Cleaning up the forum

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.