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@Emi + @Xions ... Yeah, it's not just you. I'm having trouble finding info about IPB themes. As soon as we get this IPB 4 stuff upgraded, I'll figure out who to pester for more information.

Update: We patched the software ~5 minutes after we had the first problem, but I haven't heard back from Invision, yet. I'm really hoping they haven't gone home for the night, but if they did, I suppose they'll give this another go sometime tomorrow.

*cackles madly*

Quoting from the other thread: EDIT 10/08/2015 5:10 PM EST Invision is working to upgrade the site. We ran into a small issue, but we updated a driver and we think it'll solve the problem. Suffice it to say that this may be a touch-and-go operation.... so hold onto your bootstraps.

We ran into an error and fell back to IPB 3. Working on fixing it, and then we'll give the upgrade another go.

Hey everybody The forums are being upgraded right now. IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE ACP, DO NOT LOG IN UNTIL I TELL YOU IT'S SAFE.

It's almost -- almost -- as if I made it my secret goal to steal and hide everything on Fuwa from you! ... RE: Guides -- I'll figure out what's out there and bundle them up for you guys. My Fuwa hours are 8-9PM today, so I'll plan on doing that tonight.

Added this question to the OP and tried to answer it. Let me know if you want clarifications : ).

Most importantly: DO NOT FORGET TO PANIC. If you can form roving bands of discontent, all the better.

Hey everybody, Important head's up: we will be upgrading to a new version of our forums software (IPB 4) in the very near future, hopefully before the end of the week. Invision will be assisting us with the upgrade, so we can all feel better knowing we're in good hands. Stuff You should know: Some users' have a different log-in name than their public-facing forums display name. After the upgrade those two will be merged together, and you'll simply log-in with your display name (the name that was public-facing before the upgrade). IPB 4 can't utilize our current themes, so when the upgrade happens all our current themes will be scrapped. After the upgrade I'll start the process of uploading the new versions of the FuwaFabulous and Dark themes, but unfortunately Gravity Green 2013 is no longer supported by the Dev and will not be making the transition with us. We will absolutely take time to mourn its passing after the upgrade is complete. If you're making a meaty post, please write it offline in a word editor and then copy-paste it into the forums until the upgrade has been completed. I can't be sure we'll get much warning before Invision launches the upgrade process, and if you were to click "submit" on a big post just after the upgrade started, you'd lose your whole post. If I get a firm date of when they'll be performing the update, I'll let you know ASAP. As it stands, it could come at any moment of any day. Therefore: please take great pains to panic and form roving bands of discontent in the streets. What other questions do you have for me about the upgrade before we get this thing kicked off? ------------------------------------------------ EDIT: Answers to Questions: 1. Are we at risk of data loss? Another "rollback" catastrophe? A: There IS a risk, yes, that something could go wrong during the upgrade. With forums of our size, the best thing we can do is make backups regularly to minimize the loss we'd face in the worst-case scenario. Thus, I made full backups (database AND files) on both 10/5 and today 10/7. I will continue to make at least one backup each day from now until the upgrade is successfully completed. I hated the data loss we experienced with the two big "rollbacks" this Summer, and I want to mitigate as much of that risk as possible. 2. How will themes change in IPB 4? Can we make our own? What about re-creating Gravity Green? A: The software on the back-end of the forums is changing substantially, so a bunch of new functionality will require new/modified assets. Additionally, IPB 4 is responsive, so you'll get a much improved experience on any size of device. It may even be enjoyable to surf this place on your flip phones circa 2005. I don't know that for sure, so don't quote me on that. Smartphones and tablets, tho, will be several times better to navigate on the new themes, though. As far as making themes goes... Invision has guides for how to do that (I'm the wrong person to talk about the technical side of themes), so if you want to check out their site and learn the ropes... go for it! Remaking GG: by doing so we'd run the risk of getting in trouble with the Gravity Green theme's developer (who, it so happens, makes all our other themes) (I like them, and I'm not really looking for a blood feud atm). If there are talented coders who want to try their hands at it, however, I can help you get in touch with them. They're the ones who would make that call. ... EDIT 10/08/2015 5:10 PM EST Invision is working to upgrade the site. We ran into a small issue, but we updated a driver and we think it'll solve the problem. Suffice it to say that this may be a touch-and-go operation.... so hold onto your bootstraps. EDIT 10/08/2015 5:47 PM EST We patched the software ~5 minutes after we had the first problem, but I haven't heard back from Invision, yet. I'm really hoping they haven't gone home for the night, but if they did, I suppose they'll give this another go sometime tomorrow. That said, the support staff have been fabulous to us. All things considered, they're doing a great job.

If it makes you feel better, it ends at 1:12, so all I get is the musical flourishes and "so baaaad".

When an update to this blog goes live, it sends an auto-email to my inbox which triggers a rule and activates a sound clip from Rose's masterful "Here at Fuwanovel" video. It hasn't gone off in a while. Nearly scared me out of my skin.

I've arranged for Invision to upgrade our forums to IPB 4 for us. Yay! I *think* that'll go down this week. After which, we'll have an updated ckeditor in the back-end and can add this stuff back into the forums.

Day made. Cannot wait.

Though we pay 2.7 financial units due to conversion fees.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I wrote the original list. I can also neither confirm nor deny that the list was originally tied to a series of articles in the "FuwAcademy" site which wasn't. I can neither confirm nor deny that I agree that the original list is anemic. What I can confirm, however, would be two things: The original program was very highly lauded by the early batches of mentees The VN list was essentially meant to demonstrate that you've played some big name VNs and know the medium. It was pretty much arbitrary. I gave Rose the handbook I was revising and he's taken it in some brilliant directions. Whatever he sees fit to change is fair game. We shall all fall behind our fearless leader. All hail Rose.

Added the youtube stream (the event has started):

I tried that earlier this year with two different plugins, but ran into problems with caching (which caused the blog to use a crazy ton of processing power to freshly load the site for each visitor instead of using cached pages). It's still on the table, however: I'm still working with our theme developer and two other WP devs (one of which is Yoast) to learn how to better implement this.

Yeat, it's almost -- almost -- as if you were travelling halfway across the world and back, and working overtime on projects, and dealing with new responsibilities at work, and balancing unexpected RL challenges, and planning Fuwa technical things on the side... ... or something.

Yeah, the sidebar idea is probably a bad approach. It's just... y'know... I have a legal obligation to try and make the sidebar as packed and complicated and miserable to navigate as possible.

Google is hosting a big show tomorrow about the state of Android, new nexus devices, Android M (the next iteration of the android operating system), and, more likely than not, a few surprise topics. If you're interested in this sort of thing, here are links to liveblogs you can follow tomorrow, and a speculative article or two you can read tonight. The Event will take place (tomorrow) on Tuesday 29 September 2015 at 12 PM EST / 9 AM PT Liveblogs to follow tomorrow: Android Central: Liveblog Ars Technica: Liveblog CNET: Liveblog Watch the Event: Youtube Stream: Link Speculative Articles You Can Read Right Now: Android Central: Nexus 6P and 5X preview: What to expect from Google's September 29 event Ars Technica: Last-minute Nexus rumors: $379 for the 5X, $499 for the 6P Fortune: What you should expect at Google's Sept. 29 event

More of a practical idea: what about having a small section (maybe one or two items) on the forums sidebar which will list active streams? If IPB 4 rears its ugly head, we can simply make a blog in the blog app to which streamers can post before their streams go live. We may even be able to set posts to auto-delete after a certain amount of time. There are a lot of tough angles to this conversation, so I thought I'd start with the low-hanging fruit and toss out ideas about the more general problem of poor visibility.

Thanks, sanah, for taking the time to write up your thoughts. For those posting after me: for the sake of maintaining some semblance of focus in this thread, let's hold off discussing the Loligeddon issue until the survey is complete. If you want to post your responses here after taking the survey, that's fine, but let's try to keep discussion focused on the other parts of the update for now. I plan on keeping the survey open for ~a week.

Getting a few questions about the analytics: "Unique visitors" is not the same as number of times people visit the site ("hits"). Unique visitors (or "uniques") are the number of IP addresses, I think, which visit the site. Tons of them check in more than once, for example, so the number of "hits" can be as much as 3-4 times the number of uniques we get each day. Hopefully that makes sense!