Poll of the Day > SBAllen has stepped down as Admin.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Maintaining a minimum viable product is not a good indicator, that means you care more than a little. New feature, new goals, new prerogatives, literally anything.
It's the internet, grow or die.

Shrek posted...

expiration date?

tf what

If you make a new wiki/fandom page, you need to update it every three months (last I checked) or else it closes and all your pages are deleted.

Shrek posted...

given that the website still exists he didn't do a pisspoor job of managing it at all.

Considering someone else did all the actual hard work to build everything in the first place and he was mostly a glorified janitor, that's not really an argument in his favor.

Maintenance is easy. The hard part is actually adding to the existing code - which he almost never did, and when he bothered he'd usually fuck up three things by accident for every one thing he changed deliberately. And about 80% of the changes he made were either completely unnecessarily or mostly unwanted. Most of his changes came across like the most minor things he could occasionally change to justify keeping his job, like a cubicle worker who spends all their time goofing off but suddenly tries to look busy the moment the boss walks by.

If upper management had actually been paying attention and knew anything at all about running a site, he'd have been fired a decade ago.

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i've been here the entire time too

none of that shit is true

like the worst and dumbest thing he ever did was hire that shit community manager who thought they was hot shit and abused their power like a motherfucker

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Considering someone else did all the actual hard work to build everything in the first place and he was mostly a glorified janitor, that's not really an argument in his favor.

Maintenance is easy. The hard part is actually adding to the existing code - which he almost never did, and when he bothered he'd usually fuck up three things by accident for every one thing he changed deliberately. And about 80% of the changes he made were either completely unnecessarily or mostly unwanted. Most of his changes came across like the most minor things he could occasionally change to justify keeping his job, like a cubicle worker who spends all their time goofing off but suddenly tries to look busy the moment the boss walks by.

If upper management had actually been paying attention and knew anything at all about running a site, he'd have been fired a decade ago.

Can we at least appreciate the fact that he never implemented an upvote / downvote system, which would have essentially turned this into another reddit-style cesspool where trolls rule the world?

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i've been here the entire time too

none of that shit is true

All of that shit is true.

It's not really my fault if you spent most of that time too stoned to pay attention.

seems like you're the stoned one since that stuff never happened like you said bro

like oh no the font slightly changed the fuckin horror

basically it looks like the shit that did change was just not liked by people who claim to want change but fucking hate change

Most of the changes that were made were made with the intent of modernizing the forum layout in an effort to stop losing users to more modern forums. In practice, most of them were half-measures that weren't enough to achieve that goal while forcing existing users who were mostly happy with the old format to adapt to something new (which in some cases actually hurt functionality, especially for people that used addons that got broken), but that was at least the goal.

The whole Throwback Mode thing was bullshit, though. Particularly the way they slowly and quietly forced people off of it (personally, I lost it after going away for a weekend because that meant I spent 2-3 days without being active on an account with it enabled), then killed it because "only 1% of users were still using it" as though that was a choice on their part.

the old layout before this one was functionally the exact same

you can go into the settings and turn that stuff on or off, it was straight up 100% a non-issue

and add-ons don't matter. gamefaqs has always advised against them to begin with anyways. you remember when judg was doing the whole xfaqs thing? he really didn't like that one, since it essentially made like every page load like 5 or something on their end

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/7/AAfYP-AAE85r.jpg dont know how i feel about my name being in some wack ass Chinese website list thing

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/9/AAfYP-AAE85t.jpg
what the fuck do you mean 2021