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Traditional Catholic Faith => Computers, Technology, Websites => Topic started by: Matthew on June 28, 2016, 07:53:03 PM
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Also, you can click on "Control Panel", then "Edit Subscriptions" to view a list of your current subscriptions. You can delete them there at any time.
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Rather than start another thread about the forum, can I mention here that something has changed with the log in. I now have to log off from Guest before I can log in as myself. Is this going to be permanent?
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Rather than start another thread about the forum, can I mention here that something has changed with the log in. I now have to log off from Guest before I can log in as myself. Is this going to be permanent?
UPDATE: I fixed this problem. The whole system of logging in, logging out, etc. is back to normal.
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Ok thank you, I saved the link to the log off page because it has the log in option. The other pages do not for some reason.
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Rather than start another thread about the forum, can I mention here that something has changed with the log in. I now have to log off from Guest before I can log in as myself. Is this going to be permanent?
I had the same problem for days. I was unable to log in as Alexandria and, no matter when I came here, I was immediately logged in as "Guest."
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UPDATE: I fixed this problem. The whole system of logging in, logging out, etc. is back to normal.
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Is there a way to quickly and easily subscribe to all threads we've ever posted to?
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Matthew, did you write this forum software from scratch? Or base it on something? I like how lightweight it is, but a WYSIWIG editor would be nice, too.
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Matthew, did you write this forum software from scratch? Or base it on something? I like how lightweight it is, but a WYSIWIG editor would be nice, too.
It is the old MercuryBoard, which is now defunct.
But I've added a lot to it, since I'm a PHP developer. It's nice to be able to change things so easily.
THAT HAVING BEEN SAID, I eventually will be upgrading CathInfo to "SimpleMachines Forum", a currently maintained, very popular, free, forum software. There are lots of add-on features for it.
I played around with it most recently a couple months ago -- I figured out a lot of things I'd need to figure out before I could switch. For example, the Anonymous subforum I'd have to write a script to make all the posts anonymous. The present/future posts would be anonymous automatically. But all the past ones would be NOT anonymous unless I wrote a program to go through and set each one to anonymous.
There is also a feature for male/female specific subfora.
The best thing about SimpleMachines is that there is a plug-in that imports most things from Mercuryboard. I tested it, and subforums/posts/topics/PMs/users all get imported just fine. It takes a while, but it works!
But it would be a bit of a project to upgrade. I mean, I'd have to get everything set up and tested.
Nevertheless I have to do it sometime, before I lose my chance to upgrade. Once mercuryboard becomes "ancient" I'll lose my chance to jump into a currently-supported forum software.
Because there's no way I would ever switch software unless all 10 years of posts came with us. Ditto for the user database.