The SSRG-XF2 Suggestions Thread

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  1. LazloPsylus

    LazloPsylus The Railgun Member

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    Funnily enough, one of my prime complaints with the Git disassemblies are that they *don't* have any standard. Shit changes between them like crazy, no standard assembler, no standard macro operations, nothing. It's essentially a headless train, hoping that people hang on. It's not to say the Git disassemblies didn't bring some improvements with them; it's that the intent got muddled down into a mess that ends up alienating both crowds while finding an odd niche at the same time. Yeah, we'll never get 100% agreement on data splitting organization, but we can at least attempt to find a compromise of divide where a general consensus can work.

    Honestly, the Git disassemblies have this problem where they try to be as ROM-accurate as possible, to the point that it becomes unfriendly to users. For research, that's all well and good, as the intent is to study and understand and document. To someone whose intent is to get in and modify, though, there's stupid hoops to go through because people pored over bit-for-bit accuracy to the point of assembler hackarounds and other engineering to make it assemble exactly as the original ROM. There's plenty room for disassemblies that try to be consistent in labeling and data division, as well as not being anal and self-defeating with perfect build accuracy. But this is something that requires a lot more proper discussion and hashing out to get in a more solid state, so I'll leave it there for now. I've really thought through the subject, though, and I'm sure others have as well, and there's plenty of space for a happy medium that bridges the divide between the old and new and make things forward-compatible.

    I've mulled on similar, actually. The current username changing system is abused to crap, and it makes identification of users a total pain in the ass. This is unhelpful and unintuitive, and the feature may be steadily phased out entirely. We'll give word on a final decision regarding that, but your issues are pretty solid with the name-changing.
     
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  2. AURORA☆FIELDS

    AURORA☆FIELDS so uh yes Exiled

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    Well ok, a long time ago, I remember a lot of talk about replacing the old Pro Users group with a few groups, to emphasize on specific knowledge and contribution to the community, to recognize people for their specific talents, and to promote advancing the community and helping other people learn. While I've forgotten the exact details of this discussion (you could probably dig up pars from Discord logs), generally the idea was the create new groups for people good with; ASM, art, music, level design, and maybe something else I've forgotten. At the time I and few others thought it would be a good idea for the future going forwards, but it just never came. I've bugged Lazzie a few times and understandably he is quite busy, especially because of XF2 now.

    There were also some other ideas floating around in the early days of XF integration that never came to be a reality, and I dont remember many of them off the top of my head unfortunately. Something that came later, was that XF just destroys tabs in the normal editor, and only in the text-only editor they are correctly preserved, and this is a major bug imo, considering that it is standard for assembly files to use tabs over spaces.
     
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  3. ProjectFM

    ProjectFM Optimistic and self-dependent Member

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    The Staff Projects section should accessible when logged out for people who aren't members.

    Edit: Also the Mod Database section in the Submissions section should be removed because the only thread there features the rules and was written ten years ago.
     
  4. Soldaten

    Soldaten The Coilgun Root Admin

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    Reminder XF2 is releasing in a matter of weeks so if you still have anything you'd like to suggest please let us know!
     
  5. ArcaniaCQ

    ArcaniaCQ Well-Known Member Member

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    This may be an odd request. But I feel like should have been added. Add some god damn denuvo.

    Anyway what I would like to see really is a customizable background for the forums. (Dunno if it's a thing that can be implemented or not.) Or customized themes instead of blue and white. (Not ones that you just get.)
     
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  6. AkumaYin

    AkumaYin Well-Known Member Exiled

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    I liked the way users could change the background on their profile page back when we were still using the IPB board. It's not important at all, but would be a neat thing to see again in the future.
    Agreed; maybe a sort of customizable style sheet per account would work?
     
  7. Ravenfreak

    Ravenfreak Still hacking the 8-bit titles Member

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    Wasn't a custom theme mentioned in the past and already one is in the works? I assume it won't be finished for a while though.
     
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    It wasn't really custom but there was a question regarding themes. I just took it up for more customizable features.
     
  9. Soldaten

    Soldaten The Coilgun Root Admin

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    General reminder this place is still open. Any more tidbits that we could attempt to squeeze in before we roll out would be nice.
     
  10. Pineapple Arse

    Pineapple Arse I ironically hate cold temperatures. Member

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    This may sound weird, or it may not even be possible, but an option for a dark/night theme would be nice, as for it's hard to look at SSRG at night with its bright colors.
     
  11. Soldaten

    Soldaten The Coilgun Root Admin

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    We do have 3 dark themes in place at the moment.
     
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  12. Keiro

    Keiro The Fluffy One Root Admin

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    Let me know if you have any paid add-ons that you want taken care of. I'll fund those.
     
  13. Spanner

    Spanner The Tool Member

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    I do have a mod in mind that I want, wonder if you'd get it. Just need to see if the XF2 version is out.
     
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    Keiro The Fluffy One Root Admin

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    What mod is that? Let me know where/what it is and I'll check it out and get it. Hopefully an XF2 version is out as well.
     
  15. Spanner

    Spanner The Tool Member

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    Considering I mentioned the upgrade in a recent Site News thread, it's probably a good idea to remind people about this thread.
     
  16. nineko

    nineko I am the Holy Cat Member

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    This is minor, but would it be possible to make the time and date formats customisable? I'd really like to use the 24-hour format for the time, just like I'd like to use a sane order (e.g. day/month/year or year/month/day) for the date.
     
  17. LazloPsylus

    LazloPsylus The Railgun Member

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    Definitely looking into that as an option. Can't promise anything, but will definitely take into consideration with some of the modifications I'm assessing to install.
     
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