Starting tomorrow at 12PM, you will be able to submit Icons in ForumBuildr for each topic. You know, the little icons to the left of any post in the game. Each icon must 60x15 in size, and represent the three topics chosen for the current build. This week they will be “Porn Shops”, “Websites” and “Directions.” I’m really excited to see what kinds of icons you guys come up with. If some are really good, maybe we can integrate them into Flamebate proper. ...
We’ve changed your E-Peen(tm) count to be an E-Peen(tm) length. It’s a much more interesting way of tallying your E-Peen(tm), since not every E-Peen(tm) is created equal. In general, E-Peen(tm) that are harder to obtain increase your E-Peen(tm) length by more than those that are easy to get. Your E-Peen(tm) length is a value in inches less than 13" – the first 6" is really easy to earn, the next 7" are much more difficult to pick up. ...
This week we’re deploying some of the new upgrades to the ForumBuildr tool. Starting tonight after the maintenance period: You will notice that thread titles are now split up into three topics that were submitted by the user. When you add a thread title, you have to start with the topic it belongs to. You can submit a logo the second a build begins, but you can’t submit forum styles until Thursday at noon. Previously, you could submit a forum style right away, which led to many mismatched styles and logos. Voting for logos will also end on Thursday at noon, and then when people build styles they’ll know what logo they’re working with. I think this will lead to better designs overall! ...
I’ve been saying for months that the part of Forumwarz that I want to upgrade the most is the ForumBuildr v2.0 BETA. Right now it’s the only part of Forumwarz that requires manual intervention. Every Sunday night since we launched (with a couple of exceptions), I have had to stay home and do some work to make sure the stylesheet submitted jives with the existing site stylesheet. I also have to run some scripts to assign buildr scores and assign the difficulty of the forum. ...
I can’t believe I just wrote “galore” but it’s late at night and I’m exhausted. Without further ado: Stumped for ideas for your next doomsday device? Can’t figure out the formula behind the Penis-Snatcher™? Idolise Dr. Strangelove? Then unite with your fellow rejected members of the scientific community and plot the world’s downfall over the internet! You’ll be amazed at just how many ways we have of enacting revenge on those physicists who rejected your ideas, falsely stating that they “defied all moral standards of society”! ...
We got tired of always missing the deadline for creating new E-Peen(tm) when launching every fourth forum, so Jalapeno and I went nuts and created all the E-Peen(tm) for the forums you can pwn in a row through 100 as well as medals through 100. This should last you guys a while :) If you pwned 44 forums in a row and did not receive your E-Peen(tm) for it yet, please tubmail Evil Trout! Thanks! ...
Our own [Jalapeno Bootyhole](http://www.forumwarz.com/profiles/Jalapeno Bootyhole) has painstakingly renamed and modified about 45 of our word types for easier use! The full list would be too long to list in this blog entry, so you can view it here as a spreadsheet. Other Bugfixes and Enhancements Searching for Word Types is much better. It can now find partial searches (like xbo for Xbox) or even words in the middle of other words. If you were frustrated with it before, give it another shot! ...
We have two New Forum builds since I last posted about them: Don’t have time to write your thesis? Forgot about that paper due tomorrow? Is your boss going to fire you if you don’t turn in that ad copy soon? Search the internet for things other people wrote and “borrow” their ideas… and then post them here for the rest of us to steal! Throw ethics out the window and spend your time on more enjoyable pursuits (like fapping). ...
A New Domination Theme This week we’re doing a trial run of awarding chocolate scoops from INCIT. We call this The INCIT Scoop! We have decided to make a bunch of other changes to Domination this week as well, following feedback from the community and the results of previous theme weeks Other New Domination Changes You can now only hold 30 Domination Cards at once. Medals are not awarded in the event of a tie. ...
Software Upgrades Forumwarz is now running on Phusion Passenger instead of Nginx and Mongrel. The kicker was when I asked Zed Shaw, the creator of Mongrel, about Ruby security vunerabilities at RubyFringe, and he said “Honestly, just use Passenger.” When the creator of a piece of software (although who admittedly doesn’t maintain it anymore) suggests that I use another piece of software, I listen :) New Features Haxlrose’s resets are now always free, but limited to once every 4 days. ...