Forum Migration - May 4th(Delayed - Update Inside) [Updated 6/12/2015]

eirghan wrote: »

b:dirty is that a promise?

... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGqZpgga2pA

OPKossy wrote: »

... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGqZpgga2pA

b:dirty I'll be your adult

These forums definitely have great memories, and it inevitably will be quite disappointing and upsetting to see them go. This custom vBulletin install is somewhat broken, which I think we all understand, including being quite outdated (security issues?). When I made my first forum posts back in 2009, after playing PWI for almost a year, they were merely trolling and joking posts. I grew up with this game and this forum, from age 18-present (24), and so did my maturity and grammatical capabilities (at least, I would like to think so).

I've seen every CM this board has had. Some better than others. I will miss eatwithspoons. I will miss v4/hey you!. Unfortunately, great things must come to an end. I'm someone who likes to hold on to things that matter to me, and thus I'll host the mirror indefinitely, much like Ecatomb and PWI-Wiki. My website will host the backups long after this game has officially been shut down. For someone who had dedicated so many years to this game, I would hate to see my friends/family of this game loose out on potential.

Through the years, I've had spats with CMs, Mods (Anyone remember Shelly? haha), trolls/people looking for attention. People always asked me WHY I did things like the Goon glitch thread during frankie's stay, or for example, the DQ threads waaaayyyy back when NPC prices were nerfed in 2010ish. I always felt obligated, because I knew it was PWE"s job to relay our concerns across seas. Though, I will admit, PWE generally didn't do this or took months. An example would have been the goon glitch. How long did I keep that thread active day after day until frankie said it would be solved -> banned lots of innocent people -> unbanned everyone -> made a statement that nothing would happen?

I've rarely seen eye to an eye with PWE, because they have failed this community with poor communication skills. The new Vanilla forums that we get transferred to in four days will be the last stop for this community, most likely. I simply don't see a declining game population like ours to last another 6-7 years. I would love to be wrong.

I will say that the current Mods now have been better community members than most other Mods in the past, and I can personally appreciate their hard, unpaid dedication to this community. I think out of anyone, the mods deserve our praise and thanks over the years. They have put up with a lot and have great communication skills when we compare them to PWE staff, who can't make it online to post more than once a week.

Indefinitely, any major concerns or issues will be most likely covered up in the new forums when migrating over. DQ, TW rewards, all issues in Quality Corner, etc. Furthermore, guides will probably be broken. IF they do transfer, I would suspect image links and what not to be broken and/or not work. Let's be honest, though. What are the chances that they actually are successful at this transfer process? Surely they can't expect to transfer 70k pages worth of threads.

And on that note, I'll update people on the status of my mirror. I'm updating some of the index files to have roughly the latest in terms of threads and what not before I start the uploading process. It should be live, if everything goes correctly, by this time tomorrow morning.

While I will be active/present on the new forums once things transfer over, I do want to thank this community for an awesome 6ish years of entertainment. I've met some really great people on these forums and in-game. Hell, the girl I fell in love with, I met from this game. We've been together in real life for 4 years in January. Pretty sick!

Thanks all, (various aliases on forums)
-Tremblewith/Clonado/bluestuffzzz/galacticparadox

eirghan wrote: »

Does this mean that all mods will now essentially be mods for all games, rather than just PWI?

I hope you guys like Star Trek. Cuz I sure dont. Not looking forward to all the trekkies in my Perfect World b:angry

Dunno for sure yet. It's also possible that some rules are going to change as a result of the migration. If so, something like petitions being against the rules is gonna suck. A lot (INI editing came because of such a type of thread, after all). Here's hoping that it won't be the case though. b:surrender

You know what I'd like? The ability to ACTUALLY SIGN IN on any Arc page. These forums work for me because they're Perfect World pages. The Arc homepages and stuff? Lolnope. Just forever loading.

So yeah, not looking forward to that dumb merger idea, since I'll have to be unable to post. Whatever will I do without the ability to occasionally help people and be annoyed at the company?

The part that's going to annoy me the most is this: http://perfectworld.vanillaforums.com/discussions

It's the equivalent of our "New Posts" link which I use frequently to see where the new discussion is. The problem is that you can't do it on just a specific subforum. If you see someone made a comment in "General Discussion" then it could be in any PWE game (since the subforum names are all the same across the games).

The bookmarkable topics is good but you can't bookmark the categories you are interested in.

I'm liking the crazy HTML decoration possibilities though. Sure it's dangerous, dangerously fun. Check out some of the post decorations people have come up with. We should keep it in some form (maybe a reward for senior members).

I use my normal login both places, no email required to login for me.
I'm rather sad about it showing my username, I would rather have it showing my ingame name like here... I know i could just use the codes to change it and such, but my url and that would still be the same. b:surrender

strumslinger wrote: »

We're going to be delaying the migration until further notice. More information can be found here: http://bit.ly/1HZLoa0

Good News finally.
Hope this delaying will last long long long long long time.

I believe Sylen put it best when he said,

a.k.a. Give us time to fix the blatant code bugs some savvy users showed us....

b:laugh

seitori wrote: »

Sweetiebot will still live....

What will they say?

Did that forum really exist for a year with thousands of posts without anyone trying any form of in line CSS? Kinda funny how we cracked it open so fast and ruined the migration plan.

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

Did that forum really exist for a year with thousands of posts without anyone trying any form of in line CSS? Kinda funny how we cracked it open so fast and ruined the migration plan.

Closer to two years, actually. And things being so broken are why we made it very clear to Hey, You! that we didn't feel it should happen for us. Admittedly, though, I didn't realize the sheer extent of how broken it was because I'd never actually posted there and limited myself to drafts and previews rather than going all out with everything.

strumslinger wrote: »

We're going to be delaying the migration until further notice. More information can be found here: http://bit.ly/1HZLoa0

Just when I got a partial mirror online (view my siggy for the link). That's hilarious. Honestly, the bit about the quality service standards you apparently provide was quite a riot.

I think the issues have been fixed but the way they did is hamfisted since now no one can use styling of any kind. No font colors or bold or any other kind of formatting anywhere.

I wonder if I'll be able to come out of this with my fancy sig intact...

NRGLG - Heavens Tear wrote: »

They've fixed nothing. I just proved it. Bleh. Then again, they never said they fixed it. I do find their removal of some certain css and js files odd. It just looks like a bandage covering a hole in the dam type fix right now.

Yeah I should have guessed all they did was remove the wysiwyg editor when that animation disappeared. None of the actual functionality was changed at all.

Why are they messing around with the client when it's obvious they have to change a setting at the server. They really don't know what they are doing...