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General => Suggestions => Topic started by: Bish on April 03, 2014, 10:55:08 PM

Title: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Bish on April 03, 2014, 10:55:08 PM
Not saying the current forum layout is bad or anything.  But why not change up the visuals a little? Spruce it up and make it look a lot cleaner.  Ideas? 
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Teitoku Ippan on April 03, 2014, 11:06:58 PM
why dont you give us actual ideas on how we could "spruce it up" lol
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Khub on April 04, 2014, 08:56:38 AM
I agree it'd be nice to switch to a new forum design or even to a whole new forum software as there are numerous forum systems that look better and offer very nice features, but there's a lot of work connected with changing the forum system as pretty much all the game servers rely on it. Some layouts and systems also have a few issues with licensing.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Somone77 on April 04, 2014, 09:39:31 AM
Waffle can barely afford to pay for the servers, much less pay me to do anything major to the forum. Vote with your wallet.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Nicknero on April 04, 2014, 01:12:57 PM
Please no.

We are humans. Humans hate change. Just look at every single Youtube layout change and watch the internet explode with QQ.
This forum is so good because it WORKS. We have so many custom things and SMF is just a good forum engine.

Another forum I used to visit was using VB. And that is just beyond terrible. Their forums were constantly down, not loading, or just loading for ages, or many other dumb bugs. Not sure because VB is just shit, or their dev team existed out of untrained monkeys.

But I suggested them to use SMF. Simply because it is awesome. So why change if what we have is already perfect?
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Somone77 on April 04, 2014, 01:28:00 PM
VBulletin is amazing and we would have loved to use it if we had the money for licensing when we started, but we didn't so we went with the free alternative. Those whose VB websites go down don't know how to manage it. VB is a fantastic platform with far better support than SMF.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: aeiou on April 04, 2014, 01:43:12 PM
SMF is a heap of shit compared to vBulletin - take a look at the changelogs between the two for beginners
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Bish on April 04, 2014, 05:18:14 PM
Please no.

We are humans. Humans hate change. Just look at every single Youtube layout change and watch the internet explode with QQ.
This forum is so good because it WORKS. We have so many custom things and SMF is just a good forum engine.

Another forum I used to visit was using VB. And that is just beyond terrible. Their forums were constantly down, not loading, or just loading for ages, or many other dumb bugs. Not sure because VB is just shit, or their dev team existed out of untrained monkeys.

But I suggested them to use SMF. Simply because it is awesome. So why change if what we have is already perfect?
  I'm not talking about COMPLETE change.  Just visual.  It could use a bit of cleaning and possible color correction in some areas.  But yes, there are some things that could be added..  Idk what they are though. :P
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: rBST Cow on April 04, 2014, 06:27:56 PM
Personally I think SMF works fine but if there is a legitimately better forum software then use it, assuming we have the funds and developers willing to do it.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Bish on April 04, 2014, 11:50:01 PM
Can we add a thing on the forum that shows what the highest amount of money people have ever had on one of the servers?  Like, say it shows the highest amount I have ever had on HRP at one time.  But once hit, it does not move unless surpassed again.  This only shows how much you had at one time and would not cause Meta seeing as how it will stay unless you move past.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Doctor Nice roButt on April 05, 2014, 04:43:19 PM
I vote we change the logo so it actually has the letter C in it instead of one giant dumb G.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Somone77 on April 05, 2014, 04:50:10 PM
I vote we change the logo so it actually has the letter C in it instead of one giant dumb G.
(http://s3.somone77.net/pictures/cglogo.png)
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: [CA] KiwieeEh on April 06, 2014, 04:18:32 AM
(http://s3.somone77.net/pictures/cglogo.png)

Where's the logo that goes with this because if I'm honest Rofl's avi is probably the nicest version I've seen :c
(http://i.imgur.com/CxpW3Bp.jpg)

Saying that though, sure VB would be a nice upgrade but I'm all for changing up the color scheme design of the forums and such for CG. It's been this way since it's birth and who's to say that a fresh and updated look would harm anything?
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Constable Strelnikov on April 06, 2014, 11:13:19 AM
Grey-and-red to grey-and-blue?
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Teitoku Ippan on April 06, 2014, 11:25:24 AM
Grey-and-red to grey-and-blue?

wouldnt look right to switch to blue imo
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: rBST Cow on April 06, 2014, 01:17:21 PM
I think if the red was swapped with dark orange that would look nice.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: [CA] KiwieeEh on April 06, 2014, 02:49:22 PM
I think if the red was swapped with dark orange that would look nice.

OCv2

Srs; yes I agree it's a nice scheme.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Constable Strelnikov on April 06, 2014, 03:57:17 PM
Gray-and-steel blue?
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: rBST Cow on April 06, 2014, 04:27:30 PM
Please just keep the gray no matter what we change it to. I think it looks nice with cg but the red needs to go.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Somone77 on April 06, 2014, 05:28:59 PM
We're not changing the colors.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Bish on April 06, 2014, 08:26:24 PM
We're not changing the colors.
NS... lol.  I like the colors... except for the white ALL over the forums... maybe a light grey?  Something more... heavy?
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: rBST Cow on April 07, 2014, 11:10:17 AM
We're not changing the colors.

why


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Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Somone77 on April 07, 2014, 02:14:59 PM
We're not changing the colors.

why


This is not a one word post. (8)

Tell you what, when Coca Cola changes their cans to blue, we'll talk.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: rBST Cow on April 07, 2014, 05:56:12 PM
We're not changing the colors.

why


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Tell you what, when Coca Cola changes their cans to blue, we'll talk.

Ok well how about the shade/tint of the red? Coke didn't keep the same colors forever, sure it was always like red and white but they changed the tint and shade over time.
Title: Re: Forum upgrade.
Post by: Bish on April 07, 2014, 06:23:56 PM
We're not changing the colors.

why


This is not a one word post. (8)I

Tell you what, when Coca Cola changes their cans to blue, we'll talk.

Ok well how about the shade/tint of the red? Coke didn't keep the same colors forever, sure it was always like red and white but they changed the tint and shade over time.
Yes, and add more gray. 
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