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I'll tell you one thing, I sure as heck am NOT digging this: I think the addition of reactions is a FANTASTIC addition to our forum community. It let's people "say" something quickly without having to actually make a post. Limiting this is a hindrance, I think.

They might have just not yet turned it on? It looks the the current reputation is the karma from the old SMF boards transferred over, probably automatically.

Yeah, I'm curious about this as well, I thought it'd be the little green cross under your name, but that seem to just take you to the person's profile. Maybe reputation giving is turned off right now, and they just transferred the old karma from the SMF boards as a starting point before turning it on here?

Something else I've found:

Oooooh.... gamification of internet forums? Sounds like fun! So, I guess I must be doing something right so far...

What's a leaderboard?

For everyone's information, from what I've determined through testing, and I'm not sure whether or not your monitor resolution affects this or not, but it looks like the cover image on your page to optimally fit should be 1400 pixels wide by 200 pixels tall, and if you don't want something obstructed by your avatar and username (depending on the username length), you'll need to shift the content to the right on the X axis a bit. For my username length, it was 386 pixels to the right, but YMMV:

Also, this ^^^^

I'm kind of liking the newer color scheme, it's a little bit easier on the eyes since it's slightly darker.

Yes, because one person's experience completely invalidates another's.

I like the fact that there's actually a MOBILE skin, instead of viewing a desktop page on a mobile browser. Very slick. But what I really want to know is CipherDisplayName's opinion of the new forums. 😉

I always started in GC. Always.

For my own future reference, I finally found the powers definitions publicly available on OuroDev at: https://ourowiki.ouro-comdev.com/index.php?title=Magnet_Links Named "Paragon Data Directory Dump", or Faptastic.7z. After you extract the files, you'll find the powers files at Defs\powers. That contains all of the rules/defs for the powers. I previously got this info for my "Powers Checker" from a compiled .DEF file that someone had posted on Discord - then I lost it. I had no clue where they got the large .DEF file from or how they made it. But now that I know where to get all of the actual data from the individual files, I think it might be much easier/faster to get that into a database and make an improved Powers Checker.... again, when there's Time™

Yeah, reading through the thread, I was wondering why y'all were guessing and testing, when the code is there. It's always just a matter of finding where it is in code, that's always the trick. Honestly, someone with more Time™ than me could go through the code and release a new City of Data site that's accurate to today.

GYAH! A rare Capocollo has appeared! Squirtle, use Water Jet! It's Super Effective! I gotcha in the Dev Tracker now! Where do these new GMs keep coming from, and why aren't they announced anywhere?

When I have Time™, I'll look into it. I have bigger fish to fry right now. In other news, I've found the following GMs that have been added under my nose, so I added them to the Dev Tracker today: GM Amittai GM Gabriel GM_Silvanity GM Fiddleback GM NobleKangaroo

Oooo, new Dev! You're now in the Dev Tracker (http://www.cityofplayers.com/DevTracker/)

Oooo, new Dev! You're now in the Dev Tracker (http://www.cityofplayers.com/DevTracker/)

Addendum to the Open Letter: How y'all doing? Things been pretty quiet as of late, kind of worried that something bad might have happened/be happening. Y'all okay?

Again, ParagonWiki to the rescue: https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Defense#Defense_Tags_and_Stacking

I'd love to get in there and add stuff, but fandom..... I cant see any content through the adverts. Better options surely? Once I have more Time™, and Project Spelunker is complete, I'd consider hosting a full unofficial one that starts with ParagonWiki as a base, but that's in the long distant future for now. Anyone else that wants to can sure step up and do the work. I know that it has to be done, and if nobody else is going to do it, I will, but only after getting back the old forums in a searchable manner, because that's my #1 priority for my free programming time.

Yes, y'all melted the server. We need a new one. I'm going to try to justify to my wife paying for it out of pocket, but it might be a moot point. I have other ideas that I'm developing for an alternative to the database-bsased system that I was going to use to host the forum data. So, give me some time (work is actually busy for once now!), and I'll get the forums back again, in a searchable format. It's not a question of "if" for me, it's a question of "when", and that takes Time, the rarest of all resources. You might notice that I'm not posting NEARLY as much as I used to. Again... Time.

I believe PK has already done so, if you're so inclined. There are nebulous plans for an official wiki in The Future™. Yup, it's here: https://coh-homecoming-unofficial.fandom.com/wiki/City_Of_Heroes:_Homecoming_Unofficial_Wiki Nobody's done anything with it though, but it's there if anyone wants to. Go nuts! I'm too busy with life to contribute at this time.

You could just ask directly, you know. I had plans. But they are sidelined by Project Spelunker for now. Speaking of which, no promises, but I hope to have a new methodology and new program release Soon ™.