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Arthgon · Jan 31, 2015

It seems that there is no way you can see if you have written your email/password/search title/thread title correctly. That is because your typing remains invisible.

Xz · Feb 4, 2015

This is a temporary problem caused by the sheer ugliness of the current forum style/theme.

This will be fixed as soon as we can afford porting the old theme.

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Incidentally, the migration from the old phpBB to XenForo has currently set us back approximately $250, and I expect the figure to reach $350-400 or more before we're done -- without including the costs of licence renewals.

Here's the breakdown of the costs:

XenForo licence - XF (1 year): $140
XenForo Media Gallery - XMG (1 year): $60
Import from phpBB->XF: $50
Complete conversion of the old phpBB style to XF style: waiting for quote, should be under $100
5 year's worth of licence renewals for XF+XMG: $275

The total comes to over $600, which I'd like to raise so that we're covered and that there's enough money in the piggy bank to pay for the licence renewals for the foreseeable future. Unlike with phpBB and Coppermine, which were open-source (and consequently free, but very light on features), XF & XMG are commercial software and considerably better in every respect. We've decided to ditch Coppermine along with phpBB as it's been the source of the latest exploit (and several previous ones) and go with XMG instead, which should be considerably more secure. XMG will integrate with XF, unlike Coppermine, which was standalone. However, at the moment there is no importer for the data from Coppermine to XMG yet, so we'll likely wait with enabling XMG until the importer is provided. The gallery will remain down until then to prevent the possibility of further exploits.

There have been practically no donations made for Terra-Arcanum since I put the PayPal button up on the old forums a few years ago, so there are no reserves to pay for any of this. What you'll donate now is what we'll have to work with. I've put back the old top ad block for now so please use the PayPal Donate button there to donate. I'll update the thread regularly with info on how much we've gathered. PLEASE LEAVE YOUR USERNAME IN PAYPAL DONATION NOTES SO WE KNOW WHO TO CREDIT!

Thanks!
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on1ondevelopment · Feb 8, 2015

Xz said: ↑

This is a temporary problem caused by the sheer ugliness of the current forum style/theme.

This will be fixed as soon as we can afford porting the old theme.
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Would it be possible to have a black & red colour scheme as it used to be before? In my opinion, the old scheme gave the site such a unique and relaxing feeling to it somehow.

Taluntain · Feb 8, 2015

The old style will be making a comeback shortly, no worries.

on1ondevelopment · Feb 8, 2015

Taluntain said: ↑

The old style will be making a comeback shortly, no worries.
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That's a relief, it's awfully unfamilliar as it is at the moment. Though I wish that you do not rush the development to get everything done ASAP; I'd rather wait for a fully functional website than to recieve something unfinished. As we say in Sweden, "Thee who waits for something good, waits never for too long".

Taluntain · Feb 8, 2015

To be honest we don't really have the manpower here to get a ton of work done in a hurry even if we wanted to so it'll be a gradual process. But having the forums running on XF is the basis for everything that will follow, so it's a very important first step. Once the forums are fully functional again, the rest will eventually fall into place as well.

DarkUnderlord · Feb 10, 2015

Also there'll be nachos.

papa_dog_1999 · Feb 11, 2015

DarkUnderlord said: ↑

Also there'll be nachos.
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See. I knew there was a reason I came back.
*waits for nachos*

Arthgon · Feb 11, 2015

Any sauces for the nachos?

wobbler · Feb 12, 2015

Gaaaaaiiissss- Before it was grey cogs that marked new messages and brown cogs marked a fully read forum, no it is the reversed. I can't handle the change guys! think on the children! WONT ANYBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

Taluntain · Feb 12, 2015

The norm is that greyed out (which is "silver" here) means old and anything coloured is new. What you've been using before was really counter-intuitive to how these icons are used everywhere else so the guy recreating the style changed it to what makes sense to him, but it's easy enough to swap the icons. This same thing had me confused before too, so to me it only makes sense now because I always associate any greyed icons with "old".

Jungle Japes · Feb 12, 2015

Tradition > convention

Change it back! I can't handle all these gray cogs!

Xz · Feb 12, 2015

Yeah, for thse of us who have visited this place regularly for 10+ years (Probably also for those who have been here shorter than that), this change is very confusing.

Basically the grey cog is a shiny new one. While the brown one is a rusty and old. Makes total sense.

I have to say though, I'd love it if the forum actually was so active as it looks with all these grey cogs.

Vorak · Feb 13, 2015

I was confused as all hell when I first saw all those shiny cogs.

papa_dog_1999 · Feb 14, 2015

I've got to admit, it is bugging me.
I check read new posts. Come back a bit later and boom, the forums blowup with new posts. Oh, wait. Not really.

Arthgon · Feb 14, 2015

Aha! I knew it was weird to see a shining clog at places where no one have been before since a very long time.

on1ondevelopment · Feb 16, 2015

It would be great if the download section as well as home page would work again, I recently reinstalled Arcanum and realized I didn't have the HighRes patch on my PC, and alas the download section was - and still is - down. Luckily, I did have a backup file on my old PC, but it's still something that would require fixing.

Taluntain · Feb 16, 2015

It's on the to-do...

Arthgon · Feb 17, 2015

I still wonder about one thing; Are we going to keep the uploading your own custom avatars or the way it used to be that you will get a custom at 1000th posts and all?

Vorak · Feb 18, 2015

I plan on looking into it, I want to get the backer badges for the kickstarter backers working too.

The old system was kind of a work around because technically they weren't avatars they were rank badges and we turned off avatars for people who had them.

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