Improving Gamingforce

Originally Posted by Soluzar

With a bit of artful programming, it shouldn't be impossible to import old journal entries into the new vBulletin blog system. I'm not saying it would be easy, or that it should be done, but with sufficient will, it should be possible. It is just a matter of copying and pasting database entries into the proper tables...

It's just a matter of CHz's time versus everybody else's time. I'm pretty sure CHz's time is p valuable to him though so don't get your hopes up.

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You're stepping up for that, Nutty?

Thank god, I'm getting sick of shoving socks down my pants to appease him.

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but it helps complete the illusion

There's nowhere I can't reach.

ONLY YOU ARE INTO THAT.

NOT RADEZ. YOU.

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

have you been in chat since 2002?

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

Originally Posted by Pangalin

I go in there like once a year, and wait around a couple hours hoping something funny will happen. My expectations have not, as such, been challenged.

But okay if you guys think it would compromise the "useability" of #gfchat I'll bow to your wisdom. Just tryin' to bring your creepy separatist camp into the fold~

"Fast moving" compared to the forum, sure.

Actually my point was that gfchat can get offensive and if the point is to motivate people to participate more, maybe we shouldn't offend them right off the bat, kind of a homage to what you were saying initially and all.

Also (speaking as a user of the internet) I've always hated active chat window widgets on pages where I'm just trying to browse content. They're slow to load, and they move quickly (or quickly enough to attract my attention while I'm trying to read about Mo0's latest antics). I'm not saying it's wholly a bad idea though - maybe a slightly filtered version could exist, like taking select quotes out of context (not QOOC but more like how chat statistic pages are done) and posting it somewhere. "See what chat brigade is talking about!" sort of thing. Dunno.

I was speaking idiomatically.

You guys have to keep in mind that all these modules are user-generated, which means we could be getting CHz-quality code, or we could be getting bobo-quality code. I know that some of the stuff we have originated as modules, but there may have been work done to make sure it's compatible with the rest of our stuff and also works to our taste. This takes time; since we had this version of vB since 2006 it doesn't seem like it takes that much time but it does. In fact, off the top of my head I can recall the "last 5 posts" thing being a module Blah downloaded, which he then had to modify when he realized there was an exploit in it. And I know half the forum couldn't live without the prop system.

If what we want is to move to a vB 4, that's what we want, but just recognize that this is a large time investment you're asking of the developers on staff just to get the new forum up to speed with the old forum, nevermind the new tchotchkes and gewgaws we want.

I'm not saying that new features wouldn't be valuable or worthwhile investing time in, either. Just don't ask so much of Skills and CHz's time.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Pangalin

It's kind of a mystery to me what the point of even having admins without code access is. I mean either you trust a dude or you don't IMO =/

Edit: I mean I know that's not your decision or nothin' just sayin'

It's not really a level of trust issue, rather than a level of competency issue. Styphon is brilliant at bringing down the banhammer and I trust his judgement in picking out people who can monitor a forum full of miscreants, but I don't know how good he is at editing a system in which there are no constant backups made. Do you remember how Paikuhan deleted every one of his posts? And he didn't have code access.

I'm just saying I'm totally okay with admins being admins for wildly different reasons.

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Originally Posted by Pangalin

Yes I already presented this very logical counterargument to myself

I didn't read it.

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I'm glad we agree, though!

How ya doing, buddy?

I want the sad trombone from The Price Is Right to play when you try to access a thread while you're banned or don't have the privs to access. Can we do this?

Jam it back in, in the dark.