Improving Gamingforce

As much as a forum redesign sounds like a good idea it is hard work. It took CHz a couple days just to sepia and green the place up for Gaminfort and Gaminfort Yuletide Edition. A good deal of that grief was probably spent skinning the journals which is a hard feature to update without losing everything which is why we're stuck on such an old version of vBulletin. As much as I love chocojournal it is a real hindrance in getting this place moderned up. The other problem with updating vBulletin is the various custom stuff we have like dice roller and other misc. bbcode. Oh but we only have to reskin the place, not upgrade the vBulletin you say. Well I suppose so, but if you're going to go through all that trouble to get the place up to spec looks-wise shouldn't it's framework too?

That said I'm totally interested in seeing what people would like this place to look like. I've certainly thought about it myself.

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Custom skins are fun and all but there should be a set default style/skin that most people will end up using. People tend to make sigs that use the gff blue as a background to achieve a transparency effect. Basically I'm saying it's your choice to be different and see sigs that don't match your style's background is all.

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Originally Posted by Pangalin

Yeah basically everything is completely replaceable and the only reason this isn't getting done is because we haven't made Acer admin yet

Look as much as I'd love admin powers I've never really toyed around with databases or vBulletin. No way I could do this by myself even given the opportunity and even then holy crap.

Originally Posted by Agent Di Gun Him

::implication regular admins can even do these upgrades::

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Yeah, pretty much you require access to the server completely to do all this. Regular admins can basically do jack all.

We'd really need CHz to do this.

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I for one would miss those wonderful thumbs up and thumbs down gifs. They are endearing. Also I like props because it's like keeping a tally of high fives. =)

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