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In reply to: Vinny Voo is back with the Bakers
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Endecker for the WIN!
Ahaha, thanks, thanks, people say that a lot 😀
name one lol[/quote]
Banter – look up the idea sometime. Until then, don’t fuck up yet another board with your pointless, one-sided trolling bullshit.
In reply to: Vinny Voo is back with the Bakers
In reply to: Vinny Voo is back with the Bakers
Replies seem to temporarily “disappear” after submitting and refreshing. I experienced this in the Chop thread a few weeks ago where I ended up with about five versions of the same post because I kept trying to submit it and it didn’t appear straight away – then they all appeared at once a while later.
It’s happened in the VR thread just now – I hit “Submit” and when I refresh the page the post isn’t there – yet. But when I hit “BACK” in my browser I can see the text that I just submitted right there in my text editor, large as life.
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In reply to: Future of VR?
If Facebook tanks I hope it doesn’t take Oculus Rift, which it obviously now owns, down with it. I want to see how the next Rift benefits from FB’s money and John Carmack’s technological insight.
http://time.com/money/5205630/mark-zuckerberg-net-worth-facebook-stock/
In reply to: Future of VR?
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Cool find. A great example of how if we can programme it, we can display it in VR.
I wonder how many additional dimensions VR could help us visualise…
In reply to: Future of VR?
[quote quote=1056]Like so much about virtual reality, that idea is still mostly a promise. The technology has yet to become popular with consumers, for many reasons—headsets are bulky, expensive, and silly-looking, and the VR experience doesn’t always look or feel all that real.
Debevec and others working on VR see light fields as a potential solution for that last problem.[/quote]
That’s cool tech, but I see the problems of “bulky” and “silly-looking” as basically one problem – or at least, two problems with a Helluva LOT of overlap.
And this system doesn’t address either issue – nor the one of expense. It only addresses the problem of depth/distance in a game, something that – for me, anyway – was a non-issue at this stage. Hell, I haven’t even seen it listed in a top five of issues affecting VR uptake, or of consumer demands.
Still, every move forwards is progress! 😀
In reply to: Our profiles are boring
In reply to: Future of VR?
In reply to: Our profiles are boring
[quote quote=991]Re styling. I get what you are saying about the brightness. One thing I think that may be weird for you but is actually logical is the size of everything. Old forums were clogged with 100’s of tiny text options. This forum is built on bbpress https://bbpress.org/ which is powered by WordPress. Ultimately this forum will be the comments engine for a news and video”Channel”. The veterans will all have a space to create as well if they want one. I just decided to put the forum aspect of it all out there first, to generate some conversation and start to reconnect and make new connections with an audience. To develop a community from scratch is my goal – and I appreciate and will consider ALL feedback from it and never get offended.[/quote]
Well, I think that goes straight to the heart of it. From my perspective, and I’m sure from others, the old forums weren’t “clogged” with anything that didn’t need to be there in order for us to express ourselves with a reasonable amount of nuance and satisfaction.
[quote quote=991]What you are used to is vbulletin or other vbulletin clones. Vbulletin is a nightmare to maintain and host. WordPress is easy to maintain and host. bbPress can be built on to in any way so we’ll get there![/quote]
Cool, but all we’ve established is something you and I already knew, which is that no system is perfect, I have respect for you, Mike, because I well know that the old forums were hard on you, but easy on us. This new format is easy on you, but NOT so easy on us. You’ve said it yourself, that this system is not optimised towards traditional forum dialogue, and that “ultimately this forum will be the comments engine for a news and video channel” – for as long as that is true, and as for as long as you craft the site with that vision in mind, you can expect threads like this one to crop up. We’re posting in a section of the Internet called http://www.michaelbakerdigital.com/forums, and not http://www.michaelbakerdigital.com/comments_engine_for_news_and_video_channel
I hope this is useful, and a fair reflection of the spirit in which Apache opened the discussion.
In reply to: Our profiles are boring
[quote quote=988]Is there some functionality you feel is missing? Please let me know. My goal here is simplicity. I find most forum software to be bloated. I want fast, simple conversations. Profile enhancements aside is there core functionality missing?[/quote]
I hope you know me well enough by now to know that I mean no offence when I say it’s not so much a matter of core functionality, as it is a matter of general “bleh”.
It’s said that a stairwell whose steps are “off” by just a few millimetres here and there is almost useless to people trying to use it. That can be analogously true of websites as well. If I can speak frankly, for the first time ever in talking with Bakermedia veterans (I only registered in 2003), I’m left with the feeling that I’ve just entered a post in the “Comments” section of a baking enthusiasts’ web-page.
I don’t know what it is – I think it’s a lot of little things – like, no-one at a glance can can see my join date, or how many posts I’ve made, or my last activity, stuff like that. At a glance I’m indistinguishable from someone who joined yesterday.
Everything on the forum is in bright, light colours. It’s like there’s no intimacy or atmosphere. Imagine chatting with a friend, or watching a film, with every single light source in the room switched on; it would affect the experience. It would be oppressive, the glare would be off-putting. Why? Christ knows, it just would.
The information density on the site doesn’t seem to be very high, either, meaning I have to scroll a lot to follow the gist of a thread, or even an individual post. The avatar on display also seems too small, like it’s an after-thought, and not a pivotal part of our self-presentation.
You said that you find most forum software to be bloated, and you want fast, simple conversations. Great! But the “bloated” side of forum software was something that was completely invisible to schlubs like me, who just benefited from enjoying using the end result. And I don’t notice any increase in how fast or how simple discussions are in this new format.
Basically, there’s something that the old forum software used to to deliver and provide that this new format doesn’t seem to support. Even though you know I’m willing and eager to throw stuff out there with chop wars, welcoming behaviour, and topical discussions (and support the community in other ways), something doesn’t quite “ring” about this new format, and I was hoping that you would tell ME what the cause of it was.
In reply to: Our profiles are boring
It’s like Mike said earlier, this package isn’t optimised to what it’s being used for.
I’m no expert, so from my position of ignorance I’d love to know why a move to traditional forum software wouldn’t be the best the way to go. There’s got to be plenty of packages out there with the amount of functionality and customisation we plainly need.
My $0.02
