Joe's Ultimate Off Topic

[RedPitSea]

Actually, im just being honest. You haven't upgraded in a while. Would you argue any of my other comments?
Im giving you honest feedback.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by RedPitSea

Actually, im just being honest. You haven't upgraded in a while. Would you argue any of my other comments?
Im giving you honest feedback.

Sure you are.. honest feedback using the same words I used for you 6 hours ago.

I've done nothing but update the site for the last 3 months, every day is something new... new v3arcade, new gameroom, new custom mod "bad deeds", new network (shared) forum- a forum shared between different message boards, extended rep mod, a dozen custom BB codes, my own hacks, favorite smilies, and literally a dozen other updated mods I can't think of off hand. If anyone else on this forum echoed your comments I might take them at their word, but your forum is far worse than mine- I literally laughed when I realized who was criticizing me... Laughed... out loud... in my home... at my computer... laughing like I was watching something hysterical on you tube... but I was reading your comments. Thanks for playing.

[BirdOPrey5]

OK I've made some recent changes and updates to the site:
www.juot.net

I've removed a lot of ads for guests except a single ad in the footer. After x amount of thread views there's a "Please register" message with an additional ad.

Listening to a number of my forums users (not the majority but a significant amount none the less) I launched two new custom styles called "JUOT Express" and "JUOT Express Dark" that have been gutted to provide only the basic forum functionality to be optimized for speed and slower connections- no avatars, no sigs, no post icons, no useless "rules" boxes, no custom icons for each forum like I have in the default theme and very few hooks... Just good old fashioned forum viewing.

Most interested in opinions on the new styles but as always all and any comments are welcome.

We have a forum called "the Network" which is shared with a couple of other off-topic forums. We have a custom made "Bad Deeds" mod that lets users exchange reputation points for "gameroom cash" and my "All Topic" mod in off-topic, however off-topic requires registration to view.

[8thos]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Thanks... you probably don't know it but I was in the Hospital for a year, near death in fact at this time last year, they didn't think I was going to make it actually... one of the guys hacked some of my accounts to keep things running and they managed to collect some money to buy a vB license since I had just leased it not knowing if it would survive a year... luckily things were going fairly smooth when I was able to take back over earlier this year. I'm home now but still in bed unable to walk yet- getting physical therapy every day though. There was a 'split' with some active members defecting to webwheeling.com, but for the most part we're on good terms with people going back and forth... we're in talks now to sort of re-unite the forums with a shared forums mod. Otherwise not much has changed. Sorry I berated someone on coolscifi yesterday but he was asking for it.

Wooow...

Did he hack your forum account.

There's a afghani hacker dude that's been stalking me for two years now so I've been trying to make my site as secure as possible. After you got hacked did you step up your security?

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Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

OK I've made some recent changes and updates to the site:
www.juot.net

I've removed a lot of ads for guests except a single ad in the footer. After x amount of thread views there's a "Please register" message with an additional ad.

Listening to a number of my forums users (not the majority but a significant amount none the less) I launched two new custom styles called "JUOT Express" and "JUOT Express Dark" that have been gutted to provide only the basic forum functionality to be optimized for speed and slower connections- no avatars, no sigs, no post icons, no useless "rules" boxes, no custom icons for each forum like I have in the default theme and very few hooks... Just good old fashioned forum viewing.

Most interested in opinions on the new styles but as always all and any comments are welcome.

We have a forum called "the Network" which is shared with a couple of other off-topic forums. We have a custom made "Bad Deeds" mod that lets users exchange reputation points for "gameroom cash" and my "All Topic" mod in off-topic, however off-topic requires registration to view.

I think your site looks good dude. I'm impressed by your navbar the most though, odd as that sounds. When I went to your bbcode threads, I didn't see the bbcodes. Do I have to join to unlock them? I like your postbit section too btw

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Man I'd love to open up my site for review but I installed some mod on here that makes my forum looks weird as hell as a guest. I haven't figured out which mod I need to uninstall yet.

[BirdOPrey5]

In terms of the hacked account my email address was the weak link so once he got that he was able to change passwords for accounts I had linked to it by following the "lost passwords" options.

Thanks for the comments... some people love the navbar some hate it so I have styles with and without it. The BB Code is strange, it should show for everyone... not all the BB Codes have the install instructions yet, it's kind of a work in progress. This one does though:
http://www.juot.net/forums/showthread.php?t=47879
Curious if you can see it as a guest? I do...

[8thos]

Getting to the point that I hate rainbow font but I will keep trying lol

and yes I see the instructions.

and wow @ email. Okay. That makes a lot of sense. I come from two forums where peeps always get hacked so I'm pretty paranoid about that and don't want that kind of activity going on on my board.

[Fusion2]

When i view this at my screen resolution, the right menu items exceed the margins of the webpage.

I am using firefox with 1280 x 960

[BirdOPrey5]

That's weird, is your browser maximized because 1280x960 was my 'target' resolution when designing... I know it looks bad on 1024x768.