Transtopia forums moving to Seibertron.com within the next week

Wil taht with the own Galleries be only for Transtopia, ore also for us here in the Seibertron Fanart forum?
Damn that sounds like a hell f a lot of work, you're doing!
I hope the new version will be XP compitable.

The topics within the Seibertron Fan artwork, fiction and kitbash forum will be merged appropriately with the new Transtopia forums here on Seibertron.

Seibertron wrote:The topics within the Seibertron Fan artwork, fiction and kitbash forum will be merged appropriately with the new Transtopia forums here on Seibertron.

Cool!
Now I will have a gallery on Seibertron.com Muhawahhhhh!

Looks good then! I've been reading threads over at Transtopia for quite a while now, but never got around to registering an account there... I always enjoyed checking out everyone's kitbashes & repaints there, and attempted to create an account there a while back to no avail...

I see you have three forums set up, will you have a sub-forum set up similar to their kitbashes, repaints, homages, new characters, etc? Or keep it pretty similar to the way that Seibertron's forums are set up?

I can't wait to see what the new galleries will look like, and hope that you create a set specifically for Bill's work as well...

Way to go for gold Ryan-damn some people around here (myself included) just love to give themselves painfully large amounts of work to do!

Anywho, Rock on and u know that when the time comes ill be there to help! dammit i am egar for that promotion!

Wow


This is gonna be massive.



Can't wait to see it!

Great to see it all coming together. One step closer to uniting Transfans everywhere.
Keep on rolling.

but y r they r going of line?

I wonder how this will look

I'm looking forward to it I love Transtopia

Wow, that's a lot of work! Hope it all goes well.

Methusalen wrote:Looks good then! I've been reading threads over at Transtopia for quite a while now, but never got around to registering an account there... I always enjoyed checking out everyone's kitbashes & repaints there, and attempted to create an account there a while back to no avail...

I see you have three forums set up, will you have a sub-forum set up similar to their kitbashes, repaints, homages, new characters, etc? Or keep it pretty similar to the way that Seibertron's forums are set up?

That's where the new phpBB3 forums will come into play. Transtopia will get to have their own forum category, as will HMW, the RPG section and other areas of Seibertron so that most of their forums can stay intact without making our overall forum list really, really, really long. I think everyone from Seibertron and Transtopia will be happy with the way the new forums will be setup.

Methusalen wrote:I can't wait to see what the new galleries will look like, and hope that you create a set specifically for Bill's work as well ...

I'm planning on having a special section for Bill to showcase his work as an inspiration to other potential Kitbashers. He is, after all, the TF master I also want that section to be a memorium of sorts for the community to remember him and, most importantly, so that his son and wife can have somewhere to come online to see how much he meant to all of us. Haven't quite figured out the specifics yet, but I'm sure some of you will be able to help me figure out how to do this section for Bill right.

stellforest wrote:but y r they r going of line?

I took over their website in October 2006 after Bill (aka "TFmaster") approached me about merging Transtopia into Seibertron. He had a fatal heart attack in March at way too young of an age and left behind his son, wife, and thousands of fans in the Transformers community who greatly admired his incredible (and difficult) kitbashes. I am integrating Transtopia to complete my agreement with him, to bring about a memorial page/section to honor him and to bring back some life to the Transtopia community which has kind of been in a state of limbo throughout this year. I want to make Bill proud and do the Transtopia community right. It's a HUGE burden to do this right but I think once everything is all said and done, Bill would be very happy as will the members of Transtopia and Seibertron.

Aargh! This all sounds good, a fitting tribute to TF master Aargh!

Optimus Frimal wrote:Aargh! This all sounds good, a fitting tribute to TF master Aargh!

Agreed, my piratey friend. This will be a fitting memorial for Bill. Heres hoping everything goes smoothly for you Ryan.

Hooray!
It's about time.
One step closer till we have the full Transtopia back, and then some.

This is going to be a monster addition to Seibertron. cant wait for the new and improved Kitbash/fan fic area!

I'm not part of Trantopia, but if it'll help out my online home, I'll go goin up.

YES!!!

I've wanted to join Transtopia for a long time now, I couldn't be happier.

Whiner-tron wrote:YES!!!

I've wanted to join Transtopia for a long time now, I couldn't be happier.

WORD!

Now we know why we haven't seen as much of ya lately, Seibertron! Good work man!
Tranastopia was one of the first places that I ever saw really high-concept Transformers kitbashes. Now I'm just itchin' to get my own gallery there! Itchin' I tells ya!

Tom_Servo wrote:

Whiner-tron wrote:YES!!!

I've wanted to join Transtopia for a long time now, I couldn't be happier.

WORD!

Now we know why we haven't seen as much of ya lately, Seibertron! Good work man!

Yeah, I just moved two weeks ago. My gallery setup is all in boxes right now and the room where I'm going to do my galleries is floor-to-ceiling full of 18 Rubbermaid tubs full of loose Transformers and tons and tons of boxes full of boxed Transformers. I'll have to take a picture of this room for you guys. I don't think I've ever had all of my collection boxed up in one room before. It's pretty cool seeing how big my collection is when it's all boxed up.

Before I can setup my gallery area again, I need to figure out a shelving system in this room for all of my figures. In the meantime, since I knew I was going to have this gallery downtime, I have shifted my attention to working on some much needed tools and upgrades that many people have been waiting a very long time for. I'm not totally back into my groove yet of working on Seibertron in my new apartment, but I'll get a system worked out.

Tom_Servo wrote:Tranastopia was one of the first places that I ever saw really high-concept Transformers kitbashes. Now I'm just itchin' to get my own gallery there! Itchin' I tells ya!

It really makes my day to see how excited you guys are. I just wish we could get the Transtopia guys as excited. A lot of them don't like the idea of moving, but it's what Bill wanted so that's what I'm going to do.

I cant wait for this! Ive been wanting to join transtopia since i found it but i havnt been able to because of this move.

Seibertron wrote:It really makes my day to see how excited you guys are. I just wish we could get the Transtopia guys as excited. A lot of them don't like the idea of moving, but it's what Bill wanted so that's what I'm going to do.

I think quite a few of the guys are/were just worried about how it'd be different. That, and I seem to recall some of them thought of Transtopia as being a haven from the 'rivalry' between various TF boards, and that permaenntly affiliating it with one of them would somehow compromise that.

Personally I was worried when it was first suggested, but hell, I've been here about as long as I have there, so I knew not to doubt you...

I'm glad the ball's finally rolling. It's been winding down at Transtopia for a while, especially given that we couldn't take on new members. I like the sound of your plans, and I can't wait to see them in action.

Ramrider wrote:

Seibertron wrote:It really makes my day to see how excited you guys are. I just wish we could get the Transtopia guys as excited. A lot of them don't like the idea of moving, but it's what Bill wanted so that's what I'm going to do.

I think quite a few of the guys are/were just worried about how it'd be different. That, and I seem to recall some of them thought of Transtopia as being a haven from the 'rivalry' between various TF boards, and that permaenntly affiliating it with one of them would somehow compromise that.

Personally I was worried when it was first suggested, but hell, I've been here about as long as I have there, so I knew not to doubt you...

I'm glad the ball's finally rolling. It's been winding down at Transtopia for a while, especially given that we couldn't take on new members. I like the sound of your plans, and I can't wait to see them in action.

It's up to you guys to keep Transtopia alive here on Seibertron. There's only so much I can do to give you guys a place to make the Transtopia community stay active. The Transtopia community will need to show their support and embrace this change to keep the Transtopia community thriving. I'm also keeping the creative section called "Transtopia" because I think it's pretty well known who (and what) the Transtopia community is throughout the fandom.

I'm hoping beyond hope that the Transtopia community will operate in a similar fashion to our resident Heavy Metal War community and our RPG community. They kind of just do their own thing. I wish more of them would come out of their areas and visit with the rest of us, but if they're content in the HMW area and the RPG area, so be it. I'm glad they found an online home where they're comfortable.

Seibertron wrote:It's up to you guys to keep Transtopia alive here on Seibertron. There's only so much I can do to give you guys a place to make the Transtopia community stay active. The Transtopia community will need to show their support and embrace this change to keep the Transtopia community thriving.

Oh, totally. 'You can lead a horse to water', and all that - you've already put so much work into building our new billabong, we can hardly expect you to drink for us, too...
I think it's also not gonna hurt, though, that Seibertron's own burgeoning kitbash community (which is already partially Transtopian, and partially not) will be able to help keep things fresh.

Seibertron wrote:I'm also keeping the creative section called "Transtopia" because I think it's pretty well known who (and what) the Transtopia community is throughout the fandom.

Yeah, I like that. I think Transtopia has built up a fair rep over the years, thanks in no small part, of course, to Bill's work. It's nice that that gets to survive (and hopefully thrive).

Seibertron wrote:I'm hoping beyond hope that the Transtopia community will operate in a similar fashion to our resident Heavy Metal War community and our RPG community. They kind of just do their own thing. I wish more of them would come out of their areas and visit with the rest of us, but if they're content in the HMW area and the RPG area, so be it. I'm glad they found an online home where they're comfortable.

That sounds like a perfectly feasible expectation, to be honest. The creative forums here (even without galleries) seem to be pretty self-sustaining too (although I think there's more overlap with the other forums than HMW and the RPG); I think they'll chug along just fine...

Yeesh, I have to pay attention to the news more. Glad to see all of this coming full circle.

::Drinks to Bill::

Just a heads up for everyone ... I spent about 8 hours yesterday writing scripts and database queries to accomplish the following on my local test server:

1. Import the Transtopia forums into Seibertron.com's forums.
2. Database queries to undo the customizations I've made to Seibertron.com's phpBB.
3. Import all of the combined forums, topics, posts and users from Seibertron and Transtopia into phpBB3.

I was able to accomplish 1 and 2. It seems that I ran into a brick wall with the phpBB3 imports which is where I got stuck yesterday. I will continue debugging phpBB3 throughout this week to figure out what I did wrong with my imports of Seibertron and Transtopia. My goal this week is to get both sites imported into phpBB3, upload the new files and new database to a test server and then have all of you guys help me test it out. I will keep you guys posted of my progress later this week.

OK and good aciving your goals!

There might be another bug Seibertron, I can't sign in anymore over at Transtopia, something happened to my account there. It could be a result of the merging of accounts, I don't know.

Tramp wrote:There might be another bug Seibertron, I can't sign in anymore over at Transtopia, something happened to my account there. It could be a result of the merging of accounts, I don't know.

It has nothing to do with merging the accounts. I haven't done anything to the live servers yet. Everything that I've done is with my local test copy on my laptop.

Can you have one of the Admins look into the problem then? IF that isn't the cause, then I don't know what is.

Tramp wrote:Can you have one of the Admins look into the problem then? IF that isn't the cause, then I don't know what is.

Have you tried contacting Devastator at Transtopia? I would recommend sending him a private message. You can also do that via the private message system here since he's signed up for it.

I sent Ramrider one. He's also a site admin over there. If you want, I'll PM you the message I get every time I try and sing in.

Tramp wrote:I sent Ramrider one. He's also a site admin over there. If you want, I'll PM you the message I get every time I try and sing in.

If you could PM me the message if you don't receive a response from the powers-that-be over at Transtopia, that would be very helpful. Thanks!

PM sent.

I haven't got the power at Transtopia that I'm credited with, but I've PM'd Dev over there, so hopefully he'll be able to shed some light...

Ramrider wrote:I haven't got the power at Transtopia that I'm credited with, but I've PM'd Dev over there, so hopefully he'll be able to shed some light...

Thank you for looking into Tramp's situation further, Ramrider. I really appreciate it during these "crazy times".

Yes, thank you very much. Everything is fixed and I can sign on again now.

Well, it was fine for a while, but it's happened again.

Tramp wrote:Well, it was fine for a while, but it's happened again.

Have you tried clearing the cookies out of your browser yet? Are you going to http://tfmaster.com/forum (no www) or http://www.tfmaster.com/forum ? The site is setup so that you need to go to http://www.tfmaster.com/forum in order for the cookies and sessions to work properly.

I'm getting closer! Here's a teaser pic.



Please keep in mind when looking at the screenshot above of the combined Transtopia and Seibertron forums, that the staffs of both sites will be going over the overall forum structure to see what stays, what goes and what gets merged together. Obviously we don't need two General Discussion areas.

The color scheme is also not finalized yet nor is phpBB3 integrated into the layout of Seibertron. It will be contained within the header and footer of the site.

Ooooo, that looks freaking sweet! As much as I love the current purple colour scheme (I lurve purple), I am loving the scheme in that pic. Very crisp. Nice.

Mulla™ wrote::shock:

Ooooo, that looks freaking sweet! As much as I love the current purple colour scheme (I lurve purple), I am loving the scheme in that pic. Very crisp. Nice.

That's not the color scheme of what the final version will look like.

Seibertron wrote:

Mulla™ wrote::shock:

Ooooo, that looks freaking sweet! As much as I love the current purple colour scheme (I lurve purple), I am loving the scheme in that pic. Very crisp. Nice.

That's not the color scheme of what the final version will look like.

Just so long as you know it still looks hot regardless.

Can't wait to see the new look.

love it ^^
i just recently converted over to phpBB3
and its nice .. cant wait till the finished product

NICE......

Sorry Boss, but I gotta say I don't like it.

It's too... bland.

Skowl wrote:Sorry Boss, but I gotta say I don't like it.

It's too... bland.

As I mentioned in my post this morning, I said that the colors aren't finalized yet. I'm currently using the default phpBB3 color scheme. It also hasn't been integrated into the Seibertron.com "shell" (i.e. header, footer, navigation, etc). I'll worry about all of that stuff after I get all of our posts, topics, forums and users from Seibertron and Transtopia integrated into phpBB3. That's the important part. I'll worry about making it look like "Seibertron.com" later.

Seibertron wrote:

Skowl wrote:Sorry Boss, but I gotta say I don't like it.

It's too... bland.

As I mentioned in my post this morning, I said that the colors aren't finalized yet. I'm currently using the default phpBB3 color scheme. It also hasn't been integrated into the Seibertron.com "shell" (i.e. header, footer, navigation, etc). I'll worry about all of that stuff after I get all of our posts, topics, forums and users from Seibertron and Transtopia integrated into phpBB3. That's the important part. I'll worry about making it look like "Seibertron.com" later.

Ok, cool, I'm much more hopeful now

Is it still going to be called the Energon Pub, that name is part of Seibertron now

Jetfire Masta wrote:Is it still going to be called the Energon Pub, that name is part of Seibertron now

I hope so-believe it or not i need it to be called that!