That's the quote that came to my mind, too.
Uh, are we gonna fight, or is there just gonna be a monster sarcasm rally?
Stoner Vamp ,'Lessons'
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
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.
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.
msbelle - Dec 08, 2017 8:38:15 am PST #6190 of 6786
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The FAQ should absolutely be updated with a link to the archived one. I know people are sentimental, but lots of that makes no sense anymore.
Gudanov - Dec 09, 2017 7:41:21 am PST #6191 of 6786
Coding and Sleeping
There are a couple of features I thought about that we may or may not want to add. Threads visible to members only and avatars. I like the idea of non-public threads. I'm kinda ambivalent on avatars. I guess I could add reactions too (like, love, commiserate, etc...) but I'm ambivalent on those too.
Laura - Dec 09, 2017 8:46:45 am PST #6192 of 6786
Our wings are not tired.
I'm fond of avatars. The reactions I would be against because I prefer that we use our words here rather than just click.
Beverly - Dec 09, 2017 8:54:49 am PST #6193 of 6786
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm with Laura on using our words. This place is sort of the last wordly bastion of the internet, and worth defending for that, I think. Even as I'm aware that the absence of like buttons and emojis has dramatically reduced the population of regular users.
Jesse - Dec 09, 2017 9:55:49 am PST #6194 of 6786
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I really doubt it's that.