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Black Leaf said:
I'll allow it, but only if people are sensitive to the fact that we may or may not have Bigfoot posting here.
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So is he posting here as a spirit, or a relic hominid?
Answering either way will start a war. It’s that nuts with the Bigfoot community.
Wooo!
 
spittingimage said:
And is it true that powdered bigfoot foot will give you an erection that lasts for days and smells like cornchips?
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As a former resident of Bigfoot country I can confirm that both are partially true. Powdered Bigfoot will give you an erection, but if it lasts for more than 8 hours you should see a doctor. You're erection will smell like corn chips but only if you get the powder wet. Again, if it smells like corn chips for more than 8 hours you should see your doctor as you might be turning into a Bigfoot.
But really the powdered Bigfoot trade is threatening to drive these beautiful Hairy Apemen to extinction so you should really just get some viagra and finely ground corn chips as a substitute.
 
A minor suggestion. Some other forums have an 'Ignore Thread' option that eliminates a thread from popping up in the WhatIsNew and in the subforum list. I don't know if this is a switch that can be activated, or requires some coding.
On those other fora it allows me to filter topics that don't interest me at all, or are just the same people constantly circle-jerking or sniping at each other, without putting a dozen members on Ignore.
 
Not a response to the previous post; just something it made me think of.

From a technical POV, the ignore poster feature doesn't work great when the ignored poster is quoted: it still shows you who the ignored poster was, and it's not hard to deduce the content of their post from the response. Also, if someone breaks up the quote of the ignored poster, the later parts show up, un-ignored. I'm not sure if any of that is fixable with the current forum software, but maybe something to peek at.

Also, there should be more threads about how to define narrativist vs. traditional games. ;)
 
A fun game is to throw about half the members, especially the most prolific ones, onto your ignore list and then see if you can follow the discussion anyway just from the responses you can see and the quotes that get missed by ignore.
 
RangerRupert said:
Not a response to the previous post; just something it made me think of.

From a technical POV, the ignore poster feature doesn't work great when the ignored poster is quoted: it still shows you who the ignored poster was, and it's not hard to deduce the content of their post from the response. Also, if someone breaks up the quote of the ignored poster, the later parts show up, un-ignored. I'm not sure if any of that is fixable with the current forum software, but maybe something to peek at.

Also, there should be more threads about how to define narrativist vs. traditional games. ;)
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Do you still have me on ignore?
 
Here is a possible improvement: I'm almost always logged in and don't normally notice this, but whenever I hop on from a browser or PC where I'm not logged in, I notice that images in posts are shown is some kind of small preview version of the image. There are cases where the image shrinkage kind of renders the post... irrelevant? Like, in the current 2023 Character Creation Challenge thread I've posted some character sheets that are readable for folks who are signed in, but too tiny and not readable to non-registered visitors. I'm not sure if this is to save bandwidth due to site crawlers, it's just a default forum feature no one thought to change, or a scheme to lure all the thirsty RPers to register for this very fine fourm. :grin:
 
SavAce said:
Here is a possible improvement: I'm almost always logged in and don't normally notice this, but whenever I hop on from a browser or PC where I'm not logged in, I notice that images in posts are shown is some kind of small preview version of the image. There are cases where the image shrinkage kind of renders the post... irrelevant? Like, in the current 2023 Character Creation Challenge thread I've posted some character sheets that are readable for folks who are signed in, but too tiny and not readable to non-registered visitors. I'm not sure if this is to save bandwidth due to site crawlers, it's just a default forum feature no one thought to change, or a scheme to lure all the thirsty RPers to register for this very fine fourm. :grin:
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I'm guessing it is a bandwidth saving thing. Can you hover over them and enlarge them by clicking on them?
I'm guessing that let's bots crawl and do minimum bandwidth but an actual user would click and see the full image.
 
Bunch said:
I'm guessing it is a bandwidth saving thing. Can you hover over them and enlarge them by clicking on them?
I'm guessing that let's bots crawl and do minimum bandwidth but an actual user would click and see the full image.
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If you are not logged in and see that there is a smaller image in a post and you click on the image hoping to see a larger version, the site redirects you to a log in page with a notice of "You must be logged-in to do that." As far as I can tell, unless you register for the forum and log in, there is no way for you to see the normal sized version of the images logged in users see.
 
SavAce said:
If you are not logged in and see that there is a smaller image in a post and you click on the image hoping to see a larger version, the site redirects you to a log in page with a notice of "You must be logged-in to do that." As far as I can tell, unless you register for the forum and log in, there is no way for you to see the normal sized version of the images logged in users see.
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Interesting. Do you know if when you posted the image you opted to show full size or kept the default of thumbnail?
 
SavAce said:
If you are not logged in and see that there is a smaller image in a post and you click on the image hoping to see a larger version, the site redirects you to a log in page with a notice of "You must be logged-in to do that." As far as I can tell, unless you register for the forum and log in, there is no way for you to see the normal sized version of the images logged in users see.
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I get that same thing, FWIW.
 
Bunch said:
Interesting. Do you know if when you posted the image you opted to show full size or kept the default of thumbnail?
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Hmm, I don't know if I know this for sure. If you happen to have a browser you don't use/haven't logged in with you can paste URLs into (Edge or whatever) it's pretty easy to see the effect though. For example, you'll see images are small in the "Great Comic Book Covers" thread and in the "2023 Character Creation Challenge" threads. Interestingly, in "The Cosplay Thread ("She Looks Very Healthy" Warning)", the posts from Tristram seem more normal sized, but everyone else's images are in the shrunken preview form.
 
I believe if it’s an attachment the guests will see a thumbnail and if ithr image is hosted elsewhere, it’s regular sized.
 
I noticed the pinned welcome to the Pub thread should update The Mod Formerly Known As Black Leaf's name. Unless that was a temporary thing?
 
JamesV said:
I noticed the pinned welcome to the Pub thread should update The Mod Formerly Known As Black Leaf's name. Unless that was a temporary thing?
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good catch
 
Godfather Punk said:
A minor suggestion. Some other forums have an 'Ignore Thread' option that eliminates a thread from popping up in the WhatIsNew and in the subforum list. I don't know if this is a switch that can be activated, or requires some coding.
On those other fora it allows me to filter topics that don't interest me at all, or are just the same people constantly circle-jerking or sniping at each other, without putting a dozen members on Ignore.
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I swear, this is becoming more and more relevant each day.
 
Semi-serious request... Or really serious request...

Is there any chance of splitting all the license and industry conversations off to a separate sub-board?

I'm starting to get weary of the constant attention to the topic and wish we could go back to having more conversations about what we're actually playing or trying to figure out how to make work...

Just me grumbling...
 
I doubt Endless would create anther subforum just for the, but, well, there's only two extant right now, and the second will prolly be dead and off the first page soon. If any others are created I'll just roll them into the main one
 
Hi, not sure if this has been brought up already, but when searching for this site in Google or Bing, we see the following "highlights" under the result:

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Nothing against anyone's profile posts, but is that what you want to promote in search engine results? Is there a way to specify other things to show up here? Perhaps just thread sections (as per the right-side column seen above)?
 
Necrozius said:
Hi, not sure if this has been brought up already, but when searching for this site in Google or Bing, we see the following "highlights" under the result:

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Nothing against anyone's profile posts, but is that what you want to promote in search engine results? Is there a way to specify other things to show up here? Perhaps just thread sections (as per the right-side column seen above)?
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This is my top part of a Google.
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Don't see all that, but then again I run blockers.
 
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