Bboard technical concerns and updates (Page 1 of 2)

Hey hey!

Thanks! I was worried (again) that this board was gone forever. This is the the 3rd board I've been a part of!

Whoever was able to fix that issue for me.... Thanks!

Will do! Thanks again!

You're a hard man to reach!

Where it says you must login or register at the top, the words "register" and "login" don't come up as links. They do at the bottom of the main page though. Anyone else have this issue?

Okay, I didn't notice that. I was only looking at the first line at the top left where it says "you are not logged in. Please login or register."

Okay, on the "sliders questions" required to post - are they cap sensitive?  I feel like when I answer a "proper name" question, I have to answer another one, but when I answer an "object" question, it goes straight through.  Should I be answering "wade" instead of "Wade"?

Sorry I'm late to the party, but I'm glad to see that the forum is alive and well!

(Note: I was formerly known as Wrong Arturo.)

Earth Prime is down due to an error with the database connection. Hopefully Matt is are just migrating stuff to a new server.

Looks like we're back up!

You know what I found freaky? When the site went down, it was no longer visible on the Internet Archive either! I spent the day thinking I'd only ever imagined EP.COM.

Matt is switching to a new host.

Thanks for everything you do with the site.

While I have you, can I ask, at one point I believe the comics were all available for download. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20110903064 … omics.html

On the current site, it lists each of the comics available for download in CBR format, but only some of them are actually linked.  Was that intentional on your part, or were you not aware?

I have the comics. I'll restore them near the end of the week when I have some time.

Poked around EP a bit, didn't see any problems.

Hi I was once known as Professor Gimli on this board....been years since I checked in.  I'm Slider_Quinn21's Biggest Fan and possibly Slidemania's worst critic. 

Anyway concerning this post I just wanna say that while I don't go into Deviant Art that much these days one person had an interesting Idea that would have put Quinn in the "Professor" role in his imagined "SLIDERS The Next Generation" scenario. 

And if such a thing happened as a continuation in our time,  I'm sure someone out there would have had a clever way and reason to split Robert Floyd from Jerry O'Connel. 

PS:  Hey Slider_Quinn21  If I gave your Season 6 & 7 some minor grammar fixes and some theme openings for Earth 214, perhaps a better reason for Quinn to be mean with Maggie and some other stuff do you think you could add it to your 214 Site?

Ah, yikes, I didn't even know this was here.

And I think it's awesome that you've read E214 and had enough interest to think about alternate reasons.  That's freakin' awesome.  I'm surprised it's still out there - I wrote that as a teenager a really long time ago, and there are parts of it that really make me cringe.  But there's also a ton I'm really proud of.

The short answer to that question is no, simply because I don't have access to the site.  Blinker is who always updated the site, and I don't know where he is.

If you want to email me, I'd be happy to talk with you about your changes.  Again, I'd love to hear what you have to think.

And, finally, the reason I'm here.  I had to answer the board question about 8 times when I posted in the DC thread.  I had to answer the Wade one about four times in a row.  Did something change or did I have bad luck?

I'm not sure why the Bboard is forcing everyone to answer the questions; I've disabled that for now and I'll watch to see if this leads to more spambot registrations.

As for Slidemania -- meh. It's fanfic. Professional grade writing should be seen as a wonderful surprise rather than a basic requirement. I adore crazy fanfic. These are fans expressing their passion; they may not necessarily have the skill to create an enjoyable product, but the fact that they put their stuff out there is to be admired. Slider_Quinn21's vision of SLIDERS in his series was an extension of the Sci-Fi Channel years but with the original-cast and early-season elements blended with the latter-era sliders and storylines, presenting SLIDERS' tangled web as a beautiful tapestry. Slidemania's vision of SLIDERS was very fantasy-oriented, but any story is conceivably a SLIDERS story.

One favourite fanfic of mine is a sequel to "This Slide of Paradise" where Arturo tracks the gang to the world of animal human hybrids and spends an episode wandering around the forest set of that episode.

The Reviving Sliders thread on this Bboard has hilariously incoherent ideas for reviving the original cast a decade after "The Seer" with positively absurd ideas like a new SLIDERS pilot opening with Wade at long last being rescued from a Kromagg cell with Quinn being split from Mallory shortly afterwards thanks to some convenient technobabble matched with some surprisingly good concepts for gender-swapped versions of the sliders. http://sliders.tv/bboard/viewtopic.php?id=115 While most of them are terrible, one cannot deny the obvious love for the series that's on display.

I would argue that SLIDERS REBORN is just as foolish and ridiculous as any of the above. The only real difference between me and them -- and it isn't even that much of a difference at all -- is that watching all six seasons of the TV show COMMUNITY has given me an aptitude for taking the absurd and unbelievable and making it sufficiently funny or affectionate that the reader will go along with it because they're charmed by the characters.

I think a truly 'realistic' vision of SLIDERS in the modern era would be Temporal Flux's reboot idea: the sliders, at their 2016 ages, discover sliding and go on their first adventure in an alternate reality where Quinn is in his forties when he makes his first slide instead of in his twenties. http://sliders.tv/bboard/viewtopic.php?pid=1567#p1567

I answered 'Earth Prime' and it seemed to accept that

Suddenly, I'm worried. The finale of SLIDERS REBORN will feature:

• 40 - 50 sliders

• A pink vortex

• A blonde Maggie

• The sliders developing 'superpowers'

• A spunky teenager who is Quinn's daughter

In addition, the story will have the return of:

• The rock star vampires

• The giant radioactive slug

• The underground Morlocks

• The animal-human hybrids

• The super-intelligent snakes

• The pancake parasites

• The fat craving zombies

• The dinosaurs

• The killer robots

• The Dream Masters

• The amusement park that feeds on negative emotions

• The remote controlled cars with laser cannons

• Diana Davis

And the story will be dedicated to the memory of David Peckinpah and will include the sliders running a detective agency like one of Peckinpah's cop shows and a heavily action oriented approach reminiscent of Season 3.

Are you as nervous about this story as I am? God help us all.

In other news, I've installed a mediocre mobile layout for the Bboard so that we can continue to debate politics, SUPERNATURAL, the DC film universe, the Marvel Cinematic Universe while determinedly ignoring each and every item of interest on the much-loathed and constantly derided Earth Prime dot com website.

Just set your mobile browser to request desktop mode -- or if you want to know what's new, log in on your browser, click on New Topics and you'll see any threads with unread posts listed.