Stars?!?

@barnee There are two parts to the site:

The forums, here, and anything in /forums/ The rest of the website, the articles, etc. This part has been redone.

@djensen You could also possibly make support tiers based ons playable A&A nations that could display as country tags. For example, here is a mockup of a French country tag.
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Just a neat idea if you’re considering to add more tiers. You could also do the same thing with game pieces if you wanted to.

@SuperbattleshipYamato well it was alot different back when we allowed Politics to flourish. Mary and Jennifer used to get into great battles, then we had Sexual Harassment Panda, Mr. Smith, et al who posted like 30 times a day. I recall about 3 others who were nasty but eventually drifted off under a rock.

@djensen

yes i’ve noticed time of day as well. Is fine currently. 7 pm Central US

What we really need is a really good feed of suggested topics and an email campaign to reveal them. Reddit absolutely mastered this. I used to be an occasional Reddit … then the emails came and they were relevant and fun and I enjoy getting that email. Actually, I mostly just go direct to Reddit now.

Looking back. I probably should’ve selected Discourse as the forum engine. The deployment strategy, at the time, was more complex than I wanted. I had a grudge against Ruby on Rails projects (kinda still do). But the UI was clean. I bet the API is cleaner and less breaking. Making another change might cause more churn though.

You never did? They project a picture of the Bismark, and emblazened on the funne it saysl, “Dave is your leader, pay his bills and do his laundry”…