Improving Gamingforce

The journals are the closest thing GFF has to Facebook. I think a lot of the people who are sticking to journals are the people who have become more and more comfortable with that style of socializing rather than the forum style.

How ya doing, buddy?

Another thing: We seem to have a SA style approach to threads, that of focusing on megathreads just to avoid clutter. The problem is, we don't have nearly the activity level to justify that. Why can't threads get created about smaller topics? They may get a few posts each, but that still looks better than having 3 months' worth of threads visible on the first page of a forum.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It'd be neat to do something along the lines of Prime Gamer except not restricted to game reviews. Just let people post stuff that goes on a WordPress blog. It's not something we'd ever advertise the hell out of, but it's a better and more modern frontpage than what we have now.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

$285 is chump change compared to the meet. We should be able to raise that in a week. Seriously.

I'd love to see GFF reach the modern age.

Hell, if no one else has the time or wherewithal to do it I'd even volunteer to do the upgrade myself. I need the practice.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Agent Di Gun Him

Also, the only premade plugin I know of for modern vB is just a mibbit front end

It at least provides the illusion of it being a PART OF the forums, so.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Without knowing where to look, I can't say anything for sure, but isn't there a "marketplace" of sorts with vB extensions that could take care of some of those?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

• [spoiler], [spoilers], and [spoilersa]
• [youtube]
• [mp3]
• Props and Disses
• Dice roller - Dice Roller [BBCode] - vBulletin.org Forum
• Automerge Double Post - Doublepost Prevention - vBulletin.org Forum

In all honesty, this is the only stuff we even really need, and even then I could argue we could do without a youtube embed.

ChocoJournal would be gone (oh no) but replaced by a journal system built into vB itself. CJ has for a long time been a major reason behind not upgrading GFF. It'd be hard to rip the bandaid off, but really, if we're talking about getting a fresh coat of paint, it can't hurt to upgrade the foundation while we're at it.

FELIPE NO

But how else will they be able to promote people to positions of dubious distinction in the world's most hilarious game of "Let's Pretend We're In High School" this side of LiveJournal

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I'll admit to being guilty of getting distracted by the shiny new toys vB4 would offer.

Let's be honest, though, a majority of what GFF takes for granted isn't really all that necessary, and some of it is built into vB4 out of the box. If we look at "things that had to get added to current GFF" as a list of things that will need to get done, it'll look like a much larger task than if we sit down and assess just what exactly would have to get done.

And, again, I'm volunteering to help. For selfish reasons, to be sure; I've not worked on a codebase of that size, and I want to exercise my coding muscles.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Another thing to point out: If we were to upgrade, it'd be a bitch and a half to get the old posts/journals imported into the new system. It's a guess based on zero knowledge of the backend, but it seems likely that the amount of hackery involved with GFF as is would make importing either impossible or horribly not worth the time it'd take.

And we did pay out the fucking nose for a hard drive fix a while ago.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Let's put an AJAX thing in there that makes the number magically appear like digg does

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The blog and CMS features are both really neat. People can promote posts to front page status or put a post in their blog, and the blog stuff in general is pretty neat compared to ChocoJournal.

The user reputation system is not really a good replacement as-is for props/disses. By default it just toggles a little variable that you have to hover over someone's name to even see. Not to mention the fact that it takes two clicks to prop someone and two clicks plus having to write a comment to diss someone. I've tinkered with trying to at the very least have two buttons there to streamline it, but no changes I've attempted to make have actually been reflected on the template.

I'd also need to muck around with reputation.php, because right now reputation.php doesn't have a flag (?action=prop or ?action=diss) so it takes you to a page that makes you choose if you try to do it directly.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?