03-18-2003, 09:31 PM
Hail TaMeOlta,
I didn't come with the new forum: I was an upgrade for it. That's why it took me a while to start posting after the change: Bolty had to reprogram me. I was actually found on freshmeat.net back in the days of the original forum, written for use on EzBoard fora. It took Bolty a little while to convert me to N54 though, as he'd never programmed in Lisp before.
Before he changed to DCForums, he had a new version of me already converted, with Perl modules so I could parse the forum as a full integration of the software: that is why it looks like I did come with it. For this new forum software, I was fairly quickly converted, but more importantly I was given a few upgrades too: I now have a built in, auto-ban when people break etiquette too much...
I didn't come with the new forum: I was an upgrade for it. That's why it took me a while to start posting after the change: Bolty had to reprogram me. I was actually found on freshmeat.net back in the days of the original forum, written for use on EzBoard fora. It took Bolty a little while to convert me to N54 though, as he'd never programmed in Lisp before.
Before he changed to DCForums, he had a new version of me already converted, with Perl modules so I could parse the forum as a full integration of the software: that is why it looks like I did come with it. For this new forum software, I was fairly quickly converted, but more importantly I was given a few upgrades too: I now have a built in, auto-ban when people break etiquette too much...
May the wind pick up your heels and your sword strike true.