The temperature of the water...

On 14 Apr 2008 01:59:44 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Count me in then John.

OK, I hijack this one and x-post it to aww, and f-up to back here (aise).

Short summary: I am stopping with Usenet [0] (real soon now), but like to
stay in touch with people in both aise / aww.

I will configure coming week a web based forum (phpBB) on a spare domain I
have. If you're interested reply to this post by email, or email me:

contact at johnbokma dot com

I'll confirm your email asap. If you don't get a reply within one day,
post a comment on my site (see sig).

Some more info for people who read this the first time:

- everybody is welcome unless you want to make a mess of it
- I want to avoid moderation as much as possible [1]
- personal attacks are unwelcome / let the past be in the past
- the goal of the board is to provide a place to hang out, a virtual
water cooler. This means that aise/aww stuff is on topic, but that
there is a lot of room for off topic stuff (you, your life, pets,
music you like, movies you like, books you read).

In short: a friendly, mellow place to share the stuff that interests you;
both web development / SEO related (20%) as well as personal stuff (80%)
[2].

Since I am afraid that we get very little sign ups in the beginning (I was
hoping to get at least 20 people in total from both groups, but I guess
the real number will be closer to 10) if you know people who would be
interested, please invite those as well.


[0] Too much noise/spam, don't like the constant flaming (of which I have
done more than my share), etc.

[1] I am admin of another board for 3 years, and it's a very nice place
right now. The only moderation I've done so far is:

- locking threads when things went out of hand so people could cool
down (rare)
- moving aforementioned threads to a "hidden" area
- removal of spam (rare, and none after I hacked the default
phpBB CAPTCHA to be a bit harder)

[2] the % is just how I guess the ratio will be, in case you expect a
SEO / web development forum with hardly any "off topic" stuff. I
would like to see it the other way around.

Did you get your email John ?
plh
Paul

Paul <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

Did you get your email John ?

Hi Paul, yes.

I just tested the board with IE6 (XP, running in a VM) and it just works.
(It's the default theme that comes with the software, so I was a bit
shocked when you told me it didn't work in IE6 :-D)

Can you try refreshing in IE? (or use Firefox?)

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John Bokma http://johnbokma.com/

Jez <j.ez (AT) virgin (DOT) net> wrote:

I'd like an invite when you have set it up John, if I'm welcome.

Invite sent :-D

Any more takers? ;-)

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John Bokma http://johnbokma.com/

John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Count me in then John.

OK, I hijack this one and x-post it to aww, and f-up to back here
(aise).

x-post to aww / f-up to set to aise.

I will configure coming week a web based forum (phpBB) on a spare
domain I have. If you're interested reply to this post by email, or
email me:

Forum is up & running. I expected a bigger response from aww, but maybe
too busy with trolls and spammers and enjoying it too much :-D

Anyway, I want to thank most people in aww for their contributions, and
somewhat apologise for not always be the nice guy I really am (honestly).

Have a good one,

--
John Bokma http://johnbokma.com/

On 16 Apr 2008 15:16:53 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Paul <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

Did you get your email John ?

Hi Paul, yes.

I just tested the board with IE6 (XP, running in a VM) and it just works.
(It's the default theme that comes with the software, so I was a bit
shocked when you told me it didn't work in IE6 :-D)

Can you try refreshing in IE? (or use Firefox?)

It looks okay now. [IE6]
I only use firefox for cross browser testing and adsense earnings.
plh
Paul
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Paul <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

It looks okay now. [IE6]

Good to hear :-D

I only use firefox for cross browser testing and adsense earnings.

:-)

--
John Bokma http://johnbokma.com/

"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote

Paul <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

It looks okay now. [IE6]

Good to hear :-D

I only use firefox for cross browser testing and adsense earnings.

:-)

Adsense earnings? Does this mean you click?:-)

On 17 Apr 2008 01:23:27 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Paul <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

It looks okay now. [IE6]

Good to hear :-D

But screws up again when you return to the main menu. It isn't keeping
the new look. F5 picks it up again, but then defaults back to the
screwed look