Hello world!

Hi! Welcome to the new Tartarus. Believe it or not this has been in preparation for a few months now.

We decided that having a little, ugly, forum hosted on a free site wasn’t quite what we wanted any more. Sadly we’re going to lose all our old forum posts. There was no way of backing up the old data and bringing it in here.

This also means everyone is going to re-register.

This is the second generation of Tartarus. When Tartarus first began it was a hosted for free like so many other forums of its kind. We the admins felt that Tartarus had outgrown this and that there was more to be achieved.

The After Effect:

With our new vision for the future of Tartarus came what we now call the after effect. This pays homage to our previous incarnation. It is an allusion to the events and issues that caused us to feel the need to take Tartarus further.

Our forums are about light and logical moderation. We believe in transparency and openness. Ideas like freedom of information tend to resonate with us. Many of us are members on other forums where we believe that the standard of moderation doesn’t fit the needs of our discussions.

With Tartarus: The After Effect comes our domain, Tartarus.co.nz. It points to our front page and we hope to use this occasionally to summarise lively topics. We also have a few other plans up our sleeves for the future.

Because we have just set everything up there might be a few rough edges. Please let us know if you find anything you think is a bug or is misbehaving. Just post it away in the forum and I’m sure it will grab someone’s attention. Also let us know if you think there are any things we need to improve. We have a lot more power to improve things and implement new features than we used to. If you pay careful attention we have actually implemented all of the features that were requested in the previous forums.

We’ve tried to make the theme and colour combinations easy on the eye while still being reasonably exciting. We’ve removed colour while trying to give the appearance of having more colour. We wanted something that was pragmatic and encouraged posting.

We have updated the smilies we use. This is a brand new set, combining different styles and memes.

We have created a few different categories to sort our topics out. These still appear on the main forum page together however. This is more to help generate a wide range of discussion than divide the information displayed.

The Future

We will always be looking to improve when ever we have time. We expect there to be bugs and are happy to be given criticism where we aren’t up to standard. Many of the changes from the free forum hosting to the after effect were a direct result of analysing the requests of our members.

In the pipeline we have plans to create a layout of the threads and topics in such a way that they can be viewed from a cellphone in a much easier way. It may take a while and it isn’t exactly a feature with the highest demand but we think it would add something of value to our site.

We will always be thinking of ways to improve.

Post away.