NWR Interactive => NWR Feedback => Topic started by: UltimatePartyBear on March 12, 2009, 05:39:25 PM
Title: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on March 12, 2009, 05:39:25 PM
The calendar isn't showing any birthdays outside of October, November, and December. I've checked 2008, 2009, and 2010. I changed my birthday from May to November, and it showed up there. This is a weird little bug.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: BeautifulShy on March 12, 2009, 09:25:54 PM
Yeah I noticed that when the new forums went up.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Stratos on March 16, 2009, 05:51:28 AM
That's sad, and my birthday is in less than a month. Do we have an answer on this yet?
But on the bright side, because you mentioned it I just discovered the calendar feature. Pretty neat. I should click the other buttons I don't normally know and see what they do.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: BeautifulShy on March 16, 2009, 07:19:50 AM
Nope not yet stratos.
It also shows that there isn't any birthdays coming up. Before the change of forums.It showed at the bottom who's birthday was coming up.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Mop it up on March 16, 2009, 07:21:15 PM
The calendar doesn't show any birthdays until October 3rd. I just tried changing my birthday to the 17th of March and it didn't show up on the calendar. I changed it back to December 5th and now it doesn't show up on that day either. Oops...
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 16, 2009, 07:21:54 PM
search is broken
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Stratos on March 16, 2009, 07:22:51 PM
The calendar doesn't show any birthdays until October 3rd. I just tried changing my birthday to the 17th of March and it didn't show up on the calendar. I changed it back to December 5th and now it doesn't show up on that day either. Oops...
Happy Birthday!
Who do we send a note off to about this? Has anyone PM'd someone on the tech team?
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: BeautifulShy on March 16, 2009, 07:55:57 PM
I haven`t sent a pm yet but Megabite I believe set up the new forums.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: ThePerm on March 25, 2009, 03:20:32 PM
a few broken items
Birthday Search members list, if you click on the alphabet it doesn't take you to where it is supposed to.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: NWR_Lindy on June 13, 2009, 07:21:57 PM
Let's just say that these aren't going to get fixed, since we have other, bigger fish to fry at the moment. Furthermore, at some point in the near future the fact that these are broken will become a moot point.
Ooooh, the cryptic musings of a website director. ;-)
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Stratos on June 13, 2009, 07:53:15 PM
Let's just say that these aren't going to get fixed, since we have other, bigger fish to fry at the moment. Furthermore, at some point in the near future the fact that these are broken will become a moot point.
Ooooh, the cryptic musings of a website director. ;-)
And now the plot thickens...*DUN-DUN-DUN*
Say, Lindy, if there were possibly new forums in the works, could we possibly get sig banners/images back? Or is there a reason they are gone?
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: BeautifulShy on June 13, 2009, 08:32:17 PM
I don't think we were able to have images in sigs ever. I think that is because it can take alot of bandwith.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Stratos on June 13, 2009, 08:34:52 PM
But if we are pulling them from other sites like our photobucket page then it shouldn't cause any issue with NWR servers.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Mop it up on June 13, 2009, 08:37:46 PM
Please no sig banners. That's one reason I left GameSpot. My computer is slow enough as it is.
Let's just say that these aren't going to get fixed, since we have other, bigger fish to fry at the moment. Furthermore, at some point in the near future the fact that these are broken will become a moot point.
Well I just hope it's all sorted out by December 5th.
But I don't care how cryptic you are so long as you answer me this: Was the site renamed to "NintendoWorldReport" because you didn't want to use the word "Wii" in the name?
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 13, 2009, 09:00:45 PM
I hope you meant to say "bring back Funhouse Banners" because thats the only banners that this forum is missing
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Stratos on June 13, 2009, 10:02:38 PM
Let's just say that these aren't going to get fixed, since we have other, bigger fish to fry at the moment. Furthermore, at some point in the near future the fact that these are broken will become a moot point.
Well I just hope it's all sorted out by December 5th.
But I don't care how cryptic you are so long as you answer me this: Was the site renamed to "NintendoWorldReport" because you didn't want to use the word "Wii" in the name?
You know someone wanted to call it NintendoWiiReport when they were tossing around potential names back in 2005/6 :P
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Mop it up on June 13, 2009, 10:48:14 PM
There's lots of clever things they could have done with the name.
But with the current name they really need to open a vacation spot so they can call it Nintendo World Resort.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Stratos on June 13, 2009, 10:50:18 PM
There's lots of clever things they could have done with the name.
But with the current name they really need to open a vacation spot so they can call it Nintendo World Resort.
Thats it!!! They are planning to do one of those rename promotional campaigns and will re-christen the site Nintendo World Resort in celebration of the release of Wii Sports Resort!
Mop it up, you are a genius.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: NWR_Lindy on June 14, 2009, 03:47:43 AM
But with the current name they really need to open a vacation spot so they can call it Nintendo World Resort.
It's on the site roadmap. First we have to buy an island, but it's hard to find one with a gigantic skull carved into the side of a mountain.
No sig banners/images. There's too much temptation for bandwidth leeching, and we can't police all of it.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Stratos on June 14, 2009, 04:11:22 PM
Understood. That makes sense. And thinking about it while browsing other forums, I think I would miss not having sigs because a lot of them are flashy and annoying.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Mop it up on June 14, 2009, 09:54:50 PM
Technically you still can have an image in your sig. It just can't be larger than 1x1 pixels.
I hate sig banners, they are like having a banner ad in between every post. And they would slow the load time down to a crawl. They are one reason I stopped visiting GameSpot, I can load up at least four pages here before loading up one page on GameSpot.
I like simplicity. That's one of the few things I still like about GameFAQs.
This is ideally what a website should look like:
http://www.google.com/
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Caliban on June 14, 2009, 11:07:20 PM
I like simplicity. That's one of the few things I still like about GameFAQs.
What a paradox.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Mop it up on June 15, 2009, 02:29:50 AM
How is that a paradox?
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Caliban on June 15, 2009, 12:00:45 PM
Their forums are kind of a clusterfuck. Nothing simple about them.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Mop it up on June 15, 2009, 05:37:11 PM
I don't see what is wrong with them. They don't even have author icons or custom titles or any of that fanciness. Just little bars to split posts which show the username, post time, and report link. Very clean and simple.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: that Baby guy on June 15, 2009, 05:49:31 PM
I see your point, and I agree. No one likes cluttered forums full of forever-long signatures, images everywhere, where the posters have accumulated about 50 random badges a piece, among things. That's something GFAQs does well, they keep the interface, the visuals, among things, very simple. No pictures, no clutter, no filler.
That said, I definitely prefer NWR's method: Allowing an avatar let's users input just the right amount of personality to breed familiarity and recognition. Requiring that pictures be of a certain size limit, and typically asking that they remain relevant, well, there isn't a much better way to do things, I think, at least, on a forum. You get words words words, and they keep relatively relevant. That's what I think works best.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on June 15, 2009, 10:30:18 PM
But with the current name they really need to open a vacation spot so they can call it Nintendo World Resort.
It's on the site roadmap. First we have to buy an island, but it's hard to find one with a gigantic skull carved into the side of a mountain.
So that's why Lindy went to the islands for vacation. Very crafty Lindy Luthor!!
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: that Baby guy on June 16, 2009, 12:02:42 AM
Is it harder to find an island with a giant skull carved into the side of a mountain than it is to carve a giant skull into the side of an island's mountain?
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Mop it up on June 16, 2009, 01:15:10 AM
That said, I definitely prefer NWR's method: Allowing an avatar let's users input just the right amount of personality to breed familiarity and recognition. Requiring that pictures be of a certain size limit, and typically asking that they remain relevant, well, there isn't a much better way to do things, I think, at least, on a forum. You get words words words, and they keep relatively relevant. That's what I think works best.
Oh, I didn't say GameFAQs has a better setup than here, just that its simplicity is one thing I like about it. I like author icons because I just have to insert that random picture of Birdo, though I sometimes wish the size limit were 150x150...
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Stratos on June 16, 2009, 03:57:36 PM
Is it harder to find an island with a giant skull carved into the side of a mountain than it is to carve a giant skull into the side of an island's mountain?
Maybe that's why we've had a boost in hiring here, Lindy needs the extra hands to carve out the giant skull for his secret evil bond villain lair.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: that Baby guy on June 16, 2009, 04:12:09 PM
I dream of a day when all islands with mountains have skulls carved in :)
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: BeautifulShy on August 20, 2009, 05:32:28 PM
Quote from ThePerm
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a few broken items
Birthday Search members list, if you click on the alphabet it doesn't take you to where it is supposed to.
Get to it staff.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: King of Twitch on August 20, 2009, 05:41:01 PM
soab. this was supposed to be in the other thread
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: BeautifulShy on August 29, 2009, 06:50:56 PM
I see you fixed the Birthdays in an interesting way. The persons user name is orange when it is their Bday.
OK get onto the Search problem and Memberlist problem. Preferably the Member list.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: ThePerm on March 01, 2010, 08:13:53 PM
search works, just make sure when you search that it is NOT most relevant topic
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: MegaByte on March 18, 2010, 05:34:17 AM
Fixed.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 18, 2010, 11:33:51 AM
Damn, there is a lot of b-days this month.
Now we gotta get vudu back on posting game releases on the calendar.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Mop it up on March 19, 2010, 09:06:45 PM
Ten bucks says you all still forget my birthday. Not that I care. Except I'll be coming to collect that ten bucks.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: BeautifulShy on March 19, 2010, 09:31:24 PM
December 5th.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Mop it up on March 19, 2010, 09:35:02 PM
Well it is listed now so you just looked it up. Nice try though.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: BeautifulShy on March 19, 2010, 11:13:26 PM
Uh no I remembered when we had the meetup in Animal Crossing:City Folk.
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Stratos on March 20, 2010, 06:58:53 AM
I thought it was the 10th of December?
Title: Re: What happened to the birthdays?
Post by: Mop it up on March 20, 2010, 04:04:24 PM
