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Introducing OCConnectTube!

Last post by Omar Bongo « Sat Dec 05, 2020 3:07 pm
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by John Q. Public » Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:03 pm

Well, sort of.

I finally found a plugin that plays videos that we can upload from our own devices. Now we can share all those kewl cat videos our...

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Suggestions for the site?

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I'm just curious. Since this has always been a community site, and will continue to be one, I'll ask the community if there are any features they'd...
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Tue Jun 25, 2019 9:19 pm
About images....

Last post by John Q. Public « Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:13 pm
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by John Q. Public » Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:41 am

I discovered that most of the attachments from the from the old board became unattached in the software update. They've all been fixed but some of...

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Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:13 pm
We have a TED button!

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by John Q. Public » Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:10 am

It's just a little tricky to use but I made it as simple as I could without allowing people to post anything malicious. To use it, copy only the name...

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Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:10 am
I did an update

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by John Q. Public » Mon Sep 02, 2024 12:09 am

And as soon as I finished it I got a message that said, There's a new version available! Seems the new version was released while I was updating....

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Tue Sep 03, 2024 9:36 am
We have an em dash!

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by John Q. Public » Wed Aug 07, 2024 9:47 am

Duh. I'm probably the only one who'd use one, but it finally dawned on me — after only 25 years — that I could use the word censor to convert two...

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Wed Aug 07, 2024 9:47 am
Embedding tweets with "x.com" URLs

Last post by John Q. Public « Sat Sep 16, 2023 7:35 am
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by John Q. Public » Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:44 pm

Elon Musk, in his infinite wisdom is breaking some embedded tweets by using x.com addresses on them, which our software doesn't recognize. Maybe it...

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Sat Sep 16, 2023 7:35 am
We can now embed posts from Threads

Last post by John Q. Public « Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:51 pm
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by John Q. Public » Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:10 pm

I updated some plug-ins tonight. Media Embed is the big one, with Threads and Mastodon added (if Mastodon hadn't already been available, I never...

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Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:51 pm
About the recent slowness

Last post by John Q. Public « Thu Mar 23, 2023 10:49 am
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by John Q. Public » Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:48 pm

And maybe the board getting the name wrong on some quotes.

It's complicated, but dumbing it down to where even I can almost understand it, the...

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Thu Mar 23, 2023 10:49 am
Possible bugginess Wednesday 4/13

Last post by John Q. Public « Wed Apr 13, 2022 6:44 am
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by John Q. Public » Thu Apr 07, 2022 10:55 am

It's complicated but our host is going to attempt a server update that the developers of the board software say it isn't quite compatible with....

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Wed Apr 13, 2022 6:44 am
Loosely scheduled maintenance tonight

Last post by John Q. Public « Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:52 am
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by John Q. Public » Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:15 pm

Maybe around 10:00 or so.

It should take about 15 minutes and the board should be completely dead for about 5 of that. And then I'll be...

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Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:52 am
I added some new smilies

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by John Q. Public » Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:44 pm

I did an exchange with Foggy and activated a couple old ones. Most are on the View more smilies popup box in no special order. Posting them in threes...

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Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:45 pm
We're back #348(a)

Last post by John Q. Public « Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:44 pm
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by John Q. Public » Sun Nov 10, 2019 1:32 pm
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Very long story short, I did an update on the server and a function that the board used doesn't exist in the new version. So, thousands and thousands...
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Last post by John Q. Public
Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:44 pm
We're back #348

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by John Q. Public » Fri Nov 01, 2019 12:50 pm

Some kind of connectivity issue with the server, they said. I couldn't even connect from the command line, so it was as if it wasn't even plugged in....

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Fri Nov 01, 2019 12:50 pm
Hey JQP

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by Red » Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:46 pm

What happened to my post?

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Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:22 pm
We're back? Maybe?

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by John Q. Public » Tue Sep 04, 2018 1:31 pm

Sorry about that. All I know is that tech support said some process on the server blew up. No idea why it took so long. —:—

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Tue Sep 04, 2018 1:31 pm
You might start getting security warnings about the site

Last post by John Q. Public « Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:23 am
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by John Q. Public » Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:44 am

Or you might have already gotten one. Hanna said she got one a week or so ago and I got an email from Google saying that Chrome would start giving...

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Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:23 am
New <embed> Plug-in

Last post by John Q. Public « Tue Apr 10, 2018 6:41 am
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by John Q. Public » Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:12 am

I went looking for a plug-in that would embed a :steam: tweet and boy, did I find one. It does that and a whole lot more. And even better, you don't...

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Tue Apr 10, 2018 6:41 am
Saaaayyyy! What's this button do?

Last post by John Q. Public « Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:17 am
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by John Q. Public » Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:41 pm

Whoopsies! Some maroon deleted the board. I... er, I mean he had some time on his hands, so I... er, he decided to try updating his test board. Part...

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Last post by John Q. Public
Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:17 am
Possible down time today - 11/8

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by John Q. Public » Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:08 am

Our host is updating the server's operating system. The work is expected to take about two hours and is expected to start in the next few hours . Any...

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Last post by John Q. Public
Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:08 am
New "media" button

Last post by John Q. Public « Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:12 am
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by John Q. Public » Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:42 pm

We've had it for a couple weeks but I don't see where anybody's used it. Which is probably a good thing.

Its purpose is to display media that the...

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Last post by John Q. Public
Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:12 am
New Google search box experiment

Last post by Parrotpaul « Fri Mar 03, 2017 1:37 pm
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by John Q. Public » Wed Nov 23, 2016 9:43 am

I added a new Google search box over on the sidebar. It's only on the default desktop style right now but it might appear on the mobile version also,...

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Last post by Parrotpaul
Fri Mar 03, 2017 1:37 pm
Yes, that really is an Active Topics link

Last post by John Q. Public « Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:22 am

by John Q. Public » Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:22 am

Desktop/laptop users might have noticed a View Active Topics link appearing now and then in place of the horizontal banners ads. It's an actual local...

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Last post by John Q. Public
Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:22 am
Did your User Name get deactivated?

Last post by John Q. Public « Sat Nov 12, 2016 7:42 pm
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by John Q. Public » Sun Sep 11, 2016 9:17 am

It seems the software took it upon itself to deactivate some user names. You'll know if you can't log in and you get a message saying your account is...

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Last post by John Q. Public
Sat Nov 12, 2016 7:42 pm
Well, the update's done....

Last post by Parrotpaul « Tue Jul 19, 2016 10:47 am
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by John Q. Public » Sat Jun 25, 2016 3:40 am
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What a nightmare. What phpBB had labeled on their site as the latest version (3.1.9) was actually an old development version (3.1.0 Alpha3) that I...
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Last post by Parrotpaul
Tue Jul 19, 2016 10:47 am
Okay, we're back

Last post by John Q. Public « Sat Jul 02, 2016 7:30 am
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by John Q. Public » Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:51 pm

No idea what it was but the site was taken down for excessive traffic this morning. Like thousands of hits a minute from 50 different IP numbers...

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Sat Jul 02, 2016 7:30 am
What would you want in a mobile version of the board?

Last post by John Q. Public « Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:02 pm
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by John Q. Public » Wed May 11, 2016 11:01 am

I'm thinking about maybe considering looking into making a mobile style for the next version of the board (which could actually happen in a few...

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Last post by John Q. Public
Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:02 pm
We're back!

Last post by ocfootballfan « Tue May 10, 2016 3:34 pm
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by John Q. Public » Mon May 09, 2016 5:50 pm

Sheesh!

Believe it or not, the domain expired. Our host has a very strange payment page. I clicked Renew now and it said Thank You but apparently it...

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Last post by ocfootballfan
Tue May 10, 2016 3:34 pm
Mobile browser survey - please help me out on this

Last post by John Q. Public « Mon Apr 11, 2016 12:07 pm
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by John Q. Public » Thu Apr 07, 2016 10:42 am

I'm back to working on the software update for the board. I hit a roadblock on it a couple months ago and other things came up and it got pushed...

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Last post by John Q. Public
Mon Apr 11, 2016 12:07 pm
Totem Bowls >>>>>

Last post by John Q. Public « Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:04 pm

by John Q. Public » Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:04 pm

I'm doing an experiment with one of our ad providers and running a fixed, direct buy ad for a Kickstarter campaign for Totem Bowls. Watch the video,...

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Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:04 pm
Introducing Fun-N-Such

Last post by John Q. Public « Sun Dec 28, 2014 4:17 pm
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by John Q. Public » Sun Dec 28, 2014 3:18 pm

Fun-N-Such

I've added a page of quizzes, personality tests, trivia and the like over on the other side of the site. Go take a look . I'm sure...

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Sun Dec 28, 2014 4:17 pm

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