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Thread: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions?
Post: RE: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions?
| As examples of wikis done pretty well, StrategyWiki (https://strategywiki.org/) and TVTropes (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyGreatestFailure) are good examples of very large wikis that ... |
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Suggestion Box - OA website
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07-15-2024, 06:29 AM |
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Thread: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions?
Post: RE: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions?
| Yeah, it's preferable to generate the timeline from the article records I actually thought it was done that way, but it's long enough ago that apparently I dreamed that. Instead, it's a separately edi... |
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Suggestion Box - OA website
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07-15-2024, 06:25 AM |
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Thread: Yahoo Group archive
Post: RE: Yahoo Group archive
| Awesome. I'll keep you posted on any progress I make, too, if I end up getting a chance to look at this.
Thanks! |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-27-2019, 08:05 AM |
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Thread: Yahoo Group archive
Post: RE: Yahoo Group archive
| Hey, WeirdMachine
If you're keen on doing something to translate messages from our archives into a DB, that would be awesome. I've also extracted our archives from Yahoo and have been wanting to do... |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-20-2019, 02:43 PM |
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Thread: Site hacked - change your forum password
Post: RE: Site hacked - change your forum password
| Thanks, Todd.
I've actually been hosting the site since about 2002 when we moved it off Alan's servers at Kheper! Took six years to get the site management tools from dream to done, though - befor... |
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Website and Content Issues
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01-07-2019, 08:37 AM |
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Thread: Site hacked - change your forum password
Post: Site hacked - change your forum password
| Hello, all,
You may have noticed strange behavior on the site over the last several days. This was observed and discussed in a separate thread if you to read back through it. The short version is tha... |
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Website and Content Issues
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01-06-2019, 07:38 PM |
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Thread: Change forum to use HTTPS ?
Post: RE: Change forum to use HTTPS ?
| OK. It's now secured. If you find a page without the secure logo on it, let me know. There were a few pages that have mixed content on them (ie, have hard links to URLs with http:// not https://) but ... |
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Suggestion Box - OA forum
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07-13-2018, 09:28 AM |
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Thread: Change forum to use HTTPS ?
Post: RE: Change forum to use HTTPS ?
| Yes! I shall put this on my to-do list with a big red sticker to get it done ASAP. |
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Suggestion Box - OA forum
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07-13-2018, 03:53 AM |
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Thread: The Tohulian Skyships
Post: RE: The Tohulian Skyships
| Hey, guys. I fixed the missing attachments - they were uploaded during a brief period between copying files and copying the database, and I hadn't realized they existed to copy manually. |
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xorgnz |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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06-16-2018, 07:47 AM |
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Thread: old.orionsarm.com is not accessible anymore
Post: RE: old.orionsarm.com is not accessible anymore
| I've re-enabled the old site at http://old.orionsarm.com, and you should now be able to access it in your browser.
When you do, it will prompt you for a user name and password - use oa_member / arc... |
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Website and Content Issues
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04-03-2017, 05:39 PM |
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Thread: Forum Theme update
Post: RE: Forum Theme update
| That's the one. It's a free one I've modified from the myBB site, made by someone called Andreas. I guess he's made eight others. :) |
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Website and Content Issues
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04-03-2017, 10:57 AM |
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Thread: Forum Theme update
Post: Forum Theme update
| Hello, all,
While working on backup thing with Stephen, I realized that a few users are still stuck using the old forum theme, which doesn't mesh properly with the new version we upgraded to a mont... |
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Website and Content Issues
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04-03-2017, 03:42 AM |
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Thread: old.orionsarm.com is not accessible anymore
Post: RE: old.orionsarm.com is not accessible anymore
| Not really - most of those pages are static HTML, and re-jigging them so that they check forum membership and status would be a lot of work for very little gain. Probably the easiest option would be a... |
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Website and Content Issues
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03-28-2017, 01:37 PM |
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Thread: Information leakage from Web forums
Post: RE: Information leakage from Web forums
| Easy enough to do.
Forum admins - what do you think (I'm largely neutral on forum matters)? |
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Website and Content Issues
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03-27-2017, 04:15 PM |
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Thread: old.orionsarm.com is not accessible anymore
Post: RE: old.orionsarm.com is not accessible anymore
| If folks really need access to it, I could always re-enable it and add HTTP password access to prevent search robots from finding their way in.
But, for now, probably best to get files from Steve. ... |
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Website and Content Issues
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03-27-2017, 04:14 PM |
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Thread: Information leakage from Web forums
Post: RE: Information leakage from Web forums
| Hey, all,
The described behavior doesn't constitute a leak as far as the search engine's concerned. Google can only crawl pages that are visible to non-logged-in members of the general public. Our ... |
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Website and Content Issues
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03-25-2017, 02:35 PM |
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Thread: Upcoming Forum Maintenance
Post: RE: Upcoming Forum Maintenance
| So, I've uploaded a completely fresh theme. It's similar to the old one, and I've touched it up a little to add our logo to the header.
Benefits to this version:
- it's completely compatible with... |
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The latest from Orion's Arm
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02-28-2017, 04:45 AM |
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Thread: Upcoming Forum Maintenance
Post: RE: Upcoming Forum Maintenance
| Those could be fixable, but I'm not clear on the symptoms. Are you saying the buddy list link on the top is extraneous, or that something within the buddy list itself is extraneous?
One of the symp... |
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xorgnz |
The latest from Orion's Arm
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02-28-2017, 04:05 AM |
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Thread: Upcoming Forum Maintenance
Post: RE: Upcoming Forum Maintenance
| Seems the problems lay fairly deep - when this forum was put together, a bunch of customizations were made that make its existing templates incompatible with current MyBB. During the update it appears... |
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The latest from Orion's Arm
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02-27-2017, 05:48 PM |
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Thread: Upcoming Forum Maintenance
Post: RE: Upcoming Forum Maintenance
| Hey, all.
You may have noticed that the forums look different. This is because the update we ran to the forum software took it up two major versions and during the time since the old version was r... |
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The latest from Orion's Arm
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02-27-2017, 04:13 PM |
