Welcome (Temporary site)

[Aurelian]

If you found your way here, either you are a Lean who got my message, or you are REALLY lost! lol I created this place as a temporary home while are regular domain is down, and possibly a new permanent home. AT least this way, we will have a way to talk.
Forgive the state of the forum, as it is under construction. If anybody wants to help build it, I am willing to take some helpers. Also, any former mods will be restored.

I should mention that it might be a coupleof days before I get some serious work done, as I had minor surgery yesterday for a in-grown nail,and am off my feet.



*Originally posted by Feral on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 11, 2011 at 3:23 PM*

[Leorgathar]

Awesomest forum banner design EVER! xD
Leorgathar reporting for duty http://static.websimages.com/JS/Punymce/plugins/emoticons/img/wink.gif

*Originally posted by Leorgathar on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 11, 2011 at 7:58 PM*

[lionloversam]

Hi, all.

*Originally posted by lionloversam on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 11, 2011 at 9:39 PM*

[King Simba]

Awesomest forum banner design EVER! xD
Leorgathar reporting for duty ;)

Ditto to that. :P The lion looks like some relation to Dracula though xD

KS is right here ^^



*Originally posted by King Simba on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 12, 2011 at 1:48 PM*

[Nuduli]

Hey all! Had no idea Lea was down, lol. Nice to have a temporary place though.
And I agree about "Lionacula" there. :-p

*Originally posted by Nuduli on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 12, 2011 at 2:43 PM*

[Dare]

Hullo folks. ^__^

Indeed, 'tis a great banner. :D

I say that if/when Lea is up and running again, we make a forum skin based off it. *nodnods*

*Originally posted by Wicked on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 12, 2011 at 2:56 PM*

[Simbaspirit]

heyo! Great idea for a temp site - let's hope the old one is up soon, but until then this is awesome :) although i do miss the smilies.. :(

*Originally posted by Simbaspirit on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 12, 2011 at 5:37 PM*

[HasiraKali]

Let's hope I hear back soon. I'm getting really frustrated. :/

*Originally posted by Manda on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 12, 2011 at 7:22 PM*

[Azerane]

Firstly, lucky I checked facebook and saw your link thinger... Secondly, definitely the most awesome Lea banner in history!
Glad we've at least got a place to chat, so many thanks for that. Hope things can be sorted out. Any idea what went wrong?

*Originally posted by Azerane on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 12, 2011 at 10:02 PM*

[Sombolia]

Hehe, I love the little lion guy too.
Feral, if you need any help, sign me up. :) I've worked on Freewebs a lot.
Hopefully we can get our old forum back, of course... what happened?


*Originally posted by Sombolia on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 13, 2011 at 6:41 AM*

[Dare]

As for what happened, I thought the domain expired? At least, that's what the GoDaddy parked page says - someone needs to pay for it.


*Originally posted by Wicked on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 13, 2011 at 9:44 AM*

[Aurelian]

The banner is actually one of the webs.com templates. I just typed "lion" into the search box when chosing a template. Make sure word of this place gets to those Leans who don't use FaceBook. I am messenging Meer right now though DA.


*Originally posted by Feral on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM*

[Sombolia]

As for what happened, I thought the domain expired? At least, that's what the GoDaddy parked page says - someone needs to pay for it.

I saw that too, but I'm wondering why that happened... I don't even know who was paying for the domain. :/

*Originally posted by Sombolia on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 14, 2011 at 3:54 AM*

[King Simba]

Well, assuming Yuvraj isn't going to get back to us, here's a little newsflash for those who don't know this yet...
I heard from STM last night that him and a few other members (including HK , Sharifu and Nathalie) were planning on recreating Lea altogether, but the biggest problem with that would be the cost. The domain would cost like $35 per year, but the biggest chunk of the money would go towards paying for vBulletin. Apparently that costs like $195 or so. :/ So a small donation from a few of us from time to time wouldn't go a miss. I wouldn't mind contributing in some way, money permitting of course.

I still have all the smilies from Lea on my computer, so getting those back wouldn't be a problem. Does anyone here have any screenshots of Lea? I've been checking my temporary internet files from when I used Internet Explorer to browse Lea, but all I've found is one big long list, so I'm kinda lost. :P

*Originally posted by King Simba on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 14, 2011 at 6:47 AM*

[Dare]

I know that this generally isn't a popular idea, but perhaps it may be time to move Lea off of vBulletin? I'm not sure if spending the money on another vBulletin is really worth the investment this time around.
For one thing, the site never fully recovered from the last time this happened - membership and posting activity has dropped considerably from Lea's heyday. I imagine Lea's population and activity will take another hit this time 'round - it may be better to perhaps nap the domain and point it to free (or at least less expensive) forum software such as Proboards or Invision.
We may lose some features though, but if the focus is more on keeping the forum community together, good friends, good conversation, etc. then theoreticaly we don't need a lot of fancy bells and whistles. After all, bells and whistles does not a community make. ;)

*Originally posted by Wicked on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 14, 2011 at 10:35 AM*

[Simbaspirit]

I'm gonna miss the old posts and topics :( RIP Lea #2.. But I'm not gonna give up all hope yet.

*Originally posted by Simbaspirit on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 14, 2011 at 4:57 PM*

[King Simba]

Me too SS. :/ But all is not lost. Maybe there still is time to get Lea back on track, but I don't know. Did you see the screenshot Petteri (STM) posted on the Lea FB page?

And Wicked brings up some valid points. I know on Proboards you are (or you were) able to add your own personal smilies, but I'm not sure. Either way, I'll just love coming to Lea for the people (and of course because I love TLK xD) and not for the features. Everyone here is awesome and nothing can change that. :)


*Originally posted by King Simba on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 14, 2011 at 6:22 PM*

[KanuTGL]

I know that this generally isn't a popular idea, but perhaps it may be time to move Lea off of vBulletin? I'm not sure if spending the money on another vBulletin is really worth the investment this time around.
For one thing, the site never fully recovered from the last time this happened - membership and posting activity has dropped considerably from Lea's heyday. I imagine Lea's population and activity will take another hit this time 'round - it may be better to perhaps nap the domain and point it to free (or at least less expensive) forum software such as Proboards or Invision.
We may lose some features though, but if the focus is more on keeping the forum community together, good friends, good conversation, etc. then theoreticaly we don't need a lot of fancy bells and whistles. After all, bells and whistles does not a community make. ;)

I agree.
It would be less pretty, but it would absolutely be worth it when the alternative is losing the forum over and over whenever the licence/domain expires (at least as long as we have an inactive owner...).
Hi, all, by the way :P



*Originally posted by KanuTGL on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 14, 2011 at 8:02 PM*

[Leorgathar]

Yeah, Yuvraj is so away from Lea to have been its domain owner. And even if we had a more active owner, I don't think it's worth it if we keep using Lea as we always have. I don't mind losing a few benefits either. The only special benefit I want back are our awesome smilies xD but apart from that, I'm good.

Oh, and I saw the screenshot STM posted, he seems to be doing a nice job reconstructing Lea's appearance, that gives me some hope for sure ^^

*Originally posted by Leorgathar on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 14, 2011 at 8:40 PM*

[Sombolia]

I personally don't mind where Lea is set up, as long as it's Lea.

*Originally posted by Sombolia on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM*

[Sadiki]

Hey everyone. And yeah.. such a pitty that Lea did go down once again.
The plan about reconstructing lea and resurecting it again is for it to be maintaned by people who actually care about the site, unlike what happened with Mufasa in the end or what is happening now with Yuvraj. The idea is to have shared access to the hosting website by multiple people so if one person is not around to make the payment in time, someone else may pick up.
So Far there is a few people who are willing to put money towards it and recreating it again. Vbulletin is what makes it expensive as it's $195. Thought it's only one time thing and we wouldn't have to upgrade it as it already have too many features for us anyways. Getting a web address cost around 10 dollars a year and forum server is around $35 a year so that is totally affordable.
What comes to reconstructing lea... yeah I have spent about 30h reconstructing it as I'm an absloute noob with php and vbulletin. But I'm starting to get a hang of it. The picture on Lea website on facebook is from last evening and I have done quite a bit of progress sense then, thought I still have quite a few mistakes to fix on it,
The thing that I have a biggest problem is that I have not much to go by. I have the colors from all 3 designs on old lea but I'm missing pretty much all the buttons like post reply and such. So if any one has used Internet explorer on browsing lea, it would help if you can pull something off, or if you have screen shots or anything from Lea that might help some as well.


*Originally posted by Simba The Mighty on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 15, 2011 at 3:02 AM*

[Sadiki]

New board and everything and already breaking rules... DOUBLE POST!
Anyways as this forum only allows you edit your post for 10 minutes or delete one in that matter. I pretty much have to double post. Here is a picture of what I have done so far with Lea. That is only the main page. Nothing more. I have worked on other areas of the board as well. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v414/SimbaTheMighty_/?action=view&current=Lea111AM04-15-2011.jpg
What comes to night sky blue and jungle green. Those will come later. once I get all the color sceme right. It will be easy to edit everything. But as now I just try to concentrate on getting the stuff together. And as the orginal board offers me the most to go by, I desided to use that one.

*Originally posted by Simba The Mighty on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 15, 2011 at 4:24 AM*

[Dare]

If my recollection is correct, wasn't there an issue once upon a time where the vBulletin was no longer compatible with the server and thus we were forced to upgrade to get rid of the .php errors....and thus spend more money?
I could be wrong though...or maybe I'm confusing it with another board, but I know that's happened at least once to vBulletins I've frequented.
At any rate, it's lookin' good! Thanks for all the work you're doing. :)

*Originally posted by Wicked on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 15, 2011 at 11:27 AM*

[Nuduli]

Just a little info, Proboards does allow custom smilies, just not as many as LH had. (I work with a lot of Proboards) InvisionFree/ZetaBoards does as well. However, I don't mind what forum software we use, I'll sign up anywhere.


*Originally posted by Nuduli on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM*

[Dare]

There are also many "hacks" available on Proboards (and probably Invision) that allow for things such as more smilies than normal, changing avatar sizes, etc - my Proboard has 60+ smilies...the only difference is that you actually have to click on one to add them - they aren't tied to text smilies.



*Originally posted by Wicked on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 15, 2011 at 1:24 PM*

[Nuduli]

I haven't really looked into the smiley hack but I find a lot of others for neat stuff, lol.

*Originally posted by Nuduli on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 15, 2011 at 1:27 PM*

[Sadiki]

Yeah, what happened with first Lea was because of upgrading the Vbulletin, but the problem occured as Mufasa upgraded Vbulletin before getting a back up from Lea. The correct way is to, first back up the forum, then upgrade and then when you install the database, it will automaticly repair the database up to date.
In our case thought, we wouldn't be upgrading the Vbulletin. If Yuvraj does sell the board for us, I think the Vbulletin that is installed comes with it and if we have to get a new board. We wouldn't update Vbulletin as most things that are added to Vbulletin sense first lea which was Vbulletn 2 hasn't done us any good really. Lea is pretty simplified forum.

*Originally posted by Simba The Mighty on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM*

[Aurelian]

I'll do anything in my power to help your site, STM. Money is not something I can help with, though, or we wouldn't be on this free page right now. ;)

I know nothing of PHP, sounds like some entropic drug to me. lol


*Originally posted by Feral on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 15, 2011 at 2:43 PM*

[King Simba]

New board and everything and already breaking rules... DOUBLE POST!
Anyways as this forum only allows you edit your post for 10 minutes or delete one in that matter. I pretty much have to double post. Here is a picture of what I have done so far with Lea. That is only the main page. Nothing more. I have worked on other areas of the board as well. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v414/SimbaTheMighty_/?action=view&current=Lea111AM04-15-2011.jpg
What comes to night sky blue and jungle green. Those will come later. once I get all the color sceme right. It will be easy to edit everything. But as now I just try to concentrate on getting the stuff together. And as the orginal board offers me the most to go by, I desided to use that one.

Wow, that's looking great so far! It's good to see the hard work all paying off. ;) Thanks again for this. ^^

As for PHP, I've only ever used HTML, and even now I don't remember much of it. PHP was never my forte... xD



*Originally posted by King Simba on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 15, 2011 at 3:16 PM*

[Sadiki]

Hehe, Feral. It's not my site. Lea belongs to everyone. Alone I don't think I could make it work really. Especially sense I don't work. And don't worry about the money part. It's not requred by any means.
Yuvraj is given till next saturday ( not tomorrow ) and after we will most likely be doing something about it if he doesn't get back to us. But in all and all I do think it is best for the board if it's owned by people who actually care. Far too long it's been around merly.

*Originally posted by Simba The Mighty on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 15, 2011 at 7:24 PM*

[Azerane]

I'm with most people, I don't mind if Lea changes over to a different format, it's the people that make it. So we're all behind you STM, any help you need that I can give, you can have.
Speaking of which, I needed help logging in today, was trying over and over again wondering how on earth my password couldn't be right... but I was only typing in my username, not my e-mail to sign in. Yeah... I can read

*Originally posted by Azerane on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 17, 2011 at 6:24 AM*

[Lion King Stu]

It's good to see that even if it isn't the normal Lea that we're all sort of used to, that we're still about. I agree with Azerane, I couldn't much care less about what sort of format we're going to be under, as long as we have the people still that's surely all that matters

*Originally posted by Lion King Stu on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 17, 2011 at 6:29 AM*

[Wide Eyed Wanderer]

Hey everyone! :D

*Originally posted by Wide Eyed Wanderer on Feral's Lea Halalela Forum Temporary Site on April 20, 2011 at 2:25 PM*