Been talking to the folks over in the creative writing chat. Thing is, the 'owner' of Space Battles simply can't be bothered into doing anything with it. You see, the whole kit and kaboodle basically runs off an old desktop machine in his house. No joke. And now that the SB forums has grown exponentially, the hardware needs to be upgraded. Only he won't. Because real life stuff.
Really, if real life is such a problem then I don't see why he just have SB hosted on a real server somewhere. I hear that Rackspace offers good rates, and it's not like money is an issue (because it isn't, I've been told).
So that's why they've been resorting to utterly ridiculous stuff.
I'll admit, once I was in on the goings on, the shit became utterly freaking hilarious. Example: Admin made some changes that rendered everything on SB Forums (including you're own user menus and information pages) private. He then posted a notice requesting that anyone still locked out go ahead and PM him... except that anyone who was locked out couldn't access the menu to send a PM! That shit had me chortling for a while.
What was even more interesting was how word was getting around. SBers without access were using strange methods to get SBers with access to PM the Admin their forum handles so their accounts could be fixed. Most were coming in via the IRC channel, but I heard that one got PMed by another SBer through his Steam account. :p
Really, if real life is such a problem then I don't see why he just have SB hosted on a real server somewhere. I hear that Rackspace offers good rates, and it's not like money is an issue (because it isn't, I've been told).
So that's why they've been resorting to utterly ridiculous stuff.
I'll admit, once I was in on the goings on, the shit became utterly freaking hilarious. Example: Admin made some changes that rendered everything on SB Forums (including you're own user menus and information pages) private. He then posted a notice requesting that anyone still locked out go ahead and PM him... except that anyone who was locked out couldn't access the menu to send a PM! That shit had me chortling for a while.
What was even more interesting was how word was getting around. SBers without access were using strange methods to get SBers with access to PM the Admin their forum handles so their accounts could be fixed. Most were coming in via the IRC channel, but I heard that one got PMed by another SBer through his Steam account. :p