NCGH

Yes, the site seems to be broken, but really it’s only half upgraded. So far the forums and main site are upgraded, but the bit connecting them is not. Until I can get it fixed, the forums are down. This will probably take a day or so.

UPDATE: I’ve reset the site back to an older version, forums work again, but the site has some issues due to hard coded bits no longer being correct. I’ll fix those tomorrow.

We are trying our hardest to get the forums up and running. The big thing to to make the forums work for our members. So we’ve been adding forums for various subgroups to the board. However to keep the forum from being cluttered we’ve been hiding the forums and allowing access via user groups.

You can add yourself to these groups via the user control panel and the page marked usergroups. Each group has an associated forum, and you can add as many as you want. Removal is just as easy.

If you wish to see a new group and section, ask the forum staff at forums@ncgh.org. We will also make special invite only groups for member ghost hunting groups.

We’ve made minor changes to the security and spam filtering processes in the forums, the changes should make it harder for spam and junk to get onto the forums. However it will also make the registration process take a bit longer. The big changes are we enabled captcha (picture of letters) and made it a bit harder then before. If you have trouble with this part of the registration process, e-mail an admin and we can help you out. The other change is that we now check user ips against lists of known spam generators. This is the part that may take a bit of time. However this added time shouldn’t add more then a few minutes to the time it takes to get the confirmation e-mail.
Hopefully this should help keep spam bots in check even more.