Feral Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 So, what do you think of the new forum? My thoughts are thus: Concept Frankly, it's about time this happened. There were 2 separate MI Forums before; one active, the other not so. This brings the EscapeMI oldies into a fresh community, which can only be good, and gives those at the ScummBar MI Discussion their own, larger forum. Design I absolutely love this design, and it's probably the best on the whole LF Network. My compliments to Jake and Dan Lee. Individual Forums Just the right balance; on EscapeMI, there were way too many needless forums around, whereas on the Mojo Netowrk, there was just the one forum for MI Fans. The new forum has just the right balance between many and few to make it a fun and active board. All in all...
Lemon Head Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 It's easily one of the foxiest forums on LF nay, the internet! Much more pleasing to the eye than the original MI forums combined and hopefully it will develop a bigger fanbase now that it has one consolidated position and with fewer inane catagories.
Faith Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 I love the artwork at the top. Its brilliant, credit to who ever whipped it up! I'm glad its based on the secret of MI, keeping it classical. It gives monkey island and the fans the credit it/they deserves!
Remi Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 To give you an idea of just how great of work Dan did, this is what I asked him to use for inspiration: http://www.scummbar.com/imageviewer/imageviewer.php?useimage=/games/screenshots/mi1/game/4.gif
Joshi Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 My Compliments to Dan Lee for his amazing artwork and all the rest of the people involved in making this possible. hopefully the mixnmojo crowd and old escapemi crowd can mix and mingle nicely, we need some new and old faces to join up. in my opinion, good move and about damn time(not being cynical).
Jack the Black Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 Yeah I like the changes and frankly making the forum more stuctured makes sense. But, there is one thing bugging me, with these changes I have lost the ability to start up threads of my own:confused:
Jake Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 Not being able to start up posts? That doesn't make much sense :| You can't start posts on the forum's main page, or in categories, just in the forums themselves... but you probably know that.
Jack the Black Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 Twice now I tried to start a new thread in 'The Harbor' forum' and both times I find that I am not allowed to.
Lemon Head Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 in what way are you not allowed? does it give you an error message or what?
Jake Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 Sounds like a couple permissions got screwed up. Having Metallus look into it. Well, er, glad there arent any huge complaints so far Hope everyone enjoys it. update metallus says its fixed now, so you should be good. The only thing I see negative is that "Al-back from the big whoop" squishes all of the table cells a bit in my browser but it's not bugging me too much.
Jack the Black Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 Oh, it has started playing ball again. I can start posting new threads again if I wanted to.
Kjølen Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 Dan Lee Jake, your awesome And see that casual, modern looking dude with the cap on in the Scumm Bar on the top, talking to that hot woman? Yeah, that's me. Although, I think that was purposely put there to represent someone. But I still say it's me. PS - I'm glad that there wil be some new faces here. Everyone, I'm Kjølen, the fun guy here. Thats Kjølen, K-J-Alt0248-L-E-N. =Þ
scabb Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 I agree with what Feral said. The design is amazing, Jake & Dan Lee doodle with style, and there are far too many crappy little forums hiding in dank corners and gathering dust. Hello to the Brimstone Beach Club Crowd too.
Gabez Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 Yeah, this is the best looking forum EVER. Great job! It also makes tons more sense to get one big MI forum, especially since there was already two Monkey Island boards on LF. It’s nice to be part of a slightly bigger community, too.
Joshi Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 For More Work by Dan Lee, come here and why not Jake as well, just here and just for the hell of it, here's mine. but yes, the above work does look good, in the true dan lee style of course, impressive as hell keep up the good work.
Mex Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 I don't like it at all..... I love it! Consider this my new home.
Rufio Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 I am indeed impressed with the swiftness the merger took place as well as with just how damn well it looks!
Jake Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 I didn't do any doodling, that was all Mr. Lee. Well, I guess I doodled the torn paper edges I just did the color selecting, fonts, and layout/design. Most thanks go to Dan Lee for the superb illustration and tattered banner thing.
Natty Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 It looks fantastic! But I'm not a mod anymore *throws temper tantrum* Actually I don't mind, nothing ever happened in the old EscapeMI Old School Forum
bucket-o'-mudd Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 "I luuurrve what Bowsley's done to the joint" - Manny Calavera Oh sorry, wrong game but the same can be said about this board The only niggle I can spot is the liberal use of the <blockquote> tag. I'm running a 1024x768 res and I feel that the whole forum is pulled in from a edges a bit too much However, I know how difficult it would be to correct this and I can only praise Jake and Dan for the cool parchment effect (that makes the Scummbar website what it is) on the side and the illustration at the top. Is that Elaine in the corner?
Al-back from the BigWhoop Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 eh, it looks nice. at first i was (as kjo put it) at shock. but i stopped to think and... well, i guess its a good idea. i ll eventually get used to it
Darth Groovy Posted February 10, 2003 Posted February 10, 2003 Originally posted by Natty It looks fantastic! But I'm not a mod anymore *throws temper tantrum* Actually I don't mind, nothing ever happened in the old EscapeMI Old School Forum That happened to me at jk2 once, they had actually created a seperate forum for game threads, with post counts disabled. I was assigned to those boards. After the bitching increased by ten fold, they outsted the idea and the games were returned to Yoda's Swamp. The boards look groovy, load a little slower, but nothing my cable can't handle.
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