Tony
Staff member
Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I have been updating the forum to get some of the clutter off of it. I know you can't see what I'm cleaning up, but trust me, on the back end, it's MUCH cleaner now.
I'm posting this to let you guys know to look out for any issues that may come up. In my cleaning up, I have gotten rid of the old store as well as the donate page, rules page and how-to page and replaced them with custom coded pages directly in the forum. You will no longer see /pages.php in a link when you click on one of those tabs. Instead, now all you have to do is type out the url "rc-help.com" and put /store.php, /donate.php, /rch_how_to.php, and /tos.php. It's much cleaner, loads faster and I was able to get rid of about 25+ files from the server.
If you see anything weird, let me know.
I have also edited the buttons that guests can see when they are on the forum. The Articles, Forum and What's New are ALL they can see now. I have also added a button that only guests can see, and that is the "Please Register To See Full Website". This is to help with bots and spammers overloading the server and slowing down the forum. If you want to see these changes, simply click on the Log Out button at the top right of the forum and you will see what I'm talking about. If you have a hard time logging back in, clear your cookies and cache from your browser. I have made changes to the way the cookies are put on your computer so you need to have a new cookie installed for everything to work correctly.
As stated, many changes are going down. I'm trying to update the store so it's easier. I didn't see a reason to make members sign up on the forum, then have to turn around and sign up on the store just to download a free plan. Great idea at first, but quickly became old. So I have gotten rid of the old store.
Please post suggestions if you have them. Whether it be new tags for new pages or whatever, I want to know. I'm trying to make this a forum that YOU like and can get around. Any input is greatly appreciated.
-Tony
I'm posting this to let you guys know to look out for any issues that may come up. In my cleaning up, I have gotten rid of the old store as well as the donate page, rules page and how-to page and replaced them with custom coded pages directly in the forum. You will no longer see /pages.php in a link when you click on one of those tabs. Instead, now all you have to do is type out the url "rc-help.com" and put /store.php, /donate.php, /rch_how_to.php, and /tos.php. It's much cleaner, loads faster and I was able to get rid of about 25+ files from the server.
If you see anything weird, let me know.
I have also edited the buttons that guests can see when they are on the forum. The Articles, Forum and What's New are ALL they can see now. I have also added a button that only guests can see, and that is the "Please Register To See Full Website". This is to help with bots and spammers overloading the server and slowing down the forum. If you want to see these changes, simply click on the Log Out button at the top right of the forum and you will see what I'm talking about. If you have a hard time logging back in, clear your cookies and cache from your browser. I have made changes to the way the cookies are put on your computer so you need to have a new cookie installed for everything to work correctly.
As stated, many changes are going down. I'm trying to update the store so it's easier. I didn't see a reason to make members sign up on the forum, then have to turn around and sign up on the store just to download a free plan. Great idea at first, but quickly became old. So I have gotten rid of the old store.
Please post suggestions if you have them. Whether it be new tags for new pages or whatever, I want to know. I'm trying to make this a forum that YOU like and can get around. Any input is greatly appreciated.
-Tony
Great!
