manually donated, PM me and I'll add you to the forum.

It's still there. Everything that exists today is still going to be there. I'm just going to be reordering/regrouping the forums. (I'm creating a new announcements forum as well in an effort to need to pin threads in The Lounge like we traditionally have had to do.

General Discussion
Political Issues
Comedy & Tragedy
The Sports Desk
Tech Talk

It's still there. Everything that exists today is still going to be there. I'm just going to be reordering/regrouping the forums. (I'm creating a new announcements forum as well in an effort to need to pin threads in The Lounge like we traditionally have had to do.

General Discussion
Political Issues
Comedy & Tragedy
The Sports Desk
Tech Talk

An example of some of the topics in the semi-private conversation area include what I posted regarding estimated operating costs for the website... some updates on finding out the status on Daddy (before we found out the bad news), etc. It's things that might be somewhat more sensitive in nature and not something we want being able to be picked up by Google or by a bot creating an account.

After speaking with the other moderators, it has been observed the organization of the forums is a little unnatural and seems to be sorted based on when they were created. As a result I will be looking to reorganize the forum listings a bit. Below is an outline of how we plan to organize the display:
 
Updated 5/5:

Announcements
Site News *

[*]General Discussion

The Lounge
The Cabana

[*]Daddy's Den

The Deli
The Spa
Ask A Provider
Male Strip-Clubs
Fetish Forum

[*]Media and Entertainment

Political Issues
Movies
TV and Streaming Services
Music
Lincoln Center (Opera) *

[*]Live Theater and Broadway
[*]The Gallery
[*]The Sports Desk
[*]Literature


[*]Destinations

Traveling Providers
Traveling Members
The Americas **
Europe
Africa/Asia/Australia
Street Scenes

[*]Back Office

Tech Talk
Features and Feedback *



* New forum to be created.
** Expanded from South America to all North/South America travel outside of the US
 
I did not want to just spring this on everyone unannounced, so my goal is to share the plan here first and then make the change in the next few days. If you have any questions or would like to propose a name for the Lounge/Cabana container, feel free to reply below.

After speaking with the other moderators, it has been observed the organization of the forums is a little unnatural and seems to be sorted based on when they were created. As a result I will be looking to reorganize the forum listings a bit. Below is an outline of how we plan to organize the display:
 
Updated 5/5:

Announcements
Site News *

[*]General Discussion

The Lounge
The Cabana

[*]Daddy's Den

The Deli
The Spa
Ask A Provider
Male Strip-Clubs
Fetish Forum

[*]Media and Entertainment

Political Issues
Movies
TV and Streaming Services
Music
Lincoln Center (Opera) *

[*]Live Theater and Broadway
[*]The Gallery
[*]The Sports Desk
[*]Literature


[*]Destinations

Traveling Providers
Traveling Members
The Americas **
Europe
Africa/Asia/Australia
Street Scenes

[*]Back Office

Tech Talk
Features and Feedback *



* New forum to be created.
** Expanded from South America to all North/South America travel outside of the US
 
I did not want to just spring this on everyone unannounced, so my goal is to share the plan here first and then make the change in the next few days. If you have any questions or would like to propose a name for the Lounge/Cabana container, feel free to reply below.

An example of some of the topics in the semi-private conversation area include what I posted regarding estimated operating costs for the website... some updates on finding out the status on Daddy (before we found out the bad news), etc. It's things that might be somewhat more sensitive in nature and not something we want being able to be picked up by Google or by a bot creating an account.

I suggest that the Lounge, Cabana corner be named The Hooboy Corner or some similar name to respect and honor the original founder of the message board.

We could call the Deli The Butcher Block!

How about “The Lobby” for the category housing The Lounge and The Cabana?