RPG Palace

Host Migration Complete!

Submitted by meustrus on 23 March 2013 - 7:13am

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It took bloody forever. I gave many false starts. The site ended up broken for two months while I tried to manage it. But RPG Palace is now officially hosted on HostGator. I for one welcome our new reptilian overlords.

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Host Migration

Submitted by meustrus on 7 June 2011 - 12:43pm

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RPG Palace will be moving to a new host (hopefully) within the next two weeks. The process is intensive so there will be some slowdown. Before the host switch, the site will be shut down for database migration. After that migration and before the host switch, the site will be available but may be slower than normal.

Right now I'm not sure when the database migration will happen; it should be as close to the host switch as possible but right now I don't know exactly when that will happen.

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New Styles, Resources System

Submitted by meustrus on 10 January 2011 - 7:37pm

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Some of you may have noticed already, and you're probably noticing now: several parts of the website have had a major style upgrade. This includes the front page news feed, the blogs page, and the resource gallery.

Resource gallery? What you say?

I have put together a Drupal-based resource gallery, and it's mighty fine if I do say so myself. Say what you will about Drupal not being designed with forums in mind; this kind of "I want this specific data type to be arranged in this way kkthxbai" thing is exactly what Drupal is good at.

Migration complete!

Submitted by meustrus on 23 October 2010 - 8:28pm

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The migration to Drupal is finished! Two projects which have been hosted in private forums are now in Groups: Netplay+ and the former RPG Palace community game.

Any member with the rank of Socialite may create new group. Groups have useful features that work like a private forum that the group creator controls permissions for.

Other new features include user blogs (any member except traveling merchant may keep one) and the now-ubiquitous shoutbox.

RPG Palace is Moving

Submitted by meustrus on 21 October 2010 - 8:55am

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Consider this the official announcement: RPG Palace is converting software in a few days from IPB 2.1 to Drupal 6.19. This is more than just the forums; the entire site will be moved into Drupal, including existing news, tutorials, articles, and downloadable content.

Private messages will be lost. If you have any important information in your private messages, save it now.

Some users will need to re-upload avatars, though most avatars will transfer properly.

Volunteers Needed to Test Migration

Submitted by meustrus on 27 August 2010 - 8:27am

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I think I've got the system set up properly and I want volunteers to test the new site before I do the full migration. What will be entailed:

There is only one forum category, and you'll be having random conversations in it so as to test out your own permissions and site features. At any time you can make suggestions on how I can make it better.

One thing you cannot do is advertise the location of the test website. Since its location will only be privately disclosed, it will not be accessible by search engine or by spambots.

Topic Display Modes

Submitted by meustrus on 11 July 2010 - 12:00pm

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Standard

40% (2 votes)

Linear+

60% (3 votes)

Total votes: 5

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New Category Names

Submitted by meustrus on 30 June 2010 - 1:33pm

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I've changed the category names, and in some cases their organization. They now fit a sort of metaphor of RPG Town as a walled city around a palace. The naming has also changed the purpose of a couple of categories, such as the Spam Bin, now the City Gates, and Concepts and Plots, now Game Maker's Guild.

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New Super Moderator

Submitted by meustrus on 19 January 2010 - 5:08pm

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With the other administrators still in stasis-mode activity, I have decided to promote ChickenSoupCheese to Super Moderator to help with keeping the forums organized. There has been a surge of new members, and while the discussions are all very interesting, they move too quickly for me to follow them all and split topics when the original topic has been abandoned (or when a topic sprang up when there was none in that thread).

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The Sparse Update

Submitted by meustrus on 3 December 2009 - 3:08pm

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It's been a long while since any updates, so let me clarify: RRR is not dead, but it has been so long since I removed the dead link that they don't have us anymore either.

What is the state of the RPG Making community? Is it up? Is it down? The main user base gets older and older, with some of us in our late twenties, and yet RPG Maker continues to attract the kind of youth that we were in its heyday. So where were you, nine years ago, with RPG Maker 2000? Even that was before my time.