- Beardie name(s)
- Cailyth, Pinky, & Brain
Hey everyone... the website will be offline later this evening for about an hour. I'm not sure of the exact time I'll be able to get to it, but it will be sometime between 7 - 11 PM PDT.
I'll put up the "Offline for Maintenance" message, of course.
If you're wondering why I'm taking things offline for that time... well, I'm finally applying some updates to the forums. I've been working on cleaning up the look and feel of the templates to be more consistent with the rest of the site. And also adding some nice new features to the forums, such as the "Similar Topics" feature, which will list off a handful of topics similar to the one you're reading at the time.
I will also be disabling the User Blog feature. It requires a significant amount of maintenance, and I've realized that we not only get about 1-2 posts a month in there (as opposed to 40-80 a month a couple years ago). If anyone needs to get the information they posted in there, just let me know. The data is still around, it just won't be generally visible.
I hope that everyone will enjoy the updates and that it will help make things easier to use and find info you may be looking for.
In the future, I'll be looking to support Facebook integrated logins, so that once your account is associated to your Facebook account (only simple info exchanged, and very little saved on my end), you can just click the Facebook logon. Once you're logged in to FB in your browser, it will log you in to your account here. If you were already logged into FB in your browser (most people stay logged in), it will just instantly log you in here. It's a nice way to reduce how many passwords you have to remember!
But anyway... for tonight... basic look and feel updates, some bug fixes, and the Similar Topics feature!
I'll put up the "Offline for Maintenance" message, of course.
If you're wondering why I'm taking things offline for that time... well, I'm finally applying some updates to the forums. I've been working on cleaning up the look and feel of the templates to be more consistent with the rest of the site. And also adding some nice new features to the forums, such as the "Similar Topics" feature, which will list off a handful of topics similar to the one you're reading at the time.
I will also be disabling the User Blog feature. It requires a significant amount of maintenance, and I've realized that we not only get about 1-2 posts a month in there (as opposed to 40-80 a month a couple years ago). If anyone needs to get the information they posted in there, just let me know. The data is still around, it just won't be generally visible.
I hope that everyone will enjoy the updates and that it will help make things easier to use and find info you may be looking for.
In the future, I'll be looking to support Facebook integrated logins, so that once your account is associated to your Facebook account (only simple info exchanged, and very little saved on my end), you can just click the Facebook logon. Once you're logged in to FB in your browser, it will log you in to your account here. If you were already logged into FB in your browser (most people stay logged in), it will just instantly log you in here. It's a nice way to reduce how many passwords you have to remember!
But anyway... for tonight... basic look and feel updates, some bug fixes, and the Similar Topics feature!