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by Ricold
Sun Jan 31, 2016 8:52 pm
Forum: Painting and modelling
Topic: January-February 2016 Painting Challenge
Replies: 41
Views: 12274

Re: January-February 2016 Painting Challenge

I'll be grateful if I can get another unit painted by the end of the year. But I do plan to get some painting done. I have a lot of models that really do need to be painted. It should be noted that I don't play any war games, and haven't in many years. The miniatures that I am painting are now just ...
by Ricold
Wed Jan 27, 2016 2:21 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: You probably never saw this coming
Replies: 48
Views: 43518

Re: You probably never saw this coming

I thought it might be of use to post the link to the same discussion we are currently having on Druchii.net for those of you interested in our thoughts on the merger and some of the questions and comments. Asrai, Ulthuan and Druchii websites Feel free to add your views there as well. It is nice to ...
by Ricold
Thu Jan 21, 2016 5:47 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: You probably never saw this coming
Replies: 48
Views: 43518

You probably never saw this coming

This was originally going to just be for the Loremasters, but I thought I'd get feedback from everyone. In an amongst the conversations I'm currently having about the future of Asrai, we're also looking into two crazy propositions for the future of Druchii and Ulthuan as well. The first of these is,...
by Ricold
Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:28 am
Forum: General fantasy discussions / Tavern of Cothique
Topic: Asrai.org is not going to be shut down just yet
Replies: 16
Views: 7407

Re: Asrai.org is going to be shut down

As an update to the situation with Asrai: There is now a positive plan to save Asrai. There are a few possibilities kicking around, but the simplest one will be that either Druchii or ourselves will share a server with it. As I said in my last comment, Ulthuan already shares a server with my other d...
by Ricold
Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:04 am
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: CAN'T LOG IN? -> Cookie issues
Replies: 23
Views: 70684

CAN'T LOG IN? -> Cookie issues

If you're having issues logging in right now, clear your ulthuan cookie. Due to a slight issue I have had to reprogram the cookie, and the old one will tell you you've logged in, then log you straight back out again. Clearing it appears to solve this issue. You can click this link to clear your cook...
by Ricold
Tue Dec 22, 2015 6:05 am
Forum: General fantasy discussions / Tavern of Cothique
Topic: Asrai.org is not going to be shut down just yet
Replies: 16
Views: 7407

Re: Asrai.org is going to be shut down

All of us who've posted thus far, as well as plenty of others are putting in effort to keep the forum healthy. I believe that as long as this continues, Ricold will keep the forum running. This is liberally true. I'm also now very glad that I decided to combine the servers for Ulthuan and my other ...
by Ricold
Fri Dec 18, 2015 4:21 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Half a present
Replies: 5
Views: 9443

Half a present

I was rather hoping to get this finished by Christmas, however it's not going to happen, so I'm posting this up now, and then you can enjoy watching me work. In other news, these stats came from me attempting to make another project work. I still have a fair bit of effort to put in, but there is a p...
by Ricold
Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:01 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Other hobbies
Replies: 17
Views: 11000

Re: Other hobbies

@Ricold: After I read your first post, I was going to say that the climbing venue I go to has a decent bouldering section. But then you posted your interactive link. That's a lot of bouldering space... To compare, this is where I go to: http://www.deklimmuur.nl/deuithof3d/klimmuur_denhaaguithof.htm...
by Ricold
Mon Dec 07, 2015 3:46 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Other hobbies
Replies: 17
Views: 11000

Re: Other hobbies

Because interactive pages are always interesting, I thought I'd share this one: http://www.boulderbrighton.com/virtual-tour , which is a tour of the place I've been bouldering for the last six months or so. Otherwise my hobbies haven't changed much over the last six years or so, and haven't included...
by Ricold
Mon Dec 07, 2015 12:43 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Other hobbies
Replies: 17
Views: 11000

Re: Other hobbies

Rock Climbing or Bouldering Rod?

Bouldering is a really fun hobby, even if it can be a little dangerous at times (broken a few fingers and toes now)
by Ricold
Sat Dec 05, 2015 9:28 am
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Sysadmin's revenge
Replies: 10
Views: 7200

Sysadmin's revenge

I thought this was a story worth sharing: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/04/sysadmins_100000_revenge_after_sudden_sacking/?mt=1449307368544 Here we are again on a bright British Friday morning, which means it's time for On-Call, in which readers recollect their ramblings into the real world to...
by Ricold
Mon Nov 30, 2015 2:25 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Statistics
Replies: 39
Views: 29692

Re: Statistics

First question is, what do you want this website to be? When you find the answer you just need to start building it towards that goal. It cannot be done alone so I guess you need a team for that too. Hopefully you will be able to assemble one. This. This is important. But I feel there is more to th...
by Ricold
Fri Nov 27, 2015 11:08 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Statistics
Replies: 39
Views: 29692

Re: Statistics

It would also be interesting to see these numbers from the same period (pick any month) in the previous years (I don't know if you have data on that though). I don't, that data belongs/belonged to the previous hosting people. I doubt that Eldacar kept a copy (I did have access to it at the time, bu...
by Ricold
Fri Nov 27, 2015 8:38 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Statistics
Replies: 39
Views: 29692

Re: Statistics

Being extremely negative about this, if I could start the site again, losing all 290,000 posts in the database, then I'm fairly confident that I could give you a wonderful mobile experience. But I think you'd mainly object if I cleaned the site. I can't even manage the phpbb upgrade right now withou...
by Ricold
Fri Nov 27, 2015 5:59 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Statistics
Replies: 39
Views: 29692

Re: Statistics

Perhaps we should, with 10-ish% mobile use, ask our lead programmer for a responsive / mobile site ;) Though I personally find that at least writing on a forum is much easier on desktop. I'm part of that 10%, and personally am very happy with the experience I get from my 5.7" smart phone. Brow...
by Ricold
Thu Nov 26, 2015 5:49 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Statistics
Replies: 39
Views: 29692

Re: Statistics

82% of our users use Windows, 7% Linux, 5.4% iOS, 3.6% OSX. Android? EDIT - Nope, that last information was wrong. Having drawn up the extended operating system information, the 7% that is linux breaks down into 5.6% andriod, and 1.3% other (and 0.1% error margin apparently) Having found the extend...
by Ricold
Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:08 am
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Statistics
Replies: 39
Views: 29692

Statistics

Having been trawling through the server logs, I found some statistics that I thought were interesting. I was initially going to just share these with the Loremasters, but I thought it more interesting to post publicly. I'm also aware that what I consider interesting and what everyone else does may d...
by Ricold
Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:39 am
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Probable downtime
Replies: 7
Views: 9757

Re: Probable downtime

What error are you running into? My error is: Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (@) at position 0 (@): Unexpected character' in /home/ulthuan/public_html/forum2/phpbb/datetime.php:50 Stack trace: #0 /home/ulthuan/public_ht...
by Ricold
Sat Nov 14, 2015 12:53 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Probable downtime
Replies: 7
Views: 9757

Re: Probable downtime

I hate this system!

Upgraded from 3.0.12 to 3.0.14... but can I get the upgrade to 3.1.X to work? No, apparently not.
by Ricold
Fri Nov 13, 2015 8:06 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Probable downtime
Replies: 7
Views: 9757

Re: Probable downtime

Well, that went badly. Nothing has changed, I might well try again tomorrow though
by Ricold
Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:45 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Probable downtime
Replies: 7
Views: 9757

Probable downtime

Because I am awful at planning this with useful amounts of warning, there is a distinct possibility that I may have to take the forums offline at various points tomorrow and/or Saturday, for important security updates. The forums may show as offline, or may fail to load entirely. The site may come b...
by Ricold
Sat Oct 10, 2015 4:50 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: URL Links
Replies: 2
Views: 6206

Re: URL Links

Gave you remembered to untick the "Do not parse bb code" button when editing? It's an anti bot measure
by Ricold
Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:37 am
Forum: General fantasy discussions / Tavern of Cothique
Topic: Games Workshop AGM: A relentless profit machine
Replies: 29
Views: 11513

Games Workshop AGM: A relentless profit machine

http://www.iii.co.uk/news-opinion/richard-beddard/games-workshop-agm%3A-relentless-profit-machine?utm_content=bufferf7cb7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Games Workshop is casting itself as a relentless profit making machine. Customers, staff, and investors ...
by Ricold
Thu Aug 13, 2015 3:02 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: A great loss to the community
Replies: 5
Views: 9086

A great loss to the community

About 10 days ago, Curu posted in the Loremaster forum that due to changes, he would be stepping down as a Herald. He has asked that the following be posted as an announcement, so here goes: Welcome to my Army Blog! Here, I will detail my army list, its progression, results, battle reports and relat...
by Ricold
Sun Jul 19, 2015 8:44 pm
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: Welcome back
Replies: 35
Views: 33530

Re: Welcome back

Gone and irretrievable, along with everything in the library...
by Ricold
Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:43 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Greetings to all
Replies: 5
Views: 4907

Re: Greetings to all

Welcome to the site. Make yourself at home
by Ricold
Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:40 pm
Forum: Fields of Fantasy
Topic: GW answers Age of Sigmar questions
Replies: 8
Views: 5428

GW answers Age of Sigmar questions

I dunno if this has been posted elsewhere, but as I seem to have numerous friends outside this forum posting up information on Age of Sigmar, I thought I'd share a brief bit of information apparently from GW actually talking to the community at a forgeworld open day http://natfka.blogspot.co.uk/2015...
by Ricold
Mon Jul 06, 2015 8:36 am
Forum: Announcements / Website topics
Topic: We have our domain back!!
Replies: 5
Views: 11469

We have our domain back!!

Right, any user that was using the 45.40.135.47 address needs to stop doing this, and return to using http://www.ulthuan.net/forum! I've reset the cookies to use it, and soon I will be resetting other things to use it naturally as well.

This, I think, now qualifies as a successful handover!
by Ricold
Fri Jul 03, 2015 9:27 am
Forum: General fantasy discussions / Tavern of Cothique
Topic: What will happen now!?!?!
Replies: 31
Views: 12683

Re: What will happen now!?!?!

For everyone's information. We* have no intention of doing anything stupid, or rash, or without a lot of thought. However.... The Loremasters and Heralds were approached just over a week ago by the Druchii.net staff to open up a discussion on this very topic. The Asrai have also been invited. The st...
by Ricold
Thu Jul 02, 2015 5:25 pm
Forum: General fantasy discussions / Tavern of Cothique
Topic: 9th Edition rumours
Replies: 375
Views: 95534

Re: 9th Edition rumours

But we'll always have 3rd ed. and warmaster. Finishing painting my Warmaster miniatures and actually playing a game has been on my list of things to do for over a decade. Still I keep hearing from players that they think I'd prefer it to WFB, and I tend to agree. http://talismancy.com/ricold/BOFA-h...