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| packmule | Jun 13 2008, 04:52 AM |
Site founder - Your best nightmare
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You better believe it bothers me. It pisses me off. I spent the better part of an entire week scouring several boards looking for a ZB themed skin that would work for this site. I find several and, immediately after the conversion(yesterday), I cannot install any of them because of this "technical issue" which was mentioned to me by a ZB staffer. This issue also is why I cannot upload into of our former emoticons either. In my opinion there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for this problem. There was a nearly three week delay in the conversion of this board because Brandon(and whoever else may be helping him) encountered "an unforeseen hardware issue". Unforeseen? Okay, I was willing to roll with that. But more of these problems after the conversion? Come on. The ZB support site is choked with complaints about the conversion: a lot of people are having issues. While some are caused by the members themselves most are legitimate beefs and involve real bugs that have been caused by what I believe was a poorly handled conversion overall. It's a new skin that resembles, somewhat, the former IF skin we were using called "Reclutex". The banner we were using(KK and the V-Rex) would look fine, IMO, with this new ZB skin called "Byte". It is long been established that a message board that is subject to technical problems loses posts from those members who opt not to visit the site(or can't like yesterday when the site was down). I don't expect any of the active and long time members here to discontinue their activity here. What concerns me, honestly, are members like you, recently registered and relatively new around here. It's these kinds of members that sites generally lose, in some numbers, when these technical issues arise. At the time of this post I still cannot install a new forum skin or upload any new emoticons. I can tell you this: losing even one member, or one post, due to these technical issues, is absolutely goddamn unacceptable in my book, and I hold, and will continue to hold, Brandon and anyone else tasked with this changeover personally responsible. They mucked it up. Period. Considering how hard I have worked to get Monsterland Forums up and running, and active with posts and members, you cannot imagine how angry I am right now. Edited by packmule, Jun 13 2008, 04:57 AM.
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