Glest Board Changes

[ultifd]

Well, I help you'll have access to the server soon... SMF RC seems pretty stable.

Hmm...have you tried this mod?
Anti-Bot Registration Puzzles

[Omega]

That could work... Though I am somewhat reluctant to use non-standardized methods, but it could be worth a test. Opinions?

[ultifd]

Well, why not? How would it..."hurt"?

[Omega]

Well, why not? How would it..."hurt"?

... Irrefutable logic. Done. :D

I think...no time to test if it works without a theme modification... I'll worry about that tomorrow. Sleep comes first.

[ultifd]

Well, it seemed to help.  :thumbup: Now back to 80ish a day.

[Gabbe]

program tv program tv program tv

Full of program tv bots.

[John.d.h]

Should we do something about the Bug Report board?  I mean, any time something gets reported, the answer is something like "try MG/GAE, because Vanilla won't ever be fixed or improved", so is that board even relevant anymore?

[Gabbe]

If there isnt any, people will flood the other boards. If they use vanilla, because there isn`t any section dedicated to it. Thinking about it, then it bottles down to that we need to propose GAE/MG on the main page.

[ultifd]

We did...I guess we have to ask again.

[Omega]

I think it should stay, simply because new people expect a place to report what's wrong, even when the majority of the errors are caused by their graphics card, drivers, sound card, etc etc.

If there isnt any, people will flood the other boards.

And this ^.

[ultifd]

I think it should stay, simply because new people expect a place to report what's wrong, even when the majority of the errors are caused by their graphics card, drivers, sound card, etc etc.

Yep.

[Omega]

Since arch is getting ever closer to the mythical 5000 posts rank, I simply had to add another rank after that, simply because nobody can be allowed to be the "highest possible". ;) And no, I'm not releasing what it is. Pre-congratulations on -Archmage- for toppling the 5k mark.

[ultifd]

Pre-congratz, but to me it's not the post count that really matters, but the person/poster? him/herself...  :thumbup:

[John.d.h]

I think it should stay, simply because new people expect a place to report what's wrong, even when the majority of the errors are caused by their graphics card, drivers, sound card, etc etc.

I didn't mean necessarily deleting it, but somehow making it easier for newcomers to get the information they need.

[Omega]

Yeah, we DO have a FAQ, I believe, and seeing the most common answer to questions is to update your drivers or try GAE/MG, that should mention that. Abet, there's still the critical flaw that people don't read the "FAQ"s and "Read Me First"s!

[John.d.h]

there's still the critical flaw that people don't read the "FAQ"s and "Read Me First"s!

There's not a way to force them to, is there?  I'm not too dignified for a little strong-arming. :look:

[Omega]

It might be possible to make it appear in the registration process, but that won't do any good because, like the ToS, people just click continue/accept/whatever, and even the trickier solutions that need you to type a word mentioned in the last sentence tend to fail because the person just reads the first and last few lines... It'd be hard suited to get people to read that... Perhaps making a separate sticky "Solutions to Common Problems" would work well for the error reporting board.

[the warlord of the reich]

jeez... is it really so hard?

well. to end this up. people usually come here to mod or download mods or for help. the game isnt downloaded from ere so in registeration put up some questions like (whats the research required to get horsemen) or whats the techtrees avilable?)

why do you take it so long?

[Gabbe]

jeez... is it really so hard?
well. to end this up. people usually come here to mod or download mods or for help. the game isnt downloaded from ere so in registeration put up some questions like (whats the research required to get horsemen) or whats the techtrees avilable?)
why do you take it so long?

Not the administration of this forum that owns the site.

IPv6 support? any concerns for glest.org? Merged Posts-Ultifd

[Omega]

I have no worries about moving into IPv6 for a long time... As well, the host should handle that.

In other news, the Jose has been taking a look at SMF 2 and likes what he sees, though we may be waiting until it is considered stable (that is, not an RC anymore) before it's implemented. The choice ultimately will lie with the Glest Team. Glest Theme v3 will need a few more touches anyway, including turning on the drop down menus and a few CSS fixes for them.

[ultifd]

So that mod was worth it...we could have thousands of extra spam bots.
I wish we could upgrade now. :angel: Edit: Right after I post this, a bot spams. Please ban "it" before it spams again. https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?action=profile;u=17915

[ultifd]

Sorry for the double post...but...
Apparently the only real changes that needs to be made for 2.0 is SMF's license...hopefully that will happen soon!
SMF 2.0 Candidate 5 and SMF 1.1.13 have been released
http://download.simplemachines.org
Lets update!

[Omega]

Sorry for the double post...but...
Apparently the only real changes that needs to be made for 2.0 is SMF's license...hopefully that will happen soon!
SMF 2.0 Candidate 5 and SMF 1.1.13 have been released
http://download.simplemachines.org
Lets update!

Done (hey! They remembered to update the copyright year!). By the way, SMF LLC's (Limited Liability Corporation) conversion to an NPO (Non-profit Organization) doesn't really effect us. They will likely use a different license, but it will still be freely available and I don't think we'll have to change a thing for that decision. Didn't bother download RC5 yet... I'm waiting for the final, then I can wrap up the Glest Theme, update the forum (found an alternative way that doesn't require FTP access), and get everything awesome. :) However, to ensure everyone is happy, we'll just wait for the final. Besides, the RC's break the theme every release... :P

[ultifd]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=415691.0
Perhaps you could use this method to delete spam accounts? Be careful though, if you do.

[Omega]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=415691.0
Perhaps you could use this method to delete spam accounts? Be careful though, if you do.

Hmm...that has the potential to be very nasty though, particularly if there's any inconsistencies between the structure of the database in 1.1.x and 2.0. There are a few mods for 2.0 though that can do this, so I'd be more assured waiting for a stable 2.0 before we try this. ;)