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Shaper
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written Sunday, November 12 2006 19:02
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quote:I already do that. :P -------------------- I tried to think of something witty to put here. Needless to say, I failed. Posts: 2686 | Registered: Friday, September 8 2006 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, November 12 2006 19:18
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We had avatars right here on this very UBB for a while. They were nixed for the slower modems among us, if I remember correctly. Some people decided that it would be a good idea to have really painfully massive avatars, which didn't help matters any. —Alorael, who thinks most complaints could be addressed by moving to a different BB system. Nearly any decent system, actually. The UBB now exists solely due to intertia and sentimental value. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Sunday, November 12 2006 19:35
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quote:Is it really not possible to limit the size on them? Not that I care much; most forums that allow avatars either require them all to be admin-approved or else suck horribly, in part due to the avatars people use. quote:That's like keeping around a whiny computer fan just because you liked the computer it used to be in. :P -------------------- There are two kinds of game players...those who are newbies, and those who were. Posts: 322 | Registered: Monday, April 12 2004 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Sunday, November 12 2006 21:07
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They should switch software, jettison all threads to the PPP, make members sign up anew rather than transfer them, and then not leave a sign on the door. Leaving the old system up and running/limping, would be a cruel, but characteristic, joke for the Vogel man to play on the unwitting. :P Posts: 143 | Registered: Sunday, October 29 2006 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, November 12 2006 21:36
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Trying to load pages with avatars and even worse huge graphics file signatures is a pain at dial up modem speed. I've seen it on other boards and I sometimes give up rather than wait for the page to finish. I suppose I could just keep changing my option to text only loading if that happens here and have to switch for the photo threads. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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...b10010b...
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written Sunday, November 12 2006 22:05
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quote:You say this as if it hasn't already happened. :snaa: -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, November 12 2006 22:08
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quote:Okay, I'm trying to figure out what this means... and I'm getting nothing. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, November 12 2006 22:28
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I don't get the snaa, but I do remember the switch from Ikonboard for some reason. Even though I wasn't around back then. :P In the meantime, Invision and vBulletin are both good choices. phpBB, I am afraid to say, sucks. If you have any kind of money to spend, avoid it. I prefer free software normally, but phpBB isn't up to par. But yeah, a board whose tagline is apparently "Database? Who needs a database?" should probably considered outdated. On that note, I read the Infopop forums the other day and saw how people were debating whether the switch to MySQL made sense, seeing as the flat files worked perfectly. I couldn't read on... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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...b10010b...
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written Sunday, November 12 2006 22:49
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quote:Stealth ninja ass assassin. Used to be one of the smilies on Desp; equivalent to :ph34r: on Polaris. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Monday, November 13 2006 04:36
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Images in signatures! Just that. Also, some new graemilins. The " :o " one totally sucks. And, of course, a vBullettin would be great. -------------------- Download Geneforge 4: Rebellion You have 6 posts. Nobody cares what you think. - Thuryl Wikipedia may be your friend, but UBB is not. - Dikiyoba Posts: 1310 | Registered: Tuesday, December 20 2005 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, November 13 2006 05:16
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Interesting. Does anyone else have some suggestions to list? Some ideas: Invision, vBulletin, phpBB, UBB.threads (otherwise known as "throwing good money after bad"), EzBoard (that was a joke), punBB. Those are just about all forums I've ever posted on, so I have to cut it off here. Edit: Or Jeff could opt to revamp his entire site with some Content Management System (I'm in love with Drupal, myself), and integrate the forum with the rest of that site. But I like the retro handmade website design, and it is certainly a running system (and has been for the last 12 years or so). [ Monday, November 13, 2006 05:19: Message edited by: Sirrus ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Monday, November 13 2006 05:49
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quote:Oh oh, we catched his interest. That's Interesting. Are we going to change anything? -------------------- Download Geneforge 4: Rebellion You have 6 posts. Nobody cares what you think. - Thuryl Wikipedia may be your friend, but UBB is not. - Dikiyoba Posts: 1310 | Registered: Tuesday, December 20 2005 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Monday, November 13 2006 06:12
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The software behind these forums are not the best, but I've been OK with them. I'd be delighted with avatars, though. Couldn't there just be some preference to set to block large images or something if you have a slow connection? -------------------- Thuryl: I mean, most of us don't go around consuming our own bodily fluids, no matter how delicious they are. ==== Alorael: War and violence would end if we all had each other's babies! ==== Drakefyre: Those are hideous mangos. Posts: 1415 | Registered: Thursday, March 27 2003 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Monday, November 13 2006 07:12
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Avatars would make life interesting. What would be really nice would be if we could choose a personal option as to whether or not said avatars would be visible, to help those with dial-up. Something more stable along the lines of board software would be nice, though I have no idea where to go with that. HTML support seems to have its advantages, however, even the slightest amount of thinking in that regard leads to the conclusion that its abuse will lead to more problems than conveniences. Personally, I could care less about a PM utility. I get IMed and e-mailed more often than I get PMed. -------------------- The Silent Assassin made it in in seven hours and sixteen minutes flat. I think that he's catching on. -------------------- -Lenar Labs What's Your Destiny? Ushmushmeifa: Lenar's power is almighty and ineffable. All hail lord Noric, god of... well, something important, I'm sure. Posts: 735 | Registered: Monday, January 16 2006 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, November 13 2006 09:49
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If the new board finally had a sane way of archiving private messages (or at least did away with these ridiculous limits) good. Otherwise I'd just let it fill up in protest and make people use email. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Monday, November 13 2006 09:54
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quote:What's wrong with phpBB? The two best-moderated, fastest-loading, easiest-to-use forums I've ever seen both run it. -------------------- There are two kinds of game players...those who are newbies, and those who were. Posts: 322 | Registered: Monday, April 12 2004 07:00 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Monday, November 13 2006 10:14
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These boards did have avatars, until Jeff turned them off "to save bandwidth". And if you want HTML turned on, take a look at PPP archives of Nethergate forums. There are some threads of people going HTML-crazy there, including huge brightly colored signatures, scrolling posts, and any other "fun" you can think of withing the limits of CoC. About PM systems, I actually prefer UBB, because it's the only board I've seen that gives you private threads for your PMs, making conversations much more orderly than quote pyramids that grow in email-like systems. And with up to 50 threads of up to 21 messages each, there is also more storage capacity here than on any large public board I've seen. The only problem with UBB is that it has a habit of eating threads, especially when they get too large. Whether the problem is serious enough for Jeff to move the boards depends on whether useful threads in game sub-forums start getting eaten. Just don't expect avatars, enabled HTML, or more PM space for non-moderators from a new board system. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, November 13 2006 12:15
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A temporary counter-measure to the thread-eating will hopefully be the live-updating mirror once that's done. But in the long run, a forum with less than 2-3 data corruptions per month would be nice. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, November 13 2006 12:36
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I thought the avatars were disabled for reasonable if not entirely sound reasons of other peoples' bandwidth. Pruning to save bandwidth was the decision that baffled me. I do have a few memories of Djur ranting about how there's no waste of bandwidth when the images are hosted by other people, though, so maybe the reasons were retroactively altered. HTML enablement is a choice. It is a choice that many of us have made quite consciously. It is a choice I make every day when I think, "Do I want to enable HTML for RWG? It would not definitely make things worse." And HTML stays disabled. —Alorael, who put excessive effort into this post. A cookie to those who notice and don't complain. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Monday, November 13 2006 13:09
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quote:No, Jeff was saying that it was the waste of his bandwidth. I am still confused by that claim, because I don't think externally hosted images use any of Spidweb bandwidth. (I guess UBB might be storing all avatars locally, but I don't know such details.) quote:1 cookie here please. (Does it count if I noticed only after reading your sig?) [ Monday, November 13, 2006 13:10: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Dollop of Whipped Cream
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written Monday, November 13 2006 14:37
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quote:Quite literally. :P -------------------- "Tyranicus is about the only one that still posts in the Nethergate Forum." —Randomizer Spiderweb Chat Room Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 562 | Registered: Friday, December 14 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, November 13 2006 18:54
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If it was to save Spiderweb's bandwidth then Djur was right and the rationale for avatar removal was not rational at all. —Alorael, who now has an urge to do that more often. Much, much more often. You may now be afraid. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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