I am really not invested, my only thought is "FUCK this".
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina
msbelle - Nov 30, 2017 8:19:08 am PST #6180 of 6786
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
amych - Nov 30, 2017 1:01:44 pm PST #6181 of 6786
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I vote Marzipan if we want Buffy, and Hellmouth if we want the 2017 vibe.
Pix - Nov 30, 2017 1:15:42 pm PST #6182 of 6786
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I love marzipan. Absurdism feels appropriate right now.
Laura - Nov 30, 2017 1:21:35 pm PST #6183 of 6786
Our wings are not tired.
Marzipan makes me grin, 2017 did not. I like grinning.
Sue - Nov 30, 2017 1:48:57 pm PST #6184 of 6786
hip deep in pie
This is probably too grim, but:
Goodbye and Good Riddance 2017: I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of apocalypse.
DXMachina - Nov 30, 2017 2:33:32 pm PST #6185 of 6786
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
That's the quote that came to my mind, too.
DavidS - Nov 30, 2017 5:44:53 pm PST #6186 of 6786
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm good with marzipan or apocalypse.
aurelia - Nov 30, 2017 6:22:51 pm PST #6187 of 6786
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I had forgotten about the clowns. Good times.
Marzipan seems apropos.
Laura - Dec 01, 2017 2:16:04 am PST #6188 of 6786
Our wings are not tired.
Let's kick this one to the curb.
"Goodbye and Good Riddance 2017: That'll put marzipan in your pie plate, Bingo!"
Gudanov - Dec 08, 2017 5:53:34 am PST #6189 of 6786
Coding and Sleeping
It may be time to start thinking a board update. The beta board at [link] is nearing a state suitable for testing.
Do we want to do any hosting changes? The new code requires php7 and MySQL so it should work just about anywhere. I could host at my DigitalOcean account or it could stay with Dreamhost or whatever. A $10 a month VM at DO could probably handle the site fine. It only has 30GB of disk space, but I can't imagine that the database would be anywhere near that size. But I'm not wed to DO, I just know it well and could set up the DNS and SSL cert pretty easily. Using SSL isn't strictly necessary, but I think it would be a good move.
Do we want to add Stompy feet? I'd become an admin sort of by default, but should anyone else be added?
The Board how-to will need updating which I should do since I know the differences. How about the FAQ? Are there parts of the board that we want to drop?
How much data should be migrated?
What features could be added after launch? Waiting on thread search and jumping to a date could allow migration to happen sooner.
The big advantages to the update will be to fix security holes (some are pretty big). Get better rendering on mobile devices. Fix registration. Have a codebase that is vastly easier to maintain. Just generally make things more modern. It still makes almost no use of Javascript despite the updates.