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Login/Join to ParticipateCarpal \'Tunnel
3,009 posts
Location: Bristol, UK
OK, I know this is going to annoy some people, but hopefully it'll make more people happy.
After a lot of work I've finally managed to set up the databases and scripts that can import an intro from the old board to the new board.
However as it only imports one thread at a time and takes a few minutes of my time it would be too time consuming to move all 1500 intros, and a lot of people have restarted their intros. So, if you would like your intro to me moved to the new board email or pm ME, not Malcolm.
Those with restarted intros will have their new threads deleted if they ask for a recovery. I'm no longer offering to attach new and old intros as this doesn't seem to work as cleanly as it should.
As a bonus people's intros are automatically linked from their profiles.
Dom
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
You're a star Dom
Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
You know what? I kind of like that we all had to do new intros. This whole board changeover thing has brought back a lot of old HOPers who haven't been on in a while and it has increased the activity of the board.
There's something to be said for shaking things up a bit...
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
very true.....i've talked to some of the old HOPers that i might not have before
especially those with the really big intro threads....i was intimidated! 
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
you intimidated? no way.
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
**giggles**
yes yes, isn't it apparent? all this straight-forwardness and outgoing talkativeness is just to mask all my insecurities
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,009 posts
Location: Bristol, UK
Mike - I know what you mean, I like that it stirred things up a bit. But unfortunately it did upset some people and some of them would like their old intro back.
And some people won't restart intros or ask for them to be recovered so now I can just do it for them.
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
I think smallboy would like his intro back if its not yet done
seriosuly dude... thanks MILLIONS for doing this.
ooooh...and could you do mine if its possible...
but do Cam's before mine please.
Much respect to you dude.
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
I like the link to the intro's on people's pages...nice touch and many kudo's to Dom
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
What if I never wrote an intro on the old board... Can you still transfer it here? Or should I write a new intro, transfer it to the old board and then import it back?
Also, would it be possible to have 'theme songs' played when you click on someone's profile. I don't think that would be all that tough, and it would be nice to have short songs play to go along with the avatars.
Oh, and my dialup modem at home is much much slower than my T1 line at work when downloading home of poi stuff. I'm pretty sure that's a bug on your end. Please look into it.
And buy me a pony.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
You bust me up NYC thats a laugh!!!
Thanks for your efforts dom...PM on its way
TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
oh ya i like the link to the intros too. perhaps maybe we could also link to our picture galleries on our profile page?
that would be way cool!
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,009 posts
Location: Bristol, UK
I'm no longer offering to attach new and old intros as this doesn't seem to work as cleanly as it should.
1,903 posts
Location: Behind the couch...
Dom, maybe if you bring back smallboy's, you'll bring back smallboy...
*Closes eyes really really tight...
*damn...
I can't hear you... I have a banana in my ear.
"You mean I'll have to use my brain?... but I use staff!!!" ~ ben-ja-men
4,308 posts
Location: York, England
at risk of being horribly off topic when the heck did you become admin dom? and why have i not heard form you since you stopped travelling? *sniffs* well i would like something done iwth my intro, i am not sure what. I didn't realize the old threads hadn't transfereeed.... taht actually scares me a little, there's so many here. Well...... i guess i can redo mine. But it'll be like a million years. Arsn, you have a pm too and some stuff!! And dom, pm.
......I feel like a dinosaur....
*goes gallumphing off*
kyribug
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
:whines: doooooooom...
what are the chances of the maximum edit time being increased to infinity dude?
it prevents us from editing our intros (or in fact any old posts) which is a tad annoying cos i try to keep mine at least a bit up-to-date.
disclaimer: this post has absolutely has nothing to do with the fact that my intro is labelled with a sad face instead of my normal orange and black face.
lie ends.
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
it is a bit annoying .
I had to get Pele to delete one of mine for me.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,009 posts
Location: Bristol, UK
Posted at 4:59 and 5:00 I'd say that was a concerted hassling there!
Consider it done.
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
YIPEE!
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
pour la dom:
you're great you are.
has anyone mentioned that before...?
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
371 posts
Location: Edinburgh
It is a little known fact that dom smells like flowers. And when he shakes his long flowing locks pheremones come streaming out and women leap over hedges in a rush to touch his bum.
Viva UGLY STAFF
1,903 posts
Location: Behind the couch...
What about editing other peoples post...
, can we do that??? 
I can't hear you... I have a banana in my ear.
"You mean I'll have to use my brain?... but I use staff!!!" ~ ben-ja-men
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