The Gang Garrison 2 Forum
Gang Garrison Discussion => Announcements => Topic started by: MedO on September 14, 2013, 03:46:20 pm
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Hi everyone.
It looks like the time has finally come for some fresh color around this place. We have been using the same old website and the same forum software for a long time now, and we now have everything in place so that we can update both!
Wareya has been working on a new website design for a while now, which you can find here (http://www.ganggarrison.com/forums/index.php?topic=33751.msg1184865#msg1184865). We are still working out some creases, so please take a look and suggest improvements!
He also made a GG2 theme for Simple Machines Forum 2, which means we can now upgrade our forum software to the current version without losing our style (but adding some nice touches!). The upgrade will be performed soon, but to do it we need to take the forums offline for ca. an hour so that nobody can post anything while we copy and convert the database and update the software.
We are not quite sure yet when this will happen - but if everything works smoothly and you give us a positive response, it might be as soon as tomorrow. So stay tuned!
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here's (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1811521/ggweb/index.html) the direct link
font's a bit off.. something pixelated would fit the logo a bit more, like the original site.
also I'd prefer a little more space between the GG2 text in the image and the tabbed menu.
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See http://www.ganggarrison.com/forums/index.php?topic=33751.150 (http://www.ganggarrison.com/forums/index.php?topic=33751.150) for the discussion thread, since its kinda buried in Medo's post.
Agree with ilegend and also posted my comments in the other thread
*raises hand*
- Agree with ilegend, please use pixelated font from old homepage on titles. Body text is nice as is.
- Light grey boxes look weird as killercrusher said, something like this would be less distracting http://i.imgur.com/pF1QYh7.png (http://i.imgur.com/pF1QYh7.png)
- The double navigation bars are really weird, especially since you can only access the bottom bar from Home. It would be nice to consolidate them into one bar.
- Banner should be clickable and lead to Home>>Main. Also why does the lowercase "g" in Gang on the banner hang over the navbar?
- The News page could probably be incorporated under the Downloads page since its mostly update links. Unless we want to announce clan wars/pugs and stuff there.
- Putting a screenshot or other graphic on the main page would make it look less plain.
- The About page would probably look less wall-of-text-ish if we alternated paragraph-left/image-right and image-left/paragraph-right. I like the screenshots though.
- Don't really want to discuss the readme since its kinda long, but graphics would be nice.
- A Screenshots page, separate or just underneath the About stuff, maybe with gifs, would be nice especially for people actually browsing the site for more info.
- Can we agree on an inclusive "decent map list" and put it on Downloads? Visitors are likely to go to the site rather than forums looking for custom maps and all they'll find is the classic map pack.
- Is it possible to have the pages do that smooth transition you currently get with the arrows rather than reloading everything for each page?
- Can we clean up the oldversions (http://ganggarrison.com/oldversions) and lobbystatus (http://ganggarrison.com/lobby/status) pages and link them somewhere? They're useful and hard to find.
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Keep the discussion away from this topic. Thank you.
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OK, wareya's new site is online.
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what happened to the extended header (at the sides)
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ajf broke it when moving the site
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Welcome to SMF 2!
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:c1:
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http://snag.gy/RjVGr.jpg (http://snag.gy/RjVGr.jpg)
what the fuck is this.
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Just refresh if you have any missing/wrong image problems.
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Wait, Karma's back?
Was that an accident thing or on purpose?
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nope
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What's karma?
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We added karma again on a whim. It's an official SMF feature now. Funny enough, they use the same database column for it as the old Mod, so the old Karma values now show up again :P
If you complain loudly enough we'll remove it again.
In other news, if you find anything doesn't work now, please report it so that we can fix.
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see the applaud/ smite button next to someone? its like an upvote or downvote
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What's karma?
It's a duo of numbers under everyone's username. You can either applaud (+1) or smite (-1) people.
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Didn't see it immediately, thanks.
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What is the justification for the reintroduction of karma other than the fact AJF finds it fun to fuck around with?
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What is the justification for the reintroduction of karma other than the fact AJF finds it fun to fuck around with?
heres your justification
It's an official SMF feature now.
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No, there was no real justification. You complained well enough, Karma is gone again.
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Well that didn't take much.
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fuck you intel you're so gay
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(http://i.imgur.com/5CgyAsR.png)
Also the new header image is ugly.
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Keep karma
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no thank you
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Keep karma
I'm really curious to see it. also woah teeky where'd you come from?
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procrastinatuion from homework
and karma if it's not abused or messed with
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procrastinatuion from homework
and karma if it's not abused or messed with
i'll keep it short and sweet, ajf brought it back so he could negative karma whore
he literally baited for it in irc
if its brought back solely to abuse, everyone else is gonna follow suit.
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No karma. Why do you insist on having 2 numbers that really add nothing to your profile.
It'll almost definitely be messed with. Shitsmiting.
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No karma. Why do you insist on having 2 numbers that really add nothing to your profile.
It'll almost definitely be messed with. Shitsmiting.
well why not? it seems somewhat fun
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Yeah, if you think such blatant circlejerking over e-reputation is "fun"
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Yeah, if you think such blatant circlejerking over e-reputation is "fun"
I have no idea what circlejerking means. Please tell me because the only thing that comes to mind is a circle of men masturbating and I'm pretty sure that's not what you are referring to.
but as for the erep, sure why not? ajf and i already gave you 2 smites :hehe:
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but as for the erep, sure why not? ajf and i already gave you 2 smites :hehe:
thank you for proving my point
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but as for the erep, sure why not? ajf and i already gave you 2 smites :hehe:
thank you for proving my point
well think of it like youtube likes and dislikes. also yea thanks for the circlejerk definition.
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you just defined it for yourself unwittingly.
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you just defined it for yourself unwittingly.
well i like the like/dislike system tho =/
still waiting on that circlejerk definition
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but as for the erep, sure why not? ajf and i already gave you 2 smites :hehe:
thank you for proving my point
exactly
and 5th definition (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=circlejerk)
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The problem with karma is that it doesn't really reward better behavior.
It's just a popularity gauge/ troll scoreboard.
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but as for the erep, sure why not? ajf and i already gave you 2 smites :hehe:
thank you for proving my point
exactly
and 5th definition (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=circlejerk)
hey my definiition was actually a definition
A masturbation party; can be with guys or girls. Everyone usually sits in a circle and jacks off in the company of other people.
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The problem with karma is that it doesn't really reward better behavior.
It's just a popularity gauge/ troll scoreboard.
starky actually knows what's up
A man's worth is shown through his actions, not some popularity meter.
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The 'report to moderator/logged' thing in the lower right of posts now attaches itself to the last line of text instead of the bottom of the post box, so on shorter posts it's just sort of floating in the middle of the post.
Gross.
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The gg2-icon in the upper right corner is a little too big for the beam. i don't know why this pissis me off but it does. :z4:
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i'll keep it short and sweet, ajf brought it back so he could negative karma whore
he literally baited for it in irc
if its brought back solely to abuse, everyone else is gonna follow suit.
nigga I don't know what planet you're on but I don't have admin powers
it was medo who enabled it
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The gg2-icon in the upper right corner is a little too big for the beam. i don't know why this pissis me off but it does. :z4:
If it's *Actually* too big, refresh until it fixes itself.
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It is not THAt too big, just moving it up 1-pixel (1 pixel being the size of 1 pixel in the icon) it would be fine.
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ctrl + f5 (i just learned what this does actually)
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Doesn't fix it either. Either it is 1 pixel too low or m res is awkward.
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Doesn't fix it either. Either it is 1 pixel too low or m res is awkward.
well at one point the icon was huge so i thought that was what you were referring to
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(http://imgur.com/iaMnfFC.gif)
What?!
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I don't like it
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(http://imgur.com/iaMnfFC.gif)
What?!
Refresh the page until it fixes itself. Caching error.
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Nobody does understand
How I liked the old forums
But now I can't because
They nerfed the forums
Now that I have to scroll
This place has lost it's soul
And it's all because
They nerfed the forums
Cry into my keyboard
My dick is really sore
I just can't believe
That they nerfed the forums
This update's really bad
That header makes me sad
I can't make big bubbles anymore because
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
I can't make big bubbles just
Because they nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
I can't make big bubbles just
Because they nerfed the forums
I just can't learn to deal
I'll boycott to appeal
I'm so butthurt since
They nerfed the forums
This update makes me cry
I think I want to die
And it's all because
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
Now they can ignore me and just
Because they nerfed the forums
Forums
They nerfed the forums
The forums
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
The forums
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
The forums
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
Now I can't be happy because
They nerfed the forums
ULTIMATE SHRED SOLO
They nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
Now there are spambots
Because they nerfed the forums
They nerfed the forums
The forums
They nerfed the forums
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Did you guys anticipate the fact that thee old bot measures wouldn't port over?
This was a huge oversight and probably the best way for us to scare away everyone.
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Why is my perfectly perfect sig, now imperfect?
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Why is my perfectly perfect sig, now imperfect?
It looks like your old one for me.
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Why is my perfectly perfect sig, now imperfect?
It looks like your old one for me.
Must be this college monitor
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Did you guys anticipate the fact that thee old bot measures wouldn't port over?
This was a huge oversight and probably the best way for us to scare away everyone.
You mean the "what is this website called and what is heavy's gun called" thing?
Did it break? If so that's weird, I thought it was built-in to SMF, and if not that the mod we used had been added to SMF2.
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idk what the fuck you had before, but it's obviously not around now. you should probably check for these conflicts.
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Did you guys anticipate the fact that thee old bot measures wouldn't port over?
This was a huge oversight and probably the best way for us to scare away everyone.
You mean the "what is this website called and what is heavy's gun called" thing?
Did it break? If so that's weird, I thought it was built-in to SMF, and if not that the mod we used had been added to SMF2.
Look at the General GG discussion. LOOK AT IT.
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Did you guys anticipate the fact that thee old bot measures wouldn't port over?
This was a huge oversight and probably the best way for us to scare away everyone.
You mean the "what is this website called and what is heavy's gun called" thing?
Did it break? If so that's weird, I thought it was built-in to SMF, and if not that the mod we used had been added to SMF2.
Look at the General GG discussion. LOOK AT IT.
Holy mother of Satan's shite.
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A+ forum technician work
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Yeah uh, yeah.
I probably should have sent a PM to you about it on top of the two I sent to MedO. I noticed two bot topics late last night and knew something was amiss. Now it's obvious something is either incompatible or was forgotten in the transition to 2.0 if this many are even able to register.
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Someone send the abs signal for teeky to unretire for 10 minutes
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I just checked the registration form and yeah, the only thing we have right now in the way of bot regostration is a Captcha. The GG2 related registration question is gone.
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A+ forum technician work
I'm not forum tech atm :U
I mean I have ggeditor so I have admin power in theory but I haven't used it to give myself actual admin power.
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okay then A+ work to everyone else
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Oh god, all these spam bots.
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A+ forum technician work
I'm not forum tech atm :U
I mean I have ggeditor so I have admin power in theory but I haven't used it to give myself actual admin power.
ajf
administrator
it begins
Oh god, all these spam bots.
this
did we break something again
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Oh man, not posting bots, not now.
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Someone cleared it up, I dunno who.
I've just gone into the DB and made myself admin so that I could add a verification question. Someone else had already added one, but there are now two. I've de-admined myself now.
(inb4 "admin abuse" although this is definitely within my remit, actually)
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You guys can't track who makes changes to stuff like that?
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You guys can't track who makes changes to stuff like that?
Verification questions? No. Only some things are logged in the mod log, and I don't believe that's one of them.
If you mean admining myself, well, direct DB editing also wouldn't be logged :P
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Im pretty sure adding a mod through the package manager would be logged somewhere
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Im pretty sure adding a mod through the package manager would be logged somewhere
Oh, that.
SMF's mod list likes spontaneously evaporating.
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(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95874709/SC20130916-115235.png)
Uhh...
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(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95874709/SC20130916-115235.png)
Uhh...
Oh fuck.
*admins self again*
Oh, number of verification questions to answer was set to 0. Set it to 2.
*unadmins*
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That did it. Verification is working as it should now. :c1:
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So there's no db auditing at all? :drool:
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So there's no db auditing at all? :drool:
I'm not sure you are aware of this, but this is still a small forum community run by a bunch of volunteers in their spare time. What kind of auditing do you expect us to have in place here to protect us from *inside jobs*? Even the NSA apparently have no audit info on what Snowden took from their systems...
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So there's no db auditing at all? :drool:
I'm not sure you are aware of this, but this is still a small forum community run by a bunch of volunteers in their spare time. What kind of auditing do you expect us to have in place here to protect us from *inside jobs*? Even the NSA apparently have no audit info on what Snowden took from their systems...
9/11 was an inside job!
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I was just confused that whatever setup we use doesn't have that on by default to be able to tell who did what, not that you guys fucked up setting something up, no need to be defensive
By auditing I just meant the history of db changes, not a full blown audit lol
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hitting that cache error where the last button image disappears way too often. Is this something up with the site or my cache, and will it ever go away?
and ugh fuck the extra 4 pages I haven't read. I have no complaints about the site
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Your verification method really isn't working, there are still bots sneaking in. It looks largely unprofessional lol.
You need to go to the SMF mod site and download a shitton of anti-bot measures, cause we weren't having this problem before due to precisely this method
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Your verification method really isn't working, there are still bots sneaking in.
but there aren't??? At least not in terms of registration. I've been keeping a close eye on the member list and I haven't seen any since the two questions were added properly. Whatever bots we have to deal with now have likely already registered.
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My bad