Post by ShockHelix on Jan 9, 2019 0:42:40 GMT -5
So for the all of the zero people that are paying attention to this, I did a little bit of work on the site. Some progress is better then no progress. Since I'm using these news threads I could never keep up with before to keep track of things, going forward you'll be able to find important information about what I've done and why. You can think of this like a changelog I guess.
That's it as far as the current changes that are made, though with what I've said about the sections I removed, I think I'm going to probably look at adding a rule about thread limits. Both for the number of people that can participate (poor Returned) and the number of active threads you can participate in. It's never a good idea to overextend yourself and I think a lot of us were doing that without even realizing it. 3 sounds like a good number, but I don't know, we'll see. Thats all for today. We'll see if I manage to get anything done by this time next week. Probably not, I decided back in November to GM a Pathfinder game on Myth-Weavers, so that's gonna take up some time. Zen's playing with me, so maybe I'll be able to convince him to come figure out this code. He's pretty swamped at the moment though, so that may be a long time coming.
ShockHelix out.
Additonal Note: Looking at this after it's posted, the text looks horrible when there's so much of it together. Get a different font or change the font size or something so its easier on the eyes.
- First things first, I got rid of the old skin and all the broken images. Thanks a lot photobucket, really appreciate you screwing over everyone that used you for image hosting. Obviously, the intent here is going to be to make a new, nice looking skin. Problem is I still no next to nothing about proboards site design since the update so long ago. I guess I'll have to cross that bridge eventually. Oh well. Imgur will probably work for the image hosting, hopefully.
- Second thing, is I archived. . . well pretty much everything. I left the staff stuff in the staff board, and probably need to make a staff only archive for that, but then again maybe it's best to keep those threads where they are so we remember the problems of the past and how we dealt with them. I left all the creation stuff where they are, for the most part anyway.
- Archived the Halo stuff and deleted the boards. While I love Halo, we never really used it all that much. Maybe it's something to bring back after Halo: Infinite comes out, but at the moment all it does is fill the same role that Star Wars does as far as its setting goes, and it's no wonder it didn't get a ton of interest. I made sure not to delete anything we made for it though, so maybe it'll come back some day.
- Got rid of the boards for Legacy of Chaos and archived all of that as well. It was a great concept, but done too inefficiently and wasted time distracting people from other threads. Not to mention with all that stuff I never got around to finishing site design in the first place because of time spent on LoC and RP. Gotta complete the house before you try to live in it I guess.
- Lastly, I got rid of Freeform as well. Same reasoning more or less. While I love the idea of freeform and the ability to RP whatever you want, I feel like in hindsight we never used it properly. Always wound up in too many threads, with too many ideas, and it always ended up where someone or another wouldn't get around to posting because one thread in particular grabbed their devotion.
That's it as far as the current changes that are made, though with what I've said about the sections I removed, I think I'm going to probably look at adding a rule about thread limits. Both for the number of people that can participate (poor Returned) and the number of active threads you can participate in. It's never a good idea to overextend yourself and I think a lot of us were doing that without even realizing it. 3 sounds like a good number, but I don't know, we'll see. Thats all for today. We'll see if I manage to get anything done by this time next week. Probably not, I decided back in November to GM a Pathfinder game on Myth-Weavers, so that's gonna take up some time. Zen's playing with me, so maybe I'll be able to convince him to come figure out this code. He's pretty swamped at the moment though, so that may be a long time coming.
ShockHelix out.
Additonal Note: Looking at this after it's posted, the text looks horrible when there's so much of it together. Get a different font or change the font size or something so its easier on the eyes.
