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The Room Upstairs / Re: Site downtime.
Last post by Ben Dragon - Jan 31, 2026, 07:18 PM
Other troubles decided to appear. Site(s) seem to be operating normally now.
Let me know if you are experiencing difficulties.
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The Room Upstairs / Site downtime.
Last post by Ben Dragon - Jan 08, 2026, 09:41 PM
If you are wondering why the site(s) have been down for the past month and a half I will say this; I was in the middle of configuration/updates and had to walk away from the site for a few weeks leaving it --unfortunately-- in a down state.

I was able to get back and complete that during the week.
#23
The Room Upstairs / Re: New Live Chat
Last post by Ben Dragon - Nov 10, 2025, 03:44 PM
I will get back to you on that, Bo.
I'm going to stick up the ircd server today or tomorrow and we can get that working first... what that means for you is 'back to mirc'... mainly because you are familiar with it and thus, would be a good place to start.

When I get it set up I will send you the necessary info in a PM.

Sorry to know that you had a bad year. Probably a topic for PMs though as a significant portion of this forum is now opened to the public.
#24
The Room Upstairs / Re: New Live Chat
Last post by Bo - Nov 10, 2025, 07:56 AM
I'm glad things are going okay, I've had a turbulent year to say the least, but I sure am glad the forum is back up. I was worried that it was down for good that time......but I still had hope!

I currently have an iPad, because the windows xp messed up on my notebook. I need to get it straightened out or just get another notebook. I  can try installing new programs on the iPad but sometimes they aren't compatible.

What programs do I need to install?
#25
The Room Upstairs / Re: New Live Chat
Last post by Ben Dragon - Nov 05, 2025, 08:23 AM
Hey, Bo. Things are going alright here given all of the madness being rained down upon us.
I hope that things are going well for you.

Yeah, permanently bringing down all of my servers seemed certain for many reasons, not the least of which being that all of my equipment is ancient and that stuff ain't cheap to replace. However, after some major thoughts on the matter, (and an obvious --and in some cases-- desperate need for sane people to have contact with other sane people), I decided to not only revamp everything, but to go in deep with a serious upgrade... one last time.

I now have the ability to do much more, (with the new equipment/setup), than I could ever do before. Hell! I could probably do voice connections without having to go through any corporate servers... but one thing at a time.

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The SFWN live chat is setup and running, but I can only test it on the LAN myself, requiring someone outside to finish it off. Undoubtedly, some tweaking will have to be done to connect others across the Internet.
I need someone to work with me on the other end to debug it and to make it work smoothly. It will most likely, take some time working together to pull it off, but it is 100% doable, (I've had that up and running in the past).

If this software does is not workable, I'll try something else. In fact, my long term goal is to set up several different ways to do a live chat including running my old SFWN IRCd again.

Right now I'm using an XMPP server for which there are many clients. It's open source and not under any obvious corporate control.

I'm using Gajim for testing purposes, to connect to my server. Jabber should work and essentially any ICQ knockoff will as well and probably ten other clients or more.

I will put some basic instructions on how to connect on the main web page when I get a chance and post the link here.
#26
The Room Upstairs / Re: New Live Chat
Last post by Bo - Nov 04, 2025, 04:28 PM
Hello Ben! How's everything going? It's been a while. I'm really glad you got the forum going again. I tried to reply a few months back and then the forum went down.


I'm interested in helping you get the live chat going again.  Is it through mirc or something different?
#27
The Room Upstairs / New Live Chat
Last post by Valthrax - Oct 08, 2025, 01:54 PM
I am in the process of setting up a new 'Live Chat' feature and it might need a bit of debuggin.
If someone has the time and desire to help refine it, let me know.

#28
The Room Upstairs / This, the latest Clarity Forum...
Last post by Ben Dragon - Oct 06, 2025, 12:16 PM
This is the latest version, (#9) of the Clarity Forums going back over more than 30 years. Membership and posting has waxed and waned through this cycle and more than once this site has been taken offline... though never for very long, and only because of moving and/or updates and/or modifications, always coming back better than ever... like now.

While there is more need at this point in time, and more than ever before, for a forum like this one, the quality, intelligence and abilities of the people at large make it less likely than ever to be used.

One thing can be said for certain is that once this version runs the cycle there will be no more, (and frankly, it is a wonder that this one made it to life; decades of momentum has carried the day.)

Having said that, it will live or die based on membership participation; it's up to you, the membership. Take advantage of it while it lasts.

One more thing, this version of the forum is cell-phone-friendly, (though why someone would want to use such a device to view a complex forum such as this is beyond me for you will not be able to see everything).

This latest rebirth of the forum is not limited to just itself; the entire Self Wrighting Network is new, from hardware to software and is far more sophisticated than it has ever been, moving up several levels.

I started planning the updates months in advance,(no other way to do it), to make sure nothing is lost and everything is improved.

I am planning to bring it back to the level of the glory days with respect to available servers. By this I mean that direct, real-time forms of communication will be added so direct-chat between members can happen in real time. If you like a particular form then post it here letting me know and I will add it to the list.

The E-mails servers are mostly working though this forum is not yet configured to send/receive E-mail, it will be available.
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