As you may or may not have known I put a good deal of time into the site the past couple of days and have now laid down the framework for a better user and forum system. The forum now has a slightly different back end and allows for some slightly better features including the ability to mark entire sections as read and showing more information for each user. Forum posts have now been changed to use bbcode tags instead of html tags, and the same goes for your user signatures. The signatures have been upgraded however and now properly show up on every post, not just the top post. So if you use markup in your signatures, change it to use the bbcode standard instead. For a list of all the commands available click here
Badges have also been added based on different criteria. Right now you receive badges for:
- 100 posts
- 500 posts
- Submitting an article that gets posted on the site
- Submitting a story, information or an email which gets recognized on the podcast
The most important update is the change to how your user information is stored. Your user profile now stores and accesses more information which allows us to do more fun social network type stuff. You'll notice now you have two tabs at the top of your profile "Edit Account" which like before will handle your username, avatar, password, email, settings, etc. Next to that you'll see the new "User Profile" section which will now store all your personal, Wii, and other information as we start to grow. Please move any information you have currently in the "Personal Information" and "Wii Information" that is located inside the "Edit Account" tab over to the "User Profile" section. I will hopefully be craeting a quick screencast to show everybody around the new features if you found this blog a little confusing.
Please help me out by testing the new features and providing me with feedback. It's always appreciated and helps me a great deal.
I hope everyone enjoys the new features. I can't wait to add more! :)
arvin i have 100 pots
I like the medals idea.
This is cool!
A couple of critiques:
-Is it possible to change the color on the forums (Default is blue)
-There should be an award for giving points to someone (or maybe I'm just greedy because I donated all my points.
-I hope our clock is coming soon
I'll add more when I notice something
Another:
-The forums should be able to be stickyed.
Forums can be stickied, we have them set up to be done manually by either me or Ben. If you think something is important enough to be stickied let us know and we'll take a look.
Does the submitting a story that gets in the podcast mean from here on or does the past count?
cause i did the one about the GH3 guitars not being compatible with rock band
I'm still not getting points when I post things... I also left an iTunes review and invited the user vipercaleb1 before the points where introduced. Is there anyway I can still get points for those?
i have a wii fit story and i think thats wy europa is geting wii fit faster . the amricans are fater so nintendo has to make the bord hold more For instanc Japan:138 kg Europa:150 kg USA:im thinking it probably holds 170 kg
Yeah the clock will hopefully come (if it does come) before any official WLTP tourneys. I still want it to come soon, cause there have been lots of time conversions i have had to do recently for playing on wi-fi.
Hey Arvin, I submitted a review here
Where do we enter our non FC games?
When you go to the image section in user content and you flip the page it goes back to the video section!
Is there any limit to the size of the signature images? Because some of them seem awfully large. If not, they should be resized to a reasonable limit or the forum thread pages will be huge.
I would love to see signature images removed. They just take up so much space and some are quite annoying.
Do I get a badge for writing a review?
Hey Arvin, the website looks really good. I especially like the new User Content stuff. Good job.
sweet, I got my points!
in fact, picture signatures do not make that much of a difference, as show by this picture (there is text on the picture explaining more)
Very true, duksandfish.
Now that you mention it, duksandfish, there is almost no difference between the 2.
The one without a sig is BIGGER.
Arvin ,can I have my DS badge?
wii want more badges pleas
Yeah, badges are cool, maybe a badge for iTunes reviews. i don't know.