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| Author: | Guinea [ Sun Apr 13, 2014 5:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
You may have noticed a little restructuring on the forum layout. Here is what's new: Gaming Forum As many of you have put forward the desire for a gaming related forum, and MFGG at its extended heart is a gaming centered community, we decided to give it a try. "Try" being the keyword here, as there have been concerns that a gaming forum would be very nice to have, but may suffer from inactivity. Therefore the Gaming Forum is on a trial period. It is up to staff discretion if we will keep it or not. So let's show some effort and make the Gaming forum a place that feels like it has always been an integral part of MFGG! To help kickstart it off the ground, the most recent gaming related topics have been moved over from the General Chat. If you want to bump an older gaming related topic that's still in the GC, please file a report so a moderator can move it over. Submit-It Forum Due to reports on the mainsite relating to the submission system being buggy even after repeated attempts of fixing them, we (temporarily) brought back the Submit-It forum, where you can create a new topic in case your submission or update just won't go through, no matter what you try on the mainsite. Please only use it when necessary. When we have the feeling that submissions work perfectly again, this forum will be deactivated again. New structure Previously there was only the "MFGG" category. But 7 forums in a block is a bit much on the eye, so it has been split in two new categories. "MFGG" is about stuff that's closely related to the mainsite's focus of fangaming and development, while "Community" is all about the community aspect of MFGG. General Chat and the Gaming forum fall under this new category. Thank you for reading, I hope these decisions make as much sense to you as they make to us. Otherwise feel free to bring forward your well-thought-out concerns, as usual. |
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| Author: | Jaden1291 the Toad [ Sun Apr 13, 2014 9:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
I am pretty sure the new server really caused problems with the submission system. Do you think it can be fixed easily? |
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| Author: | Juju [ Sun Apr 13, 2014 9:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
Looking good. |
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| Author: | DJ Coco [ Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
I like the new boards and their banners. Sweet looking |
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| Author: | Guinea [ Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
Jaden1291 the Toad wrote: Do you think it can be fixed easily? That a submission board has been made weeks after this move as a "last resort" kind of thing should give you the answer to that question, no? |
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| Author: | Nite Shadow [ Sun Apr 13, 2014 11:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
Jaden1291 the Toad wrote: I am pretty sure the new server really caused problems with the submission system. Do you think it can be fixed easily? Our options as to how to handle this are severely limited, much like with a similar glitch involving registering accounts in the Wiki. The cause of this is still unknown, and those involved are having some major trouble finding it. Unfortunately, migrating back to the old server is out of the question. |
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| Author: | Mors [ Sun Apr 13, 2014 11:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
Where did archive.mfgg.net go? |
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| Author: | Mit [ Sun Apr 13, 2014 12:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
really digging the new structure. looks nice. however, I think the submit-it forum should stick around, and we should keep it for improving submissions before accepting them, and fixing up declined submissions. but that's just me. |
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| Author: | Guinea [ Sun Apr 13, 2014 1:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
Mit wrote: really digging the new structure. looks nice. however, I think the submit-it forum should stick around, and we should keep it for improving submissions before accepting them, and fixing up declined submissions. but that's just me. The process of uploading a submission by hand that has been posted into the Submit-It forum is much more work and would slow the submission queue down enormously. Therefore, IF the Submit-It forum would be used for these things, submissions need to be tagged accordingly by the posters, e.g. with a [FEEDBACK] tag, to signal to the staff that they don't need to manually upload it. In general: Uploading to the mainsite yourself is MUCH faster than going through the Submit-It forum. |
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| Author: | Black Squirrel [ Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
The Submit-it forum was a horrendus thing to manage. A really good incentive for people to dump half-baked submissions and give the staff needless extra work (although by "staff", I mean me and Parakarry - nobody else wanted to touch it!). I'd rather work with a buggy main site submission system than bring that thing back (even on a temporary basis) - it made more sense in the dark ages when the staff weren't actively seeking out thumbnails and screenshots, amongst other things. I've never been too keen on the whole "non-fangame related" forums, particularly these days when there are so many options for discussing things like video games. Just more work for moderators as far as I'm concerned, but each to their own. |
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| Author: | Guinea [ Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
^Submissions are only handled in the Submit-It forum if they get posted there for a reason. That the Submit-It forum is a much slower process to get your stuff up to the mainsite should be an incentive to avoid posting in it unless it's absolutely necessary. |
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| Author: | Retriever II [ Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
The main site issues may have to do with hidden fields not posting correctly, but I have no idea why. For the majority of users, it seems to not be an issue. |
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| Author: | Retriever II [ Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
There may be a resolution for this, please have some of the affected try to verify: viewtopic.php?p=404050#p404050 |
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| Author: | VinnyVideo [ Sun Apr 27, 2014 1:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Submit-It and Gaming Forums |
I retired the Submit-It forum this morning. I haven't heard of any recent reports of problems submitting large files on the mainsite, so I sent it off to the Archives. If anyone has any problems submitting, please let us know. |
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