SQ wrote:Right now, the only thing that mentions we need developers is on the front of the members page. It's very old, and tells potential users to join the developers usergroup... Which at this point does not exist.
Judging from the join dates of the people in the (not publicly visible) Programmers group, I'm guessing the functionality broke during the upgrade to phpBB3. I never noticed because activity in that forum is so dead.
A brief history of my work for the site:
When people wanted a "journal reply" system back in the day, I asked Phade for the code for the journal system. In Spring 2002 I created journal reply functionality and he never put it online. I thought, "screw it", and left it at that. I'm not sure what he was thinking (and I can't remember exactly what I thought) when he named me site coder when he
resigned, but I think I was in denial about the whole thing.
Around mid-2006, I got tired of seeing all the unanswered threads in Site Feedback & Site Help, and bugged Phade and derobert for access to change stuff. (I did have some level of access, but hadn't used it) I went on to make the
Donators Forum,
AMV Alerts,
Download Queue, and
random stuff. I wanted to do streaming, but couldn't meet Phade's requirements so I didn't bother. Corran made it work out. I don't have as much time as I used to, but I just did the "AMV Spotlight" which Corran's code made fairly easy to do.
Anyway, there are/were a lot of people in that inactive forum, but few people were allowed to modify the code that I know of. In short, granting access is done by derobert, not me, so I never learned the process.
SQ wrote:How come there's no AIM Kissy face? We used to use that all the time.
I think I started messing with the selection after it fell into disuse. Added.
Didn't want to put in one that didn't match the phpbb2 style?
Yes and no. As I mentioned, I edited a couple to match the style, but with others there was no point.
Alsoalso, is anything being done about the original intention of the post - is there a developers group or a contact email or something now?
That's kind of more important than some emotes, I think. Unless you don't want [more] developers.
It's been discussed, but I don't think there's anything concrete to announce at this time, though dwp alluded to something.
Kionon wrote:Silly SQ. The Org doesn't have developers. It has dewelopers.
I can has theme song?
I think the current site is really... complex. I mean the main menu has something like 50 different items.
If you look at other sites like youtube, they manage to put a LOT of similar kinds of functionality into significantly fewer pages.
I thought some items in the new expandable menus (which both Corran and I worked on) were questionable, like "Site Help Forum" when you can go to the forums and then the subforum, but figured, "meh I can collapse it".