Author Topic: What happened to the birthdays? (Read 22418 times)

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.

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #1 on:** March 12, 2009, 09:25:54 PM »

Yeah I noticed that when the new forums went up.

Stratos · « **Reply #2 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.

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #3 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.

Mop it up · « **Reply #4 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...

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #5 on:** March 16, 2009, 07:21:54 PM »

search is broken

Stratos · « **Reply #6 on:** March 16, 2009, 07:22:51 PM »

Quote from: 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...

Happy Birthday!

Who do we send a note off to about this? Has anyone PM'd someone on the tech team?

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #7 on:** March 16, 2009, 07:55:57 PM »

I haven`t sent a pm yet but Megabite I believe set up the new forums.

ThePerm · « **Reply #8 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.

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #9 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. ;-)

Stratos · « **Reply #10 on:** June 13, 2009, 07:53:15 PM »

Quote from: 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. ;-)

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?

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #11 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.

Stratos · « **Reply #12 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.

Mop it up · « **Reply #13 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.

Quote from: 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.

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?

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #14 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

Stratos · « **Reply #15 on:** June 13, 2009, 10:02:38 PM »

Quote from: 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.

Quote from: 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.
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

Mop it up · « **Reply #16 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.

Stratos · « **Reply #17 on:** June 13, 2009, 10:50:18 PM »

Quote from: 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.

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.

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #18 on:** June 14, 2009, 03:47:43 AM »

Quote from: Mop_it_up on June 13, 2009, 10:48:14 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.

No sig banners/images. There's too much temptation for bandwidth leeching, and we can't police all of it.

Stratos · « **Reply #19 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.

Mop it up · « **Reply #20 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/

Caliban · « **Reply #21 on:** June 14, 2009, 11:07:20 PM »

Quote from: Mop_it_up on June 14, 2009, 09:54:50 PM

I like simplicity. That's one of the few things I still like about GameFAQs.

What a paradox.

Mop it up · « **Reply #22 on:** June 15, 2009, 02:29:50 AM »

How is that a paradox?

Caliban · « **Reply #23 on:** June 15, 2009, 12:00:45 PM »

Their forums are kind of a clusterfuck. Nothing simple about them.

Mop it up · « **Reply #24 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.

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Author Topic: What happened to the birthdays? (Read 22418 times)