Dark Bit Factory & Gravity

GENERAL => General chat => Topic started by: Shockwave on May 01, 2006

Title: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Shockwave on May 01, 2006

Here's the new board, please have a play with it, post some stuff and tell us what you think of it!
Also, the great exodus of topics from the Ezboard over to here will soon begin in earnest (hopefully), any useful topics you can move over will be really appreciated. Thanks.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: zparticle on May 01, 2006

MUCH, MUCH, BETTER!

congrats

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Rbz on May 01, 2006

Yeah, very cool matey, well done  ;D

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Ghost^BHT on May 01, 2006

 Very nice - Much better than the ezboard thingy :) I like the features alot :)

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Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Shockwave on May 01, 2006

Great, glad you like it guys :)

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Blitz Amateur on May 01, 2006

Looks great to me. Time to update my links ;-)

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Yaloopy on May 02, 2006

I miss my postcount.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Roly on May 02, 2006

Great new board, mate. Lots of more functions and a bright design. I think we need a little intro to announce it  ;D

cya
Røly

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Shockwave on May 02, 2006

Intro coming soon :)
Postcount, well I don't know whether I can edit them but I'll have a look.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Yaloopy on May 02, 2006

Nah, you're grand. Thanks, though. Did you bother asking ezBoard to transfer the DB for you?

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Shockwave on May 02, 2006

I haven't asked them yet. I suppose that I'll just chip away at it, hopefully everyone else can club together to help transfer the important stuff.
I will look into getting the post counts modified though.

Good news is that the feature to upload your own avatar works, it was broken at first.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Yaloopy on May 02, 2006

Aye, I couldn't get that to work with my PHPBB. MAinly because I'm retarded at FTP permissions.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Clyde on May 02, 2006

Looking cool matey :)

What I recon is dude, you really are in need of a Code Snippets area for the different languages your catering for. As I find it confusing on the whole, of where to post for coding help, and where to put / find source code of routines for all to benefit off. I think it would be much much cooler, to have Coding Help category, and a Code Snippets Category, seperately, then from bunging everything into the one area.

Grand job mate, and ace work,
Cheers and all the very best,
Clyde.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Stonemonkey on May 02, 2006

Looks good.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Shockwave on May 02, 2006

Thanks Fryer, thanks Clyde.

As for where to post questions, snippets etc, if you could post them in the forum of the language that they were created in there shouldn't be too much confusion, as it goes on we'll see if it needs re-organising.

The exception of course is when a project is complete or if it's a WIP that you want feedback on, there are forums for those things.

As it goes on and when it becomes clear what forums are more popular Sub boards can be created within each forum if needed so hopefully that will cover things.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Snarty on May 03, 2006

Looks good. Nice to see the coders are still about and active (hello Clyde :P)

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Clyde on May 03, 2006

Hello there Snarty Dude! Welcome to DBF's new forum.

Still recon the site is in need of a seperate Code Snippets area

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Shockwave on May 03, 2006

Heya Snarty :) Great to see you're still around too! Welcome to the board.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Snarty on May 04, 2006

Cheers guys, who knows, I may even code demo type stuffage again too! Stranger things have happened. Still have that strange planet feedback spinny glowy slidey thing.. yes, all technical terms.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: zparticle on May 04, 2006

I really like the stats page, very intersting

http://dbfinteractive.com/index.php?action=stats

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Clyde on May 04, 2006

New place defineatly needs a code snippets category.

There are a mountain of features, I wonder if time travel is possible.

Cheers,
Clyde.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Shockwave on May 04, 2006

Quote from: Snarty on May 04, 2006

Still have that strange planet feedback spinny glowy slidey thing.. yes, all technical terms.

I guess you'd have to see it to appreciate it eh?

Quote from: Clyde on May 04, 2006

New place defineatly needs a code snippets category.

There are a mountain of features, I wonder if time travel is possible.

Tell you what, the quote feature is pretty cool but I don't know about time travel, it's probably because the clock is busted!

Quote from: zparticle on May 04, 2006

I really like the stats page, very intersting

http://dbfinteractive.com/index.php?action=stats

I very nearly didn't include it but I'm glad I did, it's pretty comprehensive.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Mog on May 06, 2006

These forums are so beautiful, i just wanna cry!  :'(

tis great to see DBF back up! (as i said on CW) Time to dig that clockwork orange aparatus out of storage so i can enjoy the demos in the way they were meant to be seen: System blasting with eyes pried open! ULTRAVIOLENCE!!

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Yaloopy on May 06, 2006

I am forced to agree with Mog.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Shockwave on May 06, 2006

Good to see you made it Mog :) Welcome.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Clyde on May 06, 2006

\0/ Watcha Mogster :)

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Clyde on May 09, 2006

Pretty please, can we have a Code Snippets category?  Tell you for why, im suggesting it, is that very soon people are going to get confused to whats a code help question, and whats a code snippet. Plus they wont know where to be posting stuff / etc. Especially when there's more then the one page ;)  A few friends of mine have also commented on it.

Still Fabo stuff Shockie!

Cheers,
Clyde.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Shockwave on May 10, 2006

Glad you're enjoying the forum Clyde, what do you suggest for a code snippets category? One for each language or just the one for all languages?

See, I think that adding a code snippets category will confuse the issue at the moment and there's nothing stoping people posting code snippets in the language forum that they are related to.

I don't want to have a load of dead forums and just one or two that have posts in them.

Also the search option of the forum is powerful and it works so it shouldn't become a problem, however having said all that I am listening and if I can see it makes sense I will add it.

So convince me! :)

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Clyde on May 10, 2006

Yeah its cool. 8)

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Glad you're enjoying the forum Clyde, what do you suggest for a code snippets category? One for each language or just the one for all languages?

I recon along these lines for the languages matey. I think that having Asm, and C / C++ together would be cooler and as you say not be dormant. Blitz Languages could go into one also. Freebasic on it's tod, as thats the main one the current motley crue are into. And if the need arises to split them further buddy.

Thanks,
Clyde.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Shockwave on May 11, 2006

Hmm, but lumping those languages in together would surely lead to the problem that you wanted to avoid? IE. making things harder to find? As it is now, the language forums are made up of code snippets, almost exclusively.

I'm not rubbishing your suggestion, this board is for everyone with an interest in demo coding as far as I'm concerned, I just can't see any gain in what you've suggested there at the moment.

Having said all that, I have a couple of things that I want to run by you Clyde to see if you're interested, probably they are better discussed by PM for now so I'll be in touch soon.

Meanwhile, does anyone else see the need to have 2 forums for freebasic (one for code snippets and one for questions or something) and an extra code snippets forum to cover the other languages like Clyde has suggested? If so, please post here.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Clyde on May 13, 2006

Ah well, there's no harm in asking. :p Seems im the only one who likes the idea of a seperate code snippets category.

Cheers for listening Shockie, looking nice.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Shockwave on May 13, 2006

I have asked for other peoples thoughts on the code snippets, nobody else has posted so far.
Glad you like the look mate.

Title: Re: Well, what do you think?
Post by: Clyde on May 20, 2006

I think the time is now for adding such a category, as the code forums are blossoming at great guns, which is real cool.

I have another suggestion, for next time a Code Challenge pops up, can the entries be posted as seperate posts in that forum. That way, it'll be easier to see the participating entries, and better feedback. Then once the deadlines reached and all, they can be moved more easily into the Code Snippets areas.

Cheers and thanks for a wonderful forum,
Clyde.