Replaced the old home page with the wiki

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Uncle Jesse
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Replaced the old home page with the wiki

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Please test this out. I've officially removed the old (1990's) home page with the wiki.

As a side note, anyone out there good with making graphics? We need some buttons for the new home page to replace the "forums" "google hd" "calculators" etc. buttons.

The old home page has been around too long. It had information which was not only wrong but dangerous. I don't know PHP too well so it was very tough for me to edit. The wiki may not be 100% accurate, but the users can edit and improve it over time. I believe the main thing people will miss about the old home page is the calculators page which is linked.

Please test all this and report any problems. This is a major change.
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Uncle Jesse wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:07 pm I believe the main thing people will miss about the old home page is the calculators page which is linked.
Its not linked currently.
The url changes, but the page resolves to the main page.
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SaltyStaves wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:17 pm
Uncle Jesse wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:07 pm I believe the main thing people will miss about the old home page is the calculators page which is linked.
Its not linked currently.
The url changes, but the page resolves to the main page.
Damn you for pointing out the obvious! :D

I'll have to get Husker to look at this. It's above my PHP skill.
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Uncle Jesse wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:46 pm Damn you for pointing out the obvious! :D

I'll have to get Husker to look at this. It's above my PHP skill.
Probably something to do with the url changing and the internet not propagating it, or something above my basic knowledge of how the internet works. :lol:

Other than that, looks good. I won't miss the old home page. :clap:
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So I think I am seeing an issue - people are signing up as a Wiki editor thinking it's the forum. That might be why we're seeing multiple new people as editors on the wiki.
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Single Malt Yinzer wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2019 11:13 am So I think I am seeing an issue - people are signing up as a Wiki editor thinking it's the forum. That might be why we're seeing multiple new people as editors on the wiki.
Well, maybe we need to add a note about that.

Don't want to add tooo many "disclaimers" of course, but...
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Re: Replaced the old home page with the wiki

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I added a "Join Now" button to the top row of links. I'm hoping that people will see that one and not the one at the top right. It's NOT a good solution but we'll see how it works out.
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