Preserving Xeno works and worlds

Hi everyone! ~

Just posting a short update here to let everyone know I’m plugging along with the migration and I expect that the main site will be up within the next two weeks, if not within the next few days depending on how I feel about the level of completion. It’s 2026 and my brain is very full from learning new infrastructure deployment techniques, coding as a human, and using LLM agents. It’s scary and I am coping by blasting EDM and running like 6 terminal windows on my living room TV at once.

That’s a lot to say - It’s moving full speed ahead and tonight I was able to tie off a few loose ends in the functionality of the board. Now restored are;

• Signatures
• Profiles
• DMs
• Most remaining photos and links in threads
• Most broken BB code (still spot checking)

To do, on the Discourse side, I’d like to fix the wonky chat and add emojis and a rank system. One thing at a time.

We’ll be looking for mods and various kinds of contributors when the main site opens.

Please be advised that when the main page opens the server hosting Xenforo (currently godsibb.net) will be retired and publicly inaccessible. I’ve made a good faith effort to restore everything possible to spec and I will retain a backup in case some people want their accounts restored at a later date. However, I cannot indefinitely pay for two clusters. Please try and reactivate your account here if you had one before and may want one again and please also try and create a personal backup of anything important from the old board. Thanks for your cooperation!

I’m looking forward to our opening and once it’s up I’m excited to build on it further. There are some surprises in store!

Please let me know if you have questions or suggestions, or any content you’d like to contribute to the site ahead of opening date.

Thanks y’all!

… Most of them anyway. Please have a look around and let me know if any important ones are missing, some imports did fail but we got over 95% of the images. I’ll keep the Xenforo forum mirrored for a month in case anything too important is missing.

But with that, I’ll go ahead and open up this iteration of the forum for posting. Please go ahead and reactivate your account if you had one - you may do so by resetting your password (email will likely go to spam). I will need to manually activate your account for now.

I am hoping to get the new gallery/archive website going in a couple of weeks. Please let me know if you have any questions in the meantime.

I’d also love to hear any suggestions you have for the board! I am hoping this place can expand into a space for all sorts of quasi-related discussion so please feel free to suggest new boards or features. Glad to accommodate where I can.

Thanks y’all!

Hey all,

I have tentatively fixed the issue where the wrong replies were matched to the wrong topics. Unfortunately this deleted any newly created topics.

Apologies to anyone who created a new topic, feel free to recreate it. The database should be ok now.

Some attachments are now coming through. I may need to install a plugin that adds extended BB code support. Unfortunately, some stuff might not come in at all and I can’t spend too much time fussing about it. Thankfully I do have complete backups so I can grab anything anyone requests.

Theme is temporary, looking for a better one and a way to easily allow users to toggle their theme from the sidebar. I also added a few other plugins that allow for Forum signatures, reacts, and fediverse posting.

Thanks for your patience, hopefully; we can open the beta in a few days and I can then focus on getting the gallery ported over.

–Jessi