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I am having a hard time imagining how custom avatars could possibly hurt. If someone finds that tiny block of image offensive, maybe we should do away with sigs and dangerously NSFW threads altogether. Just disallow animated gifs and things can only improve from fusetalk bs. :thumbsup:

Images, I couldn't care less. Links work fine for me, embedded would be marginally more convinient though.
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: skace
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: skace
Who cares about pictures, I just want a damned
tag so we can get rid of the ridiculous act of adding 30 lines of empty space to your post as a sufficient spoiler warning when people still have to scroll right past your spoiler (and every time it is quoted there in).
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people wont use it
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Make it a bannable offense to post spoilers outside of spoiler tag. Bam, done.

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how about no, i personally enjoy watching people bitch to no end about someone spoiling something for them

its not the end of the world, but some sure act like it is
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That's because you're an asshole
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
how about no, i personally enjoy watching people bitch to no end about someone spoiling something for them

its not the end of the world, but some sure act like it is
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Yea well, I enjoy trolling and posting goatse, so I guess we should just throw better judgment to the wind for the sake of someone's enjoyment pissing others off, eh?
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: skace
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: skace
Who cares about pictures, I just want a damned
tag so we can get rid of the ridiculous act of adding 30 lines of empty space to your post as a sufficient spoiler warning when people still have to scroll right past your spoiler (and every time it is quoted there in).
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people wont use it
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Make it a bannable offense to post spoilers outside of spoiler tag. Bam, done.

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how about no, i personally enjoy watching people bitch to no end about someone spoiling something for them

its not the end of the world, but some sure act like it is
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That's because you're an asshole
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thats true, however i dont post spoilers, ive never posted one, i willingly read them and dont care, i do find it really funny when people start bitching about it after willingly clicking in a thread that may contain them
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: skace
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: skace
Who cares about pictures, I just want a damned
tag so we can get rid of the ridiculous act of adding 30 lines of empty space to your post as a sufficient spoiler warning when people still have to scroll right past your spoiler (and every time it is quoted there in).
Click to expand...
people wont use it
Click to expand...
Make it a bannable offense to post spoilers outside of spoiler tag. Bam, done.

.
Click to expand...
how about no, i personally enjoy watching people bitch to no end about someone spoiling something for them

its not the end of the world, but some sure act like it is
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That's because you're an asshole
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thats true, however i dont post spoilers, ive never posted one, i willingly read them and dont care, i do find it really funny when people start bitching about it after willingly clicking in a thread that may contain them
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YOU ARE THE REASON WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.

DAMN YOU!
 
Originally posted by: skace
2 suggestions:

1. Send out an email before hand if you can, that will test how many people have actually updated their account. You could put a news post saying everyone should expect an email and those that don't receive one need to re-verify their profile or contact a mod. That way you hammer out problems before having password issues.

2. Put the new site up in parallel and in beta form. That way you can get passwords cleaned out before migrating all the real data. Just let people know that any posts in the new beta forum won't be saved. This will also allow you to have major testing of the site to hammer out any bugs before you switch over all the data.
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One of the things I used to do was handle the email. This is a good idea because there will be hundreds (if not thousands) of emails asking for a password. The only downside is all the bounced emails that will have to be sorted out.

I like #2 also.

 
Well, since we got a News item about this and the thread was bumped, I guess its appropriate to reply.


For myself: I dont like it. Every VB forum I have seen looks like a mangy dogs butt. And even if Anandtech somehow makes it look pretty I am afraid it still wont be useful.

Am a member of another forum that uses VB and navigating around is a real pain in the ass. I hate it. Thats why I only have about 100 posts in 5 years over there.
Of course, for all the folks here who dont wish to see me any more, the transition will be a good thing.
But I will sure miss me, 🙁.

Anyway, I dont need pretty in a website but I do need functionality. Even with its current issues Fusetalk is a heck of a lot easier to use than VB.

/ Speech.


So, is anyone else looking forward to cleaning house on all the lazy buttheads who wont update their emails?
 
Originally posted by: alkemyst


you give too much credit to our posters...most forget to put NSFW or worse state it is SFW but because they are adblocking they didn't see Little Suzie take in 17" of Horse cock in the page header.
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You owe me for one Sprite soaked keyboard and monitor .....



🙂
 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Well, since we got a News item about this and the thread was bumped, I guess its appropriate to reply.


For myself: I dont like it. Every VB forum I have seen looks like a mangy dogs butt. And even if Anandtech somehow makes it look pretty I am afraid it still wont be useful.

Am a member of another forum that uses VB and navigating around is a real pain in the ass. I hate it. Thats why I only have about 100 posts in 5 years over there.
Of course, for all the folks here who dont wish to see me any more, the transition will be a good thing.
But I will sure miss me, 🙁.

Anyway, I dont need pretty in a website but I do need functionality. Even with its current issues Fusetalk is a heck of a lot easier to use than VB.

/ Speech.


So, is anyone else looking forward to cleaning house on all the lazy buttheads who wont update their emails?
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I don't find vb any harder to use than fusetalk. They are hardly a difficult thing to use.
 
i find vB hard to navigate as well -- we are going to try and include a left side (hideable) menu containing a full forum listing (like we have here) so that people can skip easily between forums.

we will be enabling inline images as well, but we have not decided on custom avatars yet. for images we will attempt to allow users to select whether or not they want inline images displayed as a link or as an inline image.

we are also looking at allowing people to enable a language filter on their own accounts if they wish. this should make it so that people can express themselves freely but those who don't want to deal with it can avoid it.

beyond that we'll do the best we can with the look and feel.
 
Wow, listen to some of you! Many of you make it sound like its a big house we all live in, and are finnaly upgrading to one where each can have their own rooms!

Some want to keep living 2 per room, others want their privacy. Some want to be able to finnaly hang posters on their walls and piss on the floor if needed, of course others don't.! Wow, I'm baked!
 
Originally posted by: DerekWilson
i find vB hard to navigate as well -- we are going to try and include a left side (hideable) menu containing a full forum listing (like we have here) so that people can skip easily between forums.

we will be enabling inline images as well, but we have not decided on custom avatars yet. for images we will attempt to allow users to select whether or not they want inline images displayed as a link or as an inline image.

we are also looking at allowing people to enable a language filter on their own accounts if they wish. this should make it so that people can express themselves freely but those who don't want to deal with it can avoid it.

beyond that we'll do the best we can with the look and feel.
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Thanks for working on the look and feel. It seems when I visit other forums whenever I say to myself "This forum sucks" I look closer and say "ohh... vBulletin, no wonder".

 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Well, since we got a News item about this and the thread was bumped, I guess its appropriate to reply.


For myself: I dont like it. Every VB forum I have seen looks like a mangy dogs butt. And even if Anandtech somehow makes it look pretty I am afraid it still wont be useful.

Am a member of another forum that uses VB and navigating around is a real pain in the ass. I hate it. Thats why I only have about 100 posts in 5 years over there.
Of course, for all the folks here who dont wish to see me any more, the transition will be a good thing.
But I will sure miss me, 🙁.

Anyway, I dont need pretty in a website but I do need functionality. Even with its current issues Fusetalk is a heck of a lot easier to use than VB.

/ Speech.


So, is anyone else looking forward to cleaning house on all the lazy buttheads who wont update their emails?
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I'm with you. I'm going to miss the look/feel of fusetalk.
 
I can understand admins/mods having problems with the backend of FT but don't understand what all regular users complain about? I have no problems with it and I have been around for more than 5 years 😕
 
Originally posted by: Barack Obama
Originally posted by: DerekWilson
for images we will attempt to allow users to select whether or not they want inline images displayed as a link or as an inline image.
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:thumbsup:
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Just edit the image tags from configuration and force spoiler tags around them so people will have to click on the spoiler button to see an image.

 
Originally posted by: Turkish
I can understand admins/mods having problems with the backend of FT but don't understand what all regular users complain about? I have no problems with it and I have been around for more than 5 years 😕
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I guess you've never had to search?
 
Originally posted by: Turkish
Originally posted by: Barack Obama
Originally posted by: DerekWilson
for images we will attempt to allow users to select whether or not they want inline images displayed as a link or as an inline image.
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:thumbsup:
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Just edit the image tags from configuration and force spoiler tags around them so people will have to click on the spoiler button to see an image.
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What's wrong with giving each user the option to disable images?
 
Any updates on this? I imagine it's a huge undertaking, but I wasn't sure if it was still moving forward or if it is no longer being done.
 
Originally posted by: RyanM
Any updates on this? I imagine it's a huge undertaking, but I wasn't sure if it was still moving forward or if it is no longer being done.
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It is still being worked on. Remember, we are the moderators not the developers. 🙂
 
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