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[[Image:ppmbv2-5.jpg|right|frame|PPMB logo, version 2.5]]
The '''Paperpusher's Message Board''', often abbreviated to '''PPMB''', is the longest-running message board in Daria fandom history, and the major gathering place for ''Daria'' fans. Founded in 1999, it originally served as a replacement for the [[Lawndale Commons]] forum, and later the [[Outpost Daria Message Board]]. The board gets its name from the original owner and founder, the [[Paperpusher]]. It has over 900 registered users, the largest known gathering of Daria fans outside of Facebook. Until late 2010, it and the [[Sheep's Fluff Message Board]], were hosted by [[Gamer]]. In December 2010, the PPMB moved to Site5, a webhosting company. The PPMB is run on phpBB, an open-source message board software.
'''Site movement has garbled the characters of various fanfics - see Rosetta Stone below for the solution.'''
The PPMB may be unusual and perhaps even unique—please note the use of the conditional here—among '''free''' online communities for its longevity and size. As of January 2015, it hosts posts dating back more than a decade, and boasts members who even antedate its current incarnation.
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As part of Paperpusher's desire to maintain the message board as a separate entity from the show, his caption described it simply as "A place to talk about stuff." In January 2011, after a couple of fans noted that there was nothing marking the board as a Daria board, Wild changed it to "A place to talk about MTV's Daria. And other stuff."
When the fandom had a post-DVD resurgence in the early 2010s, the PPMB was the primary forum for new and lapsed fans to hang out on. By the late 2010s, it was the only forum and so had become the social and creative hub of the fandom. If a new fanfic was written, 90% of the time it was written on PPMB.
Kara Wild would transfer control of the forum to long-time moderator [[Scissors MacGillicutty]] in 2019.
In August 2021, the board went down due to technical issues; this had happened before as the code aged but this time, the board stayed down for weeks. (Fans shifted to [[Lawndale-High Message Board]] for the duration). It was confirmed in mid-September that the database was secure but the install was in serious need of updating, and Scissors MacGillicutty was unable to maintain it any longer. A call went out for anyone with a serious ability to take over hosting and technical support.
As of November 13, 2021, the PPMB is back up!
==Forums==
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On January 2, 2011, Wild set up a Twitter account: PaperpusherMB. She would use it in the event of a major crash, but stresses that board members can also contact the Site5 support staff and keep track of the server on the SIte5 main pages. Having a support staff on hand to answer questions is what drew Wild to Site5 in the first place.
The PPMB went down in August of 2021, due to technical reasons. The database has been preserved, but the fandom is still figuring out the best way to get the forum back online.
==Administrators and moderators==
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==Rosetta Stone==
Fanfics that were written in Word and then copied to the board years ago may, circa 2018, have garbled characters. Some really old fanfics have goine through ''three'' garblings.
There are ways to fix this:
===Bookmarklet solution===
Suggested by user Heir of Norton: " I wrote a little javascript function that cleans up the junk characters. It is available here: [https://gist.githubusercontent.com/HeirOfNorton/52ac8f7eb8bc9a2e9ce4e8729eb89786/raw/c93d068f814b2fc010d2c63d7127497cbd12cdaf/errordecode.js Error decoding script]. You can actually paste that into the debug console of the browser (hit F12 to find it, usually), but that's annoying. Instead, go here:[ http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/bookmarklet.html Bookmarklet Crunch] Copy and paste the script into the box and click Crunch. This will create a "bookmarklet". If you bookmark the new link, you will get a bookmark or favorite that you can click to decode the junk characters. Just go to one of the affected stories, and click your new bookmark to clean it up. You may need to click it two or three times before it is finished."
For AndroidS:
"save the bookmark on Chrome on your desktop as I explained above. Make sure to give it an easy to find name.
"Sync your bookmarks with your android device [https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en (see here)]
"Go to the page you want to clean up. Then tap in the address bar, and start typing the name of the bookmark. It should come up in the dropdown suggestions, then you can tap it."
===Old school text work===
1) Copy the old post into some sort of text file. I used a .doc file.
2) Using find-and-replace, make the following substitutions
… is replaced by ... (ellipsis)
’ is replaced by ' (back apostrophe)
– is replaced by -- (long dash)
‘ is replaced by ` (front apostrophe)
“ is replaced by " (front quotation)
†is replaced by " (back quotation)
For even older stuff:
‘ - opening quotation mark
’ - ending quotation mark and apostrophe
– - dash
In general, this should get rid of the "special characters" and replace them with normal ones.
==External links==
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/19991008000618/paperpusher.simplenet.com/Message_Board__Beta_/message_board__beta_.html The inital portal to the PPMB]
* [http://twitter.com/PaperpusherMB Kara Wild's PPMB Twitter account]
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=46025 Rosetta Stone thread]
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