Forum Maintenance Master Thread

REMINDME: Download a backup of the site database at the end of every month

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week?

it’s backed up weekly but i figured as long as someone has a backup whenever we get close to a credit card expiration deadline we’re good

Hey, @CT075 it’s close to the end of May. Here’s to a reminder Kappa.

07/12/2015

You may have noticed that tags are back. Discourse apparently has a fully-endorsed tagging plugin so we’re trying that again. We’re also slowly turning into stack overflow; question askers will now be able to select answers as the “chosen answer” as a way to show gratitude to someone who was particularly helpful. There may be other assorted features slowly getting rolled out as well, so keep in tune and make sure to let me know of any glitches, either in this thread or by PMing me.

E: yes, i am aware that tags are pretty useless. my hype was spent too. i’m working on it, okay?

E2: well that hype was short-lived. RIP tags

–fuck discourse won’t just let me quote a post and submit this software sucks–

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I still really like the new Solutions system though. Hopefully it helps make the questions and requests sections more readable as it gets adopted.

Unfortunately the tags plugin is pretty lame out of the box; I’m thinking we should make some wikiposted directory topics, and hopefully that helps out our organization in basically the same way.

Sorry about the downtime, guys, just cleaning up a bit of the server drive so we don’t have to have another panic when the server fills up with random disk images.

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OKAY i think I might have fixed the quote issues

i have no idea why that happened

A bit of a categorical change: I’ve moved all of the topics from the old “Fire Emblem” category into “Social,” which has been renamed into “Community.”

So wooo, #change?

[spoiler=good news]We have collapsing spoilers! Finally![/spoiler]

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By the seven heavens…

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omg it actually works on my browser

[spoiler] We have what? How do we set the spoiler message text?[/spoiler]

it’s [spoiler=name]

[spoiler=extra aerodynamic] [/spoiler]

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^I don’t know why but that last one made me lol actually.

Hyperlinks within spoilers don’t work :frowning:

Oh, unless you put it within the spoiler, like so:

[spoiler=SPOILER TITLE][Hello!][1]
[1] http://www.url.com[/spoiler]

To create a poll:

[poll]
- Option 1
- Option 2
- Etc...
[/poll]
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About letter avatars not always working - I’m looking into it.

EDIT:

based discourse upgrade thanks arch