The End of the 5MV Forums - ....on ikonBoard, that is

[Zeke]

Yes, you read that correctly. This is the END of the 5MV Forums. On the ikonBoard system.

Some of you will recall the site going down for a while last December. This was the result of our server being used to hack other servers. Our ikonBoard was the entry point -- the version we were using had a nice big security hole, easily exploited. We got it patched, but apparently there are others. More to the point, ikonBoard is no longer being updated or patched -- the developers have abandoned it for other systems. (That part I didn't find out till the server move in April.)

Charles, the Trek Nation's tech guy, has been urging me to change to a new forum system since he found out we were still using an iB. I haven't done it yet since I haven't really had time and it's a fair amount of work, but the glitches (such as our registration problem) are really getting annoying, and Charles has basically made it clear to me he won't continue fixing them. So it's time to get things moving.

The first thing I need is feedback from you guys. In your browsing, what forum systems have you been the happiest with? (If you don't know the name of a system, just link me to the board in question.) What features do you consider the most important? I want to hear from as many of you as possible about this, because it's your community I have to uproot and plant someplace else. (It's your metaphor I have to mix, too.)

[Hotaru]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Kinda scared me for a minute, Zeke. All I read was "End of 5MV..."

For our FFXI LS Forum we got one from BBFree.com, we haven't had any problems with it, except it sometimes doesn't want to let us view pictures. As for important features, I can't really think of any.

Good-bye top ten! Good-bye old comments on Fivers! Good-bye really high post counts on some people! Good-bye! :bawl:[/color:post_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What version are you running here, anyway? I know my other favourite board has an IkonBoard of an earlier version than this one, apparently without problems - though we don't get nearly as much traffic as here, so perhaps it just seems good because nobody has bothered to attack it yet.

There's also phpBB, which I've seen used for one pretty high-profile board which has not been hacked yet in the years it's been there, to my knowledge.

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]UBBThreads (see TrekBBS or Terran) seems to be a good one, so far as I know anything about these things. It also happens to be the company Charles works for.

VBulletin also looks and functions quite nicely (see TrollKingdom.com (http://trollkingdom.com), StraightDope.com (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/) and/or SubSpaceBBS.com (http://www.subspacebbs.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=479) for examples.) It also seems to be favored somewhat among programming-geek types over UBB.

S'all I know.[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]As far as features go, I've always been pretty happy with iB. A better search function would be nice (e.g. one that turns up individual posts, not the entire 20-page thread).

Scooter, any chance of updating the Top10 pdf before meltdown :P[/color:post_uid0]

[evay]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Another vote for phpBB. Looks and behaves (to the user) similar to iB. I have no experience hosting one so I have no server-related opinion.[/color:post_uid0]

[Quinalla]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I like vBulletin too.[/color:post_uid0]

[admiral sab]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What's important to me? Being able to have an avatar...since I just learned how to do it! Post counts aren't what matter either. It makes some of us feel like we have to compete. *Stares at Cat* 4000 eh? sheesh! ;)

Ummmmmmmm yeah. I also like it when the threads stay on the board for awhile. Like DC's new forum the threads go away into nothingness. Oh and I like that Vantagenet used to give us the option of newest or threaded...but boards like this make that option kinda ancient. Anyways, I guess I'll have to register with a new board...AGAIN! Let's hope it doesn't take me as long to re- register.

Oh and one more thing that's important to me, at this new board, multiples should be allowed! (!)

:D[/color:post_uid0]

[Wade, The Sane Commodore]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Zeke, I think I speak for everyone when I say that there is nothing really [i:post_uid0]wrong[/i:post_uid0] with the system we have, except for the aforementioned security problems. I for one would not mind kicking in a few bucks for a painless system that wasn't free. But this is coming from a rich college student. Whatever you do, it would be nice to have some historical preservation of the current posts. Some of the funniest things on five-minute.com, er... fiveminute.net are in the forums.[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Looks like I need to update the one-by-one story, lol[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Er... One that will let you keep your postcount? :D

Hm let's see. I like the "New Posts" option, that's for sure.

I agree that we should somehow keep the archives, if possible.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]There has to be a way to archive all these posts. We may not be able to continue adding to them, but it's worth saving them somewhere. I don't really know about any other forum types considering this is the only forum I visit. But.. avatar is important, so is member titles. And we need a good set of emoticons too. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I haven't a clue when it comes to board software - what would be the pros and cons of each one?

An archive would be nice, I think - the admins at the Outpost Gallifrey forums did that when they switched software and server.[/color:post_uid0]

[Alexia]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Aww...it's a shame that you have to change it at all. I kinda like it the way it is. But i guess thats just me...i despise change! But...i guess if the new one has all the good features of this one, ie. avatars, member titles, etc, and of course has all you guys, then it will be great too! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]For those who have been wondering about this, some of the old threads will be saved -- I'm going to save copies of all the update comment threads, for example, and redirect the Comment links on the news pages to point to the saved copies.

No, I'm not going to carry your postcounts over. Dream on.[/color:post_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I like phpBB. It's free and it's good.

...

Hehe. Postcount reset. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid7][quote:post_uid7="Wade"]a rich college student[/quote:post_uid7]
Such things exist? :O




Zeke, there should ( hopefully! ) still be a poll thread in the computers forum at TrekBBS, asking people to vote on the best forum software. Might have fallen off the page, but hopefully it hasn't been pruned.


Having seen InvisionFree and vBulletin and UBB and maybe phpBB, what comes to my mind is: Keep these nifty post icons! [img:post_uid7]http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/html/non-cgi/Skin/SKIN-2/PostIcons/icon5.gif[/img:post_uid7][/color:post_uid7]

[Nic Corelli]

[quote:post_uid0="Zeke"][color=#000000:post_uid0]For those who have been wondering about this, some of the old threads will be saved...[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]The Top Ten Lists thread MUST be saved! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]::shudder::[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Avatars, member titles and a smashing set of emoticons-- that's all I ask for. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Trip]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I use phpBB (see my website, www.quelorant.com, where it is my whole site). It's free, it works well, and so on. I think they make converters so all old posts and such can be converted to phpBB format, too.

- Trip[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Zeke"]No, I'm not going to carry your postcounts over. Dream on.[/quote:post_uid0]
:bawl:

All my spam... ahm, "enthusiastic posting" will have been for naught?[/color:post_uid0]

[Derek]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Somehow I have this horrible vision of the number of threads that will be generated by people trying to regain their former postcounts.

Edit: In response to the original question, the feature I consider the most important is the feature that keeps a very accurate count of what posts I have and haven't seen so I don't have forums marked unread when I have read it and vice versa.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Only some threads? :(

[quote:post_uid0="Zeke"]No, I'm not going to carry your postcounts over. Dream on.[/quote:post_uid0]
Heh. I was only kidding with that, you know. ;)

I agree with Derek, it's quite annoying if it doesn't.[/color:post_uid0]

[Marill]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I know I don't post here much anymore but I thought that since I own a forum myself I should comment in this topic. A lot of people have suggested Phpbb, I've had two forums on phpbb and they are very good. By default there isn't many features but you can install lots of things.. at the phpbb.com mod forums you'll find lots of features u can add to them. For example I added a chat room box, portal, and a number of little things. Heck if I can add them then I doubt you'll have any trouble :)[/color:post_uid0]

[danieldoof]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]hi there
i'm visiting your site for over a year now and I think what you are doing here is hilarious.
when I am reading a fiver while watching the series on tv I have to watch out that I don't fall off my chair laughing. or remembering the movies and then reading sentences such as:
picard: computer, remove riker
computer: only holographic images can be removed
picard: crap

the top ten lists are wonderful, too.
and please backup the top10s in this forum. I almost read everyone of them.

please keep on writing fivers, they make me happy every day

:D[/color:post_uid0]

[danieldoof]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]well

maybe I will register soon :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[quote:post_uid0="Guest"][color=#000000:post_uid0]please backup the top10s in this forum.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]YES!

PLEEEEASE! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Draknek]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I don't post here any more, but I figure that I might as well add that I find phpBB really quite cool.

Whatever you choose doesn't really affect me, though.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Draknek! We've been missing you![/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Indeed we have! Good to see you around! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[admiral sab]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]LOL what did you put in this thread? they're coming out of the woodwork! ;)

I for one am happy that the post count won't be carried over. That way Cat can be one of us again! lol maybe it will make her nicer and less proud... erm maybe not. :D J/K she is very nice...unless you're PHJ then she's not so nice, but that's all a ruse. ;) If you thought the ship would die with the forum...you're mistaken! muhahahha~ KJ and I have only just begun! :laugh:

dum de dum~[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sab, there was a time when a couple of us were racing for the highest postcount. That time was followed by a (damn short) time of me being proud. But that time is long gone now. And what do you mean, I'm not one of you? :D

Isn't the [i:post_uid0]captain[/i:post_uid0] supposed to die with the [i:post_uid0]ship[/i:post_uid0]? I never heard anything of the [i:post_uid0]ship[/i:post_uid0] dying with... Anything, really. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[Draknek]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You missed me?

Wow, I feel loved.

I've been keeping up with the site, but once I stop posting at a board and start lurking, I have a tendancy to just drift off.[/color:post_uid0]

[admiral sab]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Cat: lol I meant you're a mere mortal now! ;) :D

I meant the ship of P/C ma dear. What kind of ship did you think I was talking about? hee hee.[/color:post_uid0]

[Wowbagger]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Figures. I finally registered last night, and now this. :bawl: Anyhow, I like these forums, and historical preservation is a must. That and the ability to access the board are the only things I really care about.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I was immortal before? :O

I know you meant that 'ship. It still stands. But really, why would a TNG 'ship that's been around so long go down with this forum? :eyeroll:

:p[/color:post_uid0]

[admiral sab]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:D heh. I didn't know you and PHJ were on TNG? ;)

*ducks*[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Bad sab! Bad, bad sab!

*[i:post_uid0]Thwaps sab with the Kipper of Thwapping[/i:post_uid0]*

Draknek, it's been too long. Now, if we can just get sax to make a reappearance...[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sounds unlikely... He's been gone so long! :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Heck, I've not even mentioned the likes of The Squid, Things Are Good or Merlin Missy.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Them too. Gone for a very, very long time. :([/color:post_uid0]

[Hotaru]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]but you got new people, like me![/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Merlin Missy's still around -- I read her LiveJournal. Don't know about Squid or TAG, though.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]They got lost in all the Topic Title like posts. I'm halfway there to joining them. :p[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]MM has an LJ? Wow - I've never felt compelled to go and look for one before. :p

Thinking waay back to when I first joined there was the likes of SimonBob, MPQ and Velvet Gecko. Crikey, it has been a long time...[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yeah Cele, at one point i thought you were a goner too. But you're still hanging on, :D

It's nice to have new people, but it would be nice if the older ones stuck around too. :( Its hard for me to Imagin that there was a time when i almost stoped posting. :o[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hard to believe too that there was a time when catalina [i:post_uid0]hadn't[/i:post_uid0] started posting. :p[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I actually did stop posting at one point. Or well, I'm actually not sure I posted before that, but I did register.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Just think how boreing and empty your life must have been. :p[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Hard to believe too that there was a time when catalina [i:post_uid0]hadn't[/i:post_uid0] started posting. :p[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]"Three years ago I didn't even know your name... today I can't imagine a day without you."

:lol:[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh shut up will you. :eyeroll:

;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]^_^ I check the forums a couple times a day. Don't read the topic title stuff though.[/color:post_uid0]

[admiral sab]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]yeah I still remember a day when there was no one posting because there were no forums!

*hears crickets chirping* what? Am I the only one?! ;)

Actually I don't remember any of the people you are talking about because I used to just check the news section daily or check the homepage...I didn't really look in the forums, even though I was registered. Then the forums changed and I didn't know I had to re-register and looks like this is happening again![/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well at least now you do know you have to reregister.

Now let's see if I can get to 5000 posts before the end of the forums. :p[/color:post_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I like this board system a lot, although more emoticons would be great!


And please please please save one-by-one, answer-question, top-ten, this-or-that and person above you threads! Please? :cry:[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000F22:post_uid0]Seems the common thread seems to be:

avatars
some thread archiving
emoticons

I'd like to see some good evil smilies, myself.[/color:post_uid0]

[Draknek]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]My memory could be playing with me here, as it's been well over a year now, but at the previous forum, wasn't Celeste the undisputed leader in posts?[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Not undisputed, Sax actualy passed her at one point. I think i still have a copy of the BaW fiver they wrote for the occasion somewhere.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Katy Jane"]Just think how boreing and empty your life must have been. :p[/quote:post_uid0]
[quote:post_uid0="taya17"]"Three years ago I didn't even know your name... today I can't imagine a day without you."

:lol:[/quote:post_uid0]

*[i:post_uid0]Thwaps KJ and 17 over and over and over again[/i:post_uid0]*

Now, since you're both clearly delusional, might I recommend some... Dried Frog Pills? :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Alexia]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Wow, it's hard to believe that I actually registered [i:post_uid0]before[/i:post_uid0] Cat [b:post_uid0]and[/b:post_uid0] 17...imagine, that WHOLE TIME I could have been posting, and didn't. What was i thinking![/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What about me? I have a high post count too. Actually, to have a high post count like cat, you would have to take more time out of your day to be online.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[quote:post_uid0="Katy Jane"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Not undisputed, Sax actualy passed her at one point. I think i still have a copy of the BaW fiver they wrote for the occasion somewhere.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Aye, Sax passed me, but I regained the title a short time later. We celebrated the event with a BaW fiver. Though those were lost when the forums crashed a while back. :\[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*shoots PHJ with inch-long iron nails*

Are you recommending a frog to take Dried Frog Pills? Lord, PHJ, you're even more sadistic than I originally thought.

*continues shooting the nails into PHJ*[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000F22:post_uid0]I would say it's more encouraging cannibalism than sadism.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*Thwaps PHJ very hard*

Or maybe i'll just sit back and let the master take careof it. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid1]<font size = "+4">[b:post_uid1]BWAA HA HA HA HA![/b:post_uid1]</font>

:devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil:

Why does this board have a cap on the number of smileys we can put in each post? WHY?[/color:post_uid1]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Just a guess here.. but. .maybe cause it'd get annoying? :P ::Shrug:: hehe[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]17, Annoying? Sure you jest, madam. :D

You know, I'm starting to undstand how John must feel...[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[quote:post_uid0="taya17"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"]Hard to believe too that there was a time when catalina [i:post_uid0]hadn't[/i:post_uid0] started posting. :p[/quote:post_uid0]
"Three years ago I didn't even know your name... today I can't imagine a day without you."

:lol:[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Who can? :D

[quote:post_uid0="Alexia"]Wow, it's hard to believe that I actually registered [i:post_uid0]before[/i:post_uid0] Cat [b:post_uid0]and[/b:post_uid0] 17...imagine, that WHOLE TIME I could have been posting, and didn't. What was i thinking![/quote:post_uid0]
Are you sure? I don't even know when I first registered...

[quote:post_uid0="NeoMatrix"]What about me? I have a high post count too. Actually, to have a high post count like cat, you would have to take more time out of your day to be online.[/quote:post_uid0]
Not necessarily. Sometimes I stay away for a whole day. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Alexia]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][quote:post_uid0="Alexia"]Wow, it's hard to believe that I actually registered [i:post_uid0]before[/i:post_uid0] Cat [b:post_uid0]and[/b:post_uid0] 17...imagine, that WHOLE TIME I could have been posting, and didn't. What was i thinking![/quote:post_uid0]
Are you sure? I don't even know when I first registered...[/quote:post_uid0]
[b:post_uid0]Catalina_Marina[/b:post_uid0]
Group: Members
Posts: 4047
Joined: May 2003

Yup, pretty sure :lol:[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]No, when I [i:post_uid0]first[/i:post_uid0] registered. ;)

I registered before that, you see. Before the Big Crash, but I'm not sure if I posted even once. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[Alexia]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]OOOooooooooooooooh...i see :D

In that case...I have no clue :D :lol:[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]17, Annoying? Sure you jest, madam. :D

You know, I'm starting to undstand how John must feel...[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]You're damned right.

*skewers Pointy to the wall by means of a rusty turnstile pike through the chest*[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Draknek! Good to see you. The Andromeda fivers still exist and I haven't forgotten them. One day soon, you will be Arzosah's hero.

A couple of points:

phpBB appears to have an ikonBoard database conversion utility. If it's what it's cracked up to be, we'll be able to keep the member and post data. I'll have to check with Charles, though -- a simple forum conversion might not fix the security gap. If it turns out we can't keep the data, I'll save the news threads and FBC, but I do [b:post_uid0]not[/b:post_uid0] intend to save anything in Miscellaneous. Anything you care about in there you'll have to save yourselves. I'll let you know as soon as I find out if the converter works.

Also, for the record, I did indeed notice Opium's new avatar. Touché. I'll change her title eventually, but for now I'll let her keep this minor victory.[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Somebody please save the Top10 thread! Scooter, any chance of a version 2 of that pdf file?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Zeke"][color=#000000:post_uid0]phpBB appears to have an ikonBoard database conversion utility. If it's what it's cracked up to be, we'll be able to keep the member and post data. [/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I do not have my fingers tightly crossed. I do, however, have them tightly gripped on this sharp pointy stick I'm pointing in the general direction of phpBB. [i:post_uid0][b:post_uid0]Now play nice![/b:post_uid0][/i:post_uid0]

Kidding, only kidding... I think. :laugh:[/color:post_uid0]

[Alexia]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sorry to get back on topic, but I thought of another positive point that I like about the format of this board.

I like the 100 x 100 avvy size. I know you did a poll and found people liked it, so it would be a shame to lose it on the new boards system.

[quote:post_uid0]I do not have my fingers tightly crossed. I do, however, have them tightly gripped on this sharp pointy stick I'm pointing in the general direction of phpBB. Now play nice![/quote:post_uid0]

:lol: Carry on :D[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, it's one less sharp object she has pointed in my direction, which is always good.

Um, by the way, I think I might have slightly ruined the wallpaper. There seems to be blood all over it now. Can't think where [i:post_uid0]that[/i:post_uid0] came from....[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[quote:post_uid0="Alexia"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I like the 100 x 100 avvy size. I know you did a poll and found people liked it, so it would be a shame to lose it on the new boards system.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Absolutely. I also think it would be great if the new forum keeps the 100x100 avatar size.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000F22:post_uid0]Yes, 100x100 pixels is excellent.

Additionally, can we get a cleanup crew over here, 'cos I think club soda isn't going to get [i:post_uid0]that[/i:post_uid0] out.[/color:post_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Fools! Why did you get blood onto the wallpaper? Never bleed on wallpaper, carpet or wood. Use plastic mats like the rest of us.

I mean, *geez*. :)

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Never mind that, we're moving out anyway. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Draknek]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Heh, [b:post_uid0]I'd[/b:post_uid0] forgotten about the Andromeda fivers. Hopefully, I've forgotten how much I hated them when I originally wrote them. ;)

I've had some experience with phpBB converters, although not with the ikonboard one. I can't think of any possible reason why converting the data would leave security holes. However, if the ikonboard converter is anything like the ezBoard one, be prepared for some minor weirdness.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]^ Anyone else find that deliciously ironic?[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]~And isn't it Ironic? Don't you think. A little too Ironic and I really do think- It's like --~

What? Shut up?

Okay.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What's really ironic is that song was written by someone who doesn't know what irony is.

Rain on your wedding day? Not ironic, just bloody annoying.[/color:post_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]How does every thread get turned into wacky conversation? :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Turned into? Every thread *begins* with wacky conversation. It would be topic drift if the posts began to approach the totally fictious topic title. (No, not Topic Title.)

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Three words, "Attention Deficit Disorder" :P ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Alexia]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]ADD? No, no on here has...oh, look. A shiney object :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Michiel]

Cool! phpBB forum! And it works and everything! And even the Miscellaneous stuff is saved! :mrgreen:

[Nic Corelli]

Yep! The Top 10 lists, the greatest cultural treasure of our civilization (after the fivers, of course) have survived! :mrgreen:

[Chancellor Valium]

In honour of this, let's build a pyramid! But, so people can't go walking all over it, let's build it upside down!

[PointyHairedJedi]

Oh, that eliminates the problem of ramblers, sure. But there are still those pesky rock-climbers to think about. Maybe we should electrify it too?

[Chancellor Valium]

Hmm...Perhaps if we wrap it in hard plastic?

[catalina_marina]

Hard plastic sounds climbable though. :roll:

[Chancellor Valium]

The kind of hard plastic they wrap PDA components and stuff in? On a pyramid that's upside-down? Made in Egyptian style (smooth sides)? I don't THINK SO!
in the words of Han Solo "Not this pyramid, sister!" (don't kill me!)

[Nic Corelli]

Do not tease the Evil Dutch Woman.


For she is evil.


And Dutch. :mrgreen:

[Chancellor Valium]

If you say so.....

[PointyHairedJedi]

Oh, I've seen her Evil Dutchness in person, so I can attest that she is indeed both.

[Nic Corelli]

So you can attest she is evil and Dutch, but can you attest she is a woman? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

[PointyHairedJedi]

Damn. She's going to kill me now, isn't she?

[Nic Corelli]

I wouldn`t put it past her. :twisted:

[catalina_marina]

Damn. She's going to kill me now, isn't she?
Thank GOD you can't attest I'm a woman. I mean, it must be fakable, not that I'd know anything about that, of course. But I'm quite glad you didn't... Want to check or anything. :wink:

[Chancellor Valium]

ANYWAY - back to the pyramid! Now - what colour should it be, and should it perform any useless function, like the International Paperwork and Red Tape Society HQ?

[PointyHairedJedi]

Thank GOD you can't attest I'm a woman. I mean, it must be fakable, not that I'd know anything about that, of course. But I'm quite glad you didn't... Want to check or anything. :wink:
I'm just going to back slowly away from this one, I think...

[taya17]

*slowly dies of suppressed laughter*

[Chancellor Valium]

Well, what colour SHOULD this pyramid be?

[Nic Corelli]

Lime green! :mrgreen:

[Chancellor Valium]

And should we rent it out as offices, if so, to whom?

[Nic Corelli]

The pyramid is a tomb. Would you like to have an office inside of a tomb? :mrgreen:

[PointyHairedJedi]

Well, it depends how nice it is. And who is interred in it.

[Nic Corelli]

In the pyramid? Mummified Pharaohs. Pharaohs being kings, and kings being politicians... Soooo... Who wants to spend his business hours with dead politicians around? :P

[Chancellor Valium]

The Conservative Party. They should feel right at home: after all, their leader is one :twisted:

[PointyHairedJedi]

And Maggie Thatcher is clearly a member of the living dead... :D

[Chancellor Valium]

What's John Major? A Dullulllvull - a hyper-normal shade of the colour grey :D

[Chancellor Valium]

oh, come ON - does NOONE get the reference? Now -I suggest we get someone random to build this pyramid - like the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation :D!

[PointyHairedJedi]

Heh, okay, I missed that. Very amusing indeed.

And I think we might steer away from that Sirius lot - I've ha nothing but grief since they introduced smegging GPP. How about Kuat Drive Yards? While they're at it, you see, they could also incorporate a nice bit of heavy armament... ;)

[Chancellor Valium]

Hows about while they're about it, they install a weapon so powerful that it is capable of destroying an entire lemon taco?! :D

[PointyHairedJedi]

Indeed! And then we'd never have to worry about that pesky Rebel Alliance ever again... :twisted:

[Chancellor Valium]

Emperor: Yes! Fire at Will, commander!
Commander: Duh...Okay!
Will Smith: Ow! *dies*
Vader: Stupid boy.