Here we go. We're just about ready to move over to the new aspecialthing.com, which I've been working on for about a month now I guess.
The good news is I WILL be able to transfer threads from here to there, but I'm only going to move the most recent stuff (along with some favorites) -- this current board will remain here as an archive, and if anyone wants they can contact me to move something over, or just copy/paste a link (and/or some posts), start a new thread on the new board and continue the discussion in question.
Before I transfer threads, though, I want to invite everyone to sign up on the new board. It's very easy to do, and if you've ever been on a phpbb (like Posehn's board), you know how it works. You supply a name, email, password and some preferences, and then you get an activation link in an email.
NOTE: RIGHT NOW, AOL EMAILS WILL NOT WORK TO SIGN UP -- this is because AOL blocked my email and IP after a spam worm got ahold of it or something, but they're fixing that. Should be good to go next week. DON'T WORRY IF YOU CAN'T SIGN UP NOW: WE WON'T OFFICIALLY MOVE UNTIL NEXT WEEK. (By "officially," I mean I'll lock the threads here and redirect the link to go to the new board, so all posting will be done there.) Contact me via PM or email if you only have an AOL email and need help/guidance.
So this is just an invitation to get your screen-name of choice. If someone takes your screen-name as a joke, contact me here via PM (so I know you're you) and I'll boot that person so you can claim your user-name.
I encourage everyone to keep their existing screen-name, for the sake of clarity if nothing else. (Then again, I'm switching mine to "isoS" because it's shorter, so I guess I shouldn't talk.)
If you don't register your existing screen-name before the thread transfer, you'll have to contact me to get that user-name, because the thread transfer process will import every screen-name it finds in the imported threads (which would be great, except it doesn't import log-in and password information, meaning I have to manually assign temporary passwords to these accounts on a request basis).
This sounds complicated but it isn't. Go check out the new site, see how you like it, sign up for an account and party on. You can keep posting here for now, but you might as well start migrating. I'll try to transfer the last week of threads over the weekend so that recent discussions can continue uninterrupted (the process is a little glitchy, though, so don't hold your breath).
Oh, the link: www.aspecialthing.com/phpbb
Hope you like it! Some stuff might still get tweaked. If you want to comment on the new board, post in the "Whatever else" forum there.
EDIT:
To nominate threads for transfer to the new board go here.
The good news is I WILL be able to transfer threads from here to there, but I'm only going to move the most recent stuff (along with some favorites) -- this current board will remain here as an archive, and if anyone wants they can contact me to move something over, or just copy/paste a link (and/or some posts), start a new thread on the new board and continue the discussion in question.
Before I transfer threads, though, I want to invite everyone to sign up on the new board. It's very easy to do, and if you've ever been on a phpbb (like Posehn's board), you know how it works. You supply a name, email, password and some preferences, and then you get an activation link in an email.
NOTE: RIGHT NOW, AOL EMAILS WILL NOT WORK TO SIGN UP -- this is because AOL blocked my email and IP after a spam worm got ahold of it or something, but they're fixing that. Should be good to go next week. DON'T WORRY IF YOU CAN'T SIGN UP NOW: WE WON'T OFFICIALLY MOVE UNTIL NEXT WEEK. (By "officially," I mean I'll lock the threads here and redirect the link to go to the new board, so all posting will be done there.) Contact me via PM or email if you only have an AOL email and need help/guidance.
So this is just an invitation to get your screen-name of choice. If someone takes your screen-name as a joke, contact me here via PM (so I know you're you) and I'll boot that person so you can claim your user-name.
I encourage everyone to keep their existing screen-name, for the sake of clarity if nothing else. (Then again, I'm switching mine to "isoS" because it's shorter, so I guess I shouldn't talk.)
If you don't register your existing screen-name before the thread transfer, you'll have to contact me to get that user-name, because the thread transfer process will import every screen-name it finds in the imported threads (which would be great, except it doesn't import log-in and password information, meaning I have to manually assign temporary passwords to these accounts on a request basis).
This sounds complicated but it isn't. Go check out the new site, see how you like it, sign up for an account and party on. You can keep posting here for now, but you might as well start migrating. I'll try to transfer the last week of threads over the weekend so that recent discussions can continue uninterrupted (the process is a little glitchy, though, so don't hold your breath).
Oh, the link: www.aspecialthing.com/phpbb
Hope you like it! Some stuff might still get tweaked. If you want to comment on the new board, post in the "Whatever else" forum there.
EDIT:
To nominate threads for transfer to the new board go here.
