Charas, what has happened...?

[A Forgotten Legend]

This reminds me of the topic a few years(?) ago where some of us newer people were freaking out thinking charas was dying.  Only this time, there is some good coming out of this topic.  I like the set up Grandy mentioned, and the stuff we have all been discussing.  I'm willing to help sort through resources as well.

This topic has had input from most of the active members on the forum, and I think we all generally agree that we will do something, and we will be behind it all the way.  Lately, if its for the good of the forum, we have been all for it.  Just my two cents.

[SaiKar]

Even if nothing comes out of it, this topic is still worth it for the surreal carmen and Alex discussion. It's like we've stepped back into the year two thousand and something here. Good times.

[Alex]

Surreal? It's real, it's real.
Sai, bring here everyone with current access to forum admin. We need the gallery before we'll disappear into the shadows once more!

[SaiKar]

They're all a bunch of rogues, but I'll see who I can round up and send this way.

[Shady Ultima]

Wow, it's like an older members reunion.
Weird.

Yea, I haven't seen most of these members since WAY back... And I'm one of the top 10 oldest ACTIVE members here. And the only one who's never been a mod, or something, not to mention how low my post count is for 8 years here.

[Ben]

the profile mod I added a few months back allowed for profile comments, photo galleries and more. It bugged up when we had to update the SMF.
Ill look into finding an up to date equivalent tomorrow, as I should have some time to do so.

If any of you happen to secretly be SMF forum mod coders, this would be the prudent time to tell us

[FFL2and3rocks]

If each person has their gallery inside their profile, would there be a way to browse through separate people's galleries? Like a "Galleries" page with everyone's galleries there.

[carmen]

That would be fantasical. Awesome idea

[Razor]

If each person has their gallery inside their profile, would there be a way to browse through separate people's galleries? Like a "Galleries" page with everyone's galleries there.

A gallery of galleries.

[carmen]

Maybe the most recent with stuff posted?

[Ben]

All that would be needed would be a page linking to people profiles. Easily done

[Dragonium]

Man, this thread is historic.

I think the Galleries thing would certainly make Charas more game-focused, and that can only be good. We may agree that many of us are no longer here for the game-making but for the community, but we came and stayed first of all because of the fervent game-making activity.

So yeah, full support.

[drenrin2120]

Alex, would it be possible to set up a video review board, similar to the old Beta Testers thread?

[Alex]

I'm no more the coder of the forum so really, i don't know.
But i think so. Need to have actual coders in the discussion.

[Ben]

SOmething for everyone to consider....is the new SMF engine in development. All of these things are not only possible now, but will be possible AND easy to implement once there is a stable version of v2 available. From what I understand its pretty swell. I think the Stencyl guys are planning on using this one for the public launch in spring. I should check on the staus of this...not only would personal gallerys be supported, but video galleries, profile flash "arcades" and stuff. Also...New themes. Much of what has been brought up in this thread has already been discussed in the recent past. It would be prudent to plan this for V2 release, as we can make all of this happen now, but it would be way more smart to do so upon installation of the new SMF

sounds like its close to completion...

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