Eohax News - 25-10-2010

It's too annoying to have two entirely separate boards (especially since this one is getting no attention), and when new projects are released then I'd either have to pick a board to add to or create a THIRD one.

Once I finish writing FORUM2 the accounts, posts and forums of eoserv.net/forum and forum.eohax.org will be merged together. Once EO.alt is ready a forum will be created for that too.

There will be four main benefits from this:

The EOHax forums will get a better chance for some decent moderation and new features
The moderators have only one forum and one account to worry about
The eoserv.net forum users can bring activity to the Lounge (there is no off-topicness allowed anywhere on eoserv.net currently) and easily catch interesting posts in other forums they were missing before. The communities won't be as separated.
The forums look more active, so people might be more encouraged to join.
There are, however, some problems that need to be resolved also

Name conflicts: Two people registering the same name on eoserv.net and forum.eohax.org: For the accounts created after the split the most active account will be chosen and the inactive one renamed.
Moderators: forum.eohax.org and eoserv.net's moderation team differ quite greatly: The lists will be pretty much merged (and the obsolete
eoserv.net user average intelligence level: It seems to be a lot lower than the average Internet citizen, so there will be rage and confusion comparable to Facebook changing their layout.
Theme: What style do we use? The current EOHax one or write a new, clean one?
Staff roll:

Administrators: Sausage, Scott, Sordie
Moderators: Plasmastar, Addison, Apollo, "sblord"
Peacekeepers: Sickshot, Syran
Unrelated FORUM2 changes:

Private messaging
Notices when your posts are deleted, moved, rated etc.
A decent moderation panel
A BBCode posting box (an improvement for everyone who hates this RTE crap)
Post citing instead of quoting
Feel free to discuss your feelings on the merge, vote for or against it, and give your opinion on the moderation. This will happen when FORUM2 is ready, so it could be a while.