Welcome to the MUD Portal

The MUD Portal is a newborn with some serious ambitions:

For one, we'd like to offer a modern web-based app to help players discover quality games and play them wherever they are.

We would also like to provide a place for players and MUD developers to exchange ideas that will benefit the community.

Tijer wrote: Same here and i clicked on the link the email sent me.. so i am approved....

Try now. You're supposed to get automatically approved for the forum but it seems to not work ATM.

Slowness during registration is probably due to the server sendmail setting. Will work on that, too.

Thank you all for testing.

Lyanic wrote: 1. What is the intended future function of the Play Now button? Will it link to a random MUD? Will it go to some kind of questionnaire like the thing TMC tried to do last year? Right now it just links to Bedlam.

The idea is to send guests and new users to a pseudo-random MUD (one of the more attractive and lively ones so they would be more likely to stick around). Existing users will be sent to their last-accessed MUD.

I'm working actively on everything. Integrating the app with the site and opening it up to any game is a good chunk of work.

Lyanic wrote: 2. Can we get an option to configure how many posts are shown per page on a thread? Or at least increase the default.

Default set to 20. I exposed "Forum Preferences" in the User Menu, but it doesn't seem to have that as one of the configurable options. We'll add things like that, eventually.

mpvmud wrote: I am also having the issue of:
This user has not yet confirmed his email address and account!
This user has not yet been approved by a moderator!

This should be fixed now.

mpvmud wrote: I however did not have the same issues Tijer had, the webpage loaded after signing up, and then I got the email. So I am not too sure if that is the issue.

Should be faster than before.

Thank you for testing.

Lyanic wrote: I get a 403 when I click on Submit Link. Is that intended?

Try now.

Lyanic wrote:

Hades_Kane wrote: Looking good so far. The registration does seem to almost hang up in a few spots, but otherwise everything so far has worked good for me.

Any function on the site which generates an e-mail hangs for 30-180 seconds. Plamzi says he's aware of it, though. I've got a couple ideas of what it could be, given that I have some experience with things like sendmail, exim4, etc (not sure precisely what setup is being used).

This should be fixed for good now.

To answer an earlier question, I could use help with pretty much anything site-related. Depends on how people want to contribute and what skill-set they bring. HTML(5) / CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, or admin / moderator roles mostly done via a web-based back end (Joomla).

Lyanic wrote: I've noticed that anytime I submit any content, the format tends to get butchered. Is that happening automatically?

Are you by any chance pasting text from a text editor like Word? If so, try to paste the text into Notepad first to strip any HTML formatting it's going to try to generate when you paste.

The WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE) is one of the best out there, but it takes some getting used to. It makes the wrong calls sometimes when it comes to formatting things. I'll improve the styling options for it soon, but there's only so much I can do from the outside.

Lyanic wrote: Also, what is the recommended image size for media associated with game listings?

It's 180x180. I'm going to insert some tips in the listing generation form. Also, you should now have a link for editing your listings in your User Menu.

Lyanic wrote: Edit: Testing the edit functionality + noticed something else: The comment/post #s are per site instead of per thread.

Do you mean the number displayed under a user's avatar inside a thread?