McDrake International

Significant changes since 1 January 2007 up to today, 15 April 2007. (From recollection.)


(January) 2007

- Categories refering to McDuck renamed to McDrake. ('Other McDuck-boards' to 'Other McDrake-boards', and 'Outside McDuck' to 'Outside McDrake')
- Linking to McDuck-served Dutch boards changed to linking to McDrake-served Dutch boards.
- Link to old (frozen) Dutch McDuck preserved under category 'Outside McDrake'.


10 January 2007
- Category 'Fanfiction' added.


10 February 2007
- Internal boardlinking updated (edited) to McDrake in pre-McDrake postings, adding the edit-note: "boardlinking updated to McDrake". This editing is done to avoid confusion with the archived frozen board at the McDuck-server, which can be found at: http://discussion.mcduck.nl/


(January?/February?/March?) 2007

- Category 'Disney comics' renamed to 'Disney comics & general'. Description changed from 'various topics' to 'films, DVDs, games, parks, etc.'
- Category 'Off-topic' renamed to 'Contact'.
- Subforum 'Off-Topic International' moved from category 'Contact' to 'Disney comics & general'.
- Links added to the navigation bar shown on top of each page: 'McDrake overview', 'COA/Inducks', and 'DCML Archives' and 'More links'.
- Individual external links (under category 'Outside McDrake') replaced with the link to an overview of links. ('More links') Except for the individual link to old (frozen) Dutch Disney McDuck.nl forum, which is kept in the category.


17 March 2007

- In an emergency due to an unbearable amount of (mainly sexual explicit) spam posted on the board, by not having any spamfilters available for guests, the open guest-option is turned to read-only. Hopefully this is temporary.


15 April 2007
- Text of the rules adjusted to McDrake. (Name and links).

summer 2008

Due to an overload of spambots registering and posting, the entire forumboard has been switched to read-only. (Last on-topic posting was 2008-07-19.)
Among the postings were so-called hardcore pictures.


06-01-2009

Clean-up of Userlist, as an attempt to delete spambots. All of them had 0 postings. (Some of these spambots had in fact 1 posting, which has already been deleted shortly afterwards. These spambots were then directly banned.)
This action has brought down the number of members from at least 1000 to 74.

The clean-up is only aimed against spambots. Only profiles with 0 postings have been deleted.
Members who have been accidently deleted can send a note to be registered again, using this contact address: admin@mcdrake.nl

As an emergency, the forumboard is now only fully open for people who already are member. Only they can write new postings.
New registrations are now only possible by sending a note to the above mentioned contact address. Apogolies for the inconvenience.
Hopefully, a better solution will be found to avoid spambots.

Last edited by admin (2009-01-10 19:10:18)