How do you think the forums rewrite is going?

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My Linux Rig: Mar 27, 2010; Can't post for 6 years!

Hammerite posted:

has lowtax ever made the code for the forums accessible so people can evaluate how bad it is

i mean i dont' doubt it's bad but...

you don't want to see it it's like the ark of the covenant except it will make you rapidly gain weight and social awkwardness when you see it

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 01:18

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 19:27

My Linux Rig: Mar 27, 2010; Can't post for 6 years!

the only clean break that will fix sa is cleanly breaking lowtaxs neck

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 06:27

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I'm sorry that was a little too dark

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 06:27

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I'll rewrite the forums

first order of business: putting the forums on the block chain

# ¿ Feb 7, 2017 01:20

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Plorkyeran posted:

maybe we can kill two birds with one stone and just delete the forums

# ¿ Feb 18, 2017 00:15

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big scary monsters posted:

once the rewrite is complete and source code is released enterprising goons will port it to whatever language is the new hotness in 2025

it'll be written in rare, artisanal peeps

# ¿ Feb 20, 2017 20:04

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Star War Sex Parrot posted:

He's a nice guy but he clearly takes no joy in running the forums so I dunno why he tries to

I wouldn't either if all the online communities I spawned were the worst thing about the internet

# ¿ Apr 30, 2017 15:32

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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:

sometimes I wonder what I'll do to read about nerd poo poo when the forums go down

like, i like micro controllers. i can talk with people wayyyyyy smarter than me here. yet, i can ask a dumb question, and get a human response.

I mean, even the loving arduino forums have tons of threads where some newbie wanders in and is like "how do i do [x]" (when they really should be doing [y], but they're too new to know it yet).

and the first reply they get is some terse "do [z]"
or a series of obtuse responses or humorless nerds. Its different for some reason here, and IDK, i think its because this is a """"comedy"""" forum [and this the stupid computer subforum[ and not a forum specifically about one topic and issues around it. it makes things a lot more interesting and conversational.

the worst part is when this all goes kaput, i've never been really super-involved in the inner stuff, i just lurk mostly and so i'm never gonna know where y'all went.

I know you aren't gonna wanna hear this, but the new place for that is reddit

# ¿ May 1, 2017 16:31

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cis autodrag posted:

axe gbs and rotate the top forum once a month.

also looking at the forums list for the first time in ages, i wouldn't be surprised if poo poo like FYAD's current subtitle drives away younger people who might otherwise register.

Nah keep gbs but rotate in mods so that the ones with the highest ban counts are moderating it

It'd be like a shooting gallery but for terrible posters like me

# ¿ May 1, 2017 21:22