Site News and Suggestions
What do you want of Gamegrene?
Gamegrene.com launched back in August 2000 with the release of D&D 3rd Edition. In 2004, it became "Gamegrene 2.0" alongside the releases of the new GURPS, Paranoia, and World of Darkness. With D&D 4th Edition coming in a scant 29 days, you might think I'm trying my damnedest to do something to commemorate the event. And that I am, in between changing my newest daughter, working far too much, and maintaining my achievement whore status.
Sudden spammage
Err, some bloke with a randomly generate (I'm assuming) screen-name has managed to spam hither and thither (including a good six posts to my thread on villainy, sadly). Anythign we can do about this, liek revoke a user-name and/or ban an ISP?
Posting comment into node/790 ?
Two links to post comments to this story; LOGIN and REGISTER. Well, I logged in already, and neither login or register alllow me to post a comment. How?
Week off
I will be in Las Vegas for a game convention until next Friday, so there will be no major site updates.
Please send me some more content and ideas in the meantime.
-aeon
Gamegrene Tome of GM Knowledge
To quote aozora from zipdrive's "My Campaign Learning Experience. or: What is a new DM to do? Part 2":
"Brilliant idea. Add that to the Gamegrene Tome of GM Ideas ... if such a thing exists, heh. "
Forum bug?
I was wondering if anyone else has been bumping into this bug:
From time to time, when checking out "recent content",I get articles which I've already read as new, showing all replies as new replies. (for example, today it listed "The inevitably named rape in RPGs" as new , including all 78 replies as unread).
I'm thinking this might be because I've been accessing Gamegrene from several computers.
Anyone got any ideas?
why has everyone fallen silent?
what happened? no articles or vehement (spelling?) arguments?
Three Column Site Design?
For various reasons I can't yet divulge, I've been thinking about a three column layout for Gamegrene. I can't say that I like the cookie-cutter design of three columns, but I also can't argue for its usability and space handling.
Account Comments Only
I've turned on account commenting only. Sorry, anons.
I can't SEE anyone...
So...Morbus the Great...what's the word on personal avatars?
Maintenance Cycle Continues
For those wondering "what the hell happened to recent posts?", please bear with us. This is part of the planned Maintenance Cycle I alluded to at the end of November. We're undergoing some style changes here, and today is the day we're striving to add the new category system to all the articles (which is why the recent posts is crazy - it's seeing the article modifications as new data you'd be interested in). The new category system was in place when the site first switched to its new backend, we just never found the free time to address all the previous content.
Thoughts on Categories to Add
"Humor" notably missing, though possibly not for future columns
"Advice"?
Genres
-Fantasy
-Sci-fi
-Cyberpunk
-Horror
-Comedy
"online gambling" spam
Any way to get rid of the "online gambling" spam that has been showing up?
Perhaps do like every other BB in the universe does, and only allow registered users to post?
Pretention rising
Recent articles in GameGrene have made me just shake my head.
Maintenance Cycle Soon
Gamegrene will be undertaking a maintenance cycle soon, probably starting within the next few weeks or around the new year. The biggest change will be an update of the backend software, along with some styling and design fixes (like a larger font for the articles and comments, blah blah blah - still fiddling with that).
