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Username Post: How about moving this bulletin board to modern techology?        (Topic#21333)
mbaprof 
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03-12-18 07:48 AM - Post#252259    

Instead of using something with 1995 capabilities? I have some GREAT pictures and videos from behind the bech yesterday, post game celebration and selection party which I know a lot of you would love to see

 
10Q 
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03-12-18 07:52 AM - Post#252261    
    In response to mbaprof

Yes. Would love to see this. Maybe post to the Web and then link.

 
LyleGold 
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Re: How about moving this bulletin board to modern techology?
03-12-18 08:25 AM - Post#252266    
    In response to mbaprof

I have thought the same thing for some time. I was going to upload some of videos to YouTube and post links. Either way, this board has been stagnant ever since Jake stepped away and let it monitor itself. The whole Basketball-U idea seems to be dying a slow death as most teams' boards are totally ignored and a few others get occasional traffic.

 
Go Green 
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03-12-18 09:08 AM - Post#252275    
    In response to LyleGold



This is still better than the Ivy Voy Board.



 
10Q 
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03-12-18 09:14 AM - Post#252278    
    In response to Go Green

I miss Big Red Fan.

 
LyleGold 
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03-12-18 09:17 AM - Post#252279    
    In response to Go Green

True, or the Rivals board before that. I also think that incandescent lights are better than candles, but I recently switched to leds throughout my house.

 
Ben Franklin 
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03-12-18 09:25 AM - Post#252281    
    In response to LyleGold

Who's willing to pony up the big bucks and/or subscription fees?

 
TheLine 
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03-12-18 09:28 AM - Post#252282    
    In response to Ben Franklin

There's the rub.

Better is great until you realize what you have for free is far better than nothing.


 
Administrator 
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Re: How about moving this bulletin board to modern techology?
03-12-18 09:57 AM - Post#252304    
    In response to mbaprof

So last spring I actually focus-grouped a proposed move to new & improved board software to some of the heaviest users of this board.

I explained that this board software (FusionBB) is buggy, insecure, and high school age at this point. And the company that made it ceased to exist years ago.

I pitched a smart discussion site -- think Reddit, but instead of subreddits (or "boards" in the current setup), it would be one big conversation, but using tags.

So instead of going to a board, you would browse (or follow) a tag. And I've long wanted to play around with a smart autotagging AI that would automatically add tags to a thread as it progressed.

So let's say I wanted to start a conversation about Penn's 16 seed. (FWIW, laughably unfair by any reasonable metric, but totally in keeping with the Selection Committee's Dark Ages methods. Plus Kansas should be a 3 seed, so whatever.)

I would create a new conversation, say what I wanted to say, select "Penn" as the primary tag (and any other secondary tags I wanted, such as "Kansas, "NCAA Tournament," "seeding," "scheduling," etc.) and publish. This conversation then would show up for anyone following the "Penn" (or any secondary) tag, as well as anyone browsing any of those tags.

Let's say a Kansas fan wanted to reply to (foolishly) take issue with my characterization of Kansas as a bogus 1 seed. And let's say they wanted to argue that this Penn team isn't the Bucknell team that upset Kansas back in the day. The AI would pick up on the mention of Bucknell and autotag that reply "Bucknell." This would then display that conversation to anyone browsing or following the Bucknell tag. And so on and so on.

I explained this proposed new discussion software to these folks, but the consensus was that they were happy with this current software and were resistant to change from what they were familiar with. So I tabled that.

However, if it turns out their views aren't representative of the majority of people on here, I'd love to have a discussion about where to take these boards to modernize them.

 
Streamers 
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03-12-18 10:18 AM - Post#252315    
    In response to Administrator

Sigh. As much as I get frustrated with the limitations of this platform (most recently, the presence of some really nasty adware that has popped up that can make the board nearly unusable on any browser that does not support strong ad blockers) I would resist a move to a new place that does not:

1) Support the entire league and hence the crossover posters from other schools
2) Support the off-topic board which is half the fun for some of us
3) Come off as really easy and intuitive to use
4) Have pretty strong social media integration
5) Stays moderated to a point
6) Does not have a free option (although I would make an annual contribution much as I did in the old IvyBasketball days)
7) Does not have really good search capability as I love seeing people reminded of their old posts ;-)

If anyone has an idea for such a platform, please post a link here so we can check it out!

 
PennFan10 
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03-12-18 11:51 AM - Post#252353    
    In response to Streamers

As a newer, yet veteran, poster....I would like Mike James to permanently change his moniker to "Administrator" and be forced to post all material under that screen name.

 
palestra38 
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03-12-18 12:02 PM - Post#252362    
    In response to PennFan10

Except then we would never know when the prior Great Leader, Jake Wilson, was posting.

 
Jake Wilson 
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03-12-18 12:47 PM - Post#252385    
    In response to PennFan10

That was me. I believe Mike posts under his mrjames account.

I still read these boards occasionally and still get emails reporting technical issues and objectionable posts. And it's great to see so many people paying attention to the league as a whole these days.

 
10Q 
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03-12-18 12:57 PM - Post#252394    
    In response to Jake Wilson

Hi Jake. Great to see you posting. Don't be a stranger.

 
Stuart Suss 
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03-12-18 01:00 PM - Post#252397    
    In response to palestra38

I believe pitchers should have to bat in a baseball game.
I believer that post-season participation should be limited to division winners.
I believe the Ivy League representative in the NCAA tournament should be the regular season champion.
I believe this message board is fine, as is.

If, for reasons of cost or technological failure, we need to move to a new host, then so be it. I hope the current structure and ease of use continues on any new site.

I found the description of Reddits and and sub-Reddits and primary tags and secondary tags to be technologically incomprehensible. So, if we go that way, please provide a free, online tutorial for the rest of us.

I have no difficulty linking to news articles and to my spreadsheets. I would like to see MBA Prof's pictures and videos and would think it would be possible to upload them to a third party site and then provide links for us.


 
Jake Wilson 
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03-12-18 01:19 PM - Post#252404    
    In response to 10Q

Hi, 10Q. I'm more into Twitter these days, but I do jump in occasionally on here. (Usually involving P38 saying something egregious. I kid. Well, sort of...)

 
palestra38 
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03-12-18 01:19 PM - Post#252405    
    In response to Jake Wilson

I resemble that remark.

 
Jake Wilson 
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03-12-18 01:21 PM - Post#252407    
    In response to Stuart Suss

Hey Stu. Rest assured whatever we came up with as a replacement for this board, making it easy to master for those who prefer their learning curves to be gentle would be a primary directive.

But really, we need to move on from this board. It's a buggy security risk at this point. We can do WAY better.

 
penn nation 
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03-12-18 01:29 PM - Post#252414    
    In response to Jake Wilson

I have no problems with this board when on my desktop, but there are indeed all kinds of nasty ads popping up that frequently disrupt my ability to use this site at all when on my cell phone.

 
SRP 
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03-12-18 01:39 PM - Post#252417    
    In response to penn nation

It has antique charm, but I sympathize with those who have to maintain it.

 
Jeff2sf 
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03-12-18 01:43 PM - Post#252418    
    In response to SRP

last week i had auto play ads. I briefly wondered if I was back in 2014. I looked up the customer service number to see who to complain about getting my money back and then realized... yeah.

 
Chip Bayers 
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How about moving this bulletin board to modern techology?
03-12-18 02:13 PM - Post#252439    
    In response to SRP

The spam coming via the ad server is definitely off the charts the last week or so when accessing with Safari on the iPad.


Edited by Chip Bayers on 03-12-18 02:13 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.

 
13otto 
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03-12-18 02:32 PM - Post#252448    
    In response to Chip Bayers

I had an annoying pop up (Amazon) last week on my iPhone when accessing only this site, so I could no longer access the board from my iPhone. Took me two days to figure out to get rid of it, but I finally was able to do so.
http://www.letsgoquakers.com/


 
palestra38 
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03-12-18 02:33 PM - Post#252451    
    In response to 13otto

You have a beautiful wife. Those Russian Women sites should know better.

 
13otto 
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03-12-18 02:37 PM - Post#252455    
    In response to palestra38

LOL. I'll tell her you said that but the pop ups were that I was the lucky Amazon customer who could win a $1000 Amazon gift card for correctly answering three questions.
http://www.letsgoquakers.com/


 
penn nation 
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03-12-18 03:14 PM - Post#252474    
    In response to 13otto

Hmm...so maybe we can all win the lottery.

Anyhoo, that's one of the annoying things that keeps on popping up on my cell--what was your fix?

  • 13otto Said:
I had an annoying pop up (Amazon) last week on my iPhone when accessing only this site, so I could no longer access the board from my iPhone. Took me two days to figure out to get rid of it, but I finally was able to do so.




 
Streamers 
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03-12-18 05:14 PM - Post#252530    
    In response to penn nation

On my PC, a good ad blocker kills this stuff. Ghostery is my favorite. Speeds things up too.

iPhones and IPads are harder. Clearing out cache and cookies from Safari browser seemed to help.

 
Mike Porter 
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03-12-18 11:04 PM - Post#252637    
    In response to Jake Wilson

Hey Jake,

Great to hear from you as always. I was one of the lucky folks polled, and I think I was up for more change than others (but please call me out if not). Either way, I’m definitely up for something new now and would be happy to make a contribution to the cause (but would want to keep free as for me it would also be about getting new fans here too). From my perspective, as long as we have a board, ability to search, and send PMs then I’m good with new tech, rich media, social integration, etc. Maybe it will help get some new Ivy fans to join and participate also.

Cheers!
-Mike

 
13otto 
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13otto
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03-13-18 12:25 AM - Post#252657    
    In response to penn nation

  • penn nation Said:
Hmm...so maybe we can all win the lottery.

Anyhoo, that's one of the annoying things that keeps on popping up on my cell--what was your fix?

  • 13otto Said:
I had an annoying pop up (Amazon) last week on my iPhone when accessing only this site, so I could no longer access the board from my iPhone. Took me two days to figure out to get rid of it, but I finally was able to do so.





Turns out my fix (clearing browser history and cookies, followed by turning off my iPhone, then repeating both steps a second time) was only a temporary fix, as the Amazon popup is back today when I access this site from my iPhone.
http://www.letsgoquakers.com/


 
Streamers 
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03-13-18 10:33 AM - Post#252689    
    In response to 13otto

Yeah, I had to do it again as well

 
Ben Franklin 
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03-13-18 04:59 PM - Post#252833    
    In response to Streamers

I would like a "like" button and to keep my post count. And media, yadda yadda.

I've never used a tagging forum but it seems intuitive to me, although I'm not sure how much I want to be dragged into odd conversations just because Penn pops up. The forum I frequent most uses Xenforo, which I've found to be nice as an end user.

 
13otto 
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13otto
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03-17-18 12:27 PM - Post#253609    
    In response to penn nation

  • penn nation Said:
Hmm...so maybe we can all win the lottery.

Anyhoo, that's one of the annoying things that keeps on popping up on my cell--what was your fix?

  • 13otto Said:
I had an annoying pop up (Amazon) last week on my iPhone when accessing only this site, so I could no longer access the board from my iPhone. Took me two days to figure out to get rid of it, but I finally was able to do so.





I've given up on accessing this site on my iPhone through Safari, because of the Amazon pop up, and am now using the Google app. So far so good....
http://www.letsgoquakers.com/


 
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