Cleaning up the forum

@P@nther:

Baron,

you can nevertheless contact me the ususal way if you feel something is wrong.

However, I have no idea what threads you are talking about, but we have clearly defined rules concerning House Rules:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=40353.0

So 1914 houserules (non-official tweaks are house rules) do belong there!

War Room does not, as it is not Axis and Allies. Though it is difficult to correctly place it at the moment, as I admit, so there might not be any better place just now.

But as already discussed we might have a solution for War Room soon.

Also be very careful about saying “moderators who will move” in this special case.
The only moderators actively moving threads at the moment are wittmann and me.
And I - for sure - have no idea what you are talking about.
Maybe you can point me out by PM which recent thread you consider being incorrectly placed there?
At a first glance I can’t see any related topics there - but you are way more familiar with the House Rules subforum than I am.

@Baron:

Larry Harris games franchise is growing, A&A.org have to accordingly.

No dissent here.

Maybe I don’t understand properly this rule:

• Threads that start with House Rules but are opened in a game-specific forum will be moved to House Rules

However we understand the desire for better identifying which original game is behind which house rules. For this we ask everybody creating a thread in the House Rules subforum to assign a prefix to the title of his thread representing the original game the idea derived from:

[1914]

From my POV, House rule will remain big piles (pages) of disorderly classified threads.

@Baron:

From my POV, House rule will remain big piles (pages) of disorderly classified threads.

No dissent here either, at least we have a classification of threads now.  :wink:

@Bob77:

So the report to mod button is useless. Good to know.

Is it? We will test it as soon as possible!

Best way to contact moderators is by PM, please.

I sent a few Reports to both of you guys.

You may see if it works or not.

BTW, just take a look at 1914 forum, and ask for yourself :
how moving all these HR threads into HouseRule forum, will help the 1914 community players?

For my part, I prefer to read them all into this 1914 Forum.

Even a special bracket like: [1914 House Rule] meaning that is thread is wholly talking about House Rule, seems more appropriate.

I’m not quite sure that moving all these threads will be the answer at all to clean up the forum.

I’m not asking you to do it either.
Just to keep it on ice, for further discussions with DJensen.

We should have the capability to delete our own post, and comments from other post.

I know I would like to delete some of mine.

8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

You can edit all your posts.
And erase any post of yours, except the opening post of a thread because it would have erased all posts and whole thread.

@Baron:

You can edit all your posts.
And erase any post of yours, except the opening post of a thread because it would have erased all posts and whole thread.

I also would like to delete some comments off from my post.

@Bob77:

The top right of each of you entries should have edit button

Thanks Bob77.

For reasons I won’t go into in detail (until after the change), I need to somewhat urgently migrate this forum to the new software plus SSL. I know I’ve been talking about it for years but now it’s time.

The new software will have a better search function and tags, which will allow for a better ontology for finding and discovering stuff.

Don’t do it!  I will lose my heritage having joined in 2001!!!

I’ll make sure date registered is migrated.

@djensen - Have you chosen a new forum technology? Just interested since we recently consolidated all the TripleA sites/forums to NodeBB along with the new website:
http://www.triplea-game.org/
https://forums.triplea-game.org/

Yeah, I was going to go with NodeBB for the longest time.

I started to look at what it would take to have a dice roller, badges, advertising, migration with attachments, etc. It turns out that NodeBB would be a ton of work to get going. Discourse, on the other hand, has official plugins for all those things. The Discourse community is strong, the dev team is very strong, the UI is clean, and they’re crazy responsive and fairly open to suggestions.

Sorry to the TripleA team. I really wanted to make NodeBB work so that TripleA integration would be simple but Discourse looks like the winner.

@djensen - Ah, good to know and I totally get going with something that already has the functionality you are looking for.

Once you have a real timeline on the migration, let us know so we can look to prioritize updating the A&A PBF integration code (glad to work with you to test as well). Not sure if you’ve thought through a migration plan yet but I’m sure the last thing you want is to have all the PBF players here hunt you down if you switch over and they either lose their games or can’t continue playing them  :-)

@redrum

It looks like migrating file will be possible (fingers crossed). I’m going to setup the forum before I do the data migration so you should be able to access it and test TripleA with it.

I’m fairly certain that Discourse has an API that you can use so I’ll be sure to turn on that functionality.