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Djaser
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Post by Djaser »

We have 42 new users in less than a week. I don't worry about people not knowing that the forums have moved, everyone seems to know it.
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Post by KeenRush »

Yeah, agree. And the iced topics and notice on top of the forums should tell enough at the old PCKF. I just remembered that it's possible to e-mail all the members at once, so I just did that, not sure if it has been done already, I think not. So at least they get one excuse less that they haven't been informed! :garg
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Post by Malvineous »

Ah, I was wondering who sent that e-mail, that was a good idea. That should speed up the transition of those people who only drop by the forum occasionally.
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Post by Stealthy71088 »

I'm here too now. I don't know why I never joined before- I guess I was just too lazy, and too used to K:M.
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Post by grafix »

A recommendation to the admins: it might be a good idea to place META redirects to pckf.keenmodding.org on the old PCKF. This would cause Google and Yahoo to replace links to the PCKF on ezBoard with links to the new boards here. It could be done by adding the following to the custom header on the board index:

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<meta http-equiv="refresh; content="0; url=http://pckf.keenmodding.org/" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
And the following on each individual board:

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<meta http-equiv=refresh content="0; url=http://pckf.keenmodding.org/viewforum.php?f=x" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
Where x is the ID of the corresponding forum on these boards. Any thoughts?

EDIT: Additionally, would it hurt to have pckf.com be the actual hostname for this site, instead of just a forwarding address?
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Post by Rorie »

thanx, i thought this would never happen
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Post by Flaose »

grafix, I put the header on the main page (and will do the subforums later,) good idea.

Also, I thought that pckf.com WAS going to become the hostname, I'm not sure how that just became a redirect again. VitaminZach will have to be asked.
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Post by ckguy »

Ah! pckf.com now is the actual url, and no longer redirects. And pckf.keenmodding.org redirects to pckf.com

Incidentally, who owns the domain name, and who own the server space? VitaminZach for the domain, and adurdin for the space?
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Post by Flaose »

Exactly.
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Post by Shadow Master »

Is the Moderator CP mod installed here?
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Post by KeenRush »

I dunno, what does it do? Why should there be?
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Post by Shadow Master »

Allows you to lock, remove, split and move entire threads on-the-fly. At least I got it in freeforums.org and wesnoth.org/forum.
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Post by Flaose »

I guess we do, because those options definitely appear before me.
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Post by grafix »

Nice job on the META redirects on the ezBoard PCKF. There's just one problem - the semicolon after the word "refresh" seems to have stopped it working in my browser (Safari).

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<meta http-equiv=refresh; content=0; url=http://www.pckf.com/ />
Since this might also stop Google processing the redirect, therefore negating the main reason for putting it there in the first place, it might be a good idea to change it to this:

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<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.pckf.com/" />
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Post by Flaose »

That seems to have really screwed things up in Firefox now...I had to put it back, it was just constantly refreshing itself.
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