In the *too long* process of waiting for Yoshimitsu in Tekken BR (on consoles), I recommend you a little entertainment: A compilation of fine Yoshimitsu gameplay by ZeN - German Yoshimitsu player.
I'd like to ask you about your opinion on next Yoshimitsu FAQ. The txt format is OK, but I think that a well-built PDF document, with numbered pages, nice graphics and ready-to-print format would be even nicer. What do you think?
In this special Day, we wish you lots of presents, dreams that come true, successes in everything you strive for, much love and only happy days in the year 2009...
Probably you noticed a small boost in speed of our site? It's the php accelerator working (at last).
Look at the poll and choose the option you like. Mind that new engine brings more scalability and a bit more features, but also might feel a bit slower at first.
This engine is now lightning fast and has all the feature we need, with an exception of:
- true blog system (the one we have is quite unfinished)
- topic subscriptions
- true RSS feeds
- cross content publishing
- flexibility and up-to-date technologies.
Unfortunately I had to disable the shoutbox on our site. The reason is: there will be installations of new software on my serwer, the php accelerator being one of them. It will speed up the site even more, and especially I asked my provider for this feature because of the future...
(BTW, don't worry, I'll find another nice shoutbox :P)
As somebody probably noticed my last message on shoutbox, I'm thinking about moving to a new engine. The name will be a secret for a while. It's... BIG. It has enormous capabilities. Hehe, as I think about how much I'll have to learn, I suddenly feel tired :P (it's only a feeling, since in fact I have a very strong motivation )
First, I have to answer the questions:
1. Do we really need it?
- Option A) This engine has everything, is fast and stable. We can stay on it. Making news skins is easy for this engine. But I'm pretty sure there will be nothing new in the future: just cosmetic upgrades and further skin changes. But again: it's a good, tested and reliable engine. It's like moving from sweet home to luxurious hotel, but you never know if there will be any "bugs" under your bed :P :P (probably not, but you never know! )
- Option B) New engine can make every vision of our site come true. But to discover a new engine I have to put much, much work on it, including learning php (*Koga, I think you'll also like it :P). With great capabilities come great requirements, luckily our server is good enough to fulfill them. Last step was exactly PHP accelerator to speed it up a little. Especially deadly might be the new template system, which is at least tough to be honest, but I'll get over it...
But as for capabilities: oh, babe: I'm pretty sure it can do everything.
And especially what I wanted: turning YOT into a real, modern interactive community site. With messaging system, buddies, blogs, subscriptions, newsletters, rss feeds, discussion groups, galleries, forums, wikis, even youtube-like movie sharing. o_O We shall see if I can squeeze it all out of this engine with my bare hands
2. Will I manage?
Probably yes, there's nothing impossible here: i's only the matter of time and motivation. Anyway: we don' have to ceate all the features at once: changes will proceed and the site will evolve...
3. Do you want to wait a bit longer?
I can make a new skin very fast. But first making skin and then changing engine wont be that butt-kicking-arse as changing both things at the same time.
It might seem that YOT is experiencing some kind of downtime. However, the community is You - and so it's only up to you to maintain the activity. Anyways, I'm glad that the shoutbox is more in use. Also, if you have any technical problems with anything on the site, drop me a PM.
As the title says, the changes are coming. Just the situation I'm experiencing needs stabilization. I'm currently searching for a job, while not even having finished my studies completely - a final exam still awaits.
What is coming is a reward system for forum posts and submitted pages, a new Control Panel, another re-arrangement of site content, and a new skin. I'll do my best to add even more functionality as well - e.g. forum posts notifications and better navigation.
What is going out? Weblogs most probably. They're not updated regularly anyways. However, members who contributed a lot in weblogs will have their new, personal weblog category created (which mechanics will be based on regular page system).
Yup, I decided to make the YOT Articles be YOT Members-only again. And yes, this decision was triggered by the last Tekkenpedia actions...
This way we're sure that Yoshimitsu mysteries won't be shamelessly stolen again and used to elevate somebody's site traffic. They're too precious for this fate...
These are not the only changes I plan... but all in the right time. I'm now too busy for more.
Firstly, they shamelessly stole a whole Tekken Translations article from our community's site. After my asking for re-submit the quotes with a credit and linkback to our site, they... simply reworded the translations
EDIT.
It seems that a chat with Tekkenpedia owner solved everything, of which I'm very glad.
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