Australian Writers' Forum

I've had a few ppl ask for that. You just need to make sure they have some way to contact you to get their account reactivated. Until this morning, the 'contact' page served that purpose, but there are alternatives.

Done (I think). http://www.australianwritersforum.org.au now redirects to /forum; search engine records have been updated so the hit on SEO for this change should be zero. In addition, all of the non-phpBB pages have been removed. Using old links to any of these will now result in 404 errors. There ...

I'll have a go at this tomorrow (26 Nov) morning. It shouldn't affect the /forum pages so I won't take the forum off-line, but there's a small risk. If you're contemplating typing a Tolstoy-esque post at the time, you may be glad of copying your text to clipboard every so often.

If you have anything on any of these pages which you wish to save, NOW would be a great time to do it This is good advice. In particular, everything on the resources pages will go. I'll take a backup copy before I wipe it, but extracting anything useful from the backup of those pages would be very ...

Your blog is redirecting again, is this planned? Yep, ready to say screw it all........... :( :? :evil: :| :@ :s I think the line that's causing it is: <meta content='1;http://launcestonanalyticalradioscanning.blogspot.com.au/' http-equiv='refresh'/> I've never used blogspot so I don't know how you...

Agree. It seems rather related to 'Personal Journeys' (which was a previously-requested feature that largely fell into disuse). Perhaps they could be amalgamated under an appropriate name?? This would avoid increasing the number of forum sections which, I think, is a concern of Paul's (and rightly s...

Please bear in mind that Paul will doubtless read all of these posts (if he hasn't already).

Rath Darkblade wrote:...look upon his power and despair!!!...

Logically, this should mean the same as:

...look upon his despair and power!!!...

Ah, English.

MazzaE wrote:...Who is in charge while you are away?...

I guess I am. All tremble in terror and other cliches...

Rkcapps wrote:...Maybe the background colour?...

That's a great idea! The colours could be aligned with those used for the various ranks (regulars, moderators, etc).

Unfortunately, the forum software doesn't seem to have the ability to do this by default, but there may be an extension that allows it.