File uploading is broken !
 

I tried to upload files, but "new scenario/Mod forum" has "File Uploading is not allowed"

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Re: File uploading is broken !
 

I've got the same problem.

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Several others have noticed it too. Someone on the Design Name Anthology thread said they reported it to Shrapnel.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That would have been me.

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Please check the note out in the Mod Forum.

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So when did that big note appear?
Is this a case of people only seeing what they want to see, or did it just pop up lately?

I know I went there a few days ago and didn't notice it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: File uploading is broken !
 

No I just posted it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

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I must say, I like the new policy of the real d/l threads being sticky. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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Yeah I can't believe I never thought of that, but hey I ain't perfect http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

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What? Blasphemer! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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BTW, in case anyone was curious, we are moving ISP's in about a month. I just now configuring our new Windows 2003 boxes. It should be a NICE upgrade for the site as far as speed and reliablity. After all the current site is running on IIS 4 on NT 4.

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Is there going to be a new forum with a better forum software?

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No, the current software runs just fine. It was never designed to do file uploads, we hacked it to do that. So we may come up with something seperate for that.

Unless you want to pay for the upgrade http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

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A "Sticky" Forum http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Cool

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There are at least 20 free forum software packages out there that work really well and that do not suffer from the problems inherent in UBB. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Richard, you should come by the #se4 IRC channel on Gamesnet. You have no excuse to never come by. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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What advantages does UBB have? All I have seen are disadvantages...

phpBB is not a resource hog... What evidence do you have backing this claim?

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Fyron, why does he need to give you evidence? Richard does website admin and information technology for a living. You on the other hand have been doing websites for all of 42 minutes in between classes and dealing with acne breakouts. You have consistantly harrased him on every occasion and in several different threads on this forum about gettign rid of the UBB forum. He has no intention of doing it any time soon, and if he does it's not going to be because you come up with some idea he hasn't ever heard of, cause most likely there aren't any. He's too nice to tell you this himself so I will. Drop it.

Geoschmo
SEIV Forum Moderator

Re: File uploading is broken !
 

So back to our conversation before Geo's rude interruption...

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Fyron,
Richard administers UBB, and I remember reading a post he made in the past where he mentioned that he has administered PHPBB in the past, although I could be mistaken. This would put him in a very believable position for judging which is more resource intensive. He has the voice of experience in the matter. Unless I see a credible source demonstrating otherwise, when he says PHPbb is a resource hog, I'm inclined to believe him. He could likely stand in a court of law as an expert in the field at this time.

Your profile lists your occupation as a student, and your birthdate puts you in your senior year at high school, or your freshman (perhaps sophmore) year at college (ignoring the very real possibility of skipped grades). This puts you in a less believeable position for judging the matter. It is likely you could not stand in a court of law as an expert in the field at this time.

Yet you contradict Richard and request evidence of his statements in a field of his expertise, apparently listing no evidence of your own position. That strikes me as a bit odd. Do you have some evidence or source you aren't mentioning, or are you going on personal belief?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">UBB works fine, it has a lot of advantages over most of those. The only one I would consider is phpBB, but that's a resource hog.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Fyron, I am a moderator. It wasn't a rude interuption. I am telling you to drop it.

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Geo, you are way out of line here. I have done no such harrassment, I am just trying to discuss something with Richard. Slinging insults at me does not help you any, and it is especially bad coming from a moderator. It is quite possible that I have knowledge you are unaware of, and it is quite possible I could have spoken with other people that know as much as or more than Richard about this sort of stuff.

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Fyron, if my attempt at humor was taken as an insult by you I appologize. But I stand by my statement that you have been harrasing Richard about it. I have seen myself in several threads you asking him the same questions and making the same suggestions over and over. Richard has told you no in every case and explained why. If you don't like his answer then private message him or email him about it. But be aware he has very likely made up his mind and you are not doing anything by continuing the incessant badgering. There is no need for you to continue posting in the forum asking the same questions that he has already answered.

If you want to continue this conversation with me do so by PM or email please.

Geoschmo

[ August 25, 2003, 01:36: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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That was a poor attempt at humor... though I do accept your apology for it.

You completley mischaracterize my actions and then want me to not post anything in my defense? That isn't going to happen. First off, making a suggestion to Richard (even if it has been rejected before months ago) is not harrassment or badgering, it is making a suggestion. Harrassment would involve doing this repeatedly over an extended period of time, which I have not done. I have only made a few suggestions at distant intervals. This would be at most the 3rd time I have suggested this, which in no way constitutes "making the same suggestions over and over." A lot can change over a period of months. Also, I did not make the same suggestion this time. I made no mention of phpBB, just an inquiry as to the possibility of going with a better forum software than UBB. Richard brought up phpBB specifically.

Secondly, this is not harrassment, it is trying to discuss the issue. I was merely asking what his objections to phpBB were, and probably would have gotten an answer, had you not decided to go off the deep end. If his objections were sound, there would have been nothing further to discuss. The only objection he gave in the past was about phpBB being a resource hog compared to UBB, which is not actually true. I have discussed such things with a number of knowledgeable people since then. It may use more resources than UBB, but it is certainly not a "hog." Well, there was one more objection, and that was about all the hacks of the UBB he had done. But, nearly all of them are standard features in at least 75% of the forum software out there, phpBB being no exception. I am sure Richard knows this.

Also, it has not been my experience that Richard is adamantly stubborn about things he has made up his mind about and unwilling to change his mind. Quite the contrary, in fact.

If you do not want to read any discussions on this, don't read them. This was a perfectly civil and legitimate discussion.

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Actually I should have addressed this a LONG time ago.

I would like you to drop it Fryon, it takes time out of my day to argue the point with you. I could do so, and we could have fun with it, but it takes time away from me checking what folks are saying on the Boards. Plus we just don't see eye to eye on this.

So please drop it, Geo was right to call you on it, and I shouldn't have put him in that place.

No harm done, just let it go.

[ August 25, 2003, 06:04: Message edited by: Richard ]

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Geo was definitely not right in how he went about it...

Geo doesn't speak for you, but since you say you don't want to discuss it any more, I guess we won't discuss it any more.