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Post by Shouko Hidari on Mar 6, 2017 23:33:55 GMT
IJ came back, but it now has more problems than ever before. Dozens of accounts need to be re-registered. Icons need to be re-uploaded, but when you do, half of them come up broken, and they upload out of order so you can't even see which one it was that failed. Gottis needs to use a different email just to see the comms. She shouldn't have to do that. Very few of us are online right now, but I sincerely doubt she's the only one with this problem.
When we try to vote for ourselves, we frequently change our minds, waffle on the subject, or get nothing done. In chat, we discussed this, and honestly for all intents and purposes, Dana you are our mod. So we're asking you to decide if we should stick with the forum or move back to IJ. What do you think?
Nevi opened a poll on usernames for the OOC board that also didn't get a lot of traffic, probably for the same reason. Any thoughts on that?
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Emma Teach
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Leave my big ears alone! xP
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Post by Emma Teach on Mar 7, 2017 0:08:15 GMT
How did I not have this girl registered...
First of all, thank you for thinking of me that way!
I've thought about the issue myself. Proboards obviously has a LOT of advantages over Insanejournal. For starters, it has an actual paid staff with hundreds of volunteers. If you need help, you get a response instantly. And, of course, Proboards has been around since the late 90s and hasn't changed much except to grow in size. It's obviously much, MUCH more stable than IJ will ever be, even with its minor glitches. The forum is better in every way, EXCEPT two.
1) Icons. I could do without them personally, but I know some of you are nuts about them.
2) Reading logs. The recent threads button is a Godsend that has saved me with this. We can now read logs in chronological order. But we still can't tell what Earth they're on until we open them and find out contextually. And without tags, we can't tell which characters are in the log.
Here's what I think we should do:
Wait until Friday, Saturday at the latest, to see if Squeaky has fixed any of the problems with the instabilities. If he has, I'm going to suggest we move back to IJ. We've been on it longer and it's more familiar. If he hasn't even made a dent in the problems, I'm PROBABLY going to suggest staying over here, with the caveat that we link everything we do to IJ afterward (Kura or I can do this) because IJ's reading system is just so much easier.
In the meantime, we need to find a service to back up everything that's on IJ. I really don't have much faith it will weather the test of time. DW's importer doesn't work. We've tried it multiple times and it won't save anything after 2013. I could try and create brand new DW comms to import to and see if that does the trick, but I'm not very optimistic. And of course DW faces the same problem that both LJ and IJ did: As a journaling site, it won't be around forever.
So TLDR, let's continue with the forum and I'll be able to make a better decision on Friday.
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Emma Teach
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Leave my big ears alone! xP
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Post by Emma Teach on Mar 7, 2017 0:10:23 GMT
I forgot to mention this, but the rosters here are very out of date, so I'm going to go fix that now.
As for mun accounts for the OOC board? I'm all for it! xP Let's keep our emails visible on those accounts so we can contact each other when needed. We can use those accounts for PMs too.
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Gai Ikari
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i want to live a dream
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Post by Gai Ikari on Mar 7, 2017 0:12:06 GMT
As for mun accounts for the OOC board? I'm all for it! xP Let's keep our emails visible on those accounts so we can contact each other when needed. We can use those accounts for PMs too. That's a GREAT idea! :DD |
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Post by david on Mar 7, 2017 0:32:06 GMT
w00t w00t check me out brah
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Post by Naga Rei on Mar 7, 2017 3:54:07 GMT
I am now on attempt #7 to upload my icons. Sighs quietly
I would like to go back to IJ, but I don't know how possible it is at this point. But okay, we'll wait until the end of the week to see how it's doing.
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Post by Kyoko Sakura on Mar 7, 2017 9:34:16 GMT
Sucks. I was hoping IJ would be done glitching and I could register Stinger. Guess I'll wait...
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Post by Basco Teach on Mar 7, 2017 9:38:01 GMT
stinger kureshima...
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Post by Marvelous | Edward Teach on Mar 7, 2017 11:04:56 GMT
kura discovered a new problem, all of us now have the comms on our friends lists
never mind that none of us wanted the comms on our flists to begin with or we would have added them ourselves
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Post by Shouko Hidari on Mar 7, 2017 11:06:56 GMT
...That is going to make at least one of my journals very, very annoying
...Oh hell, tell me I need to log into the 50-something journals I have just to fix this?!
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Laputa 283
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Y'ALL AIN'T SHIT SORRY
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Post by Laputa 283 on Mar 7, 2017 23:57:10 GMT
found another issue if you uploaded any icons yesterday, go check on them. even if they uploaded okay. all my laputa icons uploaded okay, but i just looked back at them now and like, half of them were corrupted  |
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