Updating a forum always brings oddness

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Updating a forum always brings oddness

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We reinstalled the forum recently because it had refused to allow itself to be updated. All of the topics, posts, and users should still be here. If anything behaves or looks strange, let us know. We'll fix this forum up visually in not too long—with a brand-new style, even.
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Re: Updating a forum always brings oddness

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bleh! I don't like the way it looks, but oh well, I'll look forward to it being fixed up :)

Keep up the good work

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oooh at least it's here again. thanks again for doing all the work for the site in general..

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One other thing we are doing during the forum upgrade is slightly changing the url of the forum; although not necessary, you may want to update your bookmarks if you have them linked to the forum.

The new url for the forum will be:

http://www.enterthesoulasylum.com/forum/ - with a lowercase "f" (instead of being capitalized)

If your bookmark is currently http://www.enterthesoulasylum.com/Forum, you will still be directed to the new current location, but it may be a wise decision to update it anyways (so you won't have to be redirected each time).
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I don't like this look either, but again, it is temporary, so, so be it. Luckily, I have the URL for the main page bookmarked, so unless that URL changes any time, I shouldn't have any problems navigating to the forum. Still, thanks for the heads up Jim.

I only say temporary, because the tab heading says, "It's temporaaaaary!" Someone mentioned to me it's not. It's not? :shock:
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Thanks for getting the forum back up and running again so quickly! Spending hours on this forum every day has become my primary daily computing activity, so I was kinda despondant for a while, with no new posts to find and read.

But one good thing did come out of the forum being down for a bit. I ended up spending some time on Myspace, and decided that perhaps my Myspace page would be a more appropriate location for my need to express my excitment and anxiety about this weekend's show, and because of that idea, I thought of other things to blog there about.

Thanks SO MUCH for all the work you guys put into creating and maintaining this site.

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Looks nice. :) (I'm sorry about my initial reply, I didn't mean to be rude when I said I hated it.)

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AlyssaJones wrote:Looks nice. :) (I'm sorry about my initial reply, I didn't mean to be rude when I said I hated it.)
I think your initial reply was refering to the forum's appearance immediately after the reset when it did look very blah and pale, didn't it?

I bet our web gurus shared your opinion of the "undoctored" forum appearance, or they wouldn't have changed it (when it was originally set up) to the look it had before the reset.

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dells wrote:
AlyssaJones wrote:Looks nice. :) (I'm sorry about my initial reply, I didn't mean to be rude when I said I hated it.)
I think your initial reply was refering to the forum's appearance immediately after the reset when it did look very blah and pale, didn't it?

I bet our web gurus shared your opinion of the "undoctored" forum appearance, or they wouldn't have changed it (when it was originally set up) to the look it had before the reset.

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Does anyone know what happened to all the avatars? It seems like the database containing them is no longer working properly.

Phil

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