You guys probably know this because you've been following the thread about this which I know because you explicitly volunteered to come hang out while I'm still working on things, but... I'm still high on caffeine, coding and working on website stuff like a manic nut, and writing run-on sentences like this one.
Anyway, welcome to what will become one of the supporting member perks. The idea is that this will be a private section for members who help keep our website online by donating or subscribing. With access, you'll be able to enjoy off-topic discussions with looser rules, buy/sell items with other trusted members, receive top-secret discounts, test new website features early, and whatever else we might think of.
I do have a bunch of things I need to do to make this section feel useful but I'll get to that stuff later.
Right now I'm still trying to make sure the account upgrades system is going to work right and I'm also trying to finish the first iteration of my complete website redesign. The website redesign is important because the current design is using a lot of outdated code that makes adding new features like this and other bigger things I have planned, very difficult.
Unfortunately, once my redesign is complete enough to make it the default, the current designs are probably going to have a bunch of broken areas. Eventually I would like to go back and fix whatever breaks so people can still choose to use the "legacy" designs if they want.
If you want to, you can browse the site using the work-in-progress redesign here. You'll see that I have a lot left to do to get it to look as close to the current designs as I can. You'll notice things displaying incorrectly, missing, etc. You can switch designs whenever you want here: Style chooser (https://tacoma3g.com/misc/style). If you do decide to take the risk and venture into the unknown, let me know what you love or hate about the redesign. And since it's a live work in progress, you can check it again throughout the day/week to see my changes/fixes.
Back to this super special top secret new section. You guys are able to read this thread because you volunteered to help me test stuff. You didn't get charged/won't have to pay to be in this section because I manually added you to it for now. Having a section like this was a popular suggestion I got so I guess we're going to see how it goes. I figure being able to buy/sell items between other forum regulars, and maybe having some off-topic chat that is a little looser in rules (without upsetting anyone though), could be fun. Someone also suggested putting a little chat box in here that would let us send "instant" messages like you would on Facebook. That's something I can do.
I'm gonna go back to drinking caffeine and coding stuff now. Thanks for coming to my Tyler talk.
Anyway, welcome to what will become one of the supporting member perks. The idea is that this will be a private section for members who help keep our website online by donating or subscribing. With access, you'll be able to enjoy off-topic discussions with looser rules, buy/sell items with other trusted members, receive top-secret discounts, test new website features early, and whatever else we might think of.
I do have a bunch of things I need to do to make this section feel useful but I'll get to that stuff later.
Right now I'm still trying to make sure the account upgrades system is going to work right and I'm also trying to finish the first iteration of my complete website redesign. The website redesign is important because the current design is using a lot of outdated code that makes adding new features like this and other bigger things I have planned, very difficult.
Unfortunately, once my redesign is complete enough to make it the default, the current designs are probably going to have a bunch of broken areas. Eventually I would like to go back and fix whatever breaks so people can still choose to use the "legacy" designs if they want.
If you want to, you can browse the site using the work-in-progress redesign here. You'll see that I have a lot left to do to get it to look as close to the current designs as I can. You'll notice things displaying incorrectly, missing, etc. You can switch designs whenever you want here: Style chooser (https://tacoma3g.com/misc/style). If you do decide to take the risk and venture into the unknown, let me know what you love or hate about the redesign. And since it's a live work in progress, you can check it again throughout the day/week to see my changes/fixes.
Back to this super special top secret new section. You guys are able to read this thread because you volunteered to help me test stuff. You didn't get charged/won't have to pay to be in this section because I manually added you to it for now. Having a section like this was a popular suggestion I got so I guess we're going to see how it goes. I figure being able to buy/sell items between other forum regulars, and maybe having some off-topic chat that is a little looser in rules (without upsetting anyone though), could be fun. Someone also suggested putting a little chat box in here that would let us send "instant" messages like you would on Facebook. That's something I can do.
I'm gonna go back to drinking caffeine and coding stuff now. Thanks for coming to my Tyler talk.
