Changing hosts

PatrThom · Feb 4, 2016

I really wish this wasn't so difficult, and I wanna help, but I know there's probably nothing I can really do about that.

--Patrick

Dave · Feb 4, 2016

Okay, it looks like this might have worked. When I hear from the new host to coordinate, I'll lock this here board down, do a quick backup, and get moved. Then I'll point over the name servers.

Once locked, look for more information on Facebook or Halforums Premium (the tongue in cheek name for the G+ Hangout).

GasBandit · Feb 4, 2016

Dave said:
Okay, it looks like this might have worked. When I hear from the new host to coordinate, I'll lock this here board down, do a quick backup, and get moved. Then I'll point over the name servers.

Once locked, look for more information on Facebook or Halforums Premium (the tongue in cheek name for the G+ Hangout).

Might be good to disseminate info via the Halforums subreddit, too.

If anybody needs an invite to Halforums Premium, send a hangouts message to gasbandit@gmail.com. Be advised it gets kinda spammy sometimes because it's a chat room, not a forum.

Dave · Feb 4, 2016

And this will be happening tomorrow. The new host isn't ready.

PatrThom · Feb 4, 2016

Never signed up for G+. Might want to mention it on the Twitter feed also.

--Patrick

evilmike · Feb 4, 2016

Do we have anything that is exclusively Halforums status updates that could be pulled through a RSS feed?

MindDetective · Feb 4, 2016

PatrThom said:
Never signed up for G+. Might want to mention it on the Twitter feed also.

--Patrick

You don't need it any more, I think. If you have a google account (like gmail), you can just use Google hangouts. If you don't even have that, then you would obviously need to register.

Dei · Feb 4, 2016

If you have any google account, you have G+, because Google is sneaky like that.

MindDetective · Feb 4, 2016

Pretty much, yeah. But you don't need to actually even go to G+ to use the chat feature.

PatrThom · Feb 5, 2016

For a long time, they were like "in order to use G+ you must give us all of your personally identifiable information" but I guess they must have it all now if they no longer require this.

--Patrick

GasBandit · Feb 5, 2016

PatrThom said:
For a long time, they were like "in order to use G+ you must give us all of your personally identifiable information" but I guess they must have it all now if they no longer require this.

--Patrick

They didn't require it of me, and I made my Gas Bandit g+ account back when they changed it so that youtube required a G+ account. Which I think was many years ago.

PatrThom · Feb 5, 2016

GasBandit said:
They didn't require it of me, and I made my Gas Bandit g+ account back when they changed it so that youtube required a G+ account. Which I think was many years ago.

That's the main reason I still don't have a YouTube account.

--Patrick

GasBandit · Feb 5, 2016

PatrThom said:
That's the main reason I still don't have a YouTube account.

--Patrick

And it was before I actually even started posting videos to youtube, really. I begrudgingly made the transition just so I could continue posting comments.

Bubble181 · Feb 5, 2016

Eh. I have my old YT account, my old Hangouts account, and my Gmail account, which by now are all just plain "Google" accounts ,but all three still separate. It gets annoying switching around, but I really do'nt need them all linked together, quite the opposite.

evilmike · Feb 5, 2016

How about using halforums.tumblr.com as the official status page? It hasn't been used for anything in a couple of years, no one needs to sign up for anything to see it, and it's super easy to pull a RSS from it (halforums.tumblr.com/rss).

Dei · Feb 5, 2016

I'll just continue sending Gas screenshots of my mostly dead phone batteries until everything is better.

GasBandit · Feb 5, 2016

Dei said:
I'll just continue sending Gas screenshots of my mostly dead phone batteries until everything is better.

Reputations be damned, you all see the true evil on this forum, don't you.

Dei · Feb 5, 2016

[emoji56]

PatrThom · Feb 5, 2016

Dei said:
I'll just continue sending Gas screenshots of my mostly dead phone batteries until everything is better.

I have another* surprise for you later.

--Patrick
*on top of the surprise I already owe you.

GasBandit · Feb 5, 2016

Dei said:

THE MASK SLIPS YOU MOLOCHIAN QUASIT

Bubble181 · Feb 5, 2016

8% more than I have on my phone right now. But 0% just means it's about time to go and find a cable

Dei · Feb 5, 2016

GasBandit said:
THE MASK SLIPS YOU MOLOCHIAN QUASIT

Look, even the Devil was once an angel.

PatrThom · Feb 5, 2016

Oh, look. Dei has ponies as her backdrop.

--Patrick

PatrThom · Feb 5, 2016

Soo...did it work? Are we on the new server now?

--Patrick

GasBandit · Feb 5, 2016

PatrThom said:
Soo...did it work? Are we on the new server now?

--Patrick

No.

There was a porblem.

PatrThom · Feb 5, 2016

Ah.

Dave said there might be.

--Patrick

Dave · Feb 5, 2016

Thw new host can't do it until tomorrow night. So..........round 2.

Cheesy1 · Feb 7, 2016

Dave · Feb 7, 2016

This time for good.

Denbrought · Feb 7, 2016

Yasssss

klew · Feb 7, 2016

Now we pee everywhere to mark our territory.

Cheesy1 · Feb 7, 2016

My signature picture of Miko stopped working, but that was an easy fix.

Dave · Feb 7, 2016

Cheesy1 said:
My signature picture of Miko stopped working, but that was an easy fix.

Yeah, if you have links to anywhere on the site, make sure they don't have the /xenforo/ in them.

Cheesy1 · Feb 7, 2016

Dave said:
Yeah, if you have links to anywhere on the site, make sure they don't have the /xenforo/ in them.

Yeah, had to do that to fix some of the pictures in the Cool Corgi thread.

Dave · Feb 7, 2016

Oof. Yeah, I wonder if there's a way to do this universally. Too tired to care. It's 2 am and the fear is gone.