The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls

Main => News Board => Topic started by: saint on December 28, 2015, 07:30:33 pm

Title: New News section!
Post by: saint on December 28, 2015, 07:30:33 pm
Introducing the new news section! New news items can be posted by any logged-in user, and will be available for comment and discussion like any other post, once the initial topic has been approved by a moderator. The reason for requiring moderator approval of the initial topic is that any topic posted (and approved) in the news section will also show up on the front page of the arcadecontrols.com web site. The front page that hasn't been updated in a few years? Its fate is now in the hands of the userbase, like the other active parts of the site. Any wanna-be reporters out there? :) Vendors want to introduce a new product on the front page? New software release? Something happening in the game industry? Feel free to post it here.

If this is successful, great. If not, we'll do something else with the front page. Thanks!
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: Slippyblade on December 28, 2015, 08:05:01 pm
This sounds cool.  Folks, post conventions, auctions, etc.  Would be neat to have a localized spot for info/news.
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: yotsuya on December 28, 2015, 09:37:51 pm
Can't wait to post ZapCon news!
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: saint on December 28, 2015, 10:38:35 pm
*NOTICE* - posts in this forum cannot be edited. This is to avoid something on the news page being approved, then later modified. :)
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: saint on December 28, 2015, 10:44:01 pm
Actually it's live now. http://arcadecontrols.com (http://arcadecontrols.com)
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: pbj on December 29, 2015, 09:42:07 am
Any product release announcement should have a section at the end where Paige tells us how we can fish something better out of a dumpster.

Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: leapinlew on January 01, 2016, 04:20:31 pm
Any product release announcement should have a section at the end where Paige tells us how we can fish something better out of a dumpster.

Don't worry PBJ, we know there is only one true authority on dumpster diving.  ;)
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: BobBorakovitz on January 02, 2016, 10:55:57 pm
this is great news!  looking forward to the BYOAC comeback!   :afro:  :burgerking:
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: Malenko on January 03, 2016, 06:49:36 pm
change that background image, even plain white is better and easier to read.
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: saint on January 05, 2016, 08:30:39 am
But, but, but... it's a 16 year tradition!

Ok - what should the background be everyone? I'm willing to update.
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: pbj on January 05, 2016, 11:02:47 am
You're really screwing with my muscle memory by placing Submit News to the left of Unread Posts.

Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: Malenko on January 05, 2016, 11:05:53 am
You're really screwing with my muscle memory by placing Submit News to the left of Unread Posts.

What theme are you running? Thankfully, I don't even see submit news.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=136713.0;attach=341777;image)
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: vwalbridge on January 05, 2016, 11:09:37 am
You're really screwing with my muscle memory by placing Submit News to the left of Unread Posts.

+1

(I've suggested to Saint on another thread that he put i back)  :)
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: Malenko on January 05, 2016, 11:10:48 am
Really? Cant edit posts?

Anyfart, I just realized what you were talking about, the bar under the forum layout area. Ive always used the top unread/new replies so hopefully he doesnt mess with those.
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: saint on January 05, 2016, 01:20:17 pm
Will fix the placement. Also, I've set this forum so that posts can't be edited, so that we don't approve a news item only to have someone do something funky to it later (since news items are on the front page). I may be able to distinguish between original posts and replies, will look.
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: Malenko on January 05, 2016, 01:33:12 pm
Will fix the placement. Also, I've set this forum so that posts can't be edited, so that we don't approve a news item only to have someone do something funky to it later (since news items are on the front page). I may be able to distinguish between original posts and replies, will look.

No I say leave it as is, but let everyone know that posts cannot be edited. I think its a safer and better approach than having the possibility of someone "doing something funky"
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: pbj on January 05, 2016, 01:49:39 pm
You're really screwing with my muscle memory by placing Submit News to the left of Unread Posts.

And you've fixed it.  Thanks.

#pbjrunthings
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: saint on January 05, 2016, 02:47:55 pm
You're really screwing with my muscle memory by placing Submit News to the left of Unread Posts.

And you've fixed it.  Thanks.

#pbjrunthings

:)
Title: Re: New News section!
Post by: Howard_Casto on January 06, 2016, 02:37:45 am
I see how it is, you've got to write another book before the homepage gets any love. 

A decade or two ago I messed around with happ control mounting/exploding diagrams as backgrounds for stuff.  I don't know about legal issues, but that would probably look pretty good.  Just something that isn't white...... white is so 1998.