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WOW! I love the new Asylum or Grail or whatever. Just wondering, when I click on my username it say's my cell is #4263. But back when I made my cell it was #1393. Do I get two cells?

EDIT: got the numbers wrong

1393

(Edited by redroy on 04-11-2004 07:53)

yes - you do. You may link to your old cell from your new one using it's *new* id in your contact details,
like redroy's cell
(edit this post to see the source I typed to get this)

->Tyberius Prime

(Edited by Tyberius Prime on 04-11-2004 07:56)

Rad thanks! I really like the changes. Nice work!

1393

Congrtaulations to TP and everyone had a hand in it - everything is looking great

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I am a bit freaked out. I will have to get used to this new look, so much exploring I will have to do.

don\'t worry - shock treatment will be available at the usual hours, and we tried to keep the feel as much as possible.

(Edited by Tyberius Prime on 04-11-2004 08:21)

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.

why are these ' poping up... hm...

usual problem - these were covered till this very morning....

everything back to normal now:
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(Edited by Tyberius Prime on 04-11-2004 08:26)

Nice work guys and gals :-D.... havn't been here a for a long time, but been in the shadows in the walls around here tho.

Very nice! and all new! I like new things....

* wonders off to explore *

::: COPEY + CELL + DA + GFX :::

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.

it launches new windows for outside links, and uses the same window for links within the asylum.
It's just the difference between middle-clicking and left-clicking for most of us, though.

Woohoo !

For some time, I though I wouldn't last long enough to see the new asylum... But it is finally here

I like the new look, I like the reply box, in fact I like everything I've seen for now.

Something puzzles me though, how did you madscis converted all the old CGI asylum to a brand new PHP board, and kept at the same time all the database ? I don't know much about CGI, but well, it is kind of magic to me...

So as a conclusion... Thanks, and keep the good work !

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If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Congratulations!!!

The only thing that puzzles me a bit is that the button, does not behaves like a switch to toggle the visibility of the menu. Otherwise everything rocks!

good work!

Thanks =)

poi -
You are right, that's not perfect yet. I'll look into it!

MS -
It took quite a number of tries until the importer TP wrote got everything right, but in the end it was easier than I would have thought - the old forum software stored everything in flat text files instead of a database, and getting it over to the Grail was essentially 'just' a matter of interpreting those thousands of files correctly and inserting all the information into the new database.

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Moon Shadow said:

Something puzzles me though, how did you madscis converted all the old CGI
asylum to a brand new PHP board, and kept at the same time all the database ?

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By darn hard work - all the information was there, but it took about 10 imports (each running at least 45 minuts -the earlier ones much longer (think 5 hours...)) till finally just about everything was imported correctly. (ok, this probably was elevated by the fact tha we changed major things around at times, like the ubb code that was completey rewritten a couple of months ago).
It wasn't 'difficult' - but it was much work. Fortunatly, I had a more or less dedicated machine that handled it, for I had to increase the virtual memory of the machine to two gigs (minus some ram) so that the php importer would actually run through without apache dying in the proccess - that much for php memory 'handling' (=leaking).

weird! nice job, very nice effort and very much appreciated!

Wow, it's been finally implemented. Cheers!

My only complaint is that the tooltip that displays the pages that links to this page has an obviously useless anchor tag :P

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Sexy Demoness cel

Nice work guys.

Wow. Thank you all for your hard work! Mmm, Fast Reply...

many changes, some great, some will take getting used to..

so the method for linking to a faq has changed to just [ faq# ] ? (without the spaces) no more listing the url?

as i spent no time testing out the beta, i have no complaints .. though i do miss the "next topic" and "previous topic" links... and being able to finish reading a thread while a clicked link loaded

love that the faq is alphabetized! LOL, finding some topics will still take some work

an impressive piece of work - thanks for all the effort!

[edit - why does my profile begin "Cell #1009, inhabitant calls himself "velvetrose" ? a bit sexist there, eh?

(Edited by velvetrose on 04-11-2004 11:05)

yes [ id ] now works from every where (even your user details in your cell (click your name, and then admin to change them).

Though some (and soon many, I guess) pages have gotten linkwords already. Like ->faq, or ->Tyberius Prime. Just prefix them with ->. There are also some other 'namespaces' - like php help php->unlink()
just prefix the -> with php. See ->aboutUBB for there details.

Most users, those having only letters and numbers and spaces in their names at least, have also been assigned linkwords. Like ->velvetrose , which now links to your cell.


Edit:
Well, would you prefer itself? Or maybe, themselves would fit many inmates ;-)

(Edited by Tyberius Prime on 04-11-2004 11:10)

->Alevice
or...

->alevice

edit: wohoohoo, its not caps sensituvce
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Sexy Demoness cel

(Edited by Alevice on 04-11-2004 11:10)

linkwords are not case sensitive ;-).

And the automatically handle spaces within them, always choosing the longest linkword possible.
(so, if there was as page assigned 'tyberius prime and his cats' and I type ->Tyberius Prime and his cats , all of it would become a linkword. But since there's only ->Tyberius Prime, that's all that's chosen.

Testing sig rotator tag :P
edit: I just can see the something else text...anyone else seeing my other sig???

edit2: i just saw it ;P
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Sexy Demoness cel

(Edited by Alevice on 04-11-2004 11:16)

(Edited by Alevice on 04-11-2004 11:17)

btw, the sig rotate is only choosen once each post - so there's no use in just refreshing the page.

Ah. Well, editing the post seems to make the rotator choose again :P

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Something else

Sexy Demoness cel

yes - because the code get's intepreted a new.

Thank you TP thank you Kuckus, thank you Emps, thank you Doc, thank you god of the northwing

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(Edited by Rinswind 2th on 04-11-2004 11:38)

Nice work.

I cannot see all characters on the buttons left to this textarea.

See this image.
http://thinkdrastic.de/asylum/buttonbugs.gif

A   before and after the char should help.

actually TP, that could be rephrased to:

... inhabitant is "velvetrose"
or .. inhabitant is called "velvetrose"
or ... the inmate is called "velvetrose"

we are inmates aren't we? or is inhabitant the PC word?

inmates, I guess. But you're not called that - you're calling yourself that. Big difference.

Thanks kuckus and TP for the details

I've been browsing some more through the FAQ, the archives etc, and the new asylum is actually much clearer and easier to use. The search tool is a wonder of efficiency, and more convenient to use.

I also read what were the new rankings, the system is clearly very funny ! However, I was surprised that the numbers were not 'Prime' numbers In fact, they were just multiplied each time by 7...

By the way, I was just testing the new linkword, when I found something with google->ozone asylum...

Another address of the Ozone Asylum is http://grail.coonabibba.de/ ... Funny.

OH MY GOD!!! This is awesome! And just yesterday I was saying to myself "new asylum? what?" and all over ozone's newer sites. Bravo. Oh man.. bravo times a million. DROOOOOL~!!!! XD I'm all happy now.

Shine and shine. :: [Cell=992] :: [See my team's 30 second animation]

u-neek: that's a mac, right? I'll try to get a hold of one to try it - but I fear a   on each side would enlarge the buttons in every other browser... maybe we'll add some more browser specific code.

When using firebird (i guess it works in firefox too) there is an little icon in the lower left corner.
After pressing it i little menu shows up where to styles can be choosen an basic style and in this case the asylum style. I knew this function existed, but never saw it in action. Well done.

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moon shadow: http://grail.coonabibba.de/ was the platform we actually developed on. It got picked up by google when I announced the first beta. It'll probably stay around (with the asylum look and feel), but it's database might be emptied. Having a seperate system for testing is invaluable.

We've actually had not one bit of Mac testing so far, have we TP?

I can't wait to hear/see what Steve's browsers do to the new layout

u-neek -
I don't see an obvious fix either, because generally enlarging the buttons would result in uglyness in all the other major browsers as TP said. But I'd be quite happy to give you a testing page to fiddle with if you have a few free minutes to spare some day...

To pay a tribute to the new Asylum, from now on I am not 'viol' anymore, I am just Mad Scientist . After all, the post count has been vanished and the new ranking system is weird, so, new Asylum => new me.

And again, great work, you people that did this. I don't know who all of you are, but you know to whom I'm talking to.

WOW, love it..awesome work guys...no complains