I started to edit the pages of RAF 5 hours ago. I am now done for the day. What was done?
1. New background.
2. Tidying up of the backend codes (bulk of the 5 hours). Will allow for faster page loads.
3. RAF eBooks: fixing mis-matched links.
4. RAF eBooks pages all edited to include easy navigation between Remnants, Animorphs and Everworld eBooks.
5. RAF eBooks pages edited: added a discuss link to RAF Forum.
Newly suggested General Role-Playing and General Fan-fiction boards have been added to RAF Forum.
These two boards are where threads pertaining to role-playing and fan-fiction (and are not Animorphs related) are put.
The 7th Remnants e-Book is now available. Visit RAF eBooks to get it.
Remnants 1-8 are now available. More to come, as the members of the Animorphs Forum have completed their uploading.
This time, I am looking for persons to join the staff who are experienced with CSS & HTML. Feel free to contact me on the forum via PM, or email me at richardatanimorphsforum.com.
Spread the word if you know anyone who is knowledgeable in SMF.
The RAF Chat has been a part of the RAF world since February, but with the update to a more secure and powerful application, one issue is brought to the forefront: registration.
While one may think that once you've registered on the Forum you automatically have login credentials on the Chat; this isn't the case. But why?
Simply put, the chat room, and the forum are on separate hosts/ computers. This was done so that if the forum experiences difficulties (as it has been shown in the past) we will still have access to the chat. So they are in essence two different websites.
//So take the time (10 seconds) to register if you haven't:
http://chat.animorphsforum.com
The second day of the RAF Party has ended. If you missed it, remember that the roof will be on fire twice per month; the second weekend (Saturday and Sunday).
So on to the second RAF Party, which was held yesterday Sunday November 16, 2008:
First, the statistics:
The top poster by a mile was Jules Winnfield (also known as Esplin 9466 or just 9466). He made 914 posts. You read that right. 914 posts in one day; setting the record for the most posts in one day on RAF. He was the most active member throughout the Party, logging many hours on RAF.
Forget the previous records for page-views (hits), and most posts in one day; which by the way, were made the day before.
Sunday saw 3025 posts created, and 22,157 hits recorded. The house indeed rocked and the roof is still charred.
The highlight of the night though has to be the second installment of the Count to 1000 thread.
The night was ending, therefore the Bored Board would revert to not adding to the post count. Just 45 minutes to go, we rushed the thread in an attempt to reach the number 1000. 270 posts were made, and the thread was complete with 20 minutes to spare. That's 270+ posts in 15 minutes.
Now if you weren't there, let me put things into perspective (*begins to relive the moments*) : the forum will notify you each time there is a reply before you've posted. With quite a number of us in the thread it was near impossible to get your number in.
I remember at one point I was hitting the enter button constantly to submit my number only to be greeted with the famous "there was a reply, you might want to revise your post" warning. My number was long gone; they've already reached 20 numbers ahead. It was a bundle of confusion and rabid excitement.
To further heighten the intensity of getting your number in (at the appropriate time no less), goom suggested at 935 that the person who got the number 1000 would be showered with applauds (ie given a Karma point). Oh how we salivated at that notion of swimming in a sea of applauds.
After 15 minutes of non-stop posting, 1000 was very near... there were, at the end, about five 1000 showing up from different persons amid the confusion. Russell (Esplin 9466) posted the number 998, but it was in fact the 1000th reply. Lucky much? But then again the difficulty in posting made the karmaing a well deserved one.
The night pretty much ended when we made it to 1000.
If you don't want to miss the +2 karma on new threads, and the Bored Board counting to your post count, the date for the next Party has been set. Mark your December 13 on your calendar as a day of fun and without a doubt; excitement.
The first day of the RAF Party can be described only as a success. The intent was to get members out, break records, and have fun. Members came out, records were broken, and I surely had fun.
Here are the statistics for Saturday November 15, 2008:
Firstly, 73 members turned out.
11 new topics created.
1,625 new posts were created (RECORD).*
21,320 hits were recorded. (RECORD).**
*The average new posts per day on RAF Forum is approximately 400 posts: we quadrupled that average.
**Of the impressive statistics recorded, the 21,320 hits breaks the most hits recorded of all time. The previous best was 19,407 on RAF Classic on July 30, 2005.
So who were the top posters 5 on the first day?
RAF Home & RAF TV have been modified. Nothing big, nothing drastic, only simple edits.
Ken (Dan at the moment) has taken the top spot on the Most Time Online list. He dethrones morfowt after months after dethroning myself.
Ken's total time online is up to this point 38+ days.
I moved the RAF Chat back to our sepeate host, nothing should be changed.
If you experience problems with connection drops, please notify me in this thread.
The RAF Chat URL is, for those who didn't know is:
chat.animorphsforum.com
Starting now you need to give a reason why you are changing someone's karma; being it smiting or applauding. Adding to the upgrade, you have the option to see who changed your karma and why.
To see who has changed your karma, or whose karma you changed, visit your profile.
Additionally, you can have the option to be notified when someone changes your karma. See screen-shot below:
This release is a security-only update which addresses a few recently discovered security issues in SMF 1.1.6 and older.
