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Ladies and Gentlemen, good afternoon
There is a major issue that the administrative team has been discussing for quite some time. Is the invisionfree platform meeting the following needs?
(1) Of Our Community
(2) Of Our Security
Since early December, our technical administrator r3naissanc3r has brought before us a discussion to upgrade to Zetaboards. This is not a discussion we took likely, with all members of the team having opposed the conversion many many times in the past.
But things have changed, and hence the answer to the bolded question is 'No'.
Starting with security, our current platform does not afford us the type of security we need to ensure Europeia's safety within Nationstates as well as our existence as a forum in the "real world". There are many avenues in which I cannot go into detail, but for some time we have been at a disadvantage here, and our security and citizenship administrators have to work all the harder because of a technological shortcoming.
Then community. The Zetaboard format offers much more flexibility in delegating administrative and moderator power. It speeds up processes and makes our community stronger. r3naissanc3r has generally donated his time to code a skin for us that will result in very little technological or cosmetic change. A total feature list will be included in an adjacent post.
As Chief Administrator, I am happy to say that we as an administrative team have been convinced (Much like in the Film '12 Angry Men') one by one to support this change. Our opinion is unanimous, and we are presenting that opinion to the members of this community today.
Below is the link to the test forum that has been set up as a demonstration to what our forum will look like post conversion (aside from the...actual content being there of course)
http://w11.zetaboards.com/europeia_test/index/
I will now take any questions you may have.
There is a major issue that the administrative team has been discussing for quite some time. Is the invisionfree platform meeting the following needs?
(1) Of Our Community
(2) Of Our Security
Since early December, our technical administrator r3naissanc3r has brought before us a discussion to upgrade to Zetaboards. This is not a discussion we took likely, with all members of the team having opposed the conversion many many times in the past.
But things have changed, and hence the answer to the bolded question is 'No'.
Starting with security, our current platform does not afford us the type of security we need to ensure Europeia's safety within Nationstates as well as our existence as a forum in the "real world". There are many avenues in which I cannot go into detail, but for some time we have been at a disadvantage here, and our security and citizenship administrators have to work all the harder because of a technological shortcoming.
Then community. The Zetaboard format offers much more flexibility in delegating administrative and moderator power. It speeds up processes and makes our community stronger. r3naissanc3r has generally donated his time to code a skin for us that will result in very little technological or cosmetic change. A total feature list will be included in an adjacent post.
As Chief Administrator, I am happy to say that we as an administrative team have been convinced (Much like in the Film '12 Angry Men') one by one to support this change. Our opinion is unanimous, and we are presenting that opinion to the members of this community today.
Below is the link to the test forum that has been set up as a demonstration to what our forum will look like post conversion (aside from the...actual content being there of course)
http://w11.zetaboards.com/europeia_test/index/
I will now take any questions you may have.