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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.

9/3/2005 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.

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.

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.

8/26/2005 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.

8/25/2005 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.

8/23/2005 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.

8/20/2005 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.

8/12/2005 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.

8/12/2005 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.

8/10/2005 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.

8/10/2005 Ron Edwards: This one's important
Hello, I'll tell you what the Forge needs. This is directed specifically to the person who's been reading or posting for more than three months. Especially if you find yourself…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, droog, matthijs, Technocrat13, Gaerik, cruciel, Bankuei, GaryTP, John Harper, Gordon C. Landis.

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.

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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.

9/28/2005 Jake Boone: Boffer LARP design okay?
I've got a boffer LARP design about two-thirds finished, and I would love to get some input from the Forge community.  Is it kosher to post a LARP design in…
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Participants: Jake Boone, Ron Edwards, Andrew Morris, rrr.

9/29/2005 Troy_Costisick: Coding Help
Heya, I'm sorta embarrassed to ask this questions because I used to know.  But could someone tell me how to change a long link like this: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php into a single…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Jack Aidley.

10/4/2005 Jasper: Number of threads displayed
There's been so much activity in Indie Design lately that even recent, active posts get scrolled off the front page. Is there a way to allow more threads to be…
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Participants: Jasper, Ron Edwards.

10/6/2005 Silmenume: Searching for old links by message number -
Is there a way to search the forums by message number?
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Participants: Silmenume, Mike Holmes.

10/10/2005 Jack Aidley: Too many Ronnies threads
A glance over the Indie Game Design forum shows that is currently awash with "Ronnies Feedback" threads. Now I don't have anything against the Ronnies - hell, I plan on…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Graham Walmsley, Mark Johnson, Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg, Eero Tuovinen, Doug Ruff, Andy Kitkowski.

10/15/2005 Solamasa: Problems with registration emails
I have no idea if this is the appropriate place, but half an hour of searching has not yielded me the email of the site admin, so I'm just going…
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Participants: Solamasa.

10/20/2005 Andrew Morris: Question about topic
Would it be completely off-topic for the Forge to post information about obtaining indie games? For example, FLGSs that are indie-friendly, great sales from online vendors, etc? At first glance,…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards.

10/21/2005 Vaxalon: "Mark as Read" should lead back to the next higher level in the hierarchy
When you hit "Mark as read" on a general forum, it should open the list of general forums, and when you hit it on an indie publisher forum, it should…
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Participants: Vaxalon, M. J. Young.

10/26/2005 Andrew Morris: Function request
The easy-to-spot icons for topics you've posted in are great. Is there any way to add something like that for topics you've read? Even better would be a way to…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Technocrat13.

10/28/2005 Silmenume: Enumerating Lists
Hi Clinton, You probably have a real life beyond the Forge here, but I thought I would put this out. I remember in the prior software we were able to…
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Participants: Silmenume.

11/1/2005 Thor: Need search help
I was trrying to find all instaces of the book "Impro" but cannot weed out the citations with Improvisation, Improvement and anything else with impro in it. is there a…
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Participants: Thor, Rob Carriere, jrs.

11/2/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Possibility of increasing the number of threads per page?
I don't know if there's a huge server/db impact, but especially in Indie Design I think we definitely need more than 21 threads per page.  Just to get more exposure…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski.

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