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General announcements and news about the AlternateHistory.com web site and Discussion Board, as well as any other alternate history related news. Only moderators may post here, so ask them if you want important news to be posted.

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Ian Montgomerie (admin)
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Post Number: 331
Registered: 08-2002
Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 06:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
This board is now closed.

Please go to the new board at:

http://www.alternatehistory.net/discussion

To register on the new board you will need to provide a valid email address. The board will send you an email, and you have to click the link in it to register. If you have problems with this process please send me an email at admin@alternatehistory.net.

(Message edited by admin on January 20, 2004)
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Ian Montgomerie (admin)
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Post Number: 251
Registered: 08-2002
Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2003 - 08:00 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
Image uploading has now been enabled. You can add images of up to 200k to your message. Please don't go too crazy with this, if it increases the load on the web server too much then I will have to turn it off.

Simply click the "Upload Attachment..." button on the message form, and follow the instructions to upload your image. The image you add to your post will then be displayed in the preview, without the need for an image placeholder.
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Ian Montgomerie (admin)
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Post Number: 103
Registered: 08-2002
Posted on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 08:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
My apologies for the board being down earlier today. My ISP had a problem with their database configuration, which has now been fixed.
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Ian Montgomerie (admin)
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Post Number: 83
Registered: 08-2002
Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 04:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
Archiving has now been enabled for the board, in order to increase convenience and limit bandwidth use.

A maximum of about 200 threads can exist in a given topic at one time. Threads in excess of this limit will immediately and automatically be moved to the "archive" thread at the bottom of the list.

A maximum of 30 messages can exist in a given thread at one time. Messages in excess of this limit will immediately and automatically be moved to the "archive" link at the top of the thread.
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Ian Montgomerie (admin)
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Post Number: 80
Registered: 08-2002
Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 01:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
My apologies for the board being down yesterday. Traffic on the site exceeded my monthly bandwidth limit of 15 gigabytes. I just had the limit increased to 50 gigabytes (at no actual change in my fees, thankfully).
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Ian Montgomerie (admin)
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Post Number: 57
Registered: 08-2002
Posted on Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 06:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
If anyone had problems accessing the board over the last 24 hours, it is because the site was down due to technical difficulties. They seem to have been resolved now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Ian Montgomerie (Admin)
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Post Number: 5
Registered: 08-2002
Posted on Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 06:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
Registration is now required to post on this board. Click "profile" on the top menu, then click the "register" button.

You will need to provide a valid email address, which is not displayed to other board members.
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Ian Montgomerie (Admin)
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Post Number: 1
Registered: 08-2002
Posted on Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 12:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
Welcome to the shiny new board! The software has been upgraded to Discus 4 Pro. This allows powerful new features like automatic registration, IP banning, user profiles, and other good stuff. I also took the opportunity to remove the menu frame from the left side of the screen. The menu is now at the top of each page and much smaller. So you will have that much more screen space to use for reading messages!

Registration is still not required to post on the board. However, with the new software it is now practical for me to require registration should trolls provide too much of a problem.
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Ian Montgomerie (Admin)
Posted on Saturday, May 11, 2002 - 12:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
My apologies for the recent board down times. My web provider recently moved the site's server to a different data center. The board software has been encountering some glitches (write failures). Whenever a glitch happens, the board shuts itself down until I manually reactivate it.
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Ian Montgomerie (Admin)
Posted on Monday, May 28, 2001 - 12:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
AlternateHistory.com has moved to a new server! The site should still look the same, but it is now living on a "real" web server instead of on a PC in my house. This means: faster connections, more reliability, and no more of those darn outages happen when I have to move or turn off the computer or there is a rolling blackout or something. I found a web provider that is inexpensive, provides lots of great options, AND unlike most lets me have a bunch of different FTP accounts. So people can still have their own free home pages on this site, in fact their service should be even better now. The only "catch" is I have to set up the FTP again so it may be a day or so before web site owners can upload.

Thanks for your patience, everybody! I know the board has been unreliable in the last couple of weeks and that is part of the reason why I chose to make this move.
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Ian Montgomerie (Admin) (205.227.120.249 - 205.227.120.249)
Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 11:42 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
OOPS! Posting is now enabled again. I broke it by accident when "fixing" some configuration files.
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Ian Montgomerie (Admin) (205.227.120.249 - 205.227.120.249)
Posted on Monday, May 21, 2001 - 11:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
The site is now back up after a five day absence. Sorry about that folks, I had some unanticipated problems in getting everything set up at my new place.
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Ian Montgomerie (Admin) (192.0.0.2 - 192.0.0.2)
Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 07:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
WARNING! The AlternateHistory.com site will be TEMPORARILY going down late on Tuesday, April 15. I am moving to a new place, which does have high speed access but I cannot guarantee that the site will be back up immediately because of certain technical issues. (It needs to have its own IP address, and then that new address has to propagate around the world). Hopefully it will only be down for a couple of days.
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Ian Montgomerie (Admin) (205.227.120.249 - 205.227.120.249)
Posted on Friday, April 20, 2001 - 08:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
As you can see from the topic list, the book discussion and reviews topic has been renamed for discussion of books, movies, and games. Also, a new topic has been added for discussing, reviewing, rating, and posting links to alternate history web sites.
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Ian Montgomerie (Admin) (24.112.105.124 - 24.112.105.124)
Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 09:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
Welcome to the AlternateHistory.com discussion board! It's just been brought online for the first time as of August 30, 2000. The intent of this site is to create a powerful discussion board service that is accessible to all of the alternate history fans on the Internet. It's still a new site, though, so problems are to be expected. Please report them to the administration so that the site can be improved as efficiently as possible.

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