Hells Warrrior

Yeah, I'm all for using the search function and the random post generator but bringing a 17 month old post back to ask that question seems nonsensical to me.

Hah I'd join this but it would almost never be related to zombies xD

@Phantom

Doesn't have to be bud, if you are streaming something and members want to watch then that's grand.

Hey Folk's

Just thought I would mention, that I'm looking at the reasons as to why the sidebar item doesn't update when someone is online and why it doesn't do this in the main stream page either. It hasn't been forgotten about, just a million and one other things going on and it's "not a massive issue".

Anyway, upon further investigation, we need to upgrade the version of PHP we use on the server, once we upgrade this we should be good with the system updating itself. We're on the case and will update you all in due course.

@Nemesis_96

Good point, I need to change the hover hex colour, it was set to white when it was orange, so I need to change that.

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Good shout, I just made them pink to embarass them lol

Use a felt tipped pen, like everyone else
 
Check out the formatting post link supplied. However, quick overview for you.
 
Highlight the text you want to change, then the above in the menu allows you to select the colour you want. Old style BBcode below.

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Pay for compeititons, maybe even a copy of a free game or something, you never know.

You'll also notice, that we have achieved our goal for this month, it's disabled the donation application but I'll enable it again - although the goal is achieved for this month.

Most people don't, we fully understand that. It's not about whether you click on them. It's about whether others click on them and whether or not they are a worthwhile venture. So far the stats are showing that they are worthwhile and it's only early days.

Gotta be said, great use of the forum & potentially the search functon - so kudos for that. I personally do not have a problem with someone bringing a 6 month, 12 month, 24, 36+ month old topic back to life. However, a 2 word response is post pumping in the greatest form.

I fully understand 83457, I really do. When I proposed the restructure I posted the structure suggestion in the suggestion forum for everyone to feedback on. We (I say we, I) opted to put them into the Infinityward forum, as was requested and suggested on previous pages. It's right that we support the other developers and games - however, I don't think they deserve main forum space.

Not because they are poor games or anything but they are not zombie related, which is what this site focuses on.

As you will see, we have had a little clean up and restructured the forum a little. We have also created a new general gaming discussion area. It's not perfect by any means, although it may look as though at more main forum sections exists, it's pretty much the same in overall length but easier to find each catergory and easier to see what has been posted to and if new topics/replies exist.

It's not perfect and we don't profess it to be perfect but it certainly is more organised than it was.

What you been looking at conviction lol

Mega, if you read what I said, I never once dismissed what he was saying or say he had no right to be bitter - not in the slightest. What I was saying, is that it was an insult to the staff what he did say.

He doesn't know the full in's and out's, I don't even know the full ins and outs.

What I do know is what I've learned in the past 6/7 months, is things did not run as smoothly as they possibly could and should have, things aren't perfect now & we do not profess to know everything and I don't profess to know everything. What I do know is where we are now, what we need to do to move forward & what is being done to move forward.

His tone was wrong and he probably knows that and it's rubbed a couple of us up the wrong way.

No decision has been made bud, still discussing if it will happen.

He obviously has experience, it's not being questioned at all. He has no clue about what the ads are generating. For one, he comes on and says probably about $10 a month, when they have only "just" been activated. So even we don't have a clue as to what they will generate in revenue "yet" - it's a popular site, generates a fair bit of traffic and potential income from AD's could be anything from $1.00 + a month.

He obviously has knowledge of hosting and has an understanding of things, as do we, We all have knowledge and understanding of certain things but they way he went about things today was an insult. Valid points but an insult & not a clue as to what is what and why.

We have switched the chatroom service on, it has been tested and skinned accordingly to match CoDz. We are aware of the fact a chatroom once existed and impacted on the forum use. So remember, this is an open trial to all members for a period of 7 days and we will be monitoring the use of the forum and chat service.

We have a log of all chats that occur, so remember, we know if you are not adhering to the rules - we also reserve the right to remove it at any given time.

Have fun.

so you decided to put the site on a dedi that is 10,000x more then it needs instead of a decent shared server. this site didn't outgrow a shared server plan, it was on a crap shared server that had a lot of downtime, which is unfortunate.

 

and the mistakes the person who owns this site is making for the hosting here is being pawned off onto the members.

 

it is a mistake.

 

i can see the domain is still registered with Dan, and i also see that the site is on dedicated via the namerservers used. this is incredible overkill and you are wasting your money for such a small site.

 

the frontpage post says you, hells warrior, put this site together and for that i say job well done, because it is very well done and i am surely impressed. but this $130 a month goal for donations, and ads and all this is 2 things.

 

1. it is a dream, you're at $100 now, that is impressive, but that will surely not last.

2. it really isn't neccesary if the hosting situation was re-assesed properly.

 

this is not sustainable, especially with zombies being out of season right now. that is all i have to say on the topic really. i will not post on this topic again.

We agree with you, that's why we are currently changing things but as it currently stands, the bill is $130 a month, until we change the package and check all files currently saved on the server and move and delete files no longer required or can be saved elsewhere, we cannot downgrade. I wasn't part of the team when all those changes were implemented - however, we are moving in the right direction. The right team is combined and we know what we are doing.

No one is saying $130 server costs is necessary, it isn't far from it. So things are changing, however, we need to make sure we have the correct packages going forward and that's whats happening now. In the meantime, AD's are being implemented and further changes will come afoot as well.

Nai, no need to plee to the true ruler. Stwrsbob is the site admin and at the end of the day his decision is final. Please do not assume that we do not have the best interests of site and community at heart as we do.

That's all I have to say on the subject, we know what needs to be done, we are doing what needs to be done and that is that.

I understand what you're saying Nai, not my decision but we have things under control to be completely honest, if we needed to I could host the site on my own server. I don't run CoDz though & quite rightly, the site wants to remain independent & to be honest, the AD's are not that intrusive and we have some plans afoot to prevent members from seeing AD's altogether.

We dislike them, just as much as everybody else.

The server costs are $130, we are not being ripped off, that's the dedicated server package that CoDz subscribed too over 2 years ago as it had outgrown it's shared hosting package.

These ads are from google adsense and have all been screened by google, we take no responsibility for googles scrutiny but they are safe or we wouldn't be using them.

We'll consider in Nai and get back to you - I'll raise it with the team.

The forum actually doesn't take up that great deal of space (1Gb + or - 500Mb), however, we are reviewing what is stored on the server and what can be removed.

Shhhsh,

we've slipped them in without saying anything

On the whitelist topic, I'd probably just  note that the site needs it in order to run and ask nicely to simply whitelist the site. I think the pop up should stay, but the time should be reduced a bit. Turns me off a bit that the site would lock me out for so long.

You know we discussed it and I originally said have the pop up for 5 minutes. I didn't actually realise that it completely locked you out of the forum and reduced it from 120 seconds when I activated it earlier to 45 seconds, this can be reduced even more but I'll look at what I can.

Good point, I should also mention that you can only vote on a topic once you access the topic. Right above the topic title.

Sorry Matuzz, I don't want to come across as an arsehole. However, if I come across as an arsehole so be it.

Bottom line is, I personally don't think anyone that hasn't contributed in a financial sense, has a say on whether AD's are or are not active on CoDz, I unfortunately disagree with you on that. We pay out of our own pockets to keep this site alive, month after month - with little to no donations. Yet every time we make a decision to do something, everyone has an opinion on the subject. It's everyone's right to have an opinion on any subject - that's democracy for you.

Bottom line is this, we need cash for the site to survive, so they'll remain.