Ichiraku is up – now powered by Invision Power Board 3

Ichiraku is back up:

http://ichiraku.org/forums/

Please update your bookmarks, and tell everyone about it!

Ichiraku is migrating to IPB3

Hi all,

Ichiraku will be shut down today (4 October 2009) in preparation of our conversion to Invision Power Board 3.

Stay tuned at Ichiraku DEV for updates. You can also check http://ichirakuorg.chatango.com while waiting.

The new URL will be at http://ichiraku.org/forums/.

Thanks!

Registrations are fixed; Ichiraku’s RACE TO 100,000 contest

Hi everyone,

I’m pleased to announce that we have made a work-around on the defective visual verification system of SMF 2 RC1.2. The CAPTCHA has been disabled and we are using a mod instead to verify a bot or a human registration. So what are you waiting for? Register now!

In other news, we have also launched the RACE TO 100,000 contest in celebration of the most active Ichiraku ever in our four years of existence as a community. This event is a race to reach the 100,000th post first; an exclusive Ichiraku prize will be given away for the winner!

Please consult THIS LINK for more information.

Thank you!

Registration disabled

Hi everyone,

We are currently disabling all registrations to Ichiraku at the moment, as we have an unresolved bug in that CAPTCHA images required for the visual verification upon registration does not work. If you are an existing member and you have a referral to the forum, please PM either of the admins (akee or Zanyuki), or post a comment here, with your desired username, and we will register the new member for you.

Alternatively you can try to “listen” to verification instead and see if it would work.

Thank you.

Ichiraku is back up!

Finally, after three days, Ichiraku is back again, only with a minor caveat. Full public release from the administrators:

Hello everyone,

It’s a big day for us as Ichiraku is finally back after being down for three days since August 7!

We are still looking for the probable cause of the problem and we are currently engaged in a manhunt, of sorts, to pinpoint the culprit. While the initial diagnosis was a hack case, we figured that the problem was too selective to have been due to a single person with malicious intent. This is due to Ichiraku’s SMF files removed from the server, while the rest were not.

We worked around this problem by reinstalling SMF and calling back a server backup made on 9:00am (GMT +8) of August 5th thus having a roll-back. All posts made on the day of August 6 will be lost, but I’d daresay this is better than restarting and rebooting all over again. We have also returned the Ichiraku Mail service (www.mail.ichiraku.org) last night, and assigned a new URL to Ichiraku DEV (http://support.ichiraku.org), although, alternatively, you can still access our support blog at its old address.

For the meantime, I and akee ask everyone to be very vigilant. Since this may not be the last time we see this – I will not give you false guarantees, because it MIGHT, and I want everyone to be with us as we fight these glitches or errors – please tell us as soon as you can. Meanwhile, I and your faithful staff will do we all we can to further safeguard our community from pernicious attacks, human or otherwise, in the future.

Thank you everyone for your continued support!
The Ichiraku Admin Team

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Enjoy everyone! And a little thank-you note wouldn’t hurt at all.

Ichiraku is down

Hi everyone,

Ichiraku is currently down due to unforeseen circumstances. We are currently engaged in trying to find the problem and trying to fix it.

We will be making an announcement here as to the status of the forum. We’ll keep you posted.

Thanks.

Ichiraku downtime (routine maintenance)

Hello guys,

Ichiraku will be down from 2pm – 4pm for a routine maintenance.

Check updates here at Ichiraku DEV for news.

Thanks.

RC1.2 security update for Ichiraku (16 July 2009); board reorganizations

Hi all,
We have recently updated to SMF 2.0 RC1.2 which patches security holes in the previous version of RC1-1. If you have problems, or you are encountering issues, you can post in this thread: http://ichiraku.org/index.php?topic=2706.0

Currently the issues that we have are the buttons for “Forum” and “Blogs” are not visible in the menu bar, but we are at work fixing this as of this writing (it may have been overwritten by the update). For the meantime, you can use THIS LINK to access the board index. Take note that even though you cannot see the “Forum” and the “Blogs” button, you can still access them. Some of our notable modifications, which include the Activity Bar (aka “Posting Power”), has also been removed temporarily pending the developer’s update to RC1.2.

In other news we have reorganized our boards in the first part of what may well be a series of restructuring to make our forums more organized and more intuitive. We have placed The Plug Socket inside the Random board, which have been moved to the Dessert category in keeping with its traditional location. Future board reorganizations may concern the fate of The Logbook and the Random boards, and perhaps even The Lounge board.

Thank you,

Ichiraku DEV

Some board updates and Production Team disbanding

Hello all!

The Production Team member group is now disabled for the meantime, for security reasons. The administrators have decided that it would be a seasonal privilege for willing volunteers, unlike before that we choose which members would get the privilege. The Production Team is a regular member group that has access to the staff-only Forbidden Scroll, where we would ask for their ideas during community-wide events and major changes. Keep yourself updated on when the Production Team is open again, so you can volunteer if you’re interested.

We have added a new child board to the Switchboard section, “Chismax Central”, for showbiz news, or news related to famous personalities and icons to categorize news items. We have also added read-only Archives for the Boys’ and Girl’s Clubs.

The Boot Camp has been streamlined as the central discussion board of the clans, while the parent board of the Ichiraku Clans & Clubs will be for clan recruitment.

See you on the next update!

New moderators and updates; the Ichiraku Blog beta

Ichiraku congratulates Poldo and kittikai for being our new moderators for the Boys’ and Girls’ Club respectively! They have secured an overwhelming landslide victory against their competitors with the votes of their constituents in their clubs.

Poldo got 8 votes out of 13 with 2 other candidates, while kittikai got 9 out of 11 votes with 1 other candidate.

They have already begun their improvement plans within their own community, so if you aren’t member of either yet, you can now request membership as long as you have the required minimum of 100 posts.

In other news, we have revised the Animation and Manga & Comics boards. General discussion are now in the parent board, while series discussions are separated to Ongoing and Concluded child boards. This is to further organize these very popular boards and make searching and posting topics a chore, unlike before. Their descriptions have also been updated, and the Boot Camp board for Clan Founders are now open.

We have also launched the beta of the Ichiraku Blog by zCommunity a couple of days ago. It’s a modification that adds a blogging community functionality for the members right in the forum itself. However, since it’s still in beta stage, we are keeping in touch with its developers regarding possible bugs, one of which are the bugs for the Moderator group that prevents them from using the Blog. They can make one, even an article, but they cannot access it afterward. It seems the error is in the Subs.php file of zCommunity, which also occasionally conflicts with the Whos.php (which serves the Who’s Online list in the board index) file of SMF. According to zCommunity, this might be an incompatibility issue with SMF 2.0 RC1-1 (the first RC ran fine), so they are going to look into it.

The Ichiraku Blog can be accessed by anyone, but only Premium Members and the staff are able to make and write blogs for themselves. If you are interested, you might want to look into our Premium Membership offer.

Till the next update!