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  • drizzleRomanceGirl
    It's okay to be yourself.
    • Oct 2012
    • 2963

    #16
    Re: What's happening in here?

    Maybe it would help if more staff positions were offered to the community so that people who could devote more time towards FFR could be more productive.
    Last edited by drizzleRomanceGirl; 08-21-2015, 12:04 PM.
    hi

    my discord username is drizzleRomanceGirl0706 in case anyone wants to message me

    Division 5 2nd place

    Originally posted by hosua
    Oh, I thought it was just my internet this whole time.
    Originally posted by rushyrulz
    Also that triple post is almost as delicious as a hot, fresh, Domino's pizza.
    Originally posted by aperson
    can y'all take a break and kiss
    (the first section of this chapter)

    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5125582...sokyo-no-Jinja

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    • psychoangel691
      Retired Staff
      FFR Simfile Author
      • Dec 2004
      • 10438

      #17
      Re: What's happening in here?

      Originally posted by drizzleRomanceGirl
      Maybe it would help if more staff positions were offered to the community so that people who could devote more time towards FFR could be more productive.
      This has happened a few times, there were dev applications, event team applications, mod applications, judge applications.
      Originally posted by Charu
      My dick is good, thank you very much. It gets love and attention no matter what <3 <3 <3
      Originally posted by DaBackpack
      also a fucking helicopter is the absolute last place I'd go to find out how big my dick is
      Originally posted by Shadow_God_10
      Dawg you don't even know. It's so fuckin' small I can use a pen cap to jack off

      Originally posted by hi19hi19
      yeah I'mma go for the Rave7 route she's just perfect, stiff on the top, thin in the middle, and has a BIG THICC END that I can just jack on all night UwU best girl

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      • drizzleRomanceGirl
        It's okay to be yourself.
        • Oct 2012
        • 2963

        #18
        Re: What's happening in here?

        When was the last time any positions were offered? Maybe it's been long enough that new members can help with site updates and judging files.
        hi

        my discord username is drizzleRomanceGirl0706 in case anyone wants to message me

        Division 5 2nd place

        Originally posted by hosua
        Oh, I thought it was just my internet this whole time.
        Originally posted by rushyrulz
        Also that triple post is almost as delicious as a hot, fresh, Domino's pizza.
        Originally posted by aperson
        can y'all take a break and kiss
        (the first section of this chapter)

        https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5125582...sokyo-no-Jinja

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        • psychoangel691
          Retired Staff
          FFR Simfile Author
          • Dec 2004
          • 10438

          #19
          Re: What's happening in here?

          It really hasn't been that long, judge applications were the most recent. New judges were just brought on.

          Edit: June 16th new judges were announced.

          Feb 16 Trumpet was added to dev team

          Oct 27th last year had a major staff addition with devs and the switch in game management and such.

          It really hasn't been that long.
          Last edited by psychoangel691; 08-21-2015, 12:28 PM.
          Originally posted by Charu
          My dick is good, thank you very much. It gets love and attention no matter what <3 <3 <3
          Originally posted by DaBackpack
          also a fucking helicopter is the absolute last place I'd go to find out how big my dick is
          Originally posted by Shadow_God_10
          Dawg you don't even know. It's so fuckin' small I can use a pen cap to jack off

          Originally posted by hi19hi19
          yeah I'mma go for the Rave7 route she's just perfect, stiff on the top, thin in the middle, and has a BIG THICC END that I can just jack on all night UwU best girl

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          • lurker
            ur worst nitemare
            FFR Simfile Author
            • Jan 2003
            • 1628

            #20
            Re: What's happening in here?

            i'll tell you what's going on:
            you are an entitled whiner prick
            some feathery f**k

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            • _Zenith_
              Accuracy Player
              • Mar 2011
              • 4629

              #21
              Re: What's happening in here?

              August last year Event Staff had a good addition

              And some users were inducted to Difficulty Consultant and Wiki Staff as well





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              • ItsOnlyDanO
                Stuck in the past
                FFR Simfile Author
                • Oct 2013
                • 1168

                #22
                Re: What's happening in here?

                Slight tangent but I feel this is relevant:
                All I care about is knowing what's going on and what progress is being made

                good example would be the batch (at least the last for the last month or so), for the most part good communication has been established to indicate what the judges are doing and how long until the batch is completed

                a bad example would be the lack of fixed scores on harder files, there has been little communication from devs about the issue (I could be wrong about this so feel free to disprove me) which pretty much leaves most of ffr going 'are they actually doing anything?' because of their poor communication, it creates distrust between users and devs, but because we sure love to generalize, all admins get the blame

                there needs to be a more consistent throughout the staff to communicate to all users what is going on, what work is being done etc. The stuff in the batch is a good start and songs of the week clearly indicate work is taking place. however if this is not consistent from staff from all areas then it creates this disjointedness that we see today, which comes full circle when threads like this are made because users don't know whats going on.

                tl;dr get more consistent communication from all areas of staff. users like to know whats going on

                that or i'm just full of shit and have no idea what im talking about (more likely this)
                Ghosts appear and fade away.......

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                • andy-o24
                  Married Man
                  • May 2006
                  • 1527

                  #23
                  Re: What's happening in here?

                  There was no June or July site updates post on the front page. Clearly nothing has gotten done, or else they'd make it public, right? Also the changelog.

                  -o24
                  Originally posted by hi19hi19
                  Best strat: enjoy the game, play what you feel like when you feel like it. Don't think about what you are doing or why, enjoy the gameplay, the artistry behind the stepfile, and enjoy the music.

                  When the game isn't fun for you anymore, take a break. It's not a job, nobody here is professional and getting paid to play and force themselves to constantly improve... it's a game.

                  Originally posted by Shashakiro
                  Yeah, FFR is addicting...I don't think I'll get bored with this game unless I somehow become the best at it, which won't happen.

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                  • One Winged Angel
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                    FFR Simfile Author
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 10837

                    #24
                    Re: What's happening in here?

                    Originally posted by hi19hi19
                    Honestly this site is being held down by red tape at this point. Every time anything gets suggested, you have to cross verify the changes with 3 other people and check the 13 year old rules and make sure nobody is ~offended~ and all that shit. The amount of potentially beneficial actions and events I've seen get stuffed because "da rules" or "needs to be judged!!! (9 month wait)" or "but muh levelranks" is starting to get old. If it's not clear by now to people in charge that things need to just happen quickly, then the site is going to die.






                    You know it's bad when I want Tass to come back.


                    EDIT- This is not to say I've personally been a huge part of the solution. I'm too pessimistic about the site at this point.
                    I'm torn between having seen how incredibly inefficient the site setup is and how difficult it is for meaningful change to happen, with the fact I love the game and the *most* of the community.
                    Would like to echo pretty much everything in this post (and I think I did on skype to you a couple days ago, right down to missing Tass because he forced activity with or without abiding to rules and structure and all that stuff...I totally agree stuff just needs to happen instead of waiting for 10+ staff members to agree on it or not)

                    I proposed this to Dossar earlier in the week and it looks like this is probably going to come to fruition. It's very obvious that activity on the site has plummeted and many users have migrated to Stepmania, o!m, or other gaming sites. Largely due to lack of updates but I think another reason is that FFR becomes very tedious to play after passing a certain threshold in skill. Files that are accepted pretty much have to be guaranteed to have AAAs or they're deemed 'too hard' and rejected. A good proportion of players enjoy Stepmania more than FFR simply because there's a much higher difficulty ceiling and thus they can set specific score goals that aren't simply AAAs, which is what FFR has been focused on for the most part.

                    The difficulty spectrum is going to be expanding from 1-120. I've been working on exactly how the current difficulties will be restructured but the goal is to have significantly more files in the old '13' difficulty level (FSO, currently 93+ in game...for reference: RATO will probably be sitting around 110-113 on this new scale). I believe a sort of mental restructuring where FFR is taken from a game solely focusing on AAAs and expanding the spectrum to include more files of a much higher level will increase activity across all divisions (we all know that even D1 players will mash through DP/RATO from time to time just due to the sheer absurdity in difficulty, and they still find it fun).

                    The exact details for how we're going to go about with these releases have yet to be finalized among GMs given the current backlog of files, but ultimately the goal is to have a 'tru hard pain' event release, with additional files reserved for the future tournament to get rid of AAA or die meme bullshit.

                    No idea what's going on with the devs but I'm hoping that they finalize the transition to raw scoring and all the messed up rank stuff that happened during score migration sometime soon, I know many players (including myself) have been less motivated to play because of that.
                    Last edited by One Winged Angel; 08-21-2015, 03:37 PM.


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                    • yo man im awesome
                      soleil ardent
                      FFR Simfile Author
                      • May 2007
                      • 6514

                      #25
                      Re: What's happening in here?

                      FFR used to be like a second home for me.


                      There is a much smaller drive to be on this site now, and even less so to play the game.

                      I do love playing and I've recently been trying to get back into this/stepmania, but in the end it'll come down to whether or not forums become relevant again. I'm not going to play this game only to have no one to (want to) talk to about it.

                      I want to be here, and I want to play still, but I need a reason to be here.


                      OWA bless that post

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                      • Rapta
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                        • Dec 2010
                        • 1948

                        #26
                        Re: What's happening in here?

                        I spent an hour on a post and said "nevermind" lol

                        In a nice, short, non essay, I would like to exclaim that I think if staff applications were open at all times, and staff applications constantly reviewed, and consensus on said reviewed applications was reached with a (subject to change) time minimum of one month of contemplation about said applicant being reviewed, it might be a good idea. I also agree that what's going on should be expressed in some way, or at least a more effective system be put in place which allows ALL staff and possibly all users to know what's going on with EVERYTHING.

                        In fact, someone tell all staff about this thread please, this is a well past due "what is happening" thread
                        Last edited by Rapta; 08-21-2015, 03:51 PM.
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                        • MinaciousGrace
                          FFR Player
                          • Dec 2007
                          • 4278

                          #27
                          Re: What's happening in here?

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                          • HeZe
                            FFR Veteran
                            • Jul 2006
                            • 556

                            #28
                            Re: What's happening in here?

                            See, now I'm told that TC_Halogen was never an admin. Well, as far as I know, he was the one who was handling things and making things run. I don't care what the actual rank was, there always needs to be some sort of coordinator.

                            As long as there isn't anyone to coordinate the site, nothing good is going to happen. Synth is not going to commit in this dilemma, nor does Tass, so who will?

                            Originally posted by ilikexd
                            Your strengths and weaknesses may never change, but they will still get better as you do, albeit disproportionately of course. You're bad at jumpstream, so just play jumpstream files. Play them for hours. Play ones you have to struggle to SDG, and play ones hard enough to make your hands and arms burn. Then play them some more. Then, the day after the next, play them again. If you aren't already doing this, you can't say you're stuck. Plateauing doesn't really exist, if you aren't improving it means you haven't put in the effort needed to improve, or your effort has been misapplied. It's more of a problem at really high levels, but never totally concrete.

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                            • gold stinger
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                              • Jan 2007
                              • 6428

                              #29
                              Re: What's happening in here?

                              I am not worthy of my FFR Wiki Staff title can confirm noname has been doing all the work.

                              Also just want to point out real quick that since halfway through last year and now I have never been invited to any sort of staff chat, nor had any sort of communication from noname & the other admins about it outside of complimenting on work when I did provide the small amount of work I did when I was up to it.
                              Last edited by gold stinger; 08-21-2015, 04:43 PM.
                              Originally posted by YoshL
                              butts.


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                              • gold stinger
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                                • Jan 2007
                                • 6428

                                #30
                                Re: What's happening in here?

                                Originally posted by Charu
                                Oh, btw, Halogeeeeeeen, what community are you a part of now?

                                I think my new home is GameFAQS, lmao. Well, one specific area of GameFAQS, but I gets to be my forum crazy self there as well so it's all gooood.
                                btw Team Pony chat is still a thing. It's less about pony and more about Speedruns, internet day-brighteners, reddit/imgur stuff, twitch tournaments (when they arise) and still a general relaxed place to hang. If you want in there just hmu I'm pretty sure everyone loves it when you pay a visit.

                                So that's where I've been hanging out as of recently. As for games though, I got involved in some World of Warcraft private servers & the in-browser game Hacker Experience, although Hacker Experience is kind of suffering for the same reasons FFR is right now.
                                Last edited by gold stinger; 08-21-2015, 04:36 PM.
                                Originally posted by YoshL
                                butts.


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