[Raion]

Hey guys, 

If you're reading this, it means you either saw the thread or got our mass mail. I got this idea years back, but thanks to our ever-clever developer Adrian, he managed to get us set up with this awesome new feature. 

Let me explain what it is. If you visit forums.irixnet.org on an old SGI, it's a painful experience. You can login and post, but stuff looks bad. It's not a fun experience, I say that as someone whose attempted it. Now, if you visit http://forums.irixnet.org/classic ...    what's that? There's a super basic HTML version??? 

That's right, this is a lesser-featured version of the forum for users to participate in. In the same vein as the Gmail basic HTML version, this is basically a hook into the forum that allows very basic usage. 

Now, obviously, not everyone wants to use this. You need to enable it. 

To do so, go into UserCP, click "Edit Profile" and set the Radio button to "Yes". 

   

Once you have it on, you'll see you can use PMs, and manage/reply to forum topics. MyCode should work as well. 

We will be adding optional CSS and a guide eventually so people can "Skin" it so to speak. 

My thanks to the community for your kind support. 

We had several options that were floated. Someone suggested like SGUG we should do NNTP - I'm mostly opposed to this because that's before most of us' time, and it's a protocol that has security and usability concerns. HTTP really doesn't. 

What's the roadmap? Besides CSS and bug squashing (I need your guys help) I would also like to get feedback on features that we could use. Please be realistic, this is not a full featured forum-lite, it's a stripped down version.