The third administration: Welcome, dev & issue reports
Posted: 29 Apr 2020 16:14
Hello again, everyone. Long time no see.
According to various archives, the Pastel Forums have existed in some capacity since 2005, and I’ve been a member since 2010.
Either of those dates are a long time ago, and I suspect we aren’t who we once were, ten or fifteen years ago. The past ten years have seen me from a small kid to nominal adulthood, and I can only guess as to what the rest of you have been through. The past fifteen years have seen us collectively through something like four migrations, the release and completion of the Submachine, Daymare Town and Covert Front series, endless theories, trivial discussions and important ones, our own works of art, enough in-jokes to make anyone groan, all across 88 thousand posts since the migration to phpBB.
Of course, we are currently past our heyday, equal parts discussion board and museum to better, greater things of old. Still, great things loom on the horizon, and I believe this forum and community has much left to give, to all of us. Nothing lasts forever, and eventually, this forum too shall pass. However, I’m pleased to announce:
Not today.
For the past week, Vortex, MadBoy and I have been at work salvaging the database of the old forum, integrating it in a new host and repairing issues, of which there have been plenty. Today, we’re reasonably confident that the new host and forum software are stable, safe, and usable for all. All user content from the old forum - from messages to PMs to images to avatars - has made it over, and account information is intact, including emails and passwords. Aside from cosmetic differences, this new forum should function exactly like the old one, minus the bugs we’ve fixed.
I will be hosting the forum for the foreseeable future, and I hope I’ll do a tolerable job of it. Some minor bugfixing and tweaking remains to be done, which I hope we can get to in the next several days. More detailed accounts, both of the technical issues and of the history in general should be posted soon - we already have a video by Jatsko.
To many more years, if fate permits,
-- Ancient Crystal (elsewhere known as lupoCani)
SHIVA system administrator and interim Subgod
According to various archives, the Pastel Forums have existed in some capacity since 2005, and I’ve been a member since 2010.
Either of those dates are a long time ago, and I suspect we aren’t who we once were, ten or fifteen years ago. The past ten years have seen me from a small kid to nominal adulthood, and I can only guess as to what the rest of you have been through. The past fifteen years have seen us collectively through something like four migrations, the release and completion of the Submachine, Daymare Town and Covert Front series, endless theories, trivial discussions and important ones, our own works of art, enough in-jokes to make anyone groan, all across 88 thousand posts since the migration to phpBB.
Of course, we are currently past our heyday, equal parts discussion board and museum to better, greater things of old. Still, great things loom on the horizon, and I believe this forum and community has much left to give, to all of us. Nothing lasts forever, and eventually, this forum too shall pass. However, I’m pleased to announce:
Not today.
For the past week, Vortex, MadBoy and I have been at work salvaging the database of the old forum, integrating it in a new host and repairing issues, of which there have been plenty. Today, we’re reasonably confident that the new host and forum software are stable, safe, and usable for all. All user content from the old forum - from messages to PMs to images to avatars - has made it over, and account information is intact, including emails and passwords. Aside from cosmetic differences, this new forum should function exactly like the old one, minus the bugs we’ve fixed.
I will be hosting the forum for the foreseeable future, and I hope I’ll do a tolerable job of it. Some minor bugfixing and tweaking remains to be done, which I hope we can get to in the next several days. More detailed accounts, both of the technical issues and of the history in general should be posted soon - we already have a video by Jatsko.
To many more years, if fate permits,
-- Ancient Crystal (elsewhere known as lupoCani)
SHIVA system administrator and interim Subgod
