International Anarchy

This is the end of the maintenance period for our website and all of its related services. The forums and news databases migrated over perfectly, and there should be zero issues or changes to the website at this point in time. HOWEVER, if you do see something amiss, a page not loading, or any issues with the website. Please let us know on the forums.

There may be some downtime over the course of the next day or so as I do a few website upgrades. If you have any questions or concerns please let us know on the forums.

Thanks to a tip given by [IA]BlackPanther, I have installed a new Plugin for our website. The plugin is called WPtouch and is one of the most recent upgrades to our website here. WPtouch provides a sleak and simple view for all iPhone users. Here is a preview of how it looks like on the iPhone…

And if you save it to your iPhone homescreen you will get a custom [IA] icon just for the iPhone…

So give it a try if you have an iPhone. And of course if you have any issues at all with this interface please let us know!

Discuss this article on the forums!

Our WordPress installation here at International-Anarchy.com supports OpenID authentication. What does that mean for you? Well if you have an OpenID and wish to make a comment on our website, all you have to do is provide your OpenID URL when commenting to pass on your user information. For Team Members given access to the WordPress backend, you can now use an OpenID to login to the website, simplifying and speeding up authentication.

You can look into the OpenID project here: OpenID.net

Read more about OpenID: OpenID on Wikipedia

And finally, you can get and OpenID for use here: MyOpenID

In short the best way to describe OpenID is this:

OpenID is a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet. With one OpenID you can login to all your favorite websites and forget about online paperwork. Now, you get to choose the login that’s right for you. Get an OpenID today!

I am also looking into a few different options to support OpenID on our forums too, so stay tuned for that in the near future.

I just moved our forum system to phpBB3. So far everything is working great, the only exceptions to the rule are the following…

1. You MAY have to update your password before you can log in. The log in panel will give you a message saying that you have to reset your password. You can try to log in again, or you may have to reset your password.

2. Be careful with the [youtube] tags now. You have to not only use the button above the posting area, but you have to include the URL WITH it’s full address. Meaning that it must read something like http://www.youtube.com/blahblahblah That www is NECESSARY for the youtube BBCode to work. Old posts will need to be updated over time; that is the post has to be edited, old youtube code removed, and then the youtube link plus bbcode re-entered.

3. USERS MAY HAVE RECEIVED MANY COPIES OF THE SAME E-MAIL FROM OUR FORUMS! I am sorry about that, it was a phpBB issue and has now been corrected. You will receive one more mass e-mail message from the forums apologizing for this inconvenience.

The New Version of phpBB3 allows for ATTACHMENTS in posts. Now you can attach various files with ease, and all the files are stored to your user account for management.

That is all I have noticed for now. The forums, as always, are accessible from http://forums.international-anarchy.com/ If you guys find anything else please post about an issues on the forums or let me know.