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statica
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posted 21 October 2008 11:46 AM      Profile for statica   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
salut....is anyone from babble (toronto area -- you know, the center of the universe) going to the relanch party this thursday???
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oldgoat
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posted 21 October 2008 11:54 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well I'll be there by golly you betcha!

Others are discussing it in this thread.

For those who have been living in a cave, check it out and order tickets here.


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Michelle
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posted 21 October 2008 12:36 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I want to know too! I'm really looking forward to meeting people!

(And if anyone needs a place to crash overnight if you're from out of town, I've got a spare bed and couch. )


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oldgoat
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posted 21 October 2008 12:50 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
...and once that fills up, I'll be driving by the Park Plaza on the way home and can drop people off.
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posted 21 October 2008 01:15 PM      Profile for jrose     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
And I will also be there!
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Michelle
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posted 21 October 2008 02:09 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You'll be at the Park Plaza? Hey, big spender!
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bigcitygal
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posted 21 October 2008 02:54 PM      Profile for bigcitygal     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What? After-party in JRo's suite at the Park Plaza? Kewl! Have a tequila shot for me!
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Michelle
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posted 21 October 2008 05:20 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'll have a whole margarita!
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jrose
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posted 22 October 2008 06:22 AM      Profile for jrose     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by bigcitygal:
What? After-party in JRo's suite at the Park Plaza? Kewl! Have a tequila shot for me!

Ah, how I wish this were true! More like, party at JRo's one-bedroom apartment in Hamilton, haha.


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Michelle
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posted 22 October 2008 09:50 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
BTW, I'm going to be in charge of the drink tickets tomorrow night. So if you want to meet me, that's where you'll find me for much of the evening!
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clersal
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posted 22 October 2008 09:54 AM      Profile for clersal     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I really wish you could have it a little nearer to where I live.
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miles
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posted 22 October 2008 09:59 AM      Profile for miles     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I would love to go but a friend is be awarded the first mary sheffield award by the Fred Victor Centre for her community service work including the first interfaith get out of the cold initiative in mid '90s
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oldgoat
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posted 22 October 2008 10:44 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Michelle:
BTW, I'm going to be in charge of the drink tickets tomorrow night. So if you want to meet me, that's where you'll find me for much of the evening!


I won't be far from Michelle.


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posted 22 October 2008 02:19 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by miles:
I would love to go but a friend is be awarded the first mary sheffield award by the Fred Victor Centre for her community service work including the first interfaith get out of the cold initiative in mid '90s

Bah! Skip it!

Kidding, that sounds really great, miles. Congratulations to your friend.


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N.Beltov
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posted 22 October 2008 02:27 PM      Profile for N.Beltov   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Nobody is talking about how much they will miss this board. I mean, some of us have made a huge emotional investment in these bits and bytes. Talk about dumb, but there it is.

I hope the new software is agreeable ... or I'm going to come back as even more annoying than I already am.


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remind
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posted 22 October 2008 02:37 PM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
have a question, are we going to wake up tomorrow and have to find the new url address for rabble/bable or will these old url links take us straight there?

And nbeltov, your words point out just how resistent to change people are. Familarity is comfort, the unknown is stressful.


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Boom Boom
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posted 22 October 2008 03:53 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I expect it may take a while to get used to a new appearance, but as long as it works well without very many bugs, I don't think I'll have a problem. I left another board that switched to a really ugly (to me, anyway) version of phpBB, but it doesn't sound like that is what is about to happen here.
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Michelle
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posted 22 October 2008 06:02 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You know what? I'm actually not sure whether the new site will be up and running tomorrow.

But I do know that you can just come here to the same URL. babble will stay here until you hear otherwise.

[ 22 October 2008: Message edited by: Michelle ]


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oldgoat
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posted 22 October 2008 06:03 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by remind:
have a question, are we going to wake up tomorrow and have to find the new url address for rabble/bable or will these old url links take us straight there?

And nbeltov, your words point out just how resistent to change people are. Familarity is comfort, the unknown is stressful.


I share N Beltov's feelings on this. I have no answer to what we'll wake up to. There's still little bugs and tweaks, even at this late date.


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Michelle
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posted 22 October 2008 06:04 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by N.Beltov:
Nobody is talking about how much they will miss this board. I mean, some of us have made a huge emotional investment in these bits and bytes. Talk about dumb, but there it is.

Not dumb at all. I feel the same way.


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remind
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posted 22 October 2008 06:07 PM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Michelle:
You know what? I'm actually not sure whether the new site will be up and running tomorrow.

But I do know that you can just come here to the same URL. babble will stay here until you hear otherwise.



Okay, thanks Michelle! Was hoping you would say that, or something like that anyway.

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RevolutionPlease
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posted 22 October 2008 06:18 PM      Profile for RevolutionPlease     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
How can you party when you should be feeding the world.

I hope the night goes great for you all. You deserve it.


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posted 22 October 2008 08:16 PM      Profile for ebodyknows   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by RevolutionPlease:
How can you party when you should be feeding the world.

I've got crab apples to jelly, an abundance of garden greens that will need freezing and a honey locust tree across the street that is threatening to go to waste but I'm going to put all that on hold to try and be at the rabble thing.


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posted 23 October 2008 06:16 AM      Profile for jrose     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Bump

Today is the day!


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posted 23 October 2008 06:28 AM      Profile for johnpauljones     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by miles:
I would love to go but a friend is be awarded the first mary sheffield award by the Fred Victor Centre for her community service work including the first interfaith get out of the cold initiative in mid '90s

Miles are you going to this? I will be there. Hope to see you there


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Catchfire
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posted 23 October 2008 07:16 AM      Profile for Catchfire   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Michelle:
You know what? I'm actually not sure whether the new site will be up and running tomorrow

I know what odds I'll be backing...

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Caissa
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posted 23 October 2008 07:33 AM      Profile for Caissa     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So who's making book?
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posted 23 October 2008 08:12 AM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
At the launch, we were tweaking right up until the event to announce the new site.
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remind
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posted 23 October 2008 08:43 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Happppppy re-lauch all who are there!!!!!!!!!
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pogge
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posted 23 October 2008 08:54 AM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Michelle:
I'm actually not sure whether the new site will be up and running tomorrow.

'Tis. But is it necessary to reregister? 'Cos I'm trying to log in and it's acting like it doesn't know me.

[ 23 October 2008: Message edited by: oldgoat ]

[ 23 October 2008: Message edited by: oldgoat ]


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oldgoat
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posted 23 October 2008 09:00 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Pogge, I disabled that link because I'm not sure it's ready to go outside the tiny debugging test group yet. I also think it only works on Firefox for the nonce.

If I'm incorrect I'll fix it.

Check you're PM's


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pogge
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posted 23 October 2008 09:09 AM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I went ahead and posted that link because I got it from rabble's front page where there's now a message encouraging us to poke around the beta site.
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Catchfire
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posted 23 October 2008 09:19 AM      Profile for Catchfire   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
omg that sit is hot
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Lard Tunderin' Jeezus
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posted 23 October 2008 09:19 AM      Profile for Lard Tunderin' Jeezus   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Kinda cool over there.

I was able to find my very first babble post, made Aug. 31st, 2001:

quote:
I'm one of those notorious 'swing voters'. I've voted Liberal, NDP, PC, and even for Mel Hurtig's National Party once. Haven't voted Green yet, but it's not out of the question (though single issue parties have a harder time getting my attention). I'm probably exactly the kind of voter the 'left' wishes they could depend upon - sympathetic, but all too often just just as likely to end up voting Liberal (to turf a Mulroney or Harris, or block the likes of the Stockboy).

What do I want to see in a new left initiative? First and foremost, I want it to champion democratic reform.

It terrifies me that the ranting right seems to have been able to stake out this turf as their own. Recall, the triple E senate and unlimited campaign spending by single issue special interest groups are among the poisons they're pushing. All of them wrong, but obviously fascinating to a wide range of Canadians.
Alternatives must be presented: the restriction of spending by non-citizens (would we have suffered the economic dislocation of the FTA if corporations had not out-spent individual Canadians 20 to 1?); replacement of our first-past-the-post elections by representative or run-off election; meaningful senate reform (but not in a form that sets it at loggerheads with the House).

In short, a promise that the democratic in New Democratic Party is primary.


Plus ça changer, eh?

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oldgoat
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posted 23 October 2008 09:23 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by pogge:
I went ahead and posted that link because I got it from rabble's front page where there's now a message encouraging us to poke around the beta site.

My absolute humblest of apologies. I am clearly behind the loop. I fixed your link.


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posted 23 October 2008 09:35 AM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I logged in, and filled out the terms and requirements but, the evrything just stopped for me. I'll try again.
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remind
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posted 23 October 2008 09:37 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by pogge:
But is it necessary to reregister? 'Cos I'm trying to log in and it's acting like it doesn't know me.
Pogge, you use "pogge" and your password, not your former sign in name.

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pogge
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posted 23 October 2008 09:43 AM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks. Already got that figured out. Then I fumbled around for a while 'til I figured out that even though I'm not a new registrant I still have to accept the terms before I'm really logged in. That message needs to be big and bold to get people's attention.

And having sorted all that out, I tried to get to the beta-babble and got a screen full of MySQL error messages. I'm thinking they don't have enough juice to run both the old site and the new one. That's just a hunch, though.


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Boom Boom
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posted 23 October 2008 09:43 AM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm still being asked to login, although I've logged in twice, and am getting Drupal error messages.
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Boom Boom
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posted 23 October 2008 09:47 AM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Quote:

And having sorted all that out, I tried to get to the beta-babble and got a screen full of MySQL error messages.


I'm getting those, too.


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pogge
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posted 23 October 2008 09:51 AM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by oldgoat:
My absolute humblest of apologies. I am clearly behind the loop.

But you're supposed to know everything. It's in the Moderator's Handbook.

(How do you get behind a loop? )


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remind
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posted 23 October 2008 09:52 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You using firefox as a browser? As even on dial up, it is very fast and efficient, and I have been having absolutely no problems with using it, over the last few days.
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pogge
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posted 23 October 2008 10:01 AM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm using Firefox. I also tried Opera and had problems but those may not be Opera - I've since gone back with Firefox and had enough problems that I'm going away again for now.

Don't get me wrong. I know what "beta" means and seeing problems doesn't surprise me. But there appears to be quite a bit to sort out there. I'm glad you've had a good experience but I spent half an hour trying to get to a point where I could post a single comment and then, as I said, got a page full of database errors. I've also had this -- the original forum -- disappear on me a few times.


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remind
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posted 23 October 2008 10:39 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by pogge:
I'm glad you've had a good experience but I spent half an hour trying to get to a point where I could post a single comment and then, as I said, got a page full of database errors. I've also had this -- the original forum -- disappear on me a few times.

Ya, me too, I have been getting "cannot display web page" messages, or an inability to post a response too here at the original site. I also have not tried to get into the new site today either though, as I am juggling time and phone/dial up lines.


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posted 23 October 2008 10:54 AM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Also, all new content on this beta site will not be preserved. Ie. babble forums, password changes, etc.
- Babble Beta front page

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It's Me D
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posted 23 October 2008 11:01 AM      Profile for It's Me D     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I looked at the Beta site but it certainly doesn't seem ready to go... I'll wait till we get some formal word to get out of this old site and get with the times...

Anyone know if our post counts and joined dates are to be reset in the new babble?


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posted 23 October 2008 11:04 AM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Also, all new content on this beta site will not be preserved. Ie. babble forums, password changes, etc.

Worth bearing in mind but not at all surprising since one of the things being tested is the database functionality (this a highly customized copy of Drupal). If a problem turns up, they'll want to be able to restore a clean copy of the database and it's like restoring from backup. Recent work go poof!


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posted 23 October 2008 11:48 AM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm still being asked to login or register, although I've logged in twice already. It's also slow to load, maybe there's a lot of traffic today? I think I'll just stick with old babble until the new page is running without problems.

[ 23 October 2008: Message edited by: Boom Boom ]


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posted 23 October 2008 12:00 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Boom Boom:
The basic appearance of new babble looks okay to me, but I hope this old babble stays up until new babble is fully sorted out. I'm still being asked to login or register, although I've logged in twice already.

Don't worry, it definitely will!

We're doing the beta version for now so that babblers and other rabble readers can help us fix the bugs. Make good use of that feedback page and tell our techs what isn't working for you so they can fix and tweak!

http://beta.rabble.ca/contact


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posted 23 October 2008 12:10 PM      Profile for jrose     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Alright, I’m heading to the Roundhouse for sound check! (My partner is helping out with sound.) I hope to see some of you there!
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posted 23 October 2008 12:11 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks!

Still waiting for the page to download, been ten minutes already. I hate dialup ISPs!


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posted 23 October 2008 12:25 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Pretty slow for me, and it suddenly looks like it did when I tried to run it on explorer.
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posted 23 October 2008 12:34 PM      Profile for Left Turn     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Just checked out the beta version of the new rabble site. I didn't have any problems logging into my account. The problem I have encountered is that my username has reverted to my login name. My username on the old babble is Left Turn, but my login name is Tim K. The Drupal software has made my Tim K. login name from my original account, my new user name. I'm hoping this can be rectified. I expect that anyone who ever got the babble moderators to change their username, will have this problem.

[ 23 October 2008: Message edited by: Left Turn ]


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posted 23 October 2008 12:44 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yup, I'm finding it really slow too.

Left Turn, you're kidding me. It's supposed to be the other way around - people are supposed to use their screen names on babble, not their login names. All the login names are supposed to be gone.

And it's for that very reason - because a lot of people, for some reason, use their real names as their login and then an alias as their screen name.


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posted 23 October 2008 12:49 PM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Left Turn:
I expect that anyone who ever got the babble moderators to change their username, will have this problem.

Not necessarily. My original login name and screen name here was Slim. I had the screen name changed to pogge at the first opportunity we were given after I started the blog so I'd have the same identity everywhere. And pogge is what I am on the beta site. I'd prove it to you, too, except that I just tried again to post and while I got further than I have before, I still didn't get a comment up. I got a screen full of errors. Different errors than last time, too.


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writer
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posted 23 October 2008 01:55 PM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This just in:

quote:
October 23rd, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

rabble.ca raises a ruckus and launches its new site today

news site also announces partnership with the Council of Canadians, United Steelworkers, and Douglas Coldwell Foundation

rabble.ca, Canada’s most widely read independent news media site, introduces three new strategic partnerships today and launches its newly designed website: you can find it at beta.rabble.ca.

“We’re very proud to be introducing new community partnerships together with this relaunch,” said rabble.ca publisher, Kim Elliott. “In these challenging economic and political times, we are very pleased to introduce a new strategic partnership with Canada’s most influential activist-based organization, the Council of Canadians.”

“rabble is a crucial resource for achieving media democracy in Canada in this era of increasing corporate media centralization,” says Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians and outspoken advocate for media democracy. “That’s why the Council of Canadians supports rabble.”

Also announced today are new partnerships with the Douglas Coldwell Foundation, partner on the soon to be released on-line Activist Toolkit, as well as with the United Steelworkers, who join rabble today as the sponsor of rabbletv – rabble’s cutting edge new media component featuring live and pre-recorded online video.

rabble.ca’s new website, which can be viewed at beta.rabble.ca, offers visitors an opportunity to provide feedback on the newly redesigned website, and introduces state of the art interactive features including the live streaming capacity of rabbletv, Canada’s largest progressive podcast network, and other interactive and sharing tools.

The new website is built on an open-source platform. “rabble.ca is happy to contribute back to the open source community it has been built upon,” explained Elliott. “rabble.ca developers have released modules back to the drupal community for other organizations to make use of and to promote democratic media tools.”

Building on their acclaimed and popular election blog, rabble will also be introducing regular blogs on the website. “With the election blog, for the first time, I felt like progressives in Canada had a real daily alternative to mainstream media analysis,” explained Derrick O’Keefe, editor of rabble.ca. “We intend to build on that and make rabble the ‘go to’ place for common sense analysis devoid of corporate media spin in this time of economic crisis and minority government.”

rabble.ca chose to relaunch on Media Democracy Day, a day founded to challenge media concentration in Canada and to recognize the power of alternative media. Media Democracy Day activities take place throughout the day today at the University of Toronto, and conclude this evening with a roundtable debrief on the federal election, featuring Maude Barlow, Murray Dobbin, Jessica Yee, Anne Lagacé-Dowson and Duncan Cameron, and a celebration with LAL, Mraya (with Maryem Tollar) and Lorraine Segato at the Steamwhistle Brewery in Toronto Ontario.

-30-



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posted 23 October 2008 02:06 PM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
“With the election blog, for the first time, I felt like progressives in Canada had a real daily alternative to mainstream media analysis,” explained Derrick O’Keefe, editor of rabble.ca.

Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence.

ETA:

I went away for a bit to see if I'd calm down but instead I'm even more pissed off. That's just insulting to a bunch of us. If we'd waited for rabble to come up with a platform that accommodates blogging we'd have been waiting for five years which is how long I've been at it.

Rabble has a bad case of NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here).

[ 23 October 2008: Message edited by: pogge ]


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Left Turn
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posted 23 October 2008 03:41 PM      Profile for Left Turn     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Michelle:
Left Turn, you're kidding me. It's supposed to be the other way around - people are supposed to use their screen names on babble, not their login names. All the login names are supposed to be gone.

And it's for that very reason - because a lot of people, for some reason, use their real names as their login and then an alias as their screen name.


I'm not kidding. Granted, I havn't posted anything, because I know that any posts made on the beta site will dissapear when the real version goes up. However, my password was connected to my login name, not my username, and my most recent posts page says Most Recent Posts by Tim K.


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posted 23 October 2008 04:26 PM      Profile for Left Turn     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I bet I know what happened with my username. I actually have two accounts on rabble where my username is Left Turn.

My original username when I joined babble way back in October 2004, was my real name. Then in January 2005 there was an incident where Sean Holman used info I'd posted on rabble in an article in the public eye online, and Budd Campbell made a comment on said article where he made defamatory comments about me.

After this incident, and also because of concerns over posting stuff online under my own name that future employers could read, I requested Audra let me change my username. When that didn't appear to go anywhere, I created a second in March 2005, with the username Left Turn. Then in April 2005, Audra granted us a name change day, and I changed my username on my original account to Left Turn.

Now that the login name and username are the same, there cannot be two accounts with Left Turn, because the database that's behind this all, won't be able to have two entries under the same name. So I'm guessing that my original account is Left Turn, and my second account became Tim K.

The question is, can this problem be fixed? I really don't care about the first account, it could be deleted for all I care. What I want is for the account I currently post under to be named Left Turn, and not Tim K.

[edited to add]

What you could do is go and make the Left Turn acoount "Leftturn", without spaces, and the Tim K. account "Left Turn". That would solve the problem.

[ 23 October 2008: Message edited by: Left Turn ]


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posted 23 October 2008 04:29 PM      Profile for martin dufresne   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I don't dare go the new site until I read a clear how-to guide on a separate thread in this one. I have tried to piece basic how-to information from hurried half-answers to vague questions here at the bottom of this party thread, and I must say I don't feel this is the way to tutor babblers on a yet-to-be-functional changeover in my book. And shouldn't the information be here rather than on a site we have trouble accessing?

So before some of you get pissed and start calling me the problem, I am out of here until bugs are quashed and a decent how-to guide is hammered out and posted separately.

Martin
who gets lost just trying to suss out the difference between "screen name", "log-in name" and "username"

[ 23 October 2008: Message edited by: martin dufresne ]


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posted 23 October 2008 05:27 PM      Profile for Tim     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
people are supposed to use their screen names on babble, not their login names. All the login names are supposed to be gone
On the beta site, I was only able to login with my existing login (not screen name). Existing posts show up with my login name (which reveals my full name) rather than my screen name. This is the case whether or not I'm logged in.

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posted 23 October 2008 10:13 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So I got back a little while ago. It was really great, and quite well attended. Several hundred people, I'd say. Good discussion and good music. Saw several babblers there, but would have liked to meet more.

Just want to say that Michelle's moderating might be just a bit fuzzy tomorrow.


quote:
(How do you get behind a loop? )

Good lord, did I really say that? Well I was outside of the curve or whatever.

Had a chance to talk to the tech guy who's doing all this. Surprised he had time to attend, he was looking a bit bleary. All things will work out ok in the fullness of time.


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Left Turn
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posted 24 October 2008 03:00 AM      Profile for Left Turn     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by oldgoat:
Had a chance to talk to the tech guy who's doing all this. Surprised he had time to attend, he was looking a bit bleary. All things will work out ok in the fullness of time.

Saying that all things will work out in the fullness of time won't solve my problem.

Maybe a different explanation will help you understand my problem.

I have two rabble accounts. One is babbler number 7142 (8142 on the new software). The other is babbler number 8662 (9662 on the new software). On the old babble, both accounts have the username "Left Turn". The database allows this, because the login names were different. Given that there's only one name associated with the accounts on the new rabble, only one of these accounts can have the "Left Turn" name. The new babble software gave the "Left Turn" name to the 8142 account, because it comes first in the numerical sequence. It gave the 9662 account, which is this account, my login name from this version of rabble, which is "Tim K."

I have not used the 8142 account since march 2005. Since March 2005, I have used the 8662 account. I wish the 9662 account to be named "Left Turn". In order to accomplish this, the 8142 account needs to be renamed "leftturn".

I've sent a message about this via the feedback section of the beta version of the new rabble. Hopefully this gets sorted out, and I don't have to keep pushing people's buttons any more.

[ 24 October 2008: Message edited by: Left Turn ]

[ 24 October 2008: Message edited by: Left Turn ]

[ 24 October 2008: Message edited by: Left Turn ]


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posted 24 October 2008 05:55 AM      Profile for statica   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Happppppy re-lauch all who are there!!!!!!!!!

i had a wicked time!!!


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posted 24 October 2008 06:04 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh hai. Just testing something. Don't mind me.

ETA: Well, that didn't work. I have no idea what my original sign-up name was; I mean, that was seven and a half years ago. I guess I'll just wait until someone explains how to cope in a FAQ somewhere.

[ 24 October 2008: Message edited by: skdadl ]


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posted 24 October 2008 06:40 AM      Profile for jrose     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by statica:

i had a wicked time!!!



What a fabulous night! Thanks for everyone who came out! Unfortunately, I didn't get home until just after one, so I'm also a little fuzzy-headed today!


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posted 24 October 2008 08:43 AM      Profile for clersal     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I went into the contact and it is too wide, at least for my computer.

The one that boom left is the same for me?????


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oldgoat
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posted 24 October 2008 08:52 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Martin and Left turn, and all the rest of the confused. (which includes me)

If I don't have answers to all your questions it means that in some cases they exist and I don't know, and in more cases they don't exist. The beta site is to work out bugs, because putting it up in real time and letting people play on it is the best way to do that. Anything you do on it right now will not be in the final product.

Martin, in your case you presumably use your real name as a user name. I use oldgoat as a user name, and my real name as a login name, which does not appear publicly.

What is going on right now is a really huge data transfer from old to new, and this is creating some wonkiness. Full instructions and an FAQ will be there when we know what the actual intended differences are between the two sites, and what was just wonkiness.

If anyone has forgotten thier original login information, PM me and I can look it up.

For what it's worth, I couldn't log in either.

Hi skdadl. Test away.


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posted 24 October 2008 09:05 AM      Profile for The Devil     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by statica:

i had a wicked time!!!


That's my girl!


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posted 24 October 2008 11:03 AM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
24 hours later, I'm still being asked to "login or register" which I've done three times now, and everytime I click on the Terms and Conditions of Use 'confirm' button, nothing happens.
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posted 24 October 2008 11:15 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Boom Boom, it's likely not you. If it's not working, I'd give up for now and try another day. I was on successfully earlier in the week, but couldn't log in yesterday at all. I can't try now because my work computer doesn't have firefox.

Like I said, the guy told me that the data transfer process is going on right now, and it's making the system pretty wobbly.


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posted 24 October 2008 11:44 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I used explorer earlier this morning to go in and it worked fine for me, and looked exactly the same as firefox. I spent an hour downloading the new version of firefox so I could test it, and then yesterday had to do a system restore and lost the whole new download. Not going to load firefox again, so decided to try it with explorer.
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posted 24 October 2008 12:22 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I tried Firefox probably two years ago, and didn't like the appearance of the thing - all my screen icons had an orange fox attached to them - ugly as hell.
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posted 24 October 2008 12:30 PM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You can get Themes for Firefox that change the appearance. There are tons of them available.
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Boom Boom
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posted 24 October 2008 12:36 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I didn't know that! Can I install Firefox with no theme at all? I like simplicity.
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pogge
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posted 24 October 2008 01:00 PM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Boom Boom:
Can I install Firefox with no theme at all?

No but some of them are pretty minimalist. You just need to find one you like.

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Left Turn
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posted 24 October 2008 01:21 PM      Profile for Left Turn     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Does anyone know when they're going to get around to dealing with user issues on the new rabble, namely babblers with wrong names?

On a more positve note, I've noticed that they've changed the background colours on the new babble to more closely match the ones on the old babble. Instead of the light blue background that was there yesterday, they now have white and grey background that's similar to the old babble. Definitely a big improvement.

[ 24 October 2008: Message edited by: Left Turn ]


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posted 24 October 2008 05:32 PM      Profile for CMOT Dibbler     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
On which board should I post the next Israeli resistance article?
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posted 24 October 2008 05:34 PM      Profile for CMOT Dibbler     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Do I have to have Firefox in order to use the new site?
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posted 24 October 2008 05:37 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I understand the beta site is still just a practice site, and stuff will be periodically wiped.

I logged on sucessfully a little while ago on internet explorer. I used my login name, and not my user name.


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Fidel
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posted 24 October 2008 06:18 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Boom Boom:
24 hours later, I'm still being asked to "login or register" which I've done three times now, and everytime I click on the Terms and Conditions of Use 'confirm' button, nothing happens.

You mean it's conscious and fuckin with ya?


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posted 24 October 2008 06:23 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Fidel:

You mean it's conscious and fuckin with ya?



Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, we have that feature. It will be concious, and it WILL hold grudges. It can also cross reference data on the internet at large, and in most cases find out where you live. God help any of you who have filed your taxes online.

These features did cost a bit extra, but we figure you're worth it.


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posted 24 October 2008 07:18 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Fidel:
You mean it's conscious and fuckin with ya?


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posted 24 October 2008 08:26 PM      Profile for Bubbles        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Just tried connecting to the Beta site.

Had no trouble registering, but noticed that my member number had changed from 3787 to 4787. Somehow a digit got misread. Babble must have the latest software that can make human mistakes.

Opened a new post to see how it works, but could not find the edit button to add comments.


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posted 24 October 2008 08:38 PM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Bubbles:
...noticed that my member number had changed from 3787 to 4787...

As mine changed from 2440 to 3440. I'm betting it's intentional though I don't know for sure nor do I know the reason behind it.


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posted 24 October 2008 11:37 PM      Profile for Left Turn     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Mine went from 8662 to 9662. I'm guessing every babbler number is 1000 higher on the new babble.
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Left Turn
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posted 25 October 2008 12:02 AM      Profile for Left Turn     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I really think we're being kept in the dark about this whole rabble relaunch.

On the new rabble, there are a number of us who have wound up with our login names as opposed to our usernames, when we were told our login names would be gone. So far, there has been no metion of whether this problem can be fixed, and if it can be fixed, when and how this might be done.

We also havn't been told whether posts made on the old rabble during the test run on the beta site, will be transferred over to the permanent version of the new rabble.

Finally, we havn't been told when the actual changeover to the permanent version of the new rabble will take place. If this is unknown, it would be nice if someone could tell us. As it is, we are left with the impression that the date of the full changeover to the permanent version of the new babble, may be known by some (or all) of the staff, and if so, is not being publicly released.

I wish someone with a bit more knowledge of the situation than Oldgoat, would come on here and let us know what's going on regarding these concerns.

[ 25 October 2008: Message edited by: Left Turn ]


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posted 25 October 2008 12:08 AM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Not really a big deal. Some posts might get lost. But think of the good things... "Layton's campaign performance was best: poll" is still open and is missing all the embarrassing NDP thuggery at the end... or more likely we can do it all again!

Yay!


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Left Turn
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posted 25 October 2008 12:12 AM      Profile for Left Turn     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Cueball, I agree that a few days worth of lost posts is not the biggest deal in the world. However, what I think is a big deal, is being kept in the dark about all this, especially when some of us have our login names, rather than our usernames, on the new rabble.
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posted 25 October 2008 12:14 AM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I am sure they will sort it out, and the lost ID's will be sorted out... in time. These things are tough, and for a relaunch of what is quite clearly a major redesign and not just some generic package BB makeover its looks quite good.
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posted 25 October 2008 03:26 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Nobody is being kept in the dark deliberately. We're trying to sort out all the bugs in the new software and it's difficult.

Also, all of us rabble staff are having trouble with our e-mail over the last day or two - I think it has something to do with the entire server being bogged down by the transfer of, like, millions of rabble posts (or however many). So most of us aren't getting our e-mails and are having a hard time communicating with each other, which of course makes it hard for me to communicate with you about this stuff. I'm getting only the occasional e-mail here and there.

One e-mail I got from one of our tech guys is this one, which might help:

quote:
for folks experiencing troubles with their usernames/passwords.
here's what they should do.

go to the login screen and request a new password for either the login name that they think they should have ...
or the email account they used.

there will be some irregularities.
this is because:

on the old system it allowed users to have duplicate usernames.
ie. 4 babblers could call themselves theUltimateBabbler20092 (if they happened too

In the new system, there can only be one of each. The email address will let them know what their name has been reverted to.

Also, if you can keep track of the ones that are not able to reclaim their accounts, we can match them up and make sure they get the right account back so that they maintain their history etc.


Please also remember that our tech guys have been working around the clock, putting in massive volunteer hours, trying to get this beta version up and running on time. It's a huge, huge project. So they're likely not going to respond immediately to feedback, which they're likely deluged with. But they're reading it and likely doing tech triage.

Left Turn, I will let them know what happened with your account and I'm sure they'll do their best to resolve it.

As for how long we're keeping the old site up - I've heard something like 10 days or so. But we can't give you an exact date because we've never done something this huge before and so that's a guesstimate.

[ 25 October 2008: Message edited by: Michelle ]


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posted 25 October 2008 08:26 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Also, all of us rabble staff are having trouble with our e-mail over the last day or two

There's nothing in my babble email since Thursday Michelle, am I missing anything important?


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Left Turn
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posted 25 October 2008 09:42 AM      Profile for Left Turn     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Michelle:
Left Turn, I will let them know what happened with your account and I'm sure they'll do their best to resolve it. [ 25 October 2008: Message edited by: Michelle ]

Thanks Michelle.


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posted 25 October 2008 09:44 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by oldgoat:

There's nothing in my babble email since Thursday Michelle, am I missing anything important?


I don't know! But I'm starting to get a few trickling through now, so maybe the e-mail problem is fixed.


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janfromthebruce
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posted 25 October 2008 04:38 PM      Profile for janfromthebruce     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by pogge:
You can get Themes for Firefox that change the appearance. There are tons of them available.

thanks pogge.


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