Here's the deal (aka SAVE DAC FROM CERTAIN DEATH)

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:58 am

I quite like this new forum app, reminds me a bit of the old 2002-2021 era DAC forums, do you guys remember those

Post by **Taluntain** » Mon Feb 15, 2021 12:34 pm

Going for the retro look.

Anyway, the conversion's on hold until the garbled characters issue can be solved, hopefully won't take much longer.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:03 pm

Someone should make a movie about DaC, the website that refused to die. It will be Rocky 1, Top Gun, and WhatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Eating Gilbert Grape for tech nerds, miscreants, and Australians.

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:21 pm

Well look at what the cat dragged in.

Amis · Post by **Amis** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:48 pm

I think DaC would be more like Kobra Kai with Johnny being the users.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:42 am

Congrats on saving DaC, it deserves to survive, like a wanderer in the wastes.

Post by **Taluntain** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:28 pm

Well, the conversion's been going on for way longer than I'd have liked. The snag with the borked characters has been handled (not fixed, just bypassed), mostly everything else sorted out as well, but then the results of all the polls were not importing for some reason.

The guy doing the conversion's also gone MIA for a week here and a week there, extending the delay further. Hopefully we can wrap this up in the next few days.

Mismatch · Post by **Mismatch** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:01 pm

Well then.

This probably has been answered already, but...
Will all the custom smileys/emoticons/whatever still exist?

And

without

we're in trouble.

Hyacinth · Post by **Hyacinth** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 5:23 pm

Agreed

Post by **Taluntain** » Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:52 pm

Mismatch wrote:

Well then.

This probably has been answered already, but...
Will all the custom smileys/emoticons/whatever still exist?

And without we're in trouble.

Amazingly enough, yes, they will all transfer. But there's really a ridiculous number of smilies/images that nobody ever uses, so 90% of them could easily be cut as they serve no purpose but to inflate the list of smilies so much that it's impossible to find anything there.

Luckily XenForo allows for categorizing smilies, so all the BS nobody ever uses will be tucked away in a separate tab or three later on. Or ditched. We'll see.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Mar 19, 2021 11:42 pm

the huge meme-face bullshit emojis should go, yes :melvin fuck yeah:

other than that, I do need emojis to express emotions on the internet

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sun Mar 21, 2021 2:32 pm

Hey Taluntain, can Xenforo's fancy "modern" forum features like upvoting and reactions and what have you be disabled/hidden on the user end? I don't mind any attempts to drag me to the 21st century as long as I can conveniently ignore them.

Mismatch · Post by **Mismatch** » Sun Mar 21, 2021 9:47 pm

Taluntain wrote:
Mismatch wrote:

Well then.

This probably has been answered already, but...
Will all the custom smileys/emoticons/whatever still exist?

And without we're in trouble.
Amazingly enough, yes, they will all transfer. But there's really a ridiculous number of smilies/images that nobody ever uses, so 90% of them could easily be cut as they serve no purpose but to inflate the list of smilies so much that it's impossible to find anything there.

Luckily XenForo allows for categorizing smilies, so all the BS nobody ever uses will be tucked away in a separate tab or three later on. Or ditched. We'll see.

Post by **Taluntain** » Sun Mar 21, 2021 11:47 pm

Gimp Mask wrote:Hey Taluntain, can Xenforo's fancy "modern" forum features like upvoting and reactions and what have you be disabled/hidden on the user end? I don't mind any attempts to drag me to the 21st century as long as I can conveniently ignore them.

I don't think upvoting is a default feature like post ratings. Post ratings can't be disabled on the user end via a setting I think, but it's probably easy enough to block them with various ad blockers. Keep in mind though that by default there's only a handful of ratings ala FB, not a barrage of them like on the Codex. So by default they're not really intrusive.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:42 am

Taluntain wrote:I don't think upvoting is a default feature like post ratings. Post ratings can't be disabled on the user end via a setting I think, but it's probably easy enough to block them with various ad blockers.

Tried adblocking on the Codex, works perfectly, thanks!

Keep in mind though that by default there's only a handful of ratings ala FB, not a barrage of them like on the Codex. So by default they're not really intrusive.

I don't like them not because of intrusiveness but because they contribute absolutely nothing to a discussion (if someone reacts "angry" or "love" or whatever it doesn't tell me anything interesting, useful or entertaining), and I could complain about the social and psychological consequences of the whole thing but like said I'm perfectly happy with this as long as I can pretend it's not happening; it means that I'm able to give reactions the amount attention they deserve. (the italicized bit would be removed if this reply was a reaction instead, smash that like button if you agree)

Post by **Taluntain** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:34 pm

Yea, that's fine, if you hate them, just remove them.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Mon May 24, 2021 9:57 am

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Mon May 24, 2021 3:48 pm

That's the singer "P!nk" in 2021; feel old yet?

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Tue May 25, 2021 9:22 pm

Hyacinth · Post by **Hyacinth** » Wed May 26, 2021 4:23 pm

Hey Taulin how's the upgrade going