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The wiki doesn't like history pages either. I can't see what things change.
 
Wiki does no more produce loads of warnings, nut only the main page is functional. Any other section or article is blank. :(
 
It seems if you edit a page, it will show up again. I've done this on two "blank" pages and I can see them now.

There are still a ton of pages that don't look blank.
 
I live in Central Time Zone (-6) so why is it that in order to get the correct time i have to set it to -1 which is Greenwich Mean Time Zone, that alone makes no sense
 
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In the wiki the images are missing for me, any way to fix that?
 
In the wiki the images are missing for me, any way to fix that?
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Any specific images you are looking for?
A long time ago I exported the wiki into a pdf just before the old providers were becoming unstable.
You can find it here.

 8-)
 
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I have a request regarding the Karma system. While it looks at first logical to be able to have negative Karma, it is from the psychological point of view unhealthy. It may even motivate trolls to be rude so they can increase their negative Karma. It also brands people, which may prevents that they get help from us when they really could need it. So I would appreciate it if the lowest Karma is '0'  and only an admin can see if it is negative or not, if necessary.
The world is bad enough already, so I don't need to see on a forum how bad I am.

That at last are my thoughts in that matter.
 
I have a request regarding the Karma system. While it looks at first logical to be able to have negative Karma, it is from the psychological point of view unhealthy. It may even motivate trolls to be rude so they can increase their negative Karma. It also brands people, which may prevents that they get help from us when they really could need it. So I would appreciate it if the lowest Karma is '0'  and only an admin can see if it is negative or not, if necessary.
The world is bad enough already, so I don't need to see on a forum how bad I am.

That at last are my thoughts in that matter.
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Unfortunately, SMF's karma system does not have such a feature. I may disable it entirely, but I'll have to think about it; Karma is also especially useful for new users to know whose answers have the most weight with troubleshooting questions and whatnot.
 
If at all possible, limiting it to 0 would be nice. But, I personally don't want it to go, period. What Cavarr says holds the same value for me. High karma users are helpful when searching responses or asking questions for others to answer.
 
Does simple machines have a module/capability for a mobile view -- because that would be pretty cool
 
Hello, I have not read any suggestions and others because I speak French and translating everything correctly is complicated.

I therefore propose my ideas and you have to dissect with what has been said before.

So, for me the aesthetics of the forum in general lack of color, it looks a bit dead ... It should give it a really specific style and pertaining to final fantasy, kind of small moogle in notification for messages unread.

Maybe also separate the mods from different games, I remember that to modder FF8 not speaking very well the language I look for more than 3 days to have everything and I still do not have what I really want.

Embed an IRC Chat directly on the main page, and maybe an audio player to make you bored a little less by reading.

I do not know at all what is possible, but for me all this remains of the basic functionalities of a forum.

I hope to help a bit in the ideas :)

EDIT: And banners
 
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So, for me the aesthetics of the forum in general lack of color, it looks a bit dead ... It should give it a really specific style and pertaining to final fantasy, kind of small moogle in notification for messages unread.
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I have considered this in the past, but making a decent theme is time-consuming and complicated. Moreso for SMF than for other boards. Between my day job, acting, and planning a wedding, I barely have any free time as it is, and I don't think any of the other site staff are interested in doing this.

Maybe also separate the mods from different games, I remember that to modder FF8 not speaking very well the language I look for more than 3 days to have everything and I still do not have what I really want.
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I thought about this, but decided not to for a few reasons:

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[*]Some things, such as Aali's driver, support multiple games. Where would they be sorted?
[*]We've got a lot of subforums already. Too many more would really overwhelm the site.
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One idea I had was to add icons for the various games to the forums' thread icon set. You would tag each thread with what game it's for that way. But I gave up on this idea because I kept running into permissions errors on the forum upload. This is something that would need changed in the server, which I can't do myself.

Embed an IRC Chat directly on the main page
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Not going to happen, too much work, and potentially annoying for people who aren't interested in it. We have a link to our IRC right in our forum list; that should be enough for anyone interested in it.

and maybe an audio player to make you bored a little less by reading.
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Not going to happen, bad idea. If people want music, they can use their own audio players or open YouTube in another tab. For most people it would just make the site load slower, and waste our bandwidth.

EDIT: And banners
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I'm not sure what kind of banners you mean. Like a site logo? That's something I would like to put on the forums, but simply haven't done.
 
When I talk about banner, it is giving the possibility to create a presentation below its post I show you on ff7.fr what I did. It would be interesting for modders to do this kind of thing.

After yes a banner specific to the site of qhimm would be welcome also, I counted that in the "theme" of the site

http://ff7.fr/forum/index.php?page=affprofil&id=2690
 
a presentation below its post
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Oh, I think you mean a signature! Yeah, that was disabled on purpose years ago. I don't remember why, but I'm sure we had a reason. I'll ask around about that.
 
The mandatory FF tags are good idea. I noticed some bad behaviour here on board. Subjects tagged as:
[FF8] are for sure Final Fantasy VIII topic,
[FF7] are for sure Final Fantasy VII topic,
No tag is 90% Final Fantasy VII topic.
Once some user asked for something without adding tag and one of moderator? argued (maybe that's a little aggressive word) about not adding tag because other users don't know if it's FF7 or FF8 but if you look at the sub-forum, there are like 4-5 topics without tags about FF7 and mod didn't notice it. Yes, of course you can understand if it's related to the game by content as Sephiroth doesn't exist in FFIX for example, but at least one or two topics without tags I was unable to differ which game is it about. Let me post some examples:
https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/12070/ - no tag but clearly FFVII related

https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/11978/ - limit breaks, there's word Tifa so VII related

https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/11962/ - no single hint

https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/12028/ - again, some words indicating VII

https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/11550/ - no single hint at first sight

https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/11746/ - no tag, but the topic is about GFs and GFs are only in VIII

https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/11543/ - ;)

I cant find the topic I wrote about ....  :'(
 
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