Hello everyone,

We've updated the code to the current development branch v2.5.5! Among the changes is further adjustments to the login system on the code level. This will likely cause your cookie to expire. Let us know if you have any issues logging back in!

There are some other backend changes. Mostly bug fixes and optimizations. We've updated the server as well so there may also be some new bugs or issues. Let us know if you discover any.

The final new item is we've changed how registration works for the Kafuka Boards. Due to the some recent incidents and the uprise in spam we've decided to implement a "Admin Approval" style registration system. That means registration is still open, but new users will not be allowed to post until they have either posted in a special forum and said a little bit about themselves, or they PM an Admin with a similar message.

The new registration system is in effect now. We're building the forum and instructions now so you may need an odd forum or two in the short term.

Thank you!

-Emuz

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: Nicole 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