Charas, what has happened...?

[Cerebus]

Unfortunately, the last Chain Game attempts were in vain, for none has been completed, though I suppose it could be worth trying again. Maybe even revive one of them, like the SteamPunk one.

[Shady Ultima]

Also, the Community games never come anywhere near completion... People always end up losing interest, and disappearing.

[SaiKar]

NEVAR SAY NEVAR! This is not a thread for pessimism!

[Alex]

I quote Sai.
At the end, charas itself is the result of a community job.
Started by one person, first 15 resources made by 2 persons, ended with 32686 resources created by... well read here and wait for the page to load fully

There's a first time for everything, the army is rising up again!

[SaiKar]

Vaguely relevant!


Sai'Kar says:
 There's a severe Mid shortage.
Mid says:
 <<...I just don't post.
 Because either Kijuki or someone trolls my thread or someone's posts.
 Or I suggest an idea and it gets shut down <<
 I'm like -.-;;
 Honestly, I think Charas should be more open to other RPG makers >>
 Or forms of art. <<
Sai'Kar says:
 That's what we're in the process of talking about right now.
Mid says:
 ...I SUGGESTED THIS A YEAR AGO
Sai'Kar says:
 But it's stalled into talking about how to actually code that and nobody really seems to know.
Mid says:
 WHO THE HELL IS STEALING MY THUNDER NOW?!
 ...No one knows how to make new forum boards?
Sai'Kar says:
 If I tell you, are you just going to rant about it? >_>
Mid says:
 Or rearrange boards? <<
 ...Maybe.
Sai'Kar says:
 They want it to be some sort of gallery that you upload stuff to and people leave comments for.
Mid says:
 ...I SUGGESTED THAT
 WITH THE GODDAMN PROFILE ****
Sai'Kar says:
 http://www.charas-project.net/forum/index.php?topic=27467.0
Mid says:
 AND BEN DID SOME INVISION BOARD PROFILE ****
 AND I JUST FACEPALMED
 I was implying that people should have their art work in their profile.
 Goddamnit
Sai'Kar says:
 You're such a graceful loser ^_______^
Mid says:
 I'm just a whiney bitch.
 << Who is unappreciated.
 /me cries
Sai'Kar says:
 You are absolutely the best whiny bitch ever.
Sai'Kar says:
 Have a Myrin face http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/SaiKar/Art/MyrinFace.png
Sai'Kar says:
   !
 Who's the old one that's losing their memory now?!?
 HINT HINT ITS NOT ME
Mid says:
 SHUTIT
Sai'Kar says:
 Maybe I should tell you that it's YOU since you can't remember this sort of thing!
 But seriously
 Jump in, start swearing, claiming you said this a year ago, etc etc
Mid says:
 lOL
 NO
 YOU DO IT
Sai'Kar says:
 It's all good. We love it when you do that.
 You're better at ranting than I am.
Mid says:
 YOU. DO. IT
 Sorry telling some *** to shove his religion up his *** politely
Sai'Kar says:
 ... you have the capacity of being polite?
Mid - Ohhh I'm so mad right now. :3 says:
 ...>> Well...I'm a mod lead on another site.
 So...I kind of have to set an example.
Sai'Kar says:
 You're a mod LEAD?
 You! Example! Bwahaha
Mid says:
 ...<< yes.
 ...DON'T LAUGH ;O;
Sai'Kar says:
 I think you're awesome for a lot of reasons. You always jump to my defense even when I totally don't deserve it.
 But it's hard for me to see you as a role model for internet politeness.
Mid says:
 YOU USUALLY DO
 LOL
 DUDE
 You and Osmose speak again?
Sai'Kar says:
 Not really
 He probably still thinks I'm an evil manipulative bastard.
Mid says:
 << Oh so he just speaks to you on the forums.
 Got it.
    WHATEVER
Sai'Kar says:
 Yeah
Mid says:
 He im'd me like...once to ask me to fix his password
Sai'Kar says:
 Professional courtesy and all that.
Mid says:
 pssch
Sai'Kar says:
 Your face is a pssch
Mid says:
 >=(
Sai'Kar says:
 Yes, that face right there!
Mid says:
 ...SILENCE
 And.,.
 Go find some coders.
 DON'T YOU HAVE CODER FRIENDS??
Sai'Kar says:
 I do, but they're totally unreliable.
Mid says:
 ...
 SO IS CHARAS
 IT WILL BE PERFECT
 LIKE
 I LIKE HOW ALL THESE PLANS ARE BEING MADE
 BUT YOU AND I BOTH KNOW...
 NONE OF THIS **** IS BEING DONE.
 MAYBE LIKE ONE THING WILL CHANGE.
 MAYBE A NEW BANNER.
 ....NO.
 THAT'S MAD MUCH.
Sai'Kar says:
 Yeah, no kidding.
Mid says:
 MAYBE ANOTHER BOT ATTACK.
 /me nods.
Sai'Kar says:
 Oh, they held a banner contest. They even chose winners. But nobody knows how to update the banner!
Mid says:
 ..........................LOLOLOL
Sai'Kar says:
 It's so sad its funny.
Mid says:
 Did no one think to ask Alex or Osmose?
Sai'Kar says:
 They didn't, actually
Mid says:
 ...Goodfuckinglord.
 You're using an outdated version of SMF, which contains some bugs which have since been fixed. It is recommended that you update your forum to the latest version as soon as possible. It only takes a minute!
 ...I thought he did update the site.
Sai'Kar says:
 Well, the new version has some errors in certain mods we want, so he's holding off on updating to the newest new new version.
Mid says:
 Oh okay.
 So...I'll uninstall it.
 << >>
 Jk
Sai'Kar says:
 Eh
 You keep ranting that you're an unpopular whiny bitch, but I kind of am too now.
 So I wouldn't lose much sleep.
Mid says:
 << YOU SEEE
 YOU SEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHAT I MEAAAAAAAAAN
Sai'Kar says:
 Yeah.
 Charas is full of people that don't care about the purpose of the site anymore. They just want to hang around and make crude jokes with eachother.
 And I mean, okay, sure, community is great. But its not giving new people a reason to stay.
 But nobody wants to hear it.
Mid says:
 ..And they have to make a new style sheet I think in order to change the banner
Sai'Kar says:
 Oh, that's not hard.
Mid says:
 Welcome to my song, Sai.
Sai'Kar says:
  
 You can sing now eh?
Mid says:
  
Sai'Kar says:
 I should post this conversation!
Mid says:
 /me shrugs.
 **** YOU CHARAS.
  
Sai'Kar says:
 You're so shameless.
Mid says:
 ^_^ I wouldn't be me otherwise.
Also, I'll see if I can figure out teh banner thing.
 /me goes into google.
Sai'Kar says:
 Style sheets aren't that hard to modify if we know what we're doing.
Mid - Ohhh I'm so mad right now. :3 says:
 Yeah but I don't know what we're doing.
 Or if we have to upload the banners on the site
Sai'Kar says:
 I'm actually posting it btw
 Maybe I'll get myself fired or something. That'd be cool.
Mid - Ohhh I'm so mad right now. :3 says:
 LOL
 Do you know what will happen if we install a theme?
Sai'Kar says:
 DEATH
 DESTRUCTION
Mid - Ohhh I'm so mad right now. :3 says:
 Lol
Sai'Kar says:
 Not really
Mid - Ohhh I'm so mad right now. :3 says:
 Oh well
Sai'Kar says:
 You could try it anyway.
 I mean, that's the worst that can happen? You break all the bbc code for like a week?!
 What are the odds of THAT!
Mid - Ohhh I'm so mad right now. :3 says:
 ...<<
 GEE
 I DON'T KNOW
 WHY DON'T I ASK BEN
 >> << <3 U BEN

[Cosmos]

I edited in the best part which was the last part. << GODDAMNIT HARVEY.

[SaiKar]

BITCHES EDITING MY POSTS

[Cosmos]

QUIT YOUR DAMN WHINING!

[Archem]

The point, as I see it, is that we are mostly dependent of a very small group of people that aren't actually here.

Like phantom coders and stuff.

[Dragonium]

Wait, wait, for banners we're dependent on a new stylesheet? Like, CSS? Or am I missing the point?

If so, I'm guessing what we're doing is inserting the banner image into the stylesheet and toggling between stylesheets at random? That seems weird to me and in my ears sounds more like a job for a quick pull-up-a-random-image-from-an-array PHP script, but I may be getting the wrong end of the stick here.

Ben or Moose, explain this to me pwease, I might be able to lend a hand.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

There's no point of going any further, if we aren't going to actually go any further.

Most people might think this thread is an initiative. I see it as an emotional passing. You guys will start something and then give up a week or two into it. Either that or get shut down by something in the process.

Reason is here: You are either too busy, too bored, or don't give a pig's turd enough to give enough dedication.

I mean if we think that changing banners is anything significant /important to this equation, then that's just sad. Long time ago it was agreed the forum's color, although could be personally switched out, was outdated and boring. It is still the default.

oh and btw RMN isn't shutting down.

[Osmose1000]

Wait, wait, for banners we're dependent on a new stylesheet? Like, CSS? Or am I missing the point?

If so, I'm guessing what we're doing is inserting the banner image into the stylesheet and toggling between stylesheets at random? That seems weird to me and in my ears sounds more like a job for a quick pull-up-a-random-image-from-an-array PHP script, but I may be getting the wrong end of the stick here.

Ben or Moose, explain this to me pwease, I might be able to lend a hand.

Pretty sure the banner is just as you say; it generates a random index into an array of URLs that store the banner images. Specifically the code is in the template, as it has a section for generating the header that's common to all pages.

[Ben]

There's no point of going any further, if we aren't going to actually go any further.

Most people might think this thread is an initiative. I see it as an emotional passing. You guys will start something and then give up a week or two into it. Either that or get shut down by something in the process.

Reason is here: You are either too busy, too bored, or don't give a pig's turd enough to give enough dedication.

I mean if we think that changing banners is anything significant /important to this equation, then that's just sad. Long time ago it was agreed the forum's color, although could be personally switched out, was outdated and boring. It is still the default.

oh and btw RMN isn't shutting down.

I wish you would take your crap elsewhere. Honestly though. If charas sucks so much, then leave man. OH WAIT...thats because the rest of the internet thinks you are a dick too.


Seriously man... nobody cares...were trying to have a conversation. Do try to contribute with something aside from "god, you guys suck at having a conversation"




ANYWAYS... yeah about the Banners... I dont know how to operate those

[Dragonium]

There's no point of going any further, if we aren't going to actually go any further.

Most people might think this thread is an initiative. I see it as an emotional passing. You guys will start something and then give up a week or two into it. Either that or get shut down by something in the process.

Reason is here: You are either too busy, too bored, or don't give a pig's turd enough to give enough dedication.

I mean if we think that changing banners is anything significant /important to this equation, then that's just sad. Long time ago it was agreed the forum's color, although could be personally switched out, was outdated and boring. It is still the default.

oh and btw RMN isn't shutting down.

Okay folks, show's over. Charas is dead. We're all far too much of a bunch of lazy slobs to do anything to save our near-decade-old community. We might as well just shut down now because this place is going nowhere and we're all terrible, terrible people. Because Kijuki said so.

Pretty sure the banner is just as you say; it generates a random index into an array of URLs that store the banner images. Specifically the code is in the template, as it has a section for generating the header that's common to all pages.

Okay, so it's just a case of opening up the template and slotting a few more entries into the image array in whatever randomiser code we have (nothing shows in the page source). So simple an Australian could do it!

[SaiKar]

Oh, can I ban him again?! Can I can I!! Come on!