Beamdog forums maintenance (Apr 15 - Apr 18)
JuliusBorisov
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Hey there friends!
Starting on April 15, 2024 (9am PT), the Beamdog forums will be unavailable for 3 days. This scheduled maintenance is required to migrate the site to a new hosting server.
Due to technical reasons, the polls feature will no longer be available after the migration.
We also expect a few visual bugs (e.g. quotes having a white background color) that we plan to fix later.
Thank you for your continued support and passion for these games!
Sincerely,
—Beamdog Team
Hey there friends!
Starting on April 15, 2024 (9am PT), the Beamdog forums will be unavailable for 3 days. This scheduled maintenance is required to migrate the site to a new hosting server.
Due to technical reasons, the polls feature will no longer be available after the migration.
We also expect a few visual bugs (e.g. quotes having a white background color) that we plan to fix later.
Thank you for your continued support and passion for these games!
Sincerely,
—Beamdog Team
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Suggestion: The maintanance should come with the cleaning of posts that are 3 months older or more to prevent the ressurrection of dead threads.
Three months is nothing for a forum.
And it's useful to be able to seek an answer in an 5 years old thread.
Forums are not a social network which lives only in the present.
There's an argument for locking old threads, but outright deleting them isn't helpful to future users. Not specifically regarding BG, but there are plenty of times I've searched for an issue and came across someone else who had the same issue years ago. I didn't even have to ask the question because it'd already been answered by someone previously.
These forums aren't as active as they used to be; there's a lot of archived info in all the old threads and users who have moved on to other things. If all that info was deleted, I don't know if that info would ever be recreated.
Sure, because we definitely need to lock and/or erase all threads with mods that were released over all those years, that include links / files / information telling where to get them or where bugs are reported and walkthroughs are posted...
Necroposting is not against the rules, per se. But sometimes it's obviously unneeded.
Thanks for the feedback though.
Interesting - I can edit this post, but not any others. So it seems the edit function only applies to posts made since the maintenance was completed. Presumably that wasn't intended?
@Enuhal I routinely use paint to change the default .png files to .jpg. I know you put all your screenshots in spoilers so that there's not the same effect on page loading times, but changing them would reduce them below 1MB if that restriction does continue.
That does seem likely - I can no longer edit the post I made above.
Thank you, screenshots above 1 MB now work again as well
Do you mean on mobile? Just open the site in the PC version in the settings of your browser. I believe you mean you see the white site - that is the mobile version.