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| Thread ID: 98630 | 2009-03-31 23:32:00 | How long have you been a member for? | Chilling_Silence (9) | PC World Chat |
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| 761221 | 2009-04-16 05:30:00 | I think about 4 years. I joined about the time csinclair83's famous and hilarious "Wots wrong wif my fridge?" was top of OT. I did though drift away after, when the then newly appointed Thread Police decreed there would be no more frivolous non-core correspondence. :ban And I stayed away until just the last week when I was looking for something and thought to look on this site - where I found what I needed :D So here goes - I'm back again. Cheers all. | WalOne (4202) | ||
| 761222 | 2009-04-16 10:03:00 | I was probably only just a teenager at the time. You were 15 or 16 when you joined because I remember being impressed with how mature you were for your age. This is the third version of PressF1 that I have used. I think I joined around 98/99 |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 761223 | 2009-04-16 22:41:00 | and wheres buckyman ? I lurk. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 761224 | 2009-04-16 22:54:00 | I've been here for almost 5 months. | convair (13650) | ||
| 761225 | 2009-04-16 23:01:00 | F1 has been through a few versions. The really really really first version was not on the web at all. It was a BBS system that was run by a third party for us for a number of years. Then there was, I seem to recall, a bit of a gap between that ending and our first "web" forum. The 1st version was programmed, internally, in Lotus Notes, the same platform that the main sites (PC World, Computerworld, Reseller) are still run on. Those who remember that version will know what a complete do ... what an interesting experience using it could be. Which is what happens when you program complicated things yourself instead of buying off the shelf solutions. When it came to version 2, we had (we thought) learnt our lesson. So went looking for an off-the shelf forum package. But at this point, 2 things went wrong. 1] Because of development plans at the time, Mark Evans, who is sitting next to me now (cause I now work for him again), decided we should get a Java-based forum, since he wanted our devs to get schooled up in Java. The downside to this was that it limited our choice of forum software, and excluded most of the really popular (i.e well supported and tested) platforms. So we chose Jive. 2] Even so, Jive was a decent product, although it lacked some of the features of other products. Where things really went pear shaped was Mark's fateful decision that instead of using the built-in register/log-in in Jive, we would instead switch in an LDAP system to handle this. The logic behind this was Mark's plan to create a single user-account, which you could use to log-in to any of the IDG sites/products that required log-ins - such as the email newsletter system. And that meant a single account stored in LDAP which would plug in to all the various sites. It was good idea, but alas we learnt the lesson that you mess with the core functionality of an off-the-shelf product at your peril. All the outages we had with Jive -when all the wags on F1 joked about me tripping over the Cat 5 cable - were due to problems with this LDAP integration. We never got it stable. So along came version 3. Mark at this point had gone off somewhere else, so Jim - who had borne the brunt of having to deal with the curse of LDAP during the Jive years - promptly threw Jive and LDAP out and we brought in VBulletin, which has proven to be pretty damn good since then. So the really important question is, is there anyone on F1 who used the pre-web BBS version? - Bruce |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 761226 | 2009-04-19 10:48:00 | I can't believe I just joined this forum just to participate in this thread.... Hi peoples!!:clap |
secretasianman (14784) | ||
| 761227 | 2009-04-19 14:31:00 | I can't believe this thread's still stickied. | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 761228 | 2009-04-19 21:06:00 | Interesting to know Bruce, I never knew much pre-jive ... Does Mark still lurk occasionally? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 761229 | 2009-04-20 01:26:00 | The join date that shows for us now is that from when the new version of PressF1 went live? Pretty sure I joined originally in 2002/2003.I can't recall exactly either. But pretty sure I started contributing a year or two prior. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 761230 | 2009-04-20 03:03:00 | Some bits of history: www.pressf1.co.nz So first we killed LDAP ... www.pressf1.co.nz ... and some months later brought in vBulletin. And you had to re-register at that point, which explains why peoples days and memories of contributing are out of synch. ... oh and Jive was back in June 2002: www.pressf1.co.nz |
Biggles (121) | ||
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