[Raion]

For those who do not know what I'm talking about, you can access, post and use the forums in a limited fashion from your SGI.

http://forums.irixnet.org/classic/

You must be logged in, and you can't use Netscape Navigator but you can use Mozilla 1.0, Firefox as low as 2.x, and most versions of Netsurf I tried do work.

Dillo, unfortunately, didn't work. But this is the best we can do currently.

The new functionalities are the ability to create a new thread, simply by typing the subject and post info into the form at the bottom of every forum, and the ability to create new PM threads.

I am proud to also tell you about our main web dev that I hired:

His name is Adrian, username AdrianMarian and while he does not have a direct interest in our subject matter he is a very skilled developer who has lots of experience with MyBB and has become a good asset to our community. Anyone who needs help with web-related projects, I can recommend Adrian 100%!

As a reminder, these improvements and upgrades do not come cheap. They cost us a lot in time and money, and if you feel inclined to not only contribute to the site's improvements, but also to have a say and some extra perks, please remember to check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/irixnetorg

If you prefer to make one-time donations, I can current accept CashApp, every cryptocurrency under the sun. We can also arrange paypal donations -- though those have to go through a third party.

Thank you everyone for your continued love, support and passion!

[Raion]

As an aside, I did this entire post from within the Classic interface. Check it out!

You should check-in here: https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-2467.html

[jenna64bit]

Dillo is such a pain in the butt. It's good for very simple stuff, and that's it. Awesome work, I'll have to check it out from my Octane!

[Raion]

You'll need to make sure the gateway is enabled from your profile tunables. It won't let you in if you're not enabling it.

[jenna64bit]

Hey hey it works! Checking in from Mozilla 1.7.12 on my Octane. Netsurf also works! Snappy too. Great work AdrianMarian!

[Raion]

Yeah. And it's FOSS -- so anyone with basic web dev skills can conceivably make it part of their own forum.

[Intuition]

I might finally get my SGI up a running again by late Nov/Dec.

Getting a new place and can set up my SGI there in a more long term fashion.

Been about two years since I used them regularly, though I did fire up the Octane in April and it was working normally.

I will try this classic browse mode when I get it going again.

[Raion]

Hey man, longtime no see. Thanks for coming on and checking in!!

[vishnu]

Dillo is such a pain in the butt. It's good for very simple stuff, and that's it.

I made an honest effort to port Dillo to IRIX using MIPSPro 7.4.4 but yeah, I had to give up, too much of a pain in the butt. Looks like no one else is working on it either; as the last stable release was six years ago. People are still using it and the mailing list is still occasionally active.

[Raion]

yeah, better to go for Netsurf as a lightweight option. We just need a Motif or FLTK frontend