I know you ain't said anything yet, but having a Construct sub-community on GW would be pretty exciting. It's probably the best tool available for somebody looking to wean themselves off of rpgmaker, but it really lacks a strong community. It's very hard to learn something new when there are maybe only 20 people on the entire internet even talking about it

How 'bout you just call the new site Thirty Seven Reasons For

i hope the engine we're supporting is inform

I hope the engine we're supporting is google

GAYmign wrold.

I hope the engine we're supporting is google

Damn straight.

Also, Premium Members should get exclusive voting rights on the status of the new site's name. (since they are the only members who have any real stake in the outcome of that ongoing debate)

Yeah I think definitely if there's any sort of premium system on the new site, members should still retain their premium.  It's been quite a while since it's meant anything.

gonna comment/post a big text about this within a day or two so expect some good comments about this by then.

but also because admins started handing out premium status to everyone at one point, i.e. demoted mods, competition winners and people they liked which sort of created a situation where everyone had premium but only half had paid for it.

I don't care what you do with premium membership and I think it's a pretty unimportant issue in relation to everything else in this thread, but I don't think what you said here is true at all. I know free premium membership was given to a few people, but there's like 425 premium members total. ex-mods (excluding those who had premium before becoming mods) and competition winners account for like what, 25 of those premium memberships? possibly less, since I know competitions like the one that got me my premium membership still had someone paying the $15. if you are gonna have some sort of stupid premium membership that's comparable to the one we've got now it should probably carry over

Is there a way to integrate things like IRC into the site more? Like... uhh... an in-browser chat-room? Presumably that would be linked to your forum account. I am just thinking it could be useful for newer members to get more involved, but also I'm wondering how difficult it would be, and possibly how completely unnecessary it might be, but that's what brainstorming is all about, right?

Also it would be nice to have the ability to link to your projects and resources under your name in each of your posts. Here let me explain:



And then users could click those links and see what projects I'm currently working on (progress, ideas, etc, maybe even a little comment field where they could leave notes about it), or click on my resources and see what tutorials I've written, graphics I've submitted, etc.

Just some idea, but I don't know how well they fit into the big picture.

idk why any of that projects/resources stuff would need to be displayed under your name in each of your forum posts. in the profile maybe

also everyclear don't assume that charging on a monthly/yearly basis would bring in more money than a one-time $15 donation

The main reason however is that this is going to be a new site run by new people

I'm not sure what this means. it will be run by new people in what capacity? from everything you've said so far I'm starting to get the impression this is gonna be an entirely new, different website that's got nothing to do with this place or the community here but for some reason we're gonna merge anyway