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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: J.F.K. on March 29, 2003, 07:07:02 am
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...or should I say Olds? Okay, so I'm still pretty new around here and hence I probably shouldn't be levelling major criticisms at anyone just yet, but I've gotta say this site - for the size of its community - has got to have the slowest news I've ever seen. Alright, I'll concede that the main game you cover is 4 or 5 years old by now, so naturally there'll have been no official news about FS2 for quite some time now. But I'm sure there's something you can do, just to keep the news page from being completely stagnant and breeding mosquito larvae...
I thought maybe you could do something powered by the community, since it's so huge. The main 3DAP site, for example, uses all the news from its hosted network. Your hosted network seems just as slow in official news as its main hub, though, so that doesn't automatically work.
However, you still have teeming forums, and your hosted projects are definitely working behind the scenes. You could get people to sensibly post their own news. I gather that most people don't visit all the hosted forums... this would be a good way to improve cross-forum traffic.
Get people to send their news items to whoever your newshound is (Windrunner, I think his name is?), and all he has to do is some minor formatting and then post the thing up. I think it'd work.
Anyway, just a suggestion. :D
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Beats me why they don't hire someone with no social life purely to keep the main page up to date. Windrunner is supposed to do all that, but the's also got other stuff to keep up with, both here and (presumably) in RL.
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I think back in the day when there were 3 main admins and they weren't all wrapped up in somebody's huge friggin' project, they had time to take care of the page. Those days are gone now, apparently, and at any rate it's not like there's just ****loads of real news coming through here nowadays.
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I have to agree with stryke. its not like there is a lot of news to post about. I just can't post irrelevant news, i have to find news that fits with what we do. And there is another matter RL. I am studing at college and that takes most of time right now.
Besides HLP is more up to date with news than any other Freespace site.
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hmm... what college are you studying at, windrunner?
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What about keeping the pic o' the "day" up to date, and stuff like that?
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Yah, I ain't been on there once!:D
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Yah, I ain't been on there once!:D
Me neither! ;)
Anyway, I think that pic of the moment should be changed if some admin finds the time. That one's only been there for about three months or so after all.
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Actually, I think it's been updated twice fairly recently. But you'd think at least Styxx's missile cruiser would get on there or something.
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No, that pic of Plasma's has been up there for a LONG time.
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Originally posted by Corsair
No, that pic of Plasma's has been up there for a LONG time.
funny. I see "The great GTD Agamenmon modeled by the etrnal Aldo"
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*suggests making some kind of auto-switcher that randomly selects a different pic from the galleries every day*
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That idea has been bandied about myriad times, and nothing has come of it.
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Originally posted by an0n
*suggests making some kind of auto-switcher that randomly selects a different pic from the galleries every day*
hey! remember this date: 29/03/03
An0n had a good idea!
"cloaks, runs, teleports, then noticves he has nothing or nobody to be afraid of, since he's Evil itself"
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Originally posted by kode
funny. I see "The great GTD Agamenmon modeled by the etrnal Aldo"
hmmmmmm :wtf:
*presses reload*
Ahhh, much better now. :D
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Originally posted by J.F.K.
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How about you find some news then? I think you'll discover soon enough that there's not very much other than inconsequential stuff on the forums.
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..which is exactly all the stuff we'd liek to hear about. That's more or less why most of us are here.
or at least stuff like when people finish 1337 models (like your cruiser or styxx's) or the mod database goes up, etc.
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Originally posted by Shrike
How about you find some news then? I think you'll discover soon enough that there's not very much other than inconsequential stuff on the forums.
NW:GA? Foxfire Chronicles? FS Open 3.6 planning? Gargant V2? Bakha Stealth Bomber Reskin? It doesn't have to be earth-moving, it's gotta be better than having a stagnant news page. Anyway, like I said, just an idea. But I did think it through. :p
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Is anyone paying attention? Here's another good example.
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,14241.0.html
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Foxfire Chronicles
he does have a point :thepimp:
Edit: Didn't notice this before but i've passed 1000 posts. w00t!
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I'll post news about foxfire and the other thing.
But you guys have to know that i am also relying on you to inform me sometimes about news that i have missed. I really don't have mutchfree time on my hands these days to surf the web with college and all the assignments. But i try to updated the page as often as i can.
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:)
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Originally posted by an0n
*suggests making some kind of auto-switcher that randomly selects a different pic from the galleries every day*
That idea has been bandied about myriad times, and nothing has come of it. [/B]
Worry not, my littles... we've read, we've heard, and we're Behind the Scenes, Planning™ - if you get my drift. ;)
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Worry not, my littles... we've read, we've heard, and we're Behind the Scenes, Planning™ - if you get my drift. ;)
Yeah what the dude with the big gun said. :nod:
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Worry not, my littles... we've read, we've heard, and we're Behind the Scenes, Planning™ - if you get my drift. ;)
Littles!?! LITTLES?!?! Why, I'm a giant! 2' 6"!
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Littles!?! LITTLES?!?! Why, I'm a giant! 2' 6"!
Two feet, six inches, eh? Howdy. I'm six feet, two inches.
*mutters* wanna-be Goliaths... :rolleyes:
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Hey! don't make fun of the dwarves. They can ehh... cut your legs off!
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Thanks for that, Windrunner. If what you need is to be informed of news, maybe you should have a news request thread in Hard Light or something. That would make it easy to access... :)
Originally posted by Sandwich
Worry not, my littles... we've read, we've heard, and we're Behind the Scenes, Planning™ - if you get my drift. ;) [/B]
That's good to hear. :yes:
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Originally posted by J.F.K.
Thanks for that, Windrunner. If what you need is to be informed of news, maybe you should have a news request thread in Hard Light or something. That would make it easy to access... :)
What's complex about a simple PM? Threads get spammed.
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Oh, yeah... well, I disabled my PMs 'cos I had a bad experience with them before on another vBulletin forum. I don't actually know what happened to that place, but I abandoned the forum, because my account basically screwed itself over... I think their vB version must have been too old or they got hacked or both. In any case, if you had strict rules on a thread, it could still be avoided... kinda like the request thread we already have.
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Originally posted by J.F.K.
In any case, if you had strict rules on a thread, it could still be avoided... kinda like the request thread we already have.
True, but if we wanted to have _all_ our content on the forums and only on the forums, we would have done so. Besides, the less threads we need to police the better. :D
Oh, and I haven't heard of any problems members have had with their profiles being screwed up because of PMs - we have much, much more efficient ways of screwing up profiles... :doubt:
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I shan't ask... but I'll keep the stuff about PMs in mind for the future. Maybe it would be better for you guys to set up an announcement reminding forum people to send PMs to alert Windrunner to news requests. :)