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D'awww.. shucks!

Hello WebFlakians! Today is a glorious day, because today is the day that Davlin will join me and paradiizee in the Administrative position. Davlin has been a valuable asset to our community for about a year now and he's more than proven his worth. Thanks for being a part of this wonderful team, let's keep the spirit going and let us let WebFlake grow stronger than ever! So now you can also pester Davlin with questions regarding your account, bugs, errors, etc. Hehehe -Phun

It's been awhile since we've done any significant updates for the community, and now is as good a time as any. Over the course of the next few weeks, there will be a systematic series of updates pushed out to the community. These updates will range from site design, permissions updates, policy changes, and more. Some updates will be rather trivial and will not impact your daily activities here, while others will have quite an impact (nothing too detrimental we hope). The first sequence of updates are outlined below. We will no longer be accepting submitted nulls from any members other than those who are members of our Uploader group. This group is heavily screened by WebFlake Staff to ensure quality and clean submissions. If you wish to become a member of this usergroup, feel free to contact me directly to discuss the possibility of your addition to the group. Note: if you have not established a history of trustworthy submissions or have any blemishes on your account (i.e. you've been warned for inappropriate content in your submission) you will be disqualified from the group. WebFlake will no longer support multiple nulled copies of the same file. At the time of posting this, we currently have several copies of IP.Board 3.4.6. Going forward, we will have one (1) retail copy and one (1) nulled copy. The nulled copies will either be copies submitted by Staff or Uploaders. We've long taken a neutral stance on ripped copies of various sites and other content. We will continue to allow rip submissions, but we will be more closely monitoring these rips. We will no longer accept rips of websites that have minimal customizations made. We have had several rips submitted in recent weeks that were nothing more than a custom background, category icons, and a logo. This is not acceptable and an unfortunate waste of space. Rips will also need to be tagged as such when submitting them. Please affix [RIP] to the title of the submission. If you submit a rip that does not contain this prefix, Staff may delete the file at their discretion. Our current archiving filters will remain as they are (we are exploring possible changes). we will be approaching topic archiving a bit differently. We will no longer be archiving topics that are in violation of our Community Guidelines. This was a mistake and an oversight by our team. From now on, our archives will consist of dead topics, nothing more. We will update you with our new archiving filters should they be changed. I've been speaking with Phun at great length in regards to crowdfunding some of our content. For those unaware of what it is, crowdfunding is a fundraiser format where interested users contribute to a funds pool that will allow us to make the purchase of more expensive content. Staff and Uploaders will be able to create new topics in the new Crowdfunding Projects forum for content that is in demand or could prove useful to the community. I will open a topic specifically for users to submit suggestions for new crowdfunding projects (you'll find more details in that thread). Users will be able to reply to new funding threads and post whatever they're willing to contribute. Once we have the necessary funding, we will begin the process of collecting the funds from the contributors (users will simply donate directly to WebFlake's official PayPal), at which point a member of Staff will make the purchase and share the content shortly thereafter. This is a temporary model until we launch our own crowdfunding platform (something such as "crowdfund.webflake.sx). We will keep you updated on what our plans are for our new crowdfunding page. I'm excited to announce a few features that we have in store for WebFlake. Most of what I am about to list will be utility features designed to help improve the overall quality of our community. We plan to implement a variety of new features for our users to participate in, in the coming weeks ahead. Similar Topics - this is a necessary feature that we hope will cut down on spam and duplicate topics. When submitting a new support request, you will be prompted to review a list of [possibly] similar topics. File Update Posts - this feature will auto-post when any file is updated so that users are aware of a new version being available. Delayed Topic Deletion - a trivial feature that will simply allow Staff to flag a topic for deletion so that it may be continued to be viewed for a specified amount of time. The intended use of this feature is to allow topic authors an opportunity to see why their thread is being deleted and/or for certain threads to serve as reminders of how we enforce our guidelines. Featured Members/Staff - this is a tentative addition. We hope to be able to spotlight outstanding members of our community, and Staff who consistently go above and beyond for WebFlake. We do have other features in store, but the current list is what we are most focused on. WebFlake will be running monthly donation goals of at least $100 USD. This goal will reset every month whether we meet the goal or not, in an effort to keep our users informed of where we are on our funding. WebFlake Staff is focusing on transparency to remove skepticism of how we manage our community, and we hope that publicly available (and regularly updated) donation logs will be a huge first step in the right direction. As of this moment, we are officially dropping our support for MyBB. This particular forum package is free as it is and free support is offered via the MyBB community forums. It's a bit redundant for us to continue to support a product with waning interest here at WebFlake. We don't expect to receive an outpouring of rage over this decision, but just in case we have taken steps to protect the database in its entirety. All topics, tutorials, and files are still being maintained. As mentioned above, we have a myriad of other updates in store for WebFlake's future. Everything ranging from new features, a new skin, to a new front-page / portal! We're effectively striving for WebFlake v2.0 and we're going to be listening to your feedback! Be sure to monitor our Announcements forum for continued updates, and don't forget to Like us on Facebook and/or Follow us on Twitter!

The problem: It may happen when you install application to your IPB forum that the process will fail at one step so you get stuck in the middle: The application failed to work but you also can't reinstall it as it looks like the app is corectly installed. The solution: Delete everything related to that application and try to reinstall again from scratch I'll show you a step by step tutorial on how to do it. In my case the application that gave me hard times was IP Content. Install DB Customizatin Manager and run all clean up tools to delete all the db details connected to that application Create a database backup. Don't skip this step. Is always good to have a backup of your files as things may go wrong at some point. Open database of your Forum using PHPMyAdmin and drop all the tables related to that application. In my particular case I've deleted all tables that have had ccs prefix (ccs_attachments_map ...etc) Navigate to upgrade_history table and delete ALL records related to that application. Name of the application is stored into upgrade_app database field (last one). Don't delete records beloging to other applications Go to admin panel and reinstall the application. IF you still can't do it then make sure you've deleted all the records and details about that application That should be all. Let me know if you need help or you can improve it.

Congrats Davlin you deserve it buddy

Davlin, congratulations on achieving your position as an Administrator. You have gone above and beyond proving your dedication to this community in the past year. I think it is safe to say that each and every member, including the staff team, are grateful to have you here. Having you on the team is an honor, and as a Junior Moderator I look up and admire your skills and dedication. Cheers to you!

I hope you all enjoy the hard work staff are putting into these updates. I would like to take the time to urge any users who have any feedback and/or ideas that they would like to see implemented into WebFlake to post Here, staff will regularly be visiting this section and it will be discussed internally. Here's to the rebirth of WebFlake! Kingy

Well done Davlin. You really deserved this.

Welcome to the administration team, Davlin. You've truly demonstrated that you deserve a spot there.