As recently announced the desire for a forum dedicated to Stone Soup has grown stronger. Luckily djnrempel aka danr took matters into his hand and set up a forum at freeforums.org. Their services are nice and easy to use but unfortunately there have been a few complaints about speed, privacy, advertisement and the fact that exporting the database for backups is not so free.
Danr contacted me and, due to the heavy snow keeping me away from work, I just finished to set up a truly free forum on CDO. Danr will do all the administrative work and I will deal with code changes and updates.
Proud to present: The Tavern
The feature I’m especially fond of is the fact that the user database is taken from our Mantis Bug Tracking System.
- If you have an existing account in Mantis the Tavern account will be automatically created on your first login to the forum. There you can update your profile with additional information if you like.
- If you don’t have an account in Mantis yet, create one, confirm the link in the email and you can set your password then. Once that’s done, click on the Tavern link and log into the forum.
One important thing: If you ever need to reset your password, you need to do that in Mantis, too.
Enough of this techno-babble…
The Doors to The Tavern are open! Join and have a pleasant stay!
1. Comment by Fleur
17/Dec/2010 at 17:50
I like that!
<3
2. Comment by jpeg
18/Dec/2010 at 11:24
All hail the snow storm! :D
I love the synergy between the Tavern/Mantis because it means that players with a forum account can easily head over to the bug tracker and wiki, whenever the need comes up. Awesome, thanks!
3. Comment by Mychaelh
18/Dec/2010 at 21:14
The link in the About & history section still leads to freeforums.org.
4. Comment by jpeg
20/Dec/2010 at 21:01
Corrected, also on the Welcome page. Thanks!
5. Comment by evilmike
22/Dec/2010 at 11:17
On the navigation sidebar you might want to change the link so it says “The Tavern (Forums)” or something along those lines. The link is a little vague right now (someone just visiting the site might not know what The Tavern is).
Anyway, it’s great to see an official crawl forum being set up, and having it use the mantis user database is an excellent idea. Much better than using freeforums.org.