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  • Looking into it.

  • All links in FAQ should now be working

    If the links still 404 for you, or show nothing, it's because the 301 redirect is cached. Right click and open link in incognito window to confirm

  • Can someone link me to a post with broken links? Having a quick scan through some posts and they seem to be working.

  • "This post is pending approval from a moderator. Please be patient!"

    Since 10 hours? Be patient?? There was nothing rude or aggressive in my post.

    Is censorship a new functionality here?

    Some posts depending on post count are rated by Akismet, if it thinks there's a chance it's spam it'll mark it for review. Not censorship.

    I offered myself as a volunteer to browse the old forums and post the links manually on the new one. But of course I was ignored because they don't care anymore about that stuff.

    Not ignored, it's just the wrong way to go about it.

    Everything will be fixed, sorry it's taking far longer than expected but that's the way it is.

  • He's banned for a week just to cool down, I'm glad this site means so much to him but the abusive language is not welcome here and we're coming down harder on that behavior now to keep things nicer round here.

  • Custom? But why? Don't get me wrong, it's cool to do your custom stuff. I often do that myself, but sometimes it seems to be a case of "reinventing the wheel". Often you will have to solve problems that are already solved in established products.

    New website is hosted scalably on Azure, it's hard finding a forum that:

    • Runs on asp.net
    • Scalable in our infrastructure (we utilise Redis heavily)
    • Can seamlessly integrate with our membership system without having to glue them together which was a huge pain point of the old site
    • Ties in with our email and alerts system

    I get the pro's of not re-inventing the wheel definitely, but a lot of the components of the forum were already written in other parts of the website so was a case of just utilising them in different ways.

    Using prebuilt has the downsides of having to hack and glue a lot of stuff together, which also makes installing updates difficult when you've made big changes to it (pain point of old forum as well).

    Edit: And yes, mobile rendering is on the list.

    In development. Use Google in the interim.

  • Most new websites get launched ... working...

    Edited your post to remove the aggressiveness, this is a warning to you if you don't post more constructively and less aggressively you will get a temp ban from the forum.

    Happy to receive constructive criticism.

    I'm proud of what I've done, people are posting and conversing on here. It's working. It's different. I'm working on improving it a lot. Just be patient.

  • Releasing "early and often" is fine for things where you can continue using the old one if the new one gets broken. I'd probably change that policy for website stuff.

    New forum is functional, faster and far more reliable. I anticipated fixing formatting and some broken links would be solved quicker, but apart from that "broken" seems like completely the wrong word.

    The old forum has regular outages, painfully slow page loads & regularly logged people out.

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  • Fixed

  • Yes, you're right and I will work to restore these. The timing is unfortunate as I'll be away for a couple of weeks on a much needed break but this is important to me to fix.

  • From everyone at Scirra thank you for your kind comments!

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