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That was my take on it too; it's sufficiently useful to leave in all the time to quickly go up and down the page and IMO too many people were asking how to turn it on, on sm.org; if it's that unobvious it either needs to be made more prominent or simply on by default - I just too it one step further.The go up link isn't too bad, it's not too big and it's tucked out of the way IMO but the 'last post' / down button is far too big and it doesn't fit with the rest of the stuff that it's around.That's the thing with Drupal. You can do a fantastic amount with it but coding it is less like a hobby and more like a vocation, you really have to want to get to know it to achieve anything with any real complexity. (I doubt you could implement Aeva or SimpleDesk in the same volume of code as they currently exist for SMF, but to be fair Drupal isn't designed to be a forum, but a massively extensible CMS.)

too totally true Arantor and I don't feel a drupal calling  :cool:

even tho most there are friends, it's jsut not simple enough for me, now images, I can turn out by the dozens, poses and animations not a issue, color changes, no biggie there too, but i jsut don't feel like an all day event with drupal  :^^;:

That's the thing. Virtually every mod I did for SMF (with the exception of SimpleDesk, naturally), took under a day to write, even the very earliest ones where I was still getting to know the code - I doubt you could say the same of Drupal.[1]

1.	You definitely can't say the same for MediaWiki. Jesus what a mindfuck trying to write parser extensions for MW is.

the story of the site was that they needed something for closed beta, they didnt get around to changing it out in favor of another site type. thing is if they knew of drupal, why not smf? *scratches head.  :whistle:

i think that due to the mods for pix and vids *grins at nao
and knowing what you all are cooking up now, makes me want this project to go very very far.

this is whats needed a good solid platform for communication with the ability and ease for image and vid sharing.

something that say in 5 years could go 3d as that is the future, i see it every day.

Well, it depends how much other stuff they were planning to use. SMF isn't exactly blessed with CMS type stuff - sure, the portals can expand it reasonably well but for any large scale CMS stuff, they're not really up to the job.

Looking briefly at the site I'd also speculate that they were after something considered 'stable' which at the time, SMF 2 wasn't (and most of the better CMS stuff is available for SMF 2 only anyway), and that it wasn't at risk of drama and/or implosion.We think it has the potential, certainly :)

grins  :niark:

i understand all too well Arantor  :blush:

Agree. 

I once installed a theme that didn't have the linktree at the bottom, and had 100 PM's in 4 hours. Never realized how many people actually used it.

It's because you're at the bottom of a thread and want to go back to the previous page and for most people that's going to be nearer than pressing the back button.

(Unless like me they have a mouse with a back button just by the thumb ;))

I would hate a theme without a LT at the bottom. Wouldn't miss a jumpbox though...

*nods* I don't see us removing either but if we had to choose, I'd remove the jump box long before I'd remove the lower linktree.

I think we all agree on that :)

nods scratches only 2 brain cells left and slowly goes back to laying code for a site while shuddering  :whistle: :niark:

That might be 1 more than me ;)Ah, you're still getting to grips with Drupal. You know you've gotten part the 'getting to grips' stage when you stop shuddering during the day and only have to cope with waking up at night screaming.

hahaha i bet you got more hair than i am legally allowed to have too Arantor!!  :lol: :angel:

i hate it i hate it lol.. but it is a walk in the park and a bit different is all good, i wont go cliff divin just yet :thanks: