The forums are back!...........Where's My Account?

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PM’d. :+1:

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Well it worked. Thanks Preppy!

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Hi @Preppy any way to fix my problem?

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I manually forced it to send you a password reset mail. Will PM to follow up.

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@Preppy just received the email. Thanks

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@Preppy

Can you hook it up holmes? My old name was Biolink

Do not have access to the email anymore as it was either a super old yahoo account or with an ISP that I’m no longer with.

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I hate the new interface. Why do I have to scroll down for ages before reaching the newest posts? It’s garbage.

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I’m in. I’m one of those lazy people that never updated my email so I had a defunct email. Which means I couldn’t use the password reset to fix. Luckily got in contact with some people and they were able to get me updated and signed back in.

If anyone else with an OG account or whatever is having trouble make sure you send an email to shoryuken@discoursemail.com or shout out to @mushin_Z on twitter. Should be easy to find there. Thx to him and @preppy and whoever else is doing god’s work during this time

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This is obviously a new formatting for people, but I think people have to remember that there was almost nobody who liked vanilla forums. Both when it first started and up to its last days. I’ve been looking online and it seems there’s some ways to mod / plug in things in for discourse to make it more lively. Hopefully some backgrounds and reaction icons with some wordings can be put in in the future.

I haven’t seen any discourse forums that have used pages. I guess that’s because the whole point of discourse is they advertise “pageless forum discussion”, but there’s good things about it too. Like being able to much more quickly scroll to a section of the forum. TBH there wasn’t really much of a point to having pages in Vanilla because Vanilla’s system didn’t allow you to scroll back more than 4 or 5 pages at a time so effectively without a search, you would waste your entire day even looking through old pages. Like who the hell is going to actually be able to get to page 235 of GD or SFV GD on Vanilla? It’s not even worth trying with no manual page entry.

Rambling aside, thx again and I’m glad that moves were done to get the forums back and runnning. SRK is the forums and what brought me here 16 years ago and what will keep me here. I guess some people just saw this as some business shit with social media being so big and just knee jerk decided to shit it down, but we’re bigger than that.

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@HD-Mane The first 2 paragraphs in my last post already say what you should do.

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Preppy, I got no issues but I want to say Thanks to you and the Discourse staff for all your hard work during the Great Migration of 2018.

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Protip: instead of clicking on the thread’s title. Click instead on the time of the last post. It will take you right to it.

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also pro-tip: don’t make a new account based off the old account that you wanted to get the old account updated to. I can’t assign the email to an account if it’s already in use. :\

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My basic PM to people is:

  • What is the exact name of the old account?
  • What was the old email address?
  • What should the new email address?

Some people’s email addresses were legit scrambled during the change-over it appears: I don’t expect you to know 83092805ufus8ufh@fj. , but I would expect you to mostly know your old email.

Feel free to hit me up on Twitter or discord to sort this out if that’s easier for you.

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Thanks Preppy. I’ll get that info and hit you up.

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@Magegg click the bottom part of the timeline to the right of everyone’s posts. you dont have to scroll through everything to find the latest post.

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Because people keep asking:

All the old moderator staff privileges were wiped in the server move. I just got my privs back late last week and am still figuring out how Discourse works. At this point, I’d like a week to figure out how things work to make sure I can maybe kinda help provide advice/insight on mod-tools questions. At that point (Sunday the 18th), people still interested in modding should PM me what section they would like to be back helping the community with. :+1:

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reaction buttons if possible is prob #1 thing to focus on. also yay gif avs

oh yeah, bigger avs would be nice.
if you click on someone’s name you can see their av larger. i’d be happy if avs were that size.

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It still takes some time before all the posts load. The “pages” format worked way better, this is just awkward.

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Hurray for based preppy giving me back muh account :smiley:

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whats your twitter or? I dont have my old email as well my account was 15 years old. But I mean i can prove i am dialupsucky if need be lol