Hmm, that sounds like a very time consuming way of archiving, you would have thought it would have been outsourced to India by now.

Archiving threads was a "feature" from the boards originally, not something we wrote specifically for HG. I suppose, as someone pointed out earlier in the thread, it was to avoid necroing of threads by search engines.

But nowadays most websites implement this feature specifically to make the life of Meteora harder.

i knew it!!

I think a more important and expensive upgrade would be better forum software, not server space. And apparently they are working on this already. No dates or details, but it's supposedly on the radar.

Since I first came here, they have been promising major software updates. Since first coming here, the only upgrades they have ever made were all excedingly minor feature upgrades. Skype and gravatar integration, the fact that signatures on old posts update when you change sigs instead of archiving your old ones. Also the bbcode bar seems to be more compatible with other browsers than IE but I'm not sure if that's just browser updates or not.

I realise that this forum has been customised to hell and back underneath but it still has an incredibly retro list of forum features and anyone who has spent some time here has long since stopped holding their breath.

I kind of preferred the old signature model where they were archived. It was a great system that established a cool timeline.

That would be an embarrassing reminder of the dozen or so scenarios I started (and announced) and never finished.

what happened to that signature thread thing where we kept all our archived signatures like i remember i used to have Shala_LoL and people thought i was a girl and stuff good times

I kind of preferred the old signature model where they were archived. It was a great system that established a cool timeline.

i agree. i was annoyed when they changed it.

what happened to that signature thread thing where we kept all our archived signatures like i remember i used to have Shala_LoL and people thought i was a girl and stuff good times

It got archived

Also Avatars and youtubes.

and tons of backend things you people don't care about.

I still think it's insane we don't have PMs though.

Yeah. you should get those. And, while you're at it, a chat function for other people online, either a private chat between two people, or a general "chat room" for everyone who happens to be online.

We had an IRC channel back in the AOMH days. Nobodyh used it except Mete, Tyme and I. We spent 4 hours talking about canadians once.

FYI, post here if you're down:

http://aom.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=15,28558,0,20

We had an IRC channel back in the AOMH days. Nobodyh used it except Mete, Tyme and I. We spent 4 hours talking about canadians once.

and the virtues of raw seal over cook seals.

We spent 4 hours talking about canadians once.

How?

raw vs cooked seal. Screen doors on igloos (much debate there). Something about empty wells and porch lights.

Wait, Canadian topics of discussion are sometimes quite profound. Like Moosehead vs. Molson vs. Kokanee.

raw vs cooked seal. Screen doors on igloos (much debate there). Something about empty wells and porch lights.

really really bright porch lights

a general "chat room" for everyone who happens to be online.

Hi welcome to the saloon

thanks for that shrink, your politeness sets a benchmark for us all

Not quite what I meant... I didn't really know what to call it. But like the top of the TE site. TE Site

Something like IM for a whole group of people (whoever happens to be online). So, uh, what do you call that?

i call it lame and pointless, but you can call it whatever you want

Lame and pointless? I call it your mom!

[This message has been edited by Pulse_of_Shift (edited 04-19-2010 @ 09:42 PM).]

Lame and pointless? I call it your mom!

Lame and pointless... Sex with your mom?
(Still doesn't stop me though har har says 8 year old)

I kind of preferred the old signature model where they were archived. It was a great system that established a cool timeline.

Aye, worst thing HG has ever done.

But think of the hundreds of bytes they save!