ibProArcade a dead mod?
 

Now I might be completely wrong but...

It doesn't seem like the author of the mod has been working on it for the past month , I have checked numerous threads, especially the stickies, and the last release was in december. Are there any future updates planned? If so what do they contain?

I'm pretty sure the community would like to hear of future news :)

Yes you're completely wrong :rolleyes:

Well, maybe you missed that last released update was jsut in december 2009 ;)

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Yeah I know last release was in december 2009... just that I thought another release would have came by now :(

But ok, I will wait :)

There's really nothing to fix.why update?

Well the background for vb4.0.1 has issues with the arcade page. and many are having issues with saving scores...etc. So I think an update is necessary to fix these?

Coders have their own busy lifes remember, these aren't paid addons or products.

Except, its not a chronic issue with all users. There's still hundreds, if not thousands of installations running just fine. The problems with the styles are likely conflicts with custom styles, which is not something that you can necessarily work out unless your the admin running the custom style or the designer of the style. Also, score saving problems have been around since the mod was released in 2005. They're can be scores of reasons (no pun intended) why that's the case, and sometimes, despite the times when MrZeroPage can answer and when the rest of us try to help, we just don't know the answer. That doesn't make a mod dead. It just means we can't help. And even an update to the mod, doesn't mean the next update is specifically going to address the problems your having. An update is often just that, updating the code and nothing more.

Now I suppose forty or fifty of us could post in those threads with "I don't know the answer". But that wouldn't really help the situations other than create spam. This is true of all modifications.

Or you could just perform the fixes that are already listed elsewhere.

I'm back here looking for salvation after using v3arcade...never again

i wish the newer type of games as seen on facebook and myspace (widgets) would work with this... because they are more long-term games.

I had issues with the background of the arcade not matching my skin.... guess what i did...... I researched on these forums to find out the problem. It's easy to find if you bother to make an effort to look.

I had an issue with saving the scores too.... guess what.... I found the solution posted numerous times on these forums. Again look for it.

Don't take people for granted and expect them to be at your beck and call.

EDIT: In fact you are one of the people that PM'd me on the forums here asking how I resolved the background issue. i clearly explained how you fix it yet you complained and said there must be an easier way!!! personally I thought it was extremely easy the way I suggested.

And you know what is even more rediculous, the fact that I clearly explained what you need to do to correct the background for the arcade and looking at your site you haven't even bothered to do it and yet you are still here complaining about it when I've told you how to fix it.

If you can't even be bothered to help yourself then why should you expect others to help you.

Follow the guidance I gave you after you personally contacted me and asked me or keep quiet.

Look, first of all, don't assume things out of the blue.

I spent five hours trying to find both these fixes with no luck.

I don't remember PMing you, but if I ever did, then rest assured I did try it as well, I tried so much different steps to fix these two, that I actually had to at the end reinstall my forums because it just messed it up even more.

So before you assume things and try to stir things up here on these forums... do some research yourself. If you got nothing better to say here, then refrain from posting please.

Here's a remind of you PMing me...


oh and rest assured that you tried this??? if you tried this exactly as i said in the PM you would have fixed your issue by now. But you complained because you had to spend a little extra time finding out the colour code. :(

Clarkey, you seriously do talk too much. I tried it, and I do not have to prove anything to you. And I also will not waste any more of my time here, because I have a life. Goodbye.

So you are saying that you did this:

And the colour did not change? lol doubtful.

Seriously, there's no reason to taunt people here, or for confrontations like this. We can point out where he may have failed to follow instructions, but only for the simple purpose of clarity and working out the problem. I don't see any reason to escalate stuff like this into personal attacks.

Thank You.

Ok, then I apologise. However, you said that you had to reinstall everything and start again.

Therefore I am assuming you are in a position to follow my guidelines to the key again?

This WILL honestly fix your problem.

Actually, copy and paste into tags what it is you did here, so we can see if your formatting is correct.

I reverted my templates... and never got to doing the fix.. busy these days.. maybe another time.

There are a lot of thinks to fix... .take a look around or install the mod!

The problems that you see are often unique conflicts with unique situations on people's forums. A mentioned, work arounds for these problems are often already posted. But the product has currently worked by and large for the last five years.

In other words, with this being the most installed mod on vb.org, your bound to run into a number of users who have a problem that can't be fixed. That doesn't mean the product itself isn't stable, or that anything is wrong with it.

...yes but as a Premium Modifications seems abandoned.

And what does that mean, exactly? I think you're reading too much into the "Premium" part. All that means is it's got it's own subsection. It's still only one developer, doing it for free and in his spare time.None of that has changed because the word Premium was slapped on the title. Did you pay anything to install the Arcade? All the premium part means is it has more installs, and therefore a bigger support crowd than most modifications. There shouldn't be any greater an expectation because it's in a section with a special name, which you notice, is the only one in that section anymore.

I suggest the developer from now on charges money for upgrades, that way we can hopefully get better and faster upgrades. The last version he released smells like alpha version to me, not even beta! It looks like something a three-year old have chugged together, and now I'm talking about the visual end.

How do you figure a 2.5 version as Alpha? And why would anyone suddenly want to start paying for a mod that was free? Why do people think that if you start charging for something, that suddenly frees up your days and nights to start working full time on something that isn't even going to come close to paying the bills? I just don't get the complaints against something that is being offered free of charge with no expectation or inconvenience on your end.

Not 2.5 but 2.7. It's pure alpha when it comes to the visual end in vB 4.0.x, and I'm a professional designer who knows something about those things. I've mentioned this on several occations, but still no response from the author.

Regarding paying for the product. Since this mod have a very large userbase, I would regard the mod so important that if he can't follow up with the users' demand, then let him turn it to someone else. It really is, in many ways, a too important mod to not spend much more time on it, helping users, squashing bugs and generally refining it.

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When that is said, I donated $100 to MrZeropage today with hopes of work and refinement on the visual end of this product in the vBulletin 4 series.

I think you're seriously mistaken if you think there's enough user support for this mod that suddenly charging for it would result in him being able to quit his full time job (or somehow go part time on it) and work on this exclusively. You know darn well he'd loose more than half his base if a free modification suddenly became a pay modification. If there was someone who had the time and knowledge to work out all the errors people were running into, he'd be offering that support already. It's the point of this community to help each other out. If we had the time, we'd already be doing it, without him having to turn it over.

I have never mentioned anything about him quitting his daytime job, where did you get that from? Don't make up your own fantasy story just to have some arguments.

The point of my posts about this is to get him to focus on the things that are definite showstoppers for newcomers. If I was to install this mod for the first time today on vB4, I would easily have chosen another, since this one looks plain ugly as it is now.

My donation was simply a motivator to urge him to make an extra effort to fix these things. It's as simple as some CSS adjustments, and for the savvy coder that Marcel is I bet he can do it in no time. I urge everyone who uses this mod to send him some money as a way of telling him how much we love this mod.

I'm not attempting to make anything up. I'm extrapolating.

The suggestion has been that if we all give money, that will be the thing that frees up the time he's not able to give to it now. I don't believe he's been upgrading this mod for five years and not care about it's functionality or to take the time to work on it. So the only other thing you could be suggesting is that he must give time up from something else, like from a job or family, to work on this. All for a little extra dough.

My point of view is that if we all donate some money, he might find some extra time to polish this product. The money doesn't buy more time, but can be used as a motivator. A little extra tap on his shoulder saying "You're doing a damn fine job with this product, please keep it up".

I've never seen anything so ridiculous... this guy provides this addon FOR FREE. How people have the nerve to come on and complain about how the free product doesn't work on their board seems incredible to me. If you aren't happy with it then don't install it (or write your own).

Jedi - I think you're doing a fine job and hope (despite the whinging) that you keep up the good work. The members on my forum love this mod.

Very mature of you to call people ridiculous when they point their fingers on aspects of a product that needs to be improved. But I guess you are living in a relatively perfect world if this is the worst you have ever seen. You're a lucky guy, that's for sure.

If coders that release products doesn't like to get feedback then they should not release them at all.

Have there ever been any doubt that we all love this product? Are you so narrowminded that you cannot see what I mean? I have even sent Marcel money because I value this product so much, something I urge all of us to do.

I'm not the problem here, the CSS design of ibProArcade in vB4 on the other hand, is, and I hope Marcel focuses on that in a future update.

That's interesting. At what point did I say PEOPLE were rediculous?

In context to people complaining about free products, yes. There are thousands of people on here moaning and hurling abuse just because the product doesn't work for them (not just about this mod, but all of them)

Yes - I see what you mean. You're an inspiration to us all - an all round hero. Give yourself a big squishy kiss. However, my original post wasn't about you.

Sounds like someone has a case of paranoia because I never mentioned you (though you seem to have assumed it's you I'm talking about). I'm sure he will fix these things given time. But having to deal with hundreds of posts from people stupidly threatening to remove his mod because it doesn't work, is surely slowing down his progress.

I thought you meant me, sorry. Let's move on :)

I'm sorry again, I thought you meant me. I guess I was a little paranoid back there... hehe..

Indeed paranoia and I largely agree with you. Threatening with mod-removal is counter-productive.

It seems to me everyone here is overseeing the main concern, and that is to get that damn arcade to look like your site, so just paste this into your ARCADE.CSS and we're all happy.

And when you do, factor in that you may have heavily customize styles that may not use the default vB class names. So you'd need to edit that accordingly.

Reading this thread, I hate to say a peep, since it looked like y'all were fixin' to have a lynching... but I'm 75% of the way and could use a little nudge.

First, I applied the code below, and that is what got me 75% of the way.
That worked GREAT, with only one exception, which is DARK STYLES. I use several dark styles on my site, and instead of trying to edit this in the templates PER STYLE, I'm sure there must be a way to fix this in my default PARENT templates (I'm just not sure how).

The only problem I'm having in Dark Styles, is that the bold statistical text at the bottom of the page is all BLACK "best Score of all Time", "actual Highscore Champ", "personal best Score", "Statistics", "Game-Rating"... (For the record, I'm running v4.0.2).

Screen Shot:

http://nashvillechristian.com/images...text_color.jpg


I don't want to hard code the text to be white, because then it won't be visible in the light styles I use.

I see that there is another method of changing the background color listed here, which I have not tried, but since I applied the code above, it looks to do the same thing.

Can anyone tell me how I can fix this?

Thanks for the code above, that was a huge step in the right direction!

By the way, I'm allergic to rope. :eek:

Thanks!
:D Jeff

what a classic thread lol.
1.none of the codes around the forums help my arcade at all and any of the advice given.
2.you shouldnt have to edit a thing if the arcade was compatible for vb4.
3.arcade 2.7 is NOT compatible for vb4 so the thread should not have got moved to vb4 forum.

now when new comers start looking back through the arcade thread in vb4 for support, its going to be very confusing for them.

mr zero has been working on the new version of the arcade for awhile now, last i read he was having trouble with the new vbulletin front page/cmps, some coding problem to submit scores, him saying the new vbulletin is so different.

just think, IPBoads arcade was just released the other day, the new version of IP.Boards has been out for a bloody long time, a long time members had to go without an arcade.

hopefully its just a matter of time before something is released.

and who ever donated that $100, that was very nice of you to do that for us all, you would think it would help, bloody hope so. thanks m8