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As you know, the forum has been fighting spammers and bots for years. We have seen our fair share of "Custom Kitchens UK", scammy Internet hosting companies, and bots trying to send us to a business's homepage. But after fighting the tidal wave of spam for so many years, the admins had a persistent thought: what if the spammers are right? Not in terms of posting nonsense links and trying to scam our users, but in trying to make money through our unique platform?

Well, thanks to the helpful counsel of Taunt, we have finally decided to move the forum in a new direction. Please see his important post on the matter in this topic

What's this for?

Nintendoofah64

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I was looking on google when I came across this

http://s7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/ar/

It looks like a simplified version of the GOF forum (where's the Littlefoot background?) And theres a link at the top that says "View full versoin" that will take you to this version of the GOF.

And for the big question...WHat's this for? :confused

If the link doesn't work let me know.


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Not sure what that is. I assume that the simplified mode may before those with very slow connections.


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If you click archive (in the red circle) on this bar, it takes you to an archive of everything that has ever been posted on GOF (or whatever invision-hosted forum your on), even deleted topics, and only all public sections are viewable, AM (its subforums), and the staff room aren't seen in the archive.


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Both answers are correct here. It's a simplified version of the board in which no images are loaded.

If you're wondering where the background currently is, well... I wouldn't know. The image link seems to be broken.


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Quote from: Mumbling,Dec 28 2010 on  04:47 PM
If you're wondering where the background currently is, well... I wouldn't know. The image link seems to be broken.
I can see the background just fine. Hmm...I think Jason meant the background image doesn't show up in the archive.


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Quote from: Adder,Dec 28 2010 on  11:04 PM
Quote from: Mumbling,Dec 28 2010 on  04:47 PM
If you're wondering where the background currently is, well... I wouldn't know. The image link seems to be broken.
I can see the background just fine. Hmm...I think Jason meant the background image doesn't show up in the archive.
Ah well, the link to the background image is actually not working. Probably if you would clear your cache it would disappear as well.


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Quote from: Mumbling,Dec 29 2010 on  02:17 AM
Quote from: Adder,Dec 28 2010 on  11:04 PM
Quote from: Mumbling,Dec 28 2010 on  04:47 PM
If you're wondering where the background currently is, well... I wouldn't know. The image link seems to be broken.
I can see the background just fine. Hmm...I think Jason meant the background image doesn't show up in the archive.
Ah well, the link to the background image is actually not working. Probably if you would clear your cache it would disappear as well.
Here, try this. I uploaded it to my photobucket account, see if it works with that link.

http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd515/...bgwithstars.jpg


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Quote from: Petrie,Dec 29 2010 on  04:42 PM
The background loads fine. :huh:
Still works for me; I logged out of my account, cleared my cookies and everything; then logged back in; it still shows up.