New Gatchamania

Ok Gatchafreaks, youve prolly been wondering what in the hell has been going on the last couple of days.

Well this is it. This is the new site. Its not got all the bells and whistles the old site had but considering most of them didnt work it doesnt matter.

Instead I have gone for the upgrade to the forums, an emphasis on XHTML compatibility and offering only those hacks which I deemed working correctly.

So new site, new design, new server. Its a fully XHTML Trans 1.0 compliant site and its the ONLY hacked wbblite forum to be 100% compliant to my knowledge.

Now you may be able to find the odd flaw because as with anything, I may have overlooked something. I have validated the site as much as I can but I still think you users may find a non valid part at some point.

Anyway whats missing?

We no longer have pets, the RPG system, the Jukebox, the forum shop, lotteries, the file system or forum money.

Some of these I will be written again from scratch by me. So they will work this time

What do we still have?

Arcade, Calendar, Who is where, all the forum posts and threads from our old forum.

What is new and improved?

Attachments, smilies, gallery ( a proper one ), a quick pm which works, sub domain hosting and lots of other little things for you to search for.

I have added all the old attachments back to their posts by hand people! Took me hours!

Now there is so much to talk about ill let you guys ask the questions. Ill just add up a quick poll

Cep - Gatchamania.net Administrator

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Thanks Cep

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I love the colour scheme

I also very much like the greater range of "recent threads" options.

Cricket, I think the red asterisk thingy marks everything in that forum as read.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

I Luuuurve that a new gallery has been added! I assume this means I can upload directly from my machine? (eyeballing her way through the particulars as we speak)

I dont' see where to add gallery pics...Is it not user ready or am I blind?


The site is much much faster now! Wonderful! Bravo Cep!


The color scheme is very sweet. The bells and whistles are much more user friendly so far!


Thank you thank you!

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"Spider sense....tingling."

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"Spider sense....tingling."

'Fraid there's a bit of a bug on the main page, where it lists most recent people to visit.

I posted more recently than three hours ago, and Buffy posted much more recently than 7 days ago.

Might be a delay in updating the stats. More research needed.

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How do you upload the pictures?

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Tempory Frisker

Thank you Cep for all the work you have done here. I'm especially grateful for the speed!
When I connect from my office I have usually no problems, but from home I end up often stucked with an old modem, so I really appreciate the change!
Bravo, good work!

On the main gallery page, there is an "add image to gallery" link near the bottom, not far above the "powered by burning board lite" etc box at the bottom. So you click on that and then choose the image, title, description and which gallery and so on.

As I discovered yesterday, remember not to use any apostrophes because you'll get a sql error rather than an uploaded file.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

You get an SQL error on the gallery? Ooo might have to fix hat

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Gatchamania.net Administrator

Yep, I am also very much enjoying the new look.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."