Hey y'all. While the new site is NOWHERE near ready to show off, it's reaching a point where I have a majority of the user account stuff actually working (both front and back). Because of this, I do anticipate getting to the invitation system in the next few weeks.

The invite system is new and is essentially a guard against bots / bad actors by requiring an existing user to vouch for a new user via an invitation (tied to email). Everyone here will be invited and will be given a unique "Original" role that nobody else that registers on the new site once it launches will get. Y'all are gonna be special.

But the invitations work via a whitelist / allowlist of emails, and those emails will be pulled from THIS database. You'll need to register again, but you can only do so if your email matches one on the list.



Not on the list? Get bent.

So if you have any interest at all in joining v3, make sure your email is correct and current. Like... do that this week if you can.

Quick update: took a couple week break from working on the site to stand up my personal website to try to get more side-gigs. It had the added benefit of making me slightly better at Angular so there's that.

Authentication system is entirely setup now (front and back) with the exception of password recovery, password changing, and email changing.

I guess I never announced this, but registration requires an invitation. The idea is that users can invite other users (which is the only way you can create an account). Users who are new (30 days or less) who get moderated will have an upward effect to the user who invited them. They will likely rank down and will have all their invites removed and will not be able to create a new invitation for x days (thinking probably a 2 week ban on this).

On the flipside, the carrot is that there will be quests / rare items like nameplates and special ranks / roles dedicated to getting x number of new users registered and in good standing for 30 days. Ex: I'm thinking of making a role like "Paragon" or something that, among other things, requires recruiting 5 people (and anyone who gets moderated within 30 days subtracts from that total).

Basically: recruitment will be baked into the entire system and incentivized.

aw, we're getting rid of the number?

.net because its short and that's what it was all these years.

Yes. I plan to run the two concurrently during the transition period and then once this place closes, sep7agon.net will redirect to wherever the new site lives.

Quote from: Cheat on April 07, 2024, 04:37:22 PM

Quote from: Jono on April 06, 2024, 08:33:54 PM

We need a 10 Years of Sep7agon celebration, Cheat

Will v3 suffice?

No Print Button detected

Sep7 enshittening 

It'll be there as a trophy / inventory item for original members. The memes must live on.

Quote from: Cheat on March 29, 2024, 01:05:43 PM

but rather than try to wait for everything to be ready, my new plan is to get the basics (auth, bare-bones user stuff like pw / email resets, thread creation, replies, post editing, etc.) and then add in the missing pieces as I go. This will mean the 3.0 site will launch without stuff like PMs, Coup, administrator tools, private groups, etc. BUT it will also mean users can be hands-on ASAP.

I am surprised nobody done a joke about a "Print" button being an essential feature that should be added ASAP yet.

No cap: I planned to have that be the inventory item all the old school users get that unlocks the “Original” role if they register.

We need a 10 Years of Sep7agon celebration, Cheat

Will v3 suffice?

Wait it's a tabletop game? I've heard the name but always assumed it was something like WoW. I guess that's what I get for assuming and not actually looking it up.

Haha. I'll allow it. What do you want?

Coming back from a loooooong break and I'm picking up kinda where I left off. Laravel has moved on to newer and better versions, so I restarted the back-end service API and am in the process of getting everything moved over.

Front-end is being worked on at the same time and a lot of my work on that was also migrated over. Angular is super strict / annoying for a beginner to SPAs, but it's honestly been super fun being able to work on my own stuff again.

I have lots of ideas (like eventually connecting the site to the Fediverse or having automated democratic elections for local moderators), but rather than try to wait for everything to be ready, my new plan is to get the basics (auth, bare-bones user stuff like pw / email resets, thread creation, replies, post editing, etc.) and then add in the missing pieces as I go. This will mean the 3.0 site will launch without stuff like PMs, Coup, administrator tools, private groups, etc. BUT it will also mean users can be hands-on ASAP.

The first step of this I'm about to do right now. User registration will be switched off and this site will be deprecated. When I get the 3.0 site up, it will run alongside this one for as long as it needs to for the critical features to be worked out.

I fully appreciate that a lot of you won't migrate over to the new site. Those that do, who registered before 2024, will be given some extra special perks and the "Original" role. I plan to import all posts and threads apart from Anarchy to the new place eventually too.

MAGA people can really suck. My dad is one of them.

I'm happy for you that you're starting to like yourself more. Thank you for sharing.

Cheat bring back kiyo

Imagine an AI with her personality let loose lol.

No.

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Quote from: path1k on December 04, 2023, 08:18:20 PM

Perhaps we can keep the torch burning by making private groups a thing on this site...

If I am ever able to quit my job I'd likely have the motivation to finish (ok, let's be honest... start) Septagon 3.0, which has private groups.

it’s ok when bungie axes Destiny then I guess that means you will have one less job

The addiction is real. You're absolutely right lol. I have a serious problem.

Literally anything. I don't have the motivation to do much of anything besides game, get high, and watch movies. Work kind of sucks the fun out of life.

What is everyone busy with?

Work. Destiny. I'm also learning Japanese.