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Ars OpenForum & Commenting System are getting a big upgrade
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We’ve spent months getting ready, and tonight (around 1 am ET on Wednesday) we’re flipping the switch on a major upgrade to our community platform, which supports both article comments and the OpenForum. We won’t be losing any data, and you won’t need to set up a new account or change your password. You will have to wait a few hours, though, and for that we’re sorry!
We anticipate that both systems will remain offline until around Wednesday afternoon as we process our massive 22 years of comments (that’s 1 million topics and more than 28 million posts). All logins and user registration functions will be unavailable during this time. That means no article comments, no forum browsing, and unfortunately, it also means subscribers will not be able to access their sub benefits for a brief time. We’ll make it as short as possible. When it’s done, just log in again with your old credentials and you’re set.
For more detail on what we’re doing and why, keep reading.
Community is vital to Ars Technica
When longtime Ars readers talk about how long they’ve been around they often point to their forum registration date (mine is June 8, 2001). It can be a badge of pride! The oldest of the old-schoolers have 1999 reg dates on their profiles, which is as far back as our data goes (Ars was founded in 1998, but the WWWThreads data from the very first forum was lost).
Not many communities on the Internet can lay claim to active users who’ve been around for more than two decades. It’s something we hold as our own badge of pride. Thank you for sticking with us for so long! That said, even if you measure your tenure here in years or months instead of decades, we’re still thrilled to have you, and many of our best participants are our most recent recruits, if you will.
In an era where many sites are closing their comment sections, and social media increasingly treats people like a commodity, we’ve chosen to refocus on how we can amplify the great contributions readers make here. To do that, we needed an entirely new forum and commenting system, and we’ve found it in XenForo, a modern forum system with a familiar feel.
Everything you expect from the Ars forums, like flat discussions without threading and normal reverse chronological reading order will be there. Your post count and registration date will remain intact, as well as all of the forum content going all the way back to 1999.
The same BBCode you’re used to using will still work. But you won’t have to hand type tags if you choose to use the convenient editor tools interface. Just about every aspect of our forum will get a similar “still works, but it’s better” touch.
No more running into quote limits or trying to edit a mass of nested tags. Quotes will now default to a single level (you can edit the tags to add more if you truly wish). We’ll have full mobile support, the forum will be easy to read and use on your phones now. You’ll be able to see when someone replies to you easily.
There will be a dark mode.
We are breaking with old Ars forum tradition in one way: There will be avatars. Just about every social platform uses them now, and they’re enormously helpful with a user base as large as ours to help visually identify posters. (No animation, and anyone who abuses the system may find we choose an avatar for them.) Enjoy picking something to further express your forum personality.
As with any big transition like this, we expect some hiccups. We’ve tested everything in a beta forum with our moderation team, but there’s nothing like a live environment with thousands and thousands of users to find the edge cases. We’ll have a thread to report issues and a developer team to help us manage bugs and issues. Please bear with us as we fix anything.
XenForo offers a modern architecture that’s easily extensible, so beyond getting bug fixes sorted you can expect a future with more features, both for all users and upgrades for our subscribers. We have our own plans, but we’re happy to take comments and suggestions for improving your experience.
We hope you enjoy the new forum and comment system. Our commitment to our community remains strong. We’ll have new tools for our moderation team, which we’ll look to expand moving forward. Ars will remain a place for open and respectful discussions, as well as a place to share and enjoy your geeky passions.
Whether you’re a 1999er or thinking this might be the time to sign up for a new account, we look forward to your contributions.
Mary Trump Says It’s ‘Disgraceful’ Her Uncle Is Spending 9/11 Commenting On Boxing Match
Mary Trump pummeled her uncle Donald Trump’s decision to provide commentary for a pay-per-view heavyweight fight on the 20th anniversary of the tragic Sept. 11 attacks, calling it “disgraceful.”
CNN’s Anderson Cooper quizzed the former president’s niece on Thursday about her reaction to her uncle’s highly controversial choice.
“Does it surprise you, even by his low standard?” Cooper asked. “If another former president decided to spend 9/11 commenting on a boxing match on pay-per-view, people would … their heads would explode.”
The psychologist responded that Trump is held to “no standard” and that it’s a major problem.
“For reasons that are very difficult to understand, there is a completely different standard that Donald’s held to,” she told Cooper. “In fact, he’s held to no standard.”
“It’s disgraceful. And if there is no blowback on the right for this — ‘disgraceful’ isn’t a strong enough word to describe what you just mentioned — then that tells us everything we need to know about the current state of the Republican Party,” she noted. “It tells us that the Democrats really need to start wrapping their heads around the fact that this is not a party that can be worked with, this is not a party that should be conceded to.”
Digital streaming service FITE announced on Tuesday that Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. will “offer their perspective” during Saturday’s heavyweight fight between Evander Holyfield and Vitor Belfort at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida.
Holyfield signed on after the fighter who was previously scheduled, Oscar De La Hoya, tested positive for COVID-19 last week.
“I love great fighters and great fights. I look forward to seeing both this Saturday night and sharing my thoughts ringside,” Trump said in a statement.
TMZ reported that Trump was gleefully boasting to friends about the “obscene” amount of money he’d be making by providing commentary.
Getting a bit carried away on Thursday, the ex-president also boasted that he could “probably” beat President Joe Biden in a fight (even though he lost to him in the presidential election).
Trump claimed that his successor in the White House would “be in big trouble” if the two faced each other in a ring, adding, “I think Biden would go down within the first few seconds.”
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Shannon Lee responds to Tarantino: ‘Stop commenting’ on Bruce
Bruce Lee’s daughter has spoken up to say she finds Quentin Tarantino’s take on her father exhausting.
“I’m really f – – king tired of white men in Hollywood trying to tell me who Bruce Lee was,” Shannon Lee wrote in a Hollywood Reporter guest column response to the director’s comments about her dad made on Joe Rogan’s Spotify podcast.
“Where I’m coming from is … I can understand his daughter having a problem with it, it’s her
f – – king father! I get that. But anybody else? Go suck a d – – k,” the 58-year-old auteur told Rogan in response to months of backlash about his controversial depiction of the late actor in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”
“[While] I am grateful that Mr. Tarantino has so generously acknowledged to Joe Rogan that I may have my feelings about his portrayal of my father, I am also grateful for the opportunity to express this,” Lee responded Friday.
“I’m tired of hearing from white men in Hollywood that he was arrogant and an a – – hole when they have no idea and cannot fathom what it might have taken to get work in 1960s and ’70s Hollywood as a Chinese man with (God forbid) an accent, or to try to express an opinion on a set as a perceived foreigner and person of color. I’m tired of white men in Hollywood mistaking his confidence, passion and skill for hubris and therefore finding it necessary to marginalize him and his contributions. I’m tired of white men in Hollywood finding it too challenging to believe that Bruce Lee might have really been good at what he did and maybe even knew how to do it better than them.”
And in Tarantino’s case, she wrote, he never even met her father. Still, the director “happily dressed the Bride in a knock-off of my father’s yellow jumpsuit and the Crazy 88s in Kato-style masks and outfits for ‘Kill Bill,’ which many saw as a love letter to Bruce Lee. But love letters usually address the recipient by name, and from what I could observe at the time, Mr. Tarantino tried, interestingly, to avoid saying the name Bruce Lee as much as possible back then.”
In conclusion, she tells Tarantino, while “I really don’t care if you like him or not … in the interest of respecting other cultures and experiences you may not understand, I would encourage you to take a pass on commenting further about Bruce Lee and reconsider the impact of your words in a world that doesn’t need more conflict and fewer cultural heroes.”