Seniors & Friends

[Oldiesmann]

Technically this isn't my site since I don't own it, but as I host it and am the tech guy, it feels like mine (sort of).

This site started a number of years ago when another seniors forum shut down. Many of the members of that forum wanted a place where they could continue chatting and such, and the owner (whose other sites I'd been helping out with for a while) reached out to me to help get it set up. It's a fairly active forum with members from around the globe. Unfortunately like with my Archie site we lost a bunch of data in a drive crash years ago, but it's bounced back pretty well.

https://www.seniorsandfriends.org

Mods installed: Country Flags, Welcome Topic, Optimus, SMF Gallery Pro, EhPortal

There have also been some tweaks to the theme, mainly to make things easier for the older folks to read - increased font size and some things are bold. I also removed the confirmation from the "Mark All As Read" buttons at the request of a few members who found it annoying.

We used to have a chatroom as well but the Ajax Chat system we were using stopped working for unknown reasons and I haven't found a good replacement yet (though there are a ton of jQuery chat systems out there so something is bound to turn up at some point).

[Skhilled]

I had the same chat on my site and had removed it trying to fix something and just never got back to installing it again.

[Oldiesmann]

Took advantage of a lull in site activity and upgraded it to 2.1 RC2 tonight.

[Bigguy]

Site runs good. You may need a logo though.

[Oldiesmann]

I suck at graphics and design so I'll leave that to someone else

[lesmond]

Just a couple of ideas for Logo's

[Oldiesmann]

I'll post them to the site and see what people think of them. I haven't been able to get hold of the site owner for some time (last I heard she was in the hospital with various health problems) so I'll have to let the rest of the members and staff decide.

[Bigguy]

Pic added to gallery

[Oldiesmann]

One further update on this. I am now officially the owner of the site as the person who did own the site died on Thursday. I've already updated the domain contact info and am in the process of transferring the domain (as well as the two domains she had for another site I help out with) to the registrar I use. I already host the site so I just need to wait a week or so for the transfer to go through.

[Bigguy]

I'm sorry to hear that. I mean her passing. that's to bad.

[Oldiesmann]

It is a shame, but everyone's happy that I'm going to be keeping things going.

[Oldiesmann]

Decided to go with the second logo, cropped down to 100px high. It still looks a bit odd next to the 37px-high SMF logo but it works for now. I also added the Blue Evolution theme for those who like dark themes and the logo works quite well with that theme.

[Skhilled]

I just spent the better part of an hour there and looks like a very nice place!

[Skhilled]

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I used "Seniors & Friends" and "Seniors and Friends" and it says it's wrong! I've tried about 5 times.

[Oldiesmann]

Looks like the upgrade somehow borked the question. There was no answer associated with it in the admin center. Try it again now

Also on a related note, I tweaked the theme a bit to put the "Updated Topics" and "Unread Posts" links back in the linktree at the request of a few members (they liked being able to click those links without having to scroll all the way back up to the top of the page after reading a topic)