What should we do about Rep ?

[Tiana]

Instead of rep i would like to see maybe a reaction to post option when you can choose an icon like Thank you / Like it / Wow etc.

Yes, some forums I am on have a plug in that lets you click 'thanks' on a post and then it shows a list of who said 'thank you' for that post. I like that the rep here lets you write a message though, but it would be interesting to see who said thanks for what post, so we can see what was considered useful advice? Since I get more rep for me writing useful things about the business of mapping than I do for my art, like Mark Oliva posted as well.

Thanks Voolf for all of those comments. Personally I am with you with the option of complete overhaul. Maybe to start with it worked but I havent felt like it has been working for a long while. Perhaps some tweaks would make it better but there is a limit to what can be done but at present its not working for me.

Just also to say that under your profile settings there is a skin option. There are only a couple of skins to pick from and the default is this brown one but there is an option to pick one which is white and light blue. So you may find that preferable. Perhaps we could think about some more skins and see whats involved in making a new one and then we might be able to run a competition to make up some more and the best of them could be implemented as options in your settings.

Here's a couple of light color skins (we'd just want to replace with an appropriate banner)
I like the brown skin. I like that it's old fashioned, just like our maps. It's straight outta 2006.

https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=325434
https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=233455

That said, I know how to make basic phpbb forum skins too. I assume it's basically the same kind of CSS reskin with vbulletin.

I think it would be neat if we did a competition for some new banners and made them rotate through different banners.

If we update, just please, please, don't take that damn forum base that Nanowrimo switched to. They switched to Discourse. I'd rather eat a raw onion like an apple than use that mangled wannabe social media platform. If I wanted to be on Reddit or Instagram or Twitter I'd be on there. It killed my willingness to participate on that forum ever again. The latest version of VB? Phpbb? No prob! Should we? .......maybe. There's great plugins that are not usable by us because we're on VB4, and people are making for VB5. I'm pretty sure we can still port over all the posts and etc. I'd just be terrified of messing up the attachment system, a vital portion of this forum would be destroyed if old attachments were accidentally unlinked.

[ChickPea]

The latest version of VB? Phpbb? No prob! Should we? .......maybe. There's great plugins that are not usable by us because we're on VB4, and people are making for VB5. I'm pretty sure we can still port over all the posts and etc. I'd just be terrified of messing up the attachment system, a vital portion of this forum would be destroyed if old attachments were accidentally unlinked.

IIRC, Robbie purchased the VB5 upgrade a while back, but the problem was (at that time) it didn't support the awards system that we have (i.e. the compasses for challenge winners/Atlas Awards winners etc.). He posted about it here. Since then, I think Robbie's just got really busy with work and a growing family, and it's pretty much been put on the backburner.

Not gonna lie, I would *love* to get rid of the brown...

[Voolf]

IIRC, Robbie purchased the VB5 upgrade a while back, but the problem was (at that time) it didn't support the awards system that we have (i.e. the compasses for challenge winners/Atlas Awards winners etc.). He posted about it here. Since then, I think Robbie's just got really busy with work and a growing family, and it's pretty much been put on the backburner.

Not gonna lie, I would *love* to get rid of the brown...

Well, there seems to be an award system for new VB, but I have no idea if that is easy to implement or not for Robbie.

please please don't take the brown Guild look away from me! I love it!

Nobody wants to take it away, i simply said i would like to have an additional one