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| Red Squirrel - Jun-21-2004 server time |
| hahaha and the atari logo in the corner, I just noticed that LOL |
| manadren - Jun-21-2004 server time | ||
jthm r0x0rs  |
| Triple6_wild - Jun-21-2004 server time |
| well sign me up for search and destroy ... i kinda enjoy poking around for bugs hmm and i think i will join the cult lol ... hows that |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-20-2004 server time |
I might even get someone to make a template. Basically, I want something that looks better then this.  It will get better though. I just realized it will be easier to make a very simple template, and once all is functional then I'll worry about making it nice. I can even save that template for PDAs or something.  Arg I hate how IPB does not allow pngs.  Mine will.  |
| Chris Vogel - Jun-20-2004 server time |
| Care Bears! Who would have thought? Kenshin, once Red gets something workable, we can help him. We can look for errors, test the board out, recommend features, etc.  |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-20-2004 server time |
| we sort of started our own care bear cult . |
| Triple6_wild - Jun-20-2004 server time |
| sup ppl's i like the color choice red ... looks good and the cybervillage could be a great feature no? lol and im sure you will probly come up with alot more features that no one has ever thought of b4 lol if i knew php i would lend a hand to help you along but since i know nothing php i cant lol i should learn it tho but where and why to start .... need my own reason to start anyways whats up with all the care bears? did i miss somthing? lol laterz |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-19-2004 server time |
| Yet another "unofficial" update. I got the skin system worked out, the debug system is all set, the error handling will be worked on more when there's actually errors to handle, so things are progressing. I will probably make an official update on the squirrelbbs site soon, and even send it out to my mailing list. |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-18-2004 server time |
| lol good point. |
| sintekk - Jun-18-2004 server time | ||
But.... your the only official working on it  |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-17-2004 server time | ||
| An unofficial update! I just completed the way mysql queries will be handed,which is designed to enable third party support of other database formats without changing a bunch of scripts around. The current forum output is not much, yet however, but the engine behind it is what I'm working on and I only expect to produce useful output by the end of the weekend.
These 3 lines can be individually ommited by editing a config file. (which will be produced by the admin cp) |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-13-2004 server time |
LOL my bad, I put tripod instead of iceteks....  That's kind of scarry though. I won't be around tomorow, I have a doctor's apointment. |
| sintekk - Jun-13-2004 server time |
| How could I miss the subtlety and genius of that page? Thanks for pointing out my mistake, Manadren |
| manadren - Jun-13-2004 server time | ||||
OMGWTFBBQ!! Don't you see it! That's an awesome site! It looks exactly like a Tripod 404 page!!!!!1 |
| sintekk - Jun-13-2004 server time |
| http://squirrelbbs.iceteks.com/ This one looks nice, though |
| sintekk - Jun-13-2004 server time | ||
Link seems to be teh brokeneded  |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-13-2004 server time |
| Just made and uploaded the site so it's better now. http://squirrelbbs.iceteks.com Now I have to actually start working on the product itself. |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-11-2004 server time |
| I probably will have a beta board setup somewhere though. |
| sintekk - Jun-11-2004 server time | ||
Aww, but we could be the bet4 testers |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-11-2004 server time |
| Probably once it's just as good as IB or better. I won't convert to the beta though. |
| sintekk - Jun-11-2004 server time |
| You gonna convert your forum to squirrelBBS when it's releasedt? |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-11-2004 server time |
| I want to try and release it by Christmas but that's not written in cement and that's why I did not write any date in there. If I was IPB I'd plan to release it by summer, and end up pushing the date till spring 2005 LOL |
| sintekk - Jun-11-2004 server time |
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| Red Squirrel - Jun-11-2004 server time |
| It's official now: http://squirrelbbs.iceteks.com/ Now I can start working on it, since I'll know what to name the subfolder on my server. The name was the only thing holding me back, that and school, but now I'm almost done school. |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-08-2004 server time |
| A few other ideas I have in mind for the name. -squirrelbb -nBulletin (n for nutty) -boomboard -superboard -zigbulletin -zigboard Superboard sounds kind of cool... but anyone else have ideas. Once a good name is chosen I'll get started on the base of it. I need to come up with a good skinning engine and authentication engine etc.... I want this both secure and efficient. I think the most complex feature will be the calendar, since it involves allot of calculations and it has to be done in minimal queries. For example it has to be able to calculate on what day a certain date will fall on, etc.... for each day. But for now I won't bother with a calandar. I want to try and get in between phpbb and IB in terms of features, before an official release. edit: I think I'm going to go with Zigboard, and the slogan will be "move zig".  |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-06-2004 server time |
| Yeah that's probably what I'd do, since I could never afford a dedicated server. The support forum... that I'm not sure how I'd do it, unless source forge would want to host that too. |
| manadren - Jun-06-2004 server time |
| I have a feeling this would be a lot more complicated than you think it is, but I have no doubt that you could pull it off. And if you do, and it gets toopopular, don't forget there are options like SourceForge. If you wanted to make it an open source project there, they'd provide the hosting for you for free, and you could still take donations through paypal or whatever. |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-06-2004 server time |
| Oh and if anyone has any good idea for a name, please let me know. I have a few in mind. -nuclearboard -freevision - MABBSEM (most awesomest bulletin board ever made) - cssbb - httbb some of those may be copyright infrigments so that's why I need more ideas. I want to try something that gets near 0 results on google. so far nuclearboard is my first choice. |
| Red Squirrel - Jun-03-2004 server time |
| I'm really thinking about how interesting it would be to make my own forum software from scratch. To consider all the little features, simple things like "mark this post as read" and "subscribe to this topic" it would be allot of work because there's so many little features like that which are overlocked but still very good to have, but I think if I start small and simple, and move my way up, it could get somewhere. I would make it available to the public and make it free, but it would be much less restricted then IPB 2.0 will be. I would have to figure out a way to get money out of it though since I would need more bandwidth once it gets very popular. I would probably do the copyright removal thing, since I think allot of people do actually pay so they can get it removed legally. But unlike IPB I would not charge $300+ for it, but rather something like $50. Also, I could always put a small ad in the admin CP or something which could generate a bit of cash once lot of people start using the software, and it would not really be all that bothersome. I will deep scan the whole IPB database to see just how much work I'm looking at and see if it's something I'd have time to keep updating and also check out the source code more deeply on how certain things are done to be more efficient. I'll keep thinking about it and keep everyone posted. If I do start this project I'll either have a seperate website for it, or have a subdomain here. One thing I will probably avoid is making the support forums in here, but that's not decided yet. And I guess it would not be very good if I'm offering a BBS system but yet use a different one for the support forum. But by the time it would reach 1.0 I'd try to get it at least as good as phpbb in terms of features. With all the features in the cybervillage that I made so far, I have a general idea of how stuff would be structured. Really the easiest parts would be categories, forums, topics and posts, and the rest is all features that go around it such as the user CP, admin CP etc... I just have a habit of hard coding stuff in php, so that's something I'd for sure have to not do at all but instead have a nice template system. |
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