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... rules? Tendo City? but... we don't have rules! I thought that was the rule... :)

Anyway, it's funny to see us go back to this system... (given how 'reviews are in forums' was the system we had before you switched it to this one... :D). I thought it worked then, and I'm sure it'll work again now. I know the reason you changed -- it'd be nice to have a standardized review format and scoring system -- but I'd suggest solving that by having a sticky post in the review forum with guidelines for reviews. After all, just because you post them (and not use a template) doesn't mean that you can't have them follow a format...

That's a good idea. There definitely needs to be a standard.

The reviews were always technically within the forum, but now they are actually a forum themselves. It's the same but different :D

We've always had SOME kind of main page, though, even if no one cares about it... what will it be this time? "Click here to enter the forums"? :)

Really, I don't know... there should be something, but I'm not sure what. A real site, like we have now, gets ignored. Or it gets used a little (like the version we had a few years ago), but not nearly as much as it'd have to be to make it worth it. So that's out... just a simple homepage like Rumble City had, with 'current popular threads' and forum-info or subsection links? (reviews, creativity, archives, etc)? I don't know... that's a start though.

Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking. Something perhaps a tad more complex than rumblecity.net (the archives alone will ensure that), but something not much more complex. By the time someone thinks to post major gaming news on the page, and worse still, by the time anyone reads it, everyone's already seen someone's post here about it.

Web.archive.org will be a great help for reconstructing a few of those thread-list pages. The other threadlist pages will have to be made from scratch, though... archive.org's better than nothing but not as good as you wish it would be, as usual.

I'm considering several options. One involves our new hero, etoven. You may have noticed the site went down this afternoon. Turns out our database somehow fell prey to several serious errors, stuff I would have had no idea how to fix. ol Erich had us back up within ten minutes.

I think he's earned his Hot Chicks Room.