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Astraea
Site Admin
Joined: January 13th, 2009, 9:50 am Posts: 88 Location: In the system Birthdate: 01 May 2008
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 No System Updates For Now
While the world will continue to grow, it may be awhile before the site itself gets an update. This is partly due to the troubles updating last time, which has still left a little bit broken (fortunately, there doesn't seem to be any major problems). Another reason for the hold off is restraints made by time and knowledge.
The time issue: I will be moving in a couple weeks, and so I have to focus on packing for now. On arrival, I'll have to unpack and find a new job (not to mention get internet set up again quick as we can), so I can continue to support both myself and this site.
The knowledge issue: I presently have a very limited understanding of coding, and pretty much all I know is restricted to HTML and CSS. Umbrascitor knows just enough of PHP to make minor alterations to something until it works - his thing is mostly Flash (which I intend to incorporate into this site in the future). This makes it difficult for us to know what changes we need to make so things keep working right after updates, and near-impossible to get things set up the way I'd like them to be (since that would involve some healthy hacking into our copy of phpBB).
But! Umbrascitor and I will both be headed back to school within a year, which, while it'll mess with time that much more, will allow us to get a better handle on how this all works, and thus a better understanding of the forum coding as well. And with any luck, to make up for where we fall short, we might eventually be able to get a real code monkey helping us out.
Just you watch, this place'll become awesome.
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