How to Create and Edit Your Hideaway

**amykhar** · #1 07-17-2005, 04:12 PM

To create yours, click this link once:
http://www.eaforums.com/forums/hideaway.php?do=create

To edit the description, click this one:
http://www.eaforums.com/forums/hideaway.php?do=edit

Amy

*emeleel* · #2 07-30-2005, 09:23 AM

Amy, I just tried to edit my forum description using the second link above, and got:

Quote:

Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

**amykhar** · #3 07-30-2005, 10:45 AM

Your timing blows

I am shortening the names of the hideaway forum. Until I get them all shortened, some people can't edit.

phoenixx · #4 07-30-2005, 10:51 AM

IS there a thread I missed that details who can join (as in EArs only, or also outsiders); what amount of space is allotted, if any for attachments or uploads, etc? I'd hate to start one and overload your server or something! lol

*emeleel* · #5 07-30-2005, 11:12 AM

ROFL - I *do* seem to keep "finding" things just when you're in the middle of working on them, don't I?

**amykhar** · #6 07-30-2005, 11:24 AM

Go ahead and try to edit now

**amykhar** · #7 07-30-2005, 11:28 AM

Quote:

phoenixx said

IS there a thread I missed that details who can join (as in EArs only, or also outsiders); what amount of space is allotted, if any for attachments or uploads, etc? I'd hate to start one and overload your server or something! lol

Leslie,
If you can get them to register at EA and join your hideaway, go for it. There are no quotas at this point except an attachment quota that we've never bumped into. If you plan on doing an attachment heavy forum, please talk to me first and we'll work out the details.

As far as posts and threads, I think we can set an agreement now that if you get more than 20,000 posts in your forum, we'll either start pruning older posts or it we'll work something else out.

Amy

phoenixx · #8 07-30-2005, 11:36 AM

I have a yahoo group with 396 members. We've been looking for a new solution - everyone hates yahoo groups. (It started out as an egroup, which we loved, then yahoo sucked egroups into the yahoo morass)

I'd have to a) see how many posts we've done over the course of four years - I think we're still well under 20,000 and b) talk to my co-owner to see if she thinks this would work. Of course that means she'd have to sign up for EA to check us out......

I'm pretty sure we average 100 - 200 posts a month, but I'm NOT sure if it's because yahoogroups is so hard to use for some people with all the forced ads, etc or because we don't talk much - lol

**amykhar** · #9 07-30-2005, 11:44 AM

EA was born because yahoo sucks eggs

phoenixx · #10 07-30-2005, 12:15 PM

I'll talk to Alex. She's a lot of fun, so she'd probably enjoy EA anyway if she has time to add another internet time sink to her list of activities (she works for National Geographic - busy busy). And she'd give the politic afficionados a run for their money.... lol

phoenixx · #11 07-31-2005, 01:01 AM

Whoops - got lost in the hideaway twighlight zone....

Clicked the create link, and it named the hideaway for me. Went back to the edit description link hoping to chnge name to something else and make a good description - no dice. Now I can't find my hideaway at all...

??

Taking into account a few glasses of merlot....

help?? (she asks, sweetly)

phoenixx · #12 07-31-2005, 10:33 AM

Ok, now I see my hideaway forum, but I still can't change the name. Am I doing something wrong? I'm trying to set it up so that when Alex is free I can send her here and have her "test" it to see if she likes this solution...

And it would be a private forum, Amy - non-searchable by google, invisible to non-forum members. Although that means I have to find a way to direct people to it....

hmmmmm

**theworm**[$] · #13 07-31-2005, 10:56 AM

You can't change the name - just the description.

**Joubert**[$] · #14 09-04-2005, 10:05 PM

I can't change the description either unless I'm doing something radically wrong. That's likely.

**amykhar** · #15 09-04-2005, 10:10 PM

George, PM me the description.

Uno · #16 11-08-2005, 06:39 PM

I have the same problem, i do not write/edit description

**amykhar** · #17 11-08-2005, 11:47 PM

Same answer to you, Uno. Send it to me via PM.

sydeburnz · #18 04-07-2006, 12:29 AM

amy, doing the support thing over here since you directed me to.

if i create the forum, i get this error: Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_forum in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

then if i hit refresh it says i allready have a forum.

when i try to edit, i get this error:
Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator.

i cannot see any forums, there are none listed in my adminCP either.

any help is appreciated!

**amykhar** · #19 04-07-2006, 06:54 AM

sydeburnz, actually I said to read how to format the link over here

Any support questions belong either at vb.org or in my hideaway here, which I use for premium support.