Forums moved to forum.megaglest.org

[tomreyn]

Hi all,

as you may have notivied the forums have moved to a new location: https://forum.megaglest.org

The Glest team has kindly passed over management of these forums to the MegaGlest team (and set links and redirects on glest.org), acknowledging that MegaGlest is now the most active and likeable continuation of the Glest legacy. (The latter is my personal interpretation.)

We appreciate the trust the Glest team puts in us by passing the management on this central community hub on to the MegaGlest team (and Omega, who has kindly offered to continue to manage the board), and are looking forward to creating the future *Glest* forums, by means of restructuring this resource to make it even more usable.

We will happily continue to cooperate with and host the other Glest forks here, in fact we'll be happy to grat you access to your subforums by means of a hostname of your choice - please get in touch by e-mail or IRC.

Your feedback on technical and privacy issues is also very welcome, please post here or mail webmaster at megaglest dot org.

For a small technical update, I'd like to point out that the forums are now SSL only, this will prevent spoofing on your forum passwords. So now is actually a good time to set a new password (something one should be doing every 6-12 months anyways). When you do, please make it at least 8 characters long, consisting of all of letters, numbers and special characters, and make sure it's not a term found in a  dictionary or a name (doing so is ok when you use a full phrase). We'll get in touch soon to discuss (in more detail) what today's changes mean for forum account holders.

Thanks for your time,

Tom

[Omega]

To increase emphasis on the forums on megaglest.org, could the link to the forums be moved up from the sidebar to the header? To make room, it could be switched with contact.

[Omega]

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[GunChleoc]

So that's what the maintenance mode was all about... I hope the move went smoothly. I've done a few in my lifetime and these things can be a bloomin' nightmare.

[Omega]

I hope the move went smoothly. I've done a few in my lifetime and these things can be a bloomin' nightmare.

We screwed up to the point at which we had to restore some files from the originals, but in the end, we got a working board.

[GunChleoc]

BTW I noticed that it's hard to distinguish "new" from the thread title in the thread list. Maybe a graphic is missing?

[Omega]

Yeah, I've noticed that. I also know exactly how to fix it, but the easiest method would require Tom to make a copy of a specific folder, so it'll wait for a moment to solve.

[josepzin]

The migration has went very smoth, good luck boys!!!

[MuwuM]

could you enable the redirection to keep the query string? it would help very much for old links!

Edit: Is there a way to display the connected profiles (of social networks) on the profile page?

[Omega]

could you enable the redirection to keep the query string? it would help very much for old links!

This is already in place. The URL https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=8942.msg87108#msg87108 should point to https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=8942.msg87108#msg87108. Do note the difference in subdomain (glest.org versus forum.megaglest.org) and protocol (HTTP versus HTTPS).

Edit: Is there a way to display the connected profiles (of social networks) on the profile page?

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? Do you mean you want the profile to have icons and a link to social sites like Skype and Facebook? We previously had a mod that added Skype and GTalk support to the existing ICQ, AIM, MSN, and YIM fields, but it started acting up after moving the boards. I'm planning to take a closer look at similar mods later, or I'll make on myself if necessary.

[MuwuM]

could you enable the redirection to keep the query string? it would help very much for old links!

This is already in place. The URL https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=8942.msg87108#msg87108 should point to https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=8942.msg87108#msg87108. Do note the difference in subdomain (glest.org versus forum.megaglest.org) and protocol (HTTP versus HTTPS).

Does this also work for the WAP2 tag (Link on the bottom)

Edit: Is there a way to display the connected profiles (of social networks) on the profile page?

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? Do you mean you want the profile to have icons and a link to social sites like Skype and Facebook? We previously had a mod that added Skype and GTalk support to the existing ICQ, AIM, MSN, and YIM fields, but it started acting up after moving the boards. I'm planning to take a closer look at similar mods later, or I'll make on myself if necessary.

Yes I think about such icons and links to the pages I connected my board account with.

[Omega]

Does this also work for the WAP2 tag (Link on the bottom)

Technically, yes, but for some reason, the semicolon in the link is converted to an entity and thus, you end up on the regular version of the board instead of the WAP2 version. However, I don't recall ever seeing anyone use WAP2 links before (they're meant for mobile usage). The links in the actual software are relative, so don't depend on the host. Only links that come from external source (for example, one that I paste here or is on another site) will be redirected. Is that going to be problematic?

Yes I think about such icons and links to the pages I connected my board account with.

I hope to have such a feature available in the future.

[MuwuM]

Is that going to be problematic?

...I have to replace all the links on my phone

[ElimiNator]

Everything looks like its working.