plante1999
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Contact people while SM is down
I don't know if it is the rigth place to post this...
Lately sciencemadness was down quite often, while the forum was often I wanted to U2U some member but I was not able to contact them.
So, I made a forum, not to make competition with sciencemadness, but simply to have a mean to contact people while SM is offline.
Also the forum can be used for general chemistry talk and to ask me things about my experimentations or ask me to do an experiment.
This forum could also be used as a mean to get information while SM is offline.
My website is always online.
Thanks!
Link:
http://hclo3chem.weebly.com/forum.html
[Edited on 4-12-2012 by plante1999]
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Hexavalent
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I like your idea, have you a link to your new forum?
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
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If ScienceMadness is so unstable that we need a secondary forum to contact eachother, then it's a symptom showing that something should be done.
Another website is not the solution.
I do think that we could use an IRC channel, however.
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elementcollector1
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Why not? A backup solution is a better temporary solution than none at all. Besides, we could have this grow into an awesome new Sciencemadness. 
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Quote: Originally posted by Lambda-Eyde  | If ScienceMadness is so unstable that we need a secondary forum to contact eachother, then it's a symptom showing that something should be done.
Another website is not the solution.
I do think that we could use an IRC channel, however. |
IRC would be neat! Another website has potential to cause certain losses in information though. An example would be if let's say SM went down, and a
new thread would be created for an ongoing discussion on Sciencemadness, except on a separate forum. Once SM comes back online there is a good chance
that the original thread on that topic would lose coherency. Parts of conversations could end up in one place or the other. As long as that doesn't
happen then there shouldn't be problems though.
However, the idea of a means to communicate with members outside of SM is a good idea!
[Edited on 5-12-2012 by Mailinmypocket]
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i think its a good idea because i remember when sciencemadness was down and i was really bummed out until i got ahold of plante.one member alone was
having some contact with sciencemadness. sciencemadness is the common denominator and i think always will be and if not, sciencemadness will be
godfather anyway.
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Hexavalent
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Is it me, or has SM been going down more frequently since Polverone changed the code for spam posts?
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
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I would like to put in a reminder. Polverone's call for participation: modernizing SM forum software. Part of the problem is that the code base that this forum runs on is not, ahem, stellar.
Moving to something that doesn't periodically trash its own database would alleviate many, perhaps all, of the recent outages.
Edit: Typo.
[Edited on 2012-12-5 by watson.fawkes]
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The moderators have swopped emails so that we can send Polverone an email if the board goes down and he does not notice.
Hopefully this will help cut the down time.
Science Madness does run on venerable software and we could do with migrating to something newer and shinier! 
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Hexavalent
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How long do you anticipate this would take, SS?
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I do not know.
It is being discussed in this thread;
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=18651&...
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plante1999
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The link changed, here is it:
http://hclo3chem.weebly.com/forum.html
I really hope something will be done for the forum software. The forum seams to be pretty old, and few things should be fixed. Hopefully it should be
done soon.
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Vargouille
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Link is broken. So is your main site's.
Also, I find that invisionfree and zetaboards have a quite stable forum software free, so you might want to move to that.
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plante1999
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Sorry, I tried to change the domain, shortly after putting the link, all link should be fixed today.
www.hclo3chem.tk
Go on the archive tab and click on the forum tab.
[Edited on 16-1-2013 by plante1999]
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plante1999
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Sorry to double post, but the last forum had a lot of advertising, and not a lot of possibility. I changed the forum hardware. I use zetaboard, which
have a lot less advertising.
You can create an account on hclo3chem.tk. Click on the archive tab, and then on forum tab.
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Done! Topic here (in Whimsy).
#sciencemadness @ irc.efnet.org
Feel free to join us for a chat!
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Please drop by our IRC channel: #sciencemadness @ irc.efnet.org
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