Quote from: Velox on March 06, 2016, 09:34:28 AM

Quote from: Cheat on March 05, 2016, 02:24:26 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on March 05, 2016, 02:10:03 PM

If you had just explained your intentions from the beginning, there wouldn't have been so many people complaining about it.

Sure there would have. I have no doubt there are some folks here who still don't realize the "banner" changes when you click those 4 tiles beneath it, and this argument is nothing new.

I'll admit that the fader design is subpar. It's an old javascript swapper I built several years ago that needs to be updated, but the fader/slider itself is not a poor idea. We just need more "stuff" to happen.

Then make more stuff happen, or remove the function. As of now it's pointless and your justification for it is null as stuff does in fact not happen.

Anarchy weekend and mod/monitor applications don't count? I would be more than willing to add one to rotation if there's a tournament or event going on in #­gaming; all anyone has to do is send me the banner and the link.

I can sort of respect you sticking to your guns even when you're wrong, but removing that slider would unbalance the front page. A logo would be redundant. Adding a smaller banner makes it feel unlike a homepage and more like a sub page.

Most sites use a slider or featured spot on their home page. Basically everyone knows this. Removing it is not a good idea and it will never happen.

Opinions can be wrong now?

Anarchy sure does count, but I don't really see the point in still having it up and clickable weeks after the fact, when the event itself only lasts for a weekend.

A slider is a great idea, I'm not protesting that. What I'm saying is that it's redundant if there's nothing relevant to show.

As of now it's kind of a meaningless function - and there's two ways to solve that problem. Either remove the function which really has no purpose - or make it relevant, by creating events.

You're the admin and community manager, if you don't create these events, then who will?

Quote from: Velox on March 06, 2016, 02:19:58 PM

Quote from: Cheat on March 06, 2016, 11:03:53 AM

Quote from: Velox on March 06, 2016, 09:34:28 AM

Quote from: Cheat on March 05, 2016, 02:24:26 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on March 05, 2016, 02:10:03 PM

If you had just explained your intentions from the beginning, there wouldn't have been so many people complaining about it.

Sure there would have. I have no doubt there are some folks here who still don't realize the "banner" changes when you click those 4 tiles beneath it, and this argument is nothing new.

I'll admit that the fader design is subpar. It's an old javascript swapper I built several years ago that needs to be updated, but the fader/slider itself is not a poor idea. We just need more "stuff" to happen.

Then make more stuff happen, or remove the function. As of now it's pointless and your justification for it is null as stuff does in fact not happen.

Anarchy weekend and mod/monitor applications don't count? I would be more than willing to add one to rotation if there's a tournament or event going on in #­gaming; all anyone has to do is send me the banner and the link.

I can sort of respect you sticking to your guns even when you're wrong, but removing that slider would unbalance the front page. A logo would be redundant. Adding a smaller banner makes it feel unlike a homepage and more like a sub page.

Most sites use a slider or featured spot on their home page. Basically everyone knows this. Removing it is not a good idea and it will never happen.

Opinions can be wrong now?

Anarchy sure does count, but I don't really see the point in still having it up and clickable weeks after the fact, when the event itself only lasts for a weekend.

A slider is a great idea, I'm not protesting that. What I'm saying is that it's redundant if there's nothing relevant to show.

As of now it's kind of a meaningless function - and there's two ways to solve that problem. Either remove the function which really has no purpose - or make it relevant, by creating events.

You're the admin and community manager, if you don't create these events, then who will?

...creating events? What? If there is a tournament or contest or whatever, PM me and let me know and I'll add it. I won't make up bogus events just to keep the rotation fresh.

If you want, I'd be happy to do banners for when people do reviews if that kind of stuff would be added to the slider.

Quote from: Velox on March 06, 2016, 02:19:58 PM

Quote from: Cheat on March 06, 2016, 11:03:53 AM

Quote from: Velox on March 06, 2016, 09:34:28 AM

Quote from: Cheat on March 05, 2016, 02:24:26 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on March 05, 2016, 02:10:03 PM

If you had just explained your intentions from the beginning, there wouldn't have been so many people complaining about it.

Sure there would have. I have no doubt there are some folks here who still don't realize the "banner" changes when you click those 4 tiles beneath it, and this argument is nothing new.

I'll admit that the fader design is subpar. It's an old javascript swapper I built several years ago that needs to be updated, but the fader/slider itself is not a poor idea. We just need more "stuff" to happen.

Then make more stuff happen, or remove the function. As of now it's pointless and your justification for it is null as stuff does in fact not happen.

Anarchy weekend and mod/monitor applications don't count? I would be more than willing to add one to rotation if there's a tournament or event going on in #­gaming; all anyone has to do is send me the banner and the link.

I can sort of respect you sticking to your guns even when you're wrong, but removing that slider would unbalance the front page. A logo would be redundant. Adding a smaller banner makes it feel unlike a homepage and more like a sub page.

Most sites use a slider or featured spot on their home page. Basically everyone knows this. Removing it is not a good idea and it will never happen.

Opinions can be wrong now?

Anarchy sure does count, but I don't really see the point in still having it up and clickable weeks after the fact, when the event itself only lasts for a weekend.

A slider is a great idea, I'm not protesting that. What I'm saying is that it's redundant if there's nothing relevant to show.

As of now it's kind of a meaningless function - and there's two ways to solve that problem. Either remove the function which really has no purpose - or make it relevant, by creating events.

You're the admin and community manager, if you don't create these events, then who will?

...creating events? What? If there is a tournament or contest or whatever, PM me and let me know and I'll add it. I won't make up bogus events just to keep the rotation fresh.

My point is that the rotation function is 100% unnecessary. If you're not planning to make it relevant by making events, than why even have it up at all?

You keep saying that it would be useful if there was content, but there isn't any.

jeez guys it's obvious cheat is sensitive about his banners just let it go

Quote from: Verbatim on March 06, 2016, 03:44:58 PM

Are reviews necessarily big enough to have a whole front page slide for it?

Maybe if it's like, a brand new game, or something.

I'd say that relevant ones (IE like when Fallout 4 and H5 came out there were reviews of those) could be.

But we're brought back to the main point of... it only happens once every couple months.
The function would be great if events happened more frequently... but they don't. The the issue becomes if you're not going to change it then more events need to happen and whose responsibility is that? Cheat.