By Figments Go To PostI feel like I keep missing the damn invite waves as they go out. Been a GAF member since 2013, and I kinda feel bummed being left out in the cold like this. I miss being happy when I went to the site. Now it's like, the feeling's just not there anymore.Are you a member of any communities? If any are the same as me I can try and help.
I'm confused on this whole sign up process. I'll wait for the regular launch like everyone else I guess !
By mattp Go To Postso resetera is supposed to actually go live later today? gonna be interesting to see how much work the mods have to put in to keep gg trolls off
It was supposed to go live Monday, then yesterday, so we'll see when it actually does. It's a pretty massive undertaking trying to do this and coordinate with tens of thousands of users in such a short time, so problems will definitely crop up.
By Storm Chamber Go To PostTreat a message board launch like the creation of a secret society brehs
Sounds like the launch is being over-moderated
By thefro Go To PostHearing some confirmation that EL or a mod was using PM search to ban people mentioning ResetEra or discord in their PMs.mods can read your pms? that doesn't seem kosher. that would be an anti-climatic way of me suiciding my account before i'm read to go lol
Also there's around 15k verified people moving over between all the discords at this point, although that probably includes some duplicates.
By henhowc Go To Postmods can read your pms? that doesn't seem kosher. that would be an anti-climatic way of me suiciding my account before i'm read to go lolIf true that's pretty messed up.
By Storm Chamber Go To PostTreat a message board launch like the creation of a secret society brehsI don't think there are many good options to make the launch reasonably safe and stable. I personally think they are being quite fair and open, but I also got into the list fairly easily so my opinion might not be the best.
By Figments Go To PostI feel like I keep missing the damn invite waves as they go out. Been a GAF member since 2013, and I kinda feel bummed being left out in the cold like this. I miss being happy when I went to the site. Now it's like, the feeling's just not there anymore.I'm old as fuck and barely understand discord so I feel you. But we'll all be able to join eventually even if it takes a little while. Consider this an internet vacation. We all need one once in a while :)
I'm okay with the resetera team taking as much time as they need. It's a huge and complex undertaking. I understand that. I miss GAF but I'm okay with waiting a bit.
By henhowc Go To Postmods can read your pms? that doesn't seem kosher. that would be an anti-climatic way of me suiciding my account before i'm read to go lolEverything writes to a database. I always assume everything except the password is readable by someone. Hell, maybe even the password too on a lot of sites.
Yeah basically everything was readable, pms and even emails associated with the website, when I was running a website in the past. Passwords were the only thing hidden, not that I ever tried to get around that or anything.
By munchie64 Go To PostI don't think there are many good options to make the launch reasonably safe and stable. I personally think they are being quite fair and open, but I also got into the list fairly easily so my opinion might not be the best.
I think it's for the best, especially if one of your own admins has already been doxxed. I can understand keeping invitations exclusive for the time being to at least try to keep that from happening again.
By thefro Go To PostHearing some confirmation that EL or a mod was using PM search to ban people mentioning ResetEra or discord in their PMs.
Also there's around 15k verified people moving over between all the discords at this point, although that probably includes some duplicates.
15k is actually an insane number to start with. There's 195k registered users on NeoGAF. No reason to think ResetEra couldn't be hitting 100k in just a few months. There's a real chance this could take off big.
195k, and I would imagine most of the number are inactive or banned. Yeah 15k is pretty impressive, that's 15k that are going to be active from the start if they are going to these kind of lengths to get in early.
By Storm Chamber Go To PostTreat a message board launch like the creation of a secret society brehs
Yeah, I've posted regularly at GAF since 2009 and guess I'm not cool enough.
By rjinaz10 Go To PostYeah basically everything was readable, pms and even emails associated with the website, when I was running a website in the past. Passwords were the only thing hidden, not that I ever tried to get around that or anything.Funny..they're claiming that's fake news.
By munchie64 Go To PostI don't think there are many good options to make the launch reasonably safe and stable. I personally think they are being quite fair and open, but I also got into the list fairly easily so my opinion might not be the best.How do you know if you are on the list?
By JoeNut Go To PostSomeone just PM'd me this website? is this ReserERa? presumably not, lolNope. Should be up soonish..
By munchie64 Go To PostAre you a member of any communities? If any are the same as me I can try and help.
GiganticGAF (of which I made the OTs for both the Beta and the official release), and to some extent HaloGAF and XboxGAF. I didn't frequent off-topic much outside of the occasional world news, and posted there even less. But I was semi-active on gaming side, especially in Xbox and Switch threads.
By JeanFCP Go To PostI'm old as fuck and barely understand discord so I feel you. But we'll all be able to join eventually even if it takes a little while. Consider this an internet vacation. We all need one once in a while :)
I'm okay with the resetera team taking as much time as they need. It's a huge and complex undertaking. I understand that. I miss GAF but I'm okay with waiting a bit.
Yeah. But a vacation just makes me feel anxious. I'd rather my own personal sense of equilibrium be restored first. :P
By Fox Mulder Go To PostYeah, I've posted regularly at GAF since 2009 and guess I'm not cool enough.I mean, this isn't the permanent solution.
By rjinaz10 Go To Post195k, and I would imagine most of the number are inactive or banned. Yeah 15k is pretty impressive, that's 15k that are going to be active from the start if they are going to these kind of lengths to get in early.
They kind do need to launch before Friday. Mario Odyssey OT, Wolfenstein OT, Assassin's Creed OT, Stranger Things OT... it would be a missed opportunity if they didn't launch by then.
By GoldenEye 007 Go To PostI mean, this isn't the permanent solution.Yeah. It's just a small rollout. Everyone will get in, with time. I'll voluntarily sit at the back of the line to let others in..I'm good.
By Fox Mulder Go To PostYeah, I've posted regularly at GAF since 2009 and guess I'm not cool enough.Come on, this whole thing is a huge confusing clusterfuck for every ex-gaffer, there'll be open registration eventually. I agree with Gordon above. I'm eager to get in but if I have to wait it's fine, I understand.
By JoeNut Go To PostSomeone just PM'd me this website? is this ReserERa? presumably not, lolNo, but it's a cool place to be. Stick around.
I'm definitely on team slaent. I want to see how resetera does, but feemy expectations are tempered. Either way its better to have multiple of these sites to visit as opposed to one
By eseqko Go To PostThey kind do need to launch before Friday. Mario Odyssey OT, Wolfenstein OT, Assassin's Creed OT, Stranger Things OT… it would be a missed opportunity if they didn't launch by then.
I'd be really surprised if they weren't launched by Friday. Hell, I'd be pretty surprised if they haven't launched by the end of today.
By eseqko Go To PostThey kind do need to launch before Friday. Mario Odyssey OT, Wolfenstein OT, Assassin's Creed OT, Stranger Things OT… it would be a missed opportunity if they didn't launch by then.
Yup. Just bought Nights of Azure 2 for Switch, and there's literally no place to discuss it in my usual circles.
By Gordon Shumway Go To PostFunny..they're claiming that's fake news.Yeah and mods were also telling people in their ban messages that they weren't deleting threads they were just locking them. Yeah no, and not just the ones with inappropriate content or even suicides, some good ones like that one lawyer guy that really laid into evilore.
Another Ex-Gaffer here. Guess I'll be chilling here till there's anymore news on ResetEra. Who knows, I may end up staying here as well as Reset.
By JeanFCP Go To PostCome on, this whole thing is a huge confusing clusterfuck for every ex-gaffer, there'll be open registration eventually. I agree with Gordon above. I'm eager to get in but if I have to wait it's fine, I understand.Yeah, getting a functioning forum up in such short notice was never gonna be smooth. I'll probably end up waiting for open registration, though I suppose I could try GAF PM, but... With how that's being cracked down on I doubt it'll work out.
15k is crazy, would have guessed like 1 or 2k users to begin with. Encouraging, must be a pretty big slice of the active user base considering how many of the 195k accounts were probably banned or abandoned
Yeah and just imagine how many alt accounts and trolls are included in that number. I too thought 3 thousand maybe, I thought it would be dead at first. I do't think that now if 15k is true.
By Novis Go To PostYeah, getting a functioning forum up in such short notice was never gonna be smooth. I'll probably end up waiting for open registration, though I suppose I could try GAF PM, but… With how that's being cracked down on I doubt it'll work out.its actually easy, you just need to know what you're doing.
Though with the threat of 4chan/8ch/reddit trying to infiltrate the ResetEra with only the most malicious of intentions, i imagine they're trying to do this very carefully and is why its been slow. I had enough trouble myself just beefing security on a forum of my own when trolls started swarming. what ResetEra faces makes my troubles small time in comparison.
Not allowing access by proxy/vpn would be a good start imo.
By munchie64 Go To PostAre you a member of any communities? If any are the same as me I can try and help.I'm surprised the artgaf community never got invited. But not all communities were represented in that list.
By Figments Go To PostGiganticGAF (of which I made the OTs for both the Beta and the official release), and to some extent HaloGAF and XboxGAF. I didn't frequent off-topic much outside of the occasional world news, and posted there even less. But I was semi-active on gaming side, especially in Xbox and Switch threads.Sorry, won't be able to help. When I got in PM people you knew from the communities was the best option, but that might not be true anymore.
Yeah. But a vacation just makes me feel anxious. I'd rather my own personal sense of equilibrium be restored first. :P
Curious to see where it goes, but I'll settle here for now. Still be around GAF every now and then, but I've been lurking here since the meltdown and this place seems very allright.
As owner/admin of a small football (the soccery kind) forum (less than 1k users), based on PHPBB, it is not standard for admins to be able to see PM's of users. I'm not sure what platform Gaf is built on, or if it's PHPBB or something custom. I do think it's possible to delve into the database. I think i remember from browsing the database, that for my forum at least, the messages (regular messages, not PM's) were linked to useraccount numbers, which in turn were linked to the username. In order to find out who wrote something from the database, you'd have to check which accountnumber matches which account (username). But maybe they wrote a custom program/script for it, to make it much easier. Anyway, if they did any of that, that's some real big brother shit.
I think I'm in via the football discord. Beefy seems to be on it so that's good. Couldn't think of a proper username right now so hopefully you can change it at a later date.
By null Go To PostI think I'm in via the football discord. Beefy seems to be on it so that's good. Couldn't think of a proper username right now so hopefully you can change it at a later date.Word is that you will (at least in its current iteration) NOT be able to change usernames once you've joined.
I think being careful about this launch is the right thing to do, even if a few people get left behind for a few days
By Squirrel Killer Go To PostEverything writes to a database. I always assume everything except the password is readable by someone. Hell, maybe even the password too on a lot of sites.I just assume any information that I enter into a site can be read by someone that has both the ability and the interest to get it. Yeah, data can be encrypted. But there is a way to decrypt it somehow otherwise it wouldn't be very useable, ya know?
By rjinaz10 Go To PostYeah and just imagine how many alt accounts and trolls are included in that number. I too thought 3 thousand maybe, I thought it would be dead at first. I do't think that now if 15k is true.
Is it 15000 or 1500, because just a few pages ago I thought I read the main discord had over 1000 users.
By ozfunghi Go To PostAs owner/admin of a small football (the soccery kind) forum (less than 1k users), based on PHPBB, it is not standard for admins to be able to see PM's of users. I'm not sure what platform Gaf is built on, or if it's PHPBB or something custom. I do think it's possible to delve into the database. I think i remember from browsing the database, that for my forum at least, the messages (regular messages, not PM's) were linked to useraccount numbers, which in turn were linked to the username. In order to find out who wrote something from the database, you'd have to check which accountnumber matches which account (username). But maybe they wrote a custom program/script for it, to make it much easier. Anyway, if they did any of that, that's some real big brother shit.That is easy base stuff for SQL in a database. No problem to make a view and just run it whenever you want.
If anyone here is a member of the FilmGAF discord who can hook me up with a link it'd be much appreciated. I was TreyoftheDead on GAF.
I got a few links sent to me on Twitter and Letterboxd but they were all dead by the time I saw them. Dude who sent them doesn't seem to be super active on Twitter so I'm waiting for another one. Thanks y'all.
I got a few links sent to me on Twitter and Letterboxd but they were all dead by the time I saw them. Dude who sent them doesn't seem to be super active on Twitter so I'm waiting for another one. Thanks y'all.
My instincts tells me that with time, Slaent will become the main refuge for ex-GAF members over ResetEra.
By peppermints Go To PostWord is that you will (at least in its current iteration) NOT be able to change usernames once you've joined.Ah that's fine I don't really have an online identity like some people anyway. I usually just use my real name but I'm not sure I want to do that right now.
By Finale Fireworker Go To PostZhugeEx Just confirmed there are over 2500 members in the main Resetera Discord and they are coordinating with 80 other Discord channels for launch.
They're being really careful not to mess this up, it seems.
Ok, found it, the confirmed number was 2500 in the Resetera which is closed. They have a bunch of other discords so who knows what that number actually is.