Preserved Topic: New GurusNetwork forums!

Tonight, Emperor, DL-44, and I put the finishing touches on the new GurusNetwork forums. Check them out!

We'll be rolling out other parts of the new site in the coming weeks.



[This message has been edited by Pugzly (edited 09-30-2002).]

Really like the new look, guys, but it won`t let me tell you that over there.
Did I piss somebody off again ?

Logged in as me, it tells me I don`t have permission to access the page when I try to post.
I can break anything.


"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

Tell which page you're attempting to access and I'll take a look.

Thanks!

it's a permissions issue in the entire forum Pugz

you can upload an avatar bob, woohoo!

ya did goo-ood

Jason

EDIT, this might help, duh...

1. You do not have permission to access the page that you were trying to. Are you trying to edit someone else's post or trying to access administrative features? Check that you are allowed to perform this action in the Forum Rules.

2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.


[This message has been edited by JKMabry (edited 09-30-2002).]

I got that too, I thoguht it was cause I was posting in the announcements section. But my post in the mod's only forum worked.

Btw, nice 2000 Jason

I have just one question... Why did you choose vBulletin over other Open Source solutions like phpBB2 and InvisionBoard?

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

yes! phpBB2 is much more customizable and secure(!).

but you probably choose vBulletin because of the update thing. right?

so, when is the complete GN relaunch scheduled?

i must have missed the discussion, but why was the login moved from the top of the page to the bottom? any chance is putting it back at the top?

db: Yes we thought it was best to keep you out for as long as possible - it may be that you were trying to post in the 'Welcome to the Gurus Network' which only admins and moderators can post to (if it is confusing I'll add something into the description). Accounts shouldn't need activating (well mine didn't) but I know when phpBuilder switched over to VB I had to reactivate my membership so check you inboxes. If you or JKMabry is till having problems then let me know.

GRUMBLE & mr.maX: Yes a free version may have less hassle but at the time we looked around most of the free boards didn't have the UBB importing features and we thought it was vital to move everyone and all the posts.

GRUMBLE: I'm not going to pin a date on it but things are moving along at a good pace

InI: You only see the ads if you aren't logged in or registered

velvetrose: There wasn't any discussion - it just happens to be there. I'll speak with DL and others and we'll see

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FAQs: Emperor

OK it seem like a permission problem in the 'other stuff' forum (formerly misc) - I've changed them and it seems to be working fine (thanks to RammStein for testing things there).

And before anyone says - yes the HSBoD is a problem and that is my next job.

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wow nice board!
i'm looking forward to see the complete new GN

-THE SPACE-

np Emp .. I've come to terms with the fact that I tend to do a lot of beta testing for different people .. though I mostly do beta testing for RPGs .. or MMORPGs .. but that's not the point here

I'll do beta testing anytime .. I REALLY LOVE MAKING THINGS NOT WORK .. HEHE .. I love over flooding a system and trying to max it out




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Odd. Didn't touch the permissions on that one - not intentionally anyway. I think DB sabotaged it personally....

Ah well. All better now?

And yeah, the login at the bottom is just the way vbulletin is set up. Personally I like it there. =)

I might put a button at the top that takes you to the login part at the bottom. No biggie. The bottom is the default location for vBulletin.

As for the banners, they only appear if you are NOT logged in.

Everything is centered. :yech:

wow. This board seems to be extremly fast (0r is it just me?) You guys must be dedicating alot more bandwidth to it. I don't mind v-bulliten, but so far ikonboard seems to be the best free board to me.

Great.... Now i need to read them both again. (Sorry Darling.. they made so beautifull i have to keep watching it).


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WJ - everything at the Gurus Network has always been centered.

jive .. my only comment is .. vBull was designed to handle massive influx of posters and posts for that matter .. ikon sucks in that category unless you have a dedicated server .. and not to mention it uses CGI! .. can we say yuck .. anyway .. also .. seeing how I've worked with both .. vBull is much more admin friendly then ikon is .. mind you I haven't played with the new version of ikon but IMHO .. PHPBB2 is better then ikon .. it's just the cgi thing that bugs me


.::. cEll .::. 513

vBulletin was DESIGNED with "modding" in mind. The Admin Control Panel has nearly everything you need to modify the forums to your taste, including add features, moving things around, etc. AND, those changes withstand version upgrades! You can't go wrong with that!

We've still got a few more little tweaks to make, but it's coming along real nice. Just when DL-44 thinks he's done, I toss more things on there that require new buttons....

I'd just like to point people at the GN Locator:
http://development.gurusnetwork.com/discussion/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1543

Thanks to those who's locators have inspired us to this

Big thanks go to Steve who's Flash skills pulled something great out of my half-baked ideas

Other credits in the above post (I've always wanted to thank NASA and now I have).

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FAQs: Emperor

I am afraid to post at GN.

I have already made such a useless commitment to the asylum I can't fathom how much damage I might do to GN .

Really nice though... I might stop by sometime and post some paintings/photography.

InSiDeR: Come along and share (and take critiques on the chin of course ). If you'd been doing that since day 1 (or day 100 or ....) then such thoughts wouldn't even be crossing your mind.

Realising that there was (is?) a problem is the first step to making an important change

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DL-44: Yup you busted me. As I`ve admitted before , I can break anything

Emps : Thanks for not keeping me out for too long. I`ll try not to touch anything.

Outstanding work . Lots of cool toys.

Wow, super job guys.

Maybe I'll hang out there a litle more often now -- and maybe I'll actually get around to doing some of those tutorials I've promised... maybe.

Edit: Oh about those posts you can't reply too. Maybe you could figure out a little hack so that the board won't show the ~reply~ section at the bottom of the thread unless you have acess to reply. Just a thought.

[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 10-01-2002).]

looks great!

I wish we could add that calendar feature to the asylum


-tiki, cell 478

Oh, the locater is great!!! Good work, guys...

I too, like the calender....

Can't post yet, though...

I haven't actually had time to play with the calender yet but I'm sure when/if the Asylum moves to PHP such a thing will be easily implemented

JKMabry has started a bug report page:
http://development.gurusnetwork.com/discussion/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547

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FAQs: Emperor

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

InI: Thanks I'm just not sure what you mean by a live zoom and real geographical data - there is a zoom and the maps are from NASA (with permission - they were very helpful). Steve's busy but I'm sure sometime in the future we might add some more features (stranger things have happened ).

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

InI: I still don't understand about the live zoom business (I'm having a Stupid Day - they seem to be getting closer together which is a worrying development ). Do you mean if you move the square the zoom box in the bottom left zooms in from the lower resolution to the higher one? I suspect it might be a bit tricky to do (they are 2 different maps) and that Steve might poke me in the eye for suggesting it and I'm not sure of how useful it would be - panning around slowly is far more helpful (but I also suspect we still aren't talking about the same thing).

Real geographical data? I doubt it is possible without a lot more work - co-ordinates are currently just stored as an X and Y in the DB. I'm not sure how 'correct' the maps are either. We went this route as it was the simplest to do and having actual co-ordinates didn't seem to have advantages. I would imagine it would be possible to work out the distance between 2 points but as the map currently stand this can't translate into distance on the ground.

[edit: Actually I'll start a thread over in the GN on the locator as we might as well use the appropriate forum]

[edit2: OK see here:
http://development.gurusnetwork.com/discussion/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1549

for discussion on the locator]

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FAQs: Emperor

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

I finally found the locator by doing a search and finding the thread Emps posted about it, but is there a direct link to it? I couldn't find one from the main forums page... I most probably missed something...

Cell 270

Suho1004: The (current) direct link is:
http://development.gurusnetwork.com/locator/

but you can get there via this link: http://development.gurusnetwork.com/discussion/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1549

InI: Still having problems? Is it a board problem? If so then let me know and we can try and sort it out.

[edit: wrong URL. I will be posting in new thread here when new GN features go live too see keep an eye out for that too ]

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FAQs: Emperor

For clarification, we don't currently have a link from the GN pages to the locator - we dragged it into the public almost in 'afterthought' fashion and have not conretely decided hwo exactly to tie everything in (soon, we promise ).

Some one delete the file?
Its not there

Thanks
.Trigger

Who's not where?


Guru Locator

Guru Locator discussion


GuruGab main entrance

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

Emps, DL: Thanks. That answers my question.

[Edit: OK, I now added myself to the locator so Drac won't feel so lonely there all by himself on the right edge of the map....]

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 10-02-2002).]