Many changes are coming to the 7th Column. It gets a new look, a new forum system, a new security role system, and a different user database system (now called Resources). Like all change, though, we're going to lose some things, at least in the short term. Most notable is the loss of the event system - although neat, it was hardly used at all by the majority of groups, so it will not be available after the transfer.
All 7th Column fanclubs will be affected by these changes. First, any chapter with less than three [b]active[/b] members will be deleted, including all their data. Second, as we are moving the fanclubs to run in the new forum system, any existing forum posts will be deleted. Sorry, but that's the way it will have to be. Archive anything you want to repost later! Third, only news stories from 4/12/2004 and on will be transferred, the rest will be deleted.
The biggest change will come with user resources, formerly referred to as user databases. Before, each fanclub was allowed 100 individual resources with 1000 rows of data in each. Unfortunately, due to the rapid growth of bungie.net, we cannot continue to use those high limits. Furthermore, user resources had many different templates for data. In the interests of simplicity, several of those were removed because they had nothing to do with the 7th Column's goal of fostering LAN events and Bungie-related shennanigans. Going forward, there will be user resource types. The first five are limited to one per group, with a 250 entry maximum: Guest Book, Contact Info, FAQ, Links, and Articles. The Guest book, FAQ, and Links Resource types function as before. The Contact Info has expanded fields to allow for more information than before. The Articles resource type now allows 10000 characters of text per entry. The sixth resource type is is the Custom Columns type. By far the most popular resource type, each fanclub will have 25 available slots for these Custom columns resources, Each of those slots can contain 100 rows of 6 columns. We apologize for the lack of the gametypes database - it will most likely return in a future update.
What does this mean to you? Well, obviously there are new limits to data. If your resources go over the limits, then they won't be transferred. You can try and delete items to bring your group under the limits, but I recommend that you simply do nothing. After the migration, see if you are missing anything, and then request your resource datafiles - We will export all existing user resources to XML and make them available via a means to be announced in the future. Only groups that meet the 3 member minimum criteria will have resource XML files available. So, if the migration misses anything important, you'll still have a copy to do touch up work.
In closing, it is important to note that although we appreciate your feedback for the 7th Column, [b]there can be no exceptions to any of these limits or migration procedures[/b]. We will answer your questions posted in the forum thread attached to this news article, but again, please do not ask for exceptions to the migration rules. We thank you for you patience as we take this step forward.
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first, woot
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second w00t
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lol all anyone posts is about their place
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5th!!! w00t
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6th!!!!!!!!
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I welcome it. I'd rather have it sooner than having the tension of knowing some stuff is going to have to go. I'm glad that it's not as bad as I thought, and the new forums have really got me excited.
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Well now Psyched will have to delete about 60 databases to meet those guidelines, and some other great chapter databases other places will be lost, such as Thanatos117's ranking system, which is great, will not have room anymore, whick is bad.
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Yes, I realise this, but I have and will continue to adapt. I'll just have an eternal grudge against new people. They make me so angry...
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10th! WOOT! i think it kinda sux that the column will suffer a little, but i guedd its in the interest of progress.
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will we still be able to link databases(or w/e the new name is) after the change? i must know!
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If you can't link, then chapters would be pretty pointless...if you're referring to the database list hack, only Bungie can answer.
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........ No wait I don't really care.
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will we be able to create a chapter now?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] the_weasel_king will we be able to create a chapter now? [/quote] Yes. That's why I hate new people.
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man 7th colum but maybe theyl make a new 1 cool
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hunt3r 10th! WOOT! i think it kinda sux that the column will suffer a little, but i guedd its in the interest of progress. [/quote] Yes, it does. =( but hopefully the Chapter Making will be up and running again. Yippe!
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Poo, My Chapter (805 Connection) REALLY uses the Events feature, it is very handy, because we are spread out all over the place, and by checking the webpage, we can at a glance see if there are any gatherings in the coming days, and where. I hope that there will be a similar or better feature in the future! I know that it is pointless to ask bungie to keep things, but.... -*smitten*- -Sparky
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What I wantg to know is, what parameters have to be met to have "active members"?
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Ahhh sorry about all the problems. Hope everything goes well Bungie!!!
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Finally, the NH is upon us.......
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11th! Woot! Finaly I'll be able to create the chapters that i wanted to create back in MAY! YES!
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22nd!!!! wOOt!!! Wurd 2 ya mutha
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WHATEVEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sounds great. It's good that they're moving forward, not backward, upward, not forward and ever twirling twirling twirling.... [quote][All 7th Column fanclubs will be affected by these changes. First, any chapter with less than three [b]active[/b] members will be deleted, including all their data. [/quote] So, my question is, how is an 'acxtive user' defined? in other words, how is it decided if a user is an active user?