I am going to use massassi.org as a staging server for the site redesign, so it no longer is an alias for [url]www.massassi.net[/url] - so if you want to get to massassi.net, YOU MUST use massassi.net, not massassi.org. For now, it's a pointer to .net but it won't always be like that.

I remember the last time there was going to be a site design..

You guys can't change it now!

Brian, I'm downloading Eclipse overnight (I'm on dial-up at home) and tomorrow I'll try to finish that uploader.

Poor massassi.org, that domain has had some serious adventures.

Hell, it even pointed to my PC for a short couple of months.

When can we expect to see some of the site redesign?

I'm halfway done with writing my pages/tutorials management code. When that's done, I'm going to upload to the site and see how it works. I already have the news, staff management, and screenshot of the day rewritten. I have done about 3 false starts on the files system but I'm still trying to find a way to make it easy for people to submit files -and- easy for staffers to approve/post them.

At least it won't be a dot-com.

Um...scratch that...I have to download Eclipse AND the Java 1.5 JDK, this is going to take until the weekend.

I don't know if you need the help or not, but I'm willing to help with graphics for the new site.

Wait, there will be new graphics?

About the upload file part....

You could use the current idea of a Java Applett, however, you could pretty easily do it with a combination of JavaScript, and PHP. So long as you can bypass the maximum execution time, you could have an AJAX script connect to the php upload script to send the file. Then you could have another AJAX connection to another php script, which queries the size of the file on the server every 30 seconds or so then returns the % complete to the user. Of course it wouldnt be quite as fast as a java solution, but it would be more secure.

Do you want me to knock up an example of what i mean?

Sounds like good times!

I don't know if there will be or not, I'm just saying I'm willing to help if there is.

I hope you don't destroy the Massassi logo. I love it so much. Maybe just enhance it, but PLEASE DO NOT COMPLETEY REDO THE MASSASSI LOGO!!!!

I believe this was already discussed, and decided that HTTP file transfers such as this were highly unreliable, unable to resume, and were mostly inaccurate in % downloaded.

Brian: If you like, I can look into animemusicvideos.org which has a file upload system similar to what we need. (Creates a profile for the page, handles transfers, checks the file for size and other things, and allows the user to add whatever information on the file they want.) All you would need to add was the staff approval system.

I think it would be good if Massassi's front page stayed pretty much the same. It's look like a "classic" community website.

I'm moving completely away from frames. The site will look completely different, but in a good way. Also there is the possibility for skinning so you can make it look how you like.

Re: uploader - any help you can provide will be great. What I want is a java uploader that can upload to an FTP somewhere. Any other ideas for getting large files and info from the user to the staff would be greatly appreciated. We have already discussed email, anonymous FTP, providing d/l URL for the server to connect directly, and all forms of HTTP upload. HTTP upload has been ruled out due to reliability and scalability issues.

I've had this logo sitting around since I made it while trying to get the hang of Blender. I don't care if you use it or not. Probably not, actually.

And for those who don't already know, the Greek words say "Eat Pie."

Lens flare??

*blows up*

I'm planning on going ahead with one of Kedri's designs, I really like it. It's probably a little bit outdated, but way newer and better looking than our current frameset

In the short term, would this be good: http://www.yousendit.com/ ??

Yeah, I was scared for a bit. Massassi showed up as a blank page.

That would require us to parse emails which is something that's turned out to be very, very tedious.

So kedri is finally immortalized by massassi?

Could we choose (like adresses or links massassi.net and massassi.net/2) between two versions of Massassi (classic and new)?

Well, good news...edtftpj, the FTP library for Java I was using, appears to have fixed one of the issues I had with it a while ago. I'm also rewriting the uploader for Java 1.5, which is well...a lot better than 1.4.2 and should fix the threading issues.