Ideas and Roadmap for this forum

[Kaitscralt]

figure out why it will be a good magic site before building non magic parts

[Captain Murphy]

I'd be down to mod anything non magic related, maybe mafia? But we already have two mods for that.

Whatever really.

An Entertainment section? WCT? I wouldn't be interested in either of those.

Let's face it, we all used Outside Magic fairly often. Might as well re-create it here.

Yeah I could take wct and entertainment. I play a lot of videogames. But madding is right, better to start with the base of the site.

Sorry to ask but can an admin change my name to "Captain Murphy"? Feel like a complete change.

[Second Harkius]

I changed the avatar settings to 120 x 120 then back to 100 x 100. Does anyone think they should be bigger / smaller? Right now the 100 x 100 settings seems a bit small but that could just be my computer. Anybody else have feedback?

[ein]

100 x 100 is a bit small. Can you try and fit them fully into the stock left column? I don't know how many pixels that is, but for a standard name, etc. there should be a size that fits nicely in there.

[admin]

I took the settings of the other site as a reference. I suppose 120x120 couldn't hurt. Updated!

[ein]

I took the settings of the other site as a reference. I suppose 120x120 couldn't hurt. Updated!

Thanks!

[ein]

So, this can go way down on the priority list, but the [ONLINE/OFFLINE] box and "Joined: XXXX" pieces in our visible profiles (that stuff you see when we post) probably should get turned off. The less clutter the better!

[( G_R )]

I'd be down to mod anything non magic related, maybe mafia? But we already have two mods for that.

Whatever really.

An Entertainment section? WCT? I wouldn't be interested in either of those.

Let's face it, we all used Outside Magic fairly often. Might as well re-create it here.

Yeah I could take wct and entertainment. I play a lot of videogames. But madding is right, better to
start with the base of the site.

Sorry to ask but can an admin change my name to "Captain Murphy"? Feel like a complete change.

Name change processed. Mod text because I'm power-mad like that.

[admin]

Cool, That's exactly what we need GR, initiative, and not waiting for me to give you guys the OK. We are definitely not gonna go the MTGS route, so you don't need to ask me permission for anything if I already gave you the power to do so

[Checkbox]

Checkbox here. Thanks for the invite whoever invited me from the other forum (zombie zach?)

I'm all for a new site, I'm glad I've been deemed worthy to participate in its start. Can I ask who the admin is? Do we know him/her from [redacted]?

[( G_R )]

Admin is Scumbag

[ein]

Admin is Scumbag

That is a great filter!

[admin]

[( G_R )]

http://www.wizards.com/fankit/fantoolkitmagic.html

[( G_R )]

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tl;dr

Someone tell me if there's anything in there saying that we cannot use that stuff plz.

[Checkbox]

I wish I had the patience to read through that and the know-how to understand it, but I do like the idea of using some of the stuff in the fan kit.

[Manasjap]

depends a bit on the whole monetizing thing, they don't want us to do that

[admin]

Yeah, but as long as we don't switch servers there's not gonna be any financial transactions over here, so we can use it I think

[Checkbox]

Admin is Scumbag

time for me to guess

Attempt 1: unsuccessful
Attempt 2: no dice
Attempt 3: no owner
Attempt 4: goin real deep
Attempt 5: not a gutter member
Attempt 6: not a staff member

[Checkbox]

i have no earthly idea

[Yannaria]

I'd be willing to mod a music or writing section if we choose to have one of those.

this is my underhanded way of saying we need a music and writing section

[Manders]

Cool, That's exactly what we need GR, initiative, and not waiting for me to give you guys the OK. We are definitely not gonna go the Ugly Sally route, so you don't need to ask me permission for anything if I already gave you the power to do so

I didn't know if I had the power to do it or not, so I didn't try.

[admin]

So, one (and totally inconsequential) small thing that I like about GG that Sally didn't have was the thread subtitles. Any chance there's a turn on button for those?

I'll look into it

So, this can go way down on the priority list, but the [ONLINE/OFFLINE] box and "Joined: XXXX" pieces in our visible profiles (that stuff you see when we post) probably should get turned off. The less clutter the better!

Maybe we can get a more discrete icon (ala MTGS) for the online/offline part? I can look about removing the joined text

[Yabbs]

Maybe we can get a more discrete icon (ala Ugly Sally) for the online/offline part? I can look about removing the joined text

I really like the way the Lucid Lime skin handles it. It's just a bar going down the left side that's either gray or green depending on their status.

[Yannaria]

Are Custom Titles out of the picture with this forum software?

[admin]

Not at all. Either its something that needs to be enabled in the Admin CP or if not, we can install a mod for sure

[Zionite]

Tapped.com

[Yannaria]

Tapped.com

Thank you for this post!

[Checkbox]

Here, have some attention

[imopen2]

Tapped.com

Thank you for this post!

Thank you for thanking

[admin]

Guys, keep the spam low, otherwise we cannot make any decent brainstorming in here.

[Yannaria]

Embedded videos? Ugly Sally didn't have those and it'd be nice to not have infinite tabs open if we do start up a WCT style subforum.

also shameless plug for music/entertainment and creative writing

edit: the other thing that bugged me about Ugly Sally was not being able to view more than 1000 of someone's posts. A small gripe, but still obnoxious. Anyway that we can get it so when you look at someone's posts, you view all of them instead of the 1000 most recent?

thanks/like buttons doesn't seem like a horrible idea, but I'm indifferent to that.
a bot trap would be nice once we get established.

[Zionite]

Tapped.com

Thank you for this post!

I don't even have to defend the name. I know it's good.

[( G_R )]

If that doesn't mean that we have to enable HTML code, I don't see why not.

[Checkbox]

Is there something we don't like about enabling HTML code?

[Zionite]

Is there something we don't like about enabling HTML code?

It opens up the Pandora's Box of coding nightmares.

Remember myspace? The whole reason that people could customize the layout you see on their profiles was because someone 'accidentally' allowed HTML code to work. We probably don't want that.

[Checkbox]

I mean, it hasn't created any real issues on [redacted], has it? Or do they not allow HTML either?

[Thrillho]

I mean, it hasn't created any real issues on [redacted], has it? Or do they not allow HTML either?

you could host a website in your single post.

html editing is a terrible idea. it is why no one uses myspace and everyone uses facebook.

[Thrillho]

tapped.com is available.
it's pretty snappy, elegant, and relevant.