Our 5th Heavy Bomber

nothing to serious but it’s starting to jack up again.

Edit
not triplea just when trying to access the site

@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

Thanks for calling that out, I missed it. Most of the changes I mentioned are for www side of the site, which helps funnel new people into the forums.

Thanks for the suggestions!

@CentralCommando said in Celebrating 25 Years:

@djensen All of them seem interesting, as long as you get AI summaries to work properly, Apple sort of made that feature look bad. Here are some ideas to consider:

I’ll be using something more like ChatGPT.

Dynamic Forum Icons: Many Icons on the forums are just speech bubbles, which takes away some of the identity of the games. Instead, you could have each icon sort of represent the games. (North Africa could have a silhouette of Libya and Egypt, Anniversary could have a 25th or 40th, etc.)

I can work on that. I’m not a graphic designer so it’s a little more difficult for me to get it just right. GenAI is okay at monochromatic vector art but not quite there yet.

“Pinned” Categories: What I mean by this is that users can right-click categories and “pin” them to the top of the forum page. The reason why the pinning is air quoted is because it would only show up on that users end (If I “pinned” a category, only I could see it).

That sounds like a functionality request for NodeBB. It would be fairly core so I’m not sure I can write a plugin to do this.

Themes: While it could just be light and dark mode, I think it would be cool to have ones based off of Axis and Allies games. For example, 1984 Classic would have almost like that 80s paint style, 1914 could have the gradient of the map over a tan background and have trenches and gas masks at the bottom. This is just another thing that would add flavor.

Themes can be difficult to maintain. I’m actually considering moving to the new default “look and feel” of NodeBB soon. I’ll have to re-theme that with the colors I would prefer so I’ll take a look at making multiple themes.

I hope you consider these additions!

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.

@ncscswitch:

I am a couple of posts late in posting this…

Congratulations to our SEVENTH Heavy Bomber… Gamer!  (formerly Weekend Gamer).

It is nice to see an increasing number of folks with a SERIOUS A&A Addiction…
:evil:

Previous HB’s (in order of achievement…)
1.  Cystic Crypt
2.  NCSCSwitch
3.  Jennifer
4.  Darth Maximus
5.  Emperor Mollari (formerly JSP and some digits)
6.  Imperious Leader

And now…

7.  Gamer

Congrats!

The reward for achieving such a high number of posts is a discount on the fees charged by your divorce attorney!   :evil:

LMFAO!!!  Funny you mention that – the spouse is sleeping in the guest room tonight.  But it was something I said – nothing to do with my gaming addiction, you understand. :-D

But seriously, I’m not sure whether to be elated or chagrined.  Over 30 days of my life (according to the ticker at the top) spent on this website.  That’s freaky!!  I guess it beats gambling ('cause it’s free, thank you Dr. Jensen), booze or being Eliot Spitzer!!! :lol: