Improving Gamingforce

Or Ace Combat Era, for that matter.

But theme months aren't the answer, so.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Why does everyone assume everyone else is going to yell at them for trying to increase the userbase?

Who are these mythical people who DON'T want forum activity that you're all so scared of?

Honestly.

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Obviously not, but I refer more to the "they" who would shut down any of these planned initiatives at the source, and even those-who-shall-not-be-named wouldn't fuck with those.

I shall be your aegis, folks. If you want to be more direct about it, go ahead.

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

Originally Posted by Pang

Yes, the upgrade would be kind of costly (honestly we're probably small enough that we could get away with piracy, but why risk it?). Still, a quick whip-crack in the direction of the donation page is probably enough to solve that issue; I know donations probably trickled out pretty quickly after the initial rush but people here can be very generous if you give them some kind of immediate prompt. This is assuming they've let their vb license expire, but they probably have.

I upgraded Concert Hall Interactive to vb 4.0 just to see what it looked like, and damn. This needs to happen.

The license has not expired. The update hasn't happened because of the sheer amount of recoding necessary to make half the features we take for granted work.

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Originally Posted by Pangalin

I'm not sure that "get people into chat faster" really solves the problems we're discussing, RR. If we could integrate chat INTO the board, though (there must be a plugin for that somewhere), that would be awesome and might help to fade out the sharp line between chat regs and chat negs.

This is a AWFUL idea (that integration thing I mean) but I will turn the greentext on the front to a mibbit link. One click and you're in a web browser window for it. I will add a small link next to it that's in the irc:// format.

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OH WELL THAT'S A SILLY PLACE FOR IT

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Honestly, chat moves way too fast to be at all readable or usable as a small window on the main page.

Also, the only premade plugin I know of for modern vB is just a mibbit front end, so if you're going to go to mibbit and have a new tab or window for it in order to actually read it....you might as well go to mibbit proper.

There are other webchat applications, obviously, but having a feed for the fast moving gfchat would be difficult to follow or implement in any way that's not "a new tab" or "new window" or what have you and still be user friendly, and in that case why even bother?

I was speaking idiomatically.

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

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What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I have made this argument too but get no love, Pang.

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Mo0 said I'm being a little too abrasive here, so let me sort of reiterate my stance.

I'm not trying to sound defeatist (especially to any baked Sassafrasses or other radio listeners) but I'm trying to be a touch realistic by letting you know just how much of an undertaking it is.

I am also trying to hammer home the point that it's not as modular as it first seems, especially on a fresh installation there. Granted, without having access to several things currently OR vB 4, I am making some assumptions. But based on what I have seen I think I'm not erring here.

I really don't want to sound like negative nancy and be shitting on this initiative. I want to help too, but I'm trying to be realistic when I say that there is a lot of loss that's going to happen if we jump straight into it, and carrying some stuff over will be quite a bit of difficult work.

I also hold the belief that we didn't pay to recover all that data those years ago to lose any forum info or anything that makes us unique because we want a fancier post-bit.

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Originally Posted by Bigblah

2. I propose installing it on the gamingforce.com server first, then I can open up access to people who wish to help out on design and coding. You guys can then port over anything that needs porting and see how it goes before we make the decision to go ahead and transition the forum here.

Fabulous. Please do this.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You don't have to worry about that right away, we are not doing a flat out transition right off the hop.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Yes, instead let us have thirty posts of "I agree" or twenty of "No, you're wrong."

Kinda like this one?

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