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What's News in the PlayBasic world ? - Find out here.
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PlayBasic Forums OFFLINE
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By: Kevin Picone Added: February 10th, 2024
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Category: All,Website
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Just a quick note that the Forums are current offline for maintenance.
The goals are to backup and update/move the forums..
In the meantime you'll get this 
PlayBasic Forums
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PlayBasic.com gets an update !
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By: Kevin Picone Added: September 25th, 2022
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Category: All,Website,Upgrade
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Some months ago I casually posted a thread on the PlayBasic forums titled "Lets Talk About The PlayBasic WebSite", I was looking to collate as many community ideas / fix shortcoming and faults with the existing site as possible.
A lot has cool things came up during the discussions (which will appear in future upgrades) but for this revision the focus has been on including the PlayBasic documentation to the website, updating the contact pages, replacing the gallery, photo light boxes, the source code syntax highlighted views and ultimately creating a single compatible template from what was a random cross section of the custom pages.
The changes might seem subtle to the passing PlayBasic coder, but have gone a long way to improving sites usefulness. When taking this project on; my initial gut reaction was to just uproot everything and replace it all. Which I tried; but soon run into the reality of such an approach, so pivoted to making this upgrade about bring the documentation online and dragging the old code based into a more unified form that could render the site from the template.. Which It now does.
So for now I hope you like the changes (KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid) and ultimately find them more useful, I know just bringing the documentation online opened a world of new possibilities for the site. But that's for another day, for now let's just enjoy this small milestone before looking too far off into the future. As always if you have any drama's with the site send me a message on here, the forums or your favorite social media platform.
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Http Link Problems
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By: Kevin Picone Added: September 16th, 2018
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Category: All,Website
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You may have noticed that the PlayBasic forums moved to a HTTPS recently, while it seemed to be working, some issues with old links stilling using the HTTP protocol have been found. Rather than go through and tweak 1000's of links, we've extended the tag parsers to catch the problematic links and replace them HTTPS versions, which was causing issues downloading PlayBasic and DTAB updates. They should be working now.
I suspect these aren't the only problems so if you find some more then message me.
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Home Page Videos
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By: Kevin Picone Added: September 8th, 2016
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Category: All,WebSite
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Just fixed the videos on the home page, turns out the youtube's play list had changed.. Oh well.. one less thing to fix.
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Online Again
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By: Kevin Picone Added: March 8th, 2013
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Category: All,Website,News
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We've been completely unable to access the internet since Tuesday morning (our time). Since then, we've spent days chasing up the problem, which of course turned out to be at the ISP's end.
It's now approximately 10am on Saturday and have cleared the backlog of orders.
Unfortunately there's still a pile of unread emails, so if you're awaiting a reply, then you'll have to wait a bit longer.
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Home Page Update V0.58
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By: Kevin Picone Added: February 28th, 2013
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Category: All,Website
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You might have noticed there's been some changes appearing across PlayBasic.com over the last week or so. This version of the site was originally built as a stop gap solution. Previously the information found here, was spread across 4 or 5 different locations, which was not ideal. Even today, a lot of PB related information is still hosted on UnderwareDesign.com, most notably the support forums.
Ultimately we'd like to migrate everything into one site, but there's always this balancing act, between where we commit our time, be it, the development of the core PlayBasic product, Helper tools, Source Codes, Tutorials through to the web site interfaces.
One the biggest time traps is simply trying to convey information to the community across the various connection points, such as on the forums / IDE news feeds / facebook / twitter and ultimately here on the home page. Moving text between the various feeds often means converting the text between formats, which just another one of this little tedious tasks that impedes upon development time.
So what to do ? - Put up with the changes between the various services ? or try and stream the line the process as much as possible now. Obviously we chosen that latter, even though we do plan on replacing this version of the PB site entirely. The changes being made to the site this week, allow it to display cross posted PB related content much better. So articles written on the forums can be posted here without as much fuss and vice versa. Which might seen novel really, but it's all those little tweaks that help save lots of time in the long run.
The following extracts are taken from facebook page during the last week of updates.
Feb 25th:
Wow, it's been another very long night of web site programming, although you'd be hard press to notice the changes, since they're mostly back end related. But there's lots of minor front end tweaks, be they copy / layout out related, or things like a fixing a some of the legacy source codes files, which refused to download, since the legacy downloader was expecting them to be zipped or rar's.
One of the bigger back end changes is the addition of a spam bot black lists which is a feature i've dragged over from my new CMS, but the legacy sites didn't have. Weeding out the spammers from the pages is necessary to get a clearer idea of how much human traffic is using the site. Granted the home page has never really been that popular, and there's really no reason for it to be, since it's not a portal, it's just a site with some PlayBasic related stuff on it.. If we can get a clearer picture of how people use the site, we can then invest more time and energy in adding what people are actually interested in, rather than what you say they're interested in..
Anyway, dunno what else will make it into this minor update.. Time for sleep!
Feb 23rd:
Done a bit more work on the PlayBasic back end tonight, currently updating how it handles downloads. Have replaced the fixed downloader solution with a more generic version that can be used over the site, although it's only hooked up to the source code section. Seems to work fine so far.
Feb 21st:
Been updating the php parsing code for the PlayBasic home pages , mainly just tweaking it all up so it works better. Made a number small tweaks to the templates also, making the formatting a bit clearer. It's still not particularly pretty, but we'll have to wait until the CMS change to see about getting a new html template created. Still want to keep it all pretty simple though.
The update adds support for syntax highlighting PlayBasic code site wide now. Previously the highlighting stuff was only available on the forums. One thing I'd like to do in the future is include an online version of the documentation. Which leans itself better to user being able to attached notes to particular pages etc. Perhaps even translate the content. If you're wondering why there aren't translations already,it's just too expensive.
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PlayBasic.com (Alpha) Online!
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By: Kevin Picone Added: September 1st, 2009
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Category: All,WebSite
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After a few months of development the initial version of the PlayBasic.com home page is now testing online, as you can no doubt tell. Moving to a new site is a massive task, and one that's really going to take a number of months before we reach of final version of the home page. This is due to a combination things, ranging from the features we've yet to implement and just shear amount of content (6 years worth) that needs to be managed.
However, while this initial version might be a little green around the edges, but it does contain most of the materials from the original PlayBasic product page, as well as combining materials from the PlayBasic CodeTank (A PlayBasic Source code site), Game Gallery, FAQ's and various materials from our forums. Ultimately, everything related to PlayBasic programming will be found here, but of course, this will take time.
Anyway, welcome to the new site and thanks for your patience..
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Upgrading Forum Software
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By: Kevin Picone Added: December 28th, 2008
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Category: All,WebSite
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Just quick note to inform you that we're just completed upgrading our support forum software and databases.
Still in desperate need of a good skin artist though. So you're interested, contact us!
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