Forum: About Mellophant

I've clarified some language in the rules and added a new FAQ here. If there are other questions you think should be added to the FAQ, let me know.

Give yourselves a hand. :bravo::bravo::bravo:

As some of you noticed, the board was down for a few hours today. It was a hardware issue on our host's end, leading to about three hours without service. It should be resolved now. I'm going to be looking into some changes with the host to see...

There have been a couple of outages today and we apologise for the interruption to the site. We are currently following up on possible causes.

I don't know how many remember him, he did most of his posting before 2005 (before I joined) but came back for a while after. He had the great ability to tell a humorous story well. He was a one man campaign vs. Smilies. I know he retired from...

We have a chat bot that elmwood had programmed some responses into last year, but when we were having chat lag problems we had to turn off all the bells and whistles. Since that isn't a problem anymore and there was a request, I figured I could turn...

It's strange how people keep coming to this board (and not contributing very much) then complaining about how dead/boring the place is. Several of us regular Mellos take perverse pride in the 'lameness' of this board. If our quirky twist of lame...

The front page has been fixed. We also have a couple of new features. On the right sidebar there is now a news aggregator, linking to stories on science and nature, world events, sports and entertainment. We can also give blogging access...

I was going to ask this in chate, but there's no point, coz there's rarely ever anyone there... Is chate going to be abandoned forever? Until outsiders discover it and use it among themselves? Does it cost more to run a board with a dead chatbox...

Regardless of what you follow (or not as the case may be), have a happy holiday and a great end to the year. and may next year be better than the last.

Just to get everyone in the festive spirit, there is a new style available to be chosen. So have a very Mello Xmas :)

I found an anthem for the boards. 9m7tPikH0UA

I thought you needed to be a member to do that?

Fachverwirrt explained this to me very well a while ago, but I forgot. Is that close? Does one have to knock the http:// bit off the URL for it to work?

I think it might be interesting to know what leads guests to this board (whether they stay around or not.) Admins, do you have any statistics on search terms or referring pages? Guests and new members, if you found this board more or less by...

The BBCode should now underline the link as well, just to make it easier to see. That is all. It will not affect previous uses of the code, but should take effect from this point on.

Because, you know, why not? I was going to go with Domers, but there are a ton of Notre Dame groups with that name already, so I went with the obvious and simple. I've never done such a thing before, so it's super basic, but I thought I'd mention...

I have added a new Melloween style to the list of choices. If you find any problems with it then please post here, otherwise enjoy.

I have a most excellent photo I would like to share with you all, so I uploaded it to my flickr account expecting I'd be able to paste in the code here and have it appear in a mello post. I have not done this in a while, and they've changed the...

I noticed that the majority of nifty member things are associated with the chat room, which I really don't have much desire for. Nobody PMs me so that's not much of a draw either. And profile pictures? Uh, no. No thanks. So what about some other...

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.

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Since the upgrade, we appear to be missing Nested quotes. Ok, you can do them manually themselves, but I prefer not to have them removed when using quick reply, so I will be turning them on tomorrow, ie a code hack as it is not an option in VB4,...

Right here. Uh, that's about it, really. Just thought you ought to know.

Our host was doing some upgrades and maintenance early this morning and, frankly, done fucked shit up. Everything appears to be running smoothly again, but if you were wondering what was happening with the outage that's the root cause. If there...

The forum has now been upgraded to Vbulletin 4.0. If you notice any bugs due to the upgrade, or if you have any suggestions, please list them here. We will be looking to put the original style for the site at some point, so you will have to...

Good day to all you Mellophant people! Just signed up and thought I would say hello. I don't know what to say next. I guess I will leave it at that.

I have an incoming friend request (I know this because I have a notification and when I click on it it says so). When I click "accept" on the friend request and then click "Save changes" nothing happens. The person who is requesting my friendship...

For the last two weeks, possibly longer, every night between 9pm & 10pm EDST, the server refuses to connect. During that time I cannot even get to the Mellophant home page. Did I miss some sort of "daily maintenance" annoucement?

Forums ranked by post count: The Lounge: 49,246 Arts and Entertainment: 23,751 Games and Sports: 20,328 The Thunderdome: 15,628 The Crucible: 11,636 About Mellophant: 9,610 Questions and Answers: 7,184 Front Page News: 413

I'm changing Mellophant.com to a more blog style format with lots of brief posts leading into forum discussions rather than a few longer articles posted six months ago. Longer articles are still welcome and encouraged, but this way it has daily...

I have a tendency to fiddle with things when I'm bored. When fiddling with this particular feature, I couldn't undo it. Zuul couldn't undo it. Anyone know how to? :(

Costs for the VPS are $37.95 a month, which I've been paying out of pocket for a while now. We will also need to pay $175 by August 28 to vBulletin for the license. That I can't pay out of pocket, on account of being a hobo. If you would like to...

This morning at 12:30AM I was woken up by my sister screaming that there was a fire. We managed to stumble out and everyone is safe, but everything I own is gone. My sole possessions are the pajamas I was wearing when I got outside and my cat, who...

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After a lengthy discussion with Inner Stickler in chate, I decided to try to open a "Ask me about music theory" thread. But clicking "new thread" in Ask the Expert yielded a message telling me I don't have permission. The box at the bottom tell me...

What do the titles mean? Is there a naming convention of some kind?

Mafia & RPGs The Forum for Long Running Games with set player rosters. Also a good place for Chess games. Could we rename this to: Role Playing Games The Forum for Long Running Games with set player rosters. Also a good place for Chess games...

I was gonna expand the Eurovision thread into an article, a primer on eurovision etc. I also (ages ago) promised to do a guide to Irish music, I must complete that. Anyone else working on or have things that could be put on the front page?

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Our "most users ever on line" stat was Oct 18, 2009 (or something around that date) for a very long time, and it was probably because we were having a post count party. But now I see that not only have we zoomed up to nearly 200 active members (I...

I'm going on a four week long trip, starting today. However, I'll have Internet access the entire time so can still check in and keep things running. I just probably won't be on here for hours at a time because, hey! Vacation! To keep you all...

I usually start my Mellophant browsing by hitting the "Control Panel" and checking to see if there are any new responses to threads I've posted in. That way if I'm in too much of a rush to browse the whole board, I can at least see if there is...