Hey,

I am interested to hear what you, the site users would want as features in a future GW. You might be completely passive or you might be someone very creative. You could be an RM2k oldbie or someone who experiments with 3D. Perhaps you just make music! If you reply with a feature I haven't thought of there's a good chance I'll write it into the design.

This thread is just to help me cover any bases that I might not have covered yet.

I am designing a community to be the spiritual successor to GW. You've all probably seen this mockup at some stage or other. I'm not going to be posting any more information about it until it's done so as to avoid progress thread syndrome.

There is also the vote above which is basically asking if the project would be viable if none of the existing posts were carried over. Accounts and posts could probably be migrated with little difficulty (a user validation scheme) but I feel it would be disrespectful to the site administrator to do so. I am divided on my opinion as to whether the posts belong to the site or to the posters themselves.

I don't want a discussion over whether GW itself is viable, that's a decision I have already made - I intend to make it a community. It's not a business venture, there will be no adverts. I am doing this for the community which deserves a greater level of respect.

So please, lets hear your suggestions. They're all welcome even if they're wacky or outdated.

There is a plan in place but I am not going to waste my time posting about it. There are doers and sayers.

At this point most of the older "classic" threads aren't available to us anyway so I don't think the post history matters at all at this point.  I liked the content you had in your mockup, I think it's more or less exactly what we wanted out of a mainsite.

Right now as it stands praying the data from Drule is imposable to obtain legally so it's ether no database or hack him for it. The point is now we don't have accesses to them at all at the moment so it doesn't matter maybe once we lock down the site and put salt world to shame maybe drule will concede and give up this charade.

Feature suggestions please!

You could omit entire tables in the process of saving the DB. That would mean empty inboxes is a possibility.

I wish we would talk about features and functionality now. The DB issue was intended as a sidenote. I am just going to try my best.

I like most of the feature that we discussed before and the addition of the like button would help drive more to the site.

As I said before on steam we need to maintain an IRC channel even if you don't get it. it seems to be a lot of members like IRC.

snore

wipe it all. Year zero this shit and lets start fresh

Make a thing to click and it open a mibbit

wipe it all. Year zero this shit and lets start fresh

but...but my pips...

(can we have burger pips that is my biggest request)

Nah really there is no reason to worry about the database.  If in the future we did get the database we wouldn't want people posting in it anyway so it'd more just be an archive, that could be added at any time.