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Don't get me wrong when I was younger I probably watched the first 300-400 episodes of One Piece more than once and enjoyed it repeatedly. The pacing was occasionally bad back then but not a total joke. It's the subsequent 600+ where its lost the plot lol. One Piece is tied together by awesome, emotional, gut-punching backstories and takes exciting leaps forward in the story where other series would just stew for a while. So when you spread those key moments out to be 10, 20, even 50 episodes apart, it loses all its rhythm.

The original anime is a mess to be honest. I'd love to love it, but I've honestly never known anything drag its heels quite like it. The pacing makes it completely unenjoyable to me nowadays. Even if I try to watch the fan re-cut "One Pace". Hoping that the new version of the show really fixes this.

I've always been a big fan of PC keyboard and mouse for these games - in fact some of the first ever online gaming I did was on Worms 2 with people from this forum and a 56k modem! That said, they've always been perfectly fine with controllers too. You just have to learn to navigate the weapons menus very quickly so as not to waste precious time!

As a rule, image uploads is off (for non-staff) just to save on disk space. I'd prefer images simply uploaded to imgur etc then pasted in. Tapatalk support for Invision has seemingly been pretty much abandoned by the devs, so we weren't able to keep it.

All credit goes to Cube for that sweet retro 3D N, I just clicked some buttons

Let me know if you want to, I can help out. They don't have to even go into the homepage news feed if you're worried about that, or they can be added as their own feature etc. Funny I was thinking about Superman 64 the other day. It's obvious why it was so disappointing back in the day when people were hoping for something bigger and better, and we've still never had a good Superman game... which is pretty wild. But with so much less shovelware coming out in those days I guess it was just an easy target.

Maybe I'm a bit late to the party here but can't help but wonder why these aren't articles on the main site as well as forum posts? 😄

So glad we finally solved that problem

Guess I'll check out that demo then... no feedback from anyone on this?

If it can play Half Life Alyx, it'll never need its own Killer App 😁 (j/k don't want to get into the "buy a powerful PC" debate again) In related news... I upgraded to the Quest 3 but still barely put the thing on. Maybe just too sweaty a time of year for it 😅

The issue with the forum not sending emails should be fixed, sorry, with all the server downtime when we upgraded that slipped my mind.

Sorry, it should be an ID not a class, so the "." wants to change to "#" Here's a rough idea of the setup:

Sorry but we're just going to mostly use the forum as it's built for now. We're not going to be shuffling whole parts of a third-party system around which might expand or change in future updates, just giving ourselves headaches when things break. I'd prefer to reduce barriers to keeping the system up-to-date going forward so we don't end up back in the position we were in before with broken themes and out-of-date plugins holding us back. Hopefully you'll get used to it, or check out a browser extension to customise it as you like.

I imagine a thread just has to be big enough to be worth summarising, and then it appears. I'd advise hiding it with a browser script if it's a bother, you could install the Stylus browser extension then create a script to add the following CSS .ipsLayout_sidebar { display: none; } Since it's new and novel, and people tend to be a bit... reactionary when it comes to change (remember when everyone said avatars over 25x25px were obscenely large? 😉), I'd rather just leave it a while and see if people get used to it/get benefit out of it. It's handy for giving people ways to engage with the quality content from the middle of a thread that they might otherwise miss.

It does seem to have improved doesn't it! I haven't really done anything, except set up a monitoring service to automatically restart the service that kept going down. I'm hoping that maybe just as more and more of the site went into the new caching system, things have gotten more stable by themselves. 🤞

To be honest I think that was just it going down regularly while I was trying to adjust configs and set up logs/monitoring, which I've given up on for now. I think it might still go down from time to time, but hopefully less frequently. Anyway I have to get back to my real job now

Well it's being a bit of a pain in the butt. I can tell you that.

I have noticed that it certainly hasn't solved things. One thing I have been considering is that if I bulk purchase 2 years of hosting, I get quite a significant saving, so I could put this towards extra memory. As the site goes down and up again, that's mostly me messing around with caching settings etc trying to speed things up, so I'll see if I can determine the cause the bottleneck and go from there.

I just broke the site trying to tweak the settings for speed, luckily the great wise words of the IT Crowd saw us through.

I'm going to set it so people can login with their username, but as it's a fairly sensible security precaution, I think I'll redisable it after some warning

I can't believe two people managed to screenshot and send me the white-text-on-white BG header in the 20 seconds it took me to fix it 😝

Well, if you're here and reading this, you're looking at the new forums I imagine there'll be some kinks to work out, but for now, I rest.

Pretty similar experience with me except on a much smaller scale When I joined my company I was the fourth employee. Now we have about 30. Covid put a bit of a dent in our growth trajectory or we might've been a bit bigger now, but also with the rise of WFH we have lots of people we've hired from around the world that we never see in person. We've gone from being a creative agency to very much a corporate back-end systems agency with a little sprinkling of the creative stuff still happening on top, and that side was always what interested me most. On the other hand I've climbed a (fairly small) corporate ladder and got a small team now, and the money's decent. But yeah, hard to not get nostalgic for the simpler days. Once, in our first couple of years, work got quiet and the whole team just played CoD MW2 in a mini lan party. These days we're lucky if anyone comes out for a drink one Friday a month.

Sorry to say that I had an unsuccessful attempt at upgrading the forum this evening, not sure what the issue was really but backing up the db here did not behave itself the way it did during the test run. After a lot of attempts it just started to get a bit late. I'll give it another shot soon.

For the like... 2 people still using it ( @Sheikah @bob ?) - I'm sorry to say that Tapatalk won't work after the forum is updated. They have shown no interest in updating the plugin to work on 4.7 from what I can gather. On the plus side, the latest version of the software works smoothly as a progressive web app - i.e. it should feel close to an app experience on the web.