Scioly.org

Welcome to scioly.org, made possible by phpBB3.

As you can see, there have been some major aesthetic changes, forum organization changes, and staffing changes to go along with the new software.

Your new moderators are:
bah
eak227
gh
SiegeLord

Forum Organization changes:
Event Help is now divided into three categories based on the type of Event. Hopefully, this will let the less popular events still enjoy some discussion without being buried by the building events.
General Chat has two new subforums: The Polling Place and Posting Games
-Posting Games is for all of the Word Games, Three Word Stories, and the like.
-The Polling Place is experimental, but users can submit topics with polls for approval by the moderation team. The intent is to have some long-term polls going for both opinions and demographics.
Regional Forums has been expanded to include the Nationals forum, but no longer has subforums for vague geographical divisions.
Team forums will be available. The same 5 user minimum will still apply. Upon creation of a forum, the users will be invited to vote on a forum leader...or at least that's the plan. We'll see how that goes.

The forum organization is definitely in the "testing" phase, so that's all pending actual use.

The wiki is definitely going to stay around. There may be some temporary problems while the wiki is set to work with the new forum software, but we'll try to work that out and get it fully up and running.

We brought online two new ways to join the SciOly.org IRC chat: [chat][/chat]
The AJAX chat should run on all computers, so compatibility shouldn't be an issue.
The Java chat should no return errors for users and has no user limits, so please give it a try.

There are a lot of new features to play with, so some of the settings may be changing as we find out how people are using or abusing the board.

Medals will be making a return as a reward system for users that make special contributions to the site, so look out for people with extra stuff under their names and ways to help out.

The Feedback forum will be open for your comments.

Brought three more people on board...

Two new forum moderators:
andrewwski
ZekeBud

And one 'WikiMod' (has extra abilities to work on the wiki and deal with the content there, but no forum powers):
starpug

As you will likely have noticed, we rolled over for the 2010 season. We also implemented some changes that resulted from the voting here.

All of the old threads are still around and are in the Archive forum at the bottom of the index page. The forums down there are closed to new posting and new threads (they are archives after all).

The new 3 Event Forums are already populated with threads for the events for the coming season. You cannot make new threads in those forums, which will definitely prevent the clutter that people seemed to dislike about the last organization. If you do want to see a thread for a trial event, check out the sticky that gh posted in each forum.
The exceptions to the above are the two subforums in Building Events: Wright Stuff and Mission Possible. Historically these garner vast numbers of comments and trying to contain them in a single thread would be folly. Those two forums will operate normally...you can make your own threads. The goal is obviously to try to split up discussion on varied topics into discrete threads, not to just fill pages up with duplicate threads.

Nationals and Regional/State/Inivte have also been archived, but nothing has changed otherwise.

It was easier to just make all the new threads at once and move all the "old" threads at once, but if there is an "old" thread that is actually about a 2010 event, post about it in the feedback forum and we'll merge over the posts if it seems like a good idea.

It is quite possible that I screwed up some of the permissions when this all happened, so post in feedback if you see a problem.