Derek Barnstorm wrote on Aug 5^th, 2013 at 4:11pm:

Ironically, Dandello is the one who helped to facilitate my account's full access to this forum when the software automatically blocked my home office IP address because I had evidently used the Preview function in succession too quickly. That's meant to stop spam-bots. But ironically, it can obviously adversely affect forum members.

Hint: Using Live Preview gets around that problem.

As I understood it, JonB responded to an email that Dandello sent him regarding the inadvertent blocking of my home office IP address, so he took care of that for me. I think I may have had my access blocked for about 2 weeks, which is actually not long when you consider "JonB time" because of his heavy work schedule that prevents him from regularly administering this forum ... or so it's been reported even though it now appears that he's abandoned his admin responsibilities altogether.

So until Corey is notified about what's going on, and he gives full admin status to another member (preferably more than one member), this forum is without an admin. Thankfully, however, there are still a handful of YaBB staffers checking in to help those who need it. Even regular members like myself will try to help when we can.

In any case, I used a proxy server to get around the IP address block while I was unable to log in normally. However, it's not an ideal way to use one's membership since javascript issues come up that interfere with YaBB's full capabilities.

I'm looking forward to this forum being updated with a new version of YaBB in the hopefully not too distant future. I'm also looking forward to this forum running as efficiently, and as professionally as Carsten's YaBB Mod Form, and Dandello's YaBB 2.5.4 Alpha forum. Those two forums are very good examples of how a YaBB forum should be operated, and maintained.

A YaBB legend, and a YaBB brainiac; a great combination indeed!

Derek Barnstorm wrote on Aug 5^th, 2013 at 8:19pm:

That is expected.

As I've been reminded, no new forum release is ever bug free, so that's what really should be expected. It's one of the reasons that I don't typically upgrade right away. I like for the bugs to be as few as possible. I'm still happily using version 2.4 (I didn't upgrade to version 2.5.2).

I don't think it's that important to come out with a new release anytime soon ... not until it's relatively free of bugs. Meanwhile, my recommendation would be to upgrade this forum with your newest version whenever you can so that it can be properly showcased here.

If your version operates like it does over at Dandello's test best forum, then that would be great. You guys are doing a wonderful job, and I'm very grateful for all of the work that you, and the rest of your team are doing.

By the way, I think your common sense decision to have more than one admin for Dandello's test best forum is a very smart way to operate a forum, particularly when it's an open source project. I'm hoping that common sense will be practiced here in this forum once it gets back on its feet in a way that will showcase YaBB well.

Please keep up the great work! 

Bill Myers wrote on Aug 5^th, 2013 at 8:59pm:

So, will you be installing and beta testing yourself then?

Bill Myers wrote on Aug 5^th, 2013 at 8:59pm:

Like Dandello said, it's "on a pragmatic level". I've only got an admin account there for testing purposes, not to actually 'administrate'. That can't really be compared to this forum.

I'm happy to see Dandello posting again!

As for beta testing the new version of YaBB, I'm afraid my ignorance regarding the installation process will keep me from doing that; at least until I can figure it all out again.

I really need a How To Install YaBB for Dummies tutorial.

Not to take away from all that JonB has done to keep this forum operational, because in fact he alone as its admin actually kept it going for a while, but he deserves to take an official break from his duties ... if he so chooses. After all, he's already chosen to take a voluntary break from YaBB. So ...

At some point I'd like to see Dandello as the head admin with others to be backup admins as needed or desired. Derek made a valid distinction about having an admin account "for testing purposes" only, which of course is a very pragmatic thing to do as he pointed out. My suggestion is to more or less mirror that administrative function here in this forum so that he can use his admin privileges to step in as needed or desired by YaBB's head admin.

I'd actually feel better about it if YaBB team members like xnoddyx and others were given admin access as well. For logistical reasons, only the head admin would actually be "on duty" as it were. At the same time, kind of like how YaBB's moderators at some point seemed to take shifts based on where they lived, it could be very helpful for an admin to be on duty when a quick fix was needed.

I hope I'm making some sense here. After all, this is the 7th paragraph in my post.

Derek Barnstorm wrote on Aug 5^th, 2013 at 11:15pm:

So true!

Has anyone tried to contact Corey. This has gone on way too long.

I just sent Corey an email to what I think is a working address for him. He's always been responsive to me in the past, so hopefully he'll be responsive this time around as well.

Given that JonB has evidently abandoned this forum as its only admin, a responsibility that Corey had evidently delegated to him, I suggested to Corey that he give full admin access to Dandello (I referenced this post in Carsten's forum to explain my reasoning).

Let's hope for the best.

Bill Myers wrote on Aug 5^th, 2013 at 11:07pm:

if you need you can set one up on your host and if you have any probs with it I can go over it and see where you are going wrong with it this will then let you fix it and then retest and do that until you feel comfortable installing it with (Linux 'the main probs are CHMOD) and ascii vs binary'.