Brock Beauchamp

They're here, they're coming, the system just has them held in limbo until it finishes re-indexing all 3.4m posts. This should be resolved by mid-day tomorrow, by my estimation. Update: Well, this is taking forever. We may not see the old/new forums pop up until Tuesday. I wish I had more granular control over background processes, but I don't. What has happened is that the system has prioritized indexing all (now up to) 3.8m posts, pushing the individual forum changes I made to the end of the queue. So it has decided that it must reindex all those posts before it will let me touch any of the individual forums.

You should see it now.

Should be fixed now, BTW.

Yeah, same. I was wondering if it was only me but hadn't looked into it yet.

I'll add it to the list of tasks!

This is a byproduct of merging two PHPBB installations. If you have a string of numbers behind your name, that means there was a conflict with duplicate accounts. Just shoot me a private message and I'll manually merge your accounts and get rid of the string of numbers.

Testing comments.

All the data is here but the server is huffing and wheezing trying to re-index and re-categorize everything. So, in the meantime, forums will appear, disappear, and move on a regular basis as the system processes the dozens of requests I've given it over the past few hours. The BIG upside here is that everything looks to have transferred pretty seamlessly, even if it isn't visible to you yet. If you are having problems of any kind and cannot log in or post in a thread, email me at rocketpig@rocketpig.net (my NSBB email is waiting to propagate, should be working later today).

Hi, my name is Brock Beauchamp and I'm the technical lead and community manager of North Side Baseball. Let's get to know one another! I've been running baseball sites for nearly 20 years and I'm part of the team that purchased North Side Baseball from Tim (who will be sticking around and helping us make the transition, cheers to Tim and all the help he has provided over the past few weeks). You may be familiar with our previous work over at Twins Daily. Why did you (likely) just receive an email? Because you've been added to our email newsletter. Multiple times a week, we'll send out an email with news and analysis led by Matt Trueblood's excellent work. Should you wish to stay on this email list, please do so! But if you're not interested in receiving emails, you can unsubscribe using a link near the bottom of the email. Over the course of the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling out a bunch of new features on top of the news, forums, and blogs you currently see on the site. We’ll be introducing Cubs-specific video analysis, a top prospects list, active/40-man rosters that are updated daily, and much more. If have any questions about anything, feel free to comment below. My door is always open and if you see something that you think could be improved, please let me know! I’m looking forward to seeing this site grow and thrive in the coming 2023 season! View full article

Forgive the images, they're from Twins Daily but how the stream operates is identical. The new feed is pretty awesome and I suspect after reading this, some of you (particularly forum users) may set a custom feed as your North Side Baseball landing page. It's that useful. Instead of having to click through the (kinda insanely large now) NSBB site, you can tailor a feed to show basically whatever you want: select authors, topics you've followed, fellow users, unread content only... the list goes on. First, to find your personal feed, near the top right of the screen you will see a newspaper icon in the red bar below your user information. That brings you to the default view, which is Unread Content. Here you'll see a variety of options to tailor your custom stream to do almost anything you like on the site. I'll spare you going through each item in detail individually, as it's all quite self-explanatory. You can choose tagged content, type of content (news, forums, blogs, status updates, etc.), read/unread only, content you've participated in or started, followed content, and finally, how it's sorted. Depending what kind of device you're using, you can also choose Condensed or Expanded. Condensed just gives you the title and link while Expanded offers a truncated version of the content as a preview. Once you've decided on your changes, you can save this stream using the save prompt below. You're allowed to have multiple custom streams so name this new stream and it joins the others. Once you're done customizing your stream, Click Stream Options at the top right of the selection drop-down, and your choices become your default custom stream. Every time you click that newspaper or visit your stream, the selections you've made will remain in place. That's it, enjoy the new site!

Absolutely. The new URL for us at twitter is:

I suspect I’ll end up doing this but I need to make sure there are no conflicts with the new software before doing so.

Nope. I'm not 100% sure how merging the NSBB forum with the NSBB archive will behave but I suspect it's based on email address. If you know the username/email you used on the 2007-2015 board, I can merge your old account into the 2016-present account. I'll talk about that a lot more post-launch once I get a better grip on how it works and the stumbling blocks that will inevitably come along with the merger.

I think I’ll take the site down around 8pm cst. Any later than that and I may be too intoxicated to do the necessary pre-launch work correctly.

North Side Baseball Tips & Tricks, Part One: Tables! With this series of blog entries, I'm going to try to cover some of the features of the new site in a few paragraphs. Using the old site, as I'm sure many of you are aware, tables were basically unusable. That has changed! I'll tackle B-Ref tables quickly in this post but you can do similar things with FanGraphs or other sites that use table data (which is how almost all stat sites display their content). First, pop on over to Marcus Stroman's B-Ref page: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stromma01.shtml I'm going to grab his 2021-2022 season stats. Just above his stat table, you'll see Share & Export. Click and then select Modify, Share, & Export Table. Boom, you can then select what stats you want to display and which you want to remove. I've removed all seasons except the last two. I also removed team and league because "duh". Then click the big X in the top right of the yellow square and you have your filtered table. Grab that table by moving your cursor to the top left of the table (just to the left of Year in this case) and while holding down the button of your mouse/trackpad, drag toward the bottom right of the table. The table will begin to highlight in yellow as you select the cells. Grab them all and let go of the mouse/trackpad. Then copy what has been selected (control+c on Windows, command+c on macOS). Pop over to Brewer Fanatic, start typing a comment, and paste your content (control+v on Windows, command+v on macOS). Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ FIP WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 SO/W Awards 2021 30 NYM NL 10 13 .435 3.02 33 33 0 0 0 0 179.0 161 70 60 17 44 2 158 7 0 7 730 133 3.49 1.145 8.1 0.9 2.2 7.9 3.59 2022 31 CHC NL 6 7 .462 3.50 25 25 0 0 0 0 138.2 123 61 54 16 36 0 119 4 2 2 569 117 3.76 1.147 8.0 1.0 2.3 7.7 3.31 Note: you can use this method for most websites and spreadsheet data so whatever table data you have available you need to copy and paste, this method will likely suit your needs.

A reminder this will change quite a bit and has its own dedicated page. But from that page you can tailor default content to your liking. It's a really nice tool as the site grows and expands its content offerings. https://twinsdaily.com/discover/unread/

Same domain but the URL structure will change a bit. The front page will be news - as it is now, but active - while the forums will be at /forums/ instead of the current /forum/. And then there will be loads of other stuff that's all new.

Yep, you will need to use your email address after the transition. Same password? Boy, I sure hope so or things are gonna get pretty chaotic for awhile. :crazy:

Yep, you will need to use your email address after the transition.

So there'll be some down time from whenever I decide to shut things down on Saturday until everything is moved to the new software on Sunday. I expect the new site to go live noon-ish or early afternoon.

I was woken up to my wife and five year old throwing up at 5am so what the hell, I may as well follow that up by listening to Matt. (Sorry Matt, I've been sitting on that line for a couple of hours now fully expecting to use it on Bonnes or Gleeman but you had the misfortune of posting the first podcast of the day so now you get it)

This is probably true, it just feels like he has leveled up over the past five years or so.