We will most likely be moving to xenforo forum software

[ToastToGo]

With the whole YouTube & G+ integration and the frustrations I'm having with that, I have to admit I'm not excited about MORE major updates to a site I am (was) familiar with. I understand the concept of moving forward, I'm sure you have the best intentions (I hope anyway), I just think it's too much all at once. Not to mention Windows 8! I'm about to take the sledgehammer to my computers and take up board games. Why does everyoine think they have to wipe the slate clean and start over completely? what ever happened to baby-steps of improvements with a single goal in mind? grrrr!! /endrant

Change makes things interesting. Just have to accept, adapt, adjust, go with the flow, and enjoy new things. Forum changes won't be too hard to learn. They're all rather similar in concept anyway.

 

[dandoolittle]

With the whole YouTube & G+ integration and the frustrations I'm having with that, I have to admit I'm not excited about MORE major updates to a site I am (was) familiar with. I understand the concept of moving forward, I'm sure you have the best intentions (I hope anyway), I just think it's too much all at once. Not to mention Windows 8! I'm about to take the sledgehammer to my computers and take up board games. Why does everyoine think they have to wipe the slate clean and start over completely? what ever happened to baby-steps of improvements with a single goal in mind? grrrr!! /endrant

I can't help with Windows 8 or Google updates I'm afraid

I don't think anything with thos forum is a drastic change to be honest. Think of it as a freshen up

 

[CaptainCranky]

Sounds to me like a positive and awesome thing you are doing, SEOmers

Thanks

 

[dandoolittle]

Sounds to me like a positive and awesome thing you are doing, SEOmers

Thanks

Much appreciated

I think the site is already running faster and fake accounts (spam) has dipped so lets see


There won't be any other changes for the next week or two anyway

 

[XXX526]

..Change makes things interesting. Just have to accept, adapt, adjust, go with the flow, and enjoy new things. Forum changes won't be too hard to learn. They're all rather similar in concept anyway.

Yeah - I've heard this a lot in my life. My life experiences have taught me that it's not always what it's cracked up to be. To be honest, most software changes are 100% about just making a company money, i.e. Microsoft. Windows 95 worked just fine (compared to all the rest of the Windows updates). Microsoft made a buttload of money making everyone "upgrade". Did your life really improve going from Windows 95 to Windows 7?

I know change is inevitable. I know some of it has the potential to be good. It's just too bad we as a society are too willing to act like a school of fish and swim aimlessly with the pack regardless of the awaiting peril ahead.

 

[Shirou]

I just think it's too much all at once. Not to mention Windows 8! I'm about to take the sledgehammer to my computers and take up board games.

Oh, please DON'T mention it. I had my first experience with Win8 yesterday. So ridiculously stupid, time consuming and painful. I get it MAY be a good system for tablets, with all the click, swish and swosh but.. tabletizing your COMPUTER is stupid, it's pants on head retarded!. I spent 10 minutes trying to get to the control panel!, ridiculous. I was so frustrated that didn't even think about WIN+R, control, enter. I don't even know if that is possible on win8.

Yeah - I've heard this a lot in my life. My life experiences have taught me that it's not always what it's cracked up to be. To be honest, most software changes are 100% about just making a company money, i.e. Microsoft. Windows 95 worked just fine (compared to all the rest of the Windows updates). Microsoft made a buttload of money making everyone "upgrade". Did your life really improve going from Windows 95 to Windows 7?

I know change is inevitable. I know some of it has the potential to be good. It's just too bad we as a society are too willing to act like a school of fish and swim aimlessly with the pack regardless of the awaiting peril ahead.

Let's review since Win3.10
Win3.10= Wow!, windows.
Win3.11= Wow!, windows and now networks
Win95= Complete revolution in PC, start menu, directx, games, works on my PC (With at least 40MHz DX, 250MB HDD and 16MB of RAM).
Win97 (Win95 OSR2)= A few tweaks that resulted in a less bugged version.
Win98= Welcome to internet explorer, everything is the same but with IE under it.
Win2k= Wow!, windows NT, multicores, my PC works!, the same as Win95+98+NT but now everything works! Except my weird taiwanese hardware that requires new drivers.
WinXP= Win2k+Window Blinds, everything is the same or more annoying (Pop!, your firewall is disabled, POP!, take the windows tour, POP!, YOU NEED AN ANTIVIRUS, POP!, POP!, POP!, POPPPP!!, Hey, you seem like you're trying to find something!, leeme help you by not finding anything and trying to be smarter, since you don't seem to know what a .doc or a wildcard is).
WinVista= Let's annoy the shit out of our users by trying to change the way everything works, the name of everything in the system and using up as much resources as any new PC has so it will be sluggish since new and the users will need to buy RAM and video upgrades. And let's throw a little eyecandy in there while we're at it to use up a little bit of gpu.
Win7= Ok, now PC's come with more RAM than needed for Vista, let's rename it and launch it again. Win7 was born. Oh, and let's not forget to piss everyone again by adding useless features (Homegroup for example, moronic file explorer, useless search, stupid indexing system, stupid folder filetype recognition, the worst media player even invented) and slowing everything down because all PC's since 2004 can run windows as smooth and there is no difference in high end hardware.
Win8= Let's piss all our userbase by relaunching Vista but removing the core tool of windows since 95, the Start menu. But let's get back to square windows the way they looked since windows 3.10.

That's from the top of my head. Forcing windows 8 instead of XP by dropping support and updates on an enterprise level is so ridiculous and wasteful. Why upgrade tons of PC's that are happily running XP fast and sound doing whatever they're supposed to be doing?.
You get no benefit from something like that. Just e-waste, money thrown away in hardware, software and training courses, human time wasted too, business downtime, low employee performance. It makes absolutely no sense, I fail to see the "win" situation there.
Bloating software just because the computers nowadays can handle it it's the worst coding practice ever. And that's what happening with the subsequent releases of windows since Vista. Vista and later versions didn't make my computer any faster, didn't enable a better internet experience, didn't mean a better gaming experience, didn't enhance my desktop experience (everything is slower and nothing seems to work). So is this actually an "upgrade"? Why did we "upgrade"? Oh, because my new computer is locked not to run anything older than vista and software developers are pushing latest versions too. Latest programs "Need" x64 windows 7.
The only thing that made me drop windows 2000 was that, new software didn't want to run on W2k. One moment the workarounds were so painful to install that I ended upgrading. That was in 2007 iirc.

 

[sPo0kEy]

i likes it!!

.. errrr ... sorry about the new thread :lol:

lol its cool have fun if he change it ..you want have to much trouble..with the new forum

 

[Trinith]

Windows 95 worked just fine (compared to all the rest of the Windows updates). Microsoft made a buttload of money making everyone "upgrade". Did your life really improve going from Windows 95 to Windows 7?

95 wouldn't support 16gb ram and an 8-core x64 processor, so..yes, it did. Drastically.

 

[janx101]

welll ... ive had another think about the situ .. :twisted:

can we possibly install this kind of advanced VGUI ???

cos that would be lots of fun!! :lol:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0eCJqEVKNQ[/youtube]

Seomers... sort it out will you!? .. theres a good chap!

 

[sPo0kEy]

would be cool as hell..lol

 

[dandoolittle]

welll ... ive had another think about the situ .. :twisted:

can we possibly install this kind of advanced VGUI ???

cos that would be lots of fun!! :lol:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0eCJqEVKNQ[/youtube]

Seomers... sort it out will you!? .. theres a good chap!

I'll see if the tax man can let me put all this through the books then