Iron Edge
Archive => Site Support => Topic started by: delling on October 31, 2010, 06:47:58 pm
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Heya!
I rolled out some changes to the forum this afternoon. We're now on the latest version of SMF, and we have an add-on called 'Tinyportal'.
Tinyportal adds the boxes you see on the right, and also the RSS box at the top.
It's obviously very rusty at the moment (RSS shouldn't display on every page!), but hopefully it looks OK!
Anyway, if there are features that you'd like, or things moved around, or bugs fixed... now's the time to tell me.
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Looks really nice and well constructed!
Do miss an awesome banner though. It gave the site a unique 'Iron Edge' look tbh.
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I like it a lot!
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Pretty sweet, but is there a way make the shoutbox bigger, either in general or as user preference? Only seeing the last 1-2 shouts is annoying.
Or mabye just show
Name: bla bla
bla bla
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Remove avatars from the shoutbox, it takes up so much space!
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Wtf Yoica, i can see last 5 it's even written "last 5 shouts" And u can always open latest 50 if u want. :D I don't see problems with it.
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Shoutbox posts need to take up far less room... should be able to read them without having to scroll the window...
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I havent found a function to disable avatars.
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Yeah, doesn't seem to be an easy way to disable avatars.
And who cares. It's a shoutbox. Click 'show 50 latest' if you REALLY want more shoutbox action...
re: the banner -- yeah, it won't be empty like that for ever.
I'm not sure how big I want the top of the page to be. If we get sponsors, we need space up there. If someone comes up with a cool graphic thing (Archz and Devlin are working on stuff?), then that can go up there.
I don't really want 200-400 pixels of BANNER though.
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Devlin is probably more skilled than me, I uploaded the raw photoshop file if he wants to use some of the figures :D
(Devlin poke me if you want to work together on it! :D)
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Playing around with the layers, and made the text a bit more dominant
(http://xoops.iron-edge.co.uk/forum-new/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5420.0;attach=3190;image)
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THAT second line under iron edge is barely readable and it looks even more cluttered now than it was before
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MAKE THE NAME BIGGER! OMG!
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I kinda miss quick reply... :-\
Then again, one extra click doesn't hurt too much.
Oh and also, names with special symbols are screwed.
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Oh yeah it seems the site is picking iso 8859 but encoding in utf
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Quick reply is fine?
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Wtf Yoica, i can see last 5 it's even written "last 5 shouts" And u can always open latest 50 if u want. :D I don't see problems with it.
I can see 5 with scrolling, but only 1 is actually visible. It would be fine if just 4-5 are visible.
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Wtf Yoica, i can see last 5 it's even written "last 5 shouts" And u can always open latest 50 if u want. :D I don't see problems with it.
I can see 5 with scrolling, but only 1 is actually visible. It would be fine if just 4-5 are visible.
Hehe ya, later i realized what u wanted to say. :D
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Playing around with the layers, and made the text a bit more dominant
(http://xoops.iron-edge.co.uk/forum-new/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5420.0;attach=3190;image)
no offence here, but i think it looks horrible and chaotic
not sure with the brownish layer and the abundance of c4d messyish
try making it look clean and neat! (text is hardly readable aswell)
other than that, im loving the new forum design :)
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The banner would have to be long and thin.
That means you have lots of width for various characters... spanning some kind of landscape.
It has to be clean, not muddy. Red, white, blue... and so on.
I will investigate the character encoding.
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No idea what's happened to the extended character set... in theory nothing's changed... but I can't create the ? (i-umlaut) that's meant to go at the end of Yathezai's name.
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Thin!
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I really like that archz, nice work!
and thanks delling for making all these changes, the sites looking good.
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That actually looks better Arch.
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Also delling, i'm not sure if this is a problem for anyone else but "unread posts since last visit" doesnt seem to be working for me, although new posts are defonatly there as i can see them in the "recent" box.
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That first thin banner looks awesome Archz, do like!
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WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR AWESOME SITE??!?!
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Loving the banners! top one has a very WoW-ish feeling to it though, think it's the blurry colors and the thistle stuff in the background.. not that there's anything wrong with that!
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I like the green one! but I've already been told it wont happen if its not red :D
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The green one has my vote as well, but the red one is cool too
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Could you try the top one, but without the characters made brown? (Like the first one with that background...)
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I love the brown one! Only thing that would make it better would be a different font for "Online gaming community". :)
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In Opera, wide pictures in posts don't get a scrollbar like they do in Firefox. Thus the "post section" gets widened and overlaps with the RSS/Recent/Shoutbox slice.
Bugpics attached.
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stop breaking the site goza!
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yeah, that's the bug I mentioned in IRC yesteday.
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Can i adjust the width of the site somewhere.... It's too big for this standard non widescreen company screen :\
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Can you move the shoutbox higher up in the side panel? it's pretty useless if u can't see it properly without scrolling!
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Jesus, you use 1024*768, Cwave?
I like the first one, Archz.
Also, we can always have a rotating banner that changes every page load...
We have quite a few artists -- there's no reason we should just choose ONE banner when we have a few good ones to choose from :)
The forum is meant to auto-scale images that are over X width, but I will look into it.
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#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
width: 1150px;
}
Can you set that one in the css to 1024? Me and my company screen would love you longtime!!! <3
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i bet you use a CRT monitor and windows ME
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I can't honestly believe you're using a 14-15" LCD with 1024px max width. That's like... seriously ghetto.
It doesn't work at 1024 unless I remove the side boxes.
You can remove them yourself (see the '-' in the top right corner), but then the forum just expands to the full width...
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firefox fixed iet.
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I created a banner too:
(http://mail.is/palmar/banner.png)
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I like it, though I don't understand why the heart is radioactive. ???
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it's to represent the volatile love atmosphere of iron edge.
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Win.
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How beautifully symbolic, Palmar.
I've now added a 'narrow' theme to the forum, if you're using a monitor or 1MB graphics card from 1994. You can change it in Profile > Change Look/Layout, then select 'narrow' from the list of themes (down the bottom).
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I've switched to narrow, I like it better.
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the narrow theme is missing the recent posts from the info center at the bottom. They seem to work okay in the sidebar.
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Wow, yeah... no idea why that's gone.
CBA to investigate. Maybe next weekend.
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perfect banner
i like the way i sheeped cockje on his favourite color combo
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I swear I moved my post in here...
Anyways! I made a few banner examples a couple of days ago, here are some of them. Perhaps too dark themed for this forum :-\
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/cata-3.jpg)
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/sc2-4.jpg)
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/tf2-1.jpg)
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/goblin-2.jpg)
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/sc2-1.jpg)
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/luci-1.jpg)
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All of those are insane! especially love the last one.
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Sorry arches but those made by devlin are much better then yours... but thats just my opinion
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Devlin wins.
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Knew you'd come through for us Devlin, RED OR DEAD! That'll learn that silly upstart arches.
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I swear I moved my post in here...
Anyways! I made a few banner examples a couple of days ago, here are some of them. Perhaps too dark themed for this forum :-\
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/cata-3.jpg)
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/sc2-4.jpg)
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/tf2-1.jpg)
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/goblin-2.jpg)
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/sc2-1.jpg)
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/luci-1.jpg)
Those are INSANE Devlin
seeing i lost my c4d/photoshop skills somewhere 5 years ago, any chance i could make a signature request at ya?:)
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Those are nice. Maybe move the Iron Edge logo to the right instead of left, less distraction for the eyes when reading the forum?
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Maybe, but it'd stack the logo and all the links up, a bit cluttered.
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oh man I love those banners devlin, don't change a thing imo!
those signatures you guys have make my in-game fps drop btw..
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oh man I love those banners devlin, don't change a thing imo!
those signatures you guys have make my in-game fps drop btw..
deal with it
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I swear I moved my post in here...
Anyways! I made a few banner examples a couple of days ago, here are some of them. Perhaps too dark themed for this forum :-\
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd67/devlinpw/ie/v3/sc2-1.jpg)
All of them are awesome! But this is my favorite one, good job.
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I agree with Rucious, I like that one too, cause it doesnt really point to any game too much, gives as the freedom we need. Although it might look like we all play EVE Online :D
Maybe think about putting "Online Gaming Community" underneath ironedge logo? I dont know, just an idea
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I think it makes us look like some sci-fi/sci-fi game guild... prefer the others in a rotation or whatever
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Mmmm, no signatures ftw.
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make post claiming to not see signatures
give away obviously you saw signatures
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Are there other PSX/N64-esque signatures out there? I'd love a GoldenEye one... or Mario Kart...
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Revel in the new rotating banner -- artwork courtesy of Devlin and Palmar.
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A little less red on the forum/website would be much appreciated. Kind of looks like the red-light district tbh ;D
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Oh shut up.
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A little less red on the forum/website would be much appreciated. Kind of looks like the red-light district tbh ;D
I don't see why this is bad :(
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A little less red on the forum/website would be much appreciated. Kind of looks like the red-light district tbh ;D
(http://www.iron-edge.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5420.0;attach=3230;image)
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A little less red on the forum/website would be much appreciated. Kind of looks like the red-light district tbh ;D
(http://xoops.iron-edge.co.uk/forum-new/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5420.0;attach=3230;image)
haha I lol'd
Love the new banners!
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test
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Performed some maintenance -- most of all, I moved the forum down to www.iron-edge.co.uk
The old 'forum-new' URL is now deprecated (it will forward to the new URL)
Old homepage is still at 'xoops', but I will try to move the photos, movies and news articles over to this forum.
If you find anything that's broken, lemme know.
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It's a Friday, this had me confused for a couple of minutes.
For lazy soabs like me, an "unread forum posts" bookmark URL should now be http://www.iron-edge.co.uk/index.php?action=unread
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Why do you need to make a thread about a link that's at the top of every page? :)
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Okay... moved a lot of threads and boards around.
You will find that we now have an SC2 category, and HON and Civilization now have their own boards under the Other Games category.
Moved the WoW boards out into their own category. Iron Edge category is now a general category for everything about the guild.
Take a look at the main index of the forum and find your favourite boards. They're all still there, they might just be in a different place.
I also retired a few boards that no one had used in a while (Wipe Squad, Roster Support, 'TBC discussion').
Any problems/questions, post 'em here.
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Oh, and if you see a board in the wrong place... let me know :)
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Looks better, even though it'll take some days to adjust.
Things I noticed;
- "Events" forum hasn't been used for more than a year, also time to retire?
- The classes subforums are in reversed alphabetical order...for what it's worth.
- And something that's been around for ages, also a tiny thing, "(Upcoming) birthday" in the calendar is a terrible color on the eye, you can barely read it.
- Edit; and something else, maybe it's an idea to create two subforums in the PvP forum, one for Arena, one for (Rated) BG's.
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Yeah, more PVP boards coming I think.
Events are staying, as we'll likely be using the calendar more.
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OK, old Xoops site now officially retired.
Moved all the news/blog posts over -- now gotta work out how to fit them into the forum.
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Note the 'Multimedia & Movies' link at the top of the forum, too.
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I like it that the xoops is gone :D way more professional now
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I like it that the xoops is gone :D way more professional now
This!
And also, any chance you can fix the special-symbol-letters Delling? It's fucking up names, posts and even links. Plus it looks kinda silly. ;)
Thanks in advance.
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forum is way too perfect now
(L)
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Yathezai -- how about you actually provide some links to show the problem?
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Hmm, excuse me, it's not actually fucking up links, it's something the Armory does automatically when you copy-paste a name with special symbols. As long as you don't type the Armory link it'll be changed to a working link.
For example:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dunemaul&cn=Yatheza[i with two dots], doesn't work.
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dunemaul&cn=Yatheza%C3%AF, works.
Anyway...I'm still having this (Firefox):
(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9816/symbols.jpg) (http://img403.imageshack.us/i/symbols.jpg/)
So it's not really a problem, more something that looks silly. Maybe it's just my ignorance about internet coding, you're all way better at that stuff! :P
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Yeah, it's character encoding. I tried to move the site over to UTF-8, which would allow for all those funky characters, but I ended up breaking the site.
I will try again at some stage... I just don't know when :)
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I think it's a good reminder to stop making characters with stupid characters in their name in order to get your favourite game/film/etc character's name. It's mildly better than, say, xsepirothx, but only just.
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Indeed!
I thought about banning stupid letters from guild character names...
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Powergirlx?
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girly! not acceptable.
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girly! not acceptable.
coming from the..
male bloodelf paladin
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Female bloodelf paladin!
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Oh, my mistake. That's TOTALLY less girly.
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fukkn Female Orc!
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Oh noes, naruto fans gonna gang up on me :(
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Wasn't worth making a new post for, so I'll just necro this thread.
What about some more games in the 'other games' forum?
I personally play a lot of League of Legends lately, would be nice to set up some games, as HoN is just retarded these days. And perhaps some COD:BO as some seem to be playing that.
A minor suggestion.
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Why is hon retarded?
Perhaps we should just have a place where you can make petitions for new games, and if you get more than a certain amount of people agreeing we make a new subforum.
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Why is hon retarded?
he stopped playing EM games and couldnt win so he went for casual LoL and thinks he is pro
thats what im getting from that anyway
Oh noes, naruto fans gonna gang up on me :(
OMG LIAK NARUTO IS TEH GREETAST ANIMES EVEREST YOU DONT DARE MOCK IT OMG
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At first, WoW was too easy for him as the greatest protadin in the world. Now the situation is repeated with HoN. It seems almost no game can match his mighty ability.
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At first, WoW was too easy for him as the greatest protadin in the world. Now the situation is repeated with HoN. It seems almost no game can match his mighty ability.
HE CRUSHES EVERYTHING UNDER HIS FEAT "All Too EASILY".
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I'm so mighty. No, there are just too many retarded players on HoN imo. "You suck, I won't help you". Blaming things on you, when it's actually there fault for towerdiving at level 1 for example. It's only fun playing with 10 friends :)
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Maybe if you didn't suck they'd help you, like they said. I think it's fair.
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I feel you should know, Inphy, that Kawe actually reported your post :P
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If I hadn't been robbed of forum powerz I'd have defaced his post myself!
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I'm so mighty. No, there are just too many retarded players on HoN imo. "You suck, I won't help you". Blaming things on you, when it's actually there fault for towerdiving at level 1 for example. It's only fun playing with 10 friends :)
Agree, HoN is for noobs!
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TD is where it's at!
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Well, it's just how I feel about it. I'm not a pro, and I never claimed I was. But anyway, it was about having more games on the forums to organize leagues or teamgames. Or just to know who else is playing certain games.
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Make a petition then Inphy, if people agree with you there will be a LoL board.
But it wouldnt make sense making a board for every game in the world.
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Yep. If a game doesn't have its own board, just use the Other Games general discussion board. Make a new topic. If enough LoL topics pop up... new board!
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Sounds good :)
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If you haven't noticed yet, we now have some kind of Ciao shopping thing on the side of the forum.
It's not dynamic. It doesn't use cookies. It will always list just those three product categories. It just links through to Ciao (which is a product review/comparison site). It's actually quite a good site!
If you're wondering _why_ it's there: it brings in enough money to pay for the IE server! Hooray.
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I find it funny how the first thing it shows if you click it is something about the HTC Desire. Coincidence, delling?
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Really? But it's games and consoles... dunno how a smartphone would appear there.
But yeah, purely coincidence :)
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Does anyone actually use the WoW.com/MMO-Champion block in the top right corner of the site?
Do you look at it, but not click through?
Do you regularly click through? On a daily basis?
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I use it a lot but I wouldnt miss it much since i have the same feeds on my igoogle.
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I use it a lot, ofc if u need space for something else in that lovely corner u can just move that box at the bottom :)
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I use it everytime i see something interesting...which is twice a week ;D
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I miss seeing from what site each link is from. Like, I personally don't read wow.com so I'm only interested in mmo-champion links, but it's not always easy to tell which is which.
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Never used the new box. The previous RSS feed had better content IMO, WoW Insider is uninteresting.
I'd prefer a single link to MMO Champ, maybe with their current topic headline.
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The top right mmo champ box is pretty much the only way I ever navigate to their site.
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I usually just see the links from Irony on irc. Other than that I have RSS feed to MMOC going.
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I also just prefer the MMO-champion site, so not being able to immediately tell if a link is from them or not is a feature that I miss. I never go to their site directly either.
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(It has the exact same content as before, Goza... :P Just MMO-C and WoW.com)
Maybe I can roll it into a top-middle bar, like the 'announcements' box that we have at the moment.
But good to know it's being used :)
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Maybe. But it doesnt show where the news is from anymore, unless you mousehover over it to see the link. And I gave up after being directed a dozen time to some shitty WoW Insider article.
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Would it be possible for the IRC log to go back further in time, perhaps by clicking on a button added to the panel? I sometimes wish it had that functionality...
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I suggested it at the start... not quite sure why it never happened.
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An official IE chatlog would be cool. Although the ones of us always being logged on already has those. I have almost complete logs going a few years back I guess Delling and Goza could have even more complete logs.
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I don't log.
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and who deleted b-raid thread :(
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Hugman.
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If you want IRC logs, stay on IRC!
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And leave a computer running at home for the sole purpose of logging IRC? What a total waste of power :P
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starbrow dont your uni has a linux that you can ssh to from home?
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Not a clue. I only have access to storage space at university, I cannot run programs remotely on their servers if that's what you mean.
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try this : http://data.imf.au.dk/cgi-bin/viewers/viewfaqguide.cgi?guideid=628
if it works we could help you set up a remote irc client on it
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You may have had attachments fail to upload in the last few days. I've fixed it now.
You can attach most things, incidentally, up to 30MB!
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You might've noticed a few rather large changes:
- Some blocks of text have been made larger. This is because Daekesn and I are shit at clicking small links, and because Pluug is blind
- Odds and ends have been changed/altered/removed (let me know if I've removed something you normally use
- The 'dkp' button has moved to the right -- and News has been added. News takes you to the new...
- FRONT PAGE -- yes, we now have a front page. If you want to skip it, visit http://www.iron-edge.co.uk/index.php?action=forum directly.
The front page
The new front page takes posts from the new News board (http://www.iron-edge.co.uk/index.php?board=57.0). Only administrators and moderators can post new topics, but anyone can reply. Moderators will be people who add news/blog posts/videos/etc to the IE site.
I'm not too fussed about what kind of news we post, as long as it's related to IE in some way. Anything to do with any of the games we play is fine.
Posts in the News board will not be automatically put on the front page -- they will have to be 'published'. This is so that me (or someone else) can proof read posts before they go up on the front page.
We had some pretty good ideas of what should go on the front page. Progress reports... videos... class strategy... and so on. If you want to publish any of that kind of stuff, let me know.
(Any questions?)
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lol
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? ? ? ? ? ? $ ? ? ? ₡ ? ₢ ? ₣ ? ₤ ? ₥ ? ₦ ? ₧ ? ₨ ? ₩ ? ₪ ? ₫ ? ₭ ? ₮ ? ₯ ? ₹
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praise the lord! '''
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wh?t!
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? ? ? ? ? ? $ ? ? ? ₡ ? ₢ ? ₣ ? ₤ ? ₥ ? ₦ ? ₧ ? ₨ ? ₩ ? ₪ ? ₫ ? ₭ ? ₮ ? ₯ ? ₹
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P?lmar er auglj?slega b??i myndarlegasti og g?fa?asti einstaklingurinn sem a? notar ?essi spjallbor?.
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(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
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??? ??
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(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
Speed flip?!
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I thought I had a topic for 'stats' but couldn't find it. So I'm using this one instead.
This is the top 10 searches that brought people to the IE site over the last 6 months or so.
Check out number 8...
(http://www.iron-edge.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5420.0;attach=4581;image)
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Oh, if someone can explain number 9, too... that'd be nice.
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AHahaa Fknn Abyss , people looked for that xD
nvm-.-.-
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I like how people are clearly putting the IE url in to the google search box instead of the url bar. Idiots.
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hah ! fkkn abyiss didn't work for me. how can it be possible Mr.Web
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http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fkkn+abyiss - ie website is the first match for me... mike's app being the 2nd.
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ah damn, i see what i did wrong there
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Oh, if someone can explain number 9, too... that'd be nice.
Cwave viral marketing
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SRG PPH!!!
... Who on earth that movie on #9? The sounds is muted on youtube even due to copyright :P
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Ohhh, titles... I thought it said titties.
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Hahaha fucknn abyiss.
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Ohhh, titles... I thought it said titties.
Thaught so too but zoomed in and ammended post xD
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I'm just typing "fkkn abyiss" in the url bar now instead of Iron Edge.
This made me very happy
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Look at that, me and super giving the guild some publicity..!
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Mr Delling, could we add our forum to Tapatalk. http://tapatalk.com/ (http://tapatalk.com/)
Will make browsing the forum from mobile devices much easier
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We have a mobile version of the site:
http://www.iron-edge.co.uk/index.php?action=forum;imode
(can replace 'imode' with 'wap2' if you prefer it)