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Topic Started: May 18 2013, 07:04 PM (1,502 Views)
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This topic was created to keep you updated on all important changes and events taking place on the forum without having to follow many topics at once.

Things you'll find here:

  • Notices on changes made to the rules
  • Technical changes announced and explained
  • Changes within the staff team and links to ongoing elections
  • Links to important discussions about the forum in other threads
  • Requests for help and information on open positions on the forum
If there is one topic worth peeking into regularly, this is the one.

We are keeping the thread locked to make sure it's clean and easy to follow but you are more than welcome to leave your comments and questions about everything posted here in the Forum Discussions thread.
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My post above probably made you wonder why was I posting something like this to start with. I guess it's time to put this topic to a good use.

Hello, I'm xyz or Val, whatever 3 letters you prefer, and I'll be joining this forum's staff as a technical administrator. My real life job is related to making web sites and I'll try to use this knowledge to make this place a bit more comfortable and fun to use.

Before you start wondering what happened to 'community decides the mods' rule, it's still there. My role on this forum is purely technical and I will not be involved in giving out bans and editing messages. You can pretty much ignore my special status. It will not ever be used against you.

If you have concerns or questions regarding this, please feel free to post them in Forum Discussions thread. I'll do my best to answer and maybe other mods will help.
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Months ago when this forum was created, I thought it would be easier to get it up on its feet with an address that a humans can actually remember. But no one knew if this place would survive even a week, so a bit strange but free domain ending in .tk was chosen.

I think it's pretty obvious now that this forum is here to stay. And to celebrate this fact, SGSD is a getting a proper commercial domain.

Starting from today the main address of this forum is sogayshidae.com.

There is number of reasons for why this needed to happen:

  • it's much more intuitive and easy to remember
  • it's more future-proof, with free ones you never know when they decide to screw you for no reason
  • it makes sure no one else registers it and gets to use the name we are making big here
I hope this transition goes smooth for everyone. All the links and bookmarks using the old addresses will keep working. You can still access the forum on both sogayshidae.tk and the long zetaboard link. I'll make sure all those work for as long as possible.


As usual, if you have any comments or questions, don't hesitate to post them in Forum Discussions. You'll be heard.
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Some of you may have noticed a bunch of little changes implemented across the board.

Here's a full list of what happened:


  • In the topics list view the 'Topic Starter' column was removed.
    We don't have much use for it here and topic starter's name was easy to confuse with the name of last poster in the topic.

  • 'Pinned' prefixes in topic titles were removed as in our case they were adding very little information.

  • Forum-related topics had their titles colored purple, so it's easier to tell them apart from the ones we originally had in the section.

  • 'SNSD (Girls' Generation)' topic's title was made bold, so you can find it in the list on quick glance.
    Hope this helps the ones who reported being a little lost before.

  • 'Emoticons' and 'Preview' buttons we added to Fast Reply form.
    Having those extra buttons there causes little conflict in styling, so the quotes in Preview may look a bit quirky. It does not affect functionality much though. I'll try to fix it sometime in the future but for now it should do.

  • You can now edit your post without 'Edited by...' message being shown.
    You can still get this line to show if you want. There is a checkbox responsible for that in Post Options section.

Please let me know if any of these changes have caused problems or do not work as described. Also feel free to express your opinions on the changes in the Forum DIscussions thread.
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Quite a bit have been said about making this forum more readable and clean. Not that much has been done. It's time to try something.

We understand that constantly worrying about keeping things tidy is tiresome and not that fun. This is why we are making the forum itself do all the work. Having things done automatically will also hopefully prevent some of the complaints, because code knows no biases. It treats everyone equally. We just need to set it up in a way that works for most of us.

This is what 'Tidy Forum' experiment is all about.

For 2 weeks we are replacing current forum theme with a modified one. List of changes done to it includes:

  • Quote box was replaced with a paler one, so it distracts less
  • Quoted text was recolored to make sure it's different from the message one and easy to skip
  • All pictures and gifs within quote tags are automatically resized to 150px wide (if they were bigger to start with)
  • Only last quoted message shows
  • As a bonus top banner now shrinks on smaller screens. More work will be done on it to show some love to bigger screens too.
We are also setting the limit of quoting levels to about 1 since more won't show anyway. This means that if you are replying to someone's comment, you need to click the "quote" button on that particular comment. If you are reacting to a picture, you quote that particular picture and not a ladder of quotes that happen to contain that picture somewhere up there.

We hope that for the next 2 weeks you can sincerely give it a try, learn thinking a bit differently and what's most important - help us to improve this setup, so it works for as many people as possible.

If after 2 weeks you still absolutely hate it, you'll be given an option to change to the old theme with brighter boxes and big images. You may still face the problem of others not seeing all 100500 messages you are quoting though, so it's a good idea to contribute to discussion on the new theme even if you end up not using it.




Little tip: Even if you can't get quotes within quotes at the moment, you can still reply to more than one in your post. You may have noticed little checkboxes next to the "quote" buttons under each post. They look like this:
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If you check few of them on the page and then press that "Post Reply" button on the bottom, you will get each of those posts put in a separate quote nicely like this:
Quote:
 
First message you want to reply to
Quote:
 
Second message you want to reply to
You can also do it manually by copying things you want to react on and putting them within the "quote" tags. Quotes will not show one inside another but they can show one after another. You just need to do a bit of work for it when it actually matters. It won't happen accidentally anymore.




Please try it out, try to make it work and you can post your opinions and suggestions in the Forum Discussions thread anytime, although we'd prefer you to give it at least a week before coming to conclusions.
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After a heated discussion we decided to make the old theme available without 2 week delay. You can use the switcher on the bottom left of the page if the way things were before is more to your liking.

Also quoting level changes were reversed.

We tried to listen to feedback and adjust things on the go, so everything should be working fine now. Still don't hesitate to leave your feedback and ideas in the Forum Discussions topic.
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Thanks to anon's idea, you can now browse this forum without worry of being outed. Banner-free version named 'Safe Mofo' can be chosen in the theme picker on the left bottom of the page.
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Small cosmetic changes to the forum:

1) With a help of our awesome banner designer Brity, 'Clean Mofo' theme got a little facelift. The banner should look more natural on bigger monitors now.

2) Forum-wide: 'Anonymous' was changed to 'Invisible' to better reflect what it actually means and to save our newer users some confusion.

Edit: As a logical follow up to the previous change, 'Guest' was replaced with much commonly used 'Anon'. These changes may make things feel a bit strange and unfamiliar for a couple of days but they should help to prevent a lot of confusion in the future. If it still feels very uncomfortable after few days, if you have better name ideas or if you spot a bug related to this change (Anonymous->Invisible, Guest->Anon replacements happening in wrong places), please let me know through PM or Forum Discussions thread.
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Contact Staff form

Today we'd like to show some love to our Anons here.

Starting from now you can privately send a message to admin and mod team of the forum. If you had things to say before but felt uncomfortable posting them for others to see and comment on, now you can use our brand new Contact Staff form and whatever you write there will only be visible to this forum's staff.

You can use the form to submit your troll reports or other complaints, you can share your ideas and suggestions, give opinions and feedback on how staff team is doing.

Unfortunately PMs can't be sent to Anons since you are many and the board can't tell you apart. So mods will not have a way to directly reply you. You can be sure though that your message will be seen, given a thought and acted on if required. If you absolutely need a reply on something, you can always post in Complaints or Forum Discussions threads.

Now registered users always had ability to send PMs but this one lets you deliver a message to all staff members at once, so go ahead and use the form too. We will not discriminate.

The quickest way to access the form would be using main forum menu:

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And just as usual free to leave your comments and questions in the Forum Discussions thread.
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New moderator

Informing the members of the forum, that Orangedaffodils was voted to be the new moderator.
She will help us, the old mods, when in need.
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Both "Clean Mofo" themes were slightly adjusted so videos get resized when put in quotes just like pictures do.

I have also made this account for myself to save everyone some confusion. xyz will lurk and post as a regular user who doesn't see your IPs and can't do any moderation. I'll be using this power account only when I need to do something on the forum or discuss things with admin team. You can still send things my way through Contact Staff form. Other admins will let me know if there's something I need to see there.
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We've modified the Rules Thread a bit. Now it is named Intro, Rules & FAQ, please give it a read. We're now accepting the questions you may have, so please use the Contact Staff option to submit them.

The thread is divided into four parts:

  • Table of Contents/Index - You can click on the links there to navigate easily.
  • Introducction.
  • Rules
  • FAQ


To keep this new thread clean and spam free, it'll remain closed to all non-staff users, but it'll be updated and edited regularly.
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You may have noticed an 'Important Announcement' box appearing on the top of the board. We've put it there, so we could nudge newer members into the direction of Intro, Rules & F.A.Q. thread in hope they spend some time getting to know the way this forum ticks.

Since this area is visible on every page of the site, we'll be also using it to let you know if something really important happens, so please pay attention.

Edit: the feature of collapsing the box was removed due to performance issues.

As usual, if you have comments, questions or suggestions, feel free to voice them out in Forum Discussions thread.
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The Intro box was slightly adjusted and Collapse/Expand icon was removed due to performance issues.

Ads on the forum are temporarily gone.

We are asking for your opinions on number of posts per page to display on this forum, so if you have something to say about it, please do so in Forum Discussions thread.
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Girls, as you know, pagecatching on this forum is hell. We would like to try and make it more of community effort, so each of you doesn't have to suffer through all of it on your own. This is why we are thinking about opening a pagecatching thread that would only contain re-posts of most important news, pictures, links to fancams or mentions of funny and interesting discussions happening on the forum.

We can't do it on our own. Mods and admins have a lot of work to do as it is. So we are looking for volunteers who'd become our official editors. You'd get a title of Editor, ability to post in closed threads and a hidden forum for your organizational purposes and discussions with Staff. To make this work you obviously need a registered account. You can register it only for this purpose though and remain posting as anon otherwise.

If you are a regular user of the forum (registered or not), if you always keep an eye on what's going on and wouldn't mind helping to make it easier for people who can't come here as often, please consider applying through Contact Staff form (pick Other). The more people we have, the less work it will actually be for everyone. And as it's always scary to be first, just know that that's something you won't be, that spot was already taken ^_^

If you have questions, ideas, opinions or concerns, feel free to voice them out in Forum Discussions thread. Discussion in this matter can be found starting from Page 27.
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Our SGSD Feed Thread is now live!

So as you probably already noticed, we now have a new thread made for people who can't or simply do not want to pagecatch. It's really easy to navigate as it includes subjects and a link to the pages of the events mentioned.

Since Mods can't take care of this in addition to looking after the Forum, we enlisted three new people who have now the title of Editors: 125, Jyhu and Macro Anon. They will be in charge of posting and editing the news as we get them.

As usual, your opinions, ideas, suggestions etc are more than welcome in the Forum Discussions thread.

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We've added a new rule (7. Privacy) to the Intro, Rules & FAQ Thread regarding the privacy of the girls' family and friends' SNS accounts, as well as adding a link to Zetaboard's TOS and the section of prohibited content. Please give it a read.
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SGSD Feed has been updated with a version that has a bit more pages but is less of a hell to load.
Once again thanks to out awesome Editors for making things happen.
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Don't forget to join our new banner competition! A nice prize will be given to the winner.
Check out how to enter here!
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We have three new threads up and running!

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Hey all!

It's been 24 hrs, so the voting thread is now closed. Many thanks to all y'all for taking the time to vote! We really appreciate the feedback and the results will be out shortly, so stay tuned! ^_^

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We now have a new group of users: The Trollbusters.

They, along with our existing group of Editors (who will act as their backup), will now act as spam cleaners to help out the Mods. Be sure to show them some love.

For more info on them, please check out the user groups section of our Intro, Rules & F.A.Q. Thread.
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Banner contest update:
Originally posted by Abc in Forum Discussions

Hai gays, we have received a couple entries regarding the banner contest, however they are not gonna work as a banner because of the technical requirements we did not make clear enough, we sincerely apologize for that.
Since our main goal here is to get us all a banner that works, we would like to give this contest more time so you guys can adjust your entries or submit completely new ones if you wish. Everyone who hasn't met our previous deadline is also welcome to give it a try. You have 2 more weeks starting now! So the new deadline is due to September 26!


  • You don't have to be registered to participate, but you need to add some codeword to your submission if you are an anon, so we can later identify you
  • You can submit up to 2 entries.
  • To avoid cheating, we will no accept submissions made with proxies.
  • Once you are finished, anons can submit their entries using Contact Staff form, registereds can use either that or PM (any active admin will do)
  • You'd have to include the next contents to the banner:


    • Use any picture you prefer but keep in mind that a lot of ladies voiced out their support for GS ones.
    • "So Gay Shi Dae" as the title, obviously.
    • Size must not be larger than w1500 x h450 px, smaller is alright.
    • Statement: "For queer women who love SOSHI".
    • Optional: Welcome Motherfuckers slogan (png) or anything else you come up with.

  • The winner will be chosen with a poll, and once again to avoid cheating, no votes made with proxies will be allowed.

Important:
In order for the banner to work on bigger screens, it needs to have sides that do not end abruptly. You can achieve it in one of the following ways:

  • make the background of your banner transparent either fully or on the edges (cut out the objects, so they look well on any background)
  • use feather effect on the sides (picture to transparency gradient)
  • fill your background with existing purple color and try to blend your banner into it (png for trying it on)
  • create a box filled with any color as a base and blend your banner with it (make a box a bit bigger that the banner to make sure all pixels on the edges are 100% that color and nothing else)
  • optionally you can give that base layer a vertical gradient, repeatable pattern or a stroke. It needs to exist separate of your banner and be resizable by itself. The banner needs to look good on it.

The prizes are still up for the winner to claim!
 

1. A copy of the regular version of SNSD's new Galaxy Supernova single.
2. A set of fanmade photocards of pictures from their first photobook
3. A poster of the Paparazzi single.

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Open in another tab for full size, yo.

The winner will be of course credited for their work the same way Brity is credited at the bottom of the page.

If you turn out to be the winner, by no means you're obligated to accept the prize if sharing your address makes you uncomfortable; your banner would still be chosen and this prize will simply be kept to be given away at another time. If you do decide to take the prize though, we'd of course would need you to share with one of us your shipping address.

All the shipping costs will be covered by the mods.

Take this new deadline to make new adjustments to your work, or you could give it a fresh start, whatever you feel like!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us and we will answer as fast as we can.


Please try your best and keep it up bishes! :gaypimp:
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Updates:

Banner contest:

The winner of the banner contest is Taetum, congratulations!

Note: There is a problem with the sizing of the new banner, so we've left the original Mofo's theme as it is until the problem is fixed. If you want to see how the new banner looks, just click on the Gay Supernova Theme at the bottom of the page.


The F.A.Q. section has a new question answered regarding:

  • Straight Talk
  • ManSoshi

Please check it out.
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