A new forum?

by Flynn Taggart on 02/11/2006 12:19, 69 messages, last message: 02/27/2006 11:08, 24310 views, last view: 05/18/2024 08:10

I got nothing against this forum,but i was thinking about making a little bit more complex forum.What do you think?

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#1: ..

by Passa on 02/11/2006 14:09

with post counts and display pic and stuff? the only thing i dislike is the cookie login feature.

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#2: ..

by Flynn Taggart on 02/11/2006 16:57

yes,that kind of forum.

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#3: indeed

by Aardappel_ on 02/11/2006 20:37

making things more complex is always a good idea.

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#4: Re: indeed

by tentus on 02/11/2006 20:57, refers to #3

heh heh.

but you have to admit, moderators would be a nice function, we get an inordinate amount of spam here.

IMHO, images are only worth having if they're consistent, making a unified design. Since avatars and signatures and banners are by nature unique (well, they're supposed to be), then they can't fit into the unified design.

So I'm not a fan of having images and all. I would be a supporter of having the threads categorized, not just sticky and unsticky, but perhaps in Gameplay, Errors, Content, etc.

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by makkE on 02/11/2006 21:17

I am happy with this. Nice and clean. Who needs sigs and avatars.. never ever had any of those.

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#6: Re: ..

by Passa on 02/11/2006 21:36, refers to #5

the only feature I REALLY want is a logon system. means I can login from any computer and I dont have to recreate my cookie.

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by enigma_0Z on 02/11/2006 22:19

Well, the forum _design_ is good, however my only complaints lie with the cookie-style account managment, and the fact that there aren't categories like other forums. Edit post would be good too, if you wanted to add, delete, or fix a stupid typo.

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by SilentFox on 02/11/2006 22:43, refers to #7

Could try the Invision boards. Not the free ones. I mean the I-Bulliten boards.

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by CC_machine4 on 02/11/2006 22:46, refers to #5

lol

my sig is always my system spec: (like this)

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AMD sempron 3400+
1gig DDR-400 RAM
256mb geforce 6600
some crappy non-SLi non-nForce mobo
some 15" TFT monitor and i hate it

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#10: Re: ..

by pushplay on 02/12/2006 05:32, refers to #9

But why stop there?


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by tentus on 02/12/2006 05:59, refers to #10

sweet ascii art pushplay. I'm surprised you managed to make it so legible, what with the font and no whitespacing.

and enigma is definately right- edit would be great. perhaps a system in which moderators can edit responses, which would mean we'ld all know when someone posts, but moderators can remove any trashy content. on second thought, nah, that'd be too much work.

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by CC_machine4 on 02/12/2006 18:46, refers to #11

nah, i can't read it either. what does it say? pushplay?

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#13: hmm

by CEngine on 02/12/2006 20:52

I will gladly change this to fit our cube forum needs http://www.provi.enhorse.com/forum/

As you can see its been collecting dust for quite some time. I never put this webspace to good use but now would be a great time for me to fix up the front page and stuff.

(call it a little jump start on things.. for once)

p.s. Im just trying to help, no flaming. ^_^

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#14: double post sorry

by CEngine on 02/12/2006 20:55

Unless you guys want it on this site which makes more sense to do, its up to Aard I guess.

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#15: Re: hmm

by pushplay on 02/12/2006 21:40, refers to #13

Making a big annoying banner in varible-width ascii art is harder than it seems. :)

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by tentus on 02/12/2006 21:46, refers to #12

yes. a rather crafty depiction of pushplay. i'm not even going to try typing out tentus :P

ooh, a little thing that would be nice is an automatic removal of <a href=""></a> and such... a lot of newcomers don't realize there is no scripting or coding of any kind on our side of things.

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by enigma_0Z on 02/12/2006 23:53

heh, yeah.

I'm still voting for PhpBB2, but of course it is Aard's decision in the end, isn't it?

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#18: sorry

by Aardappel_ on 02/13/2006 03:10

these forums are not going to be using any other software. This software is exactly as I want it, no clutter and easy to see which posts are new.

Whenever I get on other boards and I have to look a huge animated gifs in every posts indicating the bad-assed-ness level of the 14 year old in question, it makes me want to kill people.

Yes, this forum can be improved, simple moderation could be cool, ask sleepwalkr.

inline images could be great for screenshots, but really, I don't mind having to do a single click to look at them, if it avoids general image spam.

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#19: Re: sorry

by Passa on 02/13/2006 13:42, refers to #18

well i guess they serve their purpose.

the only things that would be good to 'add' to the current forums would be:

1. a post count function
2. a function where moderators can delete spam.
3. an edit post function

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#20: Re: sorry

by SleepwalkR on 02/15/2006 12:17, refers to #19

What do you mean by post count? Currently, total and new posts are tracked for each thread.

There is a moderation feature, but only aard and I have access to it. Simple moderation means what, exactly? Do you want to appoint certain people moderators and allow them to delete posts? That would be possible, I guess. But is there really that much spam here?

Editing of posts, I dunno. I personally don't like it.

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