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It's about time.  I completely gave up on this site, until the email flashed.

Anyways...can't say I like the new style.  One of the things I liked about the old forum is how it looked, of course.  And, this one runs a wee bit slow...but, if it's getting back up, I won't complain.

Yay for reincarnations!

Oh good, looks like the email got out ok, and you didn't have trouble logging in.

The old bbs was vBulletin which would cost a pretty penny to bring back to life. The only alternative under consideration is phpbb, which we planned on trying out as well. But the conversion to SMF seemed to keep everything with a little monkeying around, so I'm inclined to skip on the hassle of it all.

I prefer this forum if only because it expands to fit the width of the browser viewport intelligibly, which isn't saying much, but that is in practical terms a major bonus.

The look is simply the default with the background borrowed from the old forum. I think maybe loading the graphics plastered all over the page (paneling) might be a bit rough on bandwidth, but I'm willing to wait and see how well the caching performs. It is kinda in keeping with the high-gloss look of the main site.

As for the slowness, the thru-put has been lurching for most of the evening for the last couple hours. I'm tempted to guess it is temporary, but I can't comment on the physical state of the server. If it is slower, it is likely the server and not the bbs suite (after all the graphical paneling is loaded up that is)

This is all brand new, anything is pretty much up in the air atm. Stay tuned, and feel free to participate.

What I meant by style was the user stats being on top of the post, rather than on the left-hand side of the post.

I don't have much experience with Simple Machines...but, shouldn't all forums be able to do that?

We can definitely look into customizing the theme later if this becomes a top priority.

Actually little if any of what a bbs suite does is about the page layout, though the default presentation definitely influences these things in practice. 

At any rate, it's good to hear this is your only major complaint so far :D

Well, this is the first time I see this kind of layout, and for me it's just fine :D BTW, what happend to Jose? (I haven't read anything else until now, so If you already say it, sorry :P)

Jose is still holding the keys. His involvement the last few weeks has been substantial, though the last few days I haven't heard from him. He emailed me out of the blue after he finally felt his internet access was secured. His account on the BBS was deleted it seems. He must've done that himself, otherwise I dunno.

He's told me he is playing Persona 4 and might be recording his play thru for youtube style documentation purposes. Or he asked me if that sounded like a good idea. So I guess you could say he's not completely disinterested in Megaten.

oh! I see, thanks for clearing things out for me. Anyway, from now on:

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I'm at your orders.

Emillio, when have you been involved all of this?  ???

I think he's collected a lot of stuff for the yet unpublished demonary section of the main site. Please fill me in on anything else you were working on Emilio. You can PM me, or better yet just make a post about it if you don't mind. I prefer everything in the open as much as possible.

PS: +1 Karma to everyone for showing interest  :P

Just like, yksehtniycul said, I gather and help Tony with the Demonary project, I was working with all that Data, gathering info, pictures, demons stats, etc. (That's why I opened a topic with a lot of Megaten ripps, I wanted to share the same pictures I was using with the demonary) I never had moderator or administrator permission, just to a "special" section of the forum, where all the moderators/administrator could talk about the site, some news and some members. I was told not to tell anyone but I guess at this point it doesn't matter. Jose told me if I wanted to be a moderator of the site, but a couple of days after I received the PM the place was closed :(

That was my major role, the Demonary and if you don't mind I want to keep helping with it.  ;)

EDIT: I can show you the same "Weekly Reports" I send to Tony of the Demonary. It's just an Excel document with info and pictures of each demons separated in games.

I'll try to focus on getting the demonary section up and running asap. My only major concern is the names used for the devils in it, which will have to be argued about a bit. There's no reason why everyone can't be adding to the demonary if they wish.

I'll try to look into the news side of things as well if someone would like to volunteer to feed news to the site, after the bbs is back in gear.

I'll make a post for moderators to nominate themselves in. We won't appoint any until the bbs officially re-opens however. Remind me if I forget.

Moderators won't have too much power. The new policy will be hands off as possible as long as I have say so.

Got it.  :)

If that's the case, you'll need some of my goodies Emillio.  ;)  Somewhere, in some dark murky corner of my PC there's a whole depository filled with various Megaten media and scans.

Also...just to know...what did you mean by "paranoid?"  >:(

That would be cool, thanks. Just let me know, and maybe we can share things, it's just I like to give something in exchange when someone wants to lend me a hand ;) , let's say it's "Equivalent Exchange" :D

Hey, you still have my old MSN address on your list, right?

I set the left user info margin to 256 (make that 192) pixels (same as they max avatar size for now)

Let me know if that made the info bar on the left side any more paletteable for you for now.

I can easily rearrange the bar to be on top with a little more work. We can make a poll or something after the new forum is officially published.

edited: I think I'm changing it to 192 instead...

Interesting...

Anyway, great job with all the work and constant updates, yksehtniycul. If you need anything, just ask. Though I can't say that I'm well versed at all with creating and maintaining a forum. The most I could see myself doing is helping with gathering Meganten related information once this site is up and going.

To be perfectly honest I'm primarily as a matter of principal only interested in seeing that there is at least one dedicated unofficial forum available for the Megaten community. The fact that the best candidate atm is digitaldevildb.com is kinda incidental. So as you might guess, I'll be focusing primarily on the forum, but I'll do my best to facilitate the rest of what was begun here as well on the main site.

Best to think of me as a technical facilitator in the lack of anyone else taking up the cause.

It truly is a matter of principal for me these days, as the Megaten community as it stands generally leaves me wondering whether there is any point in facilitating it's evolution any longer.


IMAGINE gives me hope for the future, but I wouldn't mind a community rooted in the past if could be possible. I've also been playing P3 lately, and I gotta admit, it could've been a watershed in Megaten history. I'm still pretty impressed with it, though I'm skeptical whether I'll import a copy of FES or not, primarily because I think using the Kuzuma devils for the generic persona was a really unforgivable production decision. Sadly my PS2 stopped working last night, maybe because of the slidecard I was using or maybe because it was the first model PS2 ever produced in Japan and was supposed to have died years ago. I'll either get an HDD PS2 on ebay or a PS3 once I do the research and weigh the two.

PS: I don't really notice the obnoxious music in P3. It just sounds like sound effects to me. I pretend Junpei is chibi bowie and Aigis is cutey-honey... and I named my lead Harold cause he is so Bud Cort in Harold and Maude ;D

Yeah, great job! Certainly, your effort is to be recognize  :wink:

Nice job man. I was glad to see the email. I would check the address periodically, but had kind of given up hope.

Oh, in case anyone missed it, I centered the avatars and blurbs. Works better I think.

Awesome it's back.  I had been using this site to keep in touch with Lycanthroat, so I was rather irritated that it died when it did.