[Cynic]

AionSource - A new makeover, a new look.



Well my lovelies, the time has come for AionSource to have a hammer and chisel taken to her beautiful face, sculpting her in a new style with fun features to play around with :D

Unfortunately, there have been some database issues over the last few weeks (read: 404/504 errors) which have turned out to be far more serious stability-wise than we originally thought. This has forced us to push forward a project to move AionSource from vBulletin software to that of IPBoard.

While all fansites in our lovely little network were scheduled for this change, we still had a month or two to go, but alas website stability comes first :D

Now admittedly it will take some getting used to, although you'll find a few neat little toys around and about the site that aren't here in vBulletin, not to mention if you keep an eye out you might see some of our mods running into walls with the new software before chasing me with an axe! ._.

There are some things to keep in mind, so I'll try to detail as much of that as possible.

Firstly, the new system will finally tie us, far overdue technically, to the Curse.com ID system. Basically, this means you'll be logging in with your Curse ID rather than the one you have here. For the majority of you that already have accounts, after the transfer is complete when you attempt to login with your current details a prompt will arise.

• If you already have a Curse account with an email address matching your AionSource account, log in and they will be automatically linked.
  
• If you do not have a Curse account and the user name does not already exist with your current Aionsource account's name, then it will automatically be created saving you the hassle before sending you on your way.
  
• If the user name is not available on Curse you will be prompted to choose a Curse account user name.
  
• When associating a Curse account with your Source account, they must share the same email. If this is not possible (inactive old email or something to that end), please feel free to contact us and we'll sort it out for you.
  
• You will keep your current display name (the name that everyone sees you posting with now) regardless of your Curse ID. This display name is currently editable, with some restrictions, although that is subject to change.

Secondly if you're among the first to login after the transfer, you may notice a few oddities like forums you've never seen before in the Index, exploding birds and random angry rants from me about forum settings among them. Try to ignore that.. or at least don't laugh at me too hard. ;) Should you notice any overly troubling things, feel free to comment in one of the news threads regarding the subject (like this one) or in Site Feedback.

Update: The transfer has been temporarily delayed due to some technical difficulties, we'll update you when the tech department provides us with any information besides that.

Thanks for your support and my pre-emptive apologies for the next couple days. I may be slightly more... stressed (read: Birdman-esque grouchy) than usual rewriting resources and setting things up. All complaints can be forwarded to my lovely secretary Snoozle who will most likely put you on hold.

All the best,
-Cynic

This post has been edited by Cynic: 04 March 2010 - 07:26 AM

[Nobody]

All phone lines are waiting for the hold button to be hit sir.

:grin:

[Jerk]

What's a curse account
/s

[Knite]

I've called Cynic's "phone lines" before. I do NOT recommend it, unless you're still in your "college-experiment" phase.


On a serious note, please be patient with us these next couple days. Between all the news that is incoming and this transition, the AS staff is going to be pressed a bit more than they've been used to. Response times may suffer due to everything that's going on, but rest-assured we want to make the transition as smooth as we can, for your sanity and our own!

This post has been edited by Knite: 03 March 2010 - 03:59 PM

[Cynic]

Stop poaching my targets Knite, I see what you're up to over there!

[Bone]

Someone said that theres free cak.... WTF IS SNOOZLE DOING IN THAT SWING!??!?!?!?:plshelp:

[Nobody]

Hold button has now been pressed!

:flames:

[Sardoni]

I remain pensive...

Spoiler

[Resin]

Will we still have the mobile mode? Keeps my boss from thinking I'm screwing around at work ^ ^. Just looks like I'm reading emails.
Posted via Mobile Device

[Nobody]

Hrm, distraction operation deployed. Look at the tasty cake!



And if you don't like that one, then maybe you'd prefer this one:



Yes, there is still a mobile mode.

This post has been edited by Snoozle: 03 March 2010 - 04:12 PM

[szalkerous]

Well, at least something related to AION is doin some updates early!!

Yeah... I had to go there. :D

[Bone]

I'm more interested in this update and new things i get to rage about and act like im important :)

Btw if ya'll need me to try and break anything just lemme know...anyone besides cynic.....he's not to be trusted.

[Nobody]

Bone said:

I'm more interested in this update and new things i get to rage about and act like im important :)

Btw if ya'll need me to try and break anything just lemme know...anyone besides cynic.....he's not to be trusted.

Cynic is the epitome of goodness I'll have you know!

And I suspect that you'll break stuff anyway... so feel to play, break stuff, and come crying to me so that I can put you on hold.

:grin:

[Outrageous]

That Pac-man cake is the definition of greatness.

[Tepichan]

Oh noes! No Aionsource for how many days? ...

THE PAIN!!!! IT HURTS!!!

[Bone]

press 1 for me to continue

press 2 to sit on hold for snoozle while listening to barry manilow

press 3 if you would like to be directed to the [edited by snoozle as you're not escaping the snoozle hotline]

This post has been edited by Snoozle: 03 March 2010 - 05:47 PM

[Tepichan]

*press 3*

hugepenis

[Sardoni]

I'm just waiting for the rage from custom forum titles breaking and all the little "Chief Investigators" and "Saviors of Solaris" reminisce on glory days when the internet mattered.

So... is everything going to transfer "smoothly"? (Humor me as I know there are kinks) I mean the albums people have uploaded, the social groups, the blogs, the posts/threads, the profiles? I don't know enough about all the back end doo dads, but there's not enough panic in this thread for my liking. ;) Should people back up their precious memories (if need be)? Defcon 7?

Question. I sporadically trounce over to the Terafan boards (which I believe are IPBoard based) and the Premium users have some... interesting accesses. When you keep in perspective all the lovely fun we've had here in Aionsource since I've been wading these Aionsource waters.

http://www.terafans....__fromsearch__1

Quote

• Access to Premium only forum. (Coming soon!)
  
• Fancy Title
  
• Lowered time between searches.
  
• 5,000 personal messages instead of 150.
  
• Allowed to send attachments in personal messages
  
• Give ten positive reputation in a day instead of only five.
  
• 5MB of attachments across posts and messages.
  
• Larger personal photo, 170x240.
  
• Change topic rating after rating already.
  
• Delete own posts and topics.
  
• Can set gallery image notes.
  
• 25MB of gallery space, up from 5MB.
  
• 2MB maxium per gallery image, up from 1MB.
  
• Can create up to three albums instead of just one.

Ermm... so I can delete my own posts/topics (in theory)... so what's to stop "hospital sex toy wii nurse lady" poster from getting a premium account, mass creating threads... mass deleting their own threads... mass creating threads... mass deleting their own thread... mass creating threads... AND THEN disputing the charges (unless it's not a *gasp* legitimate CC) for the premium members when you permaban the account? Not saying those same said accesses will be passed on to the Aionsource world, but keeping that in scope... meh well I guess everything can be exploited no matter how you try to keep it sane. At least (I assume) it leaves a foot print of the post/thread so you can back track it for mod purposes.

<- Chicken little

And can we please not have the option to display our name change history? That should be a mod option only not a general public view. I keep all my logins/passwords (and don't share them) different and I'm still grumpy that the curse login became the initial "display name" on Tera, but THEN it keeps it on your profile page... /end rage.

I enjoy the Aionsource layout, not a fan of the Terafan forum layout (the Tera community is definitely nice enough :D). No one ever likes change, but I'll be here to break things.

P.S. WHAT ABOUT "THANKS"!? (That reputation thing on Tera is so annoying). I got -1'd by some random person for agreeing with Cynic (that should teach me a lesson I know). I smell a conspiracy afoot over there...

This post has been edited by Sardoni: 03 March 2010 - 05:56 PM

[Bone]

I'm inciting a riot in chat chit if you care to join in sard's :)