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Title: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 06:31:19 AM
As you can tell, we have upgraded the forum even further. 

It is far from complete and there is still a number of cosmetic and functional changes we will be making throughout the day. 

PS - the menu on the side and the shoutbox etc will be added later today so please don't panic.

Regards
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Ramorethetho on February 11, 2010, 08:30:57 AM
 8) 8)
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: rob_one on February 11, 2010, 09:55:50 AM
Hot damn! Looks great Milk. Big ups for the work. :)
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Lord Deacon Of Frost on February 11, 2010, 10:04:57 AM
I hope the exclusive area is more secure, seriously atleast 300 posts before entry like all the other boards
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 10:24:01 AM
Milk is not with me right now. 

busy with more upgrades/features as we speak, we almost there...
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: the panic! on February 11, 2010, 10:51:36 AM
hard to navigate this piece without the shoutbox and recent topics list. i know youre working on it. im just saying.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Ramorethetho on February 11, 2010, 11:13:47 AM
Milk is not with me right now. 

busy with more upgrades/features as we speak, we almost there...
famous last words  :P
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: RearrangedReality on February 11, 2010, 12:16:42 PM
no shoutbox , no lasted topics  :o

?
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 12:21:00 PM
waiting on hosting company to fix f***ed up owner/group issues, php func ftp emulation not calibrating...
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: RearrangedReality on February 11, 2010, 12:28:18 PM
waiting on hosting company to fix f***ed up owner/group issues

alright

php func ftp emulation not calibrating...

 :-\
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: K'niep Tang on February 11, 2010, 12:35:04 PM
waiting on hosting company to fix f***ed up owner/group issues

alright

php func ftp emulation not calibrating...

 :-\

lol...me too dawg
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: rob_one on February 11, 2010, 01:11:20 PM
Everybody chill the f*** out. Let's give them a little bit of time to sort out the issues. Remember the last time AG was upgraded? Shoutbox/last topics appeared within 24 hours. :)
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: RearrangedReality on February 11, 2010, 01:21:52 PM
Everybody chill the f*** out. Let's give them a little bit of time to sort out the issues. Remember the last time AG was upgraded? Shoutbox/last topics appeared within 24 hours. :)

that was after we threatened to mobilise the ma**es. they could tell shit was about to pop.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 01:36:14 PM
Everybody chill the f*** out. Let's give them a little bit of time to sort out the issues. Remember the last time AG was upgraded? Shoutbox/last topics appeared within 24 hours. :)

that was after we threatened to mobilise the ma**es. they could tell shit was about to pop.

This is fantasy stuff, where do you make this up?
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: RearrangedReality on February 11, 2010, 01:44:48 PM
Everybody chill the f*** out. Let's give them a little bit of time to sort out the issues. Remember the last time AG was upgraded? Shoutbox/last topics appeared within 24 hours. :)

that was after we threatened to mobilise the ma**es. they could tell shit was about to pop.

This is fantasy stuff, where do you make this up?

my head
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: K'niep Tang on February 11, 2010, 01:46:47 PM
^^^ ;D ;D
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: the panic! on February 11, 2010, 04:14:00 PM
quoted text becomes too small to read after a while. can you look into that?
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 05:38:37 PM
Will do

I'm going to take this mother offline for about an hour at around 6pm tonight I hope you guys don't mind.  I've resorted to doing the changes manually now since our argie bargies with the hosting company is not yielding any results right now.  No more waiting.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: rob_one on February 11, 2010, 05:39:19 PM
Good looks Militia!
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: The Angry Hand of God on February 11, 2010, 05:56:43 PM
This shit could have been done already if you were'nt on here yapping to these fools all day.

Get to it.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 06:33:42 PM
phase 2 completed, more to come from now until 5am
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 06:42:56 PM
quoted text becomes too small to read after a while. can you look into that?

Just checked an example of those quotes, way too small, I'm looking for a fix right now.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: rob_one on February 11, 2010, 06:51:05 PM
quoted text becomes too small to read after a while. can you look into that?

Just checked an example of those quotes, way too small, I'm looking for a fix right now.

Looks great with the 'recent posts' box. Nice work.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 07:01:13 PM
Thank you

it's not great yet, and the transition this will take over the next few hours is directly linked to the main site, which will go live shortly.  While some don't like it done in phases we have chosen this route to avoid a blackout over a few days.

We have corrected the tiny quote problem, tested on Chrome and Firefox. 
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Naturelle on February 11, 2010, 07:31:13 PM
I like it
A LOT.
 shades of blue   :)
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: daliq on February 11, 2010, 07:36:32 PM
Co sign
I'm a Software Engineer, DB Admin, Business Intelligence dude, gotta thank & say ya'll put in work.. the dynamics on point...
yess
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 07:38:56 PM
thanks for the positive responses so far.  But it's going to get better, this is only the tip of the iceberg. 
 8)
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: RearrangedReality on February 11, 2010, 08:31:37 PM
Co sign
I'm a Software Engineer, DB Admin, Business Intelligence dude, gotta thank & say ya'll put in work.. the dynamics on point...
yess


hook me up with a job homie, the white man is abusing me here.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: RearrangedReality on February 11, 2010, 08:34:52 PM
latest posts, how about just latest topics rather? look how one topic is feeling up the whole thing.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: RearrangedReality on February 11, 2010, 08:35:57 PM
the boards look GREAT!  :)
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 08:41:00 PM
latest posts, how about just latest topics rather? look how one topic is feeling up the whole thing.

agree sorting it out now
thanks
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 08:43:48 PM
latest posts, how about just latest topics rather? look how one topic is feeling up the whole thing.

agree sorting it out now
thanks

did it thanks
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Ramorethetho on February 11, 2010, 08:58:46 PM
You mean there is more shit 2 come
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 11, 2010, 09:15:12 PM
yup ;D
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Ramorethetho on February 12, 2010, 08:45:44 AM
So what do you have in store for the index page
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Lord Deacon Of Frost on February 12, 2010, 10:12:54 AM
I'd like to suggest taking away newbie's rights to create topics this will easily curb anymore bot invasions, I dont know a minimum 50 post isnt nearly as hardcore, other boards I frequent go a hundred posts plus 30 days membership  8)

and CAN WE PLEASE GET SOME NEW EMOTICONS!
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: AGMilitia on February 12, 2010, 11:10:57 AM
Thank you we will do that

We are always working here, but had to take a few hours sleep break but we continue to do the work.

Regarding the bots, the Indians and some other east Asian countries are now employing human "bots" to manually infiltrate forums so it makes things tougher, e.g. today I had over 10 registrations from such people.  One way to solve this is I'm going to use api's to add further options to log in using facebook connect and twitter api and have already implemented the open ID authentication.

About the index page, the only thing holding that back is that we can't overwrite files via ftp in the www folder they are sorting it out now.  The shit would've been done ages ago if it wasn't for these stumbling blocks but we build bridges and get over it.  Thanks for all support.  We take every idea into consideration.  I'm leaving now for 2 hours but then I'm back.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Papa ThReAdS on February 12, 2010, 11:23:41 AM
All this tech talk is making my tummy hurt. All i want to know is when we are going to get that Pr0n section running. With restricted access, only for members with more than 1000 posts. Everything else is secondary to this. So please stop what you are doing and look into it.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: RearrangedReality on February 12, 2010, 11:24:19 AM
Regarding the bots, the Indians and some other east Asian countries are now employing human "bots" to manually infiltrate forums

Flipmode bot!

AGMilitia, you have the competence of pharoah's slaves. I commend you for that.

BUT 2 hour lunch breaks are not acceptable, theres still a lot of work to be done!

Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Lord Deacon Of Frost on February 12, 2010, 11:28:38 AM
All this tech talk is making my tummy hurt. All i want to know is when we are going to get that Pr0n section running. With restricted access, only for members with more than 1000 posts. Everything else is secondary to this. So please stop what you are doing and look into it.

This man speaks the greatest truth

(http://fast1.onesite.com/community.allhiphop.com/user/rdm3/co-sign.jpg)
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: K'niep Tang on February 12, 2010, 11:59:15 AM
All this tech talk is making my tummy hurt. All i want to know is when we are going to get that Pr0n section running. With restricted access, only for members with more than 1000 posts. Everything else is secondary to this. So please stop what you are doing and look into it.

UFCK THAT SH!T!!! Some of us been on AG for years, we can't be victims of such newbie rules jis coz our number of posts doesn't meet the set criteria. With such rules that lack any sort of intelligence, niggas like Mad and Rama who flood the forums with bullshit would get access real quick. Do you REALLY wanna be the one responsible for letting Rama get access to the PPM? Come up with something else...
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Lord Deacon Of Frost on February 12, 2010, 12:05:39 PM
All this tech talk is making my tummy hurt. All i want to know is when we are going to get that Pr0n section running. With restricted access, only for members with more than 1000 posts. Everything else is secondary to this. So please stop what you are doing and look into it.

UFCK THAT SH!T!!! Some of us been on AG for years, we can't be victims of such newbie rules jis coz our number of posts doesn't meet the set criteria. With such rules that lack any sort of intelligence, niggas like Mad and Rama who flood the forums with bullshit would get access real quick. Do you REALLY wanna be the one responsible for letting Rama get access to the PPM? Come up with something else...

maybe milk cant set it to the members join date then oh and start posting bitch  ;D
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Ramorethetho on February 12, 2010, 12:16:28 PM
All this tech talk is making my tummy hurt. All i want to know is when we are going to get that Pr0n section running. With restricted access, only for members with more than 1000 posts. Everything else is secondary to this. So please stop what you are doing and look into it.

UFCK THAT SH!T!!! Some of us been on AG for years, we can't be victims of such newbie rules jis coz our number of posts doesn't meet the set criteria. With such rules that lack any sort of intelligence, niggas like Mad and Rama who flood the forums with bullshit would get access real quick. Do you REALLY wanna be the one responsible for letting Rama get access to the PPM? Come up with something else...

maybe milk cant set it to the members join date then oh and start posting bitch  ;D
Kids like they taking all this shit you talking in consideration


And can you stop it with this Milk shit dude is just an avarage AG Militia is the one who deserve props

 
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: K'niep Tang on February 12, 2010, 01:09:29 PM
the quoted text seems to take up a whole lot more space...
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: RearrangedReality on February 12, 2010, 01:14:19 PM
the quoted text seems to take up a whole lot more space...

true. but some niggas aint trying to get gla**es.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Lord Deacon Of Frost on February 12, 2010, 01:15:15 PM
All this tech talk is making my tummy hurt. All i want to know is when we are going to get that Pr0n section running. With restricted access, only for members with more than 1000 posts. Everything else is secondary to this. So please stop what you are doing and look into it.

UFCK THAT SH!T!!! Some of us been on AG for years, we can't be victims of such newbie rules jis coz our number of posts doesn't meet the set criteria. With such rules that lack any sort of intelligence, niggas like Mad and Rama who flood the forums with bullshit would get access real quick. Do you REALLY wanna be the one responsible for letting Rama get access to the PPM? Come up with something else...

maybe milk cant set it to the members join date then oh and start posting bitch  ;D
Kids like they taking all this shit you talking in consideration


And can you stop it with this Milk shit dude is just an avarage AG Militia is the one who deserve props

milk is the agmilitia retard
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: K'niep Tang on February 12, 2010, 01:18:10 PM
the quoted text seems to take up a whole lot more space...

true. but some niggas aint trying to get gla**es.

I hear you, but I'm talking about the way it's laid out, not the font size. seems kinda...bulky, for lack of a better word.

another thing, why would you want to hide the fact that you're online on AG? I don't get it...and peeps use the damn thing...who are they hiding from?
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: RearrangedReality on February 12, 2010, 01:21:46 PM

milk is the agmilitia retard

lol
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Papa ThReAdS on February 12, 2010, 01:29:45 PM
While you're at it, please upgrade that Rama bot from amoeba to retard.
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Msanii_XL on February 17, 2010, 05:56:58 PM
can we get the latest topics instead of POSTS....
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: rob_one on February 17, 2010, 06:00:19 PM
can we get the latest topics instead of POSTS....

Why? Posts work fine, surely?
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: Msanii_XL on February 17, 2010, 11:41:07 PM
can we get the latest topics instead of POSTS....

Why? Posts work fine, surely?

hmm, wasn't it topics before? seems like it works fine...
Title: Re: Upgrade
Post by: The Angry Hand of God on February 22, 2010, 05:46:12 PM
Just a suggestion.

Why don't you move the shoutbox up on the page, to right below the ad banner? It can be placed in the middle and that way we don't have to scroll all the way down the page to see it.

Check how it is done on Lawinanet.