CriBaby

Long ago I started coming here with the username cribaby to go along with a company I had considered creating. Well, after the production line fell a bit short I dropped the cribaby idea and moved on.

I'm now considering making a different site but cribaby seems out of place as a username/URL. Is there any way to change my username/URL? I know that creating duplicates is a no-no and the registration is down right now anyway. Just curious.

That plus threw me off at first. A little testing and things go so much smoother.

I would greatly enjoy an IRC chat with a web interface for people to join if they don't understand IRC. Bots would work (and I enjoy writing them, so that'd be fun).

Shoutboxes actually slow the activity of the forum but they do get people to return more readily. A site I frequent has one and people are always in it talking, even when the boards are slow.

What, no changelog?

Haha, just kidding.

Firefox works fine for registering an account. If you question that your account has been made, you can ask djbob and he can look for you. Please remember that it takes 24 hours to process and you should not try to re-sign-up during those 24 hours.

I think I'll have to praise you for being the most intelligent being in the world if you can find a better way to tell someone that they need to purchase a domain before they can use it. I have never seen a free top level domain (other than .tk) and I'm sure you'd go out of business before the day's end if you offered free .com domains.

PHPBB > IPB > SMF

That's just my opinion. I've found PHPBB the easiest to use, IPB is a close second but I don't much like the layout, and SMF has just been difficult.

Wow, I haven't been able to get back to this site in a couple of days and look at the activity!

I'll go about making more edits in the next few days, if able.

Also, screenshots of what you're doing. The code (blocks instead of just the yellow lines, so you can see what's surrounding the code you've made) and the final result of what you've done. Either way, it helps.

Also, keep in mind that it takes approximately 24 hours to activate your account. If you do not get a confirmation page; do NOT attempt to remake it. It won't work and it'll probably delete them both. If you don't get a confirmation page you should contact djbob to make sure it was successful. If it wasn't then he'll tell you to remake it.

Also, unless you have a paid domain, make sure you choose .heliohost.org for your domain.

That site is blocked where I work. I'll check it out at home, but if you're still on I'd really like a short synapsis of what it's all about. From what you've said so far it sounds exactly like what I'm looking for.

How does it work without java or flash?

Meebo isn't going to give me quite as much control as I want. I use mIRC for my IRC needs but, as I said, IRC only won't work because people who aren't computer savvy won't waste their time downloading a chat program to talk to a few people they could talk to using other means.

Anyway, thank you all for your input. Maybe I'll just try to get a shoutbox working with phpbb.

The type of stuff I generally do in chat rooms requires that I have it update per message (even if it's just the chat window).

As far as ajax goes, I was looking at the w3schools and while I can understand the concept, the individual code baffles me. I need it broken down more so I understand what each tag does. Otherwise, I don't know what to modify. :S

I'm not sure that one is going to do what I'm looking for. I'll try and use it if I can't find anything else, though. Thanks crazy. Are there any others that might be useful?

Has anyone here used any form of chat room software that is easy to use, free, and can hold more than 10 people? Or does anyone know a good way to program a chatroom using PHP? I'm not really good with AJAX and I don't know a way to force the window to refresh when someone sends a message.

I'd prefer for the software to be able to support IRC and GUI connections, but GUI only would be fine. IRC only will not work as most people don't know how/won't use mIRC or any similar programs any longer.

On another note: Does anyone here run an IRC chat? I'm a pretty fair IRC bot developer and I'd like to get back into it if I can't figure out a good way to get a chat room on my own site.

Find out at what time it's deleting it and then write a script to recreate it? Beats the heck out of trying to find some bogus bug that's deleting it.

I haven't done a thorough test, but it appears to be working for me too. My forums haven't hiccuped, anyway.

What could have happened is that in the space between the MySQL database being tranferred to Stevie and the DNS being pointed to Stevie (maximum two minutes, but probably less) you posted those posts/topics that got deleted. Yeah, that's probably what happened.

My timing has always been sub-excellent.

Feel free to repost whatever you posted, anyways.

And you expect me to remember my inane ramblings how? No sir, I think the fair amount of whining I've done here has served to satisfy me quite well.

All in all, I'll simply consider this an act of war from Stevie and make it my duty to ensure that he lives a life filled with sodomy from djbob's torture (read: rack mounting).

i am from america, i forget to capitalize sometimes... sorry i guess

 

either way i am not double posting, this is a new problem, and if you edit it doesn't count it as an updated post.

You missed my point. You were the last person to post in the thread. The problems were exactly the same (not a new problem). There's no reason to make a new post if the problem is the same and you're still the last poster.

All you guys are starting to seem mod-power-hungy

Patience is the key

Hey! I'm not power hungry. I haven't even said anything about wanting to be a mod (though it wouldn't be a bad job). The most I've said is that there needs to be more of them.

Oh well. No real harm done.

Is there a limit on how long you have before you cannot edit? A double post likely wasn't required as he never replied to your original post.

In any case, what country are you from crazybmanp? As far as I know, in America it's a requirement that you know the basics of proper English. Whether or not you adhere to them is another matter entirely, but you should know to capitalize the first letter of your sentence, the letter "I" when referring to yourself, and proper nouns.

Why is it that everyone shuts down in English class? I enjoyed it.

I looked in my most recent threads on my profile and I looked in the Customer Feedback section (where I posted it). There haven't been enough threads to push it off the front page. It's definitely gone. I'm assuming it got missed on the backup.

Edit: http://www.helionet.org/index/index.php?sh...c=3497&st=0 - This is a thread in which one of my posts is missing. The OP said something, I said something, Wizard said to do what I said, and I replied to Wizard. It went missing and then the whole ordeal of him being from another country broke out.

Now, this whole thing really isn't that big of a deal. I mean, I don't care if I'm missing one or two posts. However, I outlined exactly what he needed to do in that second post. I gave him the "solute" he asked for. Had it not disappeared, who knows what would have happened. Ah well.

I did a little research but I'm not quite sure I understand. What is a cronjob/cron script?

I had a customer feedback topic that has seemingly disappeared.

I'm assuming it got deleted, but I'm not entirely sure as to why. The title was a little silly but the information within was all true.

On the other hand, the site recently went through a move so it's possible it was deleted by that?