Bryan
October 12th, 2004, 19:26
Dear TGA members,
First of all, no I'm not dead and you have not lost your administrator. Over the past few weeks I have just been very busy preparing to schedule my final classes before I graduate as well as focus on a few of the business ventures I hope to open after graduation, but that's not the focus of this letter.
As Andy has said, many things have been going on with the TGA site, and I must take responsibility for things that have been happening, or not happening, because of my lack of intervention as of late. I must thank the team for being so supportive and quick to fill the vacancies during my absence.
But now, things have passed beyond the control of the moderator team, and me. We have had some security breaches as options that I had verified as working a few days ago have been compromised. It has been brought to my attention that people are having trouble with logging in and out, guests being able to post and those same guests posting in private areas. I have begun to troubleshoot these problems, but a lot of them are running into dead ends. Which leads me to my next statement... in the next few weeks, I will be doing a complete overhaul of the site from the ground up, all inactive members will be purged, and the forum software will be reinstalled and more security measures will be installed. I have also taken it upon myself to open up the forums to a more general membership, as we have saturated the amount of people that both participate on the site as well as go to TGA, as to how I will do that remains to be announced.
During the summer, this would have been no problem, but because of my schedule, this will be a slow process.
But now I ask you, the membership, to feed me some ideas as to what changes or functions you would like to see added or deleted as I run this. However, I know I cannot do this all myself and if any of the suggestions are in regards to extra content or inventory, which is something I must get help on (inventory being a huge matter). Please use this thread to do that.
As for the look, who knows, it might get a little darker in here.
Thank you for your ongoing support, and please be patient as the site goes under construction once again.
Regards,
Bryan
First of all, no I'm not dead and you have not lost your administrator. Over the past few weeks I have just been very busy preparing to schedule my final classes before I graduate as well as focus on a few of the business ventures I hope to open after graduation, but that's not the focus of this letter.
As Andy has said, many things have been going on with the TGA site, and I must take responsibility for things that have been happening, or not happening, because of my lack of intervention as of late. I must thank the team for being so supportive and quick to fill the vacancies during my absence.
But now, things have passed beyond the control of the moderator team, and me. We have had some security breaches as options that I had verified as working a few days ago have been compromised. It has been brought to my attention that people are having trouble with logging in and out, guests being able to post and those same guests posting in private areas. I have begun to troubleshoot these problems, but a lot of them are running into dead ends. Which leads me to my next statement... in the next few weeks, I will be doing a complete overhaul of the site from the ground up, all inactive members will be purged, and the forum software will be reinstalled and more security measures will be installed. I have also taken it upon myself to open up the forums to a more general membership, as we have saturated the amount of people that both participate on the site as well as go to TGA, as to how I will do that remains to be announced.
During the summer, this would have been no problem, but because of my schedule, this will be a slow process.
But now I ask you, the membership, to feed me some ideas as to what changes or functions you would like to see added or deleted as I run this. However, I know I cannot do this all myself and if any of the suggestions are in regards to extra content or inventory, which is something I must get help on (inventory being a huge matter). Please use this thread to do that.
As for the look, who knows, it might get a little darker in here.
Thank you for your ongoing support, and please be patient as the site goes under construction once again.
Regards,
Bryan