Author Topic: What you think of the Change (Read 12166 times)

Ceric · « **on:** May 25, 2007, 07:25:42 AM »

I'm going to start off. Warning people warning. I was literally away from the forums for a minute and the thing changed.

vudu · « **Reply #1 on:** May 25, 2007, 07:29:49 AM »

1) I still think there needs to be a VC forum.
2) The "General Gaming" forum is confusing. It doesn't jump out and scream "non-Nintendo" like it should.
3) Why did "Technical Discussion" get lumped into "General Gaming"? It would make more sense to move "Wi-Fi Support" out of the "Wi-Fi Connection" section and lump it with that.

Ceric · « **Reply #2 on:** May 25, 2007, 07:36:38 AM »

That is true. Call it: "Technical and WiFi Discussion"

UncleBob · « **Reply #3 on:** May 25, 2007, 07:39:08 AM »

It's better... I still wish we just had better forum software. Perhaps something that doesn't look like crap from WAP...

Pale · « **Reply #4 on:** May 25, 2007, 08:39:34 AM »

Technical discussion was mostly dead anyway. VC discussion should go in Nintendo Home Console discussion. At least that's how I feel about it.

UncleBob · « **Reply #5 on:** May 25, 2007, 08:49:06 AM »

What if they put classic Game Boy games for download? Then we're screwed...

Ceric · « **Reply #6 on:** May 25, 2007, 09:12:04 AM »

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Originally posted by: Pale
Technical discussion was mostly dead anyway. VC discussion should go in Nintendo Home Console discussion. At least that's how I feel about it.

Its more active then Wifi Support is. I really think those two should just be merged because Wifi support is technical discussion.

stevey · « **Reply #7 on:** May 25, 2007, 09:13:38 AM »

General Gaming and General Chat are too easily mixed up and should be renamed.

Artimus · « **Reply #8 on:** May 25, 2007, 11:56:24 AM »

I love it. It's been a long time coming.

The only thing I'd like to see is General Gaming split into a current and retro areas.

And YES, we badly need new software. vBulletin is awesome. I mean, look, FuseTalk was last updated in 2002!

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #9 on:** May 25, 2007, 12:37:22 PM »

I'm trying to make the switch to vb or ubb as fast as possible :[

UncleBob · « **Reply #10 on:** May 25, 2007, 01:32:25 PM »

This "Simple Machine Forum" looks sweet using WAP...

http://board.gscentral.org/index.php

Crimm · « **Reply #11 on:** May 25, 2007, 02:34:22 PM »

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Originally posted by: UncleBob
What if they put classic Game Boy games for download? Then we're screwed...

We already have TG-16 and Genesis stuff.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #12 on:** May 25, 2007, 02:36:44 PM »

We need an Ian Automatic reply forum. Instead of him posting messages in the main topics, we can just refer to this database and pick what best fits the situation out of 4 choices.

Ceric · « **Reply #13 on:** May 25, 2007, 03:15:42 PM »

Personally I want an RSS Feed of the forums. It save me a lot of time.

Sir_Stabbalot · « **Reply #14 on:** May 25, 2007, 04:30:26 PM »

I can't complain. General gaming is too broad though. Really needs split.

that Baby guy · « **Reply #15 on:** May 28, 2007, 08:12:03 AM »

I think there should be some necessary minimum post limit before you can post on the friend code forum. Something like five, or something. At least they can try to be part of the community to some extent before they play the community in the video games.

vudu · « **Reply #16 on:** May 28, 2007, 08:43:44 AM »

That's the worst idea ever. All that will do is encourage newbies to spam the other boards with worthless posts in order to get the required minimum.

MegaByte · « **Reply #17 on:** May 28, 2007, 09:17:15 AM »

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Originally posted by: UncleBob
This "Simple Machine Forum" looks sweet using WAP...

That's what I've been advocating. We'll just have to see what we can do.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 28, 2007, 10:29:16 AM »

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Originally posted by: UncleBob
It's better... I still wish we just had better forum software.

I second this!!!

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Originally posted by: S-U-P-E-R
I'm trying to make the switch to vb or ubb as fast as possible :[

Thank you, the forum software has needed an update for quite some time. If there is anything we as a community can do to help, please feel free to ask.

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Originally posted by: UncleBob
This "Simple Machine Forum" looks sweet using WAP...

http://board.gscentral.org/index.php

That doesn't look bad at all, and from the quick glances that I saw it has all the features that this forum software might be missing, except for quick and easy direct to post linking.

MegaByte · « **Reply #19 on:** May 28, 2007, 10:35:49 AM »

SMF has direct to post linking too.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #20 on:** May 28, 2007, 10:59:03 AM »

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Originally posted by: MegaByte
SMF has direct to post linking too.

SO does Fuse talk, but is it quick and easy, like the number of the post linkable in the corner, or something just as quick and easy?

Ceric · « **Reply #21 on:** May 28, 2007, 12:07:54 PM »

I personally like the current setup of the forums. Thinking about it their isn't much that I would change. I mean I like to add such features as:

Being able to see threads created by a user

Being able to see all the posts of a user

Better Search

RSS Feed/s (This is probably just me but if I could get a feed of a thread or forum that be nice)

Thinking about it even with all my complaining I don't think I really want things like:

Users being able to use different fonts

Users being able to use different color text

Embedding HTML

I personally can think of a few special cases where that would be cool, Media Create Data, but besides those it would make the whole thing disjoint and slightly hard to read. I really like how clean these forums are do to the simplicity of the software. Now I wouldn't mind being able to change the colors and font in my personal settings on how I view and read the forums.

UncleBob · « **Reply #22 on:** May 28, 2007, 03:34:10 PM »

Here's my wishlist:

Option to turn off viewing of avatars. (sorry folks...)

Option to turn off signatures. (I hate signatures that are three times larger than that poster's average post. Sorry again)

Auto scaling of attached images (I'm the big offender there, I guess... Sorry me)

Bold, Italics, Underlining and Spoilers being the only special font options.

Standard HTML code instead of crazy-board only codes.

Easy WAP Access. I love being able to browse the net from the toilet at work.

The ability to ignore posters. Not something I would use, but I think every board should have it.

Me as grand king ruler of all.

NO* YouTube (or such) video imbedding. So many forums are going with this and I hate it. If I want to look at your stupid video, I can click on a link.

Bring Back the Rat!

*edit* And how 'bout some code that actually makes a bulleted list when you use a command called 'bullet'?

Ceric · « **Reply #23 on:** May 28, 2007, 04:11:43 PM »

You don't like the List Item command?

Actually I'm sort of glad its like that because you don't get the space you get if you use bullet or num and just use li alone.

I definitely agree about the Video Embedding and the Auto-scaling of images if the exceed forums limit.
I will also add built-in Spell and Grammar checker in my wish list.

UncleBob · « **Reply #24 on:** May 28, 2007, 04:15:41 PM »

Well, when I press the little button that shows lines with bullets in front of them, I expect it to post a bulleted list.

Not this kind of list...

I mean, what the heck is this list for anyway?

The little picture shows bullets...

The command is bullet...

But there's no bullets! There's a lot of space though... Bullet holes?

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Author Topic: What you think of the Change (Read 12166 times)