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rob Founding member 5 March 2021 7:12am

Rob, I wonder if there is anything you could put in place in conjunction with Asa to allow people to pre-register with their TVF username to avoid the inevitable idiots who will think it's funny to sign up with a well established name, either to block the existing user from using it or to trash their reputation by trolling the new forum?

Obviously Asa couldn't just give you a list of usernames and email addresses due to GDPR but perhaps some mechanism similar to the one that was used to optionally create a Metropol account as part of TVF sign up could be put in place?

I have something in place to do pre-registration, which I'll be setting up today. Just need to make a few small adjustments, and set up the form.

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Pete Founding member 5 March 2021 9:52am

rob posted:

Also, you'll be able to upload attachments to the forum directly. The new forum has unlimited hosting, so hosting of images and videos (within reason) will be easier than ever!

Would not advise that tbh. There's a reason we created the uploader and its bc the phpBB attachments system is lacklustre.

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JAS84 5 March 2021 10:16am

The amount of times I've seen attachments uploaded on forums only for them to be shrunk making it hard to read text on the image... personally I just use Imgur.

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rob Founding member 5 March 2021 10:25am

JAS84 posted:

The amount of times I've seen attachments uploaded on forums only for them to be shrunk making it hard to read text on the image... personally I just use Imgur.

Yeah, I've realised that. Maybe not that then...

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rob Founding member 5 March 2021 10:26am

PRE-REGISTER FOR THE TV LIVE FORUM - Click here

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iloveTV1 5 March 2021 10:37am

rob posted:

PRE-REGISTER FOR THE TV LIVE FORUM - Click here

Have just signed up. Looking forward to continue the conversation.

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Larry the Loafer 5 March 2021 12:09pm

That's me signed up too!

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DeMarkay 5 March 2021 12:18pm

Do you have to work in television to sign up?

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rob Founding member 5 March 2021 12:25pm

DeMarkay posted:

Do you have to work in television to sign up?

No, that's so I can attach a little icon to their profile so people know who's in the industry, and who isn't.

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Sh1ruba 5 March 2021 12:30pm

And I have signed up for the new TV Live Forum.
Hoping it'll be a worthy successor to TV Forum.

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Brekkie 5 March 2021 12:43pm

Steve in Pudsey posted:

Rob, I wonder if there is anything you could put in place in conjunction with Asa to allow people to pre-register with their TVF username to avoid the inevitable idiots who will think it's funny to sign up with a well established name, either to block the existing user from using it or to trash their reputation by trolling the new forum?

I don't know - subcontracting it out could be a real time-saver and frankly I'm sure I'm at the top of some people's lists for a recast.

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rob Founding member 5 March 2021 1:04pm

Brekkie posted:

Steve in Pudsey posted:

Rob, I wonder if there is anything you could put in place in conjunction with Asa to allow people to pre-register with their TVF username to avoid the inevitable idiots who will think it's funny to sign up with a well established name, either to block the existing user from using it or to trash their reputation by trolling the new forum?

I don't know - subcontracting it out could be a real time-saver and frankly I'm sure I'm at the top of some people's lists for a recast.

I'd rather start afresh, with a clean slate. The pre-registration set-up I've got is quite useful in weeding out the idiots (1 down, probably a few more to go...)