That would also allow me to add content from other archived sites (like ToonTowner, Amazing Earl), making it easy to download everything instead of having to hunt around several sites. I might even write separate web applications that make the content that is currently available in the Downloads and Ride Exchange section available outside of the forum software. I also find IPBoard quite finicky to work with, and since I have to maintain it.Īnyway, whatever path I choose, it’s going to take quite some time. The latter is more involved, but avoids the large fees that come with licensing IPBoard.
There are basically two possible paths to update: I can buy a licence for a newer version of IPBoard and try to upgrade, or I can switch to other forum software. Uploading files to the Ride Exchange has also been broken for quite some time. The fact that it’s outdated is quite easy to notice if you ever tried registering in the recent past - it tries to use ReCaptcha v1, which has been unavailable for a few years. These run on IPBoard 3.4, which is outdated, not safe, and require the end-of-life PHP 5.6. As always, if you have a backup of any relevant site, content, or something like that, please get in touch. You can visit the landing page for the archive at. All of these sites are accessible via HTTPS and have their encoding issues fixed, so they should work as well as they did in their heyday.
I also added several others, mostly from the Internet Archive (which unfortunately did not always archive everything). I also managed to get into contact with MidWestBoyInLA, the owner of RCT*Mart and started restoring that site too (the forums are still to be done, but the self-checkout works). I also restored several pages that were cut in the past for being outdated - as the whole is a time capsule of the early-to-mid-2000s, cutting old content doesn’t make much sense. Almost a year has passed since I took over and I wanted to give a brief overview about what happened since then, and what I plan to do in the future.Īfter moving the sites to my server, I started off by fixing, which got broken over the years.
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