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  1. mclemore

    Fixed: Game entries that have words of 2 letters or less may not show up in a search properly.

    I spent a few hours and was able to implement a fix on the main site 'Search Machines' function. It should be working much better. The system is pretty flexible. You could search for Mr Do, Mr. Do, Mr-Do, Mr. Do! and still find... well Mr. Do! Or you could search for A-B-C Bowler, ABC...
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    Fixed: Game entries that have words of 2 letters or less may not show up in a search properly.

    Modern databases (modern as in the last several decades in particular) and their performance depend on indexes. In our configuration, these indexes ignore words that are less than 3 characters, and may also drop common words. For these purposes a character counts as a letter, number, underline...
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    Caution: PayPal Giving Fund isn't the ideal way to donate to the Library here.

    Bottom line: Unless you don't care about being recognized by us, use PayPal to donate to us, but please don't donate to PayPal Giving Fund unless you are prepared to do so anonymously! We had a user contact us stating that they donated to the Library here on March 23 and didn't get forum...
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    Hall of Heroes™ - Top 100 Videogames Update (1971-2001)

    It's been quite some time since we've updated our list of Top 100 Videogames from 1971-2001 https://www.arcade-museum.com/TOP100.php People have posted here and on Facebook about their thoughts regarding some of the choices (ie: Street Fighter series)... It's time for an update soon. What...
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    SEO,a taste of why our site redesign is a big job

    A taste of why our site redesign is a big job... We migrated a forum we support (https://forums.lymphoma.com) from this system to our new system. And of course one thing led to another. Besides work on how the main site communicates with the forums, other issues came up... SEO, and Forum...
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    VAPS --- How can we make it better? Rebuilding...

    That is a lovely idea... I wonder how many people would use it though. A step in that direction would be to allow people to add dates they bought or sold a machine, and/or to somehow encourage people to be better at adding serial numbers to their entries.
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    VAPS --- How can we make it better? Rebuilding...

    Regarding rating system... A lot of our focus won't be just to deal with making the site mobile friendly and dealing with the submission queue, but also on usability and structuring things in an organized manner (so things are easy to find). Re: Cabinet Styles... Yes that is coming... One...
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    VAPS --- How can we make it better? Rebuilding...

    This was a legacy issue. VAPS used to be an independent site. That particular report you pointed to still used old VAPS data to bring up location instead of using the main DB. I just fixed it after reading your post. This is a huge topic, and well discussed in other threads. The bottom...
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    VAPS --- How can we make it better? Rebuilding...

    So we are about to work on work on modernizing VAPS... How can we make it better? Yes I know counts are sometimes different on the same game in various places because of how different pages treat stale user records... Besides that... A notification system for machines for sale (or wanted)...
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    Message Forum Upgrade coming

    I'll post more about this in a new announcement thread later this morning., but in short, there were a number of complications that arose in upgrading the forums that still need to be addressed, and there were some other things to focus on too.
  11. mclemore

    Message Forum Upgrade coming

    "could end up starting the transition sometime before November 15" It's unlikely to happen by November 15. 'could' and 'starting' are the keys words. I am in town though and working on prep issues: (a) infrastructure, and (b) getting familiar with XF admin and mod features. (a)...
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    Message Forum Upgrade coming

    This is an ongoing issue here... people losing access to their accounts and then wanting help. Typically it is because they suddenly lose access to an account for some reason (they forgot their password and their password management software puked), and it then turns out they lost access to...
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    Message Forum Upgrade coming

    There is a setting in Xenforo for 'Allow video uploads with maximum file size'. It defaults to not allowing, and defaults (if allowed) to a max size of 1MB. On the test system, it is currently set at the default (off). Again, I'll look at it all in a few weeks.
  14. mclemore

    Message Forum Upgrade coming

    I've never been big into social media integration, and I'm not much of a social media user myself. We are actually going to try some integration later this year on a very different (non-forum) web site having nothing to do with arcades, but even then, all it will be is a tool that allows...
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    Message Forum Upgrade coming

    andrewb - Any changes if any should be modest, and most likely to be simply modernizations. Nothing jumps out at the moment. Implementing something like 'Login with Facebook' or 'Join with Facebook' isn't a feature I'm convinced is critical. It's also something that would have to be built...
  16. mclemore

    Message Forum Upgrade coming

    I'm happy to leave the vb3-esque style the way it is, but if you are able to improve it (without editing the templates), all the better. I'll send you a PM.
  17. mclemore

    Message Forum Upgrade coming

    I couldn't make those changes you suggested. I ended up throwing out the vb3 style and restarting this morning. The biggest issue is that without template changes it doesn't seem possible to get super close to vb3, and for a variety of reasons, I'm trying to keep template changes to a...
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    Message Forum Upgrade coming

    Yes, the header logo is on the todo list, though will probably be updated just before we cut over (in other words, not this month). Rounded Radius corners -- just eliminated on the vb3 theme. There are some differences between vbulletin and XF themes. on XF the category bar background colors...
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    Message Forum Upgrade coming

    I've noticed the XF1 styles before. They are basically unusable. Based on inspiration from above, I did make another child theme off of the Original Default It uses vb3 colors, at least in part, and has square avatars, slightly tighter text, font change, etc.. It's pretty similar to the...
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