Team: You want to overhaul the message boards, NOW? We just completed the site relaunch! Can’t you give us a break?
Manny: Buuuut, we might as well do it while the iron is HOT!
Anyhow, I’m going to study all the ins and outs of the forum, but I’m going to need help creating graphics. I’d like to have a background like they have at He-Man.org.
Perhaps once Kyle has free time, he can help us with the forum logo and background, buttons, etc.
I also would like to do some restructuring of the forums:
Remove the Member Only Forum: I don’t remember what this was suppose to be!
Create a New Cartoon and Toy Forum for the upcoming toy line and series. That Bandai toy thread is super looong and has 50,000+ views! It’s difficult to go through!
Go ahead and post of the mod forum. I also think a new forum should be created for the new toys and cartoons. As far as overhaul do you mean only the graphics portion?
I think images does need updating, I think though that we can keep the current vesrion of vbulletin which seems to work allright
Wow, great to see this being done - you might remember I was pushing for this about 6 months ago, so great to see it happening, brilliant stuff!
Re: the Members’ Only section, the reason for this was because we came up with the idea of creating PDF files of full Marvel ThunderCats comics, but I wasn’t comfortable with making them available to download off the site because it’s bootlegging copyrighted material - so, we came up with the suggestion of making them available to forum members only, as a little “goody” for them for signing up to the forums!
Of course it was only a partial “workaround” for the copyright issue, because somebody could download them and circulate them as much as they liked - but, it was something that someone could only know was available if they bothered to sign up to our forums!
Unfortunately one day this whole site got deleted by accident and when you re-uploaded it, MannyF, you had to leave the PDF files off because you exceeded your upload quota…and they remained offline ever since!
Some members still ask me about the full comic downloads, including folks offering to scan them for us to make available - I know there are those who’d like them added to the main body of the site, but to be truthful I’m uncomfortable with doing this because of copyright infringement - even though they’re all out-of-print they still belong jointly to Marvel Comics and Warner Bros, two very powerful companies. I had wondered whether we could diplomatically get over this by making them available to access via the Members’ Only section, but obviously if we’re scrapping this (which I understand, because it’s been dead for years) then that removes that as a vessel for achieving that…
