Gaming Outpost Discussions

1. 

   Aaron Powell
   Administrator

   I turned on BuddyPress. If you go to the GO home page, you should see it running. The forum system built into it is setup a little differently from bbPress. First, to get to the NEW forums, click the "Forums" tab at the of the BuddyPress site. To get to the OLD forum (i.e., the breaking-down one I'm typing this in now), use the "Discussion Forums" tab. (If we decide to keep this, I'll change the labels to make that a little less confusing.) (And I don't know at this point if there's a way to import the old messages into the new setup. If we decide to keep BuddyPress, I'll look into it.)

   Okay, so now forums are associate with groups. If you go to the Groups tab (http://gamingoutpost.com/groups/) you can create a group for, say, Multiverser. When that's done, you'll automatically have a forum for Multiverser, too. You can get to that forum by EITHER going to the Multiverser group page OR clicking the "Forums" tab.

   There's a ton of new functionality now -- including private messages -- that you guys will have to play with.

   Let's try this out for a week or so and see how we like it.

   Sun Dec 12 2010 9:28 pm #
2. 

   Jhiaxus
   Member

   I am trying it out, but the problem is, if people never sign in to the main page, I would have to add them as friends in order to invite them, but of course, it is a public group. The question is should each GM make their own thread?

   Sun Dec 12 2010 9:42 pm #
3. 

   Aaron Powell
   Administrator

   And for what's it's worth, if you want to post new articles/blogs, just hit the "Your Account" tab on the far right.

   Sun Dec 12 2010 9:55 pm #
4. 

   M. J. Young
   Moderator

   Thanks, Aaron. It looks pretty easy so far, although I'm about to discover whether I've misguessed the permissible coding entirely....

   --M. J. Young

   Sun Dec 12 2010 11:30 pm #
5. 

   JTM
   Member

   I did a small-scale stress test. It seemed to work okay. In the event that we're all satisfied, I'd be inclined to remove the ability to make new posts on these forums and relabel them to "Old Forums", unless anyone has major objections. We'd then want to sticky a notice and link to the old forums for anyone who has http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions bookmarked.

   Sun Dec 12 2010 11:31 pm #
6. 

   Glantri
   Member

   I have an objection to removing the ability to post here and making is simply the archive at this point.

   MJ is continuing games here until they have a natural breaking point, so this section has to stay active until all current game threads are no longer active.

   Mon Dec 13 2010 4:16 am #
7. 

   JohnA1nut
   Member

   So far, I've not noticed anything different, except that I get a completely different type of error message when the post doesn't take like it's supposed to. Am I doing something wrong?

   (Doing Therapy)

   Mon Dec 13 2010 4:57 am #
8. 

   JTM
   Member

   http://gamingoutpost.com/forums/ <--- The new forums. These are the current forums, which will remain active at least until MJ swaps everyone over.

   Mon Dec 13 2010 5:06 am #
9. 

   johnosevens
   Member

   Wait, what? I'm already lost. Does this mean we can't play here any more?

   Mon Dec 13 2010 5:45 am #
10. 

    JTM
    Member

    You can keep playing over here, but you might want to migrate to the new software whenever you'd normally make a new thread or possibly earlier.

    Mon Dec 13 2010 11:50 am #
11. 

    Tadeusz
    Member

    I'll get around to moving when I get a round tuit.

    Tue Dec 14 2010 4:31 pm #
12. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    We're still checking the new software for bugs and quirks. It's not perfect, of course, and the question is whether it solves more problems than it creates. We've noticed a few things--no coding that indents text (blockquote, list)--and a problem with Spammers creating their own groups of which they are the administrators, but we're working on this.

    If it works, we'll move all the games over there; if it doesn't, we'll move them all back here and look for another solution.

    --M. J. Young

    Wed Dec 15 2010 3:45 am #

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