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I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

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I've been playing around with MyBB on my PC and managed to find fixes and workarounds for all the issues I ran into while testing the conversion process... so I could convert the forums right now, but it's late and I'm tired so I'll leave that for... I dunno, maybe tomorrow or the day after. Or the weekend. Either way, everything works and I just figured I'd give you guys some advance warning if you notice the forums disabled again in the near future Smile

I will have to do the conversion on my PC because it takes a pretty long time to convert everything and I wanna feed it some extra CPU power... I tested it on the host but it was just stalling forever and ever (they have some CPU limit thing going, which is actually a good thing overall... but not so good for converting forums)... then I need some time to test all the forum permissions and shit, 'cause that works a bit differently. Then I need to upload the new database to the new server... uploading ~80MB at 60kb/sec could take a while. So the forums might be down for a day or 2.

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Oh goody, I don't think I've ever used MyBB. Should be interesting.

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On zeh weekend? What be this blasphemy?

Anyway yay!

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09-22-2011 08:46 AM
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Alright thanks for the heads up.

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So excited Giggle
09-22-2011 09:55 AM
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But but...but...I barely understand how to use phpBB!!! Also I is exciteful.

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Good to hear.

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I used MyBB for about 3 years... it's awesome.

Also, I'm still working on that theme, but progress is slow... I've been working my ass off on some college shit.

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We can use random default / downloaded themes until the awesomeness is ready. Biggrin

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I fail to see the significance of this other than the fact that the regular forums might be back.

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