Welcome to the new forums!

brydeemer

It's been a while since we had to start fresh again. It's part of the CGS tradition. So instead of being sad, let's rejoice at the opportunity for a new beginning.

Bry

Pants

Yeah, what he said.

B.

Torchsong

Registering and login was pretty simple.

brydeemer

The whole point of these forums is that they are supposed to be super easy. They use them for Penny Arcade, so they should be pretty good.

Bry

DavidAkers

I assume you will be linking to them from the main CGS page?

brydeemer

Yes, eventually all that stuff will get taken care of.

Bry

John_Steed

Thanks Bry - nice job.

David_D

Back on the air!

(Involuntary "Change" shudder)

David_D

Thanks, Bryan, for getting things going again. As part of this welcome thread, as we are still setting things up and figuring things out, I would love to get some discussion going on the forum set-up and categories, things like that. As I have often said, this place is the place we make it, and as we are very much in the minting phase right now, this is a great time to ask-- How should we make it?

syntaxfactory

Grateful to be back with CGS.

brydeemer

I'm with David. We are open to suggestions for how to make this new forum the best one yet.

So list your suggestions here.

Bry

CMWhittington

Will there be a section of non-superhero comic threads?

i_am_scifi

Can the smaller podcasts that don't necessarily need a forum get a thread instead, as from what I gather these forums will be CGS-only? I know there was a catch-all Podcast thread on the old forum, but I always felt a bit lost in the shuffle posting in that.

Also, as a courtesy to those who might not know, you might want to send out an e-mail to those who once had a sub-forum to let them know what happened and what the situation is.

Finally, hello there.

brydeemer

Ian,

I see no reason why we can't create a category for other podcasts and then each podcast can have a thread in that category. Great idea.

I would love to send an email to the other forum people, except I don't have a list of all the people we hosted for. It sucks, but I don't have any idea who had forums and what their email addresses are.

Bry

DaveWachter

So, is this the Tom Baker or the Peter Davison version of the forum? I've lost count.

jaydee74

It's like the Doctor. The forums just regenerated.

brydeemer

Will there be a section of non-superhero comic threads?

Of course! Any topic that is comic related, superhero or otherwise, can be started in the On-Topic category.

Bry

CageNarleigh

Well, count me as the member of the Lanterncast aware of the options available to us Bry...lol

KyleMoyer

Here's a tip for all the rash of new signups that will be showing up. When you get the captcha as you sign up, there will be two words - one will be pretty clear (and will probably be an actual word), the other will be all distorted and bent etc (and will probably be gibberish). The distorted and bent one is the one you're actually getting tested on. The clear one is them (whoever "them" is) using the internet to transcribed various documents that have been scanned but they don't have the time to transcribe by hand. So if you just type in "penis" or "poop" or something similar for the clear word, you will be messing with "the man" and you will still get accepted.

Unfortunately though, "they" put the same word up to various people to avoid typos or bastards like me, but if enough people put "penis" for the same word, you never know what would happen.

alienal

Nice to see the forum is back! I didn't notice it was gone until Pants mentioned it in the Walking Dead Season 2 episode. Things are looking good thus far!

CMWhittington

Bry,

Right on. You know I've always loved you guys but my casual reader status w/ little interest in the superhero genre has kept me from being a frequent listener/contributor. Glad to see you're keeping the community going. :)

mwhitt80

First....

post that is. I'm glad we are back up and running thanks Bryan.

Caliban

Was it Hazel?

Someone said that already, didn't they?

brydeemer

Was it Hazel?

Someone said that already, didn't they?

I forgot all about the Hazel business. Since we named our second daughter Hazel, that name now has a whole new meaning for me.

Bry

Caliban

"Daddy, what does 'Delete all? Y/N' mean?"

Zhurrie

Just an early bug/issue I noticed:

When creating a new account it attempts to redirect you to the forum but you get a Permission Denied message immediately after registering because you need to confirm your email first. Either don't have it redirect or redirect to a page that can be accessed by an unconfirmed user.

Best of luck getting this place configured and setup!

brydeemer

Interesting. Unfortunately I have no ability to change that functionality. We're stuck with it.

Bry

Zhurrie

Ahh, you can't choose where the redirect goes? That is strange that it would try to redirect to the forum even though you have the requirement for confirmation on.

Also, not a big issue but the confirmation email as well as the achievement emails come from "brydeemer" not CGS/thecomicforums/etc.

peterparker18102

Hey all! Glad to be back. The new mobile site will take some getting used to, but the mobile posting is much easier!

miscatonic

I like that new forum smell @brydeemer.

ShaneKelly

Together again, gee it good to be together again!