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Post by Soff on Feb 6, 2013 2:19:55 GMT
Wow, you guys are working hard to get the archive working. I admire you!
I'm pretty sure I'm pronouncing Elczy's name wrong, but I always suspected it since I was just... reading the stuff in spanish anyway. But I pronounce most names wrong, including my own characters' sometimes... I have a hard time with spoken language.
PS: Kew! I'm glad you made it! I thought you'd missed the move when I saw your post in the now-old forum. Have we already written in DA where we are now...?
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Post by Ally on Feb 6, 2013 9:53:30 GMT
I too have been pronouncing Elcy's name wrong. But then again, some people have pronounced clemon wrong (It's clemon like "lemon", not "CLEE-mon"!). Darn it! I've been pronouncing your name "dracthonia" ;D
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Post by mareofnight on Feb 6, 2013 16:20:12 GMT
I also pronounce my own characters' names wrong, but that's because they're all French lately.
In the old forum, would PMing someone send the PM content to them in an email? If so, maybe someone with mod powers should shoot a PM to everyone, or at least to all the previously-active members, to let them know about the closure? Then at least the ones who have their account set to receive email would get it.
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Post by Soff on Feb 6, 2013 17:14:49 GMT
It didn't send the actual message by email, it just notified you that it arrived. Unless, of course, that you'd turned off the notifications. I don't know, I was saying that putting it in DA should be enough, because if you don't find the site, it seems the more obvious place to look up what happened (that and earthsong's site, I guess...?). But yeah, sending the message to everyone makes sense, too. I just figured that it was enough to leave some kind of trail for people who looks up for the site to follow.
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Post by clemon on Feb 6, 2013 20:10:18 GMT
Well. It's a good thing no usernames are in the forum dump, or else we could find the dirt on each other in the Private Messages. Assuming anyone ever wrote dirt on each other in Private Messages....oh wait. There are people's addresses in the PMs, right? I too have been pronouncing Elcy's name wrong. But then again, some people have pronounced clemon wrong (It's clemon like "lemon", not "CLEE-mon"!). Darn it! I've been pronouncing your name "dracthonia" ;D Well I've been pronouncing your name "L.E." so take that!
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Post by mareofnight on Feb 6, 2013 21:40:51 GMT
No, only peoples user IDs (which is a number, not their username) are in the PMs. But it would still be possible to tell who is who if people mention their name or the receiver's name in the message text, or they talk about things that make it easily guessable. And there's that time we sent each other our contact info for the art exchange - pretty sure that had usernames with it.
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kewdle
Bucaneer
That one chick over there.
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Post by kewdle on Feb 6, 2013 23:26:58 GMT
@ Soff, there was a link there to here. I just wanted to post my farewell to the forum there. Can't believe that place last 5-6 years!
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Post by clemon on Feb 7, 2013 1:32:56 GMT
Is it odd how the forum lasted longer than the actual site?
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Post by Soff on Feb 7, 2013 3:57:23 GMT
It seems like both, the forum and the site are still up? Maybe it takes a while for it to die? I don't know...
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Post by clemon on Feb 9, 2013 21:45:40 GMT
Hmm...I think the Lady Yates said that she was shutting down the site (but keeping the domain) and the forums (so we'd have to move somewhere else)...Maybe she's so busy with other stuff, she forgot to do it. :I
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Post by Empiremaker on Feb 11, 2013 21:53:22 GMT
I am still so, so confused about everything that's happened with Tomgeeks, but I'm glad I checked in time to get the news and come join you all here.
Hello everyone of old and greetings to the new,
I was the odd Empiremaker over at Tomgeeks that would surface about as often as the Loch Ness Monster, with all the forum presence of a Giant Squid; but I enjoy the wit and wisdom of the Tomgeeks community and drifted into new seas. I wish I could say I had a webcomic to contribute to the webcomic-verse, but so far I've yet to have a webcomic making it to the internet, let alone stay there. May my current schemes change this unfortunate history, but that remains to be seen.
if I may ask, what do you people call yourselves 'round here? Footloose is on my to-read list, but I suspect I need to start on that ASAP since I've no excuse now.
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Post by clemon on Feb 12, 2013 14:08:48 GMT
Hi! : D I sort of remember you, but not really...?
What do we call ourselves? "Those formally known as participants of the Tomgeeks forums"? "Emily's forum crashers"?...
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Post by Empiremaker on Feb 12, 2013 21:52:07 GMT
That's 1 more than I thought would remember me. I really didn't have much of a forum presence, I just lurked for the most part.
Crashers might work for us, but what about the forumites so kind as to let us crash here? What do they call them themselves here?
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Post by X'o'Lore on Feb 12, 2013 23:40:03 GMT
Footloose fans? It's not too important they were hardly using the forum anyway what with the chat box on the Footloose main page.
I kinda remember you a bit too.
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Post by clemon on Feb 13, 2013 1:44:57 GMT
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Post by Emily on Feb 13, 2013 9:03:20 GMT
No, only peoples user IDs (which is a number, not their username) are in the PMs. But it would still be possible to tell who is who if people mention their name or the receiver's name in the message text, or they talk about things that make it easily guessable. And there's that time we sent each other our contact info for the art exchange - pretty sure that had usernames with it. I think it might be fair in terms of privacy if private messages could be deleted... I wasn't aware they were available- it seems like a security breach to have people's messages on full view, even without usernames...
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Post by mareofnight on Feb 13, 2013 16:40:14 GMT
Yes, I'm for making a version with deleted PMs and distributing that instead. Was just... hoping to hold out until we can get a version that *does* have usernames, and then delete the PMs from that and distribute that one. (And also I don't actually know how MYSQLdump works, so I don't know how to zip up and distribute a database yet.)
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Post by clemon on Feb 13, 2013 20:14:13 GMT
Has anyone talked to the Lady Yates about this? We could make a list of demands:
- Update the main Tomgeeks page to point to this forum - Include usernames in forum dump - Get rid of private messages in forum dump (or make access to it...uh...private)
I don't know how MYSQLdump works either, but I expect it generates a whole bunch of MYSQL commands that can be run to generate the MYSQL database to be used by similar forum-database system...?
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Post by mareofnight on Feb 13, 2013 22:33:16 GMT
I guess what I meant was more like I don't know how to find/use mysqldump. Depending on how Yates exported, and how PHPBB setup works, it might do that. It at least will generate a whole bunch of MYSQL commands to let someone who knows SQL Ideally, we'd want Yates to export the forum database excluding private messages, but if she doesn't know how or doesn't want to bother with it, it would be pretty simple to have the file sent to me or X (I imagine X probably already knows how to use mysqldump, and I'll have time to learn soon because it's the week before finals), who would delete the private messages from it and then re-export it. Which would require trusting whoever does the deleting to not read the stuff. But well... it's probably pretty easy to combine a forum export without usernames and a forum export without PMs to get one that has PMs with usernames attached. But yes, looks like a good list of demands
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Post by X'o'Lore on Feb 14, 2013 5:30:27 GMT
Oddly I've never had to use mysqldump. I think it's just a command line utility though and I got like 2 copies of it from a couple different tools so I'd just have to look up the proper syntax to work it. Nothing complicated.
Normally I'm just lazy and use the import/export functions in phpmyadmin, but that's exactly the sort of thing that got us into this predicament in the first place. The partial database file is likely the result of phpmyadmin stopping itself to avoid a php timeout. The Tomgeeks forum was too big for that sort of thing.
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