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Features / Re: Naming Boards/blogs/sites etc.
« on April 12th, 2011, 08:28 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on April 12th, 2011, 09:34 AM
That doesn't work for "height" :niark:
There are a lot of words it doesn't work for.  :niark:  http://www.ibeforee.org/
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The Pub / Re: Wedge & SEO
« on April 9th, 2011, 11:05 PM »
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Welcome to #NewTwitter! Read up on what’s new. You can still access old Twitter for a limited time.
For the moment yes, but not sure for how long.
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The Pub / Re: Wedge & SEO
« on April 9th, 2011, 10:14 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on April 9th, 2011, 01:12 PM
@Pete> Is it just me, or did Twitter actually revert back to its old website...? I don't see #! in the URL anymore, and the huge sidebar is gone...
I just looked and I see the new site and the #! in the URL.  There is still the option to view the old version though.
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Off-topic / Re: Dr S.E. Optimisation, or How I Learned To Stop WP and love the Wedge
« on April 7th, 2011, 04:19 AM »
Quote from Arantor on April 7th, 2011, 02:33 AM
* Arantor also wonders who gets the title to this topic.
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"

Great movie... though I really need to watch it again... heads to Netflix.
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Off-topic / Re: Post count fever
« on April 5th, 2011, 09:22 PM »
Quote from texasman1979 on April 5th, 2011, 08:50 PM
Officially, how much needs to be rewritten to be a unique product outside the need to be a fork of smf?
As posted by Arantor on Noisen.com.
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Until there is a total and complete rewrite from scratch, it's considered a derivative work, and until such time as it is sufficiently different that it isn't a derivative work, we have to play by their rules. It sucks, but there you go.
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Other software / Re: So, I've been asked...
« on April 4th, 2011, 05:14 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on April 4th, 2011, 09:36 AM
I don't know if I'll play it -- maybe for old times' sake, since I had a lot of fun with DN3D's shareware episode, in the city. But it's not my kind of game. Pete can confirm -- I'm more into RPGs and puzzle games :P
I've played and enjoyed a few RPGs however puzzle type games i do very much enjoy especially the games in the Myst series.
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I think it's smarter, not to show an average of the user's karma points, but a "top 10" of the user's most insightful posts, based on their rating.
I like this idea.  So it would be showing the most extremely positively and/or negatively rated posts?
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It's still a bit buggy -- mind you, it took me months before I stumbled upon a new bug, but I left it aside now because it can't be fixed without making the processing part slower. (It's related to having foonotes inside a quote and having several quoted parts in a single message. It's rare because it implies you're power-user-material enough to use both multiquoting and footnotes...)
Odds are I'd be the only person to use it on my site anyway as it doesn't have much activity outside of AeMe and the calendar.
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Other software / Re: So, I've been asked...
« on April 4th, 2011, 12:05 AM »
Quote from Arantor on April 4th, 2011, 12:01 AM
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but on a per user level you see an overall level based on all of their individual posts.
SMF has that, it's called Karma. We ripped it out because it's actually divisive in a community. Maybe it can be reintroduced later as an add-on but it's not really a good idea in the long run.
Yeah I've seen that happen.  They have literally had people make multiple accounts just so they could artificially inflate their karma score.  Its in my list of things called "Don't you have better things to do with your time?"  If its not there I don't really care as its not used at all on my site.
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Other software / Re: So, I've been asked...
« on April 3rd, 2011, 11:56 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on April 3rd, 2011, 11:19 PM
Actually, Wedge.org is a very open forum... At least until it becomes overcrowded, there are no rules on off-topic contents, double-posting and the likes ;) (I'll just delete spamming... And signatures linking to sm.org, to Pete's request :niark:)
I really meant a differnt topic.  However to elaborate when they stopped working on DNF and had to let go most of their employees those employees continued working on the game at home in their free time and created the company (Triptych Games, LLC) thats working on finishing it up with Gearbox.  This is the next game I'm buying
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And I *just* spent half an hour fixing bugs in IE6 and IE7... :lol:
One of those things we get to deal with with all those people out there who hate upgrading...
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I don't find anything special in it...? Except maybe for profiles?
Not sure how to put it, but to me I just really like it a lot as it was very simple to learn from a user point of view.  A lot of features in it that I'd never really seen in most other sites I'd frequent[1], but yes the profiles is one of the best parts of the site as well as a rather well done (imo anyway) karma system.  On a per post[2] level its like the thumbs up/thumbs down system on youtube except its +1/-1 (like +1 Cool or -1 Lame), but on a per user level you see an overall level based on all of their individual posts.  Yes there are many bad things about this as well, but overall I like it.  Shrugs its also one of the first sites I spent *a lot* of time on so I end up comparing a lot of things to it.  :lol:  Much of this stuff just comes down to personal preference too.[3]
 1. Yes more sites have stuff like this now, but I first saw this site in 2005.
 2. By post I mean anything you post on the site not just a forum post.
 3. I'm so downloading the footnotes mod.  :eheh:
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Other software / Re: So, I've been asked...
« on April 3rd, 2011, 11:07 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on April 3rd, 2011, 10:33 PM
I don't mean to say I was *hoping* some people would hurt...
Figured you didn't hope that.
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Yeah, as I said the other day, they "feature-froze" SMF about 3 years and a half ago. I'm sure even Duke Nukem Forever (the father of all vaporware) added plenty of features in 2008 and 2009. (Now that's another reason why it never got out... Because they couldn't stop adding features. But from what I see, after the new guys took over, they took a year to complete it without adding features -- and they're only one month late.)
New guys yes, but some of the same people too.  It was mostly finished when 3D Realms had to stop work on it, but this is a discussion for other places.
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3 years and a half is a lot. The number one browser at the time was *still* IE6. It was barely being challenged by IE7, and Firefox was only a thing for geeks. Curve works perfectly in IE6. That's not something I would be proud of, personally... :P (Given the resulting tag soup at least.)
If SMF 2.0 came out 3 and a half years ago maybe it would be something to be proud of since IE7 was still fairly new at the time, but now the only versions that truly make sense to support are 8 and 9.  8 only because 9 won't run in Window XP.  I only just upgraded my work computer from IE6 to 8 a few months ago, but if you knew anything about where I worked you wouldn't be surprised they hadn't upgraded.
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The best, I don't know, I'm still impressed by some features in IPB and XenForo, but then again they're commercial -- and not cheap to begin with.
My favorite forum software isn't publically available as it was written specifically for the site its used on as far as I know.  See www.roosterteeth.com.
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The Pub / Re: did not find this in FaQ
« on April 3rd, 2011, 11:07 PM »
Quote from Arantor on April 3rd, 2011, 10:58 PM
There are no plans to directly import from SMF 1.1.x at this stage, so you'd tend to upgrade to SMF 2 first.
Thought so... adds something to his own to do list.
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Off-topic / Re: Happy Birthday Nao!
« on April 3rd, 2011, 10:14 PM »
Belated Happy Birthday Nao!!
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The Pub / Re: did not find this in FaQ
« on April 3rd, 2011, 09:23 PM »
Quote from Dismal Shadow on April 3rd, 2011, 09:19 PM
Quote from borg1985 on April 3rd, 2011, 09:04 PM
Will it be possible to import from SMF 1.1.x too or just 2.0?
I doubt if anyone is gonna stay at 1.1.x when SMF 2 goes Gold.
True enough and odds are the people who don't won't be interested in Wedge anyway.
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The Pub / Re: did not find this in FaQ
« on April 3rd, 2011, 09:04 PM »
Will it be possible to import from SMF 1.1.x too or just 2.0?
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Other software / Re: So, I've been asked...
« on April 3rd, 2011, 08:57 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on April 3rd, 2011, 07:41 PM
Quote from borg1985 on April 3rd, 2011, 05:00 PM
Basically the same for me.  I stopped looking at the forums (not that I posted) back around when Nao was post banned and all the AeMe threads were merged.
Do you mean there are people who actually got hurt just as much as I got hurt by the SMF team's behavior at the time? :sob:
I wasn't directly hurt by them, but I thought the way they handled the situation was just really not the best way at all or even close.  So I pretty much stopped watching the thread after that and moved over to reading the AeMe section at Noisen.  I definitely think there are people who got hurt by it.  I don't know if as much, but enough to completely forget about going to the SMF forums in my case.  Personally I only go there now when an update comes out, so yeah not too often.
Quote from Nao/Gilles on April 3rd, 2011, 07:53 PM
Oh yes, that I know and sympathize.
But I just didn't think that someone would take offense for seeing me banned. I thought most people didn't even notice... :^^;: (Since the fact that I'm banned is one of the subjects that is subject to a potential ban over there............)
Yes I definitely did notice if only because I read about what happened over at Noisen.  Though even if I hadn't I'd of probably found out eventually.
Quote from Nao/Gilles on April 3rd, 2011, 08:28 PM
It was really.... not pretty.

Then again, have you ever seen the SMF team handle a crisis in a pretty way?
Not that I've ever heard about and just the fact they'd ban the creator of the most popular mod for their software just shows how they really don't think about the consequences of their actions or even the actions themself sometimes.

In the end what they did to you and the fact there hasn't really been any new development to SMF (New Features) in a few years now made my decision to switch to Wedge when it comes out extremely easy and a very fast decision.  Pretty much "Simple math."  :lol:
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Other software / Re: So, I've been asked...
« on April 3rd, 2011, 05:00 PM »
Quote from godboko71 on April 3rd, 2011, 12:49 PM
Quote from Nao/Gilles on April 3rd, 2011, 12:39 PM
...And we'll release within a couple of months after their gold version, hopefully. (Ideally, a couple of weeks. But I don't know where we'll be when they release. If I'm right in the middle of integrating AeMe and I still have dozens of bugs, we can't release obviously. Same for blog support, etc.)
As slow as they are going yo all might be ready for your gold release :P Watch I say that and to spite those words they release tomorrow
If it were anyone else this would be possible, but them?  We might be lucky if we see SMF 2.0 Gold this year although I'm really hoping I'm wrong.
Quote from Cassiel on April 3rd, 2011, 03:51 PM
Quote from godboko71 on April 3rd, 2011, 12:32 PM
Well besides when they release 2.0 gold so that wedge can start releasing :-P
That's all I go there to check for nowadays.
Basically the same for me.  I stopped looking at the forums (not that I posted) back around when Nao was post banned and all the AeMe threads were merged.