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8/9/2005 xenopulse: Resource Library
I don't know if this has been brought to your attention yet, but when I try to access the resource library, no matter which group I click on, I always…
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Participants: xenopulse, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/8/2005 timfire: Why can't we change the theme?
As in, the look of the forum? Just wondering.
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Participants: timfire, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Shreyas Sampat, Paganini.

8/4/2005 M. J. Young: What's Not to Like?
I don't like change. That's a given. I think too many times people change things for the worse, or at least make changes that don't improve anything but only make…
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Participants: M. J. Young, jrs, Vaxalon, Gaerik, Alan.

8/4/2005 Silmenume: Missing graphic -
I've noticed that the graphic star under Ron's name is rendered as a box with the windows place maker for an image with a tiny text asterisk next to it…
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Participants: Silmenume, Miskatonic.

7/30/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Why This?
I've spent a couple of hours now paging through the theory discussions here.  I asked a question on design a week or so back, since I'm doing some.  But I…
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Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, Bankuei, Michael S. Miller, demiurgeastaroth, Miskatonic, Gaerik, daMoose_Neo, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

7/29/2005 Paul Czege: what Ron should do
On Barrier to newcomers, Ron wrote: I have a really, really long list of stuff that other people think I should do, believe me. Additions or suggestions to that…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Gaerik.

7/29/2005 Ron Edwards: Changes to the Forge
Hello, Clinton and I have discussed and agreed upon our next step for altering the Forge, but so far, it's not public beeswax yet. You'll see when it comes. But…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg, greyorm, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, jrs, droog, cruciel, Noon, Uzzah, Gaerik, Eva Deinum, Eero Tuovinen.

7/29/2005 Vaxalon: Editing posts turned off?
Why was the editing of posts turned off?  It was useful for fixing broken links, bad formatting, etc.
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Participants: Vaxalon, Clinton R. Nixon, Andy Kitkowski.

7/27/2005 jrs: Broken links
With the change to the new forum software, I've discovered a number of broken links in earlier posts.  There seem to be two different problems. 1.  The use of html…
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Participants: jrs, Clinton R. Nixon, Justin Marx.

7/22/2005 Miskatonic: Feature wishlist
I thought it might be nice to start a thread to divert all the, "Hey, you know what would be nice...?" and "I miss feature X" posts to their own…
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Participants: Miskatonic, johnmarron, Noon, Ben Lehman, Frank T, ScottM, Rob Carriere, Clinton R. Nixon, Vaxalon, Andy Kitkowski.

7/22/2005 ewilen: feature request: link forward
I don't know if this would be possible but it occurs to me that it would be very useful. What I've noticed in reading the Forge is that many threads…
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Participants: ewilen, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/19/2005 Gaerik: Missing Functionality?
The old Forums had a function that allowed you to Save a Thread as a Favorite.  Then when you clicked on your Favorites link it showed all the Threads you…
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Participants: Gaerik, Selene Tan.

7/19/2005 ewilen: finding all threads by user
It seems I can't quite do what was once trivial: locate all threads in which a given user has participated. I think I can use the search function to locate…
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Participants: ewilen.

7/18/2005 RobNJ: What's the appropriate forum?
Which is the appropriate forum to discuss our feelings and experiences at a convention?  In this case, I'd like to find or begin a thread about DexCon 8.
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Participants: RobNJ, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards.

7/17/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: Do you use RSS?
If you do, I've got some good news for you. Look at this: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss2;sa=recent;limit=10 Interesting, huh? See a detailed discussion on how you can pull RSS feeds from the Forge…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, MichaelCurry, immlass, rafial.

7/17/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Everyone, We've obviously changed the software the Forge runs on. My apologies for the current looks of it. It's all unintegrated and wacko. Give me a day or two to…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Selene Tan, Uzzah, Paul Czege, Andy Kitkowski, Miskatonic, Jason Petrasko, joshua neff, Asrogoth, Gaerik, ethan_greer, Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman, Rob Carriere, Warren, Nick Brooke, Nathan P., Matt Snyder, abzu, John Harper, Artanis, Jack Aidley, ffilz, Andrew Morris, Shreyas Sampat, Technocrat13, jrs, Lxndr, ephemere, John Burdick, cdr, matthijs, greyorm, Paganini, M. J. Young.

6/28/2005 John Wick: Parse Error
When looking in CONVENTIONS at the Indie RPG Design Seminar, I got this error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/.qadim/indierpg/indie-rpgs.com.new/viewtopic.php on line 1233
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Participants: John Wick, Wolfen.

6/28/2005 PlotDevice: Getting a Parse error on every thread.
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/.qadim/indierpg/indie-rpgs.com.new/viewtopic.php on line 1233 Not sure if this will work, but thought I would give it a go. Evan
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Participants: PlotDevice.

6/20/2005 lumpley: Turtling Citation
Hey Ron or anybody, which article is "turtling" in? Is it even in an article? I've done an Edit > Find (on This Page)... in every article, no luck. I've…
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Participants: lumpley, Chris Goodwin, jrs, ethan_greer, Trevis Martin, contracycle, Troy_Costisick, Mike Holmes.

6/16/2005 Simon Marks: Is it ok to ... ?
Hello people. I am in the midst of (re)designing an LRP (LARP?) System being used here in the UK. The current system is established, published and successful. Now, as pointed…
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Participants: Simon Marks, Andrew Morris, Gaerik, greyorm, Eero Tuovinen, timfire, Ron Edwards.

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8/10/2005 greyorm: Thread Splitting Etiquette
[quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=16323.msg173574#msg173574 date=1123607836]DO NOT post to older threads. I'm very unhappy with all of you more experienced posters who compounded a newcomer's understandable confusion about that. Fuckin' wasting…
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Participants: greyorm, Balbinus, Simon Marks, Adam Dray.

8/12/2005 Sean: Patch Rules and System Rewrites
Hi, I know that Indie Game Design is not an appropriate place for discussing tweaks and modifications to other people's systems. Would discussions of these make for suitable RPG theory…
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Participants: Sean, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

8/12/2005 Gordon C. Landis: Playing Indie Games
This post is in (small? large? I'm not sure) part inspired by Ron's "This one's important" post (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16335.0) - it's been on my mind for a while, and I wasn't…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Bankuei, Nathan P., matthijs, Eero Tuovinen, Paganini, greyorm, bcook1971, GaryTP, droog, Albert of Feh, immlass, Marco.

8/20/2005 bcook1971: The Cat's Away
Now's our chance to go crazy while The Man's at Gencon! Post polls! Pretentious, posturing "next big deals" under RPG Theory! Sell me on ! Rehash a perceived…
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Participants: bcook1971, matthijs, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2005 Ron Edwards: Needed: Archives
Hello, As I've stated recently, two of the forums are about to undergo some structural and procedural changes. However, one thing is needed, for both of them, and I don't…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

8/25/2005 matthijs: Slow?
The last couple of days it seems loading pages takes a looong time. Is it just me, or are others experiencing the same problem?
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Participants: matthijs, pedyo, Rob Carriere.

8/26/2005 Silmenume: Searching for Threads started by a poster...
Is there a way to search for all Threads started by a poster? The wild card does not seem to work in the "search for" field. Thanks
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Participants: Silmenume, TonyLB, Valamir.

8/27/2005 cruciel: Forum Change Timetable
Quick question:  Do you have a time table for the forum changes?  Some threads can last for weeks, so it might be helpful to know when you need people to…
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Participants: cruciel, Ron Edwards.

8/29/2005 komradebob: Did Clinton Evacuate?
I've been watching the weather and trying to make sure my friends and family back in the Crescent City have evacuated. Has anyone heard whether Clinton evacuated, and if so…
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Participants: komradebob, GaryTP, Rossum.

9/3/2005 Wolfen: Times and Posts
Is it just me, or have the times on this site gone all to hell? I checked in this morning to see what new posts there were, and it told…
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Participants: Wolfen, Lxndr.

9/3/2005 Matt Wilson: Forge Donate Button?
Hey, didn't there used to be a button where you could donate funds to the Forge? I can't find it.
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Gordon C. Landis, Emily Care, Clinton R. Nixon, Miskatonic, Joshua BishopRoby.

9/4/2005 Ron Edwards: September 4th, again
Happy birthday, Clinton! There are only two people on the Forge who can post about personal birthdays. I'm one of them. Clinton is the other. We only do this once…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, greyorm.

9/6/2005 mythusmage: Forum Software
I use an 8 year old iMac running OS9.2. My browser of choice is Netscape 7.02 because it works better than IE. Except when page coding does not follow Internet…
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Participants: mythusmage, Rob Carriere, Miskatonic, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/7/2005 GB Steve: Connection problems
I had a hard time connecting just now. I kept getting a page with not much on except a short message at the top saying all the connections were busy.…
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Participants: GB Steve, Andrew Morris.

9/9/2005 contracycle: Payoffs
Ron Edwards wrote: This is foul. Gareth, you have a choice. Either the reasons you're here are paying off, for you and others, or they're not. If not, then…
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Participants: contracycle, Andrew Norris, greyorm, joshua neff, cruciel.

9/15/2005 Technocrat13: Appropriateness of other Message Icons
Ron or Clinton, While I was posting earlier today I noticed that little pull-down box below the subject line titled "Message Icon".  There's a bunch of icons there including smiley…
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Participants: Technocrat13, Ron Edwards, Artanis.

9/19/2005 ScottM: Membership Database
I finally scrolled all the way down and found "The Forge - Info Center", which contained (among other things like who's online) the Membership Database.  Unfortunately, the field that interests…
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Participants: ScottM, Andrew Morris.

9/21/2005 Luther: New account, same person.
Hi, after some years lurking on and off I registered (IIRC more than a year ago) as lutherblissett and posted 1 message. Today I tried to join the forum again…
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Participants: Luther, Ron Edwards.

9/22/2005 Ruminator: Resource Library working?
I haven't really been about to get past the first page of the Resource Library...Is there a reason for this?  I've tried in IE and Firefox.
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Participants: Ruminator, ewilen, Jonathan Walton, Clinton R. Nixon, Troy_Costisick, Grex, Ron Edwards.

9/24/2005 Noon: Helping new arrivals who have already made many choices
This came up in a recent thread. I'd describe the situation as a new member of the Forge asking for help with their project (in this case it was a…
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Participants: Noon, TonyLB, Artanis, Bankuei, Jasper, Troy_Costisick.

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