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What we really need is a really good feed of suggested topics and an email campaign to reveal them. Reddit absolutely mastered this. I used to be an occasional Reddit … then the emails came and they were relevant and fun and I enjoy getting that email. Actually, I mostly just go direct to Reddit now.

@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.

Just the software.

Is there a way to “auto-read” or hide all of the “Play Boardgames” forum posts? I like to browse the “Show unread posts since your last visit,” but it’s always full of people posting their league matches, which I really don’t care to read.

I found that if I go into these boards and “Mark all read” it clears the list up nicely, but I was wondering if there was some setting I could use to do this automatically.

I seriously want to play 30 games of global but I do not want to crash the server lol.
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I noticed that if I edit… then the dice will all reroll!

HMMM.

I was thinking maybe have moderators delete games long after they are completed.
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Just delete everything inactive for more than 6 months. That is super quick. If you want to spend many hours you can save the last file of every single game and put the “title, date, and players”  and post an entire thread with just the last file and the result of who was who and who won.

If that does not clear enough space. Have mods delete games that are completed and recorded. That is it.

I win 3/4th of my games and I will never look at them again. There is no point to them.

@P@nther:

If Europe/Pacific/Global1940 second edition games really are “only” reprints with Alpha3 rules - then I think there is no need for new subforums for these editions. Because everything that covers the development of the rules up to their current status is already inside.

If they turn out to be different games (such as Spring 1942 and 1942 se) seperate forum sections of course would be good.

I agree, plus I only play Global and prefer it’s own forum, also, it’s a completly different game than E&P 1940, and the most complex edition in the A&A franchise.

In your case Magister, it most likely is a combination of factors.

Your ping time is slow (on a speed test, I typically ping at 31-34 ms) and your bottom-end download speed is also slow.

Combine that with a slow response server (A&A.org), and you are going to get some very poor results.

If you are on Cable, then you need to do some work on your system.  Perhaps too much running in the background, or perhaps you are in need of having a “system tweek”

dslreports.com

@Candyman67:

I know most here are fond of WWII. I was thinking that we could have a seperate forum to discuss WWII topics/controversies like we have done before.

yes general works…

just so y’all know, i’ll post another WW2 article soon.