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***drguild*** · (This post was last modified: 06-07-2018, 06:12 AM by drguild.)

Where are the Mental Health and support forums?
If you are browsing here as a guest you may be wondering where the mental health and support forums are.

These forums are accessible only to registered logged in members.
The decision for this was made to create a more personal community as many people do not like to share there issues and problems especially online.

We also want members to feel safe from online harassment from those who would link to and put down support threads on other sites as well as other data collection practices.

We take our members personal matters and problems seriously and do everything we can to create a safe environment where people can talk openly and freely with each other without the whole world reading in.

Google is marking us as spam.
Will need to look into this and adjust server settings.
we are not using a top level or any proper hosting.
I am hosting to start from home.
Please whitelist us in Google.

Outlook was marking us as spam
Please let us know if mails are getting through.

Other sites were and are marking us as spam
List of other providers we may need to look into.

SEM FRESH

Site hosting and URL
I am currently hosting the site from home, this is save costs and so we can grow without spending for dedicated hosting and I don't have too much money spare due to my own mental health and other issues.

We are now 100% moved to onto our proper domain.
I had issues with the housing software I use renaming the domain name, but worked around it by backing up and reimporting the forum.
I submitted a bug report to the developer which they have fixed and for the next release.

Eventually it would be great to have the site sponsored for hosting but anyone wishing to do so would have to align with our vision and goals and be flexible with us and our ideas going forward, and also to allow us to continue discussing and showing certain types of mature animated content within reason.

Custom error pages
Should be looked into with a contact us link that's not root@localhost
Forum uses the GoogleSEO plugin with error pages.

Site offline page
NoIP allow offline pages so if I ever reboot the server or my router crashes it'll display a offline message and contact link.
We should have a offline page now.
If the server goes down please let us know if this page is working.

Blogs are showing as unknown location
Theres a fix here i'll need to look at sometime soon to add the location with the correct url to the location list.
Minor inconvenience at the moment.

MyBB 1.9 roadmap
The next version of the forum software read the developments here.
Should bring some great features including a new responsive theme we could base our own theme from.
No idea when it may get released devs predict second half of this year 2018, I will keep you all updated.
https://community.mybb.com/thread-215212.html

Google Adsense
We have enabled Google Adsense on the front page to allow some incentive back and to show relevant and hopfully worthwhile offers to people viewing the site.
We are planning to to personalise and customise the ads over time to be more specific to this community and more relevant for you.
Advertisements such as new game releases, cosplay and anime supplies and merchandise, technology deals and other useful things are what we will be aiming for.
We would love to hear all your feedback in the Google Adsense thread.
We may later extend this over here to this forum but having it on the front page is enough for now.
Personally I would like sponsor and direct partnership offers on the forums from companies we work directly with to do deals for our members.

Google Analytics
We have enabled Analytics in a basic form on the front page to get a idea on traffic to this site and so we can use the information to adjust site content meta information and other things to help to bring reach others and bring in more people.
Eventually I am going to enable this tracking on the forum and will be adjusting settings including using google's search algorithm checking etc to help us analyze data more efficiently.

***drguild*** · (This post was last modified: 05-24-2018, 05:56 PM by drguild.)

I have just adjusted the forum cookie to cover the entire cajgo-support.com domain.
This will allow us to utilise extra site logged in hooks to the front page at a later stage.
The first benefit is already showing that now the blog has the correct time if you are logged in.

If you have issues with logging in or out please delete cookies from the secure lock in the address bar and let me know.

***drguild*** · Posted: 05-26-2018, 10:00 AM

Thread prefixes next to the subject are now clickable links that will filter by that prefix.
A small change but a worthy one that's more inline with xenforo etc.
Blog page now shows prefixes, prefixes will be made for different types of article content as needed.

***drguild*** · (This post was last modified: 05-27-2018, 01:51 PM by drguild.)

Just changed the SEO scheme to more search friendly URL's using a plugin this will allow threads to be searched and linked via there actual post subject name rather than a forum identifier number.

Let me know if any links need updating on this site they should however auto redirect.

***drguild*** · (This post was last modified: 06-07-2018, 06:29 AM by drguild.)

I'm very open to decent sponsorships where users get discounts from stores and services if we advertise there products and services, like Anime DVD's, Figurines etc, Cosplay clothing and design gear and other merchandise etc.
Contact me directly if you have ideas or want to work with us.
Everything would be done in respect and direct benefit to this community and our values, we are not going to be shilling stuff just to shill stuff.

I'm also happy to advertise and promote upcoming and also bigger YouTubers and streamers on this forum that align with our values and interest base, even making them their own VIP group special forum etc if they are prepared to help us grow.

I have enabled Google Analytics to help to analyze traffic and see where we can improve.

***drguild*** · (This post was last modified: 06-07-2018, 11:49 AM by drguild.)

Sex has been changed to Gender to be more neutral and the description states 'identifiable gender'.
I have also changed Other type to Mixed as from what I see there are 3 main types of genders being Male / Female / Mixed, with mixed being a combination of both genders aka transgender.

We here don't discriminate against transgender or any LGBT+ identified people and being a mental health and support community we encourage and will help and support such people to feel part of the community and know there are many transgender people that are into Anime and Gaming.

As well there are always options between tweaked even if not mentioned so feel free to discuss any changes to any option doesn't matter how big or small the options are.

***drguild*** · (This post was last modified: 06-09-2018, 04:30 AM by drguild.)

My modem had issues overnight with the 'timeout waiting for pado packets' message until I rebooted my modem.

I will be looking into this as it's semi frequent.
Apologies for the hours of downtime.
As this is running from my home it'll happen occasionally.
Internet dropouts are not cool.

***drguild*** · (This post was last modified: 06-18-2018, 03:02 PM by drguild.)

Couple of small but big'ish changes.
I fixed the banned user permissions so they can only see and post in the 'Direct Staff Discussion' forum.
- We don't plan to have banned users but just incase we need them to have the correct permissions in order for them to work through the issue on why they got banned.

I also changed some stuff so awaiting activation users can now post in the 'Direct Staff Discussion' forum and reflected their announcement message to direct them to do that iif they need help activating.
- This means any user who is having problems activating can contact and work things out directly with us here in the forum.

Both of the above user groups 'Banned' and 'Awaiting Activation' have their first posts moderated in the 'Direct Staff Discussion' forum to avoid spam and to alert us more quickly as these posts show a different color to normal users.

Also I have adjusted image settings.
I have capped any image using the inbuilt image tag to 640x640
This applies to all images using the 'img' tag
This matches the attachment display size limits.
This is to stop images being stupidly large and to downsize them to neatly display images when various different sized larger sizes are used like in our Humble Cosplay book giveaway
Clicking any image will display them in FancyBox and then can be clicked on to display them at the original size.

Also we have gotten some feedback on the front page which I appreciate, I am currently trying to work out a layout and the content needs to show there, so keep the suggestions coming.

Also added a new Manga tag to the Anime forum and adjusted the 'Other' tags image color to be diffrent.
This way Mangas and Books aka 'Novels' are seperated.
As manga should be a separate thing in its own right.

Also fixed up announcements we can make them multiline by a <br /> tag at the end of each line.

***drguild*** · Posted: 06-26-2018, 02:34 AM

I've hidden the the postbox image width x height tags with CSS to avoid issues which those values shouldn't be inserted on a forum.
That is mainly used on static sites or those that need to that use inline styles as decent users use CSS to size there images especially with bootstrap etc now used which has flexbox.

Also I changed the post editor to show images as 320x320 when making a post I will adjust this if needed.
This only affects the editor the output to the forum will be 640x640 still which is the max a image will be displayed in post.
Every image is clickable to full size in the post as per a previous update.

This will make post making and editing easier in the 'as it shows' editor especially for people with 4k and 8k images which won't screw the edit box up in size anymore as I found making the cosplay giveaway thread.

So enjoy uploading images here in a nice way now.

***drguild*** · (This post was last modified: 07-01-2018, 06:27 AM by drguild.)

Couple of fixes.

Guests couldn't see any attachments which meant all our direct site uploaded images weren't showing to them, this has now been fixed.
Also I put the interest forums in the portal as I have been noticing some users seem to be appearing there in the online list, this way if anyone does come across the portal they get a nice feed of the latest interest topic threads.

You can see the portal here

I caused a bug hiding the image width x height property in Rin which caused the URL box to be hidden, so will look more into what elements go with what.
Update: I changed a value for element to hide so I think I may it right now let me know if anything else is not working in the editor.

Please let us know any issues on here as I cant find everything myself and when I do it could be a while after the bug happens, so the more feedback we get the faster things will be fixed.

MyBB have changed there roadmap so instead of a complete overhaul as a new 2.0 with changes in-between they are going to incremental change to that goal.
This means starting with 1.9 there will be ongoing changes till MyBB is completely rewritten which they seemed to be doing anyway while at the same time rewriting to 2.0.
How this affects us is it doesn't, it actually makes things a little easier for us going forward.
Also in 1.9 as well as a new theme engine will be a change from SCEditor to TinyMCE with server side plugin support which will be beneficial and we can move from the 3rd party Rin editor which is based on CKEditor.
Read there info here.