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YEAY! IT IS SORT-AHHHD! NEW YABB SSMB URL! COME GET SOME! Yeah, you heard. The time has duly come, fellow SSMBers. I happily took the privilege of skipping a 2 hour General Studies lesson to finally get this sorted out. And, now we all must move on. Therefore I am giving you the URL to head straight to the *NEW* Sonic Stadium Message Board YaBB. http://sonic.pathea.com/board/yabb.cgi I haven't 'touched it up' yet - some graphics are not yet Sonic-y etc. But to be honest I don't have time to fanny about with graphics and other small things at the moment. What matters is that the board works! And it does! Choice! The reason you may think I'm lazing off is not for that, it's because I have a bigger errand to sort out - The Sonic Stadium. It absolutely must must MUST be re-launched by 24th October (the 'Stadium's 2nd birthday) - I'll never forgive myself otherwise. So, sorry but until that's all outta the way, the SSMB won't have the extras lavished upon it - I hope you all understand my time constraints here. Still, it's not all bad, because all I'm talking about here is a few image replacements here and there - the rest of the board works fine. NOW THEN. Before you even set foot in that new place, I want you to do something for me. I want you to leave (whether you've been an annoying brat in the past or not, or whether you have them or not) behind ALL your concerns towards others, all your flamewars, all your conflicts with anyone else on this Message Board, all your big-headedness, all your Civil Wars, all your prejudice-based opinions all your bad times here all your vendettas I want you to LEAVE THEM ALL BEHIND. I want you to keep them on the old ezBoard. You can't deny it has been slightly horrible over the past few months with all that backbiting and closing topics and flamewars that came about because of simple misinterpretations. I want it all to end right here, right now. I'm not having the new SSMB tainted with any of this any more, and if I see any relapses of any bad happenings from this ezBoard carried over to the YaBB, I will be more tight than ever. Having said that, I don't want to put you off the place! The YaBB will be our new conversing place, period. No turning back, no regrets. The only thing is, is that topics/posts that are older than 50 days must be deleted (part of the new host's rules, not mine) - but still, if you wanna keep an extremely old topic, why not save it in a Word Document? That way no problems will arise. When you get to the YaBB, I have set it up so you must register with the SSMB to post. There is an option to post as a Guest, but that would be stupid now wouldn't it? Remember all the lurkers, all the "I Hate Sonic" idiots, Guest Usernames and all the spammers? Exactly. Besides, one extra Username isn't going to make much of a difference - for example, Sonic Guy has god knows how many ezBoard Usernames, so how will one extra make a difference? It's like having an AIM account and an MSN Messenger account. Once you've done that, you can post right away. You can set an avatar, and - JOY - you can assign your OWN Custom Title. Thank god, no more pressure on my busy little brain. Now, finally, for the old ezBoard. I won't shut it down right away. Simply because if I only kept it open for one day, and everyone didn't go to the board the same day, then they'll never know what's happened. Posting will be allowed for.... let's say, a week. So, NEXT TUESDAY this ezBoard will not be open for you to post into. It will be left alone, as an archive Forum of past times, and should anything happen to the YaBB (i.e. bandwidth problems, although that's unlikely to happen) the ezBoard can be a temporary safe haven for you guys while I try and get the thing sorted. ^_^ Right, now we're sorted on that, the best thing to do is to get comfortable on the new YaBB. Register your Username before someone else nicks it. View full story

In this forum. Yes, as you may have noticed, I'm executing (god, I sound like Windows) to totally redesign this place. It'll kick ass when I'm finally finished. And, I already have one forum finished (it'll look the same in places because of that sodding bug) - it's called The Sky Sanctuary Reception Desk. You can find it at the bottom of the forum listing. The SSRD is replacing the Requests and Q&A Forum, putting the two into one. Also, future announcements will be made there regarding this MB, or SSNG itself (SSNG is due to hit your screens THIS SUNDAY!) Because of the SSNG phenomena, this MB is being renamed too. No longer will it be called the SSMB (but you can still name it that if you really want). When the whole board is complete, it'll be known as The South Island Forum - or the SI Forum if you want - to give it a more Sonic-y feel to it all. Andrew is helping me with the redesign, and the SSRD is the first look at things to come (click on NEW TOPIC to see the background in co-ordination with the colours...). Things look boring at the moment, but soon Ezboard'll get this thing sorted, and then we'll see a brighter future, I promise. Now, can you sing SCAAAAAHHHHTTTMAAAAAAN!!!!??? View full story

I know, I haven't managed to get Ikonboard and Woltlab working in front of you and the YaBB seems to be the best one at working at the moment at showcase (THAT DOESN'T MEAN I'VE CHOSEN YABB!) And, with only one choice for a new MB, that leaves a poll a bit pointless. First of all, please read this before my decision... The Sega Sonic Message Board has been one of my most successful creations online. I am really proud of it, and proud that there are dedicated people that tune into this MB just to communise with each other. That makes me feel happy. Very happy. However, the SSMB was not always like this. No. SSMB had many a message board under this URL. First of all it was merely The Sonic Stadium Message Board. After no-one paid attention, because popularity of the Stadium was low (I had just launched it), I got annoyed, and changed it to Dreadknux's MB - with a different layout and all. Stadium got more popular, but this place didn't. After a fit of depression because of this place and renaming it 'The Dead Sonic Message Board', I decided to give it -ONE- last shot. People turned up, not long before they died down again. Until I kicked myself up the arse to do something about it to keep some people. That, coupled with possibly the SSMB's secret weapon - Sonic Guy. SG came across this place by chance of broken ankle, and since then has been dedicated to bring most of who are here today and keep them here. Of course, after SG rounded the first lot, you people brought your friends too. It soon became a regular activity between everyone on the board - SG, me, VG and all the other regulars gathered their online pals and real life pals too to check this place out. And oh, the times we have had. Countless Add-on Stories are now archived there, when at this point the reverse could have happened due to lack of interest - guys like Egghog are wittering on useless mumbo jumbo, much to my happiness, in the Chit Chat and Party topics forum. People have been showing their Fan stuff in the forums, and you lot have been getting along well with each other (mostly ^_^) There were times when I had this board when I thought "Wouldn't it be cool if I had a better looking board?" I mean, The Moogle Cavern was upgrading to YaBB, so was SFGHQ (although their servers are always down ^_^), I touched on the idea, and I kept having these bursts of trying to upgrade. I don't know, it's a kinda flaw of mine - whenever I see an opportunity to upgrade something needlessly, I do it, or try to do it. Then, in some cases, I end up regretting that decision. That's why I have come to my final decision now. Here's my thought on the matter... I think... that the MB we should keep is... ... the one we know best - Ezboard. Why try to upgrade something that is fast becoming a success anyway? And if we did all move to another board, it may suffer the same popularity problem that occurred when I first started out making Message Boards on Ezboard before SSMB. I am sorry for all of you that I worried during the time of this odd little phase of mine - as I said, it was a flaw of mine, and I see better and clearer now. Plus, this board has a lot (and I mean a LOT) of history here. Do we really want to just archive that in a 'look but don't touch' way while posting on a new MB, when we can be communising WITHIN the history that we have here. Therefore, I will be keeping this Ezboard - and if I ever get like that irrationally ever again, then tell me - don't be shy to ever bring forward your opinions on anything I do or plan. I am deleting all the accounts with the other MBs on it, as it's just a waste of space. However if you want the new YaBB board to stay online, then REPLY HERE saying so immediately, so that I can make the two boards co-exist with each other. More good news - We are getting a REDIRECT DOMAIN NAME for the Sega Sonic Message Board! Great huh? Now you don't need to type all that pub33 guff to get here soon. More on that when I get it. Plus, a few more cosmetic changes will be happening here - because I'm bored and need something to do mostly, but also to make it look less of a pit. ^_^ Hope you're happy with my decision, and let's carry on as we mean to.... go on? o_@ Ah well, it was worth a shot at doing a memorable last sentence. Never mind. What you still doing here reading this? POST! SSMB lives on @ Ezboard! Online Comments: SSMB ezBoard View full story