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Welcome guys and gals to the new forum.

 

Thanks goes out to Ryan(the cash man) for making the investment in Vbulletin.

My other mate Ryan who company hosts this and many other sites.

My Mum

Russ for his initial work on the Yabb forum.

 

As you will soon find out this forum software is packed full of goodies all growing communities needs, so spread the word!

Some of the plugins I've already installed are :

 

MultiQuote: in the bottom left of each post you will see this icon "mq_img_off.gif" You can click on these anywhere and the forum and take multiple quotes. check the test news thread for a example and don't forget to actually click quote when you want to post..

Prevent Double Posting: If you double post or somebody did try to spam this will merge the 2/3/4 posts into 1.

Spellchecker: For people like me who can't spell.

Skins: 4 nice clean skins you can select them in the bottom left hand corner

 

Things to come:

V3arcade: Flash arcade :)

Ucash Ushop: this is great, give you forum cash for posting and you can spend your money on for example a glowing username or changing your user title to name but a few.

Trader Ratings: Rate people on a trade neg pos what ever.

Banners: I need help with this, artistic factor=zero

Ranks

More skins

More Smiles

 

Thats all I can think of for now :D

 

All the images in this post were dragged in from parts of the forum, this is possible with the WYSIWYG(what you see is what you get) editor.

BTW: only admins,mods and people in the usergroup newsposters and post new threads in the News and Polls section of the forum, every new thread here will show up on the front page portal.

We will need dedicated news posters :) hands up?

Enjoy.

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As I said to Ryan, we need to make sure any artwork used on the site is original and copyright free. I'd love to see my favourite arcade characters all over it and although there's little chance of one of the holders of the copyright/licenses for them coming here and complaining it's better to be safe than sorry.

 

Once there's a few more members changed over to here we should have a banner/logo competition for all those budding photoshop boys and girls out there. Just specify the size required and what must/mustn't be included and let everyone elses imaginations take over. Then we can have a poll to vote for the best one.

 

And I'l reiterate what I posted on the other forum (it will obviously get merged with my last post but.....)

 

Some things to remember folks:

 

1. This is not a repository of information. It is a discussion forum. Consequently, when faced with limited disk space (and regardless how much you have, eventually it will not be enough) it makes sense to remove topics that have not been accessed in a while. Sure you may be removing information that someone else may find useful at a later date. But being a discussion forum how hard is it to ask again? Not to mention it makes the amount of information one has to search through to see if the topic has been raised previously much easier.

2. There is no membership fee for being here, therefore the owner(s) of the site can do whatever they please, whenever they please without consent. Ryan owns the domain (he paid for it) and Mr P owns the server space (regardless of the fact he isn't currently paying for it). Therefore they can do what they like without anyone elses permission or input. That being said I know they happily accept suggestions to try and make the site as useful, useable and enjoyable as possible within the constraints they have (disk space and traffic). Personally I don't think any forum has a need to host photo's at all. They all should be links to externally hosted pics.

 

Now lets all play nice. This is a forum created so people are free to express their own views and assist each other without fear of having their views edited by the moderator Nazi. That being said there are moderators here and abuse will not be tolerated (not that there has been any, just reminding everyone it's there).

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Sure is buddy when I can find somebody to make some banners, I have a plugin that can rotate banners.

Just keep in mind its still work in progress.

 

 

Great what are the dimensions, (in pixels) and what is it to say? I will have a cracked at it. Why not make a little comp out of it, (you suggested that already didn't you? lol). :)

 

Yes, I will be more than happy to provide mame emulation updates, news etc. Other emu's I'm not that up to speed on at all, but mame, yes.

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Been talking with Ryan this morning, id say we will most likely be using a few graphics and themes from old site to keep its overall feel, plus blend in some new ideas..

 

Over the next week or so I'll be looking at what customizations can be done visually to this new VB forum software, and then consult will everyone on some ideas on what can be done with the skin..,

 

Mr P , i'll be needing the new FTP password to the server as i dont have it YET ..

 

Thanks Russ..

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Yeah I guess the size os the problem, I run my desktop at 1024x768 some people may have larger size.

maybe try 1000x200?

Try a few different sizes and see what suits.

And for the skins Russ theres already like 6 installed, this gives people a choice on how they would like it.

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I'll have to talk to Ryan about that. This software is all SQL based and is completely different to YaBB.

I have already backed up the old forum and you are quite welcome to it.

After recent events im reluctant to hand out anything to anyone other than those I trust.

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Id say the orginal banner will be staying from the old site, ill be chatting with Ryan again this arvo to confirm this...

Mr P , i'll be needing the new FTP password to the server as i dont have it YET ..

 

Russ,

 

Everything is sweet now. If you like we can use the old forum header?

Now lets all play nice.

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Hi everyone.

 

Nice forum. Good to see everyone plays well together..

 

Oh and the banner...nice..

 

I love arcade games and currently have a ms pacman cocktail and defended dedicated cab. Plus around 20 pcbs

 

Keep up the good wotk on your web site looks great.

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Great forum guys I like :)

 

1. This is not a repository of information. It is a discussion forum. Consequently, when faced with limited disk space (and regardless how much you have, eventually it will not be enough) it makes sense to remove topics that have not been accessed in a while.

 

Except for technical stickies etc, I think they should stay. Things like 'for sale' can be deleted no worries.

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