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.

And now we can move on with the whole doomsday thing. (Until some random guy decides to pick another dat out of there hat of course. lol)

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right.

It's the end of the world as we know it.

It's the end of the world as we know it.

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...

or maybe it's just another day ;D?

.. or something..

This is what's been diverting my attention for the last 2 weeks or so. The story goes a long time ago I did a little server called tRO. Well a few of the guys who help to make it got together (a few times). This evolved from 2008's tRO3 to NotRO, to 2Dudes1RO. (Named so due to @Ferdal and I talking about this RO stuff we left unfinished.)

It's more in the style of tRO1 where it's just for fun. Like with tRO you can just chat if you wish, but you won't be making the most of the game.

Head over to http://www.2Dudes1RO.org for more info, or visit the forums which are hosted here on Kafuka!

-Emuz

Hello all,

In the 2.5.1 update @Gywall has implemented a new system for the user birthdays. This however required a db changes that wouldn't allow us to keep everyone's birthdays. I was looking into conversion but we had less than 40 entries for birthday so I have saved it out but it'll just be faster is everyone fixes theirs than have a script or me manually converting them...

Please review your profile to make sure if yours is missing. (I did update a handful by hand as a test, so if you have one that would be why. )

Again, sorry about the inconvenience.

-Emuz

Hello everyone,

First off I would like you to congratulate @Nicole in a promotion to Full Moderator! I made the decision to add her to staff to help cover the afternoon, while giving a fresh perspective to our staff. Why not local moderator you ask? Well on a board like this Local Moderators really don't work. Local Moderators will be reserved for hosted forums form now on until we grow to a point where we need it. Also I will be asking Nicole to do a few things in a near future that will be easier if done as a member of staff.

Second off due to the fact that I won't be as active this month I have appointed @Gywall to a temp Administrator position to cover the (from my perspective) early morning time frame, and allow one addition person who can handle spam bots if we get them.. His term will end on 8/1/2012. Until such time he will be returned to Full Moderator in accordance with the new policy on Local Moderators.
Please congratulate him!

Also DJ Bouche as stepped down to a Developer position. He's just doesn't have the time to really be an admin for the board, and would just like to work on the code.
His slot will be open until at least the end of @Gywall's term.

Thank you for your time,

-Emuz

Now that we have resolved the ban I have one last thing to say. Besides the people calling for heads, I've had a lot of people tell me they don't feel welcome here.

I built this place to be one of unity, not of division and segregation. I want everyone to have fun. You may not like people on here, and that's fine. If you have a criticism about someone, all you need to do is present it in a well thought out, non-accusatory manner, and we will listen. Don't start shit with them, don't provoke them, just leave them be. Being rude is also something that just drives people batty.

A lot of you have stated or come to me as well going I don't like group X, or group Y fucking sucks. They both have equal right to be here.

That's it. I just want everyone to have fun and be nice to each other. Spamming not and then in the right place, fine! You want to make statements that are a joke against someone, make sure that person is ok with it.

You can have fun and be nice at the same time. That's the cause of almost all of what I've seen in terms of complaints.

In closing, All I want to see is peace between everyone. It's up to you to see it though.

Sorry this a big a long day. I have a few minutes before class and I wanted to share why the ban decision was come to.

I am going by the complaints I got over the last week, the many many attempts Staff and associates tried havingOut of the 8 or so I got via /msgs or PMs. J was #1 and jet #2 (GM was #3 if you wanted to know) However all was sent to me privately, and while you are in your rights to doubt in what I say, If you've known me for a long time I don't lie about shit like this. I take complaints very seriously.

You wanna know what? Ryudo would have just banned them day one on a much bigger forum like FFL. Their fun having wasn't the problem. I actually found the RoboCop stuff humorous. The staff as a whole just didn't like how it evolved into a way to mock the staff. That in itself was also fine, can't be funny if you can't laugh at yourself. The simple suggestion we were about to adjust the rules about Custom titles and you guys when "lol" or "Don't you like robocop" in essence a "fuck off" The general attitudes against staff, the Bronies, egging GM on so he's an even bigger problem. All that stuff fine. We let it pass for a while. But..

When I get /msg and e-mails and all shorts of private communications saying "I am not going on that board with that trolling going on" or "I'm going to leave.. Jet, Nick, and MrJ are too much" That. The board cannot grow like that. I have a group of people who was going to share the board. They took ONE look and passed. The reason I got was related to the harsh attitudes.

I don't ask much do? Rules are simple? "Don't be a dick" that's all you need to do. Have your opinions, tell the staff in words not "LOL HAT'N", you know basic stuff. We asked to, and someone on this board I won't name tried to talk to you guys, we've warned you many time to just mellow out on the trolling aggressiveness but you didn't.

As for Kawa's involvement. He did a favor for me. The staff was having a vote on this, and I wasn't going to be able to watch today much at work. He got stuck applying the ban and I apologize for that.

As Ryudo just pointed out.. a lot of other boards would have banned this behavior right away. You may not like our ban.. you are free to discuss it with us. You many not believe this, but if you know me well enough I can say I hate banning anyone. Hopefully we can resolve the issues between us and the ban can be lifted sooner rather than later.

Thank you for your time,

-Emuz