Site Questions...

[Iamstillhiro1112]

I'm wondering about a couple things. One, you guys have a large user base, yet there's so few topics. How could this be? Did you guys start over on a new board recently or something? Second would be, what is up with the slow server? It takes a long time to load up the message board pages. Can anything be done about that?

[GMO]

not everyone posts :( thinking about making it register to view but that would be pointless, Basically everyone comes for the same reason, codes for new games and we usually get them right away, there are barely anymore requests for codes to be converted with all the guides out there which leaves us with more time for codes. We are ona different server since the last one was alway down with maintaince. As for loading.. mine loads pretty quickly for being on Windows 95 version B, ocassionally the main site takes a while to load, but we havent had traffic like we have been getting lately :)

[UCF-Codemaster]

now the site should load quiker :)

[Iamstillhiro1112]

Well, I was referring to the message board load time, not the main site. I know the feeling of having a slow board tho. I help run http://www.thegshi.org and we would like to see a few more active members also.

I think that there's probably fewer requests cause the next gen consoles are all cheatless. DS likely isn't gonna see a proper cheat device. With the X-Box 360 that is a given. Who knows whats gonna happen with PS3.

[UCF-Codemaster]

but for me the Board is fast .....
hm does others have the same problem ?

[Iamstillhiro1112]

Well, to me the board is about half as fast as the GSHI boards. Maybe I'm spoiled but... You guys ought to consider merging your messageboard with ours. I bet LMZ could port over all the threads and Members. Then you'd only have to buy server space for the main site. Either way, the site itself rocks. I was looking for that GBA tool for making jokers and this was the only place I could find it.

[bfoos]

I have no speed issues with the site and I'm on every day.

[Iamstillhiro1112]

It has been hit and miss for me. Someimtes its a good speed, sometimes it's not. It isn't my net connection. I got dsl.

[UCF-Codemaster]

well..... if I remember right we talked about the merge and we from cmp wanted to merge.... but I dont know if gshi want to merge.

And well..... we would have enough serverspace to host it ;)

[Iamstillhiro1112]

I'll have to bring it up with LMZ again. I'm sure if he wanted to it would be highly possible.

[Amy]

Would a merge be all that great? I just have to wonder about it a small bit. I mean, well here, CM's P is well mostly about the next gen of code hacking, the systems out there now and out there tomarrow....GSHI is all well, all about GameShark on PSX and such, Game Genie...yeah okay and good and all, but after awhile all classic games are hacked totaly out, I have no need or wish for old game codes anymore really, the systmes of 'today' are what is in most, but again just wondering.

Again just wondering as to what is 'in' these days, and we all must know that is more right now PS2 hacking then any other game system hands down, and GSHI is a great palce well for archives, but by the time they are able to get on board with the PS2...everyone one else will be all over PS4 or PS5 even by then. Not knocking down anyone, again just wondering what all is best for all really.... as is the systems even in line is lined up for GSHI other then the PSX (PSOne) maybe after they get some done in Dream Cast, Saturn, GameCube and such.... but again just seems for all places other then here and official Pelican site, PS2 hacking is indeed never heard of even. It is after all the most popular thing now and shall be for a while yet...atleast til November anyway. No wonder, who wonld not want to merge and join with the only place in the world that has all the PS2 hackers in anycase anyway....

~Amy

[Skiller]

Amy the main reson for the mergers is so that Users will only have to goto one site for everything they need .>
having a Retro site Mixed in with the CMP >. would up the anti in the Retro sections .. like GBA and so on .. since most of use that are in the CMP are to busy hacking the Ps2 to mess with the Retros .. Yes codes are made alot simpler with the Retro since Emus are made for almost every one of them .. and yes almost every code posable is hacked . but there are still ppl Requesting things ..

also Mergers mean 1 less place they have to look .. and one more place that Has more Information ..
all in all u will always see the CMP as The CMP >.
i think the Group is well known know.. that we have a Kinda Recanization around the Hacking comunity ..

[bfoos]

But thegshi is sooo freakin dark. Assimilate them (resistance is futile). I'd go blind going to my kitchen after 15 minutes browsing thegshi.

I know I have no say but, I for one like things just the way they are. Anyone who's truly into game cheats is going to know that CMP isn't the place for retro right now and thegshi is.

That and a merger would place CMP on one side of the thegshi v gscentral fude. I like being here because it's neutral. I don't hate on anyone.

[Iamstillhiro1112]

Well, I was mostly saying that we should merge the forums themselves, we can keep our respective sites. As for the forums being dark, I'm not sure but I think it is up to the user what theme they use. The default would be the dark one.

[bfoos]

Ah I see. I never regestered there so I was unaware that there was theme choices.

/me goes to reg to check it out

[Iamstillhiro1112]

I was gonna make a quick edit but since someone replied already. We do have some skins for the Main site. If you are registered in the forum you can log in on the main site and you will have a user options setting. Theres only a few skins right now.

I think GSHI could use a good designer to come up with some wicked professional looking skins. I like it as is but it would be interesting to see what else could be done.

[bfoos]

Ok I'm now official a n00b or whatever you call new people over there.

I think EVERY forum on the net could use some good designers (except of course the ones that already have them).

I'm still liking it here, default VB theme and all.

Also the lack of Rune is an asshole, Amy is a cokewhore etc. etc. type threads here is a plus.

[LiquidManZero]

It's quite an interesting idea. I'd like to do it.

Unless there's something I'm not aware of, the results of the merge would have to be on a Simple Machines Forum board, rather than a vBulletin. I haven't tested the importer yet, so I don't know the exact details of what work will be needed. I'm pretty sure most everything would convert smoothly.

[Lucretia]

It all depends on what kind of styles/ templates you want to have.. For me I like dark,lol technically I get headaches from bright boards but if there isn't any better styles to choose from theen I have to bear with it. However I have seen some real nice skins (ones I used to get when I had my board) but all depends on what you like and how fancy you like things as well.

[LiquidManZero]

It wouldn't be any problem to add more templates to the board. Right now there's a few bright ones and a couple of almost identical dark ones.

[Lucretia]

Yeah you can add them in the Cp and wouldn't take up a lot of bandwidth for that. I'm not sure how you got your skins but I know I had quite a few twmplated I picked up at different places. Some of them were difficult when it came to actually have them come out right, when they did though they were really nice. What kind of skins do you like?

[LiquidManZero]

Other than the three light colored themes that came with the board, I don't know where the dark one came from. Somebody else found and installed it.

Usually I prefer dark styles. Most of the light colored ones I've seen make excessive use of white everwhere.

[Iamstillhiro1112]

If everything could be ported I can see that it wouldn't be so drastic a change in style. Our forums supports child boards and stuff. Your retro forums would grow in size alot if we combined them. Plus you would have a place to host the codes that are made in the forums. I didn't notice any codelists on the site.

BTW, Ugetab wanted me to give you guys this. http://www.dextrose.com/index.php?s=4&m=13&ng=&p=60

It's a link to that Gamecube code decrypter I think. And its a more complete download, as in it gots a help file and the source code. So you guys might wanna upload that to the site.

[Lucretia]

Yeah they do actually in quite a few of them . However there are light colored ones that don't have the white in it too, so it can very and depend on where you get them as well.

[Skandulous]

but for me the Board is fast .....
hm does others have the same problem ?
its fast 4 me

[LiquidManZero]

OK, I've pretty much got the way a merge would work down. There's a few actual problems that it'll have at least in it's current state.

One, the attachments importing from vBulletin 3.5 doesn't seem to work. It doesn't even attempt to do so if the files are in the database.

Two, the moderators will have to be manually re-added. Not really a major problem. Also, the admin/super admin permissions might need a bit of editing before they have the correct access.

Three, there's going to be at least a few duplicate members. In the cases where that happens, only one of the accounts will work, and the one from the import will be completely ignored by the board. It's something that can be taken care of easily.

Other than those things, it's a fairly smooth automated process. To actually do it, I'd have to get a copy of vB installed on the same server as the SMF board, and also have a database dump of this board.

[Lucretia]

*Isn't 3.5 a beta version of vbulletin? The only big problem I can see is possiblely the attachments that you need to get ported..I'm assuming that these are large attachments with game files?
As far as anything else it really wouldn't be a lot of work to set accesses for admins and mods in really but if it is a beta version of course there's always risks on donig major things like this.

As far as the fastest on this board, I don't have a problem most of the time but there are times I have experienced slowness. Of course you have to consider peak hours which are the busiest too. On occasion I have had problems where the server was acting up..

[LiquidManZero]

Unless there's a massive difference in the database structure between vB 3.5.0 and 3.5.4, it'll work fine other than the attachments. I'm seeing what might be the problem, and I think I've got something to fix it.

I haven't noticed any trouble with this board loading slow. But then, I haven't exactly been around that long.

[Lucretia]

Well the differences will be related to the fact that beta versions aren't really very stable compared to the main version that gets released..If you got somethnig to fix it then that would be good then It is best to save your database regardless of anythnig you do, you just never know what can happen. I had a few instances of wishing I had..

[LiquidManZero]

I suspect the problem with updating a vB installatation is that it's commercial software that costs rather a large amount of money. And you can't normally get updates unless you've got a valid license (or know certain er, tricks)...

[Lucretia]

Yeah that's for sure,lol or being to know where to get it per say..I did decide to get a license for myself and it wasn't a lot in the long if you get the unlimited license. However that depends on how dedicated you intend on being to your site, if only for a littel while then you might just need it on a yearly basis or just work on those tricks,lol
For me I don't know what I'm gonig to do with mine at this point..

[Iamstillhiro1112]

It's too bad you guys don't have a irc channel. It would be nice to talk about a merger in real time. I think that would be the best way to make any kind of plans for it. Perhaps we could set up a time to meet in GSHI's irc chat. I am hoping the staff that was interested in this are still interested. It would be helpful to both parties. Me and Ugetab (and others)could catch more retro requests and help fill up those sections which would help you guys out. And we'd get more traffic for the site, and the forum as well.

[UCF-Codemaster]

hm yes.... we just have to find a day where most of us are able to come.

[Iamstillhiro1112]

Well, LMZ should be in our irc chat between 9-5 CST tommorrow. I should be on during that time too. So come sometime between then. If we are idling wait a bit and we'll respond when we notice you.

[GMO]

i see him on all the time on MSN

[LiquidManZero]

Hmm... Who are you referring to as being on MSN a lot?

[Iamstillhiro1112]

i see him on all the time on MSN

I think you are confusing LMZ with LazyBastard.

[bfoos]

I forgot to add.

Aside from the lack of rune/amy/anyone else hating type threads here.

One of the reasons there are so few threads is the fact that this forum has been pruned in the past. I don't know why and personaly I see no reason to prune any forum but this one has been.

[Iamstillhiro1112]

Well, I noticed that there was a 30 day limit for all the threads. If they get older than 30 days then they are deleted. I really think that should be increased. I don't think that having more threads around effects bandwidth much. I think GSHI doesn't have a limit so everything winds up being archived should we ever need it.