| PARIS FORUMS now open! [message #102666] |
Fri, 27 February 2009 20:57  |
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Hey gang - the PARIS forums you got a sneak peek at some months ago during the NG blackout are finally up and syncing normally. Those folks that are interested in the forums can just hit this temporary URL and jump in now if they like:
http://kerrygalloway.com/ParisForums
["temporary" in this case simply meaning "until we do something about a proper domain name"]
It's been a long wait, but we finally hit the spec we decided on last year - to add modern forum amenities to complement the NG while still letting those folks who prefer the USENET format continue exactly as before; to keep all PARISians, no matter which interface they use, reading from the same pools of posts; to allow folks to switch over or switch back as often as they like; to have redundancy in case one interface or the other goes down. The best part is that several PARIS development projects were waiting until the forum rollout, and now they can begin.
Those that don't think they'll use the forum interface directly can still help keep the two systems working together smoothly by doing two things -
1) watching the length of quotes in NG posts [threads get more difficult to read when posts are enormous masses of quoted text accompanied by one line like "I agree" - just quickly snip the quoted text to something reasonable before posting], and -
2) changing their attachment encoding in their NG prefs to UUENCODE instead of MIME or Apple Double. FUDForum, the platform chosen for the forums, uses Unix-based UUEncoding and MIME-encoded posts/attachments are basically broken for the moment.
Unfortunately the bulk of the temporary passwords and accounts set up between the blackout and Christmas were lost in one of many wipes/reinstalls; for right now, it'd be great if we could just move forward with new accounts, with my sincere apologies for the inconvenience.
Thanks, and enjoy!
- Kerry
"... being bitter is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other guy to die..." - anon
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