This thread will serve as the newly formalized  thread for official Makestation community milestones! 

Note: This thread is often confused with the personal milestone thread. This thread is for community milestones, whereas the personal milestone thread is for personal milestones (e.g. for reaching a postcount, making it on the wall of shame, etc. ) As for celebrating our awesomeness as a community as we reach certain community milestones, this thread is the place! - Edited by Darth-Apple

Post Milestones:
1000th post - by titanicbuff, June 08, 2013, 05:21:47 am UTC

2000th post - by simlink, June 23, 2013, 11:36:31 am UTC

3000th post - by ???, July 23, 2013, 10:30ish pm UTC
Special:
666 Posts - June 05, 2013

1337 Posts - June 10, 2013, at 15:20:15 UTC (1337th Post by t3haco!)


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Vector and bitmap graphics are the primary types of images in computing today. I prefer working with vector graphics, as they can be scaled almost infinitely without any loss of quality, and don't rely on this primitive concept known as 'pixels'. But, I have to use bitmap graphics everyday, since they are the most widely supported. Thoughts?

What programming language do you prefer? I personally use Cplusplus for general programming, and java for the lulz and minecraft modding.

EDIT: To clarify, HTML, css and the likes are NOT programming languages. They are markup languages

I've installed and enabled a shoutbox on bottom of the forum. It does refresh automatically, but to keep server load down it may auto-refresh slowly. If it starts to get a little heavy on the lag, just click the refresh button.

-Darth-Apple

SMFnew, for those who don't know, is a sizable SMF forum host with both free and paid plans. Over recent years, their service has gone from alright to very poor. They are known for massive 1-2 week periods of downtime without any warning, and in fact they are currently down for a "database error" with absolutely no explanation anywhere to be found. Not too long ago, they were required by law to suspend all forums and to reactivate them only by request, which killed a lot of forums. Several months ago there was 1-2 weeks of unexplained downtime. In addition, there are constant periods of 3-5 hour outages and service is generally very slow when their servers aren't down.

I found this ad pretty fitting in my google search results:

This discussion has been moved to Philosophy & Debate.

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Taco bell may be popular and it may be cheap, but they also have the lowest quality meat of pretty much any restaurant anywhere, so you do get what you pay for. Many report that their food is very low quality, despite being convenient and low-priced. What's your vote?

Over the past several years, it goes without saying that forums have generally declined as a form of online discussion as facebook, instagram, and other forms of online social discussion have become increasingly popular. The need for forums seems to be something that is left to support forums, etc... but as a community thing, is it still the modern trend? It appears to slowly be on the decline.

IP.Board is an example of forum software that attempts to stay ahead of the wheel. Many elements of social networking are packaged with IPB, but at heart IPB still is, and always will be, traditional forum software. Really, social networking and forums are two incompatible concepts that can't really be merged seamlessly. It's not that I don't like IPB. I love IPB, and it's one of my favorite solutions for forum software, but the concept itself still sticks towards traditional forum software.

It would without doubt be a massive project to take on, but I like taking on massive projects. My concept idea was basically to design forum software with a completely new philosophy altogether. Instead of revolving around boards and predefined structure, it would revolve around content feeds and a self-adjusting structure, and feeds would generated based on how content was tagged. In addition, while the administrator could define many feeds to be "default feeds" on the board index, users could create their own feeds and sort content by different tags, relevance to certain criteria, etc...  And feeds that were popular might show up on the portal homepage to be "liked" and rated by members.

Basically, the goal would be to revolutionize the concept to be less based on boards and a predefined structure, to be more fluid and content based. The ultimate concept is to design forum software that adjusts to the discussions being created and revolves around the content first and foremost.

Of course I have yet to write a single line of code for the project, but I think it might have some potential if it is coded well. Any thoughts?

ThatGamerSite is a videogame review site along with being a message board. We write un-biased videogame reviews along with having a nice discussion area, so if you wanna check it out, go to:

http://thatgamersite.net/index.php

My username on TGS is Cloggedone, by the way.

This is the thread for reporting any site errors, dead links, strange bugs, performance problems, etc... If you notice anything fishy, please let us know.

-Darth-Apple