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Darth Ah'Na-tik
New Eden Mining and Salvaging Federation
#21 - 2014-08-05 23:15:46 UTC
S'Way wrote:
If you were around and remember the problems there was when they changed to this forum from the old one, you wouldn't ask them to change anything to do with the forums again.

First rule of EvE - if it's not broken, don't ask them to do anything to it.



It's really not that hard to keep up with web development. If they can develop successful games. I am sure they can hire a paid web developer that will keep every issue resolved. Plus the fact that web development security is quite easy when you know what you are doing with C++ and C and HTML and PHP you will get the hang of it.
Pix Severus
Empty You
#22 - 2014-08-05 23:19:32 UTC
The only issue I have with the forum software is that it keeps defaulting the background to Crucible when I want it to stay as Caldari.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#23 - 2014-08-05 23:23:21 UTC
Darth Ah'Na-tik wrote:
I am sure they can hire a paid web developer that will keep every issue resolved.
Maybe you should research the matter a bit more before commenting…?

Quote:
Plus the fact that web development security is quite easy
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
No.
Shederov Blood
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
#24 - 2014-08-05 23:28:28 UTC
Pix Severus wrote:
The only issue I have with the forum software is that it keeps defaulting the background to Crucible when I want it to stay as Caldari.
There are different backgrounds? Shocked

Who put the goat in there?
Glathull
Warlock Assassins
#25 - 2014-08-05 23:29:08 UTC
Darth Ah'Na-tik wrote:
Vbulletin is easy to administrate lmao


You mean easy like Wordpress is easy? As in it's easy to install on your server and easy to go buy a theme that looks just like everyone else's theme? Easy to figure out that the default settings are insane and it is guaranteed to fall over for more than 5 concurrent users? Easy to figure out, "Oh ****! You just corrupted my database and ate years of posts for no reason, you *****!"
Easy to figure out that oh my god, this **** is SLOW!!! Easy to decide that if you ever actually do want to do anything besides nothing you have to dig into a completely disorganized clusterf*** of a codebase that makes it easier to break things than it is to actually do anything useful? Easy to decide you don't want to be infected with the anti-programming mindset it would take for you to understand it, so you are just going to pay for support? Easy to decide that the support isn't worth the cost and that you should have just done it yourself the right way the first time?

Yes. Easy.

I honestly feel like I just read fifty shades of dumb. --CCP Falcon
Benny Ohu
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#26 - 2014-08-05 23:35:34 UTC
there is one thing i want, and that's a text editor that shows you the formatting as it's going to appear, instead of having to figure out what's going on looking at the [quote] tags
Benny Ohu
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#27 - 2014-08-05 23:39:20 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Quote:
Plus the fact that web development security is quite easy
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
No.

all you have to do is put an 's' at the end of 'http' and you're golden mate. i should work for the pentagon
Belt Scout
Thread Lockaholics Anonymous
#28 - 2014-08-06 00:01:34 UTC
The clicky takes us to the last poast in a thread. That alone is completely half-assed coding right there all by itself.

Like every other forum since the beginning, it should take me to the last post THAT I READ, no the last one in the thread and forcing us to backpedal to find where we left off.

.

They say most of your brain shuts down on the EvE forums. All but the impatient side, and the sarcastic side. No wonder I'm still awake.

**This IS my main so STFU.
Yang Aurilen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#29 - 2014-08-06 01:21:31 UTC
I tried web programming once. It wasn't fun. I'd rather go back to coding PLCs with C or assembly. Not that I'm a programmer or anything.

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Mistah Ewedynao
Ice Axe Psycho Killers
#30 - 2014-08-06 01:32:59 UTC
Just ban everyone who has posted in GD more than twenty times in the last month.

No more crapola. Cool

See ya Tippia!!

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Yang Aurilen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#31 - 2014-08-06 02:25:28 UTC
Mistah Ewedynao wrote:
Just ban everyone who has posted in GD more than twenty times in the last month.

No more crapola. Cool

See ya Tippia!!


Say hello to tippia MK II and Unsuxesful at eberything posting with variations of their names. It's like ESS and siphons all over again.Roll

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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#32 - 2014-08-06 02:52:35 UTC
Xuixien wrote:
Scipio Artelius wrote:
Darth Ah'Na-tik wrote:
The forum is very bland and has nearly no effort put into it.

I think the contained features of the forum aren't evidence of lack of effort, but evidence of how much effort has gone into keeping the place somewhere people actually come to.

Inline pictures, signature pictures and other features present in other forums used to be available. That didn't work out too well.

Only addition I'd like to see is a downvote/upvote feature for threads and a dislike feature as well as the like feature.


I'm so glad people can't put imbedded pictures into their signatures and posts. That would really **** up the forum.


I thought most people had pretty cool sigs back on the old forums. that and I could usually easily identify people by them.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#33 - 2014-08-06 09:48:12 UTC
Chainsaw Plankton wrote:
I thought most people had pretty cool sigs back on the old forums. that and I could usually easily identify people by them.

The old forum also had the single most important setting any forum ever needs: the ability to turn off signatures and images.
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#34 - 2014-08-06 10:08:29 UTC
Xuixien wrote:
I have never found the EVE-O forums lacking. What more do you want?

I'd like the forums to remember the theme I choose as my default instead of resetting it every single time I log in.

I'd like quotes to link back to the post in question instead of having to search for it.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#35 - 2014-08-06 10:13:35 UTC
Darth Ah'Na-tik wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
But if we get new forum software, ill have to go back to being a real person instead of an evolved automated trolling computer program that successfully passes the Turing Test.







I don't understand why people troll in the first place. It's quite irritating if you ask me. Why not be yourself is that too much to ask for ?


I am myself. For example; My pet peeve is people with poor communication skills such as yourself.

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Ruskarn Andedare
Lion Investments
#36 - 2014-08-06 11:22:14 UTC
Remiel Pollard wrote:
Darth Ah'Na-tik wrote:
This forum is kind of bland and doesn't provide nearly as many options as we should be able to have.


This is false. What we SHOULD be able to have is a platform on which to communicate ideas between players and developers, and that's exactly what we do have. Any additional features on top of that are frills, things we COULD have, not what we SHOULD have.


Actually they're things that we really, really SHOULDN'T have as we'll just use them to break the forum.

Tippia wrote:
Darth Ah'Na-tik wrote:
I am sure they can hire a paid web developer that will keep every issue resolved.
Maybe you should research the matter a bit more before commenting…?

Quote:
Plus the fact that web development security is quite easy
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
No.


This x3
Phoenix Jones
Small-Arms Fire
#37 - 2014-08-06 12:47:09 UTC
Well this forum used to allow direct links to images, but years ago people started posting nudes and fallic symbols everywhere, so they removed it.

It would be nice to post direct images back on the forum. Just institute a 1 strike ban policy. Don't allow trial accounts to post on anything but the newbie question forums, and ban all images from being posted in THAT forum subthread.

That'd dress it up a bit.

Yaay!!!!
Velicitia
XS Tech
#38 - 2014-08-06 13:15:36 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
... successfully passes the Turing Test.


That can't be true, since you're Unsuccessful At Everything, afterall. Cool

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#39 - 2014-08-06 19:24:57 UTC
Darth Ah'Na-tik wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
But if we get new forum software, ill have to go back to being a real person instead of an evolved automated trolling computer program that successfully passes the Turing Test.







I don't understand why people troll in the first place. It's quite irritating if you ask me. Why not be yourself is that too much to ask for ?


Let me be myself:

Your idea suck, the forums have exactly what is needed for a forum to work.

I dont see any features missing on here axcept a filter that prevents people like you posting utterly useless threads.

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Xasnevian
sadfadsfadsadsf
#40 - 2014-08-06 19:30:43 UTC
I ilke these forums.