List of issues

[Funt Solo]

Ahoy, matey, tech-heads! 2.0

I have been using the "Report to Moderator" function to report spambot posts full of dodgy links. They are no longer being deleted. Perhaps you should knight another of the boarders so they could ban hammer the shit out of those p(r)oxy malcontents!

[Translation available on request.]

[Jim_Campbell]

Perhaps you should knight another of the boarders so they could ban hammer the shit out of those p(r)oxy malcontents!

I'll do it! I promise I would not use these powers for evil.

Promise.

Honest.

Well, maybe occasionally. But not much. Only a bit evil... now and then.

[JohnW]

I'll do it! I promise I would not use these powers for evil.

'It is difficult to mark the exact moment when the rise of Campbellism became inexorable, but conventional history points to the day that the title of "Moderator" was replaced by "Forum Commissar for Ideological Compliance".'

[The Legendary Shark]

Ahoy, matey, tech-heads!

It's currently impossible to make any profile changes. When you click the "Change Profile" button you get dumped onto a 403 Forbidden page.

Please fix this so our resident Shark can change his profile picture each day, as is his wont.

Thanks, Funt, seriously.

I didn't want to make a fuss about this as I know my constant avatar changing irks some people and complaining might be churlish so I thought it best to just roll with it.

I commit my mortal soul to vote for Jim.

[Colin YNWA]

I'm having problems posting longer ... well posts I guess. Used to be able to add things of up to 20000 characters and am regularly trying to add posts be around 15,000 - 18,000 character but lately I'm having to break posts of these lengths into 4 or 5 parts ... now many would say I should go on less but I'm on a role here and stubbornly determined.

Has the character limit been reduced - is this something that could be increased again or is it part of anti spam measures or similar?

[The Legendary Shark]

I generally break my longer posts up into chunks under 3,500 words, if memory serves. I think that's always been about the limit, but I haven't posted anything super long for ages.

[IndigoPrime]

Re admin/spam, I've not been getting notifications for some reason. I've gone through some recent ones but will have to tackle the queue in chunks. If there's anything pressing, please email me.

[IndigoPrime]

Amusingly, having just worked my way back deep into 2023's reports, the forum kicked me out, claimed I was spamming and attempted to ban me.

[Funt Solo]

See, now I'm feeling bad.

[The Legendary Shark]

Now you're feeling bad.

Wait 'til the gin runs out.

[Funt Solo]

Ahoy, matey, tech-heads!

It's currently impossible to make any profile changes. When you click the "Change Profile" button you get dumped onto a 403 Forbidden page.

Please fix this so our resident Shark can change his profile picture each day, as is his wont.

Bump!

[Funt Solo]

And back to daily log-ins.

[Funt Solo]

Ahoy, matey, tech-heads!

It's currently impossible to make any profile changes. When you click the "Change Profile" button you get dumped onto a 403 Forbidden page.

Please fix this so our resident Shark can change his profile picture each day, as is his wont.

Bump!

Double-bump? Is this a bug or a feature, tech-bods? If this thread is an empty well that I'm calling into, perhaps it should be deleted or locked? Y'know, with all due respect.

[The Legendary Shark]

I guess it's a financial and/or procedural thing. Something needed doing recently and some IT bod was employed to do it, and probably their contract indemnified them against the loss of Sharky's ability to annoy the neighbours with his seemingly infinite collection of Sharkworld Avatars (soon to be collected into a kind of multiversal Top Trumps card game*) or the loss of the Active Topics page. So the job was done, the fee was paid and any "minor niggles" would be sorted out next time. Splundigs, Tharg, and thanks for all the groats. Or maybe the IT's all in-house and there just isn't time to listen to us whining nonscrots complaining about piffling avatars when numerous Twoothy characters are in such dire and imminent peril, requiring The Mighty One's undivided attention.  "The forum? Pfa! They will come anyway. Their reverence for my mighty organ far outweighs their trifling annoyances. Ignore them and concentrate on trying to bond vodka molecules with polystyrene..."

From what little I know of you, Funt, you seem capable of rectifying these trifling annoyances and potentially even capable of invoking the much prayed for Holy Like Button with nary more than a dozen keystrokes and a moderately strong drink. If not you, then I bet someone here can do it. Donate (insert ill-informed short unit of time here) or two to helping TMO service his loyal Squaxx so that He doesn't have to take His mighty eye off those miserable creator droids for a moment. But I guess "the insurance" strangles such ideas at birth.

We can only entreat The Mighty One to take a moment from his lofty concerns to address the minor quibbles of us, His lowly servants. Pray, sacrifice a thrill sucker (or a Barry Manilow cd), kneel facing Betelgeuse and repeat after me...

Our Thriller who art in Oxford,

hallowed be thy name.

Thy thrillage come.

Thy will be done

in Progs as it is in the Meg.

Give us this week our weekly comic,

and forgive us our criticisms,

as we forgive those who criticise against us,

and lead us not into Marvel,

but deliver us from Dark Horse.

For thine is the thrill and the power, and the story,

forever and ever.

Amen.

P.S. Please can you fix the website and give us a "like" button. Ta muchly.

Amen, Amen.

*No it isn't.