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The Hedge Knight · Dec 17, 2012

Wakko said:
Is there a dev tracker or something similar to easily see the devs posts?

My quote page has just about anything major, though it's not always up to date.

Joe Moore · Dec 17, 2012

The Hedge Knight said:
My quote page has just about anything major, though it's not always up to date.

Here's the link to The Hedge Knight.'s page, http://www.baremettle.com/sg/forums/index.php?threads/grand-list-of-dev-quotes-on-features.195/

Joe Moore · Dec 18, 2012

Verva said:
Just follow all the devs and you'll be notified when they post.

You can also do a search like this.
Never mind, it reports an error. So the search seems to be account based. Bummer.

JamesButlin · Dec 19, 2012

I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned this before but none of the forum pages seem to have page titles in the form of

Code:

<title>This</title>

Joe Moore · Dec 19, 2012

JamesButlin said:
I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned this before but none of the forum pages seem to have page titles in the form of

Code:

<title>This</title>

You mean there's no title element in the HTML? At least, I didn't see one. Why do you mention this?

JamesButlin · Dec 19, 2012

Yeah the HTML tag, causing the site to show up in browsers as the full URL in the tab/window title. Just thought it'd be worth mentioning incase they wanted to add a default title to span across the forums

Joe Moore · Dec 19, 2012

JamesButlin said:
Yeah the HTML tag, causing the site to show up in browsers as the full URL in the tab/window title. Just thought it'd be worth mentioning incase they wanted to add a default title to span across the forums

Ah, yeah I see that now. I bet they dropped the title tag out of their forum template.

NoSoAna · Dec 20, 2012

Is there a list of all smilies which are available?

I tried to get a smilie with horns, without success.

Pantheon · Dec 20, 2012

There is a smiley icon over the posting window, there you see all the available smilies.

NoSoAna · Dec 20, 2012

Not if I did turn it off in the preferences...

Oops...

The Hedge Knight · Dec 20, 2012

You could always just like, not use smily's :/

BigT2themax · Dec 20, 2012

Yeah, EVERYONE hates smilies, they're totally not at all useful for anything, ever.

Notice how the smiley helps convey the fact I was being silly and sarcastic, and not just a huge jerk?
Another example would be if you had replaced your ":/" face, which seems to be indicating annoyance or a long, dissapointed sigh, with a "

" face, it would look like you were just kidding around all jokingly and such. I'm not trying to argue, I'm just saying they're sometimes necessary to show the tone of what you're saying.

... I don't really know why I decided to post this. Oh, well.

The Hedge Knight · Dec 21, 2012

I realize, but most of the time they end up being abused and overused

JamesButlin · Dec 21, 2012

BigT2themax said:
Yeah, EVERYONE hates smilies, they're totally not at all useful for anything, ever.

Notice how the smiley helps convey the fact I was being silly and sarcastic, and not just a huge jerk?
Another example would be if you had replaced your ":/" face, which seems to be indicating annoyance or a long, dissapointed sigh, with a "" face, it would look like you were just kidding around all jokingly and such. I'm not trying to argue, I'm just saying they're sometimes necessary to show the tone of what you're saying.

... I don't really know why I decided to post this. Oh, well.

Text based chat is horrific without emotion, so many things can be taken the wrong way! Anyway this is going off topic..

BigT2themax · Dec 21, 2012

@ The Hedge Knight, yeah, I figured that's where you were going with it. That is very annoying, I agree. But one or two every so often isn't going to hurt, is it?

Edit: more on topic, I'm wondering why there's achievements for this forum? I don't mind them, it's just a bit strange, is all.

MrIdontKnow · Dec 21, 2012

BigT2themax said:
@ The Hedge Knight, yeah, I figured that's where you were going with it. That is very annoying, I agree. But one or two every so often isn't going to hurt, is it?

Edit: more on topic, I'm wondering why there's achievements for this forum? I don't mind them, it's just a bit strange, is all.

If you don't mind them, why comment.

Without smilies can you tell what my emotion is?

BigT2themax · Dec 21, 2012

You seem annoyed that I'm asking a useless question. My apologies, I was just trying to stay on topic and say some feedback about the forum. Couldn't really think of anything to mention except the trophy points I had recently noticed.

Also, my point was that smilies are useful sometimes, in the cases of sarcasm or over-the-top jokes or general sillyness and other things that would normally be detected in normal speech through a person's tone of voice or their expressions. There's not really any need to use them all the time, I realise that, and it does get exhasperating seeing lots of them in a post. Not to mention it looks a bit... childish, I suppose? I can't really think of a better word.

In any case, emoticons are alright in moderation or when necessary to emphasise an expression or the tone of a statement, it's just that occasionally people overuse them and it gets on peoples nerves, understandably.

The Hedge Knight · Dec 22, 2012

BigT2themax said:
@ The Hedge Knight, yeah, I figured that's where you were going with it. That is very annoying, I agree. But one or two every so often isn't going to hurt, is it?

Edit: more on topic, I'm wondering why there's achievements for this forum? I don't mind them, it's just a bit strange, is all.

I have used forums like this before, I am ninety percent sure they simply come with the forum.

MrIdontKnow · Dec 22, 2012

BigT2themax said:
You seem annoyed that I'm asking a useless question. My apologies, I was just trying to stay on topic and say some feedback about the forum. Couldn't really think of anything to mention except the trophy points I had recently noticed.

Also, my point was that smilies are useful sometimes, in the cases of sarcasm or over-the-top jokes or general sillyness and other things that would normally be detected in normal speech through a person's tone of voice or their expressions. There's not really any need to use them all the time, I realise that, and it does get exhasperating seeing lots of them in a post. Not to mention it looks a bit... childish, I suppose? I can't really think of a better word.

In any case, emoticons are alright in moderation or when necessary to emphasise an expression or the tone of a statement, it's just that occasionally people overuse them and it gets on peoples nerves, understandably.

Well you got that wrong because I was joking

MrIdontKnow · Jan 5, 2013

@The Dev team, is there anyway to implement a 5 thread mini search when creating a thread , It might cut down on some dupe thread but also it could be of much help.

If you typed a title in, it would search for what you type in all over the forums and display 5 threads above where you type your thread title.

What about implementing a twitter like system, allowing tags @Madoc and receiving alerts like that?

Also, Madoc have you had a look into replying and more options for us iPhone users, it's getting a bit annoying not being able to do any tags or what not without typing them myself!