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Undertoad · 03-18-2002, 05:03 PM

Bout time to change things around again and confuse everyone.

We now have people -- too many, imo -- posting images into the image of the day. Doesn't bother me but maybe it would be better to just have a forum that's truly one image per day, one that we can all submit to and vote on and stuff. I have put off working on a submission queue for images because I've always wanted to write something that would automatically post the next pending image at midnight. That's hard to do because vBulletin noses into a lot of tables when it posts.

So I figure I'll be more motivated to write a submission queue thingie if I just forget about the autopost for the time. I'll just post things from the submission queue manually.

I imagine what we could have would be an "images" section, with IotD, "Other Images" for stuff that people want to post outside of the IotD queue, and if he is willing, NBN's Photoshop section. This changes the rules by having a moderated forum outside of the user-hosted bits. As long as NBN doesn't mind I don't mind. I do think the PS forum will get progressively more popular.

Then, after some time it appears there aren't enough of we "locals" to keep the Philadelphia section going, so maybe the best way is to remove the "Cities" section, and move the "Other Cities" into the main area and just call it "Cities". Nic proposed this originally, and at the time I moaned that the system is moving away from the local Philly scene, but this looks like how it's intended to be anyway.

Does all that sound good?

03-18-2002, 05:03 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Forum changes, your thoughts Bout time to change things around again and confuse everyone. We now have people -- too many, imo -- posting images into the image of the day. Doesn't bother me but maybe it would be better to just have a forum that's truly one image per day, one that we can all submit to and vote on and stuff. I have put off working on a submission queue for images because I've always wanted to write something that would automatically post the next pending image at midnight. That's hard to do because vBulletin noses into a lot of tables when it posts. So I figure I'll be more motivated to write a submission queue thingie if I just forget about the autopost for the time. I'll just post things from the submission queue manually. I imagine what we could have would be an "images" section, with IotD, "Other Images" for stuff that people want to post outside of the IotD queue, and if he is willing, NBN's Photoshop section. This changes the rules by having a moderated forum outside of the user-hosted bits. As long as NBN doesn't mind I don't mind. I do think the PS forum will get progressively more popular. Then, after some time it appears there aren't enough of we "locals" to keep the Philadelphia section going, so maybe the best way is to remove the "Cities" section, and move the "Other Cities" into the main area and just call it "Cities". Nic proposed this originally, and at the time I moaned that the system is moving away from the local Philly scene, but this looks like how it's intended to be anyway. Does all that sound good?