Meet & Greet - Let's introduce ourselves!
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Post by Savarin on May 8, 2024 22:28:50 GMT
Hello! I just want to make this thread so that this forum can start off with some activity. So, how about we break the ice? I'll start.  Hi, I'm Sav. I'm a beginner artist, writer and game dev. I haven't done much regarding those just yet, though, but I do want to work on them in the future.  I like adventure, strategy, role playing, puzzle, and shooter games, but I do enjoy (almost) all genres. I also like watching movies with my friends too. I don't consider myself a film buff, but I do enjoy some obscure flicks. As for my music tastes, anything that isn't the Billboard Top 40 because I'd rather tear my own eardrums out, but specifically I really like nu-metal, ska-punk, alternative and indie rock. I'm not really that social, but when I do make a friend, usually, that friend is for life. Well, I guess that's enough to start things off. Hehehe~  |
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Post by RedSavarin! on May 8, 2024 23:28:28 GMT
Heyo! I'm the head admin and founder of the RedSpy Forums (similar username to the lad above but that's coincidental). I'm a programmer (mostly CSS, HTML and Javascript), game dev and amateur voice actor. Big history and lost/obscure media buff too. In terms of games, I'm interested in a wide array of genres but I mostly prefer CRPGs, FPS/TPS, mech-combat, RTS and adventure games. Although I do also enjoy puzzle games ala Puzzle Agent. Also enjoy me some FFXIV and Team Fortress 2 in terms of multiplayer games. As for film, I enjoy a lot of surrealist stuff or military sci-fi flicks (same thing for TV really). Favorite shows are Stargate SG-1/Atlantis, X-Files, Fringe, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Superjail, Venture Bros, Generation Kill and Berserk. On music, my tastes are a little spastic at times. I like power metal, grunge/post-grunge, EDM/techno, new-wave, synthwave and nu-metal. But with all that out of the way, welcome to the forums and I hope to see more people join in soon!  |
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Post by ajdino on May 12, 2024 17:27:05 GMT
Hi everyone! I'm the legacy lead developer of the Xfire restoration project - something of a sister revival project to OpenSpy/GameSpy 3D's revival. I'm helping restore a different 2000s era gaming-oriented social network. Anyways, I just wanted to congratulate you on resurrecting a legacy forum and to stand in solidarity with what you fellas are doing here. I'm a dedicated Windows XP (and formerly 9x) PC builder and gamer. Not only do I build and play, but I also find hard to access titles and upload them on archive. I just upload whatever I like, so you might find something else the catches your fancy. I'm dropping a link here: ajdino" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">archive.org/details/ ajdino Anyways, I'm currently restoring a half dozen laptops to fully working order. I'm actually giving some away to finds that want to be a part of the retro scene, but can't afford to jump in. They're going to be active GameSpy, GameRanger, and Xfire users and I couldn't be happier to see that kind of growth in the community. Beyond that laptop work, I'm also redoing my desktop XP build. I'm switching out of Socket 775 and moving into Socket 2011 - where the very last XP supported motherboards existed. I'm maxing out my machine with a i7 3930k, a GTX 960, and 64 gigs of RAM (for the hell of it and/or the other three operating systems that will be installed). On top of that, I'm buying several of the only modern 4:3 monitors in the world and I'm paying a very pretty penny. On my old 775, I had installed and configured almost 600 games. I'm looking to fill out the whole 2 terabytes with quality 90s and 2000s titles. Now that I'm maxing out, there's no doubt I'll be seeing perfect framerates on even the most insanely modded games in my collection. I'm really looking forward to these next few endeavors. All the while, I'll be making sure that programs like Xfire and GameSpy continue working on original hardware. I'm your watchdog for that sort of thing. Hit me up on Discord (ajdino) if you ever want to talk about the past and/or revisit it! Best wishes for now, gentlemen. |
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Post by termina on Jun 13, 2024 1:48:43 GMT
heya, I'm termina aka vomi. I have a great passion for 2000s era tech stuff and the general culture of the time, so I try to get in whenever theres something cool happening in that scene. I have fond memories of playing on GameSpy powered servers so I felt this was a neat place to come join in on if It gains traction. I'm also an artist / amateur musician heavily inspired by the y2k aesthetic.
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Post by tranquillfoxcat on Jun 16, 2024 21:34:57 GMT
You can call me Quill or Strae if you want.
I love LOTS of music and can talk about some of it for hours. Savatage is my favorite band of all time and the most influential to me as a person.
Sometimes I get in the mood to write stories. I especially enjoy creating new characters who I will flesh out much more than the world they actually live in. We can't have it all sadly.
I don't have a ton of nostalgia for the original site as I was a bit out of the loop for the internet at the time, but I can appreciate what it means to everyone and I love to come back and see more of it! And of course it's great to see others who respect this so deeply.
Take it easy everyone!
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Post by katsuramen027 on Jul 25, 2024 14:30:50 GMT
Hi! I'm Katsu, or iDexPro. I'm a semi decent writer and amateur (meaning, very bad) artist. At this time of writing I will be starting my Computer Science Major with honors in Game Development in a month's time. Already have some experience with java, c++, c#.
Music wise, I'm mostly into the punk rock genre. So bands like Boys Like Girls, 5 Seconds of Summer, Mayday Parade are what I mostly vibe with. Other than that, it's JROCK, old school KPOP, and 2000s mandopop songs.
Currently addicted to Zenless Zone Zero, really having a lot of fun with it.
Anyways, hope yall have a good day!
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Post by radiathewolf on Aug 31, 2024 11:08:58 GMT
I'm Radia! You can also call me Rae or Ray, idm. I'm kind of an amature writer who's currently at the time of writing, taking a degree in IT.
I'm not really a talkative person but when I get started, it's hard for me to stop until I can't think of anything else to add or forget what I was talking about.
I mostly listen to old European edm/club music or game music. I do like new songs but they often feel like it was made purely for money with no passion.
I am and always have been in love with the Shin Megami Tensei series even though I haven't/can't play a good amount of the games.
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Customization |
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Welcome to the help dialog for the Custom Mini-Profile Creator plugin!
Click on any of the tabs above to go through the plugin configuration process!
You can access this menu at any time by clicking on the
icon in the bottom right bar (may not be applicable if you're on Forums.net), or you can disable the welcome window and/or the icon by going to
Plugins > Manage > Custom Mini-Profile Creator and changing the
Show Help option.
This step is essential as it gives the plugin everything it needs on the page to get as much profile information as possible.
To make the profile variables work you'll need to add a new line to the very end of
Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile and paste the code below on it. The code should be placed completely outside of the mini-profile, so if you're using the default mini-profile template this will be after the very last closing
</div> tag.
This needs to be done on every theme you have the plugin enabled on as the template is theme-specific.
If your mini-profile template is already customized and you've hit the variable limit for your template you're free to remove any lines from the code below if they contain information that you don't plan on using. For example, if you have no plans to ever add a user's IP to their mini-profile for staff reference you can remove
<div class="mp-info ip">$[user.ip]</div> from the code and everything else will still work just fine.
Click to show example
Once you've added the HTML from the Layout Templates tab you're ready to move on to building your mini-profiles. If you want to get going and try some out now or you're not very adept at HTML, CSS, or Javascript, worry not! This plugin includes some examples for you to try out. You're free to skip to the Custom Profile Fields tab and read over this tab later when you're ready to build your own.
Here's a quick rundown of each of the components in Plugins > Manage > Custom Mini-Profile Creator:
Name
This is the name you'll be adding to your custom profile field dropdown once you've finished coding the mini-profile. Pretty self-explanatory. Make sure this name is unique from every other name you use for your mini-profiles or you'll end up overwriting the earlier ones in the list.
HTML
This is the HTML that will go inside your mini-profile. You can use just about any HTML tag here so long as it's appropriate for where the mini-profile is showing on the page. Please refrain from using <style> or <script> tags here. You have the next two sections for that! Also, remember that mini-profiles can show multiple times on the same page, so you shouldn't add ID attributes to any of your elements here. Two elements on the same page cannot have the same ID per HTML standards.
CSS
This is where you'll place what would normally go in your forum's style sheet or what would normally be between <style> tags. Try to code your mini-profile's HTML in a way that will allow you to target it specifically with your selectors. For example, you can surround all of the content in your HTML with a <div> element with a class and target that class and its child elements specifically with your CSS. That way you don't accidentally target every mini-profile on the page with CSS that was meant for the one you're building. One more thing: The forum theme's CSS still applies beforehand, so your mini-profile may look right in one theme but not in another. The best way to circumvent this is to define as many styles as you can to override the theme's CSS.
Javascript
Anything that normally goes between <script> tags will go here. This one's a bit tricky since you'll obviously want to target the custom mini-profile specifically. Luckily there's an easy way to do that. In your statements you can use the $(this) variable to target the mini-profile if you're coding using jQuery. Otherwise, if you only plan on using standard Javascript you can target $(this)[0] instead.
Once you've finished building your mini-profiles it's finally time to add them to the Edit Profile page for use! To enable selection of custom mini-profiles you'll first need to add two specific custom profile fields in
Members > Custom Profile Fields in your forum's admin area:
- Mini-Profile Theme
- Staff Mini-Profile Theme
Mini-Profile Theme is for mini-profiles that are designed for member use. You can set the Who Can Edit option for this field to
Staff With Power if you only want staff to be able to choose mini-profiles for users. Otherwise, if you want members to freely be able to choose their own mini-profiles you can choose
Members and Staff With Power.
Staff Mini-Profile Theme is for mini-profiles designed specifically for staff use. This field is completely optional.
Set the type for both of these fields as
Drop Down Selection. Click on the
(View/Edit) link to add mini-profile names to each of these fields.
If you've just installed this plugin you should have three different mini-profiles already installed by default:
Example 1,
Example 2, and
Example 3. You can add these to your dropdowns to test them out and see the plugin in action.
Click to show example
If you're having trouble getting this plugin to work despite following the instructions in the previous tabs you may want to check that each of your themes meets the prerequisites below in
Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile.
First, ensure that opening tag of your mini-profile template includes the
$[miniprofile_class] variable in its class. On the default ProBoards theme it should look something like this:
<div class="$[miniprofile_class]">
Next, make sure that the default
{foreach} loop for custom fields is present inside your mini-profile. It doesn't need to be visible, so you're free to add it inside a hidden element if you don't plan on displaying it or if it would mess up the appearance of your own custom template.
{foreach $[user.mini_custom_field]}
<br /><span class="$[user.mini_custom_field.content_class]">$[user.mini_custom_field.name]: $[user.mini_custom_field.value]</span>
{/foreach}
Beyond that you can do whatever you like to the mini-profile template for the most part and it shouldn't negatively impact the plugin.
The following is a list of available variables for use in the HTML section of the mini-profile creator and their definitions. Adding any of these to a mini-profile will generate the content described in its definition in place of the variable so long as the information that variable outputs is visible to you.
To reference your forum's custom profile fields you can use
$[user.customfieldname], substituting "customfieldname" with your custom field's name. You'll need to type the name in all lowercase with no spaces and only use characters A-Z and 0-9.
For example,
Mini-Profile Theme becomes
$[user.miniprofiletheme]. This will output the value of the custom field. In the case of this example, it'll be the name of the mini-profile theme you've chosen in your profile.
IMPORTANT NOTE: These will only work if you followed the steps in the Installation tab of this window on each of your themes. Any themes that do not include the template code specified there will not have these variables replaced in the mini-profile.
| $[user] |
User's display name link. |
| $[user.age] |
User's age (if visible to you). |
| $[user.avatar] |
User's current avatar. |
| $[user.badges] |
User's list of badges. |
| $[user.birthday] |
User's date of birth (if visible to you). |
| $[user.color] |
Hex color of user's group. If user is not in a group this will return inherit. |
| $[user.custom_title] |
User's custom title. |
| $[user.email] |
User's email (if visible to you). |
| $[user.gender.image] |
Image associated with the gender selected in the user's profile (if available). |
| $[user.gender.text] |
Name of gender selected in the user's profile (if available). |
| $[user.group.name] |
Name of user's current display group. |
| $[user.group.stars] |
Star images associated with user's current display group. |
| $[user.id] |
User's numerical ID. |
| $[user.instant_messenger] |
User's list of instant messengers specified in their profile (if available). |
| $[user.invisible] |
Returns 1 if a user is invisible. More useful for Javascript. |
| $[user.ip] |
User's IP address (if visible to you). |
| $[user.is_online] |
Returns Member is Online if user is currently online. |
| $[user.is_staff] |
Returns 1 if a user is designated as staff. More useful for Javascript. |
| $[user.last_online] |
Timestamp showing when user was last online. |
| $[user.likes] |
Number of likes this user's posts have received. |
| $[user.location] |
Location specified in user's profile. |
| $[user.name] |
User's display name in plain text. |
| $[user.personal_text] |
User's most recent status. |
| $[user.posts] |
User's post count. |
| $[user.rank.name] |
User's current posting rank. |
| $[user.rank.stars] |
Star images associated with user's current posting rank. |
| $[user.registered_on] |
Timestamp showing the date/time the user registered on the forum. |
| $[user.registered_on_short] |
Condensed version of user's registration date. |
| $[user.social_network] |
User's list of social networks specified in their profile (if available). |
| $[user.username] |
Outputs the user's login username in plain text. |
| $[user.warning.bar] |
User's warning bar (if it exists). |
| $[user.warning.level] |
User's current warning level (if visible to you). |
| $[user.website] |
Website specified in user's profile. |
You can utilize the
$(this) variable in the Javascript component to target the mini-profile
<div> element. For example, if you wanted to add a class to the mini-profile you can use:
$(this).addClass('class-name-here');
Profile variables can also be used in the Javascript component in this plugin. In Javascript the value
undefined is used to signify that a value doesn't exist for the variable you've specified. With this in mind you can use profile variables in Javascript conditional statements within the plugin similar to how they're used in the actual layout templates section of the admin area.
- if(variable) will only run if the variable you specify has a value.
- if(!variable) will only run if the variable you specify has no value.
Example 1 (variable has value):
if(user.group){
$(this).find('.group').show();
}
If the user has their group displayed in their profile the above Javascript would make the HTML below visible if you had it hidden with CSS.
<div class="group">$[user.group.name]<br />$[user.group.stars]</div>
Example 2 (variable has no value):
if(!user.gender){
$(this).find('.gender').hide();
}
If the user's gender isn't visible the above Javascript would hide the gender icon generated by the HTML with the "gender" class below.
<div class="gender">$[user.gender.image]</div>
icon in the bottom right bar (may not be applicable if you're on Forums.net), or you can disable the welcome window and/or the icon by going to Plugins > Manage > Custom Mini-Profile Creator and changing the Show Help option.
