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Chris
March 31st, 2006, 00:34
The person on the frontpage is the third time i've seen this happen to. It must happen a lot more than those three.

what say you?
Rival24
March 31st, 2006, 01:03
How about a bigger topic start? :P

I'm guessing you're talking about the guy who couldn't find the forum in this post (http://www.xboxic.com/news/586).
Chris
March 31st, 2006, 01:09
Yeah. The comment system that's already there is fine, but I think a lot of people just assume that's as far as the public involvement goes.

Maybe it's just me. :)
Rival24
March 31st, 2006, 01:15
We are aware of this problem and it will be resolved one day :)
Curry
March 31st, 2006, 01:26
Very aware :) Rest assured both forum and wiki will get lots more FP attention soon-ish :)
trj156
March 31st, 2006, 04:27
noooooo we dont need a shinier forum button, shiny things attract idiots.i came here because of the lack of idiot-ness.
ONI 23
March 31st, 2006, 10:28
Here, Here. I say smaller forum button. If you aren't attentive enough to READ the website you are on then we don't need you posting in the forum! :*)
Chris
March 31st, 2006, 12:15
Here, Here. I say smaller forum button. If you aren't attentive enough to READ the website you are on then we don't need you posting in the forum! :*)

This site has 2 'Forums' in a way. The comments on the FP is the only one to the untrained eye. Not everyone is associated with web 2.0 yet.
Rival24
March 31st, 2006, 13:41
Here, Here. I say smaller forum button. If you aren't attentive enough to READ the website you are on then we don't need you posting in the forum! :*)
If we don't want someone here, we use our little 'ban' button :P
Nino
March 31st, 2006, 15:00
If we don't want someone here, we use our little 'ban' button :P
I tried that once but then you got mad at me and said that you wanted your account back ;)
Chris
March 31st, 2006, 18:52
I tried that once but then you got mad at me and said that you wanted your account back ;)


haha :D.
Rival24
March 31st, 2006, 21:36
haha :D.
That's not the whole story.. his mom is involved..
Neejoh
March 31st, 2006, 22:04
That's not the whole story.. his mom is involved..
haha yeah, I've heard you hit on her but she kicked you in the balls?
Rival24
March 31st, 2006, 22:23
haha yeah, I've heard you hit on her but she kicked you in the balls?
No kicking...O-)
Chris
April 1st, 2006, 00:46
No kicking...O-)


Just licking?
Rival24
April 1st, 2006, 01:25
Just licking?
How about we discuss that button mmkay? :X
Chris
April 1st, 2006, 02:34
How about we discuss that button mmkay? :X

Ah yes, buttons buttons buttons. Bigger buttons.
Curry
April 3rd, 2006, 15:20
This site has 2 'Forums' in a way. The comments on the FP is the only one to the untrained eye. Not everyone is associated with web 2.0 yet.
Actually I visit lots of site which have both a comments system for news and a real forum :) The main difference ofcourse is that on the FP 'we' provide the topicstart by definition :)
Chris
April 3rd, 2006, 19:35
Actually I visit lots of site which have both a comments system for news and a real forum :) The main difference ofcourse is that on the FP 'we' provide the topicstart by definition :)

I visit those sites too. Most of the time their forums are crap, so people avoid them. This forum seems to have a mature crowd which is nice. I wish all forums were as stable and civil as this one.
Emily
April 4th, 2006, 00:18
I visit those sites too. Most of the time their forums are crap, so people avoid them. This forum seems to have a mature crowd which is nice. I wish all forums were as stable and civil as this one.

don't pretend to know anything about maturity, darling O+
Curry
April 4th, 2006, 02:45
I visit those sites too. Most of the time their forums are crap, so people avoid them. This forum seems to have a mature crowd which is nice. I wish all forums were as stable and civil as this one.
The site (http://www.tweakers.net) I have been an admin on for the last 2 years has the most respected technical forum of the Netherlands. It is ranked 18th worldwide on busiest boards and is completely clean of bullshit and immature shit :)
Curry
April 4th, 2006, 04:19
Public beta: Xboxic's new frontpage! (http://forum.xboxic.com/showthread.php?p=3379)

I think this problem is solved this way ;)
Curry
April 5th, 2006, 17:44
7 or 8 new forum registrations already in the 16 hours since the new template went live. Suppose it is working indeed ;)
Chris
April 5th, 2006, 20:18
I do like it. People were judging it because it doesn't feel natural to them yet. I think once they're on it for a couple of days, they'll love it because they won't have to think anymore.
Curry
April 5th, 2006, 22:13
It's natural for people to object to change. Change disturbs things :)

I've seen it happen when a forum with 150k registered users changed its template, I was in charge of 'customer support' at the time. In 3 days over 3000 posts with complaints were posted. Two weeks later even the worst complainers admitted quietly that they were liking it now.

I've offered the old template, that's all I can do. I don't care about keeping the old one online for the few people that object to change, and they'll drop it anyway once the seams start to break because of the news template's bigger versatility.

Having said that, I'll be checking logs for how many visitors are still using the old template :)
Nino
April 5th, 2006, 22:23
Haha I really didn't like that redesign either but I'm acustomed to it now. (if you're talking about that nerdy site whoes IRC server we abuse that is)
Curry
April 6th, 2006, 00:58
Haha I really didn't like that redesign either but I'm acustomed to it now. (if you're talking about that nerdy site whoes IRC server we abuse that is)That's the one :)