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Kibble wrote:When you have a news item that is posted in an existing forum thread, how about have the discussion link go to that post in the thread? I will often be curious to see the reaction of something, but when the link brings me to page 1 of 60 for some generic, catch all thread and the update I'm interested in is on page 54... Either that or have all news items have their own thread.

Eight months since that little jewel of a suggestion.
Here's one more suggestion to ignore.

http://www.slashcode.com/www.slashcode.com/faq.shtml

Actually if you could not ignore it and give a couple of reasons why it isn't feasible, I'm all ears. I mean, aside from, "too lazy" I'd like to help if I could but without understanding the issues on the admin side of things I'm just plodding around in deep dark megathreads.

I can assure you we are not ignoring it!

I have contacted Ryan/Seibertron, and he will reply here (possibly) as soon as he can.

How about a 'Donate Button' for people who don't like looking at ads all day but still want to support their favorite website?
Y'know, a way to opt out of being unundated by advertisements by paying it forward.

I'm sure this suggestion goes against some of your sponsor directives.
Feel free to ignore.


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You don't know how much I'd pay to do without ads the legit way. I can assure you that it would be at least double what Seibertron was asking for exclusive Devy pics.
This is the only website I allow ads, occasionally I click them. (only to support Seibertron.com)
If I could skip those steps to merely pay you pennies on the dollar, I, for one, would greatly appreciate it and make it worth your while.

Convoy wrote:How about a 'Donate Button' for people who don't like looking at ads all day but still want to support their favorite website?
Y'know, a way to opt out of being unundated by advertisements by paying it forward.

I'm sure this suggestion goes against some of your sponsor directives.
Feel free to ignore.


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You don't know how much I'd pay to do without ads the legit way. I can assure you that it would be at least double what Seibertron was asking for exclusive Devy pics.
This is the only website I allow ads, occasionally I click them. (only to support Seibertron.com)
If I could skip those steps to merely pay you pennies on the dollar, I, for one, would greatly appreciate it and make it worth your while.

If you want to send me $100 for a one year subscription to block ads, I will customize the site to block ads for your account for one year. At that time, you will have to renew.

Convoy wrote:http://www.slashcode.com/www.slashcode.com/faq.shtml

Actually if you could not ignore it and give a couple of reasons why it isn't feasible, I'm all ears. I mean, aside from, "too lazy" I'd like to help if I could but without understanding the issues on the admin side of things I'm just plodding around in deep dark megathreads.

"Too lazy" is never one of my answers to anything Seibertron.com related. I put in 80+ hours per week working on this site. "Not enough of me to go around" is a common answer.

As for your actual post, I'm not sure what you are suggesting. If you are suggesting that we switch message board systems, the only alternative I would consider from phpBB is vBulletin. However, phpBB is so integrated into the custom (and legacy) code on Seibertron.com I would probably have to rebuild Seibertron.com from scratch to integrate it with a new message board system. If I were building Seibertron.com today, I would approach it much differently than I originally did when I built the core of the site back in 2004. One day, I'll probably have to do rewrite it from scratch but for the time being, the existing structure is still working great (though it needs a responsive design).

Kibble wrote:When you have a news item that is posted in an existing forum thread, how about have the discussion link go to that post in the thread? I will often be curious to see the reaction of something, but when the link brings me to page 1 of 60 for some generic, catch all thread and the update I'm interested in is on page 54... Either that or have all news items have their own thread.

This issue has been addressed and the code to display a news post has been updated accordingly per the requests of many. When you click on "View Discussion" in a news topic, it should now take you to the first new post about that topic. In addition, I fixed the bug in the forum posts that display on a news topic's page so now you can jump right to that forum post as well. The bottom link at the end of the forum posts that says "view additional posts ..." will take you to the last forum post that displays on the news topic's page so that you can continue reading the discussion from there.

Example news story: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ter/32150/

Please let me know if you encounter any bugs with the changes that I made. Thanks.

Seem to be working fine with me! Thanks for the change!

Sweet Seibertron!

Seibertron wrote:This issue has been addressed and the code to display a news post has been updated accordingly per the requests of many. When you click on "View Discussion" in a news topic, it should now take you to the first new post about that topic. In addition, I fixed the bug in the forum posts that display on a news topic's page so now you can jump right to that forum post as well. The bottom link at the end of the forum posts that says "view additional posts ..." will take you to the last forum post that displays on the news topic's page so that you can continue reading the discussion from there.

Example news story: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ter/32150/

Please let me know if you encounter any bugs with the changes that I made. Thanks.

Cool, thanks. I assume this will only work going forward, correct? Was trying to do some testing for ya, but I'm not seeing a lot of news with corresponding megathreads at the moment, and going backwards to try it out it looks like it's still going to pg 1...but I imagine you have to tell the link which post to go to so it makes sense that older news would still behave that way.

Kibble wrote:Cool, thanks. I assume this will only work going forward, correct? Was trying to do some testing for ya, but I'm not seeing a lot of news with corresponding megathreads at the moment, and going backwards to try it out it looks like it's still going to pg 1...but I imagine you have to tell the link which post to go to so it makes sense that older news would still behave that way.

This change impacted all news stories that have associated forum topics (so basically everything from the past 7 or 8 years). Can you post some URLs so that I can look into it further? Thanks.

Seibertron wrote:This change impacted all news stories that have associated forum topics (so basically everything from the past 7 or 8 years). Can you post some URLs so that I can look into it further? Thanks.

I think I see what's happening... If you go to the news via the menu at the top of the page you get a list of news stories. If you click the 'discuss this topic' link from that page it goes to the first page of the corresponding thread. However, if you open a news topic to its own page and click 'view discussion', it works as you've modified to work.

In the toy galleries it would be great if when there are multiple figures in a picture to have a caption for the photo stating the name and series of all the other pictured figures are from.

This site could definitely use a slimmer designer for browsing on the web with a cellphone

I really appreciate the recent changes. Thank you very much.
Now I don't have to find another community which shall remain nameless.

Keep it up, Seibertron.com!

You rock!

P.S. Where do I send my check to be ad free? If you're for real I'm for real.

Feel free to PM me the info (though I'm really bad at ever checking those) or shoot me an email. (I'm pretty sure you have my address.)

Convoy wrote:P.S. Where do I send my check to be ad free? If you're for real I'm for real.

The computer network at my job blocks all those ads on the right side of the screen. All I see is a blank white space in their place. Im no tech guy, but im sure if you dig deep enough into your firewall or anti-virus settings, you can block the ads.

As of right now the site is good, might enhance the forum for easier use maybe categorized a little better. I.E. say I want to look for new figure topics all I have to do is search or as soon you login the hot topic is the first you can forum. however you guys have been doing a good job keep up the great work. TM

Would it make sense to display the Transformers Toy Reviews, Non-Transformers Toy Discussion and Share Your Transformers Collection subforums on the index page under Transformers Toys Forums along with its other subforums?

Jeen0808 wrote:Would it make sense to display the Transformers Toy Reviews, Non-Transformers Toy Discussion and Share Your Transformers Collection subforums on the index page under Transformers Toys Forums along with its other subforums?

My idea is for the Non-Ttransformers/3rd party section:

Recently we have seen an influx of "Kickstarter" projects that have little to nothing to do with 3rd party or other non-official Transformers products. Technically the creators of these Kickstarters should not even be considered "third parties" because they are not producing a product at the time of the Kickstarter. They are still in the "begging for fans to fund the project" stage which may make them visionaries, but not a true 3rd party company.


My idea is for there to be a "Kickstarter" section in the non-Transformer section of threads. Anything can be posted there, regardless if it relates to Transformers, MOTU, RPG's, or grandmas crusty underwear. If somebody tries to post a "Kickstarter" in the 3rd party section, respectfully bump it into the proper section. The supporters of the Kickstarter" concept will have their own section to discuss their hopes and aspirations without bothering the rest of the fandom who is here to discuss Transformers related products that will actually see a production run.

Non-Transformers Toys Discussion

Do you collect other toys besides Transformers? Maybe you've got a Masters of the Universe collection you'd like to show off, or maybe you like Thundercats, Voltron, G.I.Joe, Power Rangers, Star Wars, Wrestling, or any of the various comic book toy lines. Please keep the discussions here to non-Transformers toy lines.

Seems like a good enough place for such things.

Burn wrote:Non-Transformers Toys Discussion

Do you collect other toys besides Transformers? Maybe you've got a Masters of the Universe collection you'd like to show off, or maybe you like Thundercats, Voltron, G.I.Joe, Power Rangers, Star Wars, Wrestling, or any of the various comic book toy lines. Please keep the discussions here to non-Transformers toy lines.

Seems like a good enough place for such things.

But a "Kickstarter" technically isn't any of those things on the list. It's just a fund raising program for something on that may or may not be on the list. The key word is "toys". Did a RPG/techno rave CD even belong in THAT category ? Im telling you, if you dont clamp down on these kickstarters, your gonna start seeing posts about everything from pajamas to cell phone cases posted on this section. They'll say, "oh well it features 3rd party characters so it belongs here". You have a chance to nip this at the bud before it becomes a laughing stock like that thread did.

One thread does not constitute the sky falling. I have faith in our members to be smart enough about what they post.

But if it's an issue to you, if you see something pop up that you don't feel is in the appropriate place, by all means, use the "Report this Post" button and let a staff member deal with it.

Rated X wrote:

Burn wrote:Non-Transformers Toys Discussion

Do you collect other toys besides Transformers? Maybe you've got a Masters of the Universe collection you'd like to show off, or maybe you like Thundercats, Voltron, G.I.Joe, Power Rangers, Star Wars, Wrestling, or any of the various comic book toy lines. Please keep the discussions here to non-Transformers toy lines.

Seems like a good enough place for such things.

But a "Kickstarter" technically isn't any of those things on the list. It's just a fund raising program for something on that may or may not be on the list. The key word is "toys". Did a RPG/techno rave CD even belong in THAT category ? Im telling you, if you dont clamp down on these kickstarters, your gonna start seeing posts about everything from pajamas to cell phone cases posted on this section. They'll say, "oh well it features 3rd party characters so it belongs here". You have a chance to nip this at the bud before it becomes a laughing stock like that thread did.

Kickstarters and other similar sites are often just digital panhandling, they really should have their own section.

Because we all love taking lots of pictures of our toys and posting them on here, I think this forum could highly benefit of one of those closed-box-click-to-open spoiler tags kind of thing.

I assume that's a no?