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Messages - godboko71
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Off-topic / Re: A Forum About Nothing
« on May 7th, 2013, 04:11 AM »
People having to vanish is no fun, now a KoL type game with smf as a base sounds neato. To bad it had to be abandoned.
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Off-topic / Re: Meaning of usernames
« on May 7th, 2013, 03:52 AM »
Neato @xrunner
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Off-topic / Re: Interesting feedback
« on May 7th, 2013, 03:50 AM »
People are weird. I personal cant wait (as in excited not as literally can't wait) for the next alpha so I am able to provide more useful feed back and bug reports than I was on the first alphas.
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Off-topic / Re: A Forum About Nothing
« on May 7th, 2013, 03:41 AM »
Could be an observational humor site, though that might step on Jerry's toes. Maybe a stick figure rpg game (think text based like kindom of loathing) about nothing with attached forums/community.
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Features / Re: Separating lock and unlock permissions
« on April 30th, 2013, 07:51 AM »
You know on one of the forums I used to admin it would have been nice to prevent some drama queens/kings from unlocking stuff they locked.

Edited to add: That said your feature sounds neat and plugin worthy though its Nao and your ship so steer it how you see fit!
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Features / Re: Miscellaneous/WIP screenshots
« on April 30th, 2013, 02:23 AM »
I like! I spam. I am.
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Features / Re: Miscellaneous/WIP screenshots
« on April 28th, 2013, 06:21 AM »
That is some exciting stuff!
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The Pub / Re: Thoughts one wireless theme/skin
« on April 28th, 2013, 04:13 AM »
If I need to administer my forum  I can manually switch to a more feature rich skin. As for predicting bandwidth, why the need? Just assume people are on a slow connection :P That said I see you point and luckily the source is editable so I can strip all those "features" myself :P
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The Pub / Re: Thoughts one wireless theme/skin
« on April 26th, 2013, 07:06 PM »
Quote from ziycon on April 26th, 2013, 09:22 AM
I disagree, they majority of mobile devices can handle much more data and bandwidth and 4G rolling out on most networks this year it will only get better.

You should have the same if not most functionality on your mobile these days.

If you're talking about some of the countries lagging behind in mobile speeds i would suggst another bare theme for 'slow wireless'.
Most users would never know the "features" I mentioned are gone. However with that stuff gone links and text and important things can be bigger. Which makes the site easier to navigate and more useable on a mobile phone. As for speed, who cares about 4g at the end of the day if most use their data plan up guess what? They are throttled. So to me saving bandwidth is important. I hate our prices what the Europeans have to pay is depressing.
Quote from Dragooon on April 26th, 2013, 04:28 PM
It's never about content. It's about functionality and usability. It's not easy to browse sites on mobile devices, and that's the main problem a mobile theme should solve. Merely removing content doesn't help anyone. Giving important things a higher priority does (and in the process one looses some content and things that one just wouldn't use on a phone). A mobile site doesn't really save bandwidth (my theme actually takes more bandwidth on an initial page load), but should make browsing and viewing content easier.
Initial page load can be heavier in your case because every following page is lighter because it is very careful what it brings to the screen.
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The Pub / Thoughts one wireless theme/skin
« on April 26th, 2013, 06:43 AM »
So I have been thinking about the wireless skin today. I like the over all basic feel of it. However I was thinking it could be striped down a bit more.

Front Page
Get rig of Users Today & Forum statistics. Users Online could be streamlined to show the users, no counts (above) no most online today or ever[1]..

Thoughts could be trimmed to late five as the thoughts page is more useful these days (being able to like, and reply yada yada.)

Footer
"Page created in 0.05 seconds with 22 queries." could be dropped

Wedge logo could be dropped

Overall copyright could be shortened to:
© Wedgeward

New Topic Page
Editor could be simplified:
Drop Smilies
Limit BBC buttons to B, I, U, Inset Link, Insert Image
Drop: shortcuts: hit Shift + Enter to use smart tag closer, Ctrl + B (bold), Ctrl + I (italics), Ctrl + U (underline), Alt + D (save draft), Alt + P (preview) or Alt + S to submit.

Other
Remove duplicate breadcrumb/link tree
Remove Previus & Next topic links
Remove "Send this Topic"[2]
Either don't show signatures or reduce it to a single instance per page and or thread.
Feed links could be dropped.

I am sure I didn't think of stuff. Please note this is just general feedback, not demanding or otherwise trying to be rude. I was just thinking on tablets while on wifi I use the default theme and not wireless however on phones I do switch to wireless and every byte saved is a penny not given to the telco's plus it loads faster.
 1. These stats could be moved to the main stats page on all themes/skins
 2. Heck just get rid of this feature all together. I am sure some plugin will allow social sharing. Or god forbid someone has to copy and paste a url :/
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Archived fixes / Re: 'Like' Disappears When Clicked
« on April 25th, 2013, 07:51 PM »
Okay thought it was an issue with safari on ios 6
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Features / Re: Miscellaneous/WIP screenshots
« on April 17th, 2013, 07:30 AM »
Useful and straightforward!
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Features / Re: Miscellaneous/WIP screenshots
« on April 17th, 2013, 05:17 AM »
That is some awesome stuff. Punishing users will be way more fun :p
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Features / Re: Miscellaneous/WIP screenshots
« on April 17th, 2013, 04:09 AM »
Oh I am sure you are doing great work indeed :)
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Archived fixes / Re: IE 6/7 + mini-menus = headache
« on April 17th, 2013, 04:08 AM »
I can test tomorrow at work. No ie6 or 7 at home