TechieHQ now has a new owner

Well welcome IanCun, I am also from the UK, I hope you enjoy taking over this forum.
James, I guess it must be a little sad to see THQ go to a new owner, I know this has been your baby.

 

It's been a pleasure, James. =)

 

Hi folks As James has said, I really like the friendly atmosphere over here and I'll do my best to help the site grow. James has done a great job getting such a good group of techies all in one helpful forum :thumbs

The site will probably be transferred in the next 24 hours, so if you get any temporary errors or glitches don't worry - they'll be ironed out soon Moving servers is straight forwards, but it might take some time for the DNS to update.

I look forward to seeing you all around the forums

 

I've done a database snapshot just after I made the above post, so anything posted after that may not be transferred to the new database - although I will try to do one more just before the new site goes live. I'll keep you update on how the move goes

 

If you can read this message, then you are on the new server

 

I wonder how THQ will deal with the constant rain over here in the UK

 

It's been raining all day here - which is strange as it started off as a lovely sunny day!

I'm glad the server move has gone smoothly, thanks for such a smooth transfer James

 

OI! I have a mac too... lemme do some!
So, Ian, time to give us a speech about yourself, introduce yourself, and tell us what you have in mind

 

Good point

I'm from the UK and in to all things computing (everything from hardware to programming!). I'd really like to establish this site as an excellent resource for tech enthusiasts - the existing community seems like a really friendly bunch of people, somewhere that people would really enjoy hanging out

I really like the site design, so the first thing I'm going to do is try and promote the site to get the activity up. If anyone has any thoughts on new features or ideas they'd like to add, then do let me know

 

Seeing as things are changing all over the place, I suppose I can spill some beans... I know a while back I was working with James on integrating streaming flash video from the site, eg video tutorials etc... the only issue was the fact that I didn't have time to film anything for it, I could edit, and upload, but not so much script and film.
If anyone wants to join in on this video thing, thats an idea for expansion I suppose, oh, and there was talk about opening up to the gaming community too...

 

That sounds like a really interesting idea! I think it should be straight forward to add flash video streaming, but getting videos made would be more difficult - although if anyone is able to make them then it would be excellent

 

I can edit them, and to a certain extent shoot them, but it would have to be in the summer, I'm at the last part of my final year at uni.

We did get some streaming video working here: https://www.techiehq.net/fully-thq-hosted-player-t7790.html

its just a matter of fine tuning things

 

Very nice bit of coding there :yup Will have to see what can be done with this facility

 

James implemented the bbcode, i just supplied the html for it, i don't know much about bbcode I'm afraid

 

Wow! I'm speechless. Welcome Ian. You have definitely acquired an awesome site with a good bunch of techs.