Octopus Overlords

What? You don't like the Robin picture? More words please.

HOLY CRAP!!!





(for YK)

bow down to FP!!!

Thanks for everything, Fishpants! And I'll be throwing some money in the kitty as well.

Keep the smilies!!!!



And thanks for all the work.

Rip wrote:

No just a subtle note that the smiley's are an administrative area, territory typically avoided by us technical administrators. The OO administrative staff has made policy and protocol on the subject and could feel slighted, and rightfully so. Although I doubt that is likely in this case and I doubt FP was even aware.

I am quite sure though that I am not the only one who noticed and that it will be discussed and resolved in a fashion agreeable to the wisest of leadership councils on the face of the planet.

I had actually hoped the masses would miss it and just see me trying out a new smilie. Foolish me.

Thanks Fishpants!

NSFW

There's no place like home!

Thanks, fishpants, Rip and everyone else involved.

There's no place like home!

Thanks, fishpants, Rip and everyone else involved.

Congrats on the fix. Missed OO, nice to have you back.

Congrats on the fix. Missed OO, nice to have you back.

Congrats on the fix. Missed OO, nice to have you back.

Congrats on the fix. Missed OO, nice to have you back.

Congrats on the fix. Missed OO, nice to have you back.

It would have been perfect if those last six (edit: seven) posts had been in the problems thread.

"I'm having to submit three times before it works!"
"I'm having to submit three times before it works!"
"I'm having to submit three times before it works!"

JetFred wrote:It would have been perfect if those last six posts had been in the problems thread.

Ha!
Yeah, thinking when someone posts, they get an error message, then go back and post again... fail, and try to post again. All the while, the submit button is really posting. It will take a few more days to smooth things out.

*Spoilered by FishPants, it was giving me a headache when checking back in to the thread.

Heya

Welcome back.

I was walk about down Washington for the last 6 weeks, was unhappy to find the place demolished while I was away...
But the new walls are looking good.

Thank you!!!

oh my, smileys galore!

FishPants wrote:There's obviously been an outage, and essentially it ends up that our hosting provider is an alleged borderline criminal who ripped off the datacenter he was renting space from, and did a midnight move to some other location.

The tread on WHT was an interesting read... painful, but interesting.

Thanks for the followup and rebuild, thanks for having an offsite backup that you could recover from, thanks for the work in finding a new hosting site, thanks for everything!

Good timing. about to buy several items, will make sure to do it through the OO link.

Good timing. about to buy several items, will make sure to do it through the OO link.

First person to use that emoticon organically in a thread wins a prize.

New emoticons, that's about a weeks worth of fun.

Thanks for getting us back up.

I'm wondering how far we've managed to set Izzy back on his post count.

You have to look on the bright side...of life.

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...I'm just post padding now.

I'm relieved to see the forum back online. I had flashbacks to when gone gold went down and I was trying to psych myself up into posting at gamingtrend. At least we have a backup forum.

for OO!

Thanks for all the effort. Who knew running a message board could cause so much drama!

There's no place like home!

Thanks FishPants and RIP!

Daehawk wrote:I kept up on the GT thread but I refuse to post there so it's been tough.

Glad everything is back up and running. Found myself a number of times over the past week thinking "Ooooh, that's something for the Random Randomness or Cute Kids thread"...sucked not being able to run over he and post it.

I have no idea what was involved in Frankensteining this site back to life, but thanks.

Probably not totally appropriate here and now, but would this be a good time to officially change the site logo to something less Star Wars-y? Sith don't repeatedly come back from the dead....

I thought I had been stealth-banned, but couldn't for the life of me remember what I might have done.

It's good to be back.

I'll do more with the Amazon link. A lot of my IT purchasing for work is done through there and I don't think to come here first.

If there was some way for the site to auto-add the Amazon info to any thing someone posts here (so that when you click on it, the Amazon page automatically includes the OO referral when loading the new page), that would be pretty amazing.

Smoove_B wrote:If there was some way for the site to auto-add the Amazon info to any thing someone posts here (so that when you click on it, the Amazon page automatically includes the OO referral when loading the new page), that would be pretty amazing.

Yep I've already looked for that, but unfortunately there's only a mod for vbulletin (that's a paid mod at that) to do it. Can't find anything similar for phpbb3.

Paingod wrote:I thought I had been stealth-banned, but couldn't for the life of me remember what I might have done.

You were, for constantly forgetting things. In fact, this is the 14th time you've posted this very same comment.

FishPants wrote:Yep I've already looked for that, but unfortunately there's only a mod for vbulletin (that's a paid mod at that) to do it. Can't find anything similar for phpbb3.

I should have assumed smarter people than me had considered it. Thanks for confirming.

FishPants wrote:No.. I usually see $50-$60 a month. Occasionally a bit more:

There is no way you should be shouldering this financial burden especially now that the site costs more. Would it be a problem for you to let us know your out of pocket expenses after Amazon$ & donations so we can plan to reimburse you. You could do it monthly or bimonthly or even quarterly. Just a simple

$300 server fees (Qtr)
-$160 amazon
-$40 paypal
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$100 balance needed for quarter.