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Boyah 1.0's themes are incompatible with SMF 2.0. The move to Boyah 2.0 would therefore come at the significant cost of our current set of themes, forcing us to use the SMF 2.0 default options unless/until we have made our own.

Is this issue significant enough to you to warrant the cancellation of Boyah 2.0 entirely?

simple majority decides our next step

i was going to convert smokes to boyah 2.0 comaptible but i was too lazy to setup a test environment so that died out oops

Just archive this forum, make it read only, and then make a new boyah where everybody has to register again and start at zero.

speaking of which

jmv have you made that backup y/n

jmv can i have that backup y/n

Quote from: Magyarorszag on June 11, 2018, 08:23:01 AM
Is this issue significant enough to you to cancel Boyah 2.0 entirely?

no, but i would cancel boyah 2.0 for another reason

its sheer futility awdood;

Quote from: Magyarorszag on June 11, 2018, 09:01:30 AM
speaking of which

jmv have you made that backup y/n

jmv can i have that backup y/n

is tec in compliance with the gprd?

Quote from: donʼt letʼs on June 11, 2018, 10:41:02 AM

Quote from: Magyarorszag on June 11, 2018, 09:01:30 AM
speaking of which

jmv have you made that backup y/n

jmv can i have that backup y/n

is tec in compliance with the gprd?

GDPR?

Boyah actually hasn't updated its privacy policy yet, but we've been meaning to for ages and a few new constitutional amendments will be ratified Soonâ,,¢. hocuspocus;

Quote from: donʼt letʼs on June 11, 2018, 08:58:07 AM
Just archive this forum, make it read only, and then make a new boyah where everybody has to register again and start at zero.

frankly i have no problem with this, almost all of our post histories are a dumpster fire anyway

maybe only up to 2009, i think a lot of us agree that any posts earlier than that are just turrible

also plz vote srsly

the 'transsexuals' thread is good enough evidence for me that we need to burn this place to the fucking ground at some point

to me that thread does a particularly effective job at chronicling how we've changed over the past 11 years

some of the most transphobic users later went on to become transgendered themselves lol

it's a good and useful piece of boyah history that i don't think we can just incinerate out of shame

There's a lot of posts with terms I also wish I hadn't used ironically in the past

i mean we still have the n word as an emote lol

tbf that means nobody can actually post the word without extra effort

nigger

Quote from: Khadafi on June 11, 2018, 11:36:15 AM
There's a lot of posts with terms I also wish I hadn't used ironically in the past

me2

it sounds like many of us have posts we're quite ashamed of today, the problem is:

1. how exactly do we even find those posts among thousands or even tens of thousands of posts per user

2. deciding what to do with them in case we make it past concern 1

3. deciding what qualifies as reasonable or unreasonable shame, or what posts have historic value regardless of their awfulness, etc.

Quote from: interpolhezbollahyakuza on June 11, 2018, 11:59:41 AM
tbf that means nobody can actually post the word without extra effort

Initially they were intended to be a word filter to stop having people use them but I eventually realized we can't exactly remove the content now because the words will show up in all the posts where people typed it

Quote from: Magyarorszag on June 11, 2018, 12:19:07 PM

Quote from: interpolhezbollahyakuza on June 11, 2018, 11:59:41 AM
tbf that means nobody can actually post the word without extra effort

nigger

me2

it sounds like many of us have posts we're quite ashamed of today, the problem is:

1. how exactly do we even find those posts among thousands of even tens of thousands of posts per user

2. deciding what to do with them in case we make it past concern 1

3. deciding what qualifies as reasonable or unreasonable shame, or what posts have historic value regardless of their awfulness, etc.

i could technically probably script up a way to pull a list of which words users want removed from their history by querying each post

i feel like a project like this would require far more finesse than a word filtering script alone could offer, although a script could certainly be used to facilitate things

...at the same time, i'm not even sure we'd need a dedicated script when we do have the search feature lol

Quote from: Magyarorszag on June 11, 2018, 12:35:52 PM
...at the same time, i'm not even sure we'd need a dedicated script when we do have the search feature lol

search is incredibly slow

i've tried

that it is awdood;

i also don't think it always catches every instance of every query

Quote from: Khadafi on June 11, 2018, 12:22:22 PM

Quote from: interpolhezbollahyakuza on June 11, 2018, 11:59:41 AM
tbf that means nobody can actually post the word without extra effort

Initially they were intended to be a word filter to stop having people use them

i love just how badly this strategy backfired for the y/n filter lmao

I'm all for starting over. I'd love to abandon some of all that past shit, plus it would give us a better idea of where we stand now and who all is left. Plus, 2.0.

i am wholly opposed to starting over from zero, that's just way too dramatic a solution to what's practically a non-problem

there is simply far too much history over the course of boyah's RICH ELEVEN-YEAR EXISTENCE for starting over from scratch now while activity is at its absolute lowest to make any sense

we can brainstorm on strategies to do some spring cleaning in preparation for the move but i will fervently resist any serious campaign to begin anew

you can't throw over 1.5 million babbies out with a thimbleful of bathwater

I was just joking

i know you were but it seems like quite a few boyagers actually wouldn't mind :|

drastic measures always sound good to my dramatic idiot brain

imo a good 25% of the fun of boyah is looking back and laughing at absurd old posts and reviving long-dead topics with new perspectives lol

but maybe that's just me idk

as i've said, i'm ok with tactlessness to a point, so i'm fine with keeping everything in place right now

i actually fear change in this instance. if i could make boyah look exactly the same but function better and load faster, i'd be so happy

Quote from: interpolhezbollahyakuza on June 11, 2018, 05:49:49 PM
as i've said, i'm ok with tactlessness to a point, so i'm fine with keeping everything in place right now

i actually fear change in this instance. if i could make boyah look exactly the same but function better and load faster, i'd be so happy

yes i overwhelmingly agree with this

I'm with Tec. The past is important no matter how it looks. Too many memories good and bad that deserve to remain.

y'all sound like my hoarder ass grandma aint no one gonna be lookin for them newpaper clippings from '76 granny throw em out

i am certainly a whoarder of posts, i will admit

but imo every post is sacred

every post is great

should posts get erased

i'd be quite irate

hey future dick looking through old internet shit:

FUCK YOU!!!

yeah you tell 'em

stick it to the man

Quote from: C.Mongler on June 13, 2018, 06:31:48 AM
y'all sound like my hoarder ass grandma aint no one gonna be lookin for them newpaper clippings from '76 granny throw em out

Tell that to any genealogist or historian. You purger.   n_u

So JMV, as you can see, the people have spoken with unanimity. We have absolutely no excuse to continue delaying 2.0. :3

no boyah 2.0 please

I vote for the "burn it all with fire" approach akudood;
Or maybe just move everything old to a read-only archive with every board locked down to existing members like Offline Discussion is

Quote from: C.Mongler on June 11, 2018, 11:14:37 AM
the 'transsexuals' thread is good enough evidence for me that we need to burn this place to the fucking ground at some point

I'm guessing I must've posted that thread to gague reactions. looking back, why didn't I leave
Why did I actually admit it
and in the most self-loathing way too lol

Can Boyah 3.0 just be boyah's very own reddit clone? And that way everybody can just have their own boards and have boards for whatever they want.

reddit itself is already just a boyah clone

they just capitalized on it better than we did :'(

I'll try a new SMF 2.0 install this weekend and just try to get posts and users imported. You can decide if you want to switch over from there

Just for you guys  n_n

Quote from: Lifetrends on July 17, 2018, 02:34:47 PM
I'll try a new SMF 2.0 install this weekend and just try to get posts and users imported. You can decide if you want to switch over from there

Just for you guys  n_n

gtfo!!!!!!!!!!! make me mod

THANK YOU DADDY

Thank you Snorkel.   :3

Just a fair warning, it's not going to be an easy move guys. myface;

we'll do what we can to ensure it's as sooth as it can reasonably be but expect many many hiccups along the way

Tec's been waiting all this time just to screw us over (https://i.imgur.com/tqQ9raJ.png)

i screamed

Quote from: Magyarorszag on July 19, 2018, 06:44:13 PM
i screamed

[Spoiler](https://i.imgur.com/7oKkRQR.jpg)[/SpOiLeR]

it's so uncanny and macabre >.<

It'd be nice to get https too. Why did we roll back the previous attempt at that?