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| Byzantine | Mar 3 2014, 09:52 PM Post #1 |
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Hey everyone! I noticed that Helena is on the Community Team, and EF is no longer the RA. Did I miss something? |
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| Helena | Mar 3 2014, 10:10 PM Post #2 |
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Just a little team shifting after EF decided to step down recently. It's kind of hard to have a team with only one person on it. Our teams can be fluid, so we don't generally make any kind of announcement when things change.The resource team may be re-established at some later time as things progress. |
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| Ferby | Mar 4 2014, 07:20 AM Post #3 |
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I noticed this as well. It's a little depressing know Helena has no longer got a pink name
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| -The- | Mar 4 2014, 01:15 PM Post #4 |
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I was thinking it was a little more depressing how EF has stepped down... |
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| Moonface | Mar 4 2014, 03:06 PM Post #5 |
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Staff members normally step down when they have less time on their hands or simply want a break for a period of time. While EF stepping down is of course not something to throw a party about, it doesn't mean that she is never going to return to the staff team in whatever position she may get put into. It also doesn't necessarily mean that it's the end of her doing any themes or anything. While I'm not saying she will return or will make themes, she can do either of those as and when she is able to do so. |
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| Delirium | Mar 4 2014, 10:27 PM Post #6 |
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It is pretty significant, though, to have merged the two boards and yet be left with no resource staff. It's pretty indicative of the route the board has taken and it's hard to blame anyone but the mostly absent administration. Oh well, as long as Brandon is collecting that ad revenue, all is well. |
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| Stephen | Mar 4 2014, 11:17 PM Post #7 |
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On average, a staff member's term is about 3 years. Some have been around longer. But many have also come and returned (Ryan ) I will not presume to speak for Eccentric Feline, but in announcing her decision, it was not phrased as nor interpreted to be a permanent retirement. That said, the choice of when and if to return remains hers. If it's not obvious, the staff teams fluctuate at times based on the needs of the board. The only team that really doesn't change much is Support. At times there has been a 2:1 ratio of Support to Community. We've had various teams for various projects and we've had members from one team go to another and switch back. There are plenty of groups that still exist in the Admin CP that can be reactivated at any point we deem necessary. With regards to Resources, I asked Helena to come back to Community so she wasn't floating out there by herself. There will be a time when the resource team is needed, but until we have the structure we want, it makes no sense to keep her in a sole group. Nor does it make sense to go on a hiring binge (especially given most are in the most stressful point with both college and high school students having exams and preparing for finals, projects, graduation etc.) Any hiring makes sense in the summer when things are more relaxed and time is more abundant. In general, this period of time is normally the more stressful point for most users. Most progress comes during the summer and winter breaks where everyone has a bit more free time. Delirium: Helena doesn't stop being a Resource provider just because she changed groups. Nor do others who have done the same. Our original Graphics team mostly went to Community and they still provided graphics. Our original skinning team did the same for support. The teams are there to distinguish areas of focus, but that doesn't prevent them from providing other services. As to your comment about Brandon, Brandon has had little input on the team actions. He leaves that to the team admins. That does not mean however that Brandon is indifferent about what goes on. He simply entrusts us to handle our own areas while he focuses on his area. |
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| Ferby | Mar 5 2014, 01:36 PM Post #8 |
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Which is what exactly? I can spot many bugs on the software and all of which won't be fixed for years. ZetaBoards has the potential to become popular forum software as it has a delightful community and good resources but the main problem is that development is just not happening. He sits there and collects money whilst dealing with the occasional server downtime. We never hear of him or even get a hello and no one has explained why. |
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| Brandon | Mar 5 2014, 04:05 PM Post #9 |
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I understand your concern. A site the size of ZB and IF requires a lot of maintenance in order to be stable. To be upfront, behind the scenes development and maintenance take up the majority of my time. That being said, I'm working on several new major projects for ZB/IF, some of which are close to being released. Additionally we're in the process of discussing a few things that might shorten the development time for other visible improvements as well. Let me know which bugs you are referring to. |
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| Ferby | Mar 5 2014, 05:28 PM Post #10 |
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For starters you're still displaying a PIPA & SOPA protest announcement on the ACP from 2011. It's not so much a bug but it's not longer needed. Click for image Then when setting forum permissions, clicking the - button on columns results in all checkboxes being ticked. Click for image As well as multiple forum moderation sets override each other, editing a profile field that uses a `<select>` results in the first option being removed, editing a user's profile results in all selection fields being set to the first option, editing a user's profile sometimes doesn't work because the URL of their avatar is too long for the ACP to handle, bulk mail preview doesn't function as it should do and if you put in an invalid URL into the domain manager it asks that you edit the settings of the domain so it uses CNAME when that's only for a subdomain. I think there are more but I can't think of them off the top of my head. |
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| Nicolas | Mar 5 2014, 05:54 PM Post #11 |
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"PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD."
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Ferby, thanks for your list - we have a process by which we report bugs to Brandon. A majority of the bugs you have listed is in that list. Presently, Brandon's focus is in certain areas which he outlined and the staff's push is for attention to other major concerns - such as search indexing and server 6/10. Paypal not automatically processing sales also took his attention away briefly - but that concern was dealt with. Once these big issues are handled, tackling smaller nuisance bugs will be far more common. Admin CP announcements were specifically something recently spoken about - you'll notice the ZetaBoards website now has a more recent news item, and we're hoping for the Admin CP to follow suit. The domain name "bug" you've listed is not a bug - it wouldn't make sense for us to check whether or not a TLD is valid, especially with more and more TLDs and ccTLDs opening up. Instead, just checking if a domain points to the board or not is the best way to check if a domain is valid. "CNAME when that's only for a subdomain." - this is not accurate. You can point '@' (the 'subdomain' for 'no subdomain') using a CNAME record. There is no bug. I would also like to take this opportunity to mention that this topic is not for airing complaints or a list of bugs. While Brandon welcomed that from Ferby, Ferby has responded. Any specific bugs can be reported via a support ticket in your Admin CP and it will be reported through staff channels so we have a comprehensive and easily accessible list of bugs for Brandon instead of a list in topics of bugs (and, as indicated above, some not-bugs). |
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| Jason | Mar 30 2014, 07:42 PM Post #12 |
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I think Delirium summed things up pretty well to be perfectly honest. Development appears to have ground to a halt while any boards still going strong will continue to rake in the revenue. What's the future for Zetaboards, that's the question that doesn't really get answered in my opinion. |
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| Ferby | Mar 30 2014, 08:00 PM Post #13 |
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I'd like to know that as well. Why doesn't the staff team start a blog or even post regular updates on what is happening in ZB? Would bring the community closer for sure. |
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| Cory | Mar 30 2014, 08:04 PM Post #14 |
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Filling requests and posting resources is a never-ending cycle, but filling requests needs to be done to a degree, or else the request will just sit there forever and end up being incomplete. I see skin and theme requests were removed, and for a good reason. Filling constant skin and theme requests and doing it just for a simple thank you becomes a beating. I've never messed with graphics, but coding can be quite extensive at times and takes a lot of time. The staff on this network probably don't have that much time to dedicate to such a prolonged service, unless new team members were hired that had that type of dedication. The longer things don't get done and the more things get broken, the closer and closer this network becomes to becoming a failure. Everything has always been put on the back-burner and remains to be that way, and then we see tl;dr posts from the staff with excuses or explanations why. Let's face reality, if new changes aren't made to this network and constant progress is not made, it becomes a real reality that other forum networks are going to succeed over this one. A lot lies on Brandon's shoulders and when he's MIA, the network will remain ever so quiet. Think outside the box. |
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| Ferby | Mar 30 2014, 08:10 PM Post #15 |
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I think the problem with hiring a code team is that current staff wouldn't take up the job as they don't do it already which means they'd look for members. That would leave me, Cory & DaPizzaMan as prime members of the team because we dedicate our time to help those who want extra features for the forums and the reason they want extra features is because development of ZB is at a stand still. I would love to hear more from Brandon and how development is going. It just looks like he's collecting in the money and making no progress. As much as I hate the pace that ZetaBoards is at, I wouldn't leave because I love the community. I've worked with forums for years and I ain't going to sit here and stay silent when I can see that ZB is falling behind. |
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