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Yeah, it's presumably a bug in SMF core or one of the plugins we use.  It doesn't seem to happen in our work-in-progress implementation of SMF 2.1, so please wait for that!

Zoom is fixed in the next version of the forums, which should hopefully be done quite soon.  Not worth trying to fix it in this deprecated version!

Also there seems to be something broken with the feature that DB-moderators can mark games as 'not-broken'

This is fixed!

Additionally, the recent panel ratings have weirdly escaped ' characters.

This'll be fixed in the next version!

Posts from the recycle bin aren't listed.  I'm guessing heltenjon managed to load the page while the posts were still in a public place, but by the time he clicked the links they'd been moved to a private location.  Not really a use case I can account for programmatically!

I can't find any history of a user named Jacob McGriff, or that game, so all we can really do is disable the game and let it rest.

I'm guessing it's because different escaping methods are used in the DB than in the search string (HTML entities in places, slashes in others), so they aren't seen as a match.  This should be fixed in the new version, given it works completely differently (and has live search results with filtering and such modernities).  Can't help with MediaWiki though, that's 100% third party, no custom code on our part.

Updated, thanks.

All updated, thanks!

Just to make you all aware, there is a new version of the SMF software our forums use (v2.1).  It's built on a whole new architecture, and comes with a load of new features by default.

However, it will not support the current forums theme out of the box.  As such, we plan to work on a new forum theme to tie in with the new website design.  It would be great to have help from at least a few of you when the time comes, to help test and iron out any glitches or inconsistency in the design, before it eventually goes live.

So in short, this forum theme's days are numbered, look forward to a new design in the medium term!

Everything is technically possible, since I'm writing the site from scratch.  I'll look into it, but it may not be a day one feature if it's too much effort to implement.  Currently the idea is to reproduce the functionality we already have in the live site, just with the new design (and completely fresh code).

AGA, I didn't meant to pressure you in any form, you do a lot already. I think you do an amazing job keeping this forum going, web maintenance is hard and the internet is an agressive place. Slow is always better than burnout. Take your time.

Oh yeah, no pressure, don't worry.  Just thought I'd may as well give an update.

tampie85's redesign is going ahead, albeit slowly.  She's given me all the designs we need, I'm just gradually working through the implementation.  I work in development all day though, so my energy for it in my free time can be limited!

I managed to get hold of Hajo, and he'll start the IRC daemon when he gets the chance.

dasjoe, who hosts / hosted the IRC server, hasn't been a regular AGS user in years.  I'm surprised it lasted even this long.  I've sent him a message, we'll see if he responds.

The vast majority of people moved to Discord years ago though.

I 'celebrated' my 20 year AGS anniversary last year.  I joined a couple of weeks before my 16th birthday...  It's also going on ten years since I took over administration of the AGS site and forums from CJ.

<MODULE/PLUGIN:> <name> <version> - <Optional short description>

Should this be changed to say:

<MODULE/PLUGIN/TOOL:> <name> <version> - <Optional short description>

What's the context?

It's the Board Rules for the sub-board with the new name.

Thanks, I updated that.  I think the post basically makes sense now, although some explicit rules regarding tools might be useful too.

<MODULE/PLUGIN:> <name> <version> - <Optional short description>

Should this be changed to say:

<MODULE/PLUGIN/TOOL:> <name> <version> - <Optional short description>

What's the context?

And the winner is...  Not telling, go look for yourselves!

Sorry, this was a bug introduced by background work to support the eventual release of the new site.  Check again, it should be fine now.

I didn't see any of the issues you described when I looked, but I did rename image 3 to image 2 so it's more in line with what you'd expect to see.

Thanks for the report.  Two separate, but related issues.  Browsers have been getting more strict recently about CORS.  Both the live search JavaScript and search page PHP were rejecting the searches because they were coming from the non-www version of the site.  A minor tweak to both seems to have fixed it.