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[rpgsearcherz]

Based on your responses the last couple days, Opa, I don't see why people were complaining about your lack of updates.

I am sorry I kind of jumped on their wagon with them -- I was absent for quite a while and so when I came back and saw that they were pretty much all angry about the lack of information/updates I assumed they were right.

I'd say at least over the past couple of days you've been taking in a lot of comments/suggestions and working towards changing things (except for things you feel are better the way they are -- of which, some might be).

[Little Asterisk]

@OpaQue

Thanks for the updates, I sure hope that we can have more members coming here in the future. It's great to see you're doing changes towards a better future on this forum.

Here's just a couple of things I want to mention:

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1. MyCents are inactive and no one knows when they'll come back. Sorry to say so, but that's unprofessional. I know Opaque is doing all the work alone, but why not hire someone to work this out, at least on a separate server if not here? My opinion is that, no matter how necessary were the changes, you shouldn't have switched until everything has been tested. Please, don't take the opinion as being too harsh, since I think most people here feel that way.

Already so many excuses given.. This will be up. Sorry.

The emphasis here was on the "why not hire someone to work this out". I know you have a lot of work now (as I've read through topics), and I understand that you don't want to let others to ruin the source code - but if you have at least someone who knows programming, and who you trust, why not give him part of the source code to mess with on another server - it'll reduce the complaints, take the pressure off of you and make the updates faster. I'd call it a win-win situation

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Noted, Color changed to RED. vs Less red on the forums

If you want to put less red, but still emphasize the "Getting started" links, I think it'd be a great idea to put a little box on top of the forums - like you see when you're posting (the nice little icon and "You can make xx more posts today"). You could switch the background color to a more "exclamation" one (not red-red, but some light shade of it. If not, the "normal" color would work, too).

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While speaking of Google searches, a query for "Free website forum" (http://www.google.co...C&start=10&sa=N), again, doesn't return KnowledgeSutra in the first two pages.

inlcluded "Free website forum" in META tag

Make that "free website, forum".

(Or, look at my proposal a few posts upwards)

As I already said, it's great to see improvement, but it's not nice to see people leave from the forum because it's not complete - it takes the experience away both from us (the ones who stay - we can't talk, or write, to them) and them (the ones who leave - they don't get a website).

Edited by Little Asterisk, 04 July 2010 - 10:11 AM.