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Messages - Brentai

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High-Context Discourse / Re: State of the Worst
« on: January 19, 2014, 06:02:13 PM »
One thing I noticed as I'm shuffling all these over is that everyone's file directories are currently indexed by default

Scratch that, reverse it.  Indexing is OFF by default, enabled for a few special people (i.e., me, because I had previously kept my own stuff in the main html folder).  So, PM me if you want it ENABLED, or else it won't be.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: State of the Worst
« on: January 19, 2014, 05:20:20 PM »
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.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 19, 2014, 02:37:45 PM »
He explained it in the channel a couple days ago but, uh, I forget why exactly.  People generally didn't seem to like phpBB2 very much and then it got mass-hijacked, so people started liking it a lot less.  phpBB3 seems to generally be considered to be way better, and was redesigned from the ground up to prevent something like the phpBB2 mass attack from happening again.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: State of the Worst
« on: January 19, 2014, 01:42:49 PM »
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.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 19, 2014, 09:38:56 AM »
Technically I could configure any number of subdomains to point to the same place, but eh.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: State of the Worst
« on: January 19, 2014, 07:32:56 AM »
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.

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Assorted Creations / Re: Worst Stray Thoughts Ever
« on: January 19, 2014, 04:44:28 AM »
You can probably fool 99% of the audience by making up some complete bullshit about relativity.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 18, 2014, 06:44:07 PM »
Might have to go with Dinohattan though.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 18, 2014, 08:26:00 AM »
Importing is possible but I think I'd rather archive anyway.  You never can get a 100% perfect conversion.  Better to leave an instance of SMF running in its own corner so people can see the old stuff as it was.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 18, 2014, 08:12:06 AM »
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.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: myewspew
« on: January 18, 2014, 07:56:16 AM »
<Brentai> We're actually on the low end of what the parent company offers. $500/mo gets you into the crazy 16-core shit.
<myew> Like 500 for a good bit of a shit.
<Dudebear> Yeah myew.
<Dudebear> YEAH
<myew> A myew myew myew.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 18, 2014, 05:54:12 AM »
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.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 17, 2014, 09:37:28 PM »

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High-Context Discourse / Re: State of the Worst
« on: January 17, 2014, 07:19:15 PM »
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.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 17, 2014, 04:43:13 PM »
Quote
The addon could not be enabled because it generated a fatal error:

Quotes is missing the following requirement(s): Vanilla 2.1a.

You are fucking shitting me.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 17, 2014, 12:28:23 PM »
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.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 16, 2014, 07:11:52 PM »
Just checked the Discourse sandbox, it apparently has the same restriction.  There might be a way to change it but given that the MOD EVERYTHING solution does not actually mod that, I'm not holding my breath.

I think we can use this as a first test to eliminate everything but SMF and phpBB most options.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 16, 2014, 06:58:38 PM »
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.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 16, 2014, 06:20:30 PM »
Okay if this thing really won't support offsite/gif avatars via at least a plugin then I'm going to need another suggestion, stat.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 16, 2014, 05:15:44 PM »
You can now.

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

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