Originally posted by Sandwich
Can we keep the kvetching to one thread?
And you know what? Aside from the SCP peeps, who really do make headway day-by-day, I think all the rest of you people complaining about the lost productivity time on your respective projects are being whiny little babies. As if you accomplish so much in 2 days. I wish. Pfft, some (honest) people are even commenting how their productivity went up because of this mess. So go get a life, a sense of humor, or both.
I'm going to comment on this one more time, and then I'm done. I'm still annoyed at the overall flop between The Plan Friday and the lack of cooperation from Gamespy, and I really don't have as much reason as most to be concerned. I'm a freelance modder by character, and as long as my PM box and the Modding forum stay intact, I'm fine. But, I've already said my piece, and I'm sure everyone who needed to see it did. I will reiterate that screwing around with the SCP forum in particular wasn't cool, since, like you said, those guys do actually make day-to-day progress. And not all of them, much less the entire community, actually know where their backup forums are. I know WMC has a beta VP candidate that he needs feedback on, plus all of the recent builds, so they do have a legitimate gripe. The rest of the projects barely get two dozen posts a day between them, with the exception of those days that content or previews come out. But that's that.
My concern is actually the way all of this has been handled after the fact. First and foremost, there should have been an "April Fools!" thread started as soon as the forums came back up, completely or not, that explained exactly what happened and why. I know there was and still is mass confusion about what's going on. Quite frankly, I'm still a little mystified as to how it was decided that screwing around with the forum databases was a good idea in the first place, but then what do I know. I would have hoped though that Gamespy's track record on timely responses when something actually does go wrong would have at least been factored in, but whatever.
But what's worse, there's still an air of superiority being taken by those in on the joke over those who weren't, and there isn't anywhere for someone to outright say "you got me" and get a laugh out of it. Just these couple of threads that are more about what happened than the joke of it all. It's the "lets make everyone look stupid" attitude that I really don't like; it's not good community building and we don't have much of a member base to lose. More than anything else, there's enough tension on the board to cut with a knife, and that's not helping anything. Something needs to happen to diffuse it, but I'll be damned if I can think of a way to do that at this point. The joke doesn't seem to have ended, and I think that needs to happen soon.
So that's my $.02, take it or leave it.
EDIT: And what's wrong with the main page?
