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New Community Admins Assigned	Nov 24 2002, 11:00 PM
As I have found myself with increasing responsibilities while online, I have decided to take a lesser role in the running of the comunity. As such community leaders Bilbo Baggins and sttaffy have been promoted to community admins. My previous responsibilities are now theirs, aside from software operations such as backups, upgrades and modifications to the forum software. In all other respects (everything from the name of the community to forums and member groups) Bilbo and sttaffy are now in charge here. I will continue to have admin power as this is still my webspace and I have to ensure it is being used in a reasonable way. However I will not interfere with the operation of the forums beyond what was already stated and in certain exceptional circumstances. I will also still be here as a member and as a moderator if required. So say hello to your new forum admins and goodbye to your old one...
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New Forum - Real Life™

Nov 4 2002, 02:35 AM

I have opened a new forum for discussion on real life issues. This is anything that is bothering you at the moment you need help with or just want to express your feelings to the world.

From the forum rules...

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This is a serious forum for serious discussion about real life issues only. All off-topic, insulting or otherwise inappropriate posts or topics will be deleted without warning. This forum is for people to help people. Guest posting is enabled, so you can post anonymously if required.

Please use it as when you wish, for both getting help and giving it to others. Visitors are welcome to post anonymously and we will make no effort to reveal the identity of guest posters. If you think this forum could help someone feel free to tell them about it.

I am dedicating this forum to Robert Jordan, known as Mizter_E in these forums and our chat room, who recently and tragically took his own life. This dedication will not be mentioned in the forum itself but only in this post as it has been pointed out to me that some people might think of it as insensitive. I promise this is not the intention at all. It is my hope that in however small a way we can help people with their problems from time to time.

The rules of this forum are very strict, more so even than disputus. It is a place for serious issues and responses only. Everything else will be deleted as soon as read by a member of staff.

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Updated Forum Skin	Nov 3 2002, 04:37 AM
As you will have noticed (you had to see it to get here!) I have been changing the forum skin. I have: - Put a line break at the top of the page - Made the top bar (with the logo on it) much narrower - Made a new (pretty dull) logo for the new top bar - Moved the fugly floating "Help \| Search \| Members \| Calendar" links to the top bar - Removed line breaks between categories - Removed the column descriptions from being above every category (now just at the very top) - Removed a pointless blank light blue bar from underneath each category All that adds up to a much more streamlined, space efficient and lower bandwidth board index. The space wasted by the default IBF skin is ridiculous. Hope you like the changes.
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Forums upgraded	Oct 30 2002, 07:16 PM
I have now finished upgrading the forums to the latest Invision Board release. This new version has many new features and improvements over the previous version. However, all the modificationss we had installed before are no longer present, as well as any skin changes I made before. So for now this means no portal, no member bar on the forum index, no special tags and so on. I will be working on adding back the mods and skin changes over the next week or so. Please don't complain about something being missing or different in the meantime. Only report serious problems such as errors. Other than that feedback is welcome. Update 1: I have increased the maximum avatar size to 80 x 80 pixels. This makes for much clearer looking avatar images. Update 2: I have made a decision not to install any major modifications at the moment. This is because we are currently using a beta version of IBF and it would complicate updates between now and the final release of IBF 1.1. So for now only things that do not require any source code editing will be done. Update 3: With sadness I have decided to close the Coinbird forum. It was really great at first, especially with Roxy as a mod. But since then it has just died off - the last post made there was over 3 weeks ago. We still love and respect the bahd and will welcome posts about it in the entertainment forum, which is where the ones from the Coinbird forum were moved to before the forum was deleted. Update 4: There are currently no plans to bring back the quickspam™ box.
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Community notice	Oct 24 2002, 06:07 AM
Hi, er, the forum index page (and only that one) is borked right now because of something that happened while fixing the shoutbox. Normally it would have been like that for only a few minutes but as (coincidentally) our ISP is being screwy tonight I cannot fix it until the problem with our ISP is resolved. Great huh! I will delete this post once the problem has been solved.
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