New User Invites and Ye Old Forum

[fearlessfrog]

For any new users now regretting accepting their invite , here’s what is going on (click the links below):

Say Hello to Discobot

This forum software is a little unusual, so to help explain some of the features and how it works to new users there is a new ‘bot’ set up called ‘discobot’. It’s an interactive help and tutorial system. To use it (even if you’ve been here forever) send a personal forum ‘Message’ (top right on your profile pic, looks like an envelope) to the user discobot. In that message just say in your msg text ‘start new user’ and it’ll get you started. This is the same info and interactive tutorial that …

METAR and TAF bots

While pondering existence at work today, wondering if this guy doing a presentation in the room was just going to put a huge number of text bullet points in powerpoint while slowly reading verbatim in a monotone voice all day, I saw that @TheAlmightySnark did something neat with his nice watch. Here it is: Now we have the @dicebot, which was well used by @wheelsup_cavu to the extent that most of the die are now round pebbles, so I thought I’d add (drum roll) METAR bot (and …