AssemblyBoard

*whew*

ok, i think i have everything installed correctly. poke around, and let me know right away if you see anything more unusual than normal.

Brian,
This is WAY faster.

Andrea

Once again, and all together now:

Brian, YOU DA MAN! 8) 8) 8) ;D ;D ;D

Hi Brian,
I am sooooooooo glad that you are taking over this bb. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :). I have my husband back!!!!!!!!!!

May God bless you Brian.
Suzie Tr0ckman

Brian!  I am so impressed - everything is here!  It is like it never left ga.com...  I don't know how you did it, but man, you ROCK! ;D :D ;) :)

Yep, very nice, Brian...

Chuck Vanasse

Three cheers for Brian!   ;D

 :-[ gee, thanx guys. *scuffs foot*

i may not be able to respond to each tech support question individually, but i will address them, and thank you for bringing them to my attention. so if you mention a problem, and see that it was magically fixed, thats what happened.

and i have no problem with anonymous postings. if they are harassing, or break the user agreement in any other way, they will be deleted and the user warned, etc. but i would like valid email addresses on all the accounts. about 20 are not valid at this point. i will be sending these 20 users private messages warning them about this sometime soon. you can hide your email address if you don't want anyone else to see it.

email or pm me if you have any other questions. enjoy!

From :'( --> :)

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU!!!  :) :) :)

It's tough for an "Out of Control Poster" to keep quiet. ;) But wait, I just checked, I am no longer an "Out of Control Poster". :o I am now a "Senior Member". :-\ I somehow feel older all of a sudden.  :)

Not that I mind being called "Senior", but are we going to get the "cute" names back? :D

Happy to be back,
Retread

Brian,

I appreciate all of the hard work.  Here's a truckload of thanks.

-Brian Steele

Hi Brian and Everyone! 8)
   Thanks for continuing the BB Brian!  You are indeed "Da Man!"
   I think it is a helpful component for healthy recovery for those who have been in the Assembly.
   And, yes-- How bout' sharing some of those new name's for the site?   "Assemblyundercomers"?
                                         
                                    God Bless the new site!  Mark C.

   

  What! :o  This is truly a humbling situation! ???
   First I went from Overcomer to Global Moderator and then to Head Steward in Training, and now to a mere Newbie!
  Well, I was planning on stepping down anyway! ;)
             The truly new and humble,  Mark

Boy Mr. Mark Campbell,

You had to state your humility in what
two posts  ::)

Keeping an eye on you  ;D

Rudy,
  I guess I wanted to make sure everyone realized how very humble I am. ;)
                                  God Bless, Mark

Rudy,
  We need a tutorial of sorts from some techno wizard re. how to navigate the BB now.  I notice that I must now log on before each session, or I am considered a mere guest.
   It appears what you thought was an attempt by many to avoid public scrutiny was nothing more than a technical glitch.
                 God Bless,  Mark

Mark,

I agree that it may be a hassel, but i always choose to remember and
enter my password here and at other places. Computer security has been
drilled into me over the last 12+ years. If you walked away from your
terminal/computer while logged on or left your username/password on a
post-it note on your monitor - you were held responsible for any
communications under your access. I had a good friend and would tease
him when he would walk away for a while - i would start typing a letter to
our section chief and talk out loud so that he could hear. It got his
attention and all of us in the shop would get a laugh.

I believe it is agreed that we want to know who we are communicating
with. Logging on is simple:
   1. remember your username and password

   2. enter username and password

   3. don't share your username/password

It all takes less than 10 seconds to log on. Just a better, safer board
this way.

Rudy Kristavcnik

Greetings Mark:
Just a guest among guests eh, Mark? I know you will accept this with the proper humility as would all children of the 60's(the decade of, that is) ;D.

Hi Sebastian!
  Yes, just a, Guest among Guests ;).  Once we all figure out how to adjust to the new BB we will have to get back to some meaningful discussion.
   I will post some thoughts at the Wounded Pilgrim thread that I would appreciate your comments on.
  Rudy- What does logging in for each session have to do with security?  As Sebastian alludes to, I am but an ol' hippie and therefore more skilled at hugging trees than operating a computer.
                                    With Flowers in my hair,  Mark

Question for the administrator:
Why have John Malone and all his postings been deleted?

john malone deleted all of his own posts and his account, of his own accord. i've never banned anyone.

thanks for the security reminders rudy. remembering to click 'logout', and maybe even delete the browser's history, are quick and easy ways to help ensure the security of your account.

it seems that some of you are having the old log-in problem, where you log in, and the board instantly forgets who you are, calling you a guest again. it has been working fine for me, which makes it hard for me to troubleshoot. i will make some changes soon that will hopefully help. keep me informed about these problems.

sometime in the near future i will put several of the potential new domain names for this website on a poll so we can all vote on them.

So, Johnnny took his toys and went home.  It won't be the same without his love, compassion, and winning ways  ;)  Civility returns! ;D ;D ;D

i have made a change that i hope will help with the problems some of you have experienced of being kicked off repeatedly. let me know if you are still having troubles.

From Senior Member to Senior Citizen. :-\  I am still not sure if this is a good thing. :-\  Perhaps, someday I will be an Out of Control Poster again.

Anyway, thanks for the new names, Brian. :) But I am still a little worried as to what would come after "Senior Citizen". :)

oh its good. its reeeaaalll good. you get cheap coffee at mcdonalds  ;)


this is but a hint, a shadow, of good things to come. now we see through a glass, darkly...

 :DHello Brian:

I was trying to find a Q & A posts to relaying some questions to ponder.

I was cruising the board as usual.

I resurrected this one.

MY QUESTIONS:

1. Yesterday as I was trying to get onto the board, I had trouble.  It kept coming up Page Cannot be Found. Not matter how much I try to refresh the page, or even back track.  I was able to get on the board, but not on any postings. I couldnt even log in.
 My question is:  HOw come this occurred.?

2. When was the last time the membership list was reviewed.  How come there are so many double entries , even a couple of members have several entries in the list. Just asking?

3.  Is there a record being kept of all the postings.
Just want to know, when I resurrecting a post, that I am not really digging up something, that is better left buried.  Is there an original date when the first post of each thread was created.

Thanks  for taking the time to ponder these questions.

Lenore

Brian:

What happened to "geftakysassembly.com" ?  I have tried to pull up the website for the past few days but I keep getting "this page cannot be accessed".  But the assembly board still works.  

What's up?

Matt

Matt, Brian,

I have just emailed the question to Steve & Margaret-- hoping they'll reply ASAP...

al

Hello everyone -

Steve and I discovered last night that the ga.com website is down.  We're in the process of discovering the cause.  A lot of people in this area had trouble with their cable connection after the big rain storm last week, including us, so it could be something along those lines, maybe with Earthlink.  Or it could be the host server, which we have contacted and are awaiting a reply.  Whatever, hopefully it should be fixed soon.

Steve and Margaret

Hi Margaret & all-
I'm back off the sidelines to say I hope the site is fixed soon.  We referred people to it recently.  One was a friend from the midwest who hadn't seen Tamilla Palmer's article yet.  The other was someone who called us because they knew we used to be in an assembly.  They had run into some Local Church folks and an existing assembly member in the same week, and noticed that they sounded exactly alike.  
Interesting, since the assembly people we knew ridiculed Local Church people as... cult members.
It's so good to have the website resource.
Appreciatively,
Becky

Hi everyone -

GA.com is back up.  The problem was that the "rent" had not been paid, as Al so delicately put it to us.  

It's been exactly two years since Brent first put up the website!  An incredible lot has happened since then.  It's amazing how active it still is.  Current daily average stats are:
     Visitors   128
     Pageviews   288
     Hits   354

I hope to have a bit more time to work on it now, and am open to any suggestions for improvements or changes.  Two things I have in mind are 1) book and video reviews  2)  condensed versions of existing long articles  3) adding a section that gives a brief introduction to the assembly for friends/family.  Other ideas are welcome.  

Along the lines of Becky's post, we are being linked to by other websites.  One is a new one put up by Chris and Jenn Lawson, formerly assembly observers from SLO, currently missionaries in Scotland.  The link is http://www.spiritual-research-network.com/  

Cheers,

Margaret

 

Just to plug the website Margaret listed, Chris and Jenn are close friends of ours, and both were intrumental in helping us get free.  Chris was a strong supporter of the website, and was a key person I bounced things off of when getting things going.

I highly recommend their website, and will vouch for their humble, simple faith and love for all the saints.

Brent

WOW!

Brians back,

Nice new boards Brian!

Brent

WoW
Thank You Brian

Very cool Brian, Thanks!

Is it supposed to be backwards from how the old one was?

al

Al, go to your profile, and snoop around to the layout and preferences button and choose newest posts on top, and it'll be just like the old board.

Brent

yes indeed, we have a shiny new bb. the old one was developing problems, and they quit making updates for it, so i converted the old bb to a new, although related, piece of bb software. it has more options and features. notably: if you really liked the way the board looked before and have a hard time dealing with change, you can change it back to the old look under your Profile options. after clicking on the Profile button above, click on Look and Layout Preferences on the left side of the screen. then you will see an option called Current Theme, and a link next to it that says Change. click it and change away, if thats what you so desire. you'll see several other options around that the old bb didn't have, that will hopefully improve your bb experience. if something isn't working, you can't log in, etc, drop me an email and i will try to be helpful. enjoy!

brian

Brent, for calling me a "snoop," and Brian, for implying that I can't accept change:

Next time I'm in your neck o' the woods, you can expect me to strike you with my cane, by cracky! ;D

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For real:  Thanks, Fellers!!! :)

al

There seem to be many posts missing!  :o

Simply looking at the count of posts, it looks like there are about 2500 posts missing.

There used to be about 18500 posts, and now there are about 16000 posts.

There are at least 39 of my posts missing, based on comparing posts that I have files of with what's on the board.

I hope that Brian can find a way to recover the missing posts.

He's right. The total is changed.

Yep. Up and disappeared. The total listed for each of us doesn't match the number of actual posts that can be viewed.

Are they missing or were they deleted?

Since this BB software was written by different people from the old BB software, the database contains the post data in a different format and organization from the way the old BB did it.  In order to change to the new BB system, it was necessary to use a converter to import the data from the old database to the new one.  Either there are bugs in the converter algorithm, or else there were some minor errors or glitches in the data that the old BB was able to overlook, but the converter choked on.

I noticed that some threads are completely gone, and parts of others are missing.  For example, in the "Wounded Pilgrims" thread on page 3, reply #34 on January 22, 2003, 11:03:16 pm is immediately followed by reply #35 on January 31, 2005, 11:49:56 am.  This means that more than 2 years worth of the thread is gone.  It wouldn't surprise me if Mark Campbell was a little unhappy about this.  I hope he has backup copies of the things that he posted.

I'm hoping that Brian still has the old database and is able to find a way to patch up problems with the converter.  Then he could rerun the conversion.  The past couple of days of posts may be lost, but that is better than losing many days of old posts, some of which were very important.

I'm curious.

We haven't heard from any administrators about the missing posts. I'd like to know how they disappeared.

Thanks

i apologize for the missing posts problem. as a stop-gap measure, i setup a modified version of the old board here:

http://www.assemblyboard.com/oldbb

wounded pilgrims lost a lot of posts in the conversion. can anyone identify other major areas that lost posts? if i could get help pinpointing what posts need to be restored, then i could import just the missing ones.

also, one person has reported that the Quote button was not showing up for them in the 'Life with Verne' thread. is anyone else having quote problems?

That's because for some reason the thread was locked.
Verne

ah, so it is. was, rather :) couldn't see a reason why it was locked, so i unlocked it. if anyone has objections, feel free to drop me a note.

Brian---

I was just curious---I notice that some of the Threads say "new" and yet the last post
was over a year ago. Is there a reason for that happening? I have gone into my profile
and put "latest quotes on top" so the newest ones show up at the beginning of the
thread, but some of the threads say "new" for a message posted quite a while ago.
Just curious is all.

--Joe

This BB seems to be different in the way it marks threads as having something new in them.  The old BB only did this when a new post was made.  This BB seems to also recognize edited posts and possibly deletions as being something new in the thread.

Thanks Stephen, that explains a lot.

--Joe

Stephen,

The first two titles under "Any and All Topics" have remained unchanged and unmoved since last October & last May, respectively.  Any theories?

al

The colored symbols on the left of each thread are identified at the bottom of the page.  Sticky topics stay at the top.  A while back, an administrator of the BB decided that those 2 topics should be sticky.  Topics that newcomers to the BB should read can be marked sticky so that they are easy to find.

Thanks Steve.  I'm at a disadvantage, being partially colorblind.  I was puzzling over those symbols last night, wondering if they were different colors-- they look pretty much the same to me... 

What length of time do you suppose an unused thread remains "sticky?" :)

al

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P.S.-- OK, I went back & studied the symbols more closely & found subtle design differences, so I should be able to tell them apart.  But I still wonder how long it takes for the "sticky" to wear off-- I get tired of looking at a title that never changes... ;)

Attached is a list of affected threads.

69 threads are missing, and 6 threads lost some posts.

I've run into this problem a few times: I try to log out and the message I get is something like "can't identify url"

I log in and log out again and my name is still listed as logged in.

Any suggestions?

I also have a problem with the changes that SJ did to my post on the SSO thread.

I'll buzz off for now.

perhaps this has to do with the url you are using to access the site? do you go to http://www.assemblyboard.com or http://www.briantucker.net/bb ? for best results, only use the assemblyboard.com address.


what changes? she can't edit others' posts. what post are you referring to?

You can if you quote them...
Verne

Quote from: brian tucker on Today at 11:56:42 AM

Quote from Vern:


The last is an example of what she did to mine on Sondra Spews Out.

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I demand SWIFT retribution!! Sondra changed my post and then quoted it as if it were my changes.

She directly referred to me as a fly!! She threw sand at me and is calling me by a different name.

As an alternative, you could just read Psalm 37. ::)

I'm not fretting, just strumming along and wondering why she can be allowed to change a post here.

I'll buzz off, again. Need something sweet for my coffee. And  my fellow employee has what looks like scraps from her lunch sitting on her desk. I'll take a peek while she's at the copier.

You are definitely NOT a fly Moonflower, a gad-fly? Maybe, but that's alll right.... :)
Verne

I remember seeing, on the AK BB, cases where someone's quote was modified to say simply, "I'm a loser."

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Everybody is picking on me!  Everybody id calling me names. Sniff, Sniff.

I think i'm going over to StuckWithTheBarnacles. They're really really nice over there. ;D

Wait til my daddy hears about this. You'll ALL be sorry now.

 

Okay, Okay!!!......here's yer pacifier...!    :)
Verne

Quote from: Stephen M. Fortescue on Today at 03:10:05 PM

A lot of people have read the 37th Psalm, Steve, and have no idea what it's really about...


   ...see what I mean?  I suggest meditating upon Psalm 37, and praying for our Lord's guidance in applying it. 

      There's your Pacifier!!! ;) :)

In Christ,
al

Oh   ???

I thought I was going to get my own thread as a pacifier. :(

How can you expect your own thread when they're already chopping off the end of the "2" in your name (or hadn't you noticed?).  You're maybe being eased out of the organization, girl...

al ;)

Then my suspicions were correct..........so..........

SWTB here I come
Right back where she quoted from
Open up those heavenly quotes
Barn'cle breezes gather flies......

Ahem...er...might I ever so humbly suggest a slight modification of that final couplet to read thusly:

Barn'cle breezes get my goat...
Verne

Er...alternatively the penultimate line could read Open up those heavenly skies (lies works too)...

Ah, yes, yes. Very good, very good. (I'm so happy to see that newly found humility coming into play here, otherwise I may have just passed by your, ahem, suggestions.)

We shall try this again:

SWTB here I come,
Right back where she quoted from
Open up those heavenly lies,
Barn'cle breezes gather flies.....

I think I'll just leave the last line as is, since, well, I don't want her to know that she could get anyone's goat.  ;) She just might appear again as Dorothy Killgallen or Martha Stewart, or some of the better known entities that have visited from the barnacle boat.

Moonflower,

Bennet Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen-- these must be names your parents told you about, because I remember watching them in action, live, on B&W TV! ;D

al ;)

No one had to tell me their names; they were my family room buddies. "Enter and sign in please!"

Oops. I missed that last wink.

Yes! My parents had us memorize and spell correctly all the names of the panel regulars as a consequence for coming home late for supper.

They told us about B&W Marx days, too and would quiz us on certain episodes. 

Is there a reason that IHGG CLub is not here anymore?

69 full threads and some posts from 6 other threads vanished during the BB conversion.

A list of the affected threads is attached to my February 25 post in this thread.

Click the quote header to find it:


The link says that the file was downloaded twice.
Both times I was testing the link, so nobody else on the BB has even looked at it.

You need to select a monospaced font to view the list properly.
I set my Notepad program to Lucida Console Bold 9 point font, which is monospaced.

I don't know whether Brian has looked at it, since the BB administrator may have a way to download the attached text file without being recorded by the download counter.