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#1 Sat, 08/29/2015 - 12:29
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Forum Changes are now live

If you noticed a lot of the forum posts are showing as updated its because of a large round of purging and migrating.  This is the second round of merges that I've done to try and consolidate topics, but this time around I've added the tracking feature you guys have for games into every forum post.  I'll go over what that means after I explain what forums we changed.

  1. Community Update - Merged into off-topic
  2. NSFW - Delete
  3. LAN Forum - Delete
  4. New in Town - Made its own forum
  5. Request Report - Merged into off-topic
  6. Game Genres - Merged into base Game forum
  7. Genres forum - Renamed Platform
  8. Old game forums - Moved to Games forum and then tagged with their specific game.

Thats the break down of the changes so far.  A lot of dead forums were just outright deleted or merged to off-topic.  As for the tracking feature, the idea is that now any forum post in the game forum can be track by the game you tag it with.  For instance, even if there isnt a specific forum for lets say Warframe, I can still tag a post with the game from the database and now all posts with that tag become its own game forum for Warframe.  I haven't added in the sorting feature just yet to list forums by tags, but that will be coming soon.  

Hopefully that will make it easier for people to start up their own new game forums at will without the help or need of an admin.  You'll simply just have to tag a post with the game you're talking about and your forum will be created.  Old forums like Destiny and Forza are currently auto tagged with their game and wont likely go away because of their populartiy.  Let me know what you all think

Tue, 09/08/2015 - 17:53
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Doodi, do you know if I recently lost my GT6 Thursday night thread? It was in one of the sub-forums within 2O4F and I fear something drastic has happened to it.

Can't seem to find it and being my greatest achievement in 6-7 years here at 2O2P I just need to know what happened to my child so I can sleep at night. Does it have a good home? Is it dead, what happened to my baby?

I can create a new thread easily enough it's the not knowing is what's killing Parcells right now. The memories will live on forever.

please advise.

 

Tue, 09/08/2015 - 18:41
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There were no changes made to any of the 2o4f forums or subforums. Do you have a link to the post where it used to be? Better yet to you remember the full title? Was it a sticky post?
Tue, 09/08/2015 - 18:54
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http://www.2old2play.com/forum-topic/games/2old4forza/gt6-thursday-nights-1900-2200-est-78382

 

It appears to still be in the 2o4f Subforums, that are no longer visible.  I know you fall off your rocker regularly, Parcells...but you haven't fallen far this time!  cheeky

Tue, 09/08/2015 - 19:08
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Not visable?  Oh I think I see the issue.   Subforums are just in a drop down to clean up the clutter when focusing on a main one.  For instance:

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You just click there and see all subs-forums attached to a forums.  I should probably find a better way to display this though if people are missing it.  I'll have to think of a better way to hide and show things so everyone knows there are extra forums there.

 

Tue, 09/08/2015 - 19:18
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My baby lives after all, thanks guys.

Tue, 09/08/2015 - 19:27 (Reply to #6)
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Cool.  I should still probably find a better way to make subforums a bit more noticable then the tiny arrow though.

Tue, 09/08/2015 - 19:42
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Ok, I've added a new button that is clearly labeled Subforms to make it easier to see on forums that have subs attached to them.  Let me know if this is clearer and/or better.  Thanks!

Wed, 09/09/2015 - 08:02
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Much more obvious for us old timers Doodi, thank you.

p.s. You may want to consider reverting back to your "thinker pose" avatar...God only knows what kind of growth you're working towards on your face and you appear very unapproachable with that nasty grin. :)  

Wed, 09/09/2015 - 10:58 (Reply to #9)
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It's my homeless man look.
Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:03
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Looks like he's on target...

Parcells needs a large neon arrow pointing at the target...

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