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Offline darke

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Forum tweaks
« on: September 02, 2009, 06:18:59 am »
Arcen Games logo should probably link to somewhere. Either the main page, or the main forum page.

The "simple machines forum" logo should disappear and be replaced with actual useful things like a link to the wiki, the community wiki, latest patch, or even a link to cute overload since *anything* would be more useful then an unrelated non-clickie image. :)

The "personalised picture" part of the forum has a section of actors, most of whom can't act, and musicians, most of which would be scared should they actually be forced to sing in key, or actually play a real instrument. There probabably should be a selection of random AI War images available so people with some amount of taste (such as any at all) can pick a stock image that they like.

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Re: Forum tweaks
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2009, 06:25:33 am »
I would also ask very kindly to maybe have a NICER Arcen Games logo, its green... need i say more?

Darke if you want i can make you an avatar image ^^
Just say what you want and i could make it - as long as it isn't something outragously difficult ;9
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Re: Forum tweaks
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2009, 09:19:06 am »
The logo isn't green, it's gold, actually.  But I'm looking into getting a logo designer to do a more professional one.
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Re: Forum tweaks
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2009, 09:19:57 am »
;D ouchy ! Well i AM colorblind  ;D
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Re: Forum tweaks
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2009, 09:33:43 am »
No worries. :)
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Re: Forum tweaks
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2009, 09:42:40 am »
Nah, I'm fine without an image. Thanks anyway though. I was just grumpy that there seemed to be no-one with actual acting or musical talent in those lists. :)

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Re: Forum tweaks
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2009, 12:45:15 am »
Hey,

Is there anyway we can get an off topic forum or anything of the sort? I guess it's extra bandwidth and there is the IRC, but I can see it helping out with the occasional hijacked thread or whatever IDK... We could put all sorts of fun forum things in there.

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Re: Forum tweaks
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2009, 01:04:57 am »
Hey,

Is there anyway we can get an off topic forum or anything of the sort? I guess it's extra bandwidth and there is the IRC, but I can see it helping out with the occasional hijacked thread or whatever IDK... We could put all sorts of fun forum things in there.



Done.  It used to be there was not enough forum activity to support that, so I didn't want to have a big empty forum, but I agree that things have reached a point where it's needed.  Good call!
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« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2009, 01:21:34 am »
Man, you pretty much always deliver, I love it.
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« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2009, 01:29:21 am »
Haha, thanks.
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Re: Forum tweaks
« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2009, 11:20:48 am »
On a side note, these forums can be very nicely viewed on phones - display is spot on :)

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« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2009, 11:21:48 am »
Not quite as nice on my BlackJack II, but it's servicable. :)
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« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2009, 12:31:29 pm »
Not quite as nice on my BlackJack II, but it's servicable. :)

It depends if the browser indicates it is a mobile phone. On the blackberry it is very nicem if I use opera it just looks like the pc page which is no good - but that is an opera issue :)

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Re: Forum tweaks
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2009, 12:38:18 pm »
I've made the logo link to the front page of the forum and added links to the official and community wikis to the header, feedback appreciated.

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« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2009, 12:41:47 pm »
Nice!
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