Comments on: Forum Status

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:46:41 +0000

Hi Greg, check out this post about moderators. The short answer is we're doing some testing with a couple moderators to make sure permissions and other functions are working for them before we roll it out publicly. We do a lot of testing to make sure things are good before rolling them out. Bugs and issues are not fun to fix in a live environment. I'll do a new post now mentioning this. Hang in, it's coming.

By: greg

greg — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:04:22 +0000

Any update to this?

By: bakercad

bakercad — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:04:11 +0000

The return of the bakie! YES!!

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:02:07 +0000

Good grief Daniel

Yes the weekend is now over. Here is a status update for you and others:

Aaron is away on business and I’m just starting my morning (Monday).

Basically I’ll be spending the day getting things ready to move from our development server over to our live server.

We do things properly here on GFWD. We test, double test and test again before we roll something out.

As I always do here on the GFWD blog, once things are up on the live site, I will post another message with all the details about forum rules and guidelines. It’s already in draft mode.

I also need to notify the people who will be moderators, etc. and get them up to speed before public launch of the forum. Lots of little details to get wrapped up for this to be done correctly.

Hopefully that was a good enough status report for you. Now I’m going to have some breakfast since I replied to this first before even having something to eat this morning :bakie:

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:04:28 +0000

So, the weekend is over and no news. Any updates?

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:25:27 +0000

Thank you Alec for all your excitement and support.

For now our design is going to stay how it is because we really like it and the site is still less the a year old. Maybe in the future we will update the design to be a bit more flashy, but for now it’s serving our needs pretty nicely.

As for new features, thank you for your suggestions. Aaron and I already have a lot in the works on our development server for GFWD, but we are releasing new features a little at a time to keep things fresh.

Once the forum is up and running on the live site, some other cool things will follow shortly. Just keep an eye on our blog to find out more as time permits.

By: Alec

Alec — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:02:00 +0000

Ooh! I can’t wait! You should hold a design competition to really spice this place up. I think if this site was just a little bit more flashy like ThemeForest or some of the other giants in this category.

Also, a landing page for each design and comments on the design (like ThemeForest) would be AWESOME (they could just be auto-created Forum threads that are then browsable in the Forum via Designs > Discussion > DesignName for example.)

Another way to do it, that I have seen done, is treating each submission as a special kind of forum thread (example: http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?p=95017 )

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:26:55 +0000

Hehe. Understood.

We’ve waited 10 months to add a forum to Get Free Web Designs, so another couple of days isn’t going to be a big deal.

Have a :bakie: while you wait LOL

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:25:48 +0000

Indeed, it should be a good thing.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:25:26 +0000

As always, thank you for your continued support Karen. It’s nice having you be apart of the magic that is GFWD :bakie:

By: greg

greg — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:56:57 +0000

But we want the forum now! :p

By: Len Saunders (NickyD)

Len Saunders (NickyD) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:03:41 +0000

This is great!

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:18:02 +0000

Great news, Sean! Looking forward to the forum and helping this community grow.

all the best,
Karen