Originally posted by redmenace
I knew there was an internal forum. I was told there wasn't.
The only such post I could find was this:
Originally posted by Bobboau
what interanal forum, there is no thing...
no jig is up!....
YOU KNOW NOTHING, NOTHING!!!!
AHHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!
/*inhales*/
haha.... heh...
which seemed to be clearly sarcastic in tone.
Originally posted by Drew
no wonder this forum is mostly dead now....
What made you think that?
Originally posted by karajorma
But if they've got a private forum they might be saying bad things about me 
We don't need a private forum for that...

*says bad things about karajorma*
j/k

Originally posted by J3Vr6
And if by a freakish chance someone out there knows code or something and has a suggestion on how to implement something from reading your private forum, they can easily post in the normal SCP forum where everyone can post. They could just easily say: "Hey, I read in your private forum that you're having trouble geting Y function from module X. I think you can do it better by using blah blah blah"
Anyone is free to request internal access. But I should mention that we prefer someone to have some familiarity with the code before they start suggesting things.
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I'm going to point people to Flipside's, Raa Tor'h's, and mikhael's posts for the various reasons for us adding a private forum. In summary, we aren't trying to hide anything from you - we just need a quiet, uncluttered place to work.

Why would we spend all this trouble adding features and then hide them from the community?
Now, one way to encourage us is to create missions that use features we add. I've seen a whole bunch of screenshots of
Bobboau's graphical stuff, which has encouraged him to add more things like specular highlighting. However, I haven't seen any missions with my new sexps, with custom nameplates, or with persistent variables, so I've backed away from adding anything major. If I see people creating cool new missions with my stuff, though, that might change.

This can probably go for any coder on the SCP team.