-- SITE UPDATE LOG

[RobotMonkeyHead]

Made some adjustments to the forums layout. 

•  [ IKEMEN MOUNTAINS ] became [ IKEMUGEN MOUNTAINS ]
• [ SPECIAL EVENTS ]  moved from [ HEADQUARTERS ]  to the [ IKEMUGEN MOUNTAINS ]

•  [ SPECIAL EVENTS ]  moved from [ HEADQUARTERS ]  to the [ IKEMUGEN MOUNTAINS ]

•  [ GALLERIES ] became [ MEMBER GALLERIES ]  

•  [ STAFF HQ ]  became [ STAFF HEADQUARTERS ]  

•  [ TRAVEL STATION ]  moved to the staff area 

•  [ FANFICTION ] became [ WRITING & FANFIC ]  

•  [ GAMING ] became [ GENERAL GAMING ]

•  [ GENERAL ] inside what is now general gaming, became [ MISCELLANEOUS ]

A few of these have been irking me for a while now.  Pretty sure I got all of em, and a few new ones in one swoop.

There may be minor changes here and there as it settles in.

 

 

[RobotMonkeyHead]

 

HAPPY KRAMPUS!

 

 

This years bound to fail holiday surprise from me is a pretty major visual update to the forum discussions theme.
The original, pre-change is now selectable in the bottom themes menu.
Oddly, despite looking bigger because of the avatars, the new theme is a little more compact spatially.

 

 

 

 

It's going to stay set as the site's default theme until January 1st.
At that point, if too many people are reviled by it we'll have a public vote as to whether to keep it the default or just make it selectable.

 

[RobotMonkeyHead]

Uh te gusta gran avatar?

[RobotMonkeyHead]

I overhauled the forums layout. There were too many nested sub-sub-sub forums, rarely used forums, and other unnecessary containers. So I'm in the process of untangling everything, and sorting it out to be more easily accessible. Almost all available forums are now visible from the front page, and the logic of the layout is much cleaner. It's still a work in progress that will span the next couple of days, but the major work is done. Take some time to explore and see for yourself.

Here's a list of merges and deletions:

• There are no longer container forums at the top of each section. The top forum of each section now has content. 

• The News forum was deleted. Offsite releases now go in the sub-forum Offsite in the Releases section.

• The Fawn was moved to Special Events, and the archived news to The Docks sub-forum in The Warehouse.

• The Characters Warehouse, Stages Warehouse, and Screenpacks Warehouse from Collections were combined with the Resources Warehouse to make The Warehouse.

• The Pokemon sub-forum was merged with its container forum Nintendo, due to lack of use.

• Mugen Discussion was renamed to Mugen Lounge which now contains the sub-forum called Video Sharing.
• The Video forum in Member Galleries was merged with Mugen Cinema to create the Video Sharing sub-forum in the Mugen Lounge.

• SNK Edits & Capcom Edits sub-forums were merged with their container forum Edits in what's now The Warehouse. 

• Resource Requests and Completed Requests were merged with Content Requests.

• The Lifebars and Hitsparks sub-forums and their container forum Screenpacks were all merged into the main Releases forum where chars and stages are.

• The Patches and Palettes sub-forums were merged into their container forum Edits which was renamed to Edits & Add-ons in the Releases section.

• Site Overview was merged into its container forum Introductions.

• The Screenpacks collections was renamed to Motifs.

• The Tutorial Library's main questions sub-forum was moved into P2P Help and renamed Mugen Coding.

• The Tutorial Library's sub-forums, Tutorials and Code Snippets remain in the Creation Lab under the original name Tutorial Library.

• A sub-forum named Site Related was created in P2P Help for questions regarding the workings of the forum itself.

• Ikemen Dojo was overhauled. The Forge was renamed to Releases, and the Ikemen Wips sub-forum was renamed to the Wip Forge.
• The Dojo's League sub-forum was hidden until and if it becomes useful.

• The Hangouts, Member Galleries and Travel Station were essentially merged to create the Communities forum.

• The Writing & Fanfic sub-forum was renamed to Roleplay & Fanfic due to the popularity of role playing.

• The Fawn may wake up from hibernation soon, but in a different form. We'll see how it goes.

• Character of the Month was renamed to X of the Y. If someone has a better idea please let me know.

• A Role Requesting sub-forum was created in Staff HQ. It will be updated soon.

• A new view is available for the front page. Click the blue buttons next to Start a Topic. The images are not final, and suggestions are welcome.

 

That's most of what I could get done today. Expect more changes over the next couple days as the reorganization / pre-spring cleaning process continues. Any suggestions anyone has to help make the layout cleaner and more focused are more than welcome. Hope you guys like it so far.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gui0007]

Oh, so it's begun! Hope that the things get right in this reorganitzation of MFFA. :)

[RobotMonkeyHead]

18 minutes ago, gui0007 said:

Oh, so it's begun! Hope that the things get right in this reorganitzation of MFFA. :)

Yep it's under way. Changes I've wanted to make for a while, finally just doing it.
Lots of stuff getting developed in the background too that I can't wait to share.
Great to have you on G-Mod staff finally!

[Ryon]

On 2/2/2021 at 8:16 PM, RobotMonkeyHead said:

Great to have you on G-Mod staff finally!

Seriously What took him so long? He should have been a mod since I ran the place!

 

Its funny that all of this reconstruction is happening, because I literally visited a couple days ago, and Thought man this place is messy (Knowing I left it that way) I contacted up ole MonkeyHead and he was in the process of fixing it.

Go figure. Destiny entwines us all.

[RobotMonkeyHead]

Yea you're so right about Gui too.

That was crazy tho, right when I was in the middle of organizing you got a hold of me and were like "sooo the forums all nesty and messy, did you think about cleaning it up a little?" 

So what do you think of the new layout?
Any recommendations, or would you say its up to code?

[RobotMonkeyHead]

There will be some updates to the profile options taking place on Monday. A couple fields will be changed, and this will cause the information you currently have in those fields to be deleted. So after Monday you'll have to re-enter that information if you want it on your profile. The updates are:

• Gender
The gender field will no longer be a dropdown with male, female and not telling. It will be changed to a text input field where members can enter their own text. Again, this will delete all information currently in that field, so if you want your gender specified in your profile, you'll have to do / redo that after Monday. 

• Interests

The interests field will be changed from an expanding text input to a regular text input to match everything else. Again, this will delete all current data in that field, so if you have something in it you want to save, you have till Monday.

• Username on Mugen Sites
A new section will be added, titled Username on Mugen Sites. This will include many popular Mugen sites around the community, so members here can know who you are when they find you on other forums.

• Network Names

None of your existing names will be deleted in this section. But the sections name will be changed to Other Network Usernames, and a few new fields will be added, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok.

• Profile Fields

None of your existing information will be deleted in this section. But the section's name will be changed to Main Profile Tabs.

[FarHarborButcher]

I couldn't help but notice upon my return to Mugen that a lot of sub forums were no longer on the main page and some stuff seemed like it would be difficult to find. It's already looking nicer with these improvements. I remember making palettes for the palette section back in the day, glad to see it back. (Or at least easier to find).

[RobotMonkeyHead]

@FarHarborButchergreat to hear. Yea there's been a lot of reorganizing done over the last handful of days. Step one was pulling as many sub-forums to the surface as possible. There are still a few buried here and there but it's no where near the labyrinth it was lol most of em are visible on the main page now. And a few of them got merged to help simplify even further. Now it's on to details like taking care of some of the uglier page tops, and the "site overview" stuff. Good to hear the works showing :) 

If you ever decide you want the Palette related role lemme know

[RobotMonkeyHead]

Brand crispy new mad science has arrived!!!
A new theme is now available which allows you to chat in Discord while roaming the forums!
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, click on Themes, and select "Abyss (with Discord)". 

 

The top banner and nav bar will change and you'll get a Discord icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen.

 

Click that to open up a Discord chat window. You can close the Discord chat by clicking on the X in it's lower right hand corner.


Enjoy!!!


Banner designed by@TheArcadeStriker for the 2019 banner contest.

[memin.gos277]

link?

[PlasmoidThunder]

To what?

[RobotMonkeyHead]

...uhhh... if you want the link to the Discord server itself, click on Outposts in the top nav bar?

[RobotMonkeyHead]

Insert appropriate seasonal greeting here!


I have some pretty big changes planned for the holiday season, so welcome to the hype thread. This year the wrapping paper is clear, most of it anyway, and you get to see the new things in advance. Feel free to comment on this stuff, discuss, make suggestions, ask questions, throw your ideas out there, whatever you want. The entire point is to make this place better for you lol, so if you want to tell me how to do that, I'm all ears. So, anyway what's under the tree?

 

AWARDS
You will soon be able to get and give awards. Mostly get. There will be various Onion Tokens (look like arcade tokens) awarded for things like 100 posts, or 10 best answers to questions etc. In total there will be about 21 tokens you can get. There will also be various colored Onion Cards which members can award each other with, for all kinds of random social stuff. Beyond that there will be trophies for things like character creation, stage creation, cotm etc. 

 

RANKS
Upgrades to the forum software have done away with our old ranking system, which was based entirely on number of posts. We now have a points based Ranking economy, where various numbers of points are earned for various activities, like 10 points for a new post, or 5 points for a reply, or 2 points for a react, etc. Points can be gained in all kinds of ways, and they will advance you through 30 levels of Rank.

 

GROUPS
Members will be allowed to create Groups, and there will also be some "site official" groups. Groups have leaders, moderators, members, and varying levels of accessibility all determined by their creator. It's possible to make a group for pretty much anything, they don't have to be Mugen related. All of the content on the front page under the Ikemen Dojo, and above The Castle / Staff stuff, will be moved into individual Groups. Those groups will be looking for mods too, so keep an eye out in them for mod threads if you're interested.

 

REACTIONS
There will be new reaction choices. We've gotten rid of downvoting, the 3 reaction types that increase the posters reputation will be "like", "rep-up", and "thanks". There will also be animated emoji reactions which do not increase the posters rep.
 

NEW TIMELINE
The timeline is getting a css overhaul that makes it look more like other social media sites, and less like an eyesore. Again, this was something that was done a while ago, but a major update to the system software killed the old version, so a new one was/is being created.

[RobotMonkeyHead]

Been a couple years since I've added to this log, but there's been a -lot- of development in that time. Going to start from the most recent and work backwards from memory, and cover just the last couple months.

CHANGES ON THE SITE
- renamed [ MEMBER INTERESTS ] to [ GENERAL INTERESTS ] updated its description and renamed some of its sub-forums

- added [ SPRTE CLUB ] main forum to the Mugen District on the front page, with its own sub forum setup.

- @Arxos is the admin of the Sprite Club forum, and moderators there are currently @Mitsukai, @Brergrsart, @Crasherfly, and @Gumhoy

- Added a topic to [ SITE OVERVIEW ] for how to get the a Discord chat popup button hovering in the corner of the site (for forum members only).

- Overhauled the text editor, fixed some of the buttons having wrong icons, and balanced the presentation

- Setting up security questions for two factor authentication is no longer mandatory. They can be enabled and disabled in Account Settings.

- If security questions are enabled, they will no longer prompt you to answer them as often, only if you're logging in from a new device or updating accepted devices.

- I rebuilt the Collections Directory, so it now has the option to sort by game type instead of just alphabetically. It also has an option to translate it to Japanese.
- If we can find a person (or people) who speaks Spanish and is (are) willing to translate the names of the collections, I will add a Spanish translation option to the directory.
- Updated many of the page tops, in various sub forums. [ MUGEN THEATER ] being one of the main ones.

- The forum software is removing status updates in their next update, so those won't be coming back, as much as I would've loved to revive them.

- Added more pixel art gifs to various sub-forums so all (or almost all?) level 2 sub forums now have an image associated with them.

- Moved the [ RESOURCE ROOM ] out of [ THE WAREHOUSE ] and into [ CREATION LAB ] and renamed it to [ RESOURCE CENTER ].

- Added a [ ANNOUNCEMENTS [ to the [ COMMUNITY CENTER ] and a widget to the main page's sidebar, showing the 3 most recent announcements.
- The announcements widget includes announcements from Sprite Club's [ ANNOUNCEMENTS ] sub-forum.

- Fixed all the broken Onion Heads that were either missing backgrounds and removed a few that were odd resolutions. They're all no 50 x 50px.
- Added some new Onion Heads:

 

 

CHANGES ON DISCORD
- Admins will no longer be moderating. That will be covered by the g-mods and discord mods.

- We're in the process of mirroring the forums 10 point system on Discord, so there will be a wider, but more definite gradient to turn behavior around.

- Wick Bot's settings were waay too strict, so its grip been loosened. I'd rather not say how exactly, but expect less random Robocop attacks.
- We're trying a new Forum Updates bot that hopefully won't break as often as the old one did.
- Posts made in the new [ ANNOUNCEMENTS ] forum auto-share to the Discord server's Announcements channel.
- Sprite Club's staff have been given their respective roles in the Discord server.

 

PEAK AT SOME UPCOMING CHANGES

- Brand new banner is in the works.

- Our forum's software provider decided to merge awards and badges. So the Onion Head tokens will be changing or vanishing soon to make room for an actual trophy system.

- The video sharing page tops will be getting overhauled soon, to improve their functionality. The spoiler will also be removed once that's done.

- Cleaning up many posts that are in the wrong sub forums.

- A Sprite Club betting league is in the works.

 

That's all for now, hope you all enjoy the new stuff!