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I don't see why not....course, I reserve final judgement before uploading, but so long as they're not overtly offensive I don't see objecting to them.
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Back in the day I just used Paypal for random donations, then later used Dreamhost's built in Paypal donation links (that way it went straight to the site maintenance rather than having to use my personal paypal as an intermediary... Unfortunately my current provider does not offer that in anyway.
This all said, I just learned recently that here in Alberta every citizen has access to a free virtual server hosting thing....so I'm looking into moving the forums over to that...Then the only real costs are the $25 USD/6months for the Forum Software, and $10/year for the domain name.
My biggest concerns with any crowdsourcing would be how it would affect my taxes...
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Excellent, I should have given you the size right from the beginning, but oh well...
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So this is the current background image:
http://www.westpacific.org/images/twp_v4.jpg
It's 1310x77, so whatever you put together should be similar size to fit into the forum layout. I can probably worth with that one, but would prefer something wider/less background repetitive. We used to have a rotating banners on the forums back about 5-6 years ago, and I sourced most of those from city panoramic shots (like the one of Sydney that we're using right now). That system would just load a random background on each page load (rather than the way it does it on NationStates and uses javascript to rotate through them while you're on the page....personally, I would find that a bit busy for a page header.
As for a rotating banner, I'm sure I can do it as I said a few replies back, but just need to set it up (and have the sources put together). I will put this limitation on it, please don't make them really tall. There is no real reason for massive headers on pages, I see it on some of the other offsite forums and I've always thought it was pretty fugly when the header takes up the first half (or more) of the page and you have to scroll down to the meat of the page. Header should probably be no more than 120pixels tall.
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2 hours ago, Saint Mark said:
Dark, while we're awaiting a response from one of our esteemed elder admins on the banner question, would you please change the current forum banner to this one?
Thank you!
Do you have something a little....wider to work with? That one will most certainly be too small (a certain Zoolander quote involving ants and schools comes to mind).
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I used to have it doing that...been a while but I'm sure I could conjure something up at somepoint... I don't spend nearly as much time on the computer when I get home from work anymore, but...
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4 hours ago, Haor Chall said:
Hello....
The link in this post doesn't appear to work - It's a little old now, but was wondering if anything from yonder years past is still accessible or is it all lost into the ether?
Thanks!
I should still have the database kicking around....Dreamhost recently updated the server's php version, so I suspect that probably broke it for viewing....I'll give it a look when I have some spare time.
- Darkesia and Haor Chall
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**NOMNOMNOM**
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How about just have a nice fresh cookie for me. Preferably Chocolate Chip.
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So I think I might have found the cause... looks like the Citizenship forum (which has no posts in it directly) only had See Forum permission for everyone (even administrators) so I think the collector for the content would stop there and not look at any further sub forums.
I've now set the permissions on Citizenship to allow all users to See the Forum, AND Read the Forum... I then posted a test post in the citizenship thread, just to see if it would show up, and now it shows up for me under "All Content". Of course, since I posted the comment, I can't see it as unread in my own view...so if you could check and see if my comment shows up?
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I miss my old Meritocratic Census...back in the day before NS really provided any stats outside of the XML API.
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What browser are you using on that phone?
EDIT:
Works in Firefox on my computer, as well as Edge, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Vivaldi. Also works in Chrome 63 on my Nexus 6P...
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On 12/13/2017 at 8:29 AM, Darkesia said:
I think we would have to restrict access to the whole sub forum in order to restrict poll voting within that forum. Maybe we could try a separate forum just for polling within the voting area that would be password protected? But that seems like an enormous pain in the ass and it might cause troubles with voting transparency.
I might suggest something...
Have a Forum for ongoing Votes, and once the vote is complete (read the poll is closed) then the thread could be moved to a Voting Results forum that the members can see. Since the poll is closed they wouldn't be able to change it further, but then they would see the results. Someone (a mod) would have to be in charge of moving the threads at the appointed times.
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Alright, so I've gone through the list 3 times now, and gotten it to match up. There are currently 65 Members in both your provided list and 65 in the group itself (although in the Admin Panel it says 64...but I went through it 3 times to be sure and exported it and it shows 65 for me when I open it in excel.)
- 2-D-Gori
- Aelitia
- Aftenlandet
- Altino
- Arotania
- Arthur Draig Kirkland Vasentius
- Asendavia
- Atlae
- Bhang Bhang Duc
- Big Bad Badger
- Bran Astor
- Brend0g
- Byford
- CaptainX
- Chron
- ConfederateStatesOfAmerica
- Cormac
- Darcania
- Davelands
- Derps
- Drall
- Elegarth
- Eli
- Far Rivia Hilolak
- Fujai
- Futh Lohan
- GalacticKiss
- Gintral
- Girolamo
- Hibiki
- Impedric
- jone of winter
- JRJR_SLAYER
- Kawaii
- KhanterWinters
- Lamb
- Leo Drakan
- Liberillia
- Lucifer
- Luminaros
- MAA
- matism
- Mediobogdum
- Neenee
- Newgratia Republic
- Numpties
- Overthinkers
- Petree
- Powerboat_Racer
- Remdor
- Rigel
- Saint Mark
- Serrus
- slr303
- States of Glory
- Sygian
- Talidania
- The 4th Reicheck
- Tortaiga
- Triestine
- Tropical Isles
- Wampummariut
- Willania Imperium
- Yuno
- Yy4u
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I don't have a copy of the image west setup for them...so I'll have to come up with something to replace it.
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Vortex was halted as it actually broke the MySQL database (too much data was retained I guess), I might be into looking at redeveloping that a somepoint, but do have to admit that when I get home from work, I'm less motivated to work on Web projects like that than I used to be.
That said....now that you bring this up, I wonder if Vortex would be a good candidate to use SQLite instead of a full fledged database...I have had an itch to try building something using that.
As for a tip jar, I'll look at setting something up so we can use paypal...it seems like the least amount of work overall.