Tech Haven Network

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:15 am**

woo \o/

Techhaven Network as of now has 1500 users, the newest registered user being Weasel. Welcome to Techhaven Network Weasel, and congrats to Brammers for hitting 1500 users

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:59 am**

Go THN! Go THN! Go THN! .... wooot wooot wooot

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:07 am**

Thanks!!

500 new users in the space of 9 months, and very few spambots! (There was 219 attempts to register in the last 2 weeks, all where spambots...which all failed. :eek:

)

Most of those 500 users are rare DB users, have to think of ways to get them to post here a bit more....any ideas?

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:49 am**

Brammers wrote:....any ideas?

FREE BEER

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:55 am**

You paying?

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:09 am**

paying? i said "FREE" Beer not "Payed by John" Beer

...

but a serious Idea why not put a note to the Database "why not post in the Forums while you are here?" or so

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:50 am**

yeah, this place is a bit quiet, but steadily growing. I think the problem is that new people come along all the time and revisit a few times but they dont see much going on so they don't bother posting.

Brammers if you could change the welcome email (the one with the activation code in it) or the page that the activation code leads to, to say something like 'Congratulations, now you've registered and activated your account why not pop along and give us an introduction to yourself here...

Where here = url link to create a new thread, possibly with an automatically generated title to make it easier for forum newbies to navigate through, where the automatically generated title is something like 'Hi all - just signed up' or something

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:17 pm**

I think just a simple 'Introduce yourself' thread would help a lot. Maybe started by Brammers stating that all new (and old) players should breifly introduce themselves, their char names in NC, affiliated clan etc etc

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:24 pm**

Some nice ideas posted up above.

I just dug up the template file for the intro email. I agree it looks naff.

Code: Select all: Subject: Welcome to {SITENAME} Forums and THN Rares Database Charset: utf-8 {WELCOME_MSG} Please keep this email for your records. Your account information is as follows: ---------------------------- Username: {USERNAME} Password: {PASSWORD} ---------------------------- Please do not forget your password as it has been encrypted in our database and we cannot retrieve it for you. However, should you forget your password you can request a new one which will be activated in the same way as this account. Your username and password also allows you access to the THN Rares Database which is located at http://rares.techhaven.org/ Thank you for registering. {EMAIL_SIG}

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:31 pm**

Well I have to say that my idea is stolen from this site which I use also

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:31 pm**

If someone is just one part short of a wep, perhaps invite them to make a post in a trade forum? That could get the ball rolling... I guess that forum could quickly become messy, mind - but could encourage a few more people to say hello.

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:19 pm**

There's a welcome email? I NEVER GOT A WELCOME EMAIL!!!!

*cries*

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:34 pm**

Brammers if you want I'll put together a new welcome email, make it look a bit nicer

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:21 pm**

Make a forum for trading Rares.

PPL Post what they need the MOST, with times there available

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Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:56 pm**

with html

Code: Select all: From: Tech Haven Network <admin@techhaven.org> Reply-To: noreply@techhaven.org Subject: Welcome to the Tech Haven Network! Charset: utf-8 <body bgcolor="#EEEEAA" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000'> Welcome to the Tech Haven Network! You're almost there! Now in order to use your account you will first <a href="{WELCOME_MSG}" title="click here to activate your account" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#666699'>need to activate it</a>. Now that you're a member of the Tech Haven Network you'll not only have access to the <a href="http://forum.techhaven.org/" title="click here to open up the forums" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#666699'>forums</a>, but also have the ability to set up a <a href="http://rares.techhaven.org/" title="click here to open up the rares database" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#666699'>rares database</a> for your tech part collection. Feel free to post a quick introduction about who you are in <a href="http://forum.techhaven.org/viewforum.php?f=72" title="jump to Tech Haven Secter 3" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#666699'>Tech Haven Secter 3</a> so we can look out for you in game also. On behalf of Tech Haven.org and all of our members, thank you for registering :) / <a href="mailto:admin@techhaven.org" title="email TechHaven.org's administrator" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#666699'>TechHaven Admin</a> </body>

without html:

Code: Select all: From: Tech Haven Network <admin@techhaven.org> Reply-To: noreply@techhaven.org Subject: Welcome to the Tech Haven Network! Charset: utf-8 Welcome to the Tech Haven Network! You're almost there! Now in order to use your account you will first need to activate it. To activate your account click on this link: {WELCOME_MSG} Now that you're a member of the Tech Haven Network you'll not only have access to the forums (at http://forum.techhaven.org/), but also have the ability to set up a rares database (at http://rares.techhaven.org/) for your tech part collection. Feel free to post a quick introduction about who you are in Tech Haven Secter 3 so we can look out for you in game also. On behalf of Tech Haven.org and all of our members, thank you for registering :) / TechHaven Admin

All you need to do is hack {WELCOME_MSG} to show just the URL for activating a users account.

Tech Haven Network

1500 users!

1500 users!