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Have to say, I'm a fan of this new blue and yellow color scheme.
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Just an update. Progress has been a bit slow but some new features should be coming online in the coming weeks. Some highlights:
Rep-like functionality
New layout and color scheme (sorry Bruins!)
Ability to seamlessly embed a lot of media content


I'll keep you all posted. Thanks!
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Did you say Rep is coming?

Time to make another donation!!!!!!
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Fantastic!! Thanks a ton.
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Guess my shitposting will have to improve. I do miss the little A's that added up under the avatar though.
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Dude, this is awesome. Can’t wait!
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We're getting the secret rep club back together!
It's long past time to bring this back to the court, let's do it with a small update:

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Any chance to fix the issue with all the tweets taking a long time to load?

PieceOfMeat wrote: Mon Jan 11, 2021 6:57 pm We're getting the secret rep club back together!
Quick, sent Klaudija a message!
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OMG we need thread tags again.
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Is there a mobile app in the roadmap?
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RichardCranium wrote: Tue Jan 12, 2021 11:20 pm Is there a mobile app in the roadmap?
Only for Premium. ;)
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Cool! I got premium!
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RichardCranium wrote: Tue Jan 12, 2021 11:20 pm Is there a mobile app in the roadmap?
A mobile app is something I'd like to see, but is not in the short term plans as yet. If we have anyone in the community with any any dev skills, hit me up!
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I've done a bit of searching, and there is at least 1 phpbb plugin that purports to make phone browsing easier: tapatalk. It has not been certified by phpbb, is apparently difficult to install, and has security holes you could drive a truck through. Not recommended. Phpbb also suggests that phpbb does basically everything tapatalk does anyway.

Whatever.

My only real beef is that the navigation buttons are microscopic compared to the size of my fingers. Also there is a lot of real estate taken up by stuff that is just not important all the time.
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Didn't the TOS use tapatalk? It was so bad I never used it.
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RichardCranium wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 4:07 pm I've done a bit of searching, and there is at least 1 phpbb plugin that purports to make phone browsing easier: tapatalk. It has not been certified by phpbb, is apparently difficult to install, and has security holes you could drive a truck through. Not recommended. Phpbb also suggests that phpbb does basically everything tapatalk does anyway.

Whatever.

My only real beef is that the navigation buttons are microscopic compared to the size of my fingers. Also there is a lot of real estate taken up by stuff that is just not important all the time.
When the layout redesign is completed I hope to reformat a number of things, tiny buttons is definitely one to address.
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No rush of course but I'm curious how it's coming along
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Slowly but surely. It's nice being able to develop a better site/features with having to do so under the gun of 'site is down, gotta band aid something?'. Ha!
Sometime next week or so, I'll share the other domain I'm using to test changes and such so you all can see some of what's coming. Ultimately, that testing domain will become a backup place to congregate if we ever again have a long board outage.
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Awesome! Half my job is testing configurations, bug fixes, settings and enhancements on staging and testing environments so it'll be great to have that!
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Wow! Like the new look.
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UAEebs86 wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:34 pm Wow! Like the new look.
Nah, let's stick with the nice Bruin blue.
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Obviously there have been some tweaks tonight. Testing some new things. Over the next week or so things will continue to be refined. Some features are a bit iffy so far. I am having issues with some of the media embeds in posts. Working on it. Please be patient while I work out the kinks. Thanks!
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Additionally, this new layout should be MUCH more mobile friendly.
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Will we eventually be able to customize colors etc?
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UAdevil wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:43 pm Obviously there have been some tweaks tonight. Testing some new things. Over the next week or so things will continue to be refined. Some features are a bit iffy so far. I am having issues with some of the media embeds in posts. Working on it. Please be patient while I work out the kinks. Thanks!
Thanks as always....
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Twitter links pop right up now! Thanks so much.
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UAdevil wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:48 pm Additionally, this new layout should be MUCH more mobile friendly.
On my phone using the Samsung mobile browser there is now a big floating button at the bottom of each thread to reply.
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Same on my iPhone using safari. This is a really nice upgrade.
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That’s what the arrow means? Cool!

It’s like learning something new everyday on this site.
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I am currently testing a reputation/karma system for the board. I hope to go live tomorrow. Please be patient as there will be a lot of settings to tweak once folks start putting it to work, so it'll be a process. Slowly but surely, we're getting there.
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When do signups start for the secret rep passing club?
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Go ahead and set enfuego to minus infinity.
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Admin can also award 'merit' awards of rep not attached to any one post...I can also rep, lol.
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With the new features and new layout, it’s probably an apt moment to remind everyone that Ron does all this for us without being compensated for his time or the considerable expense that goes into keeping our community going.

If you are enjoying the board and want to support its upkeep, please consider donating to keep us up and running: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=6363
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Chicat wrote: Thu Mar 04, 2021 11:06 am With the new features and new layout, it’s probably an apt moment to remind everyone that Ron does all this for us without being compensated for his time or the considerable expense that goes into keeping our community going.

If you are enjoying the board and want to support its upkeep, please consider donating to keep us up and running: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=6363
Later tonight or tomorrow I'll be able to like this post. :-)
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Chicat wrote: Thu Mar 04, 2021 11:06 am With the new features and new layout, it’s probably an apt moment to remind everyone that Ron does all this for us without being compensated for his time or the considerable expense that goes into keeping our community going.

If you are enjoying the board and want to support its upkeep, please consider donating to keep us up and running: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=6363
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So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.

:lol:
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When does the premium section go live?
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RichardCranium wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 5:12 am
scumdevils86 wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:35 pm Most American website maintenance and downtime happens between about 3 and 9 pm aussie time.
Yeah. Which is why there are lots of call centers (centres) in Oz.

I was kidding by the way.
Lol. My consulting company is helping to upload a new e-commerce website this weekend for Australia & NZ. We need to provide Hypercare support after the launch so providing AUS eastern time support from folks in India and US has been fun.
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TucsonClip wrote: Thu Mar 04, 2021 7:38 pm When does the premium section go live?
It’s just about ready to go. $15 a month.

The only catch is that there will be only one thread and that’s the one about the best places to take a dump on campus.
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UAdevil wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:48 pm Additionally, this new layout should be MUCH more mobile friendly.
It is. It’s a revelation on the smartphone
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EastCoastCat wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:52 am
RichardCranium wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 5:12 am
scumdevils86 wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:35 pm Most American website maintenance and downtime happens between about 3 and 9 pm aussie time.
Yeah. Which is why there are lots of call centers (centres) in Oz.

I was kidding by the way.
Lol. My consulting company is helping to upload a new e-commerce website this weekend for Australia & NZ. We need to provide Hypercare support after the launch so providing AUS eastern time support from folks in India and US has been fun.
Interestinly, it appears that the call centres serving Oz are in the Phillipines for the most part. Tasmania has a whole bunch serving the US and Europe, I guess they are just too busy for us. I have seldom run across an Indian call center here, but I did play a mostly unwitting hand in moving my job to India when I managed a programming team that was split between India and Sydney. It was a hassle maintaining programming quality standards, but apparantly I got it to work pretty well, and they got over confident. The next project they tried they skipped the part about having Senior Programmers on site to liase with the foreign based pool, lost the confidence of the client, and the entire practice went downhill and eventually abandoned.
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RichardCranium wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:44 pm Interestinly, it appears that the call centres serving Oz are in the Phillipines for the most part
When the pandemic hit and we had to make airline changes for AA, the CSR was in the Philippines. My wife put it on speakerphone so I could hear it since the CSR had 5 or 6 roosters crowing.

I spent a little bit of time in the Philippines when I was in the USAF in the late 1970's. The people I met there had excellent English skills, unlike those I met in Japan although at the time English was required. The Philippines kicked out the US military presence at Clark AFB and Subic Bay, although Clark was already closed or near closed due to volcano ash.
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My wife lived at Clark afb 67-69 until they moved to DC and my father-in-law worked at the Pentagon. She has a lot of great memories of the Philippines.
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I haven't spent much time here recently. I am graduating in May in Health Information Technology and my focus has been on school. I have 2 credentialing exams I am preparing for and involved in Professional Practical Experience (unpaid internship) with Mayo Clinic.

I really like what is happening to this site. The navigation is impressive. And the ambient look is great. This board is great. I love the reputation and we can finally put GoAzCats fully behind us now. Thanks UAdevil. This is fantastic!

Can someone show me how to donate? I had a problem with donation on the old BDW and I want to make sure I can show my appreciation.
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Catintheheat wrote: Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:16 pm I haven't spent much time here recently. I am graduating in May in Health Information Technology and my focus has been on school. I have 2 credentialing exams I am preparing for and involved in Professional Practical Experience (unpaid internship) with Mayo Clinic.

I really like what is happening to this site. The navigation is impressive. And the ambient look is great. This board is great. I love the reputation and we can finally put GoAzCats fully behind us now. Thanks UAdevil. This is fantastic!

Can someone show me how to donate? I had a problem with donation on the old BDW and I want to make sure I can show my appreciation.
Thanks! We hope to continue to refine and upgrade functionality. We can accept donations via Paypal. If that fails I can accept a donation thru Venmo or Zelle. Additionally, some folks have mailed in old fashioned checks. Feel free to pm me for details.

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Done. Thanks a lot UAdevil!
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Catintheheat wrote: Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:03 pm Done. Thanks a lot UAdevil!
Thank you!
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Is private messaging working? I tried to send a PM twice to the same person and nothing showing in Outbox or Sent messages.
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