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Ummm...oops; Heh, didn't realize the dealine was today
Topic Started: Jul 5 2015, 08:34 PM (391 Views)
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Sooo yeah, in case you might not have noticed, the board's spiffy background is all funky. That's sort of my fault. In case you didn't know, the site that was hosting all this neat stuff was due to shut down since it was costing Aiko too much to keep up, and she didn't have the original stuff with her. And while I had managed to save some of the pictures, including the forum icons, I unfortunately didn't get to the other areas.

The good news is that Aiko has saved the background. The bad news is that I probably made a mess of it, and some stuff has just been lost <.<.

I apologize for my incompetence.

P.S If anyone is willing to help me fix the the missing stuff, that would be neat. Banner included.
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Nice job breaking it, admin.

:P

In all sincerity, I hope that we can get this under control ASAP. :)
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Oh no, the poor forum. :P


I think I saved some of the images the last time this happened... I'll see if I can't find those.

EDIT: Okay, found that batch. I've uploaded them here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46618941/re_images.zip
I don't have any of the others unfortunately.
EDIT 2: I was able to get the banner from the wayback machine, here.
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Awesome work Emp. I think that saves about almost all of the lost images. Really the only difficult part is applying this to the board itself. Some parts are easy to discern, but others, such as what involves RE's snazzy background, is much more complex in terms of code. And, as you can see, I'm not exactly versed in Zeta board format stuff.

If anyone could give me a good reference, that would be nice.
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Honestly, EP was the one who got the code working in the first place, and I remember that it required some programming hulahoops to get it working initially. All Cemp did was change the image urls, so I'm not sure why the background is no longer displaying properly.

It was costing me $119 a year to keep hosting open for my geckolair account (where all the images were loaded). I had stopped using my website three years ago, and it just didn't make sense to spend that much money simply hosting photographs for RE, so I discontinued hosting as of Saturday.

If the look bothers people, we can always go skin surfing and see if there is a different template we would like to use. It just wouldn't be the customized RE skin we're all used to.
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I'm actually in the process of fixing it after talking with CEMP. Might take me a day or two to find all the URLs and graphics (Unfriendly list), and plug them into the right places.

I feel like I'm still missing a few graphics though now that I have it pasted on a testing site I use for skin testing (My old one got deleted due to lack of inactivity... lol). You can click below for a preview of it.

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I've also done a few edits on it, such as the background tiling to make it seamless (You have no idea how long this has actually bugged me since I run a 1900 px monitor). The reason for the weird squish of the background currently is actually on Photobucket's end. They will no longer allow users to see images at their original size, so the 1600 px background was getting shrunk to 1024 px. I have the image hosted elsewhere for the time being.

If you guys have any other feedback, let me know.

PS: I now have most of the RE images that CEMP passed on to me hosted in my own little corner of the internet. So we won't have any issues with image resizing and all that other mess. Also, I am working on another skin for RE. Feel free to look at the preview form and go check out the new skin titled "Silver Circuit". It is still a WIP, so there might still be some things missing or out of place.
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Super Kudos to Lt. Jessie for doing all of this, as well as everyone else chipping in. Seriously, for a moment I thought a lot of stuff was lost and we'd loose the cool skin for a while.

Also, yeah, new banner for us. Hope you guys like it. It's kind of funny, but this banner probably wouldn't have been changed were it not for this mix-up, and its refreshing to change it finally.
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Great job guys, looks great and the new banner is nice.
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Ah, I was wondering if it was a photobucket issue. I tried to visit the dedicated link and it wasn't giving me the proper image, but a preview of the image. I gave Cemp some missing image files, but if you know the names of ones that are still missing, let me know and I'll see if I have them stored somewhere locally.
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