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RuthW

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quote:
Originally posted by magicroundabout:
You may say: "But it's not broken - so why fix it?" and you'd have a point. It works ...

It does! Mostly. But go down and try to find something in Oblivion. Or run a search. [brick wall]

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
Just peeked at the donations so far; you guys are awesome. It's very heartening to see how many of us are willing to pitch in to help out.

It's very cool! And all without the public-radio-style offers of swag or promises that Alan will post a video of himself reciting Byron while doing the tarantella.
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Alan Cresswell

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quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
quote:
Originally posted by magicroundabout:
You may say: "But it's not broken - so why fix it?" and you'd have a point. It works ...

It does! Mostly. But go down and try to find something in Oblivion. Or run a search. [brick wall]
Or do much more than read a couple of posts on a phone (I've not tried to combine finding something in Oblivion or searching with using a phone, it's a prospect that seems designed for excessive frustration.

Since we started testing Vanilla I've probably accessed it on my phone more than through my laptop. Just to marvel at being able to read and post so easily (relative to the current software - there's nothing that can replace a proper keyboard, which will always make the laptop my prefered way of posting).

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Marvin the Martian

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quote:
Originally posted by magicroundabout:
But this will allow us to categorise and summarise information about the reports. So, for example, we can automatically create a list of all reports for a given denomination, or diocese; we can sort and order them by whatever criteria we like; we can produce statistics about reports; and yes, I think I probably agreed that I would make them searchable too!

One think I think would be very cool would be a map of churches that have been MW'd. Like an overlay on Google Maps or something.

I realise that would probably be far too impractical to actually do, but I do think it would be an awesome feature.

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magicroundabout
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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
One think I think would be very cool would be a map of churches that have been MW'd. Like an overlay on Google Maps or something.

I realise that would probably be far too impractical to actually do, but I do think it would be an awesome feature.

It's worth having a discussion about this after we put the new site up. MW doesn't currently collect the full address of the church visited, so it may not be possible to correctly turn the church name and vague place-name into the latitude/longitude required to put it on a map.

Perhaps all new submissions could include a full address and we could start plotting all of those on a map. But there may also have been a good reason not to do that. I can't remember.

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balaam

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quote:
Originally posted by Huia:
As a technopeasant*

<snip>

* Thanks to Uncle Pete for this term,

As a cyclist in the Information Superhighway I know what you mean.

As the NewShip™ will be published under Wordpress, will those already using Wordpress be able to use some of the creative things we have found in the forums or will that be frowned on?

What I mean is will the plugins installed on my Wordpress blog work on the NewShip™

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Stoo

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What?! How on earth was there not a BBC breaking news alert for this on my phone? For shame on the biased beeb.

Have chucked in a few bob. I'll miss the new folk mistaking me for a n00b until they check my member-number/registered date, but hey-ho.

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Sipech
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quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Sipech - you are already in the running for "The old boards were better" title, and we haven't ever got the new ones yet.

Not really. I was just intrigued about the new MW format. Searchable by denomination would be good, though it may need a bit of fixing. For example, one church that I was part of was incorrectly labelled as 'independent evangelical' when it was actually part of Elim Pentecostal. I think some New Frontiers churches have also been labelled as independent. Maybe a drop-down list may be helpful.
quote:
Originally posted by magicroundabout:
It's worth having a discussion about this after we put the new site up. MW doesn't currently collect the full address of the church visited, so it may not be possible to correctly turn the church name and vague place-name into the latitude/longitude required to put it on a map

If it's any help, geek that I am, I have a spreadsheet recording the latitude, longitude, name, date, denomination and rating of all churches I've done. The locations are put on a personalised Google Map, along with the 'to do' churches. [Big Grin]

Edit: Is there a non-Paypal method for contributing? I don't have an account with them and have no desire to set one up.

[ 20. November 2017, 11:56: Message edited by: Sipech ]

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Jonah the Whale

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I'm looking forward to seeing all the animated avatars.
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mr cheesy
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quote:
Originally posted by balaam:

What I mean is will the plugins installed on my Wordpress blog work on the NewShip™

Errr. Presumably plugins will only work if the ship blog is on a wordpress host where the plugins have been installed.

Unless the admins (of that blog) have installed the same plugins that you've installed, I can't see how we can possibly know if it will work the same as your blog.

I don't know exactly how the new ship will be set up, but I'd guess that the vanilla forum part will be embedded within a wordpress site. So unless one is going to be posting blogs (which I'm guessing probably won't be many forum members), you're not going to see the backend of the wordpress part.

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Jack o' the Green
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Contribution made. Can't wait until the new site is up and running. Many thanks for all the hard work being done.

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magicroundabout
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quote:
Originally posted by balaam:
What I mean is will the plugins installed on my Wordpress blog work on the NewShip™

Well, possibly. We'll be using some WordPress plugins for sure. But I have a fairly tried-and-tested set that I trust and rely upon for most sites.

Do you have something specific in mind?

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magicroundabout
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quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Maybe a drop-down list may be helpful.

I can't work out how to add an image, but something like this clearly-incomplete and incorrectly-ordered list?

https://cl.ly/3C201O1W0T25

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Edit: Is there a non-Paypal method for contributing? I don't have an account with them and have no desire to set one up.
You should be able to pay using a credit/debit card through PayPal without needing to register. Let us know if that doesn't seem possible.

[ 20. November 2017, 12:42: Message edited by: magicroundabout ]

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magicroundabout
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quote:
Originally posted by mr cheesy:
I don't know exactly how the new ship will be set up, but I'd guess that the vanilla forum part will be embedded within a wordpress site. So unless one is going to be posting blogs (which I'm guessing probably won't be many forum members), you're not going to see the backend of the wordpress part.

The captain's a bit ahead of me with the whole Vanilla-to-WordPress thing. Initially they will be separate - we'll see if we can do some fancy integration of the two to make things work nice though.

And yes, you're exactly right. If you're just a forums user you won't ever see the WordPress behind-the-scenes stuff. That will be reserved for admins and contributors.

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Curiosity killed ...

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Images and quite a few other possible changes are disabled for us hoi-polloi. Administrators can still post pictures & have other functions at their fingertips. (RooK memorably demonstrated that he can post images, change font size and colours - that tiny whimper of chocorrit remains still amuses.)

eta - I paid without a PayPal account, just used the guest options.

[ 20. November 2017, 12:47: Message edited by: Curiosity killed ... ]

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balaam

Making an ass of myself
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Ha! mr cheesy saw through my oblique strategy.

What I was hinting at in a roundabout way is that although Wordpress itself is robust, there are hacks through plug ins. Some legal that subvert the way Wordpress was designed and some which are illegal. Nearly all attacks on Wordpress is via plugins, we have to beware.

NewShip needs to be secure from other peoples plugins. In theory it should be secure anyway. In practice it is mostly secure. Wordpress, to their credit, publish an attach report and work to fix it.

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balaam

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Originally posted by balaam:
Wordpress, to their credit, publish an attach report and work to fix it.

Or even an attack report.

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magicroundabout
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quote:
Originally posted by balaam:
What I was hinting at in a roundabout way is that although Wordpress itself is robust, there are hacks through plug ins. Some legal that subvert the way Wordpress was designed and some which are illegal.

All unpermitted accesses to computers (if that's what you mean by "hacks") is illegal. Catching the offenders is nigh on impossible and in most cases not worth the effort.

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Nearly all attacks on Wordpress is via plugins, we have to beware.

NewShip needs to be secure from other peoples plugins. In theory it should be secure anyway. In practice it is mostly secure.

You're right. The core WordPress software is actually very secure - especially if you have good practices around user management and password policies. But plugins can be a weak point.

I take security seriously and manage probably over 50 WordPress websites. So I know what I'm doing here.

Only administrators will be able to install plugins. I tend to use only very well-known, well-used, and well-respected plugins. I have good password management. I keep software up to date. I keep good backups.

I think we'll be OK!

[ 20. November 2017, 14:26: Message edited by: magicroundabout ]

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Boogie

Boogie on down!
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Donated [Smile]

The thing I really liked about the Church of Fools was the blogs. Unlike ‘normal’ blogs they generated comments and discussion due to the excellent community here.

It folded, imo, due to the lack of a ‘hell’ for differences to be ironed out. It became something of a pressure cooker.

I hope Hell will be retained on the new Ship, I think it’s the secret to her longevity.

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Alan Cresswell

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Hell's all set to be put in the hand basket to be carried over to the new boards.

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Sipech
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Magic Roundabout - yes, that's the kind of drop-down list I imagined. Might get tricky for some churches, particularly if they are part of a local ecumenical partnership or otherwise can't be neatly packaged.

Alan Cresswell - I thought you went to Hell in a handbasket/handcart. Not that Hell itself was transported via that means. [Razz]

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Celtic Knotweed
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Are we still going to be able to donate to the fund after the target's been reached? I know I don't have any money spare until 30 November, and the total is already getting close to the target number...

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Alan Cresswell

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quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Magic Roundabout - yes, that's the kind of drop-down list I imagined. Might get tricky for some churches, particularly if they are part of a local ecumenical partnership or otherwise can't be neatly packaged.

It just needs a catch-all "Churches that refuse to be neatly classified". Those are the interesting reports.

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Alan Cresswell

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quote:
Originally posted by Celtic Knotweed:
Are we still going to be able to donate to the fund after the target's been reached? I know I don't have any money spare until 30 November, and the total is already getting close to the target number...

There have already been some hints on this thread that it's intended to go a bit further once the essential parts of the new Ship are fixed. I'm sure no-one is going to object to additional donations that allow the final fitting out of the Ship after sea-trials to get done quicker.

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Uncle Pete

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But is it then necessary to donate to be kept on? My finances have changed for the worse since I first joined?

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Alan Cresswell

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There is no requirement for anyone to donate.

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Qoheleth.

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I have a long-running standing order set up in favour of the (old) organ fund. Is that account still filling the bunkers?

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Joan Rasch
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quote:
Originally posted by balaam:
As a cyclist in the Information Superhighway I know what you mean.<snip>

As someone who goes back to dial-up FidoNet days, but is typng this on a tablet tethered to a smart phone, I guess I am both techie and peasant, with a tendency toward "LEGACY" software. See sig

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magicroundabout
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quote:
Originally posted by Celtic Knotweed:
Are we still going to be able to donate to the fund after the target's been reached? I know I don't have any money spare until 30 November, and the total is already getting close to the target number...

Well can I start by saying a big "Hallelujah!". What an amazing, amazing lot you are. I mean, I'm truly blown away by everyone's generosity towards this project.

I actually had pretty much exactly this question from the captain himself, by email. So I guess the immediate answer is "We haven't decided yet". But yes, certainly you will be able to keep giving and the money will be put towards making things better than they already will be. It will give us some kind of buffer for any shiny things that we decide we want as we go along.

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But is it then necessary to donate to be kept on? My finances have changed for the worse since I first joined?
Uncle Pete: there will be no change to the fact that this is a free community to be a part of. There are running costs, so donations are always welcome, but they are also entirely optional.

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I have a long-running standing order set up in favour of the (old) organ fund. Is that account still filling the bunkers?
Sadly, I can't help with this query. I'll have to defer to my superiors.

But I hope so!

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magicroundabout
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quote:
It just needs a catch-all "Churches that refuse to be neatly classified". Those are the interesting reports.
The intention was to have an "Other" option and the opportunity to specify the denomination - this can then be added as a formal denomination "category" if you like during the review process, if it's thought that more churches from this denomination might be Worshipped at.

I wonder...is "Churches that refuse to be neatly classified" a separate option to "Other"?
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Oscar the Grouch

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Just looked at the running total and it is already over 2,300. Wow! Very exciting.

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
It just needs a catch-all "Churches that refuse to be neatly classified". Those are the interesting reports.

Italics added.

I'd hate to see the new process become judgmental even before any reports are filed. "Churches that cannot be neatly classified" would get around this issue.

Keep in mind, too, that by some estimates there are as many as 40,000 separate Christian denominations worldwide.

[ 20. November 2017, 20:21: Message edited by: Amanda B. Reckondwythe ]

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Leorning Cniht
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If a service being worshipped is some kind of joint venture, perhaps it should be classified under all the conjoined denominations. In other words, should one be able to select multiple denominations from the list?

That would seem to be to be most useful for searches etc.

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Apologies if this has already been asked and answered,but when we re-register, will we have to stick with our original signing in name, or can we choose a new one, and will it be the same as our display name?
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Celtic Knotweed
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quote:
Originally posted by magicroundabout:
quote:
Originally posted by Celtic Knotweed:
Are we still going to be able to donate to the fund after the target's been reached? I know I don't have any money spare until 30 November, and the total is already getting close to the target number...

Well can I start by saying a big "Hallelujah!". What an amazing, amazing lot you are. I mean, I'm truly blown away by everyone's generosity towards this project.
Well, after slightly over 10 years signed up to the Ship, and 3 years 5 months lurking before that, making a donation to improve it is something I might just want to do [Razz] . I believe that this place has more than a few people who've been about for longer (or shorter) than me and feel the same.

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Originally posted by magicroundabout:
I actually had pretty much exactly this question from the captain himself, by email. So I guess the immediate answer is "We haven't decided yet". But yes, certainly you will be able to keep giving and the money will be put towards making things better than they already will be. It will give us some kind of buffer for any shiny things that we decide we want as we go along.

[Yipee]

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Jengie jon

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Celtic Knotweed

The ship has always been happy to receive funds via this page even if the crowdfunding is finished.

Jengie

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Alan Cresswell

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quote:
Originally posted by Jack o' the Green:
Apologies if this has already been asked and answered,but when we re-register, will we have to stick with our original signing in name, or can we choose a new one, and will it be the same as our display name?

Vanilla doesn't have the fairly unusual difference between a user name and displayed name. So, both of those will be the same. Maintaining your current display name will help to maintain continuity with your posting history here. But, there's nothing forcing you to retain the display name you're currently using.

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Jack o' the Green
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
quote:
Originally posted by Jack o' the Green:
Apologies if this has already been asked and answered,but when we re-register, will we have to stick with our original signing in name, or can we choose a new one, and will it be the same as our display name?

Vanilla doesn't have the fairly unusual difference between a user name and displayed name. So, both of those will be the same. Maintaining your current display name will help to maintain continuity with your posting history here. But, there's nothing forcing you to retain the display name you're currently using.
Thanks for the information.
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Leorning Cniht
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Vanilla doesn't have the fairly unusual difference between a user name and displayed name.

Most computer systems in most contexts distinguish between a username and a displayed name. Perhaps forum software tends to be fairly unusual [Biased]

Will the new ship allow spaces in names? AFAIK, Vanilla used not to, but I think perhaps it does now.

[ 20. November 2017, 22:09: Message edited by: Leorning Cniht ]

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Bishops Finger
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Donation made - hope the launch goes well!

Being yet another Technopeasant, I view the future with some Trepidation, but (like all new Things) one has to give it a Try.

[Overused] to all those doing the work!

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RooK

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quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
Will the new ship allow spaces in names? AFAIK, Vanilla used not to, but I think perhaps it does now.

That is exactly one of the things that got updated when we started testing, because Alan threw a wobbly.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
Will the new ship allow spaces in names? AFAIK, Vanilla used not to, but I think perhaps it does now.

That is exactly one of the things that got updated when we started testing, because Alan threw a wobbly.
It will allow spaces, but there's a length limit. I had to omit the final "e" in "Reckondwythe" as well as the period after the "B". So my name will be Amanda B Reckondwyth

I have selected a new avatar for myself also.

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sharkshooter

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quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
It will allow spaces, but there's a length limit. I had to omit the final "e" in "Reckondwythe" as well as the period after the "B". So my name will be Amanda B Reckondwyth

I have selected a new avatar for myself also.

So, it's already up and running? [Confused]

If it's more compatible with my phone, I guess it's a good thing. Most of the rest of the posts on this thread are over my head.

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Simon

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Hi everyone... we're completely knocked sideways by the blindingly fast and hugely generous response of shipmates to the new Ship fund. Thanks so much to everyone who has given – you've enabled us to reach our target of £2,500 for building the new site in just two days! That happening just wasn't in any of our plans or even in our craziest dreams. So a huge thank you from me and everyone else involved in this project.

We've decided to raise our sights and get more ambitious for the Ship, and lift our fundraising target to £4,000.

Any extra money we raise beyond our original target will enable us to start work on some of the things we'd really love to do on Ship of Fools, but which we didn't think we would have the budget for. You can read more about it in a news item just posted on the Shipyard site:

Catching a rising tide

Thanks again. When there's more news about the schedule and the look of the new site, I'll post here, hopefully soon.

[ 20. November 2017, 23:48: Message edited by: Simon ]

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Simon

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Qoheleth: Just to say that your regular donations (and those of a few other shipmates), plus the one-off donations of many others, have indeed helped to top up the bunkers for a long time. Thanks to you and everyone else who supports the Ship, we've been able to pay our bills and stay online, with all our content free to view. I know we're not a very big site, but doing the above isn't easy even at our level, and lots of really good websites have closed for lack of financial support. So a heartfelt thank you to you and other shipmates for keeping the Ship afloat all this time.

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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quote:
Originally posted by sharkshooter:
So, it's already up and running?

Strictly for testing purposes by hosts, admins, and the MW lead editor (namely, me).

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basso

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quote:
Originally posted by Simon:
Hi everyone... we're completely knocked sideways by the blindingly fast and hugely generous response of shipmates to the new Ship fund.

Simon, I'm sure that I'm not the only one on the ship who's completely unsurprised by the response.

I think you and the rest of the officers here may not realize the huge amount of good will you've built up. But it's there.

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Huia
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This question is probably due to my afore mentioned technopeasantry.

I already use another name to comment on a friend's wordpress blog. Will I be able to continue using my Ship name on The Ship II?

Thanks

Huia

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RooK

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quote:
Originally posted by Huia:
Will I be able to continue using my Ship name on The Ship II?

Yes. Everyone is encouraged to use their usual Ship name. Though some will undoubtedly see it as a chance to update their Nom de Plume.
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Alan Cresswell

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quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Vanilla doesn't have the fairly unusual difference between a user name and displayed name.

Most computer systems in most contexts distinguish between a username and a displayed name. Perhaps forum software tends to be fairly unusual [Biased]
Perhaps we're just using different systems. Virtually everywhere else I use I either login with a username+password, where the username is then the displayed name everyone sees, or login with email+password, with a separate displayname (so the email address is hidden).

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magicroundabout
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quote:
Originally posted by Huia:
This question is probably due to my afore mentioned technopeasantry.

I already use another name to comment on a friend's wordpress blog. Will I be able to continue using my Ship name on The Ship II?

Your name on your friend's WordPress blog, your name on the Ship of Fools forums, and your name on Ship of Fools website article comments (if you choose to comment there) will be three different things.

You can choose for them all to be the same if you like, and you should also be able to comment on the Ship of Fools website without creating any kind of user account.

We may look into ways to make WordPress and Vanilla (the new forums) work together so that there's only one identity for both. We'll have to see what's possible.

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