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I expect simple behaviours here. Friendship, and love. Any advice should be from the perspective of the person asking, not the person giving! We have had to make new membership moderated to combat the huge number of spammers who register
Re: New Home for Codey's World
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9637/78723/#msg_78723
timmy2024-02-07T17:44:22-00:00New Home for Codey's World
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9637/78722/#msg_78722
The Codey's World site now has its own functioning domain name: codeysworld.org. It is no longer living in a subdirectory on the AwesomeDude site -- it has its own server account and everything.
As folks will remember, when Mike (the founding Awesome Dude) passed away last September, he took the domain registration credentials for awesomedude.com and codeysworld.com with him. We were fortunate to be able to pick up awesomedude.org right away, and the site has moved to the new .org address, but the companion codeysworld.org address was already registered to someone (we assume Mike, but the WHOIS information is anonymous) and would not expire for some weeks. We have been keeping an eye on the pending expiration, and at midnight Monday night @AlienSon discovered that it had fully expired and was now available. So he grabbed the domain name and emailed me, and then went to bed. I got his email yesterday morning and went to work through much of the day getting the new site up and running.
To make a long story short, we got it moved, and things are working in general. The site has been around for at least 18 years, and there were piles of leftovers and irrelevant stuff on the previous server. I downloaded everything to my local computer, separated the electronic wheat from the chaff, updated all the internal links on the pages, and uploaded everything needed to the new server.
There are still glitches and potholes here and there, but we're working on those. Mysteriously, some of the graphics have disappeared, but they still exist on the Wayback Machine archive and we are slowly going through and restoring them.
We still need to figure out a long-term strategy for the site. It has not received full attention since the spring of 2021, when its long-time webmaster stopped updating it. We are looking into possible ways to make the site more manageable by people who are not HTML/CSS/PHP tweakheads. If anyone is interested in learning more, please write to webguys@codeysworld.org.
Meanwhile, there are a lot of good stories there by authors whose names will be familiar. I think Mike would be happy to see us keeping his legacy alive.
R ]]>Rutabaga2024-02-07T16:58:17-00:00Re: Numbers
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9627/78719/#msg_78719
timmy2024-02-05T17:30:37-00:00Re: Numbers
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9627/78718/#msg_78718
R]]>Rutabaga2024-02-05T15:15:56-00:00Re: Numbers
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9627/78714/#msg_78714
timmy2024-02-04T22:26:01-00:00Re: Numbers
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9627/78713/#msg_78713
R]]>Rutabaga2024-02-04T21:20:36-00:00Re: What the Pastor or Priest or Rector Should Have Said!
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9629/78712/#msg_78712
I come at this from a different view, as an adult education counselor. I recently retired from the Los Angeles Unified School District after 38 years. My last 12 years were spent in the academic program, helping adults finish their high school diploma or to complete the California Adult Equivalency Certificate (commonly known as the GED). Adult ages range from barely 18 years old to 88 years old. Their reasons for wanting to finish their diploma requirement vary: some had to go find a job to help out their struggling family, girls who became pregnant, some who became addicted to alcohol or other drugs, some joined gangs, and so on. I had many young adults who were homeless for a few years. I ventured to feel these young adults were the gay or lesbian or trans kids whose family withdrew their love and pushed them out.
Before enrolling into classes, adult students must take a 4-day orientation. The bones of the orientation class were the students' high school transcripts. That in itself was the opening struggle for many. The first day of the orientation was just facts of the diploma program. The second day was somewhat similiar to what the pastor felt, what to tell them to make them feel that their problems leading them to hurt was unfortunate but the district had many programs to assist them. The gay young adults were most often homeless and needed the most assistance. Also, in place was non-discrimantion LAUSD policy that all adult ed instructors, counselors, administrators, ground maintenance workers, and so on, that we took very seriously. All adult students understood the policy as well. I made sure that they did during the orientation classes. There were those adult students who had to be told to leave.
This was not only about those students who were gay, but for all adult students with their struggles.
We all should have at hand resourses to offer: a homeless shelter, a food pantry, a cleric who understands their problems and struggles. ]]>ray2x2024-02-03T20:17:35-00:00Re: Numbers
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9627/78710/#msg_78710
I admininstered the phpBB forum for Gymnopedies for many years, before the site crashed and he disappeared. I'm not wild about that forum software either, but it has the virtue of being free and the further virtue of still being supported. But I sure don't want to have to migrate.
On the larger questions of Where have all the readers gone and Where have all the forum commenters gone, I have no clue.
R]]>Rutabaga2024-01-31T21:55:05-00:00Re: Numbers
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9627/78709/#msg_78709
We have the major issue of not allowing spammers even to register. We're lucky. That element works still.
Your solution might be to install forum software on your own server, but there are no good forunsto choose from. Does crerating a sub-reddit appeal?]]>timmy2024-01-31T19:51:31-00:00Re: Numbers
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9627/78708/#msg_78708
"timmy wrote on Tue, 14 November 2023 10:59"
I'm sorry the forum has some weirdness. I can't mend those imperfections, the software used is obsolete, unmaintained by its developers for many years. If I dared to run the "rebuild forum imdex" task I susect it would screw it up totally. I fear it will have to do as it is. The cost/benefit of introducing new software and attempting back record conversion is zero.
We are running into analogous problems at the AwesomeDude forum (https://forums.awesomedude.com). It's kind of a good news/bad news situation. The good news is that the forum is actually hosted in the cloud by Invision, so we don't have to maintain the underlying software. The bad news is that Mike took the account credentials to his grave. He opened the Invision account years ago when the company's pricing was much more favorable, and we don't want to lose that. But there are aspects of the forum that aren't working properly, and it's not clear whether we can even open a service ticket on that account. (The primary issue is that the mechanism for registering new users is not working, in two respects: The confirmation email is not going out, and the CAPTCHA does not seem to matter -- we get massive numbers of spambots registering bogus accounts.) If we manually approve an account, the email stating that the account is approved does go out as it is supposed to, so email is properly configured. The routine for registration is just messed up. We have asked new registrants to email us so we can find them in the crowd of spambots and approve them manually.
This forum looks to my eye to be a lineal descendant of vBulletin. I'm glad you're able to keep it working. It seems like the choices available for forum software are not great these days. And migrating to a new platform is undoubtedly a complete nightmare. So I think both of us need to make the best of our current situations!