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  1. Yes, this stark white and grey place is our new home. The layout will be changing as we finish setting it up, and eventually we will integrate the forums into the website.

    If you have registered for the main website (not the old forum), you already have a username and login for this new forum.

    You do not need to register here if you have already registered on spankaroonietwo.com

    Over time we will add new features here so that we will eventually have many and different features that the old forum had. For now, just wander about here and try to get a feel for the new setup. :)

    (yes, smilies and avatars are one of the first things that will be added!)

    *there is a bug in the software regarding the timestamp, so we'll have to live with our post 'freshness' being off for the time being, but the timestamps are correctly set to Neopian Standard Time

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    It is going to be a hard and fast rule that anyone registering must use the URL to their lookup. This will allow everyone to use any display name they like, while still making it possible for mods and people who may not know you to see your Neopets account name. And as always the name you register with should be your Neopets username. The reason for this is that we are a Spankys Guild forum, not a general Neopets fan hangout, and this way we can keep everyone's guild rank intact here.

    *you may change your Display Name by changing it in your profile when you're logged into the website http://spankaroonietwo.com


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    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  2. Just wanted to add that it's going to take just a little more work before we can really move everything over here. We'll likely open next weekend. :)

    One problem is solved, through no doing of my own. :D It was apparently just a cache problem on my end. If you log in to the main site, you should automatically be logged in here. No need to have to log in repeatedly, yay!


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  3. Soon, soon!

    I'm just playing with the layout a teency bit. The green, while a lovely shade of pea, was not 'us'. A change of colors and tweaking of the layout will have to suffice until I have time to sit and integrate this into our website design.

    We barely use our forum, so maybe nobody will even notice the change from phpBB to bbPress, hehe. There is a notice up on the old forum that we are moving, and just as soon as I'm sure this forum is working smoothly we'll officially move over here.


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  4. If you wish to revisit the old forum:
    http://spankaroonietwo.com/forum

    All topics are locked, we had a round of spam this evening that was the last straw. We moved in here just a wee bit early, but it's ready enough. :)


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  5. Images are now allowed!

    You may now insert images into your post if you need. You need to follow this example of code to make it work, though. ;)

    <img src="http://www.yourimghosthere.com/yourimage.gif" />

    The / is very important, as is the space that preceds it. In non-geek terms, since that bit of code stands alone and does not have a closing tag, it needs to close itself by ending with the /.


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  6. Nobody scream or start scratching your eyes out, I'm playing around with the CSS in a haphazard way. Trying to decipher a few bits of bbPress's code is sometimes a bit dicey. ;P

    I could leave the default theme up, but I won't resort to that unless I make this theme entirely unreadable, hehe. Hey, it'll be fun to pop in here and shake your head at what Franny's done to the place!


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  7. Alrighty, we're much closer to a nice little theme! If there are any bits that have unreadable text colors or any oddness to them, just let me know (fran@spankaroonietutu.com -remove tutu before mailing me!).

    There is an issue with the header in IE that will have to wait until I work on the layout of the header area later. When the header is finished, those honking tags will be gone and we'll have a search box. :)

    Is anyone surprised this isn't a tutu theme??? ;P

    This thread will remain locked so that all you have to read are updates.


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  8. I'm upgrading the forum, and woooohooo is this sofware easy!

    Except I was a ninny and never marked down a couple of core changes I made, so bear with me while I track down the specific files that need to be altered.

    *your ranks are intact, just not displaying @_@


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    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  9. The forums should be working perfectly now, including ranks. :D

    We just upgraded to bbpress 0.8 and it was a very pleasant experience in comparison to the old phpBB forum software. Any tiny issues are able to be resolved fairly quickly, and the software is designed so well that... well, we're going to have a very happy forum. :D

    New features will be added as plugins are developed by bbpress users and we have a need for any of them. The next one that we will get to enjoy is the ability to private message (PM) eachother.

    Most exciting thing about the update? Our timestamps are now spot on with NST! :D


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  10. Just a wee bit of software upgrading went on and there are 2 or 3 minor glitches occurring. They will be fixed shortly, and the only one you will likely notices is that you may not be able to view more than the first page of a thread at times as I attemt to fix the problem.

    Once again the upgrade took mere seconds and was a dream. It is still in its infancy, so there are bound to be problems, but so far the problems are all minor and quickly fixed. What a far cry from our old software, yikes!

    Once it's all fixed up we'll start adding a few new fun features, the first of which might just be... *drumroll* private messages! Wahoo!

    (for council we have a teency lil problem viewing our muppetology area, but it's still intact in the database so no worries)


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  11. Woo, knew I should've waited until problems appeared... they already released an important security fix, so now we're upgraded to version 0.8.2.1. Phew. Hehe still took all of 2 minutes to do, I love it!

    Certainly by the end of this weekend we'll have private messages running, and maybe something else fun if I can get it to stop balking at the upgrade. :D


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  12. A quotes feature has been added, so now you can click 'Quote' at the bottom of a post and, well, quote that person. Hurrah!

    Okay private messages are next on the list, wahoo! Every problem except one niggling one that affects nobody is fixed, so now we can go on to more funner things! :D (I can say more funner if I want! ;P)


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  13. We have SMILIES! :*

    :) :D :( :o 8O :? 8) :lol: :x :P :evil: :twisted: :roll: :wink: :!: :idea: :arrow: :| :mrgreen: :*


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  14. Guess what else we have now???

    :idea:


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    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #
  15. Trying to add the private messaging feature again, with only slightly more success. It works great up until the point where you try and message someone LOL :mrgreen:

    Sad to say I may have to scrap it again if I can't find a workaround for the last wee little problem :|


    ahh
    ... i founds my tash!
    Posted 1 year ago #

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