Author Topic: WoW Dedicated Forums (Read 14976 times)

Furious · « **on:** November 16, 2005, 10:04:59 pm »

Would anyone be interested in a purely WoW dedicated forum site?

Sidoh · « **Reply #1 on:** November 16, 2005, 10:11:02 pm »

Quote from: Furious on November 16, 2005, 10:04:59 pm

Would anyone be interested in a purely WoW dedicated forum site?

I honestly couldn't say how much I would use it, but I'd sure as hell be willing to give it a try! I love talking to people about WoW.

I guess it just depends on how active it would be!

Furious · « **Reply #2 on:** November 16, 2005, 10:26:14 pm »

Well, I have my hosting plan and domain, which I don't really use. Since I'm getting into WoW more and I know that a lot of people play it, I figured I'd offer to host a site dedicated to WoW. I / we would need a good amount of moderators ( 4 - 5 ) if we wanted it to be decent. Come January, I will have plenty of time due to the fact that I graduate in January and will only be working ~39 hrs per week and it will be all mornings

Sidoh · « **Reply #3 on:** November 16, 2005, 10:35:56 pm »

Quote from: Furious on November 16, 2005, 10:26:14 pm

Well, I have my hosting plan and domain, which I don't really use. Since I'm getting into WoW more and I know that a lot of people play it, I figured I'd offer to host a site dedicated to WoW. I / we would need a good amount of moderators ( 4 - 5 ) if we wanted it to be decent. Come January, I will have plenty of time due to the fact that I graduate in January and will only be working ~39 hrs per week and it will be all mornings

I definitely wouldn't mind being a moderator.

Let me know if you want me to do this.

Furious · « **Reply #4 on:** November 16, 2005, 10:38:26 pm »

If we can get a community going that would be awesome, ask around your guild, or just people you know if they would be interested in becoming a part of the forums.

Blaze · « **Reply #5 on:** November 16, 2005, 10:40:52 pm »

I know of a great forum dedicated to wow

Here

Sidoh · « **Reply #6 on:** November 16, 2005, 10:44:11 pm »

Quote from: Blaze on November 16, 2005, 10:40:52 pm

I know of a great forum dedicated to wow

Here

Slow, unstable, shitty forums at that!

While I do agree it's probably the best community for WoW, I'll also state that it's the most frusturating to use. There are a lot more member using it, so chances are you're going to run into a lot of people you "butt heads with." Additionally, I can't log in most of the time and they're generally slow as hell.

Say no to Blizzard's WoW forums!

Will do, Furious.

Furious · « **Reply #7 on:** November 16, 2005, 10:47:06 pm »

Yeah, Blaze, I'm not looking to have multiple thousands of members, I would like to have something roughly the size of this forum.

Sidoh · « **Reply #8 on:** November 16, 2005, 10:48:21 pm »

Quote from: Furious on November 16, 2005, 10:47:06 pm

Yeah, Blaze, I'm not looking to have multiple thousands of members, I would like to have something roughly the size of this forum.

I would love it if it turned out to be the size of x86, I really enjoy this community.

Furious · « **Reply #9 on:** November 16, 2005, 11:05:54 pm »

Yeah this is the only forum I come to anymore, it's active, and not full of assholes!

Quik · « **Reply #10 on:** November 17, 2005, 12:00:29 am »

Quote from: Furious on November 16, 2005, 11:05:54 pm

Yeah this is the only forum I come to anymore, it's active, and not full of assholes!

Sorry, we'll try to act normal around you.

Furious · « **Reply #11 on:** November 17, 2005, 08:06:28 am »

Quote from: Quik on November 17, 2005, 12:00:29 am

Quote from: Furious on November 16, 2005, 11:05:54 pm
Yeah this is the only forum I come to anymore, it's active, and not full of assholes!

Sorry, we'll try to act normal around you.

lol...

I've been looking for a theme for the forums ( SMF ), should we go: Dark, Light, Colored ( Red, Green, Blue, etc. ) or try and find a WoW theme?

Sidoh · « **Reply #12 on:** November 17, 2005, 01:02:44 pm »

Quote from: Furious on November 17, 2005, 08:06:28 am

lol...

I've been looking for a theme for the forums ( SMF ), should we go: Dark, Light, Colored ( Red, Green, Blue, etc. ) or try and find a WoW theme?

Personally, I really like the default theme on these boards (Mercury, I think it's called). I'd vote for it or a WoW theme. That's just me, though

ZeroX · « **Reply #13 on:** November 17, 2005, 02:37:31 pm »

I would love to join a forum about wow for tech support and all that goodness. Anyways I would love to help you moderator and get codes to help you out. I suggest a IPB becuase there more user friendly then most boards. Dont get a php they suck balls.

Sidoh · « **Reply #14 on:** November 17, 2005, 03:50:26 pm »

Quote from: ZeroX on November 17, 2005, 02:37:31 pm

I would love to join a forum about wow for tech support and all that goodness. Anyways I would love to help you moderator and get codes to help you out. I suggest a IPB becuase there more user friendly then most boards. Dont get a php they suck balls.

Personally, I think SMF's the best one I've used.

Blaze · « **Reply #15 on:** November 17, 2005, 03:54:33 pm »

I like the cleanness of SMF much better then any other.

Furious · « **Reply #16 on:** November 17, 2005, 09:42:59 pm »

Yeah, definitely SMF, I've got it installed, now the slow process of finding or getting someone to make a theme, and finding a nice layout for the boards.

Sidoh · « **Reply #17 on:** November 17, 2005, 09:47:23 pm »

Keep us updated.

Furious · « **Reply #18 on:** November 17, 2005, 09:58:49 pm »

Until I can find a WoW theme, I found a pretty clean theme I think I am going to use called Themis

Please feel free to make suggestions on boards, layouts, themes, or anything you can think of, it helps me find out what everyone would like to see.

Sidoh · « **Reply #19 on:** November 17, 2005, 10:02:10 pm »

Quote from: Furious on November 17, 2005, 09:58:49 pm

Until I can find a WoW theme, I found a pretty clean theme I think I am going to use called Themis

Please feel free to make suggestions on boards, layouts, themes, or anything you can think of, it helps me find out what everyone would like to see.

There should probably be boards for quests, each class, instances, etc.

I think following the WoW forum structure (on Blizzard's website) would be pretty helpful here. Just throw in some of your own ideas, hehe

Furious · « **Reply #20 on:** November 17, 2005, 11:09:50 pm »

I've tossed together a set of forums to show the basic layout of what I was thinking of doing, I would like to add a board for professions also, among a couple more misc. boards I've got in mind. Tell me what you think of the layout.

http://www.futilenetworks.com

Come on people help out!

Joe · « **Reply #21 on:** November 18, 2005, 11:26:21 am »

Quote from: Sidoh on November 17, 2005, 01:02:44 pm

Quote from: Furious on November 17, 2005, 08:06:28 am
lol...

I've been looking for a theme for the forums ( SMF ), should we go: Dark, Light, Colored ( Red, Green, Blue, etc. ) or try and find a WoW theme?

Personally, I really like the default theme on these boards (Mercury, I think it's called). I'd vote for it or a WoW theme. That's just me, though

I don't really like mercury. I'm using TechHead, right now, personally.

Quote from: Sidoh on November 17, 2005, 03:50:26 pm

Quote from: ZeroX on November 17, 2005, 02:37:31 pm
I would love to join a forum about wow for tech support and all that goodness. Anyways I would love to help you moderator and get codes to help you out. I suggest a IPB becuase there more user friendly then most boards. Dont get a php they suck balls.

Personally, I think SMF's the best one I've used.

That's a nice, clean skin, yet its too bright. I'd rather use a black-based skin than a white-based.

Time for me to throw in a personal suggestion. vL's old skin. Not the new image-based one. I don't know if they did that theirself, but its exactly what I was saying earlier, a black-based version of the SMF skin.

I'll see what I can do about getting the skin files from them.

Furious · « **Reply #22 on:** November 18, 2005, 12:50:56 pm »

Who thinks it should be a dark, and who thinks it should be a light?

Joe · « **Reply #23 on:** November 18, 2005, 02:08:47 pm »

You know my opinion. Dark.

However, you know you can have more than one skin so that everyone's happy, right? I think you should have a dark SMF skin and a light (default) SMF skin.

Screenor · « **Reply #24 on:** November 18, 2005, 03:19:48 pm »

Dark. Make it an option though (be able to be changed for the user).

Furious · « **Reply #25 on:** November 18, 2005, 04:57:54 pm »

Will do, I'll grab a couple light and dark themes and install them.

[Update] Both the Alliance and Horde based boards are up, and the professions board is up!

Sidoh · « **Reply #26 on:** November 19, 2005, 05:09:47 pm »

A few suggestions:

-- Night Elves' Tree -> Night Elves' Forest
-- Dwarves' Cave -> Dwarves' Pub

Newby · « **Reply #27 on:** November 19, 2005, 05:14:08 pm »

Even though I don't play World of Warcraft, I can manage SMF forums pretty well.

If you need an administrator/moderator, I'm the man to go to!

Sidoh · « **Reply #28 on:** November 19, 2005, 06:07:24 pm »

-- Humans Castle -> Humans Kingdom

Quote from: Joe[e2] on November 18, 2005, 11:26:21 am

That's a nice, clean skin, yet its too bright. I'd rather use a black-based skin than a white-based.

I was talking about the forum software, not the skin...

Furious · « **Reply #29 on:** November 19, 2005, 06:19:45 pm »

Board names have been updated and themes installed.

[EDIT] Newby: Any idea why Sidoh's song stream won't show full size?

Sidoh · « **Reply #30 on:** November 19, 2005, 06:41:09 pm »

Quote from: Furious on November 19, 2005, 06:19:45 pm

Board names have been updated and themes installed.

[EDIT] Newby: Any idea why Sidoh's song stream won't show full size?

It's probably true of all signature images on your boards, I'll do some experimenting later.

Furious · « **Reply #31 on:** November 19, 2005, 06:47:49 pm »

Yeah, feel free to play with the forums, as long as you don't kill them ;x

Sidoh · « **Reply #32 on:** November 19, 2005, 06:53:24 pm »

Quote from: Furious on November 19, 2005, 06:47:49 pm

Yeah, feel free to play with the forums, as long as you don't kill them ;x

* Sidoh rubs his hands together.

You'd better make a database backup! > : D

Hehe, just kidding. Don't worry, I won't.

Furious · « **Reply #33 on:** November 19, 2005, 07:06:52 pm »

Quote from: Sidoh on November 19, 2005, 06:53:24 pm

Quote from: Furious on November 19, 2005, 06:47:49 pm
Yeah, feel free to play with the forums, as long as you don't kill them ;x

* Sidoh rubs his hands together.

You'd better make a database backup! > : D

Hehe, just kidding. Don't worry, I won't.

I know you're smarter than the average Joe

Furious · « **Reply #34 on:** December 02, 2005, 06:10:55 pm »

I wiped the forums and installed the e107 portal system, installed a WoW theme and will be dedicating the site to WoW

Sidoh · « **Reply #35 on:** December 03, 2005, 10:41:16 pm »

Quote from: Furious on December 02, 2005, 06:10:55 pm

I wiped the forums and installed the e107 portal system, installed a WoW theme and will be dedicating the site to WoW

Awesome. I haven't used e107 in a while, I don't much remember what it's like.

Blaze · « **Reply #36 on:** December 03, 2005, 10:58:23 pm »

I hate e107.

Sidoh · « **Reply #37 on:** December 04, 2005, 02:30:53 am »

Quote from: Blaze on December 03, 2005, 10:58:23 pm

I hate e107.

I didn't have any negative opinions when I used it.

Furious · « **Reply #38 on:** December 04, 2005, 03:37:51 pm »

I really have no other choice, I don't know any web-based programming languages, so this is the next best thing

Sidoh · « **Reply #39 on:** December 04, 2005, 03:52:15 pm »

Quote from: Furious on December 04, 2005, 03:37:51 pm

I really have no other choice, I don't know any web-based programming languages, so this is the next best thing

Coding a custom CMS for this type of thing would be a complete waste of time, IMO.

Blaze · « **Reply #40 on:** December 04, 2005, 04:23:26 pm »

Quote from: Sidoh on December 04, 2005, 03:52:15 pm

Coding a custom CMS for this type of thing would be a complete waste of time, IMO.

* Blaze calls out "JOE COME HERE"

Sidoh · « **Reply #41 on:** December 04, 2005, 08:15:05 pm »

Quote from: Blaze on December 04, 2005, 04:23:26 pm

* Blaze calls out "JOE COME HERE"

ROFL!

Screenor · « **Reply #42 on:** December 04, 2005, 10:42:14 pm »

I have a myg0t friend I play WoW with a hell of a lot these days, any rules of my bringing him to the community? (Not x86, the one we're talking about now.)

He's mainly one of the only g0t's I trust with anything.

Furious · « **Reply #43 on:** December 05, 2005, 12:30:16 pm »

There's not much of a community yet, since I have so little time to work on the site in general, but I don't see why it would be a problem.

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Author Topic: WoW Dedicated Forums (Read 14976 times)