The New Forum Has Arrived

[Bolty]

Can the post path, like the one at the beginning of a thread (e.g. "The Lurker Lounge Forums / The Lurker Lounge / Suggestion Box / The New Forum Has Arrived"), also be at the end of the thread, preferably between the end of the thread and the quick reply edit box?

Sure, I'll look into that. Maybe not until the new skin is in place, though.

What is the status of the private messages? Were they all lost?

Yes. It was far too much to bring over. If you had some kind of important information stored in your PM's and you don't mind me seeing it, I can try to dig through the old database to pull it up. I didn't think this would be much of a loss, though.

What are the capabilities for inhibiting the purveyors of viagra, porn, and WOW gold?

Supposedly the captcha's on this are stronger. Hard to say for now, as the numerous bots who kept hitting the forum are currently confused and not working. If they come back, I can look into anti-spam mods to fight them, options that I didn't have with the old software. Meanwhile, if some human being wants to come on and spam, there's still nothing that can really be done about it. You'll notice there's a ratings system on the forum. I can look into how that could be used to just downrate someone into oblivion, but given the heated political discussions on the board I have to make sure that doesn't get abused.

I cleared everything from Chrome and Firefox, and I'm now able to login... only from the forum main page.

I had a weird problem at first too, where I couldn't log out. I had to nuke all lurkerlounge.com cookies before it started working properly. I'm not sure what's going on with that, because the cookie settings I configured shouldn't interfere with anything else on this domain. BTW, this was with Firefox.

Maybe it is old eyes or an intense hatred of change, but I found the old skin much easier to read and I would be a happy camper if it stayed exactly the same skin on the new chassis.

The odd thing is that study after study concludes that it's harder to read light text on a dark background than dark text on a light background. I think it may just be that after so many years, you got so used to it, that this is a shock. I agree that a dark board fits the "Lurker" theme, though.