Ludicom

See the title. What do you guys think are the most pressing things I can do for forum improvement? I'd like suggestions, so I can fix the place up a little. New staff (what type)? New banner? New boards, or rearranging boards? Etc?

I'll be buying things to spruce the forum up in Februrary/March-ish, so please keep that in mind when suggesting things to me. While suggesting things like that is okay, I'd love to hear about things I could improve for free, as well.

I've been feeling like I should update this place, so I want your input.

Me as Admiral Awesome. Just a suggestion. Take it if you want it.

But seriously, right now just focus on membership. A proper domain would help. Affiliates with other sites. And those damn ads...

1. Get Opera 11.
2. Right-click.
3. Click on Block content.
4. Click the ads.
...
5. PROFIT!

I want speed.
L-com is slow. And when we post something, it takes time before it appears on the home/latest posts.
Aside from that, I don't really care. XD

Yup! No matter what, I will be buying a domain name and removing ads. If this place gets to be busy, I'll look into improving speed. I've heard there are ways that you can export the forum off of smfforfree, which would probably make things faster. I'll need Wes to help me with this stuff, as I'm fairly incompetent when it comes to that. xD

But I do agree, membership is a key issue. Affiliations would also be nice... I'll look into that.

I am too recent to know what needs to be improved, but I noticed that in the Tabs bar of my browser Ludicom has a blank Icon.
Nothing really important, but it caught my eye right away :P.

Sincerely,
RosimInc

Would you mind PMing me a screenshot so I can see exactly what we're dealing with? I'm not having any issues, but if it's an issue on my end, I'd love to fix it for you. :D

A quick reply box maybe. So we don't have to press the reply button and go to a whole new screen for short replies.

Rosim's talking about the favicon.
I could do a favicon but I don't know how you place it in smfforfree.
I know how to do it when making an HTML website but forums are different since they're just based on something or whatever.


There's one. You have to activate it in your settings.

This is optional, I think. I just went in the Look options, and I think it was there.

And I will post the screenshot in a moment.

EDIT: http://i51.tinypic.com/x1g84i.png

Sincerely,
RosimInc

Found it. Thanks Mag.

Correct. You can activate it under the Look and Layout section in your Profile menu. I made it optional so that people can customize based on their preferences.

Mmk. I'm sure Mag knows what he's talking about xP

Sorry I did not see this post.
Yes, I guess I am talking about that.

Sincerely,
RosimInc

currency?

Already discussed. Can't be added without me buying the permission to do so (sucks, I know).

It's a better use of my money to move the forum elsewhere, then just add it in ourselves. Hit two birds with one stone, yeah? :) If this place stays afloat after I add in the domain name and the ad free stuff, I'll continue to update it if it seems to be looking okay. I'll have to put a price limit on how much I want to put into L-com, though. If it stays tiny like this, I probably won't put too much in at first, and just add as it grows.

I wonder if anything I just said makes sense xD

My own forum Spiriteam is free and it allows currency, so it can be done without buying.

Smfforfree, Aryeh. It sucks. I can't help that I used this when I created L-com ^^;

Since smfforfree already has smf on it, I don't know if I can install smf again and add the mod in or not. Again, I'm not much good at the technical stuff. I'd assume not, since I have looked into it and smfforfree makes you pay, by the looks of it.

I want to add currency in, but so far, it hasn't been able to be implemented.

You have to pay.
25 a month.

I am in the same situation with my Forum.

So not worth $25 a month... D:

Ultimate Plan Details:
-Unlimited Ad Free Credits
-250mb of space
-Upload your own custom smileys
-Newsletter - Mass Email/PM
-SMF Store - eCommerce System for your forum
-SMF Classifieds - Classifieds system for your forum.
-Footer Branding removed

It's bundled with ad free stuff, so maybe...

I'm not entirely decided on what I plan to do quite yet, to be entirely honest. :-X

TimF Obviously has that plan.

$25 a month
$300 A year
and the domain is round 20$

$320 a year wow

You could  buy decent hosting for bit lot less then this.
And then you could do everything in that and more.

pay so we can have the custom smileys!! xD jk

The hosting plan I'm looking into for my website is like 5$/year. :O
Seriously, 300/year is REALLY expensive.

That sounds much more my price range. xDD

Yeah. But you need to do everything from A to Z.
I can only do as much as a layout with links and put it online.
I can do more with Flash but a Flash forums is just due to fail. XD
Plus, I haven't even started working on MY site so don't expect me working on someone else's before actually doing mine.
I'm just SO lazy.

Oh, I wasn't asking for you to help me out x3

I was just saying that I knew there had to be better deals than paying $300+ a year to have a nice forum.

Try V-Bulletin. That's what the other Forums I frequent use.

I'll look into it. Not sure if L-com can be moved onto another forum setup, though... *needs Wes's advice xD*

I know. I was warning you before you got the idea. XD

It costs $195 apparently.
TimF gets by paying about 200$ a year, which is a bit better.

I would suggest a mod partner for moi, but someone in the opposite timezone perhaps? If that is possible? I seem to have missed some stuff last night; I wish I could have helped...

I've been considering that, as I do know that you're busy with a life too. I think one more would be just right. :)

If you have any people in particular in mind that you wouldn't mind working with, please PM me who or we can chat over Staff. :3

Replace the ad with a picture of a naked girl sideways.

or, you could get adblock.

god damnit I have to actually post even though I said I wouldnt post much, to LOL at this epic post
Why are you awesome >.<
STOP BEING SO AWESOME

way ahead of that thought.Some of the ads are half naked Russian brides(I saw those a while ago.

my ads are usually for online games and stuff xD

and Kloud, I don't really mind, I can work with anyone.  But if possible a different time zone would be helpful since you and I are close.

I'll see who I can scare up. ^^

haha all right, thanks!! now about other site stuff, when do you turn 18?

Februrary 16.

=D that's almost here!

Yep. Updates needing money should appear sometime in March, though (school does keep me busy, and I do need to shop around a little to find the best deal).

oh that's fine xD there should be something done on the forum for your birthday though

Like what? 0w0

i dunno,  haven't gotten to that yet xD but something should happen!

I just noticed the banner...
You changed it right?
Ludicolo is doing a Quick Attack, Faint Attack or something?

I changed it quite some time ago... To give you a time frame, it was back when Sakashi was making lots of banners still (it's his work ^^).

I have no idea- I merely gave him the concept for the character and color scheme. We'd have to ask him to know for sure if it's attacking or just dancing around, LOL.

Why did I just notice it? I have no idea. Lol.
Maybe it's Double Team. :O

what was the banner before??

I'll post it up after class :3

okay thanks =)  I'm sure I saw it before haha, I just can't remember what it looked like

I'm just wondering y do we need amdin approval to create an account here? its kinda uneccesary (i cant speel this)

We were getting a number of spambots signing up. By doing this, I can stop obvious spambots from ever posting, which averts many potential spam issues (such as pornographic image dumps, advertising for illegal medications, etc). It cuts down on work for the staff and also keeps this place looking clean and safe. It also keeps our active member to total account ratio pretty high, when compared to forums who's memberlist consists mostly of completely innactive or spambot accounts. While this isn't the most convenient thing, I believe the benefits offered are well worth it. I check for new members twice daily, so you shouldn't wait too long to be approved or denied. :)

Yeah for your sense of organization and administration!

AH, I SEE, well that makes sense. ;D ;D

+1 definitely  :)

Thank you all for your understanding  :D

Also, with Ludicom's 1 year anniversary coming up soon, I will be having a few things going on, but not as many as I'd like due to school. Once I find a time when things slow down, I will have a huge topic full of celebration, even if it is late. In the works are new features (already added one- Invite Friends), a staff position, and a contest with a tangible prize to be sent to the winner! So stay tuned~

EVERYONE ABOARD THE FERRIS WHEEL, says the hiker. We'll party like BEASTS! YEAH!

OH YES. It'll be like one wild ride. xP But seriously, there will be lots of fun to be had.

I look forward to this

Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary Kloud & Ludicom! 

*is excited* :)

+1, I'm glad that the acounds are sorted out on here to keep it clean :D

I'm not sure if this has been suggested already, but maybe a way to buy titles from the shop (If or when you make one).  There was another SMF Forum I was on a while ago that had an option to do it, each title adds a special mini banner under your avatar :D

It would cost me an obscene amount of money to create currency and a shop on the forum as is... I might do it, later on, if the forum lasts until I have a regular income. I plan to move the forum to it's own place instead of this free one, and to add in stuff then, should it be about. But that is a good idea.

I might offer custom ranks (with custom stars/icons, as well) as prizes for contests held here. This could be a suitable similar option until I have the ability to offer you all a shop. Thoughts? :D

Join with Smogon Join with Smogon....

or how about a way to get more members on this site.

More team videos, our own news paper or even clan wars....

Can we create a clan? call it luicom's or ludi for short? anf then we can do clan battles wiht other forums

I'm incredibly busy at this time in my life (and I will be, until the semester is over... And even then, I'll still be busy, just less so), so I will need to either have things wait until later or to give others the jobs (AKA my faithful members, AKA you guys :)).

Sorry to not be able to be as active, but I need to worry about my future first, you know? I'll still be on, I just don't have as much time to fix this place up. There are some days I haven't had time for adequate sleep or time to eat proper meals, so please bear with me. xP

I'm not terribly close with Smogon.... I don't really want this place to become a battler's hub, as it is meant to be a social and creative community (I may be misinformed about Smogon, the only experience I have with the members was when someone on PPN pissed them off and they came after me since I was Trade Mod at the time, LOL). So someone else, who's better informed about their community, would have to create that bridge. I'd really hate to walk into their home territory and make an assumption that'd mess relations between our forums up. xD;;

Videos/newspaper is a decent idea, but we'd need some devoted members to help out with them (see above as for why- busy).

I don't know what "clans" are, so I'd like more info before I say any more. ^^

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I'm not terribly close with Smogon.... I don't really want this place to become a battler's hub, as it is meant to be a social and creative community (I may be misinformed about Smogon, the only experience I have with the members was when someone on PPN pissed them off and they came after me since I was Trade Mod at the time, LOL). So someone else, who's better informed about their community, would have to create that bridge. I'd really hate to walk into their home territory and make an assumption that'd mess relations between our forums up. xD;;

I don't know what "clans" are, so I'd like more info before I say any more. ^^
[/quote]

You mean Psychic Surfer :p

Clans like teams battling teams or websites.

I didn't want to name names.

Again, this wasn't built to be a nothing-but-battling site, so as long as it doesn't overtake the forum or something (very unlikely, but I'll mention it anyways), I'd probably be cool with it. ^^ You can feel free to assemble teams and the like, I have no problem with that! :)

Since you're more affiliated with smogon, why don;t you try and get Ludicom's word out? Remember Ludicom is a socially based Pokemon forum, yes members interact here through trading and battling, but there are a lot of other creative works and discussions here for members to take part of, that's sort of Ludicom's niche. It would be great to get more experienced new members involved in the community, unlike what's happening on PPN now xD

In terms of clans, if we get enough battlers here then this could be a great idea, so far I'd say we have 5-10 battlers here.

This is gonna sound stupid again, but can we have a chat box? ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

They have one >.>

there is this one too
http://xat.com/unitedunova (http://xat.com/unitedunova)

A chatbox on the main page would be nice.
The trades could be arranged in topics while the whole "I got dc'ed, I don't see you, let's reco, etc" could go in the chat. XD

I agree would be nice, considering how glitchy BW wifi has been lately, personally I don't like using xat though.

A chatbox on this forum is a pay for use option, I'm afraid. Yes, it sucks. xD

if you able to edit the things at the top (HOME, HELP, SEARCH, etc) like smf tends to do, you might be able to add Chatbox to link to a xatbox to something :P

I haven't noticed any options like that, but I'll look into it later...

Like I've been saying, do not expect any significant updates for about 2 months. School sucks.

Well I figured it was there on ludicom since the INVITE FRIENDS thing seem to have only popped up yesterday

That was a new option- I can enable it or remove it, I decided to enable it. I don't think I can add/edit custom tabs.

Would there be a way to allow some users to hide the spam board?

It's practice for what an active forum looks like, with lots of new posts.  one day the forum may be like this *dreams*
except in this particular case, those posts are mostly me (and some loomeh)

I din't say to remove it.
I just want to mask it because I dun like it.

This has been suggested before, I've looked into ways to do it, but no success yet. However, in the mean time, you can go onto the Spam board and click "Mark Read" (it's near the new topic option) to mark all topics on that board read. This works for any board that gets posted in a lot that you don't wanna read about xP

Yeah I know.
It's what I do for the moment.
But it would be awesome if there would be a way to mask it. :)

You'll be the first to know if/when I figure it out. :)

sorry for the inconvenience

Lol. You don't need to be.
I participated a little too you know.

Eh, can i just say all this spam thats going on is kinda unneeded and annoying

Re-enable the custom titles? Please.
I think it may have disappeared when you made the blessed ranks or something.

Yep, I never disabled them, it's just that I forgot to enable to for the Blessed group (it's off by default). It should be fixed now, though. :) Let me know if everything looks as it should.

you forgot a lot of stuff for blessed it seems, I've noticed posts like that a lot :P
you should probably go through the different user groups and make sure things are as they should :)

Only two or three things. There are hundreds of settings boxes I have to set for each membergroup when I make them, so it's not exactly easy to be perfect. I'm not surprised I missed a few tbh xD

Going through all groups will take me a long time, so I will do it when I have time. Right now, I'm preparing to give a speech for class. xP I'll sift through them eventually.

Also, on that note, about a week ago I checked your Mod status on the child boards to the RP board and you were already modded for them (meaning that you should have been able to Mod them for months now). If you could quick check and let me know if you can, I'd appreciate it.

Ok I checked just now, I do have some extra power on the rp board ^_^
Last time I checked, I had the power.  But the time before that, I didnt (that was the time I originally pmed you) :P
but it seems to be all good now :D
if only we could do something good for the rp board... someone on ppn made an rp that was practically the same as my team plasma winning rp ¬_¬
also how do we get moar members? :P

For more members do what I do, invite them over from PPN, invited at least 5 already

There's also an invite friends feature for popular social networking sites. :) There's also a button set that you can use to support us on any sites allowing you a signature or place to put such things. I will make up a topic tonight with ways you can support Lcom :3

In the meantime, I'm currently discussing the applicants for Ume's assistant with Ume herself, and I hope to have someone selected by Sunday. Having another person to help with basic duties should free me up for more admin time (as of now, I do moddy things as well as adminy ones ^^). I'll get to work looking over things then, so stay tuned :D

I'll do us all a favor and not invite my irl friends. XD

NOTE: They're ALL huge trolls.

Just wondering, is Ludicom's anniversary the first day I see in the stats (2010-03-20) or before?

I believe so. If you want the exact time, check my profile. This account was created at the exact instant I created the forum :D

Cool and yea, we can do an exact countdown of sorts  :D

when will you make this? :P
I wanna put a ludicom support thing on my ppn sig :P

Ok so big things has been happening to the community over the last couple days, so I think we should turn our attention to adding new things and bringing this site up bigger than ever.  I have confidence in this site doing well :)

Yeah... I'm busy lately, though, so it'll just be little things here and there until I'm done with classes for the semester (next month).

We have a bigger contest in the works for next month with more impressive prizes.

What did you have in mind though?

Hello. :3 Im the new art designer for the site(banner and such). So I hope you give me support by thinking some ideas for themes for our new banner. B&W logo? Another ludicolo logo? Things like that. Thought it would be nice to hear people's opinion.

YEP. So everyone give Sakashi lots of love, mmk?

He's also the guy who designed our current banner. ^___^

Lol thank you Kloud. :3

You know what what if we can do different theme banners foe each category thread like what Tim did in B&W. instead of thread color change, only banner changes to represent it. XD *idea popping*

What are the requirements for the hidden land again?

250 posts, I think? That's off the top of my head.

Wouldntvit be bettervto just have a mod approved system?

That's Blessed, in a nutshell (there's more to it, but we don't need more preset ranks for board access IMO). I think that giving people a post goal to aim for isn't a bad idea.. After all, Social posts count too, 250 posts can easily be made in a week or two of activity.

This, unlocked at Rank 5 (Jolly Traveler).


I look forward to seeing what you have in mind sakashi,

I like the different banners for different boards idea if that's possible

:3 Thank you. I hope not to disappoint.

Maybe Kloud can shed light on that.

Sakashi! :3
Was your other half coming on here too?
Also, I guess I was an appointed artist too at some point until nothing happened and I just didn't do anything.
It was really cool though.

Just don't let this site die is the most pressing matter right now. >:3

I'll tell you what's the most pressing problem.

The site banner is a .jpg! I will not stand for this monstrosity.

.png right?

.png

Other half? You mean Lin? Err...Well I dont know. It is up to her if she wishes to. She came back to PPN for a bit today, but I have told her of this place. Only time will tell.

As for the image, that has nothing to do with my power. I just follow instructions of what the sizes and requirements are needed thats all. O: Whats wrong with jpeg?

So she may come here eventually then?
Once she catches up to the actual matter on PPN. XD

.jpg just looks like crap. D:
Also, you can make .png interlaced and it's so awesome for websites. :3

I don't see a pressing need to put a lot of effort into keeping the site alive. Tons of people are making the migration from PPN. And I said this to Magoo, but...
Tim, y u so jelly?
He mad, he supah mad.

She said she doesnt know. O: But I sure want her to be here like ppn.

Coming from Lin (I agree myself), Tim is angry because he is losing people. She said that bringing ludicolm into ppn serves as a threat to ppn as well as saying it sucks so move to this site. Knowing this in your position, wouldnt you feel obligated yourself to be mad when your site is being degraded? Then there you go.

well it can't not be ludicolo (double negative ;D )

Valid point. Also, I don't think I've had a chance to welcome you back yet, so welcome back! It's good to see you again. ^^ The last part of your post made me crack a smile. xP

Sounds plausible. Although I never said "PPN sucks" in public on that site, I just said "You all have a choice". But I can see what you mean. I just feel that he's overreacted to a signature change (which was forced by his new filter, otherwise I would have imbedded the link in the image and left it at that). So I think it's fair to say that he has his reasons and I have mine. I'll respect his... But I do not agree with them. ^^

Yeah. I think Timothy kind of brought this on his own head, by not acting sooner and taking the measures necessary to keep the site in a maintained condition. I remember Jim commending us on being an actually valid source of information about BW, but did he ever do anything to fix the front page? Or change addresses? Nope.jpeg.

That's all I have to say.

.avi

IT'S NOPE.AVI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14

I remember that, I could have sworn the name used to be "nope.jpg/bmp" xD

Who is this Jim you speak of?

Was that site taken down?

>MFW I said Jim
>MFW I meant Tim
Sorry! LOL

Yo I had an idea for the forum.  I got the idea from Pokécommunity Forums which also does this.  They prevent a person from being able to post a link until they reach 15 posts.  This would be cool for L-com since if a spambot came on and started posting links to things like viagra, the post would not work and thus prevent the spambot from succeeding in its task of making a n00by spam topic.  Any thoughts the peers of l-com?

I'm unsure if I can, but it does seem like an interesting idea. I think we're relatively safe for now, as all accounts need to be approved by an admin, so obvious spambots won't even get their account activated. So this should give me some time to look into this, and maybe find a better way to incorporate the idea.

http://www.smfsupport.com/support/smf-for-free-codes-and-support/%28code%29-shop-v1/
and
http://www.smfsupport.com/support/smf-for-free-codes-and-support/%28code%29-money-code/

^ this might be a way of getting currency onto this site, I dont know if it will work or not, it might be worth a shot :)

Interesting, but I have no clue where to input these codes (where the Headers and Footers mentioned are, etc), and they don't allow you guys to transfer money between one another, which means that for every transaction, I'd need to go into the admin panel and edit money amounts (and only subtraction without editing post counts is mentioned, not adding). I'll look into it more later, but it's not a priority at the moment (affiliation is, but I've been too busy with school lately to do anything with that even... Summer's coming though).

ok ^_^
maybe in teh future something cool could be done, maybe move the smf database to another host which allows the currency add on.  but yeah affiliation is cool :D

Currency is nice, but I feel if one day we should have it here we should start fresh, with a new system perhaps.

if we get it, we should get the money equal to our post count (or post count+topic count).  I recommend Ludicash as a name xD (or Ludicurrency, but ludicash is probs better)

The currency name, should we get it, is probably going to be Ludicoins, LC for short. I'll probably institute some sort of conversion rate for how many LC a post would generate. Not really much of an issue yet, we've got time to mull it over.

Currency will most likely come along when I get the site it's own domain name. I need to look into pricing for this kind of stuff, too... Because I'm not really willing to spend "hundreds of dollars a month" as TimF says it takes to run PPN (I'm not rich- I'm a cheapskate when it comes to money, since I'm gonna be moving to my own place around the same time I could afford to do anything for the site). So obviously I would rather spend the money to get out of my parents house xD But eventually... I don't think I'd be willing to spend over $50 a month, max, on the site as it is, if I get a better job maybe more.... It's not that I don't love you guys (I do!), but I gotta shop around before I promise anything to you all. You know?

Ah, I'm rambling D: You've all heard my speech before xP   

WoT says it's ok.
Who rated it anyways?
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/ludicom.smfforfree.com

Hmmm.... o-o

So is this website like a listing of websites and ratings of said websites? Interesting. I'm glad whoever rated us thought we were good, though. :D

Although I wouldn't exactly call us child safe xP SFW, yes. Teen safe, yes. But iono if younger kids should be on here. It's not awful bad, but we aren't great in that category (site wasn't made for young kids anyways).

But I'm curious too... Who rated us? :D

I know.
You can get the WoT (Web of Trust) plug-in on most browsers.
I use it. Just yesterday, the icon was yellow on a website where I wanted to buy.
I looked the ratings up and it was like Vendor Reliability: 45. XD
So I gave up.

Needs moar desu.

yo guys if people are interested, I would be willing to set up a Create a Pokémon thing similiar to Smogon's one :D  it's a group project of making a pokemon.  Though people would need to be consistent with being part of it in order to get one finished.  So that's why I'm mentioning it here, will people be active with this or not?  Because it would be cool to work together to make a mon :)
we'd need artists and spriters btw

It appears this is like a general site discussion thread.

Anyways the Error you cannot view the staff list thing has been back for a while, it was fixed a while ago but it seems to be a problem again.  We can live with it of course, but thought I'd mention it :)

Not an error- this is intentional. :) Sorry to have worried you!

ummmm ok?

you know I think we should change the red/black pokeballs for unread posts to something else in order to further distance from ppn...

We've actually been discussing it. Do you have any suggestions?

I say the waterlilies on top of Lotad's head.
With a flower for unread topics.

A Ludicolo giving the peace sign would be awesome

Currently changed the signs as a test: new topics are now indicated by SHINY waving, no new topics by a shiny Lotad, and new topics in a child board are indicated by a shiny Lombre.

However the images are a tad big, considering changing them. Input?

that was a suprise, refresh the home page see pokemon instead of pokeballs, i saw aryehs post asking for a change but i didnt think it would happen this soon

They're a tad big indeed.
The page length almost doubled. XD
Maybe have the tiny sprites instead? Like in the legend at the bottom.

Yeah the images are too big.
It'll be alright if you can make them smaller but I hate huge unnecessary web graphics! D:

Nonono, it's cool. It wasn't intended to be so large, I was just testing it out. :)

On the way~ Just have to make them first.

What do you guys think of this? I like it better..

Yeah that's better, I'm fine with it :P

It's a lot better

i like them, and its so nice having an update that has a bug, have the bug fixed right away,
im used to on one game i play, announce an update, month or two later put it on test server, people find bugs, they push back update to "fix" bugs, release update with even more bugs than it had before it was tested including half of them being ones that were noted when it was tested, and then having to wait to see if they even care enough to fix them until half a year later when the next update happens, and they only fix it if 70% of the people who play on all servers complain, and even then only if they want to fix it
if you know what game im talking about you get a cookie

I've made it so Lotad and Lombre look like they're walking- better or worse than the ones that were still?

And no clue LOL, but I'll take it as a compliment :)

Cool update, it looks nice.

I'd prefer if they didn't move.
But it's good anyway.

It's easy enough to change, so if enough people agree I'll change it :) After all it is you guys who browse the place xD

The Pokeballs were a lot easier to see; you could tell straight away if a board has new posts or not.
This new one is not so obvious, especially since Lotads and Lombres dont look too much different
It makes it a bit harder to see whats what.

The size is ok, why is it that they are facing backwards? I just noticed that.

They dance/circle around. Your browser may not process that though and just show one frame (the backwards one).

I changed it so that only new posts have moving icons (new child board posts have a walking Lombre, while new main board posts have a dancing Ludicolo, and no new posts is a Lotad sitting still). Is that any better? :3

I think that's better yes. :D

Now I notice the dancing, pretty cool, and the immobile Lotads for non-posted boards is a great idea.

yay it was updated
hmm this is pretty cool :D

If I develop any flash games would you be able to put them in the arcade here? I can also make it so that it records scores.
Can make some Pokemon related too :P.
Well I'm not sure how much freedom smfforfree gives you when it comes to managing files; can you access the SMF source files an edit them btw?

If not then can you install/upload your own packages?

Yeah, I don't think they can. Must be a list of games included in smfforfree with no freedom.

Indeed, just tested a test account and can't barely do anything at all :/
Not even the option to upload games to SMF Arcade -.-

Edit: Just was looking back a few pages and wanted to bring a few things up...
As far as I can tell you can't even export the forum tables to a file, so let's say you get a domain name and a host. You won't be able to move all the current settings from this forum including posts/members because smfforfree won't allow you to do that. (I don't know if you could contact customer support or w/e and solve that though)

Well that's the cheapest option out of the question unless you want to start a fresh.
The other option is to buy through the roof for the crappy services that smfforefree provide. Seriously you can get a host/domain for cheaper than what they offer (250mb of storage?! lolwtfextortionists)
It's funny how they take all these open source addons and then charge you insane fee's to use them on here, sure it's legal but really...

well im fine with how this forum is now, though a side note, is how much storage space are you given for free and how much is left

I have no idea. o-o;; I've never been terribly good with technical stuff like that xD;

oh i thought it was listed somewere, i hosted a site before(which died, the link is somewere on ppn in one of the brawl tourny threads) it listed how much space i had but becasue it never got as big as this site i never paid any attention to how much space was being used

I saw the Lombre for the first time.
It looks pretty cool. :D

I tried viewing the Staff List link on the nav bar an got this error:


Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Yeah, I wondered about that earlier.
The Staff List isn't accessible. It's there but only because Kloud doesn't know how to remove it from the link bar.