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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Mon Nov 19th at 9:55pm 2007

We're already losing the opportunity for new members as it is. Not that my opinion particularly matters, but I think a reboot would be beneficial and that we should focus back on the community / portfolio aspect, because the Valve Wiki and other sites already serve the tutorials / reference role a lot better than we do.



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Tue Nov 20th at 4:39am 2007

I would agree with that, but Gwil's suggestion, as I read it, didn't seem to indicate the portfolio aspect... If we drop this to just a forum with every other functionality of the site archived, we'll be doing ourselves no favors. Perhaps I need a better understanding of what this proposed change actually means.



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Posted by Leperous on Thu Nov 22nd at 11:51am 2007

Ii'll be sending Gwil the passwords and stuff for the site so that he can change things as his evil-overlord-self dictates, since I'm clearly not motivated to do much here at this point in my life image

Wikis have clearly come into fashion since this site, and other tutorial ones before it, were written. So losing the tutorials would not necessarily a bad thing, but links to and discussion of articles elsewhere would still be a great help to people, especially when put into the higher context - e.g. "making a realistic room" instead of seperate articles on "glass" and "rotating doors". So I'd agree that area could use a complete overhaul.

You'd want to keep the profiles, map information, news and forums in some form as those are things you typically won't get under a Wiki system. Letting people publicise their maps is vital, though you might want to give them more control over their profile page.

And yeah, you'd probably want to upgrade the forum code. Good luck with that :P



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Posted by Gwil on Thu Nov 22nd at 12:04pm 2007

Now to press gang some unwitting victims to begin the overhaul. Best find myself some e-chloroform!



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Posted by omegaslayer on Thu Nov 22nd at 5:13pm 2007

You have my full support gwil. Just do me a favor: don't redesign the site after a night at the pub.


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Posted by Gwil on Thu Nov 22nd at 10:20pm 2007

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Luckily for you i'm not allowed at the pub (as much) of late because I have a stomach ulcer. What a life!



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Posted by OtZman on Thu Nov 22nd at 11:18pm 2007

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Posted by Le Chief on Fri Nov 23rd at 2:20pm 2007

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Posted by ReNo on Fri Nov 23rd at 2:41pm 2007

Just thought I'd pop my head in to say woohoo to change <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> I like a lot about the site as it stands, but lets face it, we're not really going anywhere like this. A redesign is a chance to reinvigorate the place, even if we don't have all the features of the current design. I might be able to help out in places but don't have a great deal of time sadly. Keen to see what Gwil has in store for us <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">

Oh and heya Lep, always nice to see you visit from time to time!



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Posted by Gwil on Fri Nov 23rd at 8:53pm 2007

Don't expect too much action straight away, i've been feeling sorry for myself since Wednesday with a rather nasty flu meets the runs meets vomiting...




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