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For those who don't know, forums.penny-arcade.com will be closing soon. However, we're doing the same kind of stuff over at coin-return.org with (almost) all the same faces! Please do feel welcome to
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Although the Spirit Halloween one is gonna be hard to beat.
On one hand in afraid we would get sued by Spirit Halloween.
On the other have you seen some of their crazy and cool decorations? I'd love a 30' tall skeleton summoning multiple 14' skeletons yes please.
like everyone active within the last couple years?
I'd hate for people like the wook to pop back for his bi yearly visit to a dead url
or crwth or 3c1ips3 or kaplar or magicpink or etc etc etc
The rate limiting on PMs is the only obstacle to this really. You can do it in a script though and just set it to send the one? message a minute that's allowed. Might take a few days though
My understanding is that first you have to become either a raging anti-Catholic or have a personal beef with the Pope
I think for planning the cut-over this is definitely something that should be considered, as well as stickies in every subforum, banners wherever possible, and maybe even a brief email campaign while we still have access to everyone's registration emails here on the forum (if that's PII we can't take with us / PA approves us using).
People interact with the forums differently - through profiles, bookmarks, favoriting specific threads, etc so we can't assume the standard 'Read This' announcement banner is going to be something they see.
During the transition period we might even want a 'straggler' thread where people can be made aware which fellow posters haven't yet made the transition so they can be gently prooded through on-forum interaction or maybe even other off-forum spaces where people have friendships / networks with them to make sure they are aware of the change and new forum locations.
I know I'm in a few of the Penny Arcade Steam groups and there are members of those who probably haven't interacted with the forums for a decade, I assume once we have the new site up and running we'll want to blanket those peripheral spaces (at least the ones that aren't 'official') where we can with the new forum information.
Might I suggest @Zibblsnrt - we might even want to add a 'Marketing / Communication Planning' thread to this Planning Center sub-forum where we can start categorizing communication channels we have to reach as many active members of the forum, and possibly even plan outreach to lapsed / inactive members of the forum who might poke their heads in and potentially stick around after our move to a new space.
I am super uncomfortable with porting a decades-old email list into a new system without explicit consent having been given for PA/Vanilla to share your email with third parties... and honestly I doubt whoever signed up back in 2003 went through that kind of clickwrap.
Oh for sure. I would figure we wouldn't mass spam everyone who ever registered an account the past 20+ years, and even if we did I'm sure there would be a ton of bounce-backs. And I agree with the previous post and your other posts about exporting or migrating those email lists to another system without explicit consent, and the concerns about having that PII for everyone on here since it's not something that's publicly visible.
But if we could use that registered email to communicate once with everyone who has logged into the forums in a reasonable timeframe (like past 18-24 months or something) we could probably pick up a few people who might otherwise miss the announcements or not see them in our limited time window. If it gets us even five people to poke their heads in who otherwise would have fallen off, it seems like it would be worth the effort.
But my other skill is teaching myself something from the ground up because nobody knows how to do it and nobody knew it needed to be done. So I vollenteer that in the most helpful way I can think of.
Willing to help out with tedious technical tasks like “all these user accounts came over with an extra space in them, we need that deleted manually” and other data entry grunt work.
Also if there’s gonna be a payroll I know how to do it.
Oh, and I have a lot of free time
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I love you, Can Make Phone Calls Guy.
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Wooo something (tiny) I can do! I have no relevant technical skills, and have been scrolling these pages in awe of all of you who do.
But I am an admin on three of the larger PA Steam groups - Penny Arcade (1804), PA G&T Adventure Team (731) and Wangs Without Borders (415). When the time comes, I'm happy to help push out approved communication to those communities.
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Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
Yeah, service messages are generally considered to be approved business usage, but we do need to make sure that they don't slip over into marketing something, because then they aren't pure service messages.
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Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
Sounds like they want a clean break.
I think this would be allowed, I get mass email notifications on some of the other forums I participate in.
Yep, I would think the answer is probably no but it's worth asking.
I'm gonna post a followup in a more relevant thread.
https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/46789684/#Comment_46789684
The organization isn't great, but it's something at least.
I am efficient at removing spam bots at the least!
Wow some of you guys are googlemasters. I put my info in, did it work?
I put you in already, but I'll update your row with the info you provided
I'm more webdev stuff than sysadmin, though I appreciate you setting this thing up for easy reference.
Also, good god my mangled profile URL
Ah, apologies. You'd mentioned sysadmin so I included you for that as well as Back End Code
Happy to help wherever it's needed.