Pokémon X and Y Fan Community

Here is a thread for everyone to post small suggestions that don't warrant their own topic.  :)

Starting us off, can we be able to move on our own topics?

Yes for the time being, but I don;t want to see abuse of it, like a ton of the MOVED topics for spam.

In the future I may make that permission for a certain membergrouo and above.

I'm terms of membergroups, I'm trying to think of good names.

Going with eviolite theme, I was thinking of pokemon, but I want to use them in a unique way, like Caterpie, to Zweilous, to Magneton, etc. Let me know what you guys think.

Dusclops should be the highest. =w=
But make it clever; like Dusclops Deity or Somethin', an alliteration.

Also, would it be cool if the Online/Offline indicator was active? I want to know if the person I'm talking to is actually there. xD

I second that.

Online signal enabled.

And nice one Richie, Duskull is the boss.

Thank ya much. ;3

Also, if ya need a banner, hit me up.

Hope Steel sees this but I thinking you should embed Xat chat into the site rather than having to alternate between 2 tabs.
Here:
http://xat.com/web_gear/?cb

With a Eviolite theme, higher user groups should be unevolved pokemon,  lower ones should be fully evolved pokemon.

That's pretty clever. :3

After posting I'd like to be returned to the thread I posted in. Is that possible with SMF Boards?

Go into look and layout preferences in your profile

Thank you~

Also, while I'm here, do you think it's possible to make Forum Games not count towards your Post Count?
Doesn't seem like a very "fair" way to buff your count if you're aren't giving anything to the forum itself.

Done.

Thank ya, Justin. :3

Is it possible to have the five recent post thing like on Ludicom?

I thought I enabled it, you can't see it now?

I see it now. Thanks Justin.

You're welcome.

Going with the unevolved-is-better theme, magikarp should be the top rank. Or possibly that should be the rank of the admins, but if you do that you'd want to put admin somewhere in the title icon thing.

And as for the board icons, no new posts should be porygon-2 (or z, or whatever), and new posts should be porygon.

And even if you don't go by that theme, it'd probably be a good idea to make new posts stand out from no new posts.

That's demeaning... Magikarp with Evio still sucks.
Using a unevolved mon that could actually utilize the item would make more sense, as it's based off of the Item and not the fact that they are unevolved.

I understand what you guys mean by the idea of an eviolite theme having unevolved pokemon for higher ranks.

But personally, I don't like it.

Imagine starting out as Tyranitar and you work your way to a what, Lotad?

Also I don't like the New board icons for no new posts and new posts. I actually had to work out for myself which one represents which.
We need board icons that you can tell straight away if a board has new posts. PPN for example. A coloured pokeball that stands out for new posts. A dull pokeball that doesnt stand out for no new posts.

That's usually the logic behind board icons. Usually a no new posts icon, can be easily seen, but are usually dulled out, so you can see which boards have new posts, straight away

Can you make an alternate color scheme between the Porygon set we are using for the new post marker, like make one shiny and one not shiny, or one greyed out and one not.  I keep clicking a board thinking there are new posts.

Yep. I also think there should only be one pokemon for board icons. That pokemon would be greyed out on boards with no new posts, and in color on boards with new posts.

Thanks ^_^
Also there is a way to untick the redirection topic being posted so it wont be spammy.

For now I think the normal board icons should suffice. Instead of Porygons. Unless someone does a recolor of a porygon to make it dull.

Either way I don't like Porygons very much.

Also, what happened the entire idea of the Eviolite theme?

Spam board pl0x

On the list of smileys you see when posting a reply, there is no >:D smiley. Add et pl0x.

Also, the image that appears next to "My Messages" when you get a new message should have half the height and width of what it has now.
As it is now, when you get a new message, it makes the little shortcut menu look ugly because it has twice the height

Edit: Here is a cropped printscreen

(http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy322/HatsuneMikuTheVocaloid/MyMessages.png)

i dun like teh forum filter! D:

i wrote peenis and it got filtered Q-Q thats a pretty **** filter...
this isnt a forum for 5 year olds D'x

They can't remove that unless they pay for ad free credits

Sorry about that, that's my fault i'll get working on that now.

We are going to make a Spam Topic in forum games, I will also do that.

As with the Porygon/Porygon2 set up, I will fix it right now, but you can speak to jcb about what you would like to change it too


Edit: I fixed the Mail, and I fixed the icons. A Jumping shiny Porygon means unread topics, a regular porygon means read topics.

I'd really rather have an entire board for it, like in ludicom.

A spam board would take too much away from the new forum development, it's a stretch even having the forum games board this earlier.  A spam topic will likely suffice and then the staff will discuss a potential board edition in the future but not now, it be too soon.

How does everyone like the index icons? The animated shiny porygons is a great indication of unread posts vs the non-shiny still ones.

Spam Board - If we get enough demand for it, we will make it because I can see how members would want to create their own topics to spam in instead of a singular thread. Maybe a poll?

Censoring - at this time, there's nothing we can do about that

Ranks - will all be uneveolved pokes, the higher one will be the premier users of eviolite, lower ones won't be, to simulate an ascention in rank.

If there's anything I missed, please let me know.

Will the colors of names be changed along with the ranks? That one shade of blue is depressing. :/

Yes, I do intend to change the name colors from the standard set.

Sweet.

Also, concerning the banner, anything specific?

Yes it would feature the eviolite stone plus various pokemon: Will get recommendations from the members in a separate thread.

thread isnt made yet so ill make a suggestion for that: GHOST TYPES~

http://evionet.freesmfhosting.com/index.php/topic,42.0.html

If I may be so bold, I would like to suggest moving to a different host, such as ProBoards. They do not employ compulsory word censorship, and are the biggest forum host on the whole internet. The problem with all the SMFforfree variants is that they're owned by one person, to my knowledge, and they force their users to pay for ad-free to allow them to swear on their own forums. 'Tis terrible.

when i google SMF vs Proboards, usually about 80% of the people vote for SMF being better

This is freesmfhosting.

smfforfree is kinda different. I know it has free censorship.

I actually second that.

These are actually the same thing.
The owner of smforfree just put censors on all of the domains for it but smforfree.com, which is why we didn't notice it on ludicom.

isnt there a way to change to an smfforfree URL? D;

I'm fairly certain that Lcom had censoring allowed and Kloud didn't pay anything. I tried to make a forum through smfforfree at first, but for some reason the sign up link on the main page here: http://www.smfforfree.com/ made the forum as createaforum, which isn't the same thing. Fortunately I remembered Pokereal (yea that old thing) and saw that it was created on freesmfhosting, and it had none of the createaforum bs, so I made it here.

I did consider Proboards, but I have a lot of experience using SMF plus I like the look.

Sorry about the censoring though.


I'm not sure, maybe Steel might know.

No.
...I guess you could ask smfforfree to do that?

LOL... Just because SMF is better than ProBoards, doesn't mean it's a better hosting tool. Smfforfree and freesmfhosting are garbage in terms of hosting.

I was suggesting other hosting for you guys.. but you seemed pretty firm on SMF. D:

Yeah? Well.... I'm eating a sandwich.

That is true they always have some sort of hosting problems.

I don't understand this createaforum thing that happened.

if you really want Smfforfree instead of freesmfhosting. I think I can convert thegame forums into this.

17:54 - The Doctor: oh I had an idea for something to replace applaud and smite
17:54 - The Doctor: applaud is Upgrade because porygon2 evolves via upgrade and smite is Dubious because porygonZ evolves dubiously
17:55 - The Stig: ^
17:55 - The Doctor: also being dubious makes it evolve fully which is bad on evionet :P
17:55 - The Stig: suggest it to jcb
17:55 - The Stig: i don't think i can change it no moar
17:55 - The Doctor: alright :P but tis cool right
17:55 - The Stig: yea

Great suggestion, I'll update it. What should I actually call Karma itself?

"Infromation Center"

Immaturity :P

**** Level.

Level

Call it what it is.
An extension for an E-Peen.

that works

If you guys hadn't noticed yet, I changed Karma to Level.

A debate forum, I want one. :(

:D

Do you guys have anyone working on the multiple themes?
EDIT: Also my name Is cut off now for some reason, It's not that big of a deal since I was planning on changing it anyway.

Planning on creating a custom theme, but I want to figure out how to let you guys choose your own themes if that's possible. I'm going to work on that with Steel.

If the page is smaller, I could see more of the name, if I zoom the page, it gets cuts off, probably the same for you.

Since it's SMFforfree, there is a good chance you can't.

So perhaps we should have a forum calender added again

awesomeness a calender thanks :D

You're welcome, thanks for reminding me.

Did you guys see if it was possible for multiple themes?

It decided to censor hardcore so I had to write it seperately as hard core

I still think that might not be the best idea, we cant afford to be too picky because we'd then be waiting until they get approved and they'd also be waiting and we want to get people back and so it may put them off.

I can set it up so that all mods can approve or disapprove.
There is a mod on usually all the time.

guys it keeps asking me to put in one of those captcha code things whenever I post

I've never seen one, does this happen every time or what?

If anyone else has this problem, let us know.

not every time but half the time and it's generally the same few letters I have to type in..

The Union Lounge is really innactive, maybe we should make it another sub-board of Pokémon Video Games.

That's pretty strange.


I'll merge it for now. If anyone has any ideas on how to revitalize that board, I'm open to ideas.

It's because it's not like PPN where you had new kids and other Pokemon lovers constantly coming in.
EDIT: Also we have no currency, which would make trading easier and give people an incentive to trade so they can use their money, we would have to make the gain of cash low though with this small community.

To add a store to the forum would cost money. Unless someone is actually willing to donate, it's a barter system for now I guess.

BTW Have you checked if it was possible to have multiple themes available?

Checked, and no that is a paid feature.

I am thinking of creating a custom one, but that will take a while.

Awe.  :( I'm not a fan of the current one honestly.

I know me neither, all of the current ones ar lousy.

I'll try fiddling around one of these days with the custom maker. If I need aesthetic suggestions I'll ask you guys.

You didn't ask, but I'll suggest anyway. The top of the windows (Where the text is.) Could be glossy purple or black. I think a nice sunset background would be cool.

So most of the non child boards are active at the moment besides Creative Works, so we need to think of something to get creative works more active, otherwise is may merit just being a child board of something (Social maybe) :/

Not sure if this was mentioned (to many pages to read right before bed) but what about the whole pokedollars thing like in ppn?

it's been mentioned and yeah sadly it will cost for us to have it, so unless someone wants to pay real moneys we wont have pokedollars.

And for the price of that (or, rather, the package it's in) (http://evionet.freesmfhosting.com/upgrades.php), you could manually host SMF on rather overkill (right now) hosting.
Their cheapest monthly plan, which removes ads, costs $5/mo, which can get you pretty okay hosting.

tbh im okay with this forum~. doesnt need any extras imo :v

Damnit why does everything cost money hahaha, and yeah agreed with miku..

Maybe have a Donation button so if anyone has money to spare they can help the site.

that's definitely an option

It would be good if people had the option to delete their posts.  PPN removed post deletion and that annoyed everybody.

And you CAN set a trashcan board for all deleted posts to go to.

I'm keeping the system the way it is, namely so we (the staff) can retain the ability to delete posts permanently (in case of a spambot, forum error/duplicate post, etc), and so the system wouldn't be used for no reason.

If someone really wanted their post to be removed for a specific reason, they can ask a staff member, but in most cases, if it's a mistake or something, one can just edit their post.

You can. Just delete the post from the trashboard.

I guess, but I'm still keeping the remove function the way it is now.

What the fudge is with this yucky failsauce purple-pinky background?!

jcb was testing colours :L

new board icons are fugly ;_;

now i leikz it.

Thanks, was trying to find a better combo, the sizes before were off.

(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/0/04/Spr_1y_137.png)

Ugliest Porygon sprite I've ever seen. Pokemon Yellow was wierd.

Woah, didn't realize they changed lol!

I had exchange the RS standard ones for the standard sprite from Pokemon Silver (that one was wierd) in combo with the BW animated shiny sprite, didn't work out.

The standard one now is from Platinum, the shiny is the same as before, from Emerald, needed to adjust it because the standard RS one was smaller than the shiny one.

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Yellow madness still creeps me out, I don't think I ever really saw this:
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/0/04/Spr_1y_137.png)

Ohhkay, yeah. The currents ones looks good, before they were to similar..
I don't think I ever saw that..

Try this as std sprite.
I made it the same size as the shiny one.

(http://i.imgur.com/FGvbm.png)

Just updated, thanks.

No problem.

Looks good :D

and what was the point in changing the board icons again?

I dunno, a change?

wasn't really neccessary, it was fine before

Maybe... i'm sure there was a better reason..

Size didn't fit before.
Fitted a bit more with these.
I made the new ones fit perfectly.

I think that's it.

ah ok, now I get ya :P I was just wondering why an' stuff

I was doing some research on web hosting and it's

http://www.crazydomains.com.au/web-hosting/

like less then $3 a month for 25gb. This is australian obviously, find something cheaper in your area easily, I mean we can set up a homepage (before the forums, and once its on free hosting we can advertise it with google (not advertise it but if someone googles pokemon forums or something we could possibly be up there like PPN was. If I had some way of payment (I could figure one out) I'd be happy to pitch in like $10 to get started. Also I'd be happy to do the website as well :)

my question is, why porygon, like i love it, but still...

IKR.

Eevees D=

Agreed with Eeevees

my god agreed. best suggestion EVAR

Porygon's evolutionary line fits with the Eviolite perfectly being both good users of it and having a good colour scheme to match.

Eevee just doesnt, it couldnt be further for the theme.  Even if there wasn't Porygon, there are still about a few hundred different options befor Eevee could be considered relating to the theme.

The facts are there, no need to dwell on this eevee thing any longer.  It won't happen because it can't happen without making a new forum.  And an eevee forum would be pretty unoriginal too tbh.

The law has spoken!

Yeah. Except you're missing the bigger picture.

How many people pay attention to the Eviolite theme? ._.
We all know the theme. But most of this was decided behind everyone's backs anyway.

well it's good to at least have a mascot that fits the theme in the background, even if they dont pay too much attention.
I trust Justin's Judgement.  The alliteration wont lie to me.

>She wants a forum named after the Eviolite to not represent the Eviolite in any way.

Btw, the forum's theme is perfect.
It's original and the color scheme is nice and inspiring.
We don't wanna make something like everyone else.

Think different. XD

Also, if you don't pay attention to the theme, why do you even complain? :o

Thank you, I agree completely :D

I'd hate to ****, but am I the only one that dislikes the "pixelyness" in the evolite? ;_______;

Seems like it. XD
Complain to me if you don't like it. :P

I don't like it. Although, the design is simple yet good.

Yeah, that was the goal.
I didn't wanna make a banner full of Pokemon. XP

yeah it may be a tad too pixely, maybe lower the pixelyness by the aformentioned tad :P


tad isn't a word you get to use every day
tad xD

Nah I love it, it's a good touch, and somehow flows seemlessly. Can someone fill me in on the eviolite thing anyway? Seeing as I am fairly new here

I think the Eviolite doubles a not fully evolved Pokemon's attack and defense stats. Available only in Black and White version.

Fixed.

I see. :P

Yea it makes things like Dusclops, Chansey, and Porygon2 unbelievably bulky (at the small loss of leftovers) and gives the metagame fresh new additions which we would not see otherwise like Ferroseed, Machoke, and Zweilous.

Ahhhh now I understand the connection. Thankyouvery much Mag and JC :)

Agreed haha, I don't even know what this eviolite theme is all about >.> I don't even know what eviolite means xD

THATS OVERPOWERED.

Exactly.

it isn't over powered
it gives a 50% boost to a non fully evolved pokemon (who's stats arent the best anyway) and gives them a bit of bulk so they can take a hit and be viable in the game to use on your team without evolving them.

JCB said it doubles both defences?

it doesnt double, it's just 50% boost on each
so 100 defence becomes 150 and 100 spdef becomes 150 :)

Oh. D:
Still a pretty good item.

yeah it's really helpful, you get it fairly early in game too so you can use it there too

I said that. Well, no but JCB just corrected the stats I had wrong.
Anyways, 50% is the new double.

Is there such option of enabling tapatalk (it's an app for the iOS [iPod, iPhone, iPad]) which makes the forum really easy to be check on those devices as you can access the forum with ease rather then using the browser when everything is zoomed so far out. I'd think you'd have to pay for it but I didn't see it on the pay thing, though I did some research and you can download the tapatalk mod for it it's just since we are on free hosting we cannot apply those correct?

Is that even English? Sounds like latin to me. XD

I just woke up when I wrote that, so I can understand how it might be hard to read..

Nah, I just don't know what you're talking about. XD

Ohh okay, well with iPods and iPhones there is an app called Tapatalk, it's basically an app based forum. So everything is optimised of the forum into an app so you can use the forum on your iPhone/iPod. If you use the web browser on the iPhone/iPod everything is really zoomed out and you can't see anything and have to zoom in and it's a drag.

(http://static.iphoneitalia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/iphoneitalia-forum-tapatalk3.png)

that's sort of what it looks like.

Oh! Let me guess... it works only on 3rd gen and newer? :D

I dun see why not, it should work on all gens really :P

Nothing works on 2nd. Q.Q

if it has the option of sending push notifications then it wouldnt work on older gens. also, idk if it matters if we are on free hosting, as long as the forum is compatible with it, it shoudl work... but yeah it would make sense that it wouldnt work with free hosting.

I have Push. :/
It's on for FB and Mail.

wtf.... ok so im clearly misinformed...

We're so limited with free hosting..

It's probably the last update I got.

yeah, thats the only thing that sucks... nonetheless, one day we will be awesomesauce and have tapatalk :D

I know that feel brah..

Trust me it matters a lot, the way you install the tapatalk thing is that you put the tapatalk folder into the forum folder (follow the instructions) where the forum stuff is and what not, when your on the free hosting you can't do any of that stuff because obviously your limited from that.

AHHHHH, i see, i thought it would just draw off the sites online banks to load the content.

which is why I still support the idea of a small donation pool

That's most likely horrible hosting. As is anything with that sort of deal.

Can we change the stars for regular members to a not so "glittery" pink :P

Please don't.

(http://images.smfboards.com/ranks/3purple.gif) it's too glittery, it's offputting

It's beautiful and fabulous! KIRA KIRA!

They're not pink, they're purple, and they're not glittery, they're standard forum stars.

it says purple but it's too pink
we should edit them to look purple then or change them to something cooler

Why do you complain anyway? You are a girl and should act like one!
Like 'WOW KAWAII!! I LOVE THE PINK GLITTERINESS! :3333'
Got it?
<(｀^´)>

Droit isn't girly, she is cool and sophisticated

Still has pink/purple hair.

of all people you should know anime characters aren't limited to brown/black/blonde/red hair, there are peoples with blue hair even and it's natural :P
also Droit's hair is a darker colour that those stars and isnt glittery either.

No u! ;_;

Her hair is lighter than the stars.
Her hair is pink, the stars are a lightish purple.
I think maybe your screen makes the stars look pink.

Yeah... screens and calibration.
This is an horror for web design. Q_Q

even if the screen makes the starts look lighter, it's still lighter than the hair, it cant swap around lightness it just shifts it all to one side

It's hilarious, the pointless debate around Droit's hair and the stars color.

Yea I agree.

Anyway, I think the color of the stars are fine for now anyway, they match the eviolite stone too which is nice.

And my Chrome theme is purple-ish. :V

yeah I dont know why you brought up her hair, the purple is only highlights

and yeah the stars are fine except for the glitteryness, cos without the glitter they would match the eviolite.

I don't see any glitter?

The center is pinker than the edges and there's shadow too.
I think that's what he means.

I can't see it, it's probably my screen.

Maybe, then again my screen's not the best.
It is Sony though.

Well I have an old Dell laptop.  :P

XD
I won't say more then.

Sorry this is offtopic but didn't think it was worth making a new thread for and thought one of the mods/JCB will see this.. but

When do I change rank name thingy... I have been a Eccentric Elgyem for 400 posts now :o Does it change at 1500? Or does it not change at all because you didn't make any because you thought no one would get this far xD Because it used to change like every 100-200 posts and now after 1000 it doesn't :(

What's wrong with the Eccentric Elgyem?
Eccentric is awesome and Elgyem is awesome too.
The title is made of awesome.
Now realize it and curl yourself on the floor.

I'm not complaining aout the title itself, just the excitment of what will be next and it never comes :(

I know.
It's ok that it takes more time after the 1000th post. But I don't thin it's the last one.

As I said in the second sticky thread in Announcements regarding Ranks,there are 21 total. The first 10 ranks have relatively low post jumps betwen them, but after the 1000th post you will notice that it will take more posts to reach the next rank. I will not reveal exactly how many posts you need to reach the next rank.

The only two ranks you guys know of for sure are Rank 5 (149 posts) and Rank 8 (499 posts), namely because these are post benhmarks required for hidden board access.

i see, makes sense generally. im interested in what the 21'st rank is called :P

You'll see :)

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I will give 3 Up-Grades to the first non-Staff member who knows the connection between Ranks 1 and 11 (Eager Eevee and Gutsy Golbat)

Lol. I don't want any upgrades! :P

That they all start with the same name Eager Eevee, Gutsy Golbat
etc.?

It's something more specific to those two only.

That brock owns an eevee and then afterwards gets a golbat?

Nope.

That Eager Eevee and Gutsy Golbat are minigames in pokemon stadium?

Correct and awarded :)

That's originally how I came up with the idea for the rank names.

Ahaha woo, you should have more of these competitions stuff and have some rules where you can only guess when someone else has guessed (therefore it doesn't turn out like that and how I posted like 8000 times xD)

next guess was going to be Eevee and Golbat won't evolve unless they are happy :P

Am I the only one who find the child boards kinda annoying? :/
I'd prefer to get straight to the board and be able to see the recent posts.

I know what you mean with the childboards (the pokemon ones with union lounge yeh?)

Anyone else agree with this? Or want to further add to this?

I wouldn't mind making everything regular boards. I want to know what other members think though.

Only thing is, it might look a bit crowded with heaps of boards :/

It would be too crowded and scrolling with these not so active boards having a whole board to themselves

The main page would be too big.

I do.

.

Lies... Stones....

Also I agree... More comps with prizes (upgrades)

Can we have a name change thread, where you have to post if you've changed your name and hopefully someone active to update the front post? (I'd be happy to, it's just I dont want to become inactive for whatever reason (exams especially) and not able to update it.).. because it's REALLY annoying me how people with weird names have 800posts and I don't want to ask the person/several people who are you, especially when it happens so often :/

I'd love that.
Cause some people change names too often and my brains can't keep up.
There's the 'Other Names Thread' though.

It doesn't even need to be updated the front post, just that if someone changes their name they can post so we are aware.. I swear richie has changed his like 3 times and it's taken me ages to work out it's him >.>

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What the fuck!!?? I change my name twice, and I already have someone bitching about it! Seriously, it isn't that hard to know it's me!! Dx

At least he's got his avi and the same sig quotes.

But like Ian, changes to The Grim Reaper.
Someone asks who he is. He replies 'The Grim Reaper'.
Then, he gets sadface at Sammy -or Abby whatever, someone- for calling him Grim.

Lol.

It be confusing sometimes.
Or like just include somewhere who you are. Sig, title or personal text.

I'm not bitching that you change your name, it's just it takes some time to know who's who.. I didn't know Ian was grim reaper till then, was trying to figure out who it was. Just saying it gets confusing at times.. I can only imagine what new people must be like who joined when you were richie or something then changed it and they could think you left or something.

I mean, I could add my previous names as quotes in my sig, if only I didn't have this sig quote limitation!

I dunno, there just needs to be a way to easily identify.. like on the profiles if there was a Original name section and it showed your username (one you registered with)

i agree, its hard to keep up sometimes... i jsut look at the profile, or the sig, but i still lose track most of the time...

gonna go out on a limb here and suggest a brony/pegasister child board somewhere *braces for impact of one thousand suns from everyone who isnt part of the club*

Whyyyy do you need a chillboard >.> One topic is enough ahah.

because we have to put our random talk in the same thread as our pics and our club talk.... its annoying..... and sato isnt online as often so we need someone whos online msot of the time to update members...

A name change thread would be useful yes, I agree.

*rages with the force of a thousand suns*
One should be enough, the one you have already is pretty much a ToT but for Magical Creatures anyways. -3-

FFFUUUUU-
What Sabo says is true.
It looks like a ToT because we're forced to post everything there instead of having multiple topics for each subject.

._.
I don't get why though, it shouldn't be that hard to communicate in there. Though I'm not a part of it but still.

In terms of the pony child board, I'm not in favor of it. Creating multiple topics on that subject could be annoying to some members (and can be considered as spam).

As mentioned before, it's a mini-ToT, and just like the normal one it should not be hard to interact and talk in there. If you need to focus the thread a bit more t facilitate it better then that's what you need to do, but don't make multiple topics.

Tch-
Fine then. XD

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Okay, fair enough. Makes sense really, was just a suggestion :)

What about the name change suggestion?

I guess the ponies were a more pressing matter.

I'm guessing someone can make a thread and update the OP as suggested.

Members should not change their usernames too often, and when you do update your theme you should announce it.

agreed... it shouldnt be a daily occurance.... different if you cahnge one word in your name as opposed to your entire name

Techno Miku
Jumpstyle Miku
Trance Miku
Lilligant Miku

gee i wonder who it is ::)

it's Crispy isn't it D<

:o

We should have the option of adding our Skype and Steam to the profile too since atm it's only got ICQ, AIM, YIM and MSN; half of which noone even uses.

I have an AIM and YIM. >:o
But no one uses them indeed. XD

I have an AIM (not that anyone goes on it) but I've never actually seen someone use ICQ, still not sure what it is

AOL owns the company who made ICQ...
So it's kinda pointless to have an ICQ. Just get AIM. XD

Yeah. It'd be good if we had like PSN and LiveTag and stuff like that because there is no effort looking through the ID thread when the front page hasn't been updated in so long (haven't checked in ages but it wasn't when I put my stuff in)

agreed, itd make life so much easier...

I added an extra Profile Field so you can enter extra ID's and such.

Is it possible for my avatars to not stretch if they're smaller than 150x150?

Thanks :)

Do you think there is a way we could add a feature to track who Up-Grades and Dubious Discs us? I'd like to see who's leveled me up and thank them.

yeah back on ludicom there was a way for the admins to track the karma system, like they found out it was Nick Wiggs who was minusing loads of people so they blocked him from being able to use the karma system xD

*uses Dubious Disc* MWAHAHA!
Joking of course, but you could see who Dubs who too and that would lead to problems no?

Maybe just for Up-Grades then?

That'd be fun, it would make it easier to thank whoever Upgrades you, rather than asking who did.

We used to have it on PPN to as far as I remember, but it got removed for some reason and then months after it became trading percentage (as in if your legit or not)

ppn's "reputation" system got abused a lot ;D  Some of the members decided to pick a member to practice their -1 on :P  Guess who got chosen and ended up getting minused for the heck of it (hint: ;D )

2 week long bump just to keep the subject alive.

Isn't the thread stickied? If not, there's a suggestion xD

it's already stickied
it's been stickied since the topic was made

I thought so. Whats the point in bumping the thread then?

You know, I have no Idea...  ???

Also, I know we have Xat but nobody seems to use it that much. Maybe we could get an IRC or something like that?

i think that we should put in a little shoutbox or something on the side of the forum, if that's possible. i always used to go to the shoutbox on arkeis...

Free SMF Hosting.
Free as in 'pay if you want a better forum'. XD
I don't think it's possible. :/

I was thinking about the possibility of an Evionet Podcast, thoughts?

What's a podcast anyway?

OOH!! We can all go on skype and one of us can record the call. Would make doing a podcast quite easy.

Indeed so
I dont know if I have the capabilities to record it but I'd definitely be a host or something
it would be a cool thing to do to bring up activity in ways such as deciding what to talk about

I don't like the sound of that.
There's only like maybe 3 members who would do something because they ain't ashamed of their voice.

Fair Point.

I despise my voice, but I'd do it if my mom wasn't home. ._.

ive always wanted to do something like that. like a podcast or something, or youtube vids, but i cant see myself being funny enough for people to watch...

my voice gets amplified when recorded which annoys me but even so, I'd be up for doing a podcast.
I would host it ;D  We can think of some discussion topics in advance too so there wont be dead silence.  And since most of the people here are funny, I'm sure it will be good.

I wanted to LP's on youtube before, but my voice was too whiny and annoying and I couldn't ever find anything good to say.

But mah voice has now begun it's descent into manliness and I actually have stuff to talk about now so I might do it again!

id do it :P

I'd gladly go on it and I'd also volunteer to record/edit the audio. But I think we should wait until we have more members who would actually listen to it.

I wouldn't.
It's awkward speaking English.

Writing and speaking are complete opposites, so I understand.


I think the opposite, of it's a decent podcast, and we get it out there, and people enjoy it, we'd get more members, we need to do something to get mor members. We all say; "we need more members" but we don't do anything about it xD

I don't want more members. ._.

yeah we do need to get some more people
we lost a lot of people and even then the site isnt that active so some more peoples will be nice :)

They don't have to be in the family that we've built xD.


It feels like we are on the edge of someone saying "I give up *leaves" cause we aren't very active. We seem to bustle when someone new joins and then we die down again to our daily chatter between friends.

It's not like that.
Just I can't remember who's who or keep up with posts if we're too many. XD

Yeah, I think RabbidWolfs is gone already...

looool... have i been the newest member thats actually stuck around and gives a crap?

Yes.

I'd be game for this. ._.

I hurts to say I'm practically gone. ;~;

Don't you dare leave us! That would be very naughty!

I think he might have oter stuff goin on, which is fair enough. I have to actually find time to get on here.


Do you have something that keeping you away from evio? (job school a concoction of both?)

Fair Enough. But still, I hope he doesn't leave.

If we do a podcast, I might be in it.  Though I probably wouldn't talk much :P

I changed my mind. DO that podcast. It will be so awkward that it might be fun in the end. XD

Exactly. You get to see all the members act all awkward and stuff. Most of us are like that normally anyway........

the beginning ones may be sketchy in that regard but I'd hope to get it so that everyone is having conversations and having a laugh and it starts to turn out well :3

My lack of a computer... And a life.

get a computer as soon as you caaaaaannnnnnnn

My dad is procratinating... -_-

Don't rely on elderly persons.

A good old slap over the head will solve that problem hahahah

:p im back, just was on school trip

Oh! Where was it?

Podcast… hmmmmm that would be hilarious, i would listen to that!!

dorset osmington bay, like hindleap but better :)

just thought, what about every year you could do like a rating thing. for example, most active, or funniest. etc

Kind of an anniversary topic distributing trophies and such?

yeah. more examples best newcomer, most creative, best staff, most liked

Though it would get bland...
Since all trophies would go to me.  ::)

Sure they would.....  ::)

It;s a good idea though. Perhaps monthly, like, most posts, most active, etc. Maybe get prizes like level ups for being most active or highest poster.

*nods head rapidly*

Yeah it would be good.

Should be different categories, so like one category would be Forum Activity which would contain things like (most posts, best post, funniest post etc etc) then another could be, let's say a people's choice, which would contain things like funniest member, best new comer, etc etc which everyone would vote for. My point was (I started rambling) is you can only win one particular event in each category, to stop someone winning all the events (which is unlikely but yeah)

And then we could make little trophies for each event that you can put in your sig, yeah that'd be cool.

It's just, who is dedicated enough to run it :P I know I would be if I had time (school and all), I can't check every post everyday, plus all the other stuff..

Yeah that's the only problem. It'd have to be an active mod.

Why a mod?

idk to be honest. it was just mainly because some can be bothered monitoring most of the posts.

There ain't too many posts tbh.

I come on once in the morning and once the evening mostly.
And I use the 'unread posts' thingy and there ain't more than one page most of the time.

Isn't this pretty much what the Member Surveys are for? :/
By the way, when is the next one? x3

This seems to be an appropriate place to ask this, but I have a question concerning Fan Fiction.

Should Fan Fiction (Or just about any fiction) go in the Role Playing Board of the Creative Works Board?

id say creative works. if your the only one writing, creative works, if others are also writing with their own characters and what not, then role playing. thats how i see it anyway

That's how it is.
Role Playing are text games.
Creative Works are whatever you do by yourself such as fanarts, fanfictions, original work, etc.

I just thought, we could get very cheap domain names and hosting from http://www.namecheap.com/ (http://www.namecheap.com/). evionet.com isn't available but others (.net, .org, etc) are. Just saying.

they also have fairly cheap web hosting plans mentioned on that page

Exactly. I'm thinking of doing it for a website I'm setting up (.co.uk domains are CHEAPER THAN CHEAPNESS)

I haven't seen anyone posting fanfiction? I'd like to see some honestly. Original Stories also go in Creative Works right?
But what if someone decides to make a Fanfiction of their Role-play? RP board or Creative Works?

That's what I was thinking.

Say if someone makes a fan-fiction that is a spinoff of an existing RP.

I was thinking that it would be a good idea to rename the RolePlaying Board to the "RolePlaying and Fan-Fiction" board like it was on PPN.

CREATIVE.
I don't see why you guys can't see the difference?
The line is clear between the two.

But it would be related to an RP and make it easier to find for people Role-playing.

It's not the right place.

But it still makes sense and it's more convient.

Not trying to be rude but does anyone consider these?

What do you mean by "Consider"?

I read all the most recent threads of this board, plus this topic entirely.

About knowing who used Up-Grade or Dubious Disk on you, well I believe it might bias a bit the reputation system. Usually we are supposed to "Level Up" someone when they say something thoughtful for instance. If people can see who upgraded them, they will return the favour. However, it should not be a favour, because we're supposed to agree with the post, not the person.
And just as knowing someone downgraded you might lead to hostility, knowing your best friend didn't up-grade you might have the same effect. In the end, so that everyone is happy, everyone should upgrade everyone, and then bang! the reputation system lost its usefulness.
Also, I like the concept of Up-Grade and Dubious Disk :).

I also saw the Debate/Arguments board idea, I agree that it may lead to flaming. Debating is good for our mental health, but bad for a community and website.
Nevertheless, we could introduce debates without battles. I thought about two examples:
-A "Pro AND Con" thread; a debate subject is given, and every poster must give one argument for, and one against, the claim. Leading to neutrality. Then, others may refute someone else's argument, but then they have to give one fact that supports the argument, and another one that tries to counter it. The best way to learn to debate is to place yourself in the opposing party's shoes.
-A "Celebrity Debate" thread, where a controversial subject is given, and then we make a debate where each poster must write what a celebrity would think about it. It can be humorous, naturally. That would be the whole point, in fact. :D

About the Fan Fiction and Role-Playing idea, well I agree with Magoo; as Fan Fiction isn't role-playing, it belongs to Creative Works.
If we wanted to merge Fan Fiction with Role Playing, the sections should be for instance "Written Works" and "Visual Works". Unless Fan Fiction becomes so popular it needs its own board, but that seems not be the case for the time being.

About yearly trophy attribution, asking one sole person to determine the winners could lead to impartiality or friction between him/her or the members. I agree with the idea of a member vote, but then again it may become a popularity contest. Well it all has to do with how the community is tied,  have yet to learn about this :).

As the roleplaying mod, I guess it's time to put in a opinion that will hopefully have influence since that's my job

Now then, RPs do have creativity involved and can be a creative work, however since they have a special seperation they get their own board.  We need to stop thinking about it in terms of visual work and written work, but instead have it all as creative work except for RPs get their own board due to the larget aspect.  Remember a visual work like a drawing can essentially have more than one person involved on it but it's not a Roleplay.  A fanfic could be written by two people too but it's done in a different system to the RP (that system being the Biography system).  If two people are writing a fanfic together but in an RP style, they could use the RP board and then put in the creative works board when all the stuff is combined into one thing.
So the seperation is not written and visual, but more is not-rp and rp.

So I'd say that Fanfics should remain in the Creative Works board.  Not that Fanfics are popular here anyway unfortunately.  If they were, I'd love for everyone to try their hand and making them and then I would to since I love writing.

Ok so this is getting a bit rambly now since it's the morning and I'm tired, but my last point about this matter is that if it's a fanfic about a character from a Roleplay, it's still a fanfic and not done in the RP format.  It's all about the format and thus would go in the Creative Works board, but feel free to advertise it in the RP discussion threads.  We do want connectivity between all the boards, linking the forum together so everyone sees everything and be active.

So yes, everyone be active in all the boards!  We got two new signups yesterday so let's welcome them by being even more super forum than before.

I definitely agree with you, IV.
Creative Works is a place to showcase, share artworks of any kind, whereas Role Playing is for written games. I'll check our the RPs, I sure would like to join one, at least t try ;)

You two made my point clear.
I would write some fiction but it's all original works, I don't have fanfics.
And I don't feel safe posting my genius ideas on the Internet. :P

This. Back at school I used to be one of the best writers, then someone stole my idea cause were discussing it and we got poo marks because it was virtually the same story (cept mine was told alot better and had a crap load less grammatical issues) ever since then i kinda stopped writing. And now I suck xD

Thank you for taking such concern in the board.  It's good to see a new member caring so much about the community ^_^

And I do agree with you.  I just don't like the fact that now I'll have to start going to the Creative Works board to write a Spinoff to my RP xP

@Aperl, I literally only just saw your slab of text xD I agree with most of it, although, in regards to the debate topic. I can't really see us getting to the point of flaming. We are generally pretty tight knit, and most of us don't usually get super angry unless trolling is involved *insert youstrollinboxxy.gif here*

The rep system I don't really have a problem with, it's be nice to have the trackin of Positive an Negative feedback though (like ppn did).

The trophy thing has to be a vote, but it can't be biased, like you said, but I don't really see anyone being overly biased, like for instance an award for most active member and we all vote for someone who has 100 post because "he's a cool guy and isn't afraid of anything"

Nonetheless, you deserved an upgrade xD

We debate on steam if we ever do debate (rarely if ever) so no point in a board for it.

hey guys what do you think about the idea of a weekly/fortnightly/monthly poll thing to determine the era for the ToT.  Could be an activity :)

That's a good idea! >w<

OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!

Harsh. That's his dignity you're taking. D:

No, he already lost that the minute he chose 'RAWR' as his screen name. XD

that's a placeholder until I think of something new for a theme
I'm open to ideas

Roar?

Geronimo
Pretzel
Glass
The Ceiling
Duracell
Bottled Awesome

That's all I can think of atm xD

Face of Boe.
That would be an awesome theme~

TM-05?

I was wondering if there was a way for custom profile fields, does the smfforfree have the capabilities to do that?  I think Ludicom had friend codes custom field I'm not sure.

We do have custom fields.

Currently they are About Me, Pokemon Fc, and Miscellaneous Fc's.

ah ok cool :)
what about a field for people to put the main username they want to be known as.  Cos I know when people change their username a lot to stuff, they still want to be known as the main thing.  For example some new members called me Rawr when I had that as the name, if it had a field for name, it might be easier to keep track of who is who and then they can be called by what they want to be called.

That's actually a great idea :). Especially when people stick with older or real names, like when you were IV and I kept wondering who Aryeh could be :P

yeah :P
Aryeh is my real name but cos I was going through name changes (such as IV who is from an anime), I knew new people such as yourself could get confused
it would be a great option for the profile :)

Couldn't one also put that info in About Me? (I believe a lot of people already do anyway)

The Name Change thread is also available to update and ask about changed usernames.

THERE'S A CUSTOM TITLE FIELD AND A PERSONAL TEXT FIELD.
They both display under the avatar.
Why would we need ANOTHER field for that?
You can ALREADY input your username in THREE places.
The thing is 'Why do people feel the NEED to change their username?'
Just change the custom title and personal text dammit!

That's what I do. Ever saw someone complain about my username? No.

This is a stupid issue.
If you still want to be called by whichever username, WHY CHANGE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?

a person could change it for a new theme

As they could just change the Personal Text or Custom Title.
Custom Title IS the field for your theme.

Hmmm, I've been thinking. Aryeh your always trying to organise a chat, be it on steam or somewhere else but there always at random dates and times so not as many people can join in, so I was thinking maybe you could organise, a weekly chat session where everyone agrees on a date and time, it might be difficult because of the time zones and what not but I think it would probably work better if we organised it before.

We tried that with the PPN Movie Nights. It may have been because of the movie choices but not much people attended it. XD

It was the schedule.

It started like an hour before I and anyone else on the west coast got home from school :P

Badges? Um...

That spammer one seems like an insult xD
but yeah looks like SMF are being silly, I dont see the point in badges for such simple things xD

http://www.smfhacks.com/badgeawards.php
apparently it costs 30 bucks, so I dont know why it was auto for free

I wonder what the level thing is with it, like I have a Level 5 badge

Yes, it was. QAQ But for just 25... That's dumb.
Really, it's possible for the admin to edit badges, right?

I have a Webmaster badge. I feel special.
Is there any way we can know how to get the badges or at least how we got those we already have? XD

The webmaster badge is obtained by having a website in your profile
considering I dont have a site in the profile yet have the badge anyway, it means they arent special xD it's glitchy

whoa what are badges what is happening.

it's crazy shiz smf decided to auto-add to the forums and they give em out for silly reasons xD

Am I the only one who likes the badges? D:

I thought it was neat, just randomly got spammed with badges, but who cares xD I think there should be more creative ones though, these ones are very boring...

agreed but I think the admin can edit them

The latest badge awarded thing is now on the front page -_-

Random Explosion of Upgrades? :L
Not complaining, I just find it odd how someone who had four could have 20+ in the span of a couple hours.

Who??

the karma badge is so stupid, our entire karma system is ruined.  It has no meaning now for you get tons just by upgrading someone.  I tested it by giving a point to my fellow mod Daniel but then I get a PM like right after (not even a miliseconds of time had passed) and boosh I'm up 20 points. 
(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/056/493/1277637866360.jpg)

Sorry, I was using you as an example. :3

Yeah, it's fried to hell, there's no real point to it anymore, I mean save if everyone who has gotten that boost karma levels were made to drop 20.

I didn't up anyone, so my points are untouched ^_^

But yeah, this needs to be fixed.

Ok so I changed the karma points awarded for the Good Karma badge from 20 (extremely high, agree with you all) down to 1. Apparently all the badges can have a set amount of karma points given to you when you get it, and apparently that one was set to 20 if yo give someone 1?

I also changed everyone karma points back to normal, for those who were given the extra 20 by the badge.

Thank you. :D

Thanks :D
this means the badges havn't cheapened the karma's value anymore :)

That's great and all but who the fuck upped me? XD

I thought I hacked some how... I didn't see the badge till the next day x3

The badges lag behind sometimes...

Automatically enable notifications for profile comments?
I don't see why it's turned off to start with, because of that, a lot of people only find out weeks later that someone even posted on their profile >.<

I've looked hrough all the settings, and I don't see any related to that. To be honest I'm surprised it's not under the notifications tab on the profiles themselves.

Did anyone else notice the update to the news section on the main page?  It alternates and fades between news updates.

What? I haven't seen that.

I noticed it last night as I was looking for the profile notifications thing for Miku, wanted to try it out over the standard news line at the top.

what do you mean?

News fader on the index page.

I like it.  News needs to be updated more often though.

A monthly Pokemon podcast would be the goods.

When we are posting, can there be a button for the image code? I can't remember it.

There is one -_-

there is a button for image though, there always has been since the dawn of time
it's this:
(http://images.smfboards.com/Themes2/default/images/bbc/img.gif)

Ohhhhh. Never mind.

Not just the dawn of time, the dawn of forums (kinda, BBS's don't count)

Since the modship has recently doubled, anyone have any new suggestions?

It's a shame to say it but I think that maybe Comp Battling should become a sub-board in Pokémon Video Games as it's not too active and if he have one less main board it's a bit less scrolling.  And if it got tons of activity we could make it bigger again but atm maybe it should be a sub.  Your thoughts people?

I think you should get rid of the admin approval thing, now that kloud and kinfin are probably long gone.
It really barriers new members imo.

Anybody agree?

Can the mods at least to the approval?

I'm divided about this.

On one side, Admin approval reduces the likeliness of having bots or spammers.
But on the other hand, people waiting for approval are more likely to leave.

I would keep it this way, though.

Not to my knowledge.

Though I do think it's a good idea, might help with getting new members and any bots/trolls that get through could easily be moderated.

Atleast mods should be able to approve.

I agree about that we don't need the aproval thing.  A person should be allowed to join right away and not wait because that will motivate them to be posting and such.  Besides if some spammer shows up, us mods can handle them.  So there is more pros than cons to have aproval removed.

Remove it I think, I remember when I got the approval email I was sort of like "Meh, I'll have a look anyway". Lucky I did, but I was very close to not joining because I didn't want to wait.

I really wanted to help the fourm, and I have been trying extremely hard.
If you guys don't think I am tell me.
I really dislike the fact that my requests are ignored by JCB, any message or anything I said him was just a waste of time.
I feel like anything I do on the site is wasted effort.
I don't hate JCB, but alot of things hes been doing recently have been making me want to leave or just give up on helping, its really emotivating for helping a site the admin doesn't want you to help you with.
Thats honesty.
If my post is removed, I'm reposting it. You can ban me if you like, but nothing here is breaking any rules.
I don't want to see this place die, and I have done as much as I possibly can. I truly doubt JCB will read this either.

yeah the member approval just makes us look bad.  How can we advertise to other sites and then they can't do anything until later :/

I do read everything you send Steel, it's just when you send me over 20 pms in such a short period of time, it gets a bit tiring after a while.

I've already made my stance clear on previous queries made regarding admin powers, and now we have one again. As I discussed with the mods, I am keeping the registration approval in place. I know from experience that this forum does get its share of spambots, all of which I manage to delete with the aid of this measure. I have multiple registration checks in place, and I check the IP of every new member against a confirmed bot database I use, so trust me when I say I am on top of it. Not to mention if I give the power of managing registration, it also includes other admin powers like deleting members altogether at the same time, which I will not allow.

I can administrate this forum just fine, I understand that you may think that the forum isn't all that it can be, I'm sorry for that, and if you want to help promote the forum a by using a few external meaures that's perfectly fine, but we are, and probably will always be a small community. I have already given the moderators clear instructions on how to present new projects and ideas to me, like hosting, with a clear outline, so like I told them, if you are seriously planning on doing something big for the forum it needs to be well thought out and planned for.

I do not appreciate getting random suggestions and ideas flooded to my mailbox every 12 hours, especially in a such an insisting and derogatory tone. If you have a specific project you want to bring up in the future, discuss it with a mod and be sure that they post it in the staff board for me to review. In fact, I'll post the same outline I gave them here so you guys have an idea of how I want ideas presented to me in the future.

I don't send you over 20pm in such a short period of time, so don't word it out like I am the bad one who spams you, I count each PM I send, and I sent 4-5 with the knowledge that you where online and posting. Maybe a short response would help someone know you /are/ reading their pms. If they where in a bad tone, it wasn't intended.

Also we have a well thought-out plan that I'm sure someone must have posted to you.
We want to advertise on Reddit, Sato got approval from the /r/pokemon board, but to do that we need no admin approval, or a more open admin approval. It would look bad if the approval was still there.
We made this site as a community, I strongly think we should work together as a community. I know the final decision is up to you, but you should at least take into account that we helped you make the forum, and we only want to help you make it stronger.
Some like Evionet as a small community, but are you honestly telling me this isn't a bit too small?

I feel like because I'm just a regular member that I have no say in your business, which isn't the reason why we made Evionet. I just didn't want my say to be looked over and ignored, or just simply shut down without consideration. This goes for other members too, they should also have a say. I can never talk to you up front and it makes me feel useless, but if I am useless then I think I should just see my way out of this and let you handle your forum the way you want to.

If we as a community work together to improve the site than we can. We don't 100% want a second admin or anything but we want an admin who works with the rest of us, its the next step to helping evionet become more like PPN or at least somewhat more active.

The reason I make these huge posts is because I feel like I can rarely ever talk to you, and its a barrier to all of us that shouldn't be there. I hope I'm not alone in my points.

All we want is you to remove the admin approval, it pushes away people would otherwise join, as far as spam bots go the mods can handle a few of them, it's not like we'll get flooded with them.

That's the thing though, Zohaib is trying to help the forum, he's sending those messages because he cares and can't do it himself, none of us can do it ourselves without your approval, that's what getting people frustrated when it was them that worked to together to make that community.
While yeah we will probably always be small, but that doesn't mean we should just settle when our forum could be much more enjoyable with more members.

Zohaib is just saying what he thinks would help the forum.  If you think the idea isn't very good, then ok you're in charge, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't take his future ideas into consideration.

Evionet's original purpose did include it being community run and democratic so we do as a whole need to be allowed imput as a community as opposed to the whole thing resting on your back.  Zohaib has been trying to help sincerely and I hope there can be more co-operation between 110% of everyone.

I mean to say over 10 in my original message (typo), in addition to the ones you've sent through the mods.

You want to advertose on Reddit, that's great, but that has no direct correlation to registration settings. I am getting tired of the repeated of notion of handing out admin powers, especially when I have already explained why it's not feasible in every aspect. If someone signs up, they can wait a while, it won't take more than 24 hours guaranteed, and they'll get an email when it's approved.

We made Evionet because we were left with no home after Ludicom's closure, I stepped up and created this forum in Ludicom's wake to make a permanent place for this community leftover from PPN (and yes we are very small compared to what we used to be). I made a promise to not repeat the mistakes of the past and maintain a stable forum and safe home here, that is my primary focus and has always been. In terms of expanding and getting new members, that's what I have the moderators for. I chose them primarily because they are very socible and active members and they make the perfect ambassadors to represent the forum outside. I'm glad you are looking for external offers, and I am still here. The moderators have direct access to me and wheneverthey need my advice or help from now on, I am a reply away.

I need to make this also clear, I am not online 24 hours a day. I work, I go to college, I have a life. However, I have made a committment to log in every day, at least twice a day, and to check the staff boards primarily for any notices from the mods, so seriously the best way t contact me is through them. It is also better so you can double check your proposa to make sure everything is in order. Multiple pms is not an attractive option.

We get that you aren't here all the time which is why we think we should have more responsibility in being able to get things done.  The things Evionet was meant to rectify that previous incarnations didnt have was more democracy and community decision making, that was brought up in that original xat chat many times.  We aren't saying you must make another admin, but the community as a whole does need to be able to do things as a majority to be able to sustain itself and move forward.

How is disabling admin approval handing out admin powers exactly?

Things that need admin attention don't happen every second or every hour or even every couple of hours, I am fully capable of administrating this forum effectively and making final input and decisions on suggestions the community or specific members make. All I ask is that all proposals be presented in an organized manner, and that the mods make use of the staff board in presenting such ideas to me. If you guys can handle that then maybe we can actually move forward.


The power to manage registration is also tied with the power to delete accounts, all concerning admin powers are listed under one permission and therefore I cannot hand it down.

Why don't you remove the permission all together.
We don't need it.
This is the biggest obstacle we need, and in skype and steam, we have agreed that without it being gone, we can't advertise.
It's a barrier.

And don't say you can't, I ran an SMF forum and I could remove that.

If you really want me to, I will make an organized post about it to you in another thread. I don't see the point in it because you already know, and we have explained our main reason.

This seems a bit harsh really.  We can handle things but you don't seem to be allowing us to.  It's supposed to be the community working together and expanding but we can't grow if you say no to what the majority think we should do to get things working better. :/

I've already made my position clear on registration and it will stay as-is, I will not make any further posts on it, it's done. That should not have any impact on advertising.


As I have told you guys already, you signed up for a very specific job, to moderate the forum, and you know exactly what that entails becuse I have explained that to you multiple times. The only thing I am not allowing you guys to do is administrate the forum, which you are not. Needless to say, I created this forum, so it is ultimately my decision what major actions need to be made within my domain of action. I am not being unreasonable here. So once I've said no to something, I mean it. I do not deny proposals as a personal insult to anyone, if something is not feasile it's just not going to happen. In this situation, I have explained myself in every aspect and laid out my future expectations clearly.

No impact on advertising?
It looks bad to join a site that you have to wait to join.

Also what you stated in the post to aryeh is very rude and uncalled for.

You didn't create this forum. We made it as a community decision in a time of need. Your just claiming it for yourself because you physically made the forum on this host.
Remember who helped make your topics and boards, alright?
Without us there would have been no evionet, so do not act like you are some all powerful king, and the mods are just hired to do your bidding.
We elected you as an admin in that chatbox, so do not act like everything is yours and to be rude to your moderators, acting like some insane power freak.
Its out of line, and you have to look at it.
You didn't want to be like our past admins, and do the same mistakes, well look at yourself, You Are making the same mistakes, as much as you do not want to believe it.
Your being extremely unfair to the moderators and members who only want to help you. Your just trying to take total control of a situation you weren't there to experience.

You really need to stop saying that its your forum. It's only your forum because of our choice, and I personally regret it.

In the end this has to be a democracy based on the community's overall decisions, it can't rest on the shoulders of one person based on delegation nomatter what happens because that creates a diseconomy of scale.

JCB, I think I speak for the majority here, that you're walking on thin ice acting like that, especially in a small community like this.

@JCB

I'm tired of nothing happening, I love this community and all the people in it and it's sad watching it fall apart do a lot of inaction, and that inaction is your fault, the mods have presented a lot ideas to you and you've shot them all down, and they can't do anything without you're approval, now I realize that we'll always be a pretty small community, but that doesn't stop us from advertising and trying to get bigger, and admin approval does affect advertising, it makes the forum look unprofessional. 

Honestly, if you don't like being here Steel, then leave. No one is holding you to a place where you clearly don't want to be anymore.


The only ideas they have presented is wanting admin powers...

In terms of hosting, no one has ever given me a though out plan yet, just random suggestions and sites with no mention of payment and budgeting. Is it so bad that I need all this information beforehand so I can act on it?

Shit? Do you not get it?
I am not attacking you! I'm not to blame, but your attacking us!
We are supposed to work as a community. Your not focusing on what I'm saying.
I'm not saying "Oh JCB is bad D< Everyone hate JCB D<"
I'm saying you should think back to what created this site and stop being so irrational and rude to your staff.

If you haven't noticed, our priorities have shifted.
We aren't asking for admin powers! We are asking for you to goddamn listen up! We just wanted the approval thing gone, and it can be done, Ludicom didn't have it and my forum didn't have it.

I've already explained why removing the registration approval is a necessity though, and the record you were also asking for giving the mods the power over approval.

I'm just getting tired of the constant insisting of changing something after I have already denied it, and given completely viable explanations as to why.

JCB, Everyone working together=/=Everyone wants admin powers
Please understand this

We don't like the denial, it is our forum as much as it is yours. Why do you deny what the community wants.
You think that I don't care for the community?
I wouldn't be here, fighting this for like the past few weeks, helping get activity, notifying people like Eric The Turtlemaster about Evionet, constant mass postings, if I hated the forum.
You shouldn't act like the total boss of things, you should realize that we made Evionet for the community. Not for you.
What the community says should go, if it is bad, then we learn our lesson, do we not?
I don't expect the community to always agree with me, I understand now that the multiple admins thing was bad.
But we wanted the registration approval gone
It is not a necessity in anyway. If it was than PPN, Ludicom, TheGame, Drapionet would have it.

Do not think I'm going to give in just yet, I will fight for this community till the end. I may have given up before and dissapointed many, but I learned from that, and I hope I will not repeat it.

I'm not doing this for me.
I'm doing this for people like Aryeh, Milky, Chaos and everyone else who cares for the forum. I don't care if they fight with me or not, I know that they still care for the forum and every suggestion is in good intentions.

The mods have explained over and over that they do not enjoy how you treat them, thinking they can do something when they can't.
And don't get mad at them for me quoting posts they showed me or anything. It's not their fault and I take responsibility. If you signed up for skype or steam or tried to communicate properly with the moderators maybe you would know the situation better.



Look at what your doing. Repeat of the last times this community took a hard hit. This could be easily avoided if you had a rational agreement with the community. You accept some of our needs/wants, and we might accept yours. This isn't being unfair in my wording. It is 1 against many. It shouldn't be that way. It should be many vs getting activity up and supporting the site.

Because it's not a good explanation, plenty of very popular forums do not have registration approval, we are very small, we aren't some high profile community like NeoGaf that needs registration approval.
Keeping out spam bots, that's what mods are for.

Copied from the staff board

If any moderator wants to resign, they can just like you did Steel. The moderators can ontact me at anytime through the staff board, thershould b no reason why they shouldn't.

I don't always expect you or the community or the moderators to agree with me either, but the stimple fact is that I am the administrator and that is not going to change, and my decisions are final. I am open to all suggestions, but when I deny them it's for a very good reason.

Your only admin because of our decision. You really should listen to us, we all want the acitivty and we only ask of you to get rid of the admin approval.
If you can give me 1 good reason that doesn't involve spam bots or bad people [stuff that mods should deal with] for defending admin approval, then I will stop.
We need the admin approval gone, why does it have to be a big deal, why can't you just listen to us and get rid of it.
You have to understand your not the boss. You never where. We are the community. Without us you would not be in position you are today.
You have so far denied all of our suggestions and this stops all of our motivation from continuing bringing activity.

Your the administrator yes, and that may not change. But you where once the JCB I voted for administrator, and after today I have lost all respect I had for you.
You promised to not repeat any mistakes and to listen to us, this was a group effort.
You have turned this into your forum.
That has crushed all my respect for you.

You may not realize it but we need the activity and we have this barrier. This barrier causes more problems than it solves.
It stops us from advertising, nobody will want to join a forum that is so scared of handling spambots and bad people.
It is a wall stopping us from doing what we can to prevent problems.

I left my trust in you, and you have not proved trustworthy.
You should trust your staff to defend the forum from these attacks.
You should trust your community in advertising and getting this forum out of the dark hole that it's in.

This admin approval thing is more than just a physical barrier stopping us from advertising and helping the community.
It's proof that the mods are not be trusted handling a few bots.

You can say that "its not that I don't trust you guys" but you don't physically show it.
We need this barrier gone to keep doing what we love, and its helping the forum.

How about we reach a middle ground.

I will lift the approval for a trial period of 1 month starting today. The only condition I have is that the moderators revuew each new member for possible bot for me to review and I'll go through the outline with them. If we have no major incident within the trial period, I'll lift the approval.

What do I consider a major incident?
A. A spambot/topic/post remains unchecked, meaning by the time I get on I do not expect to see spam posts outside of the deleted messages board. And I expect a report from a moderator in the staff board, so immediate action can be taken.

This will obviously be more work on the moderators, for if a new member does decide to spamthey have to be on top of it, and I'll do my best to be on as much as possible in case deletion is needed. I hired 4 moderators also with the intention they can be on at different times, so they can catch such things.

This is essentially how things were prior to the Kinfin incident, needleess to say it has prevented a lot of spambots from coming on the forum and flasely increasing our member count and prevented other incidents from getting widespread. I just wanted to keep the forum clean and make the primary responsibility of dealing with this on my own.

Anyway, how does that sound?

Thats fine, I'm happy we came to an agreement.

I do hope everything turns out well.  I have expressed my concerns clearly, but if you guys feel that they are not going to be an issue, I'll lift the approval now as I promised. 

I don't want any of the other things I said to be forgotten either, I don't want my mods to feel excluded or any member to not get their voice through to me. They know that they can post in the staff board at any time, but when they don't tell me everything they want to say, how can I help then?

And I have not forgotten what you have said either, about we all being a community. Maybe if you guys ran a poll amojngst the other members as well, it would have shown me a more democrati standpoint. As the admin of this forum, I have a hig expectation of how I want ideas to be presented to me so that we can move forward together, for instance I would like to hear these proposals from my mods first if it concerns a mjor change like this, and preferably outlined. A forum is a hierarchy, shown in multiple ways through post counts and moving up in class, fom Admin to Moderator to Regular Member.  Every member can say what they want, which is why none of you did anything wrong here. There are rules in place however, and a system setup for whe you want your voice heard so we can work together. Will everything happen all in one day, and to evry members pleasing? Of course not, that is not how it works in real life either, but be assured that everything that I do, and the moderators, is for this forums stability.

Growth will take time if you guys give it the effort. Simply maintaining high posting activity goes a long way. Think about Pokemon X and Y, the more content you post on it, the more searches we get, and that is visible through guest numbers and topic views. Since you guys feel that removing the approval will be an incentive for new members, I hope this actually turns out well for your advertising efforts.

More polls that people will vote in is definitely a good idea and I say be begin planning topics of discussion for us to make polls about so everyone gets in their view points as to how we work as a forum.

So much politics in a FORUM for gods sake  :'( I'm not saying it's bad, it's just a shame it happens in the first place.

Where you on PPN or Ludicom?
It was worse there.
This is nothing compared to PPN.

Yeah but it shouldn't happen here  :'(

It's healthy. Just ignore it, I'm sorry it happened.
We both tried to be as non-hostile as possible, it did get heated, but in the end we came to a peaceful agreement. It should just end there. Now get posting :D

JCB, do you know why a theme didn't work when you first tried to install one? Because if creating a theme involves simple CSS editing, I'm more than happy to do that to give the site a more XY appropriate look.

Also, we appreciate all the stuff you've started doing, the new logo, the site main page, etc. It's really pimping out the forum :P

I got an idea for new online/offline images:
(http://i.imgur.com/TDbHu.gif)
(http://i.imgur.com/Uy6xx.gif)
or:
(http://i.imgur.com/61XmI.png?1)
(http://i.imgur.com/1I8Wo.png?1)
opinions?

the second ones are better :)

Yes! The bottom set is definitely better.

Although, for the "no new posts" one, I think it looks too dark, how about this: (http://i.imgur.com/JQvV9.png)

Also, maybe set that as a favicon? I hate seeing a blank white box in my bookmarks bar.

The second set is better, and Sato is right about the no new posts one being to dark

Everyone has done such a great job.

10 Guests, 15 Users (1 Hidden)

Just this week we got MSDChaos, Silver, Brian, Sabo, Waldo, etc. to be active/return.

And our two new members,
Zypher and Mors

(http://i.imgur.com/M2s8P.gif)

Didn't you guys have a link to the home page on the banner?

You can't add coding to the banner in the settings, if I try it just messes it up.

We should change the banner during a holiday.
Like how google kinda does it.

For example, give the banner a red hue and put hearts on it and luvdiscs for valentines day.

I suppose we could do it if someone wants to volunteer to make one. We kind of cut it a bit close to valentine's day though.

i could attempt at doing stuff like this. not sure how amazing it will be XD but if i had a list of the events you guys would like to do it for i can attempt some mock ups

in addition, does it annoy anyone else that the banner isnt in the middle?

The middle banner thing could be fixed if someone could add in invisible endings to it to give it the illusion of a centerized banner.

We could stick to standard holidays at first. You guyscan make a thread for new banner submissions for holidays, make a list in the OP, and update it when you get the banners.

sounds like an idea, ill get on it tonight if someone doesnt beat me to it

Bad idea.
On a mobile or a PC it wouldn't work.
And even from a 1024x768 display to a 1920x1080 one the banner would NEVER look centered.
It would look awkward at best.
If there's no script that works, there's no way at all.

cant you just use the exact same code you use to center all the buttons and titles and stuff?

Yeah, most forums have a way you can do this.

it should be the exact some code..... and it will center the img file

It seems it doesn't work that way with the banner.
I believe JCB tried it already. D;

if only that would work with everyone. On the computer I'm using right now, the banner actually runs a little off screen. On my computer at home, the banner fills 4/5 of the top screen. Center the banner on one screen, and it will run off another screen and not be centered on another.

If I'd seen that we wanted a valentine's day banner earlier, I definitely could have made one quickly. If you still want one I can make it when I get home today. I'll start thinking of some ideas for other banners as well.

I don't want to see any more hearts please go the fuck home. XD

Luvdisc would have been nice though.
Maybe it could be an era kinda thing. Like just change the Pokemon appearing around the Evionet banner.

Also, I kinda feel like the silhouettes in the banner are out of place. The way they're at equal distance from one another doesn't feel natural. I would either rearrange them or simply remove them. Having Yveltal and Xerneas is enough tbh.

I'll start working on some variations tomorrow; JCB said he wanted the starters involved too

I'll look out for them.

You know, I think there's a problem with the upgrade system.
It seems like most people down vote posts they dislike but don't up vote posts they like.

Am I right here?

It's kinda pointless if it really is the case.

Then stop posting ****
xD kidding ^^.
I'm not really using the voting system. Nor do I really care about it, it's a popularity vote anyways.

I use the system sparingly.  If I see a post that I think either makes a good point or is really funny I up-grade.  If I see a post that I have a problem with, I dubious disk.

And how can people dislike more than they like if most members have 10+ Karma?

But look at Starrk. How can he always be at -1?
He posts the most interesting stuff.

I see more updates than dubious discs.  I don't think more people downvote, most people try to upgrade people when they see something good.  Though I feel that neither is really happening at the moment as the karma system is kind of forgotten and a lot of people dont really care.

I dont know who is dubious discing him (I generally try to bring him back up to 0 though cos I hate minus karma with a passion xD I dont actually dubious in general really) but lol his stuff isnt the most interesting, it's usually something that provokes another member so that's probs why they do it. :P

Not to sure really. But he does not post the most interesting stuff, most of the time what he posts pisses me off actually. :P But I don't usually upgrade or dubious people.

xDD That's a good one.

Okay, thanks for your comments. I guess I was being negative again~ XD

Why did my level go from 34 to 12 in a week?
I don't even post that much. D;

I reset your level.

no offence, but if you keep bumping everyone up, doesn't that defeat the purpose of the system?

being leveled down over 20 doesn't seem a bit suspicious to you? As Mag said, he hasn't been posting as often to get such constant dubious discs. We also had a similar incident not too long ago with another member.

Thanks.

Should there be a thread for this?
Like a Bug Report or whatever?
I was puzzled as to where to post. :/

I guess here is fine to post, I can get to it faster.

I wish I knew how certain members were getting so many dubious discs. Unfortunately, I cannot see who gives exactly karma, just the totals.

Are you guys working the index.php or is it broken?

Working on it.

>mfw this new theme

(http://i.imgur.com/BXDFac2.jpg)

Blue text on blue background is not good for my already bad vision ._.

Is evionet broked or is it a change? D:

blue background is good but making the text back to black would be good.

I actually like the blue text.

the colour is nice but it is a bit faded in and having it visible is more important than that

HOW CAN YOU SEE IT!!?

suddenly half of things are blue text and half are black, it's random wut is happening

Oh whoa the text colour changed this is cool
The black text looks really nice in my opinion

Is the text color better now for everyone?

It's good, but it's a little bold imo.

I really liked the blue background, though :\

Why are quotes green?

The quotebox-green is too dark to see the text on it. :c

Sorry for the crash on the theme, had to rework the CSS code, I'm going to try and get the text back to black.

The quote background should be better now.

This looks really cool :o

Thanks  :)

is this permanent? or is it just testing.

Permanent

Just thought that I should point out that the Jump To option at the bottom of the page takes you to the Home, no matter what.

Is it possible to let users choose different themes or have custom onesm and the staff list button up top says I cant view the staff list. D:

I've tried that, it seems that whenever you go on Look and Layout Preferences in your profile, selecting the SMF Default theme doesn't do anything.

I'll fix the Staff List.

Maybe you have to add them to the list somehow?

so the new theme is just a pokeball being repeated? ehh...

edit-
ok it's back to how it was good xD
but the text is still a blue...

If anyone can find a good pokemon related background, to replace the bubbles, you can post it here.

I'll try the text again.

Why does the quote square go from white to blue? O.o

I like the Eviolites/Bubbles.

And the text is good, personally I preferred blue but this is a good comprimise.

yeah I did like the blue colour but I understand that some people would find it difficult on the blue background, so this is fine.

It appears only as blue to me.

Are you guys fine with the background? If anyone wants to make a custom one we could try that.

I'm still trying to find other text colors in the code and turn them to black.

it starts out white then blue


(http://i.imgur.com/0R8soVZ.png)

Do you mean when making a post?

Do you want it to be blue?

I don't really like the background.
The texture in the headers/sections is good.
Colors are nice, the gradient in quotes is cool.

I'll look for a background too.
If anyone finds a cool one that needs working, I can do.
For example: Awesome background but it's pink, I'll make it blue.

I could probably make a background too if you guys have a cool pattern or something.

If you would like to make a background image that would be great.

This is the image that is currently being used for reference:
(http://www.smfboards.com/Themes2/userstyles/LightBlue/pgback.jpg)

The pattern repeats itself in the background.

Thanks~
I'm trying something atm.

Sorry to be the voice of reason and all...
... but the new look is great!

I still need to get used to the black font (yet I don't remember what the old colour was), but it's fitting well.
I'm eager to see what Magoo will come up with :)

Forget it. It was crap. I'll keep thinking though.

I changed all the text to dark blue font instead of pure black.

Glad you guys are enjoying it,now that I can customize it, Evionet can really look unique.

I mean all quote boxes for me are white on the left side and then turn to blue on the right, Why is it doing this? ;-;

It's a fancy fade effect, I quite like it.

Though, it would be nice if there was a way to make the blue at the end more distinguishable from the blue on the rest of the page.

I see it now, like a small tint of white on the left side

I think it's an image in the quote background, I would have to put another image for that.

EDIT: I think this is the culprit:
(http://www.smfboards.com/Themes2/userstyles/LightBlue/quote.jpg)

that thing!


If you love this theme so much, why don't you marry it! D:<

I can't, my heart is already devoted to a fancy theme on a Fallout Forum <3

Edited the home page, let me know what you guys think!

You spelled Stay in stay tuned wrong, it says syay tuned. It's under the mewtwo post.


Also, hellz yeah second top poster! D:<

*whispers* top poster
It's really cool!

Thanks  :)

The new Homepage looks great!

Homepage is looking amazing! Good job JCB, we're really starting to look professional :D

Just one thing, the big part at the top of the homepage with the X and Y logo on it should probably use a different font, it looks a little basic :P

Just reporting a couple typos I noticed on the Homepage :P

This theme...
(https://i.minus.com/j3NxkWtRA0SiJ.jpg)

Thanks.


See if it's better now, or if you have another font suggestion

--

And thanks everyone!

Yep, looks great :D

JCB,
(http://i.imgur.com/Tqcjx.gif)
Fantastic work on the front page.
I love it, the forum looks professional and awesome.
If you need any help, just ask me.

yes it's pretty good, though the home page says Centra instead of Central cos it cut off :/

Also JCB, as a suggestion. I can help by making a Pokemon of the week topic for voting, and I can help with chosing the topic of the week, every week.

I'm reliable for that stuff, since I'm on evionet daily, and I can set reminders.

That sounds great, I believe Daniel was working on the Topic of the Week, maybe you guys can split the work on that?

When you have Pokemon of the Week set up, you can post it in the new sticky thread I made, or if you want to make a topic and update it every week, I can add the hyperlink and update the pokemon picture on the home page that leads to your topic.

he was just doing that for the gaming board

I'll make my own. I'll put it in Pokemon General if thats fine.

http://evionet.freesmfhosting.com/index.php/topic,1765.msg78784.html#msg78784

I was doing it for just my main boards because I was expecting the other moderators to do it, too :P

Love it~

I do suggest a background change though.

I made something.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/mechild7/Evion_zps247c90fe.png) (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/mechild7/media/Evion_zps247c90fe.png.html)
Lighter Version
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/mechild7/Evion2_zpsfa303d1c.png) (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/mechild7/media/Evion2_zpsfa303d1c.png.html)

oh wow that's a change xD

maybe the lighter one will be better

I also just made this one
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/mechild7/Evion3_zpsa24e8971.png) (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/mechild7/media/Evion3_zpsa24e8971.png.html)

Lighter is better.

Looks really bad right now. D;

This one is best one >:3

NO! It's too much.

I love the new background itself, but it doesn't go well with everything else. I'd prefer the raindrop one until everything else is changed to fit the new background.

Dark colors are easier on the eyes though, cuz your laptop/phone/screen is a giant light :\

How about Porygon as the background?

After all, shiny Porygon is blue, you can even make it light blue to math the current colors.

For some reason, all the eviolites make me think of candy  ;D

Looks like I can touch the background and it'd be bumpy.

Do you use any specific software to make the patterns wrap around the edges?

(http://www.smfboards.com/Themes2/userstyles/LightBlue/pgback.jpg)

I think we can get used to this one pretty good.

I used the offset filter on sumo paint.

lighten it alot more, it will be better.
Then use it.

alright, two more to try maybe. The second I made becasue I realized that the sprites were overlapping with the sugimori images

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/mechild7/Evion4_zpsf65ca8df.png)

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(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/mechild7/Evion5_zps4f5790a0.png)

I think the eviolite one looks better, just brighten it.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/mechild7/Evion2_zpsfa303d1c.png)

expect tiny bit more.

I love the top one, it's perfect and suits the site amazingly well.

If we're gonna change BG, I vote the top one.

If we're voting, I actually vote for the old "Raindrops" one.

I like the Porygons.

Indeed. More people know that porygon is pokemon related where as eviolite is pretty much unknown and wouldn't be recognized as fast. ._.

Agree there

It looks very nice..

now that it's down, looks great.

thanks guys :D
though, I feel the repitition happens too often. If I can get my laptop back from my sis, Ill make one that's 400x400 instead of 200x200. Or is everyone fine with this? Does the bg image have to be a certain size?

Ok so I made it. I don't have any preferences between the current and this one so whatevs.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/mechild7/Evion6_zps98adf145.png) (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/mechild7/media/Evion6_zps98adf145.png.html)
Also, I just made a new banner. It's a tad bit bigger, though. I needed a bigger canvas to fit in the new pictures.
With bg Porygon
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/mechild7/evion11_zpsbf77e1dc.png) (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/mechild7/media/evion11_zpsbf77e1dc.png.html)
Without
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/mechild7/evion12_zpsd98970ac.png) (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/mechild7/media/evion12_zpsd98970ac.png.html)

Thanks. It's on Photoshop too. Never learned about it in my 3 years at college---!

I kind of like your background but it's still too clear to me...
I'm thinking of maybe blurrier as to fade more as a background instead of now.
It's kinda competing with the other elements on the page. But a background should be smoother and the focus should be on everything but the bg.
I made this from yours like real fast, not the best but maybe you could work in that sense?
Do you understand what I mean?
(http://i.imgur.com/0yOWm7z.jpg)

The banner is good. I think it's better without the Porygon behind it.
Cause there are enough elements as is. ENOUGH WITH THE PORYGON! XP

oooh
jcb try that one, i want to see how it looks on the whole site. It gives a cool depth of field effect to the site.

YES! Depth. That's one word I was looking for!

Thoughts on blurred Porygon background?

Love it.
And the new header :D

the new banner is good

anyway as for being on topic, anyone else have suggestions in general for the site?

oh yea, much better.

The theme is perfect :D

I just wanted to point out that most of the Jump to... links work, however the sections themselves, such as Pokemon Boards, Information Center and such still link to the home page.
I must be one of the rare people who ever click these links. I use them because they scroll automatically to the section I'm looking for.

Otherwise everything is awesome ;D

I honestly have no idea how that happened, I'll look into it though.

There ain't always a reason.
I learned to just fix it and not wonder why it happened. :P

Well I noticed that the link to the homepage is
http://evionet.freesmfhosting.com/index.php?
Which used to be the main forum page. Now, that one is:
http://evionet.freesmfhosting.com/index.php?action=forum

So the links in the Jump to... are giving the URL
http://evionet.freesmfhosting.com/index.php#X
Where X is the board number. It must just be changed by
http://evionet.freesmfhosting.com/index.php?action=forum#X

I don't know if it's necessarily that simple, though.

Just thought that I should point out that the text when you preview a post is still black.

I think the banner should be scalable relative to the monitor size.

I think that would be too much trouble.

for the first time ever, it's at a good size because he changed it xD

(http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/123/203/tumblr_lgciwePHn41qc3ioj.jpg)

Secured HTTP on Youtube won't display the video in the post.
It will appear as a link instead.


So maybe you could look into it when you have the time.

Is there a way to add spoiler tags now?
Cause I just tried my old way of spoilers with the glow tags:

She dies at the end.

But as you can see, since the text is a deep blue, you can read the spoiler.
And when I enter a color in the tags, using one of the colors in the 'Change Color' drop-down menu, there is only Blue and Navy and it is neither of these blue.

If you change the black in the glow to navy, it works better(see above)

Weird. I tried it and it didn't really work...

Haha for some reason it's not working for me either XD must only work while inside quotes.

Try this:

SPOILER

Yeah, I guess.
But it gets complicated. When it's complicated, some just won't bother. :/

hmmm spoiler tags would be good, for most of those ones you tried I can't see the words inside that well, so I think they would be fine.

I never have a problem when I post a video from Youtube, maybe you can give an example?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k4Xgm9dDMg


does this work?

Yes they are.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Vc2i6poRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Vc2i6poRg

HTTP works.
HTTPS doesn't.

Testing, just remove the s.

Don't know why secured html's don't work.

The site's programming doesn't recognize the "https" probably

Must be it.

Text for links should be a bit darker than normal imo.

image uploading and links with avatars and signatures are pretty glitchy imo.

dont upload through the forum, use imgur.com

Yeah the forum's gallery considers everything you try to upload to be too big ¬_¬

<Never mind whoops>

Thought on homepage and placement of top posters list? Should I keep the avatars or not? If I remove the avatars the left column would be smaller.

This let me know that I was on of these.
Whats everywhere

That feel when I was once top poster in early Evionet, but not even in the top 10 now. D;

I would remove the avatars on that
Maybe have it top 5 too so Reechee can be on it :P

*patpat*
Just about 100 or so and you'd be above Zohaib :I

My name is REECHEE and I approve of this message

Disabled the avatars on the homepage.

I'll keep it at 10 so it can fill out the left column a bit more.

looks good :)