Stop using the tip of your left index finger.

ohhhhh, I didn't think of that

to be fair, that's the same thing the surgeon who's fixing my thumb said 

the metal plates/screws in my wrist cut through the tendon you use to bend your thumb in the middle.... I can move my whole thumb around like normal but can't bend it at all, tip of index finger is the same

had an opp. to take the plates out of both wrists, need to go back to fix thumb

surgeon was keen to do a small opp to fix it in place, so they bend it a little bit then fix it there permanently, he said fixing it properly is 3 operations over 9 months and not worth it.... but the more I think about it the more I think I'll go for that, I'm not worried about the operations and I'm pretty used to a bit of pain/discomfort

surprisingly not being able to bend it is unnoticeable 99% of the time, but then bloody frustrating now and again - things like trying to puck up a little screw you've just dropped inside a pc case etc.

plates in left wrist were from when I was at the top of a ladder that slid down the wall... for some reason I put my arm through the ladder and tried to get hold of the wall on the way down, when I hit the ground my wrist was under a rung of the ladder and I was on top of it, wrist was pretty mangled

broke the right one when I fell through the roof, no idea how it broke, it was pretty minor compared to the left

surgeon who took the plates out said (paraphrasing) plates in left wrist were a mess and they should have been taken out years ago, I had the right wrist ones taken out too just in case

sounds like I got off pretty easy compared to you tho!

how you doing now?

You can probably tell, I haven't gotten around to this yet but it's not been forgotten.

Maybe we should call this BionicForums with the amount of metal in you guys.

Also going to switch over to HTTPS in the coming days finally.

Hold onto your butts

So this never happened obviously 

But I'm resurrecting this thread as a warning that I am going to try to plan a time to upgrade to SMF 2.1, which despite being a minor version upgrade is not trivial in the slightest, sh*t is likely to break. The main reason for this is that PHP 7.4 is end of life and I need to move the forums onto PHP 8.x before I start getting charged real monies for extended PHP support. Plus security and all that... After that I will consider doing the HTTPS change too.

Backups will be taken, ofc

Here we go lads.

Here we go lads.

That just loads a white page now. Could go look up who owns the domain, can not be bothered though.

Maybe in addition, but I don't want to shut the forums down, I don't mind doing these quality of life improvements, it's just a case of having time to do them. Putting on a proper mobile-first/friendly theme would be another. But we're not the only dinosaurs on the internet, the Blu-Ray.com forums are still not mobile friendly at all and they have a huge userbase. I'm always happy to discuss any and all ideas with people on what they'd like to see improved either way.