Comments | lonekorean: Message Board Nostalgia

lonekorean

Message Board Nostalgia

Jan 26, 2009 20:37

Some of you that know me from college remember the Gear Factory forums. They were dear to me, because they were mine. Not content to install some free message board like every other E/N site at the time, I actually built my own. Twice ( Read more... )

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jonxp January 27 2009, 05:01:57 UTC

Man, but this time you have to do the whole thing with smart caching and RESTful APIs just to make it difficult.

lonekorean January 27 2009, 22:34:26 UTC

Yeah, I need to think up some retarded excessive features for no good reason. Like the ability to upload XML and XSLT docs through your mobile phone, which are then parsed and made into posts. In Swedish.

It's funny, having watched people use my message boards for years, I have a pretty solid opinion of what features are worthwhile. But I had to convince folks that haven't used forums very much. Things I took for granted, like quoting posts, locking threads, even editing posts were debated.

noscenario January 27 2009, 11:55:47 UTC

aw i remember when i used to write for Gear Factory.

lonekorean January 27 2009, 22:34:49 UTC

Me too. /tear

alceria January 29 2009, 03:38:40 UTC

I remember when Fyza and I were enemies! LOL :)

noscenario January 29 2009, 07:06:44 UTC

yeah, what was that about?? how did it start? and how did we get cool with each other?

oh the internet is such a blur.

worldscutest January 27 2009, 16:06:57 UTC

Does this mean you're bringing back Gear Club?

joke, joke...

lonekorean January 27 2009, 22:39:45 UTC

Oh, but it never went away. It's always been right there, in your heart.

risainternet January 27 2009, 16:41:47 UTC

Dude, no way. He totally SHOULD bring back Gear Club.

Even if it never worked. Okay, okay...SELDOM worked.

Aww, Will. You made me all nostalgic. *tear* I heart you!

lonekorean January 27 2009, 22:38:40 UTC

Why do you hate the "reply to this" link so much?

Also, Gear Club totally worked. Until Jon hacked it. Also, the whole trivia points thing didn't work for very long.

...But other than that, it worked perfectly!

risainternet January 28 2009, 17:40:40 UTC

omg. I replied to this.

=P Maybe I don't heart you anymore. =)

quaero_ipsa January 29 2009, 01:22:53 UTC

I have a forum for my students to do their journals online. You would die. It's Phpbb. And I administrate it. Me! Hahahahahaha. Me administrate something online. Too funny.