If Crossfire had proper forums, would you use them?
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28 Jan 2009, 18:11
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The current forums leave a lot to be desired, leading to them being the little brother of journals. But would you use them if they were proper forums (such as vBulletin), where we could have specific forums catering to what the users wanted? Such as: Current Affairs, Spam (funny pictures and videos), Recruitment, Polish forum, German forum, Dutch forum, etc. to name but a few.
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Atm it's great and works good. It's very compendious
And no, this is not intended to replace journals.
yeah using the existing account would be nice, but the forum should still be in the current design, especially the comments should still be nice and small like they are now without any signature/avatar crap.
and somehow it should attract users the same way journals do now, like implementing a liveticker of current topics.
I was actually going to suggest a similar setup a while ago. I tend to steer clear of the "real" part of the Crossfire forums and just tend to look at the newest topics atm, however i'd use them alot more if they were set up diferently - as you said vBulletin. IPB would also be a viable solution.
Should probably include forums like; A general/ Offtopic forum, Gaming/ Technology/Computers etc etc, Recruitment, Music/movies/entertainment, and then specific country forums if you wanted to take it that far.
So it would both make the random stuff less annoying, and provide a nice frame for more serious discussions.
+1!
Current "journal" system of forums is the best you can get. I like it much more than forums system. Adding to this replys system makes it perfect.
2. Regular crossfire user is more interested in fun stuff, junk-talking, therefore he prefers journals over forums.
3. Regular crossfire user feel 'respect' for an institution which forum is. He considers forums are 'serious business' like mainly recruitment or some technical problems or admin stickies or anything else that actually has some value.
4. There is unformal division of crossfire on: spam - journals, and serious business - forums. Regular crossfire user prefers spam. Thus bigger usage of journals.
Why changing would be a drawback?
Why you think crossfire is so popular? Because of the system of posting, that is different from the one forums present. No avatars, no big boxes, no stupid icons, etc. Just simple, visible lines.
About the life-span of a topic.
Simply changing to vBulletin wouldnt help as it would only change the appearance (which is - subjectively - far worse than crossfire journal system's appearance) and wouldnt even touch the problem of lifespan of topics. In my opinion its mainly the matter of an access to topics. If you have an idea of reconstructing the 'Forums' panel, you might be home.
Hope it helps.
Regarding your 1st point, if it was done in the right way, that wouldn't (shouldn't) be an issue.
The phrase is used a lot in the Southern parts of Africa (Zimbabwe, Namibia, Malawi etc etc.) and it means like:
White men (tourists in general) don't have a clue what to expect (they are lost.) :D
Yes, it's a proper term for "white person", but it doesn't have any further connotations to it (at least not in east africa). Tourists or white people who've lived there all their lives, they're still called mzungus.
The dictionary translation of it is "european", but in practice it's used on all white persons.
And I don't see how it would be read as an insult, they all want to be white and treat whites like movie stars :P
Dunno about southern africa though, the term might have different connotations there (whites aren't as popular in zimbabwe e.g.). But in the main swahili-speaking countries (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, etc), I wouldn't say mzungu is a negative term in any way.
I've only been to Southern Africa (SA en Namibia) though.
real forum and cf = does not compute
btw, don't mess around with the current cf design, its one of things that made it a success
(00:00:25) <01@TosspoT> mess with journals over my dead body :P
Journals won't be touched - the options here are on improving a section of the site currently not up to much :) I think a rejig of the current setup would suffice - don't think your standard forum would work well here.
There's enough for me to read on here now, creates more spam and there's already a 'forum' on here. I am in favour of having a PL part of Crossfire so they can all ramble on about their stuff in there {:
--> I'd keep the current layout as it is.
Also, I was thinking about it, and for a recruitment section, why not have a sticky with a list of clans needing players and cless players?
Example:
Player:
Bilgrim Med, 17, Irish, fops/medic. /query Bilgrim
Team:
superteam Med, English speaking, fops, have servers. /query Superman
Making it quicker and easier for players to find teams. Just a thought :P
Not really sure how you could announce it though, maybe through a page like the "popular" page under My Crossfire as opposed to a forum stickie. If a clan tick a box in their profile saying that they are recruiting - a link to their clan page would appear in the "Recruitment" Page for example.
Same could go for players too i guess, although that could be abused..
LESS IS MORE
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Just got used to this one after 4 years...
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