03-04-2013, 04:57 PM
Quote:Hallu, just so you can have someone who's never satisfied while Eth is asleep - re the old messageboards: is there any way to retrieve them even as a read only archive placed somewhere for viewing?I have all the old forum info as it was the day the stats/forums became unavailable to the outside world. Keep in mind though that the forum data was lost at various points from not being backed up (which should now no longer be a problem with the new host) so it's sadly not a complete history. That data is in the db now, but installing the OLD forum software with the proper version was a major headache when I had to rebuild the server when it crashed hard in June of 2010 - iirc I had hack some of installation procedures to get it to work (it was an old version of the forum software back then). Thanks for mentioning your interest. I have a very long list of things to attend to for everything to be in good shape, but that bumps the priority of that one a tad. If I do get it installed, I'm not sure I want people posting new stuff there, or if we should keep all the board stuff here now...
(well done though, pretty much everyone has been hanging out for this day, and this is one thing that really CAN stem pop loss to an extent - stats on the web!)
btw, in case you didn't see, Caerbannog has access to the scheduler and the games are posted for the weekend.
I've always seen the stats as being a critical thing despite many people professing to 'not care'
I did a lot of work to get the stats available via the bots while the web not accessible, but the website is a far better interface for that sort of data. We can hope that helps to revive things, but I am considering some radical changes to the pub arena if things don't pick up. As always I'm willing to listen to suggestions.--hallu