A new beginning for our SM community.

[Jousway]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

Thank you ALL for supporting and giving ideas. Since it's still just an idea, me and Stian are still taking notes of things needed, but we do appreciate and thank each of you for willing to help. By the way, any help and knowledge of site and servers coding/maintenance will be kindly appreciated.

I dont see why you need help with coding and maintaining an server, because first of all if you are going to get an server it will most likely be an homeserver, and it will be slow for people to use, if you still want to go with an server, the best thing is to get an vhost server but they are still expensive like shit, so you could get just webhosting like staiain and I have, I told him to use hosting24, seems like it doesnt work good for him for what I have heard, but I use the same and it works fine for me

Jousway, since vBulletin seems a good base for forums (FFR and KBO use it), Stian thought of it first, but we'll consider your suggestion. Also, we could assemble your works with this new forum.

if you want to use vBulletin go for it, in the end I still think SMF is best tough, if you need help with the theme like editing I can help with that.

[Shikari]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

This server is to attend another purpose. Me and Stian had an idea of having a definitive scores database. It would work similarly like SMO: You connect to a website via Stepmania, play files normally, but your scores are sent to this database. Maybe have Stepmania to auto-connect to this database, so your scores are sent automatically. And we need someone to maintain the site, in case it goes offline, and fix bugs, like aperson does with FFR.

[Jousway]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

if you get an server are you going to run it at home or are you going to pay for an server, because an homeserver will rape your bandwidth and will be slow for everyone, and paying for an server expensive like shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, best choice is an virtual server, but the problem with that is they are kinda crap in some cases, also if you set up an server what are you going to use, linux, windows or ?

[~Zeta~]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

Sick idea.

[Shikari]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

Maybe on Windows. Well, we need this person to set up the server because I, myself, have no experience with this. This server would be only for this database, so it wouldn't be so expensive, I guess. And the forums wouldn't even need a separated server.

[XKiNGXkILLaX]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

also, Lets just hope anybody doesn't single someone out as a noob or a elite because I hate when people gets brought into categories, Just play the game =.=

[Jousway]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

well this is the price of an normal server http://www.hostgator.com/windows-ded...-servers.shtml so if you want to get an vserver find an cheap one, and again if you host at home, well ask staiain I think he remembers how slow it is.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

I and a few others can also come to this site.

Have you talked to Stian about merging the SM wiki to the site if this idea does happen?

[Ziergdsx18]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

I'm in this.

[Staiain]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

and again if you host at home, well ask staiain I think he remembers how slow it is.

I can confirm that this sucks, even though I have a decent connection

also, Lets just hope anybody doesn't single someone out as a noob or a elite because I hate when people gets brought into categories, Just play the game =.=

This is one of the reasons why we want to revive the community, everyone will be treated equally if this happens, wether one could get a C on Ageha, or AAA it on 2.0 rate.

[RainbowDash]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

a fresh start sounds great

[Jousway]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

http://www.strato-hosting.co.uk/serv...ver/index.html this is what SMO uses according to domainlookup but they are linux servers, not that thats bad or anything

[megamon88]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

I'm starting to play sm some more, and this sounds like a great idea. Getting rid of the elitism is a wonderful start, but there are always going to be certain people who ruin it for everyone else.

[Oni-Paranoia]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

This is one of the reasons why we want to revive the community, everyone will be treated equally if this happens, wether one could get a C on Ageha, or AAA it on 2.0 rate.

Rules have to be placed and enforced hard.

Otherwise elites will come, flame, talk smack, act like the big boys around like they do here and on other forums. And the nooblets will come, get flamed, and leave or cause problems.

The place will also have to offer a lot more than just forums though... I don't what else was discussed about it, but I'm up to try for a StepMania Utopia.

[Jousway]

Re: A new beginning for our SM community.

I'm starting to play sm some more, and this sounds like a great idea. Getting rid of the elitism is a wonderful start, but there are always going to be certain people who ruin it for everyone else.

Rules have to be placed and enforced hard.

Otherwise elites will come, flame, talk smack, act like the big boys around like they do here and on other forums. And the nooblets will come, get flamed, and leave or cause problems.

The place will also have to offer a lot more than just forums though... I don't what else was discussed about it, but I'm up to try for a StepMania Utopia.

and thats why there is an ban option on a forum