badmin
Shared on Sat, 08/29/2015 - 12:30If 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.
- Community Update - Merged into off-topic
- NSFW - Delete
- LAN Forum - Delete
- New in Town - Made its own forum
- Request Report - Merged into off-topic
- Game Genres - Merged into base Game forum
- Genres forum - Renamed Platform
- 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
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Submitted by YEM on Sun, 08/30/2015 - 07:15
Seems like there is stuff missing. A bunch of off topic and Destiny posts are gone
Submitted by badmin on Sun, 08/30/2015 - 09:20
All posts are actually there, its just that the order of them got a bit screwed up after the move. It reset the last post date to the same day of the move for all posts. So because all the posts are on the same day its ordering by the id of each post. For instance in off topic you'll see all the post from Report forum first, but if you go to page 9-10 you will start to see all the off topic posts.
Submitted by YEM on Sun, 08/30/2015 - 14:35
Ah, ok. Thanks