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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.

10/4/2005 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.

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.

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.

9/24/2005 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.

9/22/2005 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.

9/21/2005 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.

9/19/2005 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.

9/15/2005 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.

9/9/2005 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.

9/7/2005 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.

9/6/2005 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.

9/4/2005 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.

9/3/2005 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.

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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.

11/18/2005 Ron Edwards: Dresner articles
A number of years ago, Emily Dresner asked to submit a series of publishing articles here at the Forge. Clinton and I said yes, and two articles in a proposed…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Olorin.

11/21/2005 Matt Snyder: Missing "new post" graphic?
The graphic icon for "new post" seems to be broken, and has been for some time. I see the source is looking for the following: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/Themes/oxygen/images/post/.gif I assume there's a…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Kesher.

11/22/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Adding words to the spell check
Clinton, can the administrator add words to the word list used for spell checking? If so, it might be a good idea if people submit some RPG-related words here that…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/24/2005 Insect King: Game Hacking
Hi all. If I was to post a thread about game/system hacking where would I post it? I presume some of that goes on in here. Thanks. Cheers, Chris.
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Participants: Insect King, Ron Edwards.

11/25/2005 axonrg: What happened to the site design?
I don't want to tread on anyone's toes here, but what happened to the rather attractive design of this site. it used to have a nice, clear font (Verdana) with…
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Participants: axonrg, jrs.

11/28/2005 dindenver: Greetings!
Hi!   I am new to these forums. I have been gaming since about 1980. I have desinged a couple of homebrew systems. But now I am getting serious about…
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Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen, Arturo G., Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards, Venerable Player.

11/30/2005 aedaren: Looking for a copy of Puppetland
Anyone have a copy of the free version of puppetland they could email to me or send me a link to? The link on the reviews page is broken.  It…
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Participants: aedaren, Ron Edwards.

12/5/2005 timfire: [Search function] Most recent
Clinton, I was wondering if it would be possible to set the default search to "most recent", rather than "most relevent". When a particular thread was written is very important…
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Participants: timfire, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/5/2005 Montola: End of Theory from behind the scenes
I posted the following to www.lumpley.com comments, but abiding Ron's moderatorial request I hereby repost it to where he feels it belongs. One thing I want to ask Ron and…
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Participants: Montola, Neal, Ron Edwards, woodelf, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/6/2005 Levi Kornelsen: What kinds of games go here?
The design forums here are primarily for use in creation of independent games.  That's an awesome thing. I have a few games that I'm sure qualify, and a few that…
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Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Andrew Morris, energy.

12/19/2005 rvowles: PDF/Short book of best of forge articles?
Is there a pdf or purchase-able book somewhere of all of the articles and (maybe) key discussions from the Forge? Reading them on the web site is... annoying? And I…
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Participants: rvowles, Trevis Martin.

12/22/2005 oliof: Announcement: indie rpg planet (alpha)
Hello, I have set up a planet where the goal is to have all the feeds of indie design/discussion blogs collected people deem interesting. I would call the current setup…
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Participants: oliof, joepub, Nathan P., RobMuadib, Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards.

12/22/2005 Tommi Brander: Brain lock
Either I am missing something very obvious, or I can't send PMs. If it is a "post first"-thing, no need to tell. I think I'll notive it soon enough. Another,…
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Participants: Tommi Brander, joepub, Andrew Morris, Nathan P., Ron Edwards.

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