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the fifth page of watmm is down related goofiness |
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O_o you mean the fifth page of this thread in the case of the default setting of 25 messages per page? or the fifth page of watmm.com is down, because of the related goofiness or.... |
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*weeps blood* |
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fifth page of this thread, of (watmm is down) related goofiness |
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^^^^ 2nd stupid lameass remark in this thread |
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dude.... that's all I do |
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that's cool baby!!! |
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jesus died and was resurrected in less time than watmm |
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shhhh. don't tell joyrex that i was here... |
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"UN humanitarian aid is being flown in to assist in the relief efforts for the WATMM refugees..." ;) |
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I Super Need Help! |
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If your avatar is a CAT scan of your brain, then you definitely super need help. O-O |
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We're working on it: Cen is still plugging away at the DB as we speak; The AFX, AE and BOC sections are up, and I am uploading the SP section now - The revamped BOC section will go up after we get all this mess sorted with the forums. I still have many paths to fix, but everything on the front end seems to be working now (haven't tested, only an assumption) Will do in-depth testing and repair once the forum is back up (which will be at it's own URL subdomain). |
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and that's why you guys are shining stars, good luck with the remaining work fellas! (this would be what...the 3rd or fourth lameass remark I've made in this thread? please someone do tell me) |
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Actually, that was your 1st stupid-ass remark...;) |
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maybe joy should think about restricting pigeon's access once the board comes back. |
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Ah these usernames look firmiliar! haha! B-) |
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we can still use some of those familiar avatars (read: where is audrey, ms-dos?) |
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Any possibility of making the forum less hideously ugly, Joy?... Phobs & the crews minimal design of this forum is sooo much better.... (ekk...sorry to sound bichy BTW...just altho watmm is a great resource for the AFX community, the mb really lets it down....)... |
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except mine :D |
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Any possibility of making the forum less hideously ugly, Joy?... Phobs & the crews minimal design of this forum is sooo much better.... (ekk...sorry to sound bichy BTW...just altho watmm is a great resource for the AFX community, the mb really lets it down....)... |
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I think that maybe personal taste there jand, I'd have to admit that my taste is the exact opposite... |
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i agree with you man :D |
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I guess its personal preference. Personally though, I don't see how anyone can think this place is as functional as the watmm message board. Im sorry to say it to whoever coded it, but its just not as good as the UBB style *shrug* |
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yeah. UBB/Invasion-style boards are found on every site nowdays, so it HAS to be the most popular one..... ;) |
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"functional"? it's our own decision to limit the number of functions, not because we're able to add them. if we find out we need a new function, we code it. |
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*...we're NOT able to add them... |
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Right, but there's just some stuff I find lacking. Like no quote feature. No "last post by" listed in the thread listing. No file embedding. No quick and easy UBB tags for messages. No emoticons. I dunno, this board and the planet-mu one both feel... restrictive compared to UBB. Also, confining it to a narrow window hurts on readability as for some reason I find it easier to scan my eyes left to right than swap down another line. Its actually slightly more of a problem here because the middle section (havent checked if its a frame or not) won't automatically scale to resolution, or, if it does, then the scale is set really narrow, as at 1280x1024 at work and 1600x1200 at home, I get a huge black space to the right of the thread window. This is all of course, my personal taste and opinion, Im not trying to flame anyone or tell you how to design you board, just my thoughts on the non-UBB style boards Ive seen. |
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table=100% is just so amateurish when it comes to design. |
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i really like this board. i think if it was full of emoticons and cheesy aol/messenger crap, i wouldnt like it as much. its nice and straight to the point. plus, the people who post here are spot-on. thats the main thing. |
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"No "last post by" listed in the thread listing" before clicking on the thread title, hover your mouse over the thread name. it shows who last posted. |
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No "last post by" listed in the thread listing. check again. keep your mouse over the specific thread in the list. No file embedding. you mean picture atatchments? there is for premium members. No quick and easy UBB tags for messages. hopefully ppl would learn html tags in here. No emoticons. yeah, im really missing those 100+ smilies too... |
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Alright if you're going for a peice of artwork, but to me a message board is a functional tool, and there's more empty black space to the right of the message column than there is message column on my screen right now. I could see if there were adition content in there but right now its just wasted space. Also forgot a couple of UBB features missing: users currently reading thread, sectionable board topics (this really becomes more usefull with broader ranged foums like somethingawful.com's but even still...). There's more Im sure but you get the point. |
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Messageboard software is a bit of a commodity now, there's all sorts of stuff out there. Which is good, as it saves having to re-invent the wheel everytime. |
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Doesnt have to be just pictures, can be mp3's, video's etc. Mousing over a thread to see who last posted isn't nearly the same as if Ive posted to several threads Id have to mouse over them all for a second. Especially considering the empty black area to the right of the board window there's plenty of room to simply have it listed in a column. No quote button is a big hurt for me as well, I don't want to be arsed to copy and paste then italicise a bunch of text on my own when 15 minutes of coding and a button can do it for me, things like that are the reasons why we have computers and all. |
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I could see if there were adition content in there but right now its just wasted space. that is one of the things i DONT like about UBB/Invasion boards. "look there's an empty spot there - someone please fill it out with some information!" "-but we've already used all our variables" "-i dont care... find out something new.. maybe list the person who's having birthday tomorrow?" users currently reading thread Big Brother... sectionable board topics (this really becomes more usefull with broader ranged foums like somethingawful.com's but even still...) splitting the community huh? There's more Im sure but you get the point. not really. we're totally aware of what UBB and other messagesboards are loaded with... but we have choosen to implement stuff we actually need... |
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"Doesnt have to be just pictures, can be mp3's, video's etc. " actually thats a security reason... and we care about bandwidth/storage issues... |
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No message editing either, though that might be a premium benefit Im not sure, because I would have just edited my last instead of writing this new post, but, emoticons don't have to be smiley's and can get quite creative. For example, take somethingawful's ":goatse:" I bet you didn't know you could turn the goatse man into an animated emoticon ;) |
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How old are you man? |
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Me? Im 23, why? |
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Oh OK, then you should have grown out of that kiddy stuff! (UBB style) |
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hahah, ok. Ive just yet to see a more functional, flexible, configurable, scalable (the Something Awful forum goons are 18,000 strong at this point, as an example I'm familiar with), and stable as UBB. Hell, you could even customize to say, waste half of your screen on empty space if you wanted to... |
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1600x1200 at home ~ That's a hell of a resolution there, could you try something? Open 2 browser 1 - this message board 2 - the xltronic discography. dont have any of them on full screen. put them side by side, see if that helps your empty black area woes! I think that'd look pretty cool |
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Right but then where do I put my somethingawful.com forum window? |
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But yeah, I'd think you encounter alot of interesting nothing-ness' when using a browser (or computer for that matter) at that res. |
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Well that was my point though, the good ones, no I don't, I just get much wider, and less tall sentences. At least in places where frames or tables are set to scale rather than become absolute values. |
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Hahaha! |
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I think both boards are appealing in their own way? |
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....whoops!!...Looks like I've opened a real can of worms by mentioning the design style.... I'm a design Snob so pls. don't take none of that shit persoanlly, Wattm'ers... |
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none taken jand. it was actually nice to read about the ideas behind xlt's design. i agree with pigeon and add to that, that although xlt is more to the point it misses the pictures and shit (emoticons). the points and the shit doesnt necessarily have to exclude eachother, i think. speaking of emoticons, i guess ivo doesnt like posting here ;) |
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