First post !!!

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A search feature! How inventive!

But lots of old user names  :P

kosmo wrote:
But lots of old user names  :P

It's retro stylings juxtaposed with inventive haute couture materials. I love everything about it!

Hmm, I don't like all the gizmos and claptrap.  Much more preferred the plain black stylings of the old forum.  I will say though that having a search function is fantastic.  That being said, I wonder how many really old threads will be dug up and commented on now that we can easily do that?

sup folks  :-*

hi, sorry i'm late, just got here… what did i miss?  a search function, you say?  hummm…

EDIT: looks like we got sigs - instant source of annoyance.  but kosmo, only 5 characters for the sig?!?  need to up that.

Arthwys wrote:
Hmm, I don't like all the gizmos and claptrap.  Much more preferred the plain black stylings of the old forum.  I will say though that having a search function is fantastic.  That being said, I wonder how many really old threads will be dug up and commented on now that we can easily do that?

Will totally agree on the point that the simplicity of the old forum was very attractive, however it just would have never integrated as nicely into the new website.  I've always thought PHP forums like this were overly fussy, it sure was nice to have 40 posts on a page verses what setup at the moment.  Lots of extra scrolling for less content..  I'm all for keeping the gizmos to the minimum, but would like as time goes by to add in some of the nifty extension to provide meaningful content here.  Make the forum in general a little bit more sticky…

sweetcell wrote:
hi, sorry i'm late, just got here… what did i miss?  a search function, you say?  hummm…

EDIT: looks like we got sigs - instant source of annoyance.  but kosmo, only 5 characters for the sig?!?  need to up that.

The plan was to eliminate signatures all together, but it's not a default feature of the software.  I considered changing the amount of characters to 1, but that seemed a bit to silly.  Like many other extras signatures maybe enabled at some point…

Whoa, who rearranged the furniture? 

i like.

Julian, wrote:
A search feature! How inventive!

yeah, but after several minutes of searching, i still can't find ancient.gif… :(

some of the new formating features are fun cool, but not sure how i feel about [glow=red,2,300]glow[/glow].

[move]scrolling has GOT to go[/move]

this place has the potential to get really ugly.

On hfstival.com we called scrolling "parading" and would use it with images.

I completely abused the shit out of that feature. It really needs deactivated, I warn you.

I'm lost.

Love having a search function and being able to include a few extra features if we choose but I do not at all like that we lost our member numbers. (I was #609.)

Will take some time playing around here to figure out what's what. Doesn't seem like the easiest board to manuver so far.

Julian, wrote:
On hfstival.com we called scrolling "parading" and would use it with images.

like this?

[move] [/move]

sweetcell wrote:
like this?

[move] [/move]

Yeah, but usually the pictures would be larger and I'd do like 15 in a row. As you can imagine, it was a "love it or hate it" thing.

as i was telling the powers to be last night, it would only be a matter of time before the users around here starting finding the "special" features….

as far as the members list, that should be going away at some point.. it's a bit pointless to have a list of 18K available when most of them are inactive.

check…check…thump-thump-thump

So far so good.

the one new gizmo i really like about the new forum is being able to click the new graphic and jumping right down to proper place in the forum…

Just thought of something. We don't have a Buddy List anymore, do we? I loved that function. That's a very important reason to keep an active Members List.

Occasionally, I would want to PM someone who hasn't posted for awhile or maybe they've changed up their visable user name but you didn't catch on yet. (Yet another extremely good reason to display the Member Number!!!)

Would be nice to have a way of keeping track of your forum friends.