HAL

I know I'm probably not too welcome here but I'll throw a few things out there. 

The URL sucks. systemwars.com redirects here, does Javier still own that? The forum needs to reside at sw.com honestly. 

Forums overall are dying, they just are. People prefer faster more streamlined interaction (discord for example)

Pretend you've never set foot here before. Load up the home page, look at how busy the page seems. There's a lot going on! So many colors and different things happening. 

When I ran this place the old forumites ran off all the new people anyway. It's just like Sdubz or any other site that's been around for ages, it's a closed group circle jerk, it sucks but that's what it is. 

The smilies are crazy confusing, I couldn't tell you what any of these faces mean, does anywhere else on the internet use those things anymore?

Threads seem kinda toxic... So much spam and wasteful posts inside threads, which is fine for a small group of friends, not great for looking like a well ran know what you're doing site. 

I will say the site seems to be busier than it has been in a long time, I've been poking around the last few weeks. We just completely relaunched Sdubz so I've been getting ideas on what  ya'll have implemented over here. Things seem to be moving in a positive direction. 

Just a few thoughts. 

2 minutes ago, -GD- said:

Hal

Hey bb 

Just now, SheepKilla said:

that wasn't at all where I was going with that post fyi. It was more, "what if a hacker somehow exploits this in ways we don't even know about?"

because I know forums software has been fucked up for the past year in general

I gotcha, no biggie, totally agreed on the security stuff, I'm super paranoid about that kind of thing in general. 

Just now, SheepKilla said:

yeah I remember. You did a lot of good shit for this place. Like for example if you were in charge we wouldn't have this awful forum theme.

 

I did some sketchy shit too, no doubt, I'm not great at themes though! I'm good at buying them and installing and tweaking them. 

I've also never expected to be kept around as admin and would have zero issue ever getting removed.  But I will never ever purposefully fuck things up ever. 

Nah just reading through the thread. 

I would never fuck this place up on purpose. This place is probably the reason I didn't graduate college, literally poured hundreds of hours into keeping this place going. It was rough. But it means a lot to me, it really does. And I've never talked shit about it, some of the users, sure, I can't stand a lot of people here anymore but the site itself still means a lot to me. 

On 10/11/2017 at 3:08 PM, SheepKilla said:

no he didn't bro. 

you should remove him

nothing personal against him, but there's no real reason to have him at admin level. he hasn't posted in a decade iirc

javier was the one who paid for this website for years

Everyone will be happy to see this survived.