Please only use this thread for serious discussion related to the site, thanks. To be honest I don't think minor annoyances with software I am not familiar with will be addressed unless it's a very easy fix. It would take more time than it's worth to figure out how vBulletin works in regards to that specific editor.

Neat, I've noticed that I can delete my posts on the mobile version. Can others do this as well?

You're a mod devour. You can delete your own posts.

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You're a mod devour. You can delete your own posts.

Oh. I knew that. Right....




;_;

Is the website (like, outside the forums) ever going to have a make over? It kind of feels like it's obsolete in terms of design tbh. And I feel like it doesn't highlight enough of what's currently going on at Stickpage. The Stick Empires button is like just something below the new animations, and it's not highlighted that the new animations are part of the currently running Stickpage competition.

There are two buttons for "Stick Fights", "Stick Games", "Stick Humor", and "Stick Forum" and they're very close to each other. "Stick Search" leads to a weird page that seems like it was started but was forgotten (the page is labeled "Stick Games"). There's a "Loading" thing but idk if it's just because of my internet that runs on hamster but nothing seems to finish loading.

The news about stickpage is like, on the very bottom of the page and doesn't seem like it's actually important. Stone's avatar isn't even in there.

And there's that message thing that pops up when you hover on the tab that says "Stick Page - Best Online Stickfigure Movies and Stick Games, with flash games, movies, all free Xiao Xiao style." I have some issues with this:

1. It's redundant
2. I think StickPage should really have some kind of slogan that isn't just "we're the best". I don't really have any suggestions at the moment, but I think it's something to at least think about.
3. It's 2015; are we really STILL giving Xiao Xiao the spotlight after about 15 or so years?
4. Is it "Stickpage", "StickPage", or "Stick Page"? I don't know if this is a big deal but it kind of irks me that I've been using "Stickpage" all this time while the logo says "StickPage" but the message thingy in the tab says "Stick Page". It'd be nice to have a little consistency.


It's just that Stickpage doesn't seem to present itself like a serious website but rather it looks like something run by a high school student that has a good handle at making websites. I'm not saying it should have a separate marketing division or anything like that, but it just seems kind of like it's a non-serious website. We have plenty of artists in Stickpage who I bet can help out in layouting it and just add some flair to it.

I've been seeing spam threads that doesn't have any content in it. I can't even find the report button.

An example would be:

Source: http://forums.stickpage.com/showthread.php?93157-After-weeks-of-dramatic-testimony

I've been noticing that too.

Also, this is a bug in the "show more" for signatures. The problem happens when viewing and replying to PMs:

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If you're asking where the current version actually is, it's: http://www.stickpage.com/portal but I wouldn't bother with it at this point. If you're asking if we're building a new one, then we currently have no plans for it but it's something that is slated to be worked on in the near future. When I officially begin development after we plan it out I will make an announcement.

Cool, thanks for answering.

By the by, would it be okay if we were at least privy to what's going to happen or what's to come to SP as a whole? Like, what's the focus right now aside from the competitions and the new anims coming from those competitions. What's the longterm plan?

Hey Jeff I just noticed something: Whenever you click on a link on this forum, the bottom bar loads "Waiting for forums.stickpage.com" but then it also loads "Waiting for data from www.viralvideos.com" for like a mere split-second. It's easy to miss but it's there, and it works for every single thread/section link in this place. What's up with that? Is that part of the site you once asked us to beta test? And why is it collecting data from this forum?

Website related:

On the main page, I honestly didn't even know until about five minutes ago after being here for a few months that there was a "news" section on the main page, and as a result before I even joined SP I assumed it was really low on activity. Maybe the "news" section can be bumped up to the top of the page in such a way that more attention is drawn towards the current news/goings-on of SP?

The "stick search" has the same problem. It has a section devoted to it but it's at the bottom of the page. Again, if I was a newcomer to the site I would assume the search function was a WIP or didn't work/was abandoned. Just throw it at the top if ya can!

Also two questions:

1: Any plans in the future to encourage more newcomers to the site/promote activity?

2: Kinda in a similar vein, but any way to change up the site a tad so that the most recent active threads from a few select forums, (Say for example, Official Stickpage competitions, Community projects, and Battlezone), can get highlighted?

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2: Kinda in a similar vein, but any way to change up the site a tad so that the most recent active threads from a few select forums, (Say for example, Official Stickpage competitions, Community projects, and Battlezone), can get highlighted?

Isn't that almost the same thing as the "what's new" tab?

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Isn't that almost the same thing as the "what's new" tab?

Not quite.

It'd be on the main page, rather than being hidden under the forum link, as what's new is. On top of that what I was going for was "it would focus on a few select subforums geared towards sharing content/gathering people to generate content."

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I've been seeing spam threads that doesn't have any content in it. I can't even find the report button.

An example would be:

Source: http://forums.stickpage.com/showthread.php?93157-After-weeks-of-dramatic-testimony

+1 for this.

While we're on the roc of the "show more" button - I dunno if it's just me, but it doesn't seem to actually show more. Looks like it's revealing the content but the size of the post's boundaries stay the same, so the revealed content gets cut off anyway.

Urk I just realized I forgot to reply to any of these lately. Sorry about that, I've been reading them but I'm finishing another project at the moment and get distracted easily. I'm going to set this topic to notify me some how so I don't accidentally neglect your posts.

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1: Any plans in the future to encourage more newcomers to the site/promote activity?

We're pretty much always running competitions with actual cash prizes here, so I think there's a pretty strong draw for that. In terms of making the community appealing so people wont sign up just for the competitions and actually want to stay, we're working on a couple of things, both additions to the site and changes behind the scenes that should hopefully stimulate activity around here over the coming months. I don't want to be too specific yet since we're still in the planning stages but you'll know it when you see it and I'll definitely make an official announcement when the time comes.

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2: Kinda in a similar vein, but any way to change up the site a tad so that the most recent active threads from a few select forums, (Say for example, Official Stickpage competitions, Community projects, and Battlezone), can get highlighted?

I like this idea as long as it doesn't replace the existing front page. Maybe I would tweak it to be used to promote certain threads within the forums or something, just so people had a better idea of cool things going on that may not otherwise check them out. Cool idea!

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While we're on the roc of the "show more" button - I dunno if it's just me, but it doesn't seem to actually show more. Looks like it's revealing the content but the size of the post's boundaries stay the same, so the revealed content gets cut off anyway.

What browser are you using and does it have any extensions like noscript running? I tested it on all major browser before putting it in but it uses some JS and HTML techniques that aren't supported the same way across all browsers so there could be a case where it will fail.

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By the by, would it be okay if we were at least privy to what's going to happen or what's to come to SP as a whole? Like, what's the focus right now aside from the competitions and the new anims coming from those competitions. What's the longterm plan?

Oh I'm not trying to hide anything lol, you guys will be updated when we've got a solid plan but right now we're still in those planning stages so there's really nothing to tell you guys since we don't know for sure ourselves yet. We have a few obvious plans that I'm sure none of you would be surprised to hear like we want to build a portal and expand the site, but the specifics of that haven't been set in Stone yet. Don't worry about transparency, I'm a pretty big advocate of that and will let you guys know as much as possible.

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I've been seeing spam threads that doesn't have any content in it. I can't even find the report button.

An example would be:

Source: http://forums.stickpage.com/showthread.php?93157-After-weeks-of-dramatic-testimony

Hm I'm going to look in to this, it might be a bug since those threads I believe should be set to Moderated because they are classified as spam by our anti-spam system. You shouldn't be seeing the topic if the contents are hidden like that in our system. I'll figure it out in any case. Thanks for pointing this out.