A new beginning for our SM community.

[ELRayford]

Yes, sign me up. The only time I am not in front of my computer is when im driving or sleeping. I would love to help out getting things going. I am not an "admin" but I am willing to help in any way that would be needed!

[XKiNGXkILLaX]

I will definitely join this, SM Needs the "Major change" all of you are looking to do. Many underground Step artists and Many soon-to-be WR holders are bound to pop up. There is only one problem I see. Getting the Word out. Many websites like KBO and Here have plentiful people, but I'd like to see at least well over 2k people on the "project" as a start.

[AlexDest]

yes i'll definitely join in on this

[TC_Halogen]

I'd definitely be up for this. The rhythm gaming community needs to stop separating itself.

[DJMAYYYNE]

Originally Posted by Staiain

For something like this to work out we would need atleast one skilled admin though, as far as I know everyone I know is loyal to either ffr or kbo

I'm not loyal to either c:

[vro]

If this means tons of new sims/packs, I'm loving the idea. New packs aren't around a whole lot, and I get a little tired of the simfiles on Bemanistyle

[Jousway]

this wouldnt be the first time people start an new forum, like for example another guy tried with an forum called StepmaniaParadise, but that died, and I still have my Unlimited Stepman Works, oh well if you want to start an new forum go for it, I wouldn't actually pay for forum software like Vbulletin, I myself us SMF and its quite nice.

here this is what I have http://www.jousway.co.uk/Forum/index.php

Originally Posted by Shikari

Now, we need your opinion as a Stepmania player/stepartist: Is this possible? Would you give any kind of help?

if you want help with anything gfx or anything else related, sure I can do that if you need it, I already helped staiain before with his stuff on his server so.

[Coolboyrulez0]

I Support this and will be an active member.

[Shikari]

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.

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.




Also, guys, once the forum is done and running, and it'll take a few weeks, I really don't want it to be forgotten in a few weeks, making people go back to FFR/KBO. I think of this forum as a whole new home for Stepmania and its players, and we should make a proper effort to make this live for a good time. Once more, thank you all.

[nois-or-e]

+1 for this and will help however needed, just let me know ;D

[Jousway]

Originally Posted by Shikari

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

Originally Posted by Shikari

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]

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]

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~]

Sick idea.

[Shikari]

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]

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]

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]

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]

I'm in this.

[Staiain]

Originally Posted by Jousway

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

Originally Posted by XKiNGXkILLaX

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.