"Disadvantages of a Successful Long Running Forum" Topic

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23 Oct 2015 2:13 p.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill

Changed title from "Disadvantages of a Successful Long Runnning Forum" to "Disadvantages of a Successful Long Running Forum"

19 Apr 2016 9:53 a.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill

Removed from TMP Poll Suggestions board
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Flashman14	23 Oct 2015 2:05 p.m. PST
must include the fact that the archives are littered with dead and broken links. There's so much hope and promise only met with "Page Does Not Exist" screens. What else?
olicana	23 Oct 2015 2:09 p.m. PST
Evidence of the stupid things I've written after one too many beers.
Editor in Chief Bill	23 Oct 2015 2:15 p.m. PST
I think we'll be able to clean most of those up after TMP 4.0… should be a lot easier to scan for them.
Winston Smith	23 Oct 2015 2:30 p.m. PST
This is a poll?
Terrement	23 Oct 2015 5:38 p.m. PST
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The Beast Rampant	23 Oct 2015 5:38 p.m. PST
I also wish editors would go back and delete posts they deem no one is going to go searching for. Especially the "could TMPer236 please contact me?" variety. So, in conclusion, 'Zardoz'.
Stryderg	23 Oct 2015 6:28 p.m. PST
New visitors don't get the Zardoz references that were so popular "back in the day".
RavenscraftCybernetics	24 Oct 2015 6:24 a.m. PST
No one gets ZardoZ, Zardoz gets YOU! (He told me himself)
Martin Rapier	24 Oct 2015 9:30 a.m. PST
Any hand crafted piece of software accumulates ever more baggage over its lifetime and fixes piled on top of fixes which as the external environment changes, which in turn make it less reliable and far more expensive to maintain. TMP exhibits some of these behaviours.
Griefbringer	24 Oct 2015 12:40 p.m. PST
No one gets ZardoZ, Zardoz gets YOU! Gun is good!
The Virtual Armchair General	24 Oct 2015 1:02 p.m. PST
Oh Gawd! MY EYES!!!!
Bills Occasional Sock Puppet	24 Oct 2015 6:28 p.m. PST
Cookies anyone?? link https://s.mlkshk.com/r/XV8K
etotheipi	25 Oct 2015 3:23 a.m. PST
Any hand crafted piece of software All software is handcrafted. When you have a team working on it, you accumulate baggage of multiple mildly conflicting viewpoints. And if, Crom forbid, you listen to your users for feedback, you add a cornucopia of incompatibility to the mix.
kyoteblue	25 Oct 2015 8:48 a.m. PST
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Editor in Chief Bill	25 Oct 2015 4:00 p.m. PST
Any time line for TMP 4.007? How can there possibly be a timeline? Too many unknowns.
deephorse	25 Oct 2015 5:26 p.m. PST
I believe that you said it would be ready "after the Christmas sales". Admittedly you didn't say which Christmas.
wrgmr1	26 Oct 2015 12:57 p.m. PST
Over long search times and inaccurate searches. I find Google does a better job.

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