LifeIn19x19.com v2.0!

[dfan]

My only remaining diagram complaint is that circles on Black stones are very hard to make out. Just making the circles a bit thicker ought to do the trick.

[Maharani]

If you have email addresses of users I think it's worth making a one-time email blast pointing to this announcement

I very much second this You've retrieved every last byte of data; let's go retrieve the community!

[jts]

Thanks Adrian. You really are outstanding.

[Bonobo]

• I dearly miss being able to click “thank you”

Just noticed that in another thread there’s a button that I could click, apparently it’s not everywhere?

[pajaro]

Yeeeey!!

Back to life! (in 19x19)
Thaaanks a lot for the hard work.
I just found out this was live again. I wouldn't have mattered a one-time mail about this. (just for the record)

[Bonobo]

I wonder how all our “old timers” would learn about the resurrection of this forum if they don’t receive emails telling them about it … I’m not sure they all check SL’s L19 status page regularly or the OGS forum thread about L19’s crash and resurrection or the similar thread on r/baduk … I for one didn’t get such a mail yet.

If we could be sure they had email notifications enabled for thread updates it could help to add some <ping> post to all threads here but 1. that’s not sure and 2. sending out one Admin email would be much “cleaner”, plus ofc there also were lurkers who never engaged in any thread.

[Bonobo]

Pls forgive me for replying once again instead of editing my former post but this is about something VERY different:

Now that L19 has been successfully updated to the latest phpBB, I believe it would be a good thing to migrate L19 to a more modern forum software, for example to NodeBB or (my personal preference) to Discourse (which latter is what OGS uses for its forum) … editing is a lot easier there, as is embedding images, links etc., many here will have encountered that forum software and probably appreciate its features like I do.

There‘s even a thread in the Discourse Help Forum about how to convert a phpBB forum to Discourse.

About the custom scripts/add-ons that have been created for L19 … if some LLM AI could help Adrian get L19 back online then maybe such an AI could just as well aid in adapting those scripts/add-ons for Discourse?

I for one have really been spoiled by years of using Discourse … every time I come to some other forum it feels like I’m back in the 1990s

[Maharani]

[E]very time I come to some other forum it feels like I’m back in the 1990s

I for one appreciate this about L19. It's my last remaining phpBB haunt, after I made my home on those back in 2004

But just to state again that I strongly agree that there should be an admin email to every registered user, so we can retrieve the last and maybe most important component of L19: the community.

[swannod]

THANK YOU!

re: updating to "modern" forum software.

Please no.

Discourse and other JS heavy solutions work terribly on older hardware/browsers and generally don't handle accessibility as well as "old-school" web apps.

https://meta.discourse.org/t/backwards- ... ers/255820