[Sandwich]

Hey, wait a sec... whaddya think you're doing, Kal?!? You can't just take over like this! We need to discuss it among the administration endlessly, finally arriving at a point where there's no change in sight, and then forget about the whole thing! You can't just go ahead and... and... take action!!



I sure hope all y'all's sarcasm detectors are working properly...

[Fineus]

Oh crap, what was I thinking. You're right!
 
We must talk about this for months, months! and draw up... tables... and charts...

[Shade]

If you're gonna be PM, you need to learn to talk like one:

We're looking to focus and improve HLP. In time, we'll be looking for your input. Whether you're a modder, a campaign creator, a fan of FreeSpace or just John Doe - here for the community... we'll be wanting to hear what you want from this place.

What kind of PM-talk is that? It's nonsense! Here's the proper format:

Your opinions, our future. A new beginning. Improvements - Modders, campaign creators, Freespace fans - All for the community... you will be heard.

See, that's not so hard, right?

[Polpolion]

I didn't say "major members", I said "staff".

But I'm intrigued now. Several people have said "that doesn't sound like much" so I'm going to go ahead and ask you a question.

What were you expecting?

And please don't answer with "I dunno... just... more". That's a waste of time. It sounds like you guys thought I was going to announce something epic and who knows, maybe we could work towards that. But you'll have to be a bit more forthcoming with what you were expecting.

The title "the plan (aka: our future)" implies some kind of major change. (saying that you have a plan usually  means more than seeing who's still here.)

[Fineus]

It does involve more than seeing who's here, but as I've said earlier in this thread - I'm not going to start divulging this stuff because it'll inevitably lead to more questions and slow everything down that much more.

The best way to think of it is this: What I'm doing now is a work in progress. It is not finished and it has not all been revealed. And I won't be revealing more until I'm ready to.

Till then, you'll have to cope

[Turey]

Karajorma will be an Admin.

I don't think he'd want to be one. He's got too many projects as it is, and many of them are getting neglected for the time being (MG, etc.). I don't think he needs more on his plate.

[Mars]

< Plan^TM >

This gives me a vague twinge of foreboding... IDK why. I'm kind of hoping it was the wording and not the message.

[redsniper]

The Plan™ has been around since VBB days. It's just now coming to fruition.

[Mobius]

I don't think he'd want to be one. He's got too many projects as it is, and many of them are getting neglected for the time being (MG, etc.). I don't think he needs more on his plate.

Well he is active and always ready to help people. Many members have projects to work on, and many projects suffer a terrible lack of personnel.

But Inferno, for example, is back. There are so many active members....
We don't know if projects like MG will remain in the darkness forever. Just look at SWC, for example.

[chief1983]

Yeah, and look at my kickass badge!

[BlackDove]

I can't believe we got our badges back.

It's like....

It's like somebody is ALIVE UP HERE!

[Sandwich]

Yeah, well, I thought it was about time. Besides, Fury kept on bugging me.

[Fury]

Besides, Fury kept on bugging me.

I did?

[Sandwich]

Indeed. The badges have always been part of that other, upcoming change which you've been bugging me about.

[diceman111]

Just want to say that I think that HLP is the best forum on the net so whatever you want to do go ahead and do it........

[brozozo]

I also appreciate the reintroduction of badges.

[Mobius]

That's not enough. We want Avatars as well!

Just want to say that I think that HLP is the best forum on the net so whatever you want to do go ahead and do it........

Without a doubt. I found many kids-populated forums. One of them in mentioned in my sig.

[gevatter Lars]

Could it be that the number of topics shown on each page has been reduced? I prefer the long list for our project so that I can see all the new post at once without changeing pages and search for them.

Can the number of topic one can see be changed back. I prefere scrolling the pages over flipping them ^_^

[Sandwich]

Could it be that the number of topics shown on each page has been reduced? I prefer the long list for our project so that I can see all the new post at once without changeing pages and search for them.

Can the number of topic one can see be changed back. I prefere scrolling the pages over flipping them ^_^

Just a FYI. I noticed our "Most Online Today" stats have been steadily way over 100 (closing to 150 actually) every day since BtRL release, so I've toned down how many topics and posts are displayed per page back to their SMF defaults. This will significantly shorten time required to execute the sql queries to show one page of topics or posts. One query alone won't make much difference, but when there can be potentially a hundred queries executed about same time, it does make a difference.

Our previous values especially for topics per page was a bit of overkill anyway. While most forums have it somewhere 15-30, ours was 50. Posts per page was more reasonable at 25, but still quite high compared to most. If people aren't happy with default values, we can increase these values bit at a time until majority are happy but without going overboard.

[Fury]

Discussion about that change is here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,46497.0.html