One thing I noticed as I'm shuffling all these over is that everyone's file directories are currently indexed by default (i.e. a list of files will show up if you put in a directory URL, instead of spewing an access denied error).  Not sure if everyone was okay with that, didn't notice, or didn't realize that that's actually something we can separately reconfigure.  I'm keeping it on by default moving forward, but PM me if you don't want that.

Starbound may or may not work.  I don't know.  It runs but I can't seem to actually make a connection to it, and the error messages are unhelpful and not everyone has encountered all the issues yet because this game technically isn't even close to finished.  I've got some ideas but it involves rethinking how I'm deploying the whole thing.

Whatever, Starbound wasn't a thing we were supporting before anyway, I can deal with it later.  We've got TF2 and webservices; I'm gonna finish up moving over sites (this is your last chance if you want something changed cleanly) and then crash the moon into this place tomorrow morning.  If you've got any last respects to pay, go for it.

Shadow Moses is back up at 208.167.224.200.  It's a pretty generic TF2 server right now but once things settle down a bit I'll hook in all the candy and hand the keys over to the regular gameserver admins.

Next up: Starbound.  I'm not going to set up Minecraft until somebody requests it, because I don't think anybody has touched Big Shell in over a year.  I do have the world files safely backed up though.

If you have any other weird gameserver requests, let me know.  I'll be setting up a JC-MP server up too even though nobody requested it and nobody wants to play it with me because fuck you allllll.

Might have to go with Dinohattan though.

Unless somebody requests something different I'm going to leave the sandbox as it is, and assume phpBB is the new normal for our glorious reincarnation.

This new one's another testbed which will eventually be deleted, right?

God, one would hope.

Apparently we can't have nice things simply because there aren't nice things to be had.

In all honesty?  Actually using it, I'm finding the only thing at all wrong with phpBB is the fact that it's named phpBB.

I mean if I had to dig for a complaint other than general hand-wringing about security and the fact that we seem to be moving backwards, it would be that the board is actually too flexible, to the point of giving the Admins plenty of rope to hang themselves with.  Since this new machine is almost entirely customized though - it didn't come with an AMP stack preinstalled - I'd say that's proper and par for the course.

The general requirement is still "must be better than any other option" though.  If you guys prefer to just keep using SMF for some reason, let me know.

HI EVERYBODY

If you have a swank brontoforum.us webspace: I'm shuffling over webspaces now.  This is sort of a manual process, which doesn't mean a whole lot for you except if for some reason you have been previously unsatisfied with your username, domain or setup-time aspect of your account, now is actually a pretty convenient time to change it!

PLEASE PM ME IF YOU HAVE A WEBSPACE and tell me if you want to change your current username/domain OR if you're happy to keep yours.  Giving me a no-change notice helps because I can go ahead and get you set up and check that off the list.

Anybody who doesn't notify me by <arbitrary point in time that I decide that webspace migration is the last task on the list> will be automatically moved over with the same credentials, including password.  I have everyone's current password except Sharkey's for some reason.

Well, after sleeping on it (and I god damn needed the sleep; I'd been running on six hours over two days) I came to the conclusion that I'm probably being backasswards about this. If the concern is security then in theory uploaded files ought to be more secure than arbitrary urls. We've only had a problem with it historically because early versions of SMF were horrifically naive about what they did with attachments.

The fact that gif animations get nuked in the processing is probably a limitation of gd and not Vanilla. I'll see if that can be  fixed. If not, I'll try to figure out what PA's solution is (probably some custom hack  - for as modular as this thing is stopped to be, most solutions seem to involve changing something in the core files).

The name issue boils down to "I need to go drop the display name mod in". Kind of irritating that this thing doesn't have a front-end mod downloader like SMF does, but whatevs.

So that leaves uhh... it's ugly, it enforces gender, and post length requires a hard limit. For obvious reasons fixing that last one is going to be super important. I'll check it out tonight.

Image uploads were used in the past to screw with our shit, and they're redundant given that anyone can get a webspace here and host their images the normal way, un-GD-fucked.

Also, they apparently break animations, though I think in certain cases people might not complain too loudly.

You can now.

You can also change your avatar.  Apparently brontoforum.us was missing a package.