Forum suggestions

TV series, bit of a cult following.

Right, suggestion. We have a gallery function on the forum that's never been used. Seeing Drunka's brilliant SBAR drawing and Jimbob's Kid From a To Rose album cover got me thinking: anyone up for a "vote a piece of art for the gallery" thread? The pieces that get enough community support will be put into the forum gallery by me. Good idea/bad idea?

To be honest, we don't get that many drawings so things like kid from a to rose, which the forum loved, you might as well just stick in there.

Aye, I think anything that gets a good reception as well as a smattering from the Art Gallery thread should go up there. Might as well make use of the feature, right?

Alright, I'll put some stuff up over the weekend, and people can appreciate their favourites in the Art Thread.

Hang on, I've been nominated for some kind of art thing... ? Is this the end of days? Am I in a coma?
This is my concept art FFS

Mr. Legobrick Plays Portal.

Anyone else keep getting returned to forumotion's website whilst loading the site/a thread?

Yep. Not sure how to stop it, unfortunately.

I also just experienced this after logging on.

Balladeer wrote:

Mr. Legobrick Plays Portal.

Half-Finished Test Room is the ironic room name; however I'm going to steal Mr. Legobrick Plays Portal as another room name.


Sorry, actually on the topic; I haven't had the below problems, but it did take an age to get that far just now. Is it time to panic?

Nah it all seems to have sorted itself out now.

We're probably going to need two forums from the ONM section in Off topic. They are

Sports, and
Forum Games and Quizzes

if we can get this done just before the forums over there close, we might get some more people joining over and talking to the NGamer and ONM admins when they have spare time. Just a suggestion.

There is a sports and football and wrestling thread with the latter getting some use on here also occasionally ill bring up some sporting event in TV section.

On quizzes couldn't that go in community or something.

Well some people were complaining that Sports are a bit too melded in to the off topic, and if we get something crazy like 50 or so unique topics a day, it could be lost in translation

A good idea for the community section with the FG&Q I guess!

I'm in no immense hurry to advertise our forum to ONM members, or to anyone else.  We've got a great community here, and if it grows I'd want it to grow naturally.

At the same time, GNamer is obviously open and welcoming to those who want to join.  And if our members want a sports or quizzes sub-forum, I'll obviously be happy to implement it.  

Poll going up!

I don't think we desperately need new forumses, but I wouldn't complain if we did separate out sports.

On the subject of ONM peeps:
Has it been confirmed the forum will close? Even if so, I don't think we should go about advertising this as the place to hit up but at the same time I'd welcome anyone who came across. I quite like that GNamer isn't too big. It has a nice friendly atmosphere. Could you imagine doing secret santa on the ONM board?

To add to that, fifty or so topics a day is not something any forum should have to put up with.  One football thread (maybe one for leagues and one for international), one Rugby League, one Union, one cricket...  You get my drift.  All that's required.

I'd say play it by ear - there's no point preemptively making a separate sub-forum if nobody from ONM wants to come here. If we do get an influx of new forumites who would like a new sub-forum, then we should go ahead and make one.

If ONM or who ever comes here and they start posting lot's in sport threads we have and keep making new ones it might be a idea to move into a sport sub-forum and like you said balla then have one thread in that for each sport.

I vote no. (oh so that's what that feels like, I feel dirty now )

On a serious note I just think it'd open a big can of worms that we don't need, if there's sports why not a music section, film section etc this is a site for talking games after all and if you feel like bringing up something that isn't related to games then off topic is perfectly fine for that.

Everything's cool as is - wait until we NEED to change.

Uncle Tin

That's enough polling, I think - fairly clear what the answer is. I won't be creating any new sub-fora for a while, but I'll certainly be open to the idea in future. But it'll be for members at the time, not to advertise to could-bes.

Erm, is anyone else having an issue where a lot of the links on the forum turn a sickly lime-green colour seemingly at random? Like, the last pages of every thread, the forum index at the top... it's disconcerting.

Yep just seen that myself and as I scrolled down I seen that forumotion are have some maintenance done.