why do we have new forums? #115

[Uber Alles]

Uber Alles last edited by

The other forums were perfectly fine

[Markers]

Markers last edited by

I think it’s good to have continuous improvement in things if we’re trying to grow the scene. These forums look a lot more clean than the other forums imo.

[Timeless]

Timeless last edited by Timeless @ Markers

@Markers I don’t know the entire background of why new forums were created, however, ontop of what markers said, it also helps to have the domain name under the same for all rgl associated sites.

Hopefully there may be more 6s talk and not only strictly highlander (mostly at least) in the future as the url is not highlander. tf anymore.

[cyclowns]

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1. old forums were for highlander only, these forums are intended to include 6s and PL as well (just acting as a central hub for discussion about competitive more or less)
2. old forums ran on ridiculously old software, these are newer, more resilient and way easier to use (esp. with regards to admin tooling)
3. new forums are way cleaner overall, a lot more features that will make stuff easier, and because the forums are trying to grow in scope they’ll help a lot

and like markers said yeah it’s nice to have something more modern if we care about growing the scene

[Mothership]

Mothership

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basically what everyone else said. The only thing I can really add on is that with these new forums, we can actually develop new features due to the coding language it is based on. The old forums were php based and most of the addons or plugins I would of used on them stop being developed years ago. To put into perspective, the old forums were installed in November of 2018. Since then, the old forums have only had 5 minor updates that we don’t need to push. While these current forums have gone through 2 different major updates just in the past year.

[joe]

joe last edited by

This style of the forum is way more interactive while being simplistic… I like it. A step in the right direction.

[SylonDMS]

SylonDMS last edited by

I, for one welcome our new forum overlord.

[TheRealWeiner]

TheRealWeiner last edited by

These forums are sick as fuck.

[Bliztank]

Bliztank last edited by

ya these forums are goated

[Green Beret]

Green Beret last edited by

Old forums were difficult to navigate in my opinion. I found myself just hitting my bookmark for it everytime i wanted to go back. like it felt like i had to hit a million buttons just to get back to where i was

[Uber Alles]

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I guess I mean it wasn’t really hard for me cause I was on old forums since like 2018 or so

[BLANK3T]

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[Lou]

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@BLANK3T calling me out damn

[Saturation]

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[Uber Alles]

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[Brock]

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the phone interface is pretty fast.