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  1. This forum is a customized installation of IPS Community Suite, and a bunch of plugins we bought. I'm don't know which APIs are exposed by IPS. :/ You'd have to ask one of the more experienced tech ponies, maybe over at https://mlpforums.com/forum/63-site-questions-tech-support/. As for introductions, I'd say try poking around on our Discord server. There's a #talk-with-staff channel which might be helpful. (I'm DDR there too, if you need me.) —————————— You're welcome! As I understand it - because I haven't been able to install it myself - MariaDB has seen more active development than MySQL. The guy who started MySQL sold it to Oracle, but since MySQL was open-source he forked it as MariaDB and continued working on it. MariaDB is nicer to work with these days, having some nice features MySQL lacks. I've never worked with MySQL and PHP together, so I can't really speak to mysqli. I suspect it would work just fine with a MariaDB database though, since MariaDB is (supposed to be) a drop-in replacement for MySQL. Myself, I'm primarily a Node developer when I have to do back-end work. I've mostly used mysql2 there, which I'm not entirely pleased with, but it has improved quite a bit since I started using it so it's OK now. :/
  2. Thanks! Yeah, you can ask anything you want. I don't have a very good handle on things yet but I'll answer what I can.
  3. Spent a while figuring out how to set up an award. Nothing is documented as well as it should be, but I -think- it all works now. iAwards bases the award permissions on roles, so it looks like one-offs are either going to be handed out by an admin (probably yours truly) or they'll be handable-out by anyone with the role of the person who should actually hand out the award.
  4. Hi all! I'm not really sure where to post this, so it sort of falls here as the least-disruptive option. It's not important news by any means, but I figure it might be interesting to see what I've been doing with regards to mlpforums. 2017-10-03: Set up a basic ubuntu VM in virtualbox. Downloaded ipboard (our forum software) from our Github, but couldn't get it running. With Feld0's help, however, I did manage to get the official, vanilla download sort-of running. (ipboard's documentation is really sparse.) 2017-10-07: Installed all the things. Configured nginx, installed mysql and some php extensions. Got the forum 'can it be installed' checker to come up green after some misunderstandings. It seems to want /var/www/html chmod'd to 777, but I gave it 664, which is slightly more secure, and ipboard accepted it. At this point, I realize I should have installed mariadb instead of mysql. It's too late however - after half an hour and gratuitous use of virtualbox's snapshot ability, I determine I can't uninstall mysql enough to install mariadb. 2017-10-11: Some configuration later, and I finally have a running copy of ipboard! Taking a chance, I unzipped the git copy of the forums overtop of it, and it Seems To Work™. Pushing my luck, I install a few extensions for the forum as well, and everything continues to work just fine. Spooky. 2017-10-18: Today, I started looking at installing the iAwards "application" for us. It seemed to be go fine in testing, after I upped my VM's Nginx's HTTP "POST" size limit. I also installed a few other applications, and upgraded my VM's version of IPS Communit Suite. (Which I think is ipboard? I'm not sure.) I'll hopefully have time to finish that up this weekend. Anyway, that's it for now! I hope to post updates here as things get on. Nothing important, just the day-to-day maintenance and sysadminnery that I'm doing behind the scenes. Please, comment, let me know if there's a better way to do what I'm doing, and – thanks for reading!
  5. Hi everyone! I'm kinda new here, I've only really been around a little before. I'm going to be messing around with the forums a bit, installing and upgrading some of the plugins and such. I'm looking forward to meeting all y'all! [edit] I put a little blog thing over here, to show what I've been up to. (Also I'm on our Discord now, too.)
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