restructering CDZ
 

CDZ has been around for over 2 and a half years now and I think our little site is a much appreciated 'internet home base' for quite a few of us. We've been slowly growing and have seen quite some new initiates and improvements as well.

However our current structure is posing some practical problems. The fact that anarres and me are the only ones able to start new fora and upload avatars is just one example. Also lately anarres has been very busy and the same goes for me. This is causing unacceptable waiting times for regular ‘maintenance’

To be flexible anarres and me would like to implement the following changes
- have 'real' mods next to 'pbem/personal forum mods'
these mods can open fora, mod posts, upload
- have players upload their own avvies
- have the upload problems with large files fixed

To address these problems we basically have 2 choices:
- heavy modding of Snitz
- switching to VB

Apart from CDZ I have several VB fora running and I’m quite happy with them. Easier maintenance and more flexibility. (And I know some of you would be very happy with VB as well! ;))

However there’s one drawback to switching: data loss.

I;m not capable of transporting data from the Snitz format to the VB format. Anarres was going to look into this but it seems he doesn’t have the time to do this.

So the big questions to all of you :

- Do you feel that real mods and better upload abilities would fix our problems or do you have more wishes?
- Is there anyone out here that can transport the data?
- If we can’t move our data would you mind ‘archiving’ the old Snitz forum in a separate directory and ‘starting over’ again in VB?
- Or is anyone able to fix stuff in Snitz/windows 2k3 SE?

Of course all other feedback on CDZ is appreciated as well.

PP

SWITCH!


Why? Well, VB will give us the future, we can always link to the past ;)

I hereby offer my services as mod - no promises on time I can spend though.

Ahem.

You already are a mod.

And I thought we already had more mods? Or are you talking about modding the pbem sections? Then just adding another mod would do the trick as well wouldn't it?

I'd miss the snitz style, I'm getting used to it. But it surely has it's deficiencies (like, you know, no thread splitting). I think access to the "upcoming archives" is a requirement though. And the loss of post count would be horrible ;)

Shabba, I think he means add mods that have more powers (ie; create forums) so people aren't relying on the admins. Or maybe I misread your post..

VB would be fine with me...a link to the 'old site' would be a must though. It's not like there's much good content to bring over ;), spoilers can easily be created.

[shabba], am I? I never noticed [lol] I thought I only was a mod for my own forum.....

no, I meant mod-who-can-take-workload-off-admins.

I'm in favor of switching. like you said PP, I have a couple fora that are in VB and it's easier to use IMO. Linking to the old forum for transfer of Spoilers would be great.

I could help by being a super-mod if help is needed. Although I'm not sure how much help I can be that other, more experienced, memembers™ couldn't do.

EDIT:: sorry, I forgot the ™... added.

Which probably explains all the spam in our OT section [tongue]

hey, [shabba], there's no creationist or 'that ain't torture' SPAM here - thus nothing I would hand out bans for ;)

killer:

Are you sure? http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/to...?TOPIC_ID=3254

hm, leads to http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/default.asp