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FYI The Forum's future

MikeG said:
Notices
The server will be coming down at approximately 0000UTC Oct 5 (1800MDT Oct 4) for migration to the final server and domain name. The process should take a few hours but may take more. The new URL will be http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums.
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Looks like Stage 3 is upon us......
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Reminded me of Crysis 3... :D

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Anyway looks good. (Now time to change my years ingrained habit of typing "for" to get forums.randi.org)
 
temporalillusion said:
Hrm, that's weird, I put in a redirect so they should all get updated with a 301 redirect and Google will update the results.

Oh wait its the archive results isn't it? I hate those things. Do you have an example of a link that goes to 404?
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I see what you mean about archive results. These Google results still go to 404:

site:forums.randi.org Pulvinar

And yet these results that I just did for the first time go to the new forum:

site:forums.randi.org temporalillusion
 
Dan O. said:
Did anybody bother to read the new forum rules? This line doesn't parse quite right:

When your computer connects to the Forum, a record is kept of your IP Address is recorded.​
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Well, I would certainly expect that for when the "Remember me" box is checked and for at least perhaps for the time your log in stays active when not checked.
 
It looks to me as if the text font is paler - the page, or whatever part I have magnified, looks sort of washed out.
I always have the computer set to ignore background colours and fonts, but I think it would help if I could have the font darker, which would mean I could put the cursor on a line more easily.
 
The Man said:
Well, I would certainly expect that for when the "Remember me" box is checked and for at least perhaps for the time your log in stays active when not checked.
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I'm not talking about what the line is trying to say but what is written. Few people actually read all of the words as they see what they expect to see. It's a form of confirmation blindness that prevents them from seeing the man in the gorilla suit.
 
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Dan O. said:
I'm not talking about what the line is trying to say but what is written. Few people actually read all of the words as they see what they expect to see. It's a form of confirmation blindness that prevents them from seeing the man in the gorilla suit.
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I read it and what it was trying to say is what, as I said, I expected to see. Do you have some "seeing the man in the gorilla suit" "confirmation blindness" even when the suit was obviously just left laying on the floor?
 
William Parcher said:
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Dang, I totally missed that. I wonder what the font is called, "Kubricks" perhaps "Strangeletter"?
 
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The Man said:
I read it and what it was trying to say is what, as I said, I expected to see. Do you have some "seeing the man in the gorilla suit" "confirmation blindness" even when the suit was obviously just left laying on the floor?
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Read it again. Carefully.

When your computer connects to the Forum, a record is kept of your IP Address is recorded.
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Dan O is right, it doesn't parse.

I'm assuming it should either say "When your computer connects to the Forum, a record is kept of your IP Address" or "When your computer connects to the Forum, your IP Address is recorded". I suspect whoever wrote it started off writing one, changed it to the other, and didn't change it correctly.
 
Pixel42 said:
I'm assuming it should either say "When your computer connects to the Forum, a record is kept of your IP Address" or "When your computer connects to the Forum, your IP Address is recorded". I suspect whoever wrote it started off writing one, changed it to the other, and didn't change it correctly.
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As I recall, the original version used "kept". The word choice carried a sense of "forever" that wasn't what was intended. The word, "recorded", is correct, but the edit was not.
 
The Man said:
Dang, I totally missed that. I wonder what the font is called, "Kubricks" perhaps "Strangeletter"?
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The font is called Pablo Skinny, named after Pablo Ferro who is a famous graphic artist and did the credits design for Dr. Strangelove and many others.
 
Pixel42 said:
Read it again. Carefully.
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I have.


Pixel42 said:
Dan O is right, it doesn't parse.
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I never said that he was wrong.


Pixel42 said:
I'm assuming it should either say "When your computer connects to the Forum, a record is kept of your IP Address" or "When your computer connects to the Forum, your IP Address is recorded". I suspect whoever wrote it started off writing one, changed it to the other, and didn't change it correctly.
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So while not quite right it really isn't difficult to parse.
 
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