Welcome Back!

[hoverboots]

Super relieved it's back up- Just got my GB cases from Shadowfox and THEY NEEDED COVERS!!!

[TDIRunner]

I had confidence that the problem was temporary, but since there was no way to communicate with anyone else, it was a little unnerving. 

TDI brings up a good point
Any thoughts on creating a TCP twitter or FB account or something else where in the event of the site being down like this, there's a way to reassure people easier?

Sort of like when you are a little kid at the fair and your family all agrees that if we get lost, we will meet up at one place.  We can do the same thing with a facebok page.  If we get lost (site shut down), we can all meet on facebook.

[Snowcone]

I had confidence that the problem was temporary, but since there was no way to communicate with anyone else, it was a little unnerving. 

TDI brings up a good point
Any thoughts on creating a TCP twitter or FB account or something else where in the event of the site being down like this, there's a way to reassure people easier?

I actually think twitter.com/thecoverproject is one I control, but I've clearly never posted anything there. Let me dig into it.

[hoverboots]

I had confidence that the problem was temporary, but since there was no way to communicate with anyone else, it was a little unnerving. 

TDI brings up a good point
Any thoughts on creating a TCP twitter or FB account or something else where in the event of the site being down like this, there's a way to reassure people easier?

Sort of like when you are a little kid at the fair and your family all agrees that if we get lost, we will meet up at one place.  We can do the same thing with a facebok page.  If we get lost (site shut down), we can all meet on facebook.

I'm on board with this idea.

[monjici]

I had confidence that the problem was temporary, but since there was no way to communicate with anyone else, it was a little unnerving.  

TDI brings up a good point
Any thoughts on creating a TCP twitter or FB account or something else where in the event of the site being down like this, there's a way to reassure people easier?

Sort of like when you are a little kid at the fair and your family all agrees that if we get lost, we will meet up at one place.  We can do the same thing with a facebok page.  If we get lost (site shut down), we can all meet on facebook.

I used to like IRC a lot, it could be a good option, but at the same time, it may steal away lots of forum activity. At least, on IRC, you can see the list of people present even if not participating.

[Snowcone]

Got a facebook page too: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cover-Project/155671371149489

I think i reserved those back in the day just in case...

[Snowcone]

IRC is great, but it's not the best chat for image based things and it would split the site and the conversation. In that case, we'd be better of starting a subreddit and purely hosting content here.

[segamer]

What ever happen to the new design to the site you talked about last year?

You had to bring that up huh?  

TCP is an interesting site from a technology perspective. It's plain PHP, but rides on top of SMF for many functions. That means i have a lot of pieces to build to separate from SMF (which needs to happen). THe visual style is a point of contention. I personally hate the design today, which is fair since I designed it. I've asked for feedback on many of the early design ideas and they've not been widely liked so here we are.

Opps... Sorry about that. I really meant... Hey! What's up!?

[elRolo84]

It's good to be back! Glad everything is OK now

[Seraph Man]

Got a facebook page too: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cover-Project/155671371149489

I think i reserved those back in the day just in case...

Nice to see you had the foresight for such a thing.

[Thom Grayson]

Checking various "is this down or is it just me" sites all told me the same thing - that it WAS just me, which is very odd, seeing that it quite clearly wasn't...

Still, I'm very glad TCP is back up!

[Megatron]

Checking various "is this down or is it just me" sites all told me the same thing - that it WAS just me, which is very odd, seeing that it quite clearly wasn't...

Still, I'm very glad TCP is back up!

I experienced the same thing.  From what I can tell, the site wasn't technically 'down", just blank.  So it would always take me to a blank white page, and still register as "working"

[noemann]

finally got around to installing PHP, MySQL and SMF 
I haven't played with these for a long time now and setting them up with IIS can be a bi-atch but i got it working.
I never knew M$ had that WebPI tool for IIS. Pretty Co0l.

looky here:


larger:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/3c68t116yk61i2q/smf-installed.png

AND Voila!


larger view:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/pi0vcew25ywbhag/mytcp-forum.png

hej, Snowcone, my name is Snowcone Too 

I will play around with it and see how it works. Interesting stuff.

[noemann]

@ Snowcone:
I've just installed the forum that you had mentioned and it was a quick and easy process. Looks interesting but much different. I'll mess around with it.

Migration on my local server was easy but i'm attached to a particular directory name. id est, if you must have the default directory as tcp.net/forums/ then you would have to perform offline adjustments. Otherwise, it appears to me that you make a new directory (say tcp.net/chocolate/) and the sweet stuff is ready to go 

Looks promising ...

[TDIRunner]

Checking various "is this down or is it just me" sites all told me the same thing - that it WAS just me, which is very odd, seeing that it quite clearly wasn't...

Still, I'm very glad TCP is back up!

I experienced the same thing.  From what I can tell, the site wasn't technically 'down", just blank.  So it would always take me to a blank white page, and still register as "working"

Both of these things happend to me as well.