2009-10-07, 11:23 AM
IsaacGS Wrote:see, you're not making any sense to me. MapleGuides and Southperry Studios are both on the index in the EXACT same fashion as far as I can tell. Maybe you can screenshot the index from your end so I can see what you mean. I tried logging in on a regular user to see how it looks to everyone else, and when I did log in on there it said "Never" for last post, even after I input the password and accessed the forum. So if that's the case... I don't really see how it's annoying at all. Actually the first thing I did after putting it on the index was to ask people in IRC if the change annoyed them and for the most part people didn't even notice it.
Like I said, I was going to do something else but the feature's not working at the moment. This is mostly temporary until that gets working again. Also there was some talk about using Studios for more projects down the road, but that's a long ways off.
Sorry, I meant the "Completed Guides" part. But that was when I was under the impression you thought that "categories" were forums and the forums were sub-forums. Later, while writing my post, I noticed The Chinchilla Project was a sub-forum of a currently useless and unnecessary projects forum. Sorry about the confusion I tend to forget what I've written after I write it, or else I would've amended that.
The main point of having a lock on the Chinchilla Project is so people who aren't a part of the project don't spam the forum, as far as I know. Having a locked forum on the index sends a bad message to new-comers, imo.
Since it's a writing project it rightfully belongs in The Shady Tree, and since there aren't any other projects going on a projects forum isn't currently useful.
Obviously it isn't going to be post-free forever so my point about the big blank space is moot, but the fact that you've got a forum just for a sub-forum seems fairly redundant. imo move chinchilla to be it's own forum or make it a sub-forum to ST and hide the projects forum until more projects are revealed.
Unless you've got a public use for the main projects forum planned out in which case you should post something there so people like me (okay we all know I'm the only one who would make a big deal about something so ridiculous) don't question why you've got 18 padlocks on a screen door when the primary door is steel and welded shut.