Flagg
The Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment
I would like to build this site with user input. Unlike the old EC, where the lack of administration meant that changes were non-existant, I'd like to be able to customize the site to fit what the users want.
One of the unique points of the old EC was it's complete lack of censorship. That shall remain, and is non-negotiable. However, if someone starts posting obvious spam on the forums, I will ban them at my discretion.
Aside from that policy, everything else is fairly negotiable. Please use this thread to suggest additions or changes to the site.
Here are a few points I'd like answered:
* Site Name: I chose "Exalted Compendium Redux" for the time being, because that's what this site aims to be. Does anyone have thoughts on this? If this takes off, I will most likely register a new domain for the site (something.com); a name needs to be settled on for that as well.
* Forum Names: Do we want to return to the old EC names, such as "Creation", "Elsewhere", etc? For now I've used fairly starightforward tags for the forums, but I'd like to change them.
* Submissions/Rating System: I know a lot of people want this. The phpBB software I'm using right now is MUCH more feature-packed and robust than the old Yoshi-code of the EC, but it's still just forum software. PHP is not my forte, but I'm a quick study and willing to learn. If anyone has any ideas or expertise in this regard, let me know. In the meantime, a forum will be created to post homebrew stuff.
* PHP Tweaks: One of the advantages of the phpBB forum software is that it's very customizable. Do we want to return to having customizable interfaces like the old EC? It can be done.
* Old EC Content: The EC was, in all honesty, a fairly weak, out of date site, technologically. It's main strength was YEARS of submissions, and forum archives. From the looks of things, that data no longer exists on the host server. There's been mention of http://archive.org, but I know little about it. Does anyone have ideas about how we might retreive some of the old content?
* Forum Rankings: I think these are fairly trivial, but fun. Rather than have a separate, byzantine system of rankings depending on which forum is posted on, I propose we have a single set of ranks, something like:
Ideas?
-S
One of the unique points of the old EC was it's complete lack of censorship. That shall remain, and is non-negotiable. However, if someone starts posting obvious spam on the forums, I will ban them at my discretion.
Aside from that policy, everything else is fairly negotiable. Please use this thread to suggest additions or changes to the site.
Here are a few points I'd like answered:
* Site Name: I chose "Exalted Compendium Redux" for the time being, because that's what this site aims to be. Does anyone have thoughts on this? If this takes off, I will most likely register a new domain for the site (something.com); a name needs to be settled on for that as well.
* Forum Names: Do we want to return to the old EC names, such as "Creation", "Elsewhere", etc? For now I've used fairly starightforward tags for the forums, but I'd like to change them.
* Submissions/Rating System: I know a lot of people want this. The phpBB software I'm using right now is MUCH more feature-packed and robust than the old Yoshi-code of the EC, but it's still just forum software. PHP is not my forte, but I'm a quick study and willing to learn. If anyone has any ideas or expertise in this regard, let me know. In the meantime, a forum will be created to post homebrew stuff.
* PHP Tweaks: One of the advantages of the phpBB forum software is that it's very customizable. Do we want to return to having customizable interfaces like the old EC? It can be done.
* Old EC Content: The EC was, in all honesty, a fairly weak, out of date site, technologically. It's main strength was YEARS of submissions, and forum archives. From the looks of things, that data no longer exists on the host server. There's been mention of http://archive.org, but I know little about it. Does anyone have ideas about how we might retreive some of the old content?
* Forum Rankings: I think these are fairly trivial, but fun. Rather than have a separate, byzantine system of rankings depending on which forum is posted on, I propose we have a single set of ranks, something like:
- Celestial Incarna - Admins
Celestial Gods - 1000+ posts
Terrestrial Gods - 500+ posts
Little Gods - 250+ posts
Least Gods - < 250 posts
Ideas?
-S