Seriously, this place has ridiculously high traffic, monetizes it for Curse and the search has been "temporarily" out for weeks now with a fricking "use Google" solution post in it's place. What a joke.
Rebuild this cheep-ass dorm-room-project BBCode forum into a world class site ASAP or IT WILL BE DONE BY SOMEONE ELSE!
The moderation here needs to get serious about enforcing the rules. The owners need to demand better technical support and new development from the new simi-owners and make the random collection of unsearchable sub-forums and threads into a modern website.
Or you can just watch someone else step up like a proper business serving a community of several hundred thousand users in a market of more than two million game owners and take it to a professional level.
Now, I expect you to lock this thread and go build a lighthouse or something. I have NO confidence that posting on this sub-forum will have any effect whatsoever in fact, I doubt you'll be able to find this post in a day. Sad really.
This post contains so much bluster. It's as though you somehow feel you have some sort of intimidating leverage.
The fact of the matter is that it is unlikely for a "new site" to pop up, because folks don't want to shell out that kind of money, time, and effort for one, and they'll never be considered the "official" site so long as this site is specifically linked with minecraft.net, and with the developers.
Really, do you think creating some other site is suddenly going to compel Notch and the rest of the team to migrate over there and look at ANOTHER website with FEWER members that they're NOT spending money to maintain?
Yeah you're right there's some silly problems that have not been dealt with, but the reality check here is that a lot of that stuff not getting dealt with probably arises from the confidence of a really truly secure position as the official community site. There really isn't any threat to that, nor do I think there will be in the foreseeable future.
I'm not suggesting that user momentum is easy to overcome at all. I'm quite aware of the incredible difficulty in that task.
I'm also not suggesting I have any leverage in this area. I am suggesting that it will arise.
see myspace for a reference or geocities or AOL.
Are you suggesting that I shouldn't bother commenting on this obvious ridiculousness of the current status here and should just shut up? I agree. I'm just choosing to disregard thte uselessness of pointing out this site's obvious fail.
Are you suggesting that I shouldn't bother commenting on this obvious ridiculousness of the current status here
No I'm saying that the melodramatic way you doom prophecy the whole place is ridiculous and you should cut that out if you want your legitimate criticisms to be taken seriously by anyone.
When we switch to IPB, search will be back. It was disabled because it could be abused to slow down the servers tremendously and patching that exploit would be a waste of time that can be used on working on the new forum n-n
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Do not wallow do not stall
Time waits for none at all
Your allowance may crawl,
It may fly or even vanish
But none will seem more lavished
Than time lost to all.
Thanks for the information mods. I'll look forward to the changes...patiently.
I hope you all will take my comments not as bombast and bluster, but as a sincere warning. I was moved to post this after watching these issues accumulate over a long period of time, not rashly.
Rebuild this cheep-ass dorm-room-project BBCode forum into a world class site ASAP or IT WILL BE DONE BY SOMEONE ELSE!
The moderation here needs to get serious about enforcing the rules. The owners need to demand better technical support and new development from the new simi-owners and make the random collection of unsearchable sub-forums and threads into a modern website.
Or you can just watch someone else step up like a proper business serving a community of several hundred thousand users in a market of more than two million game owners and take it to a professional level.
Now, I expect you to lock this thread and go build a lighthouse or something. I have NO confidence that posting on this sub-forum will have any effect whatsoever in fact, I doubt you'll be able to find this post in a day. Sad really.
The fact of the matter is that it is unlikely for a "new site" to pop up, because folks don't want to shell out that kind of money, time, and effort for one, and they'll never be considered the "official" site so long as this site is specifically linked with minecraft.net, and with the developers.
Really, do you think creating some other site is suddenly going to compel Notch and the rest of the team to migrate over there and look at ANOTHER website with FEWER members that they're NOT spending money to maintain?
Yeah you're right there's some silly problems that have not been dealt with, but the reality check here is that a lot of that stuff not getting dealt with probably arises from the confidence of a really truly secure position as the official community site. There really isn't any threat to that, nor do I think there will be in the foreseeable future.
I'm also not suggesting I have any leverage in this area. I am suggesting that it will arise.
see myspace for a reference or geocities or AOL.
Are you suggesting that I shouldn't bother commenting on this obvious ridiculousness of the current status here and should just shut up? I agree. I'm just choosing to disregard thte uselessness of pointing out this site's obvious fail.
No I'm saying that the melodramatic way you doom prophecy the whole place is ridiculous and you should cut that out if you want your legitimate criticisms to be taken seriously by anyone.
Do not wallow do not stall
Time waits for none at all
Your allowance may crawl,
It may fly or even vanish
But none will seem more lavished
Than time lost to all.
I hope you all will take my comments not as bombast and bluster, but as a sincere warning. I was moved to post this after watching these issues accumulate over a long period of time, not rashly.