Hello everyone!

I just wanted to let you know of the few things in the new update.

The first one is after testing SSL for a while and it working well I think it's time to disable the http access to the board. You shouldn't see any real change. Let us know if you have an issue related to it.

Epele added a few news things to the code. The biggest you'll notices is you can now post without smiles being substituted once again.

For those who run AB2.5 themselves we've gained a rank editor finally. Should make adding new ones easier. (Those of you who wanted to make a rankset.. we may open up a chance to submit one. We'll see. :D)

There have been some back end changes that just speed up country lookups as well.

Finally Epele also created a orange theme that's very halloweeny if you would like to go with the mood of the season. Give it a try!

That's for now. Have a good one!

-Emuz

UPDATE: SSL enabled and cert set. Enjoy the secure posting experience (until I forget to renew it lol)
UPDATE: Migration complete.

Hello all,

Quick Status Report:
Migration of the avatar data is complete and all the board changes have been made final.


Right now I plan to start the final migration on Saturday 7pm EDT (1 hour after KCS Time). There is usually a lul in activity and it will give me enough time to work out any snags. However, if I get a good solid chunk of time this week I may do it sooner. If that's the case I'll update this announcement no sooner than an hour before hand. I will also announce it on IRC/Discord at the sametime. (Note: This is unlikely as this is a busy week for me.. but if I get a chance I would like to get everything finished)

The final steps I need to take involve moving the domain to the new IP, getting a cert issued for https, and migrating the database. Since we're dealing with DNS changes some may not get the update at the same time. Hopefully the DNS gods will smile on us and update properly. (I did have an issue earlier that it didn't propagate due to a registrar issue that was out of my control.. hopefully it doesn't pop it's ugly head back up.)

SSL cert hopefully won't take long after that. Once I have that it's all on me... DB migration will be pretty quick as well.

I would recommend if you don't either joining our discord or irc to keep up to date. During the down time it will be the best way to find out status and keep in contact with everyone.

Thanks,

-Emuz

***Addition: Avatar uploading should be locked. Thanks for your patience!
***FIXED: I also fixed the mistake I did with the minipics. Uploading of them has been restored. I didn't actually intend to disable the uploading of them.

Sometime in the near future (I don't have an exact date yet.) Kafuka will be migrated to a new server. In order to make this easier Friday of this week I will be freezing avatar uploads. If you wish to make any changes to your avatar or mood avatars please make sure to do it before Friday.

Additionally during the migration process the board will be down for a while. Could be up to a day.. or as little as 15 mins depending how kind the dns updates are. I'll discuss the details closer to the actual migration. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up.

Mostly I want to lock down the avatars so I can migrate those in advance to make it as smooth as possible.

Thank you,

-Emuz

Note: All this was part of 2018's April Fools Joke.

Hello!

Welcome to Facebook! You site was recently acquired by a very aggressive negation proceedings. We at Facebook would like to let you know we will sell every last bit of your information in exchange for more information we can use to sell you all the things you never wanted. Here at Facebook we also believe you are the product. So product. say good bye to those wonderful uniqueness and hello to nothing but mediocrity!

Your's truely,

-Mark "Eff'n Zuck" Zuckerberg!


There are many rumors floating around as of late and I figure it would be best if you heard it from me directly. Yes I have been approached by a 'yet to be named party' a few days ago who has shown interest in possibly acquiring Kaufka and it's assets for a large sum. I've told them twice now that the answer is no. They asked me with a substantial offer and was asked to contact them via conference call to hear a final pitch. I'm going to hear them out only to get them off my back. (hahah if I don't back Nicole and Epele get to fight to death over the right to challenge KP for the throne bwahahaha..).

So we'll see. I'm not at liberty to answer any questions about it and if you ask I'm just going to ignore it.

I'll keep you informed of course but expect nothing out of this!

-Emuz-->

Hi everyone!

I just want to let everyone know that I will be doing to some adjustments to the DNS for kafuka and it's various subdomains. This could result in short term disruption of the board. For the latest news visit our Discord or IRC channels for the latest if such a thing should occur.

Thanks,

-Emuz

It couldn't have been me. See, the direction the spackle protrudes. A noisy neighbor? An angry boyfriend? I'll never know. I wasn't home. I peer inside for a clue. No! I can't see. I reel, blind, like a film left out in the sun. But it's too late. My retinas. Already scorched with a permanent copy of the meaningless image. It's just a little hole. It wasn't too bright. It was too deep. Stretching forever into everything. A hole of infinite choices. I realize now, that I wasn't looking in. I was looking out. And he, on the other side, was looking in. -Monika

Umm.. okay? Well regardless of that interruption I just wanted to thank everyone at the start of our sixth year! Thanks to all the staff for running the place as well as the members to take a little initiative keep this place fun! Thank you for being a part of this forum everyone!

Here is to the seventh year!

Thank you to everyone who is and has been a part of Kafuka. It's hard to believe that it's been 5 years!

Sorry I wasn't able to do a banner like I usually do. This year has been one that's pretty much directed me away from my usual activities. Life is life after all. .

Still I need to make sure to mark the occasion. I appreciate all the support over the years and everyone who calls Kafuka home.

Thanks you KP, and all the admins, and mods for keeping the place going! I don't think I could have done it with out any of you! Seriously.

While I may not be around IRC or the forums as been much at the moment I have better access to Discord do to the mobile nature of it. I'll be honest I am not that active there much as well due to life™, but it is actually more than most. It's become a bit more active as of late and I do encourage everyone to at least give it a try. I'd like to work with it more when I can finally get some breathing room.

I hope everyone had a good holiday and I look forward to the year to come!

Heres to the next year!

~~Emuz

Greetings All;

I have a few announcements.

First off I am pleased to announce we are opening up a new rom hacking forum! (Well the technical term is modding) shibboleet and Squiddy approached me about seeing if we could host a forum for the research & development of custom content for Wii U games. This being a brand new field has a lot of possibilities. Starting today the forum is open and shibboleet will take the lead. This forum will have it's own separate rules in addition to the main rules for Kafuka. Please make sure to read them. They will be posted inside the forum as a stuck thread.

Additionally I've shuffled the staff a bit. I have retired a few of the inactive staff members until such time they are active again. shibboleet has been appointed as a Local Moderator for the Wii U Modding forum. In addition I've moved KP up to Root (I guess Acmlmistrator it's called now heh) from Admin. His role has not changed. The reason he has been given root privs is to be a backup to me. I want to make sure that if I am busy or something happens there is a backup that can do a few critical tasks an Admin cannot do. I've worked with KP from the start on the project that became Kafuka. While this change is considered temporary, it will likely be for the long haul.

I would like to thank Squiddy for being the initiator of this idea. Without her this would not be possible.

I hope to see all those cool Wii U Mario levels soon!

Addendum: I've also added Marionumber1 to have moderation duties for our Wii U forum by recommendation of shibboleet. He is currenly not a part of over all staff. He will run the IRC channel (#WiiU), and help populate content on our the new forum.

Hello all;


News as of 4/9/15: I've turned on the "Extended Profile" system for testing to everyone. They should just act like everything else in editprofile. Let me know if it there are any issues or it doesn't work for you.

Most of the issues should be resolved otherwise. Please let us know if you run into anymore. Hopefully I can get with KP This weekend and get the themes fixed from my boo-boo.
*END*

Kafuka has been upgraded to the current develop branch for testing. As this is still a beta build please let me know if you notice any issues and what they are.

The following changes have been made:

By Squidgirl:
*Various code cleanup and fixes
*All redirect pages have been replaced by instant redirects
*Legacy powerlevel permission system and token permission system removed
*Permission scope splitting such as editing your title, editing a specific user's displayname, editing all users' username color, etc.
*Error handling for forum not found, no permission, etc.
*Posting toolbar now has buttons that can be clicked as opposed to just the symbols
*Various changes to administrative pages such as undeleting groups, sprite category editor, calendar event editor, Administrator Tools
*Option in memberlist to sort by displayname
*Deleted Posts Tracker
*Banhammer
*Yearless birthdays
*Announcement titles can now be edited by moderators
*Quickmod checkboxes for moderators
*Posts by forum, thread, and time of day
*Private messages have the posting toolbar and support disable post layout and mood avatars

My stuff is small and mostly cleanups. As always you can read the git log on bitbucket for the changes.

Edit: On the following.. got most of the assets back without issue. Just waiting on KP to be around when I am for some free time to go over the themes I may or may not have. I have commit them back into the tree this time.

Now for the issue on my part. While doing a merge I forgot that there was a change made to the faq.php. I had an issue with fixing the commit since both were different enough. So I attempted to back out of the commit. In doing so I forgot one important detail. git reset clears ALL untracked files. So that means what exactly...

*Sigh*. A lot of the Kafuka specific graphics files and themes were purged. Oh well I can 't undo it. I normally do a file tree back up too, but I failed to do so this time. I also normally do have git track it, but the last little bit I haven't since we really don't update Kafuka often. I do have everything, but it's not easily accessible at this hour, so I'll have to fix it over time. No worries, it won't effect anything major. Expect broken images sprites, badges, and maybe some themes that need updated. If you see anything like that point it out to me in case I don't see it. If you provided anything that is missing or broken contact me on IRC to resubmit it to me just to make sure it's the up-to-date.

Sorry about that. That stuff isn't the update.. Well enjoy the update.. or try to..

..

Alright everyone..

The votes are in and we have our winners!

But first let me remind you of our prizes:

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First place will receive a badge (), 10000 Coins, and 3 Frog Coins!
Second Place will receive a much less shiny badge (), 5000 Coins, and 1 Frog Coin
Third Place will receive 2000 Coins, and 1 Frog Coin.

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So who gets what? Well the the almighty poll as spoken!

1st: Trelior. Moon.. want... to.. KILL.. ME>>>> Congratulations!
2nd: A tie! (not the kind you wear.) Epele for her cute layout witth the hungry pumpkin... and KP with a very festive layout that had the right amount of menace!
3rd: Nicolyn with her wonderful subtle but cute opposites.

Also we have given everyone who didn't already receive a badge one for their participation! ()

Thanks for participating and for your votes! Looking forward to our holiday layout competition in December! Start brainstorming!

We have having a Layout contest... Please see "Layout Contest: Halloween 2014 " for details!

Kafuka has successfully moved to a new server! This should help with the many issues we've had over the last 2 months or so. At the time of writing this DNS hasn't migrated over. It may take a few days for it to work so please use the alternate address: http://kafuka.emuz.us until it is completely migrated over.

Some things may not work quite right. Please let us know if you find any.

-Emuz

Notice: Do to malicious program on DJ Bouche's sever we are going to have to rebuild the server than Kafuka is hosted in. Unfortunately I can't elaborate at the moment. Please save the following address: http://kafuka.emuz.us/ as when the site comes back up in may be under that temporary address as we build it. (doesn't exist yet)

Also you can check #kafuka and my twitter @possiblyemuz for status updates.

-Emuz

Hello all,

Tonight I've updated the code to our latest development version. Normally I would only use code from the stable branch, but I'd like to get a bigger test set as we work on the last things moving forward to 2.5.3.

A few of the changes are:
AB1 Style RPG sidebars: Kafuka has those set only for themes that have it defined on. (Right now it's just AB1 classic themes) This actually is themed per theme. So Kafuka, Purple have their respective images from before.
RPG EXP bar from AB1: (However I need everyone to follow it closely to make sure it's working right.)
Define a custom nick color per user: Right now I've got access to this disabled to anyone but Root Users. I've set one for myself so we have a test case. (I'm unlikely to be giving these out very often.)
Memberlist changes: now supports ascending and descending sorts. Displays appropriate nick/group colors.
Changed now the NEW indicators display. They are also theme-able
Added support for changing group colors per theme. This can be seen Tyty's diet board2 theme. Some of the colors are changed to show up better on a light theme
Added &lvlbar&
+1 has evolved into a full favorite threads feature. Every thread you +1 is considered a favorite thread. Favorite Threads link is currently next to Post Radar
There has been some changes to the sprites and badges system. Most of those are on the admin side.
Adding the AB1 Daily Cycle
Extended Profile Fields: It's an advanced system of adding fields to the profile page created by DJ Bouche, but it's not quite ready for prime time. My profile currently has one set for twitter. Some that are being worked on are 3DS friend codes (doesn't work yet), AIM, Yahoo, Facebook, etc. I may ask for some volunteers to test them out a bit later on.

There is more, but mostly it is unfinished or inaccessible right now. Since this is development I would expect the board to be updated a bit more frequently compared to what stable is updated. As I would expect some of these new things may have bugs to be worked out, so let us know, and be patient with it.

-Emuz

A small note from me. When linking to usernames, you will need to use @"Username" to link to a username now. You must include the quote marks.
-Gywall

Hello all,

Today we have finalized the minor version 2.5.2. Normally I'd list everything that has changed since, but this version is finally at a point we feel is a good place to open up the source. Yes finally!

Why didn't we do this before? Well mostly I was trying to make sure to live up to a promise I made to provide an easy to install version as to not suffer the same fate as the versions of AB1 have been in the past. The second one is the now archived 2.6 branch needing more work to get working than we have time for.

You will find the git repository at: https://bitbucket.org/acmlmboard/acmlmboard-2.

Bitbucket supports Pull Requests, and this means for those who are unfamiliar with the term anyone can contribute code, bugfixes, and features without having to be added to the repository as an editor.

Another change that we are making is we are now opening up the AB development seconds on the board. First is the irc channel: #abdev on irc.nolimitzone.com.

Next the development forum will be opened. This channel should be used for features, requests, GIT issues, and installations. I've also moved the Bug report forum to the Dev corner category. That will be just for bug reports from now on. (Eventually we'll move the non-bug related ones over as well)

That's the basic info. More detailed information can be found on the forums, Bitbucket, and IRC.

Thanks,

-Emuz

As the development of 2.6 has progressed it has grown to such a massive update that I figure I would take little time and pluck out a few of the more minor updates and apply them to our current branch. Today I've back ported one new feature, one new [tag], 2 classic AB ranksets, and all the new themes not yet on Kafuka.

The smallest of the updates was the addition of a [ irc] tag. Basically all it is is the code tag without syntax highlighting. It's purpose is to use it for IRC quotes and anything you used to us the [ code] tag for that doesn't need colored.

Ex:

return -1;

vs.

17:10:31 MrRean has joined (Derp@c-71-200-127-119.hsd1.md.comcast.net) 17:11:05 < Danika> yeah, stores like GameStop and FYE have blank cases of the DVD/Blu-ray/game/whatever 17:12:00 <@Gywall> I find it hilarious when people shoplift blank cases. 17:12:34 < Danika> it says "DISPLAY BOX - Bring to cashier to exchange for product" 17:12:52 < Danika> they do that with stuff like nicotine gum and baby formula here too, in some stores 17:15:10 < Danika> couple days ago I was at ShopRite, I only had two items and the woman in front of me was buying a perfume (which they keep in the back room along with nicotine gum, Robitussin, baby formula, etc.) and it took like 6 minutes or so 17:15:19 Nicole has left IRC (Quit: hm)

Mind you in the future further differences may be applied to it

The other big update is I've ported @Scrydan's wonderful implementation of the ranks page that ABII has been missing since.. well 2005. Right now it acts mostly like it did in AB1.92.. ie: only shows people on that rankset, but it won't filter for inactive.

We have added two of the classic ranksets from AB1 to mix it up a little. The first one is a port of Dots by @Xkeeper. If you've never seen this one before it's basically a bar made of dots that indicates your rank. I've altered it slightly to have the numerical info as hover over to make it more compact. It provides our first alternate rank system..

The second ranks are the formerly lost Kirby rankset made by Yoshidude. I in fact didn't know they existed until I was reading the archive.

I've also added 4 new themes:
Pinkielicious by @Ijah
Kafuka Gold by @Dirbaio
Left Mouse Button Purple variant and Binary Green by @Lunaria

and well that's about it this round.