I was ruming around the MyBB forums the other day. I've been pretty much MIA from the MyBB scene for a few years now, but I'd like to get back involved, so I was checking out the future of 2.0 and seeing where they were at. I was impressed at their proof of concept screenshots but it looks very much like an incomplete project. 

In my opinion, MyBB is probably the best forum software I've ever used just because of how flexible it really is. It's lightweight, but it's extremely easy to work with and to mold into the design vision of the forum administrator. And of course it's practical and user friendly on the front end too. 

Everyone probably can remember the MyBB 1.8 fiasco a while back. Really, 1.8 was a fairly small bump in the grand scheme of things, but they did add some really great features that were long overdue. Either way, it was years late and by the time it arrived, people felt (or some people, I should say), that it was already outdated on the day of its release. Personally I didn't mind. The update was welcome for me, but not everyone agreed. 

I have heard very little on 2.0. Supposedly they've gotten a lot done, but it doesn't seem like they are really all that close to release there either, and it's been years. And honestly, if they switch over to a completely rewritten software, I'm almost gonna miss the MyBB of today. The current software, while outdated, is so easy to work with that nothing else can really compete. 

Anyone heard anything about its progress or have any expectations on what's to come?

Runescape and Old School Runescape will remain online, but Runescape Classic (the original) will shutdown for good August 6th.

News release: http://services.runescape.com/m=news/run...farewell-1

Has anyone used Adobe XD? Apparently I've been living under a rock and they made it FREE!?

I downloaded it last night, I'd previously seen videos and reviews on it and was particularly impressed and already was planning on buying it. The prototype feature is so freaking great.

Has anyone else had a play? What's your thoughts? I have been previously using Photoshop for my (web)designs however with a little bit more use of Adobe XD I think I will be making a full move over.

Alright guys, let's get this marketplace going! I will offer a few simple services to get the ball rolling. I may or may not expand in the future.

Service Offerings (all amounts are in Station Cash):
Twitter Follow - $5
Youtube View (at least 30 sec) - $3
Website View - $1
Forum Registration - $20


Service Details:

Twitter Follow - Will follow from @Revenue_Herald
Youtube View - At least 30 seconds
Website View - One click to your website, I will not click through paid links for this.
Forum Registration - Will register on your forum and make one introduction post.

just a thread so I can post some of my karaoke performances, and for anyone else to do so as well... here's the first one, I recorded it last week.



Edit: recorded this last night

By default, only the chat room founder can change the accounts of other administrators or access the chat room admin panel. If you need to change the account identified as the founder account, please private message me with the information in the form below. Do not post your verification key publicly on the forums, as it is used to verify your personal account. Also, the PM must be sent to me, and not to any other staff members, as other staff members do not have access to Chatcave's servers. 

Quote:Change Ownership Form: 
Chat Room URL: 
Current admin username: 
Administrator userkey (use /userkey to obtain your verification key in the chat room):
Username of new owner: 

Chatcave.me is based on Ajax chat! But one feature that we've worked extensively on is related to the process of managing moderators and administrators. If you were to host Ajax Chat yourself, you'd have to edit your chat's code. Here at Chatcave, we have commands to do it instead. 

Additionally, we have a full-fledged nickname registration system (somewhat similar to how IRC handles nicknames), which can be used by users to register their own accounts. This feature can be enabled or disabled in your chat room's administration panel. (add ?view=admin to the end of your chat URL to access the admin panel. ) 

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Managing Chat Moderators
/usermod [username] [new user role] 

The /usermod command modifies the user role of any user in the chat room that you designate. For example, /usermod Darth-Apple administrator would make me an administrator in the chat room. Here are the following roles you can define: 

/usermod AmazingUser1234 administrator
Make the user a chat administrator. Chat administrators have red usernames (on most themes), can access chat room logs, and can manage other users and promote moderators.   

/usermod AmazingUser1234 moderator
Moderators can kick/ban users from the chat room, delete messages, and perform other moderation actions. Moderators, however, cannot access logs or promote/demote other moderators.

/usermod AmazingUser1234 user
Sets AmazingUser1234 back to a regular user. 

/usermod AmazingUser1234 guest
Yes this works. Actually, well, they are still a user without the perks. Technically the only thing this accomplishes is it disables private channel access. Ajax chat requires you to be at least "user" status to access this feature. 

/usermod AmazingUser1234 chatbot
Yes this actually works too. Try it if you wish. 

Some security concessions for your chat: 

• Only administrators can access the /usermod command! Moderators cannot edit the user roles of other users. 
  
• Only the chat room owner/founder can edit the users of other administrators! Even though administrators can edit any other user (including moderators), they cannot edit each other or edit the user role of the founder. 
  

This section of the forum is the official support forum for our chatcave.me wing. The forums have been merged to make support more accessible for chatcave. All of the regular forum rules apply for this section as well. Additionally, we have a few other guidelines. 

1. Do not PM staff members for support.  Create a thread here instead, it will be seen! Unsolicited support PMs will be ignored. Additionally, please note that not all staff members of Makestation are staff members of Chatcave, so please do not send them PMs, as they will not know what to do.  

2. You must be 13 years or older to use this service, and you must enforce this on your own chat room.  We have deleted chat rooms in the past for failing to enforce this. This is to comply with laws that are applicable to our service, and we are required to do so by law. If you have a report of any misconduct by users of this service, please shoot me a PM (this will not be considered unsolicited, and I will investigate it promptly). Additionally, as a user of this service, you are responsible for enforcing applicable laws for your own community.

3. This is a free service. While we try to make our service the best free chat room hosting service around, please understand that this service is not profitable for us in any capacity, and we do it for the sake of trying to provide a good service for other communities alone. If you are not happy with our service, you are welcome to host your own chat or use an alternative service. 

4. All chat rooms share the same files.  We cannot provide specialized features for individual chat rooms because these settings and/or features would affect all chat rooms. It is a limitation in the way that our service is designed to allow it to scale to hundreds of chat rooms without overloading our servers! An IRC-based solution may be a good alternative if our services are not adequate.

5.  Unfortunately, we cannot extend the limits in the software to allow more users to be online.  This, again, is due to limitations in our servers. Unfortunately chat rooms tend to be very server intensive. If you need more than 30 users online at any given time, we recommend finding an IRC-based solution for your community. :

6. We have plenty of documentation available! Chatcave.me actually has an extensive documentation page right on the homepage with all of the most frequently asked questions, so whatever your question may be, it has probably already been answered. If not, check out the tutorials posted here, or feel free to create a support thread!

7. Welcome to the larger community. If you like us, have a peek around. We're friendly around here!

In case you didn't know, we host chat rooms as well. In fact, we host over 600 of them! (see chatcave.me) The service has fared much better than initially anticipated. Believe it or not, though it isn't exactly profitable, it does pay for itself with fairly minimal ads, unlike its competitors.

I barely check on the support forums over there anymore and the spam has grown to unspeakable levels. Like, horrible. 110K posts and it's overloading the server. So much spam that I am currently SSHing into the server, going straight into the database, and via a command prompt, deleting these posts 1000 posts at a time. And even that is overloading the server. 

Would it be bothersome if we added a board over here on MS for chatcave support and posted everything chatcave related here instead?  It wouldn't be much of a liability being that those forums aren't really all that active, but it would sure solve the spam problem, and would free up the server for the actual chat rooms.

I recently bought a 2004 Subaru Forester for about $450. It's a trash car, literally have not even been able to get it to pass inspection. (Failed again today. It's gonna be a project, for sure... ) 

But I bought it for a specific reason: to drive on the beach.

The other day I drove it down to the beach access (they have special off roading zones designated for this purpose), and well, unfortunately, I was greeted by an attendant who did not hesitate to inform me that since my vehicle was all wheel drive instead of 4WD, that I would not be permitted to drive on the beach. 

I've done a fair amount of research on these things and have honestly found that they do not seem to fare poorly at all on the beach, so I'm confused. In fact, I've taken this thing in mud and over rocks, and over plenty of other surfaces and terrains, never once got stuck. This thing may not be a true 4WD, but with a little care and skill, this AWD kicks a** anyhow. 

So what is the difference anyway? 

Well, in theory, they are more technical than they really are anything else. Both systems are fully capable of sending power to all four wheels on the car. AWD, however, is always active, whereas 4WD has to be manually activated by the user. 4WD is generally more easily controlled by the user (e.g. determining when to use it and how to use it), but sometimes is not intended for actual street use and is designed more for offroading, and the differentials on the car sometimes have trouble spinning the wheels at different speeds when taking sharp turns. AWD, on the other hand, may not be as robust and does not have as many user controls available, but is more suitable for everyday use on the roads, and generally has much less trouble making sharp turns when active, etc. 

From my research, a lot of the controversy regarding the differences seems to be in the variability in all wheel drive systems. Particularly, it turns out that many AWD systems actually are only 2WD UNTIL traction is lost in one of the main drive wheels. Then it kicks into 4WD briefly until traction is regained. This doesn't usually fare too terribly well in offroad situations because, well, by then it's usually a bit late and you may have already gotten stuck. It's an upgrade over 2WD, but very much inferior to an actual 4WD. 

Subaru's aren't designed like this at all. Rather, in the Subaru AWD system, the engine's power is directed to all four wheels 100% of the time, just like an actual 4WD, so in theory it should perform significantly better than other AWDs on the beach. 

Based on this, I'm going to take it to another beach sometime later this week or next week, and we will see how it goes!