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Well, today was a hell of a day. The forum went through a little trauma that left it dead and seemingly irretrievable. Our ancient server died, and our new server spat on us for being too old. Which, okay, we are, softwarewise. Still, ageism is...
Hey folks. I am wildly out of the loop here, so I'm not sure who is still around in all. I know things have dwindled to a small core crew at this point. Even though I'm no longer involved here, I want to make sure as long as you guys want this...
Small site notes and modly things that aren't big enough for their own threads go here.
The Rules Post Content: Don't be an obnoxious twit. Posting illegal content, harassment, spam, concern trolling and extremely disruptive behavior are the big things to avoid. The Thunderdome is the forum for fighting and personal attacks...
What, exactly, makes a thread "popular? Do the cool kids have to post to it or what?
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Well, not much to say, I guess, other than we keep chugging along, playing our little games and doing what we do. Happy Birthday to us.
Didn’t think we’d make it 12 months. Happy Mello Day!
Well, who woulda thunk it? Happy Anniversary, melloheads.
Okay, we exist, oddly enough. Happy Anniversary, comrades.
Well, much to my surprise, we're still here. Still limping along, but we made 200,000 posts, and Jizzelbuddy has added some new energy. Yay us!
Well, another year gone by. We are tiny, but we endure. Thanks to Cat for keeping the place going, and best wishes to the other Mellos.
Well, frankly I never thought we'd make it. We are small, and we are quiet, but we endure. Best wishes for the Mello year to everybody out there.
8 years is a long time. Sure, we're a handful of people playing a few mild games, but we're still here. Happy Melloanniversity, comrades.
Well, whatta you know. Despite message boards in general dying a slow death, our little one is still, sorta, hanging on. Will we make it to a decade? Tune in next year, if you can.
I don't know if it is still a WIP but the frontpage (imho) looks ugly and is a bit of a mess. 1 The news feed stuff at the top should be elsewhere on the front page. 2 I think also it should just be called "the spooky elephant" and not have...
Can we have a marker to indicate which threads we have posted in? If I sleep, I forget which threads I posted in and if the thread is older or I missed it for a while, it gives me an easy place to start reading from. (I'm not a fan of posting...
I'm seeing a layout quirk with the subsilver2 theme that wasn't there before, caused by non-bold links turning bold when hovered. Sounds piffling, I know, but it actually makes the board layout go completely screwy when you move the mouse around the...
When I left the dope last year, I spent some time on a board that had forum leaders. Forum leaders didn't have any mod powers or anything like that, but they generated content--posting topics for debate/information, etc. Other people could, and...
What constitutes an acceptable April Fool's joke? I tried to participate in the April Fool's joke here on the board, and even though my posts were clearly marked "April Fool's", I was thrown into the dungeon. :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:
When one of y'all splits a thread and leaves a message in the original thread like post #76 in this thread*, would it be too much of a pain to link to the new splitoff thread? That way I can follow both threads of the conversation. I've nearly...
So, I see the rules (a lot of rehashing of the basics that any board, SDMB or not, would follow).. But could we make it clear to other SDMBers how this site is different? (I'm not even sure.. and I don't know if I feel like hunting through the...
I don't like having the posters info on the right side of their post. I prefer it on the left, it feels more "natural" to me, and is more logical. Is there a way to change how it shows to ME in the preferences? Or is it a global setting in the...
People may or may not know about Black Pearl's many problems. Too many, really, to recall and list here. But they include — mouseover text on threads is date and time started, rather than OP; preview text box is extremely squirrelly, with text...
A word on Moderator Discretion... It's impossible to forsee, name and categorize every single infraction possible, or the context of every situation requiring mod action. Likewise it's not possible to assign a standard punishment for any given...
CRSP, I know I am not too much of a poster here, so my opinion may weigh little here. Still, I just wanted to make a comment about something that bothers me. QED is run amok here and ruining the place for many. He is, in short, just more of...
Sorry accidentally reported a chate but there was nothing to report.
I approve of this new-fangled 7 forum business, cos now I have a more realistic chance of having my name as the last post in every forum. And when that happens, fear ye all, for a great pestilence will fall upon the earth and there will be much...
I've just looked at the AcidTech theme, on the phpBB website. It's based on the same template as the BlackPearl theme, meaning that any problem we have with adding mods for the BP theme will also be present in AT. Really, I'd like to ditch BP, and...
How are people inviting others to join this board? I don't exactly have a whole lot of "friends" on that other message board, but I'd like to see as many come here as possible. Any ideas? It's mainly via PM, right?
Right now the front page and the message board are very separated. In fact, I'm sure there are people who don't even know the front page has been updated in the past few weeks (or will be aware when I update it next week). Not only are people...
The code is being applied style by style. Prosilver, Maxthon & SubSilver2 are working. I can't fix Black Pearl as it uses an array coding for the buttons and the Mod will not work with it. So no pop-up in the foreseeable future. To avoid...
To help implementing the thousands of suggestions mentioned in The Wish List, Q.E.D. has been appointed as an admin, due to his PHP programming experience. Hopefully, this will speed up implementation, somewhat.
Welcome again to the Domebo Mod team. Have you reviewed the PM with the Admin panel moderator's guide? Do you have any questions on the Mod panel, Admin panel or just how we are trying to moderate the board? Have you reviewed the Rules...
I won't lie, I'm a snarker who thinks this site is fucking retarded. Can I post here if I openly admit that or will I be banned?
I read this at the snackpit, so I don't know how accurate it is :dub: , but in there they are claiming that What Exit? said in chat that y'all need a second tech because he can't keep up. I'm willing to help. What's involved? Where would I send...
Hi everyone. Finally getting around to arranging a move to a new host--actually, a host service I've used for 20 years, so not really "new" to me, yay! The one we've been using has always been surplus to our needs, and the fees keep going up until...
Does the poster on punishment have to serve their time in room 101 (as hatesfreedom did so amusingly during his confinement) or can they just hang out elsewhere and post here after the time is up?
We're coming up on the first birthday for Domebo pretty quickly here. We're not really the same board anymore, since the name/membership/rules/administration are all entirely different, but it is how we started so I was thinking some sort of...
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It is and has been really slow for me, pretty much since forever. I think I suffer from lag worse than others. My chat regularly hangs, I've been in loads of chatrooms and most were more fluid than our beloved.
We would have liked to leave images on for PMs but I disabled them right after the tubgirl attack. This and the mod election leads me to a proposal to beat around and a non-binding poll. I'm thinking of a two tier system where users are...
I'm currently in the middle of switching the theme from the plain prosilver style to the customized domebo version. It may take a few days to complete, with various board features still displaying the default blue scheme, as opposed to the new...
I haven't gotten an email notification for a couple of hours.
In mafia games, the scum usually need to have a place to talk over their scummy, dastardly plans. Currently, we are putting those conversations off board, but it would probably be a very nice thing for players if the scum could talk here on domebo....
ENWorld.org has a tradition of renaming all the forii for International Talk Like A Pirate Day in September. I've seen that and other boards make the occasional change on other occasions. Can we do something similar? April Fools Day is coming...
"Cause I'm not and the box is checked to add it and it's also in my CP as "saved". It does show in the preview. Thanks Quasi
viewtopic.php?p=79481#p79481 You want to stick him in Room 101 for hypothetical actions he might take in the future? Some of the mods were asking for examples of actions / discussions that are evidence of high-handedness. Here's one. Let me be...
Sorry for the short notice. I've been asked to reboot the server, so I'm going to do that in a few minutes. Apologies for the brief downtime.
How does/did the SDMB attract new members? Do the new board(s) need to attract new members? How can they do so?
How do I do it? Just using the quote tags leaves out who I'm quoting and the old SDMB method of using doesn't seem to work here.
From http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showpost ... ostcount=2 (my board, FWIW) A screen capture utility may also be required to save the images from some generators. Avatars may need to be resized to 80x80 and <3K for the Cyburbia Forums. ...
I've uploaded my avatar, but when in a thread I don't see either mine or anyone else's. Is there something I need to enable elsewhere in order to see avatars? Thanks. Walker.
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