time != money

furthermore, i totally agree with suizier theres nothing deeply necessary persistend on this website, starting from scratch would be fine.

@cubeclans: its a good start, but the theme is just not working enough yet to really use the website. btw why is it named cube"clans" ?

... because i already had the domain, and the site has quite a few features for clans to use.

I think it would be a good initiative to involve such people that are not always making content as they eventually have to look at it.

no idea what this comment means.

We should all be happy knowing Eihrul owns the domain :D

That's like saying if it's working don't improve it.

Phones work, why are you using the internet?

well i see two sides

Side 1. gunna be hard, i need ma money!

Side 2. its izi, do it fo free!

so if its gonna be an issue, why not just leave as is, everything is good with the site as it is so why change it (unless some secret giant issue is hidden for normal users like me)

For new users (at least for me) it is not the user friendliest site I know. Now that I'm not into it I begin to like the way it is build. But a design overhaul could also bring/bind some new users..

#nosignature

noone wants to see your lame signatures :P, whats not user friendly, its a site to share your creations, not a social networking site. its clean and it gets the job done

This commenting system gave me cancer many years ago.

Yet you still stood your ground after all those years and survived.
I agree, the signature sucks; especially as it looks like it's part of the comment (while it isn't).

you're all talking about silly things that a webdesigner can solve in minutes
just not on this old thing.
even on the newer drupal I'm having lot of troubles in styling it.
durpal html output is ridiculously old-fashioned and quite crappy. It works, ok, It has quite a lot of interesting features for a gaming community but it has a very dumb output.
ANYWAY
It's not impossile to do and we were doing nice on cubeclans.pw
Drupal 7 had some great features for offering each kind of content the right support, helping users to give their work the best presentation possible and making the whole site more eye friendly for new users.

Signatures, avatars, extended profiles and any other things that make a community closer to a social network aren't part of the problem. They're choices of the administration team. No-one is going to make a new website for such things.

I only think the concept of (re)viewing content focused on Cube Engine (2) and providing support or feedback to the community should go back to it's roots; with or without Quadropolis.
So in my vision only the next couple of things should be kept;
- Forum (for discussions, help and support, content creation).
- Newspage about the engine, the games which are using it, the website itself (like for announcements).
- Content creation divided right from the start into what kind of game and what kind of content.
- 3 feedbars like the one on the the right of your screen but then divided over content, forum and news, instead of throwing everything into 1 bar. No starred content anymore but those vertical blocks instead.
- Profile page for your account, profile settings and personal messages.
- Administration page divided into a changelog, userlist, settings, etc.

- No polls anymore as they can be manipulated too easily and there's a forum for that any way.
- No uploads directly on the website anymore. This ends the discussion of the upload limit and upload issues for those with a bad connection. Use your own website or something like iCloud, mediafire or dropbox instead.
- No rating-system; it has no use in providing feedback at all and only leaves messy discussions which eventually have nothing to do with the node anymore.
- Category-system minimized (like the only options to choose for maps are what kind of release (obsolete, SVN or current) and which license; no map-size, gamemode or development state anymore. Put that in the description instead). Newcomers don't get the system anyway.
- Content existing longer than a period of time gets locked and archived or deleted.
- Nodes and comments are just nodes and comments so can't have their own custom font and layout, neither embedded screenshots or vids within the content description or within comments (pages like guides or news still can), but rather an attachment which is a link towards another website that displays the screenshot or vid.
- No search tool; there's Google to find specific content.

The goal is to keep it light-weight, easy to use and easy to manage in the long term.
P.S.
I know it looks quite a lot like a ripped down version of Quadropolis (but that's the idea) and it's harder to make than just putting it right here. It's not a demand, rather a suggestion (to save time and effort developing such thing).

Agreed to the most points. I'd add one more: For the content uploading there should be a TOS check wich clearly disallows the user to upload non-free content (only free licenses should be allowed and it should not be possible to choose "no license"). This would fix many developer's licensing problems.

I've added another point about uploading just a second ago which eliminates also that issue as we wouldn't be responsible for uploads anymore (we only link towards it).

IgC, cubeclans is sadly enough offline by the way.

You're still thinking about silly points. the problem here is the outdated core that make hard to do any editing here and that casts shadows on the future of the whole website.
Your points are just secondary to upgrading.
I can agree with all of them but 2:

- 3 vertical bars for dividing the latest content: no way man. it's just a matter of design: category [taxonomies] does the job already. the problem is that drupal doesn't really put any effort in showing you their 'power' in terms of usefulness.

- images on external services: ah-ha. no: while filling the comments with tons of images can be a real problem for certain users, those images are very useful for others, and it's really neat to have them along with the content without having to click and see them somewhere else. Plus, on an external website you can load a 15mb image and those poor certain users won't ever see it.
So the best option to me is to give everyone the possibility to upload images in the comments, but then EDIT them on the post. PHP can do this very well. You can take the submitted image and scale it to a reasonable size and weight.
The same should be applied to the node's images. In cubeclans.pw we managed to set for each node-type the right kind and amount of content the users would had to submit: this garants a full control on the nodes, and a very effective [and nice looking] output.
Map type had 2 images: one for the 'landscape' [horizontal, about 900*400] and the map ingame image [squared, 256*256]. and stop.
Game Mod type had 6 images: 'landscape', a logo or title, and 4 more to show the best features. and stop.

And, while cubeclans.pw is offline, the job I did is still here.

Sorry my bad, let me clear this up.
The previewing screenshot should always stay and uploadable on the website. You just can't integrate screenshots into comments (at least not more than a certain resolution like 640x480).

A thing/idea I learned is: give users the tools they want and let them use it in the way YOU want. They won't ever know
Source: facebook

So let them upload the image they want: 2mb FullHD .bmp screenshot directly taken in sauer
Then let your website scale it to 640px width and post that image with a link to the original size, but converted in 75/100 jpg, because I do care about your disk space.

Users will be happy and you too. :D

Fine to me, as long as screenshots of 640x480+ aren't projected anymore within a comment.

I rather meant that you can't upload content on the website anymore (like zip-files) when creating a node.

yo sui, read better. I just wrote that those images ARE inside the comment.
AND
the content itself is the reason why this website exist. why shouldn't the website manage it?

Why shouldn't the website manage it?
Quadropolis shouldn't be some kind of free upload storage for anything related to Cube Engine (2).

You'll keep having the endless discussion of preserving an archive of content or dropping it and start over again when users are able to upload content. If they aren't able, then there is not such a worry as there is no content other than previewing screenshots.
Quadropolis contains a lot content which shouldn't be around in the first place as it's against their license or that which they are meant for (certain source mods for example). Without being able to upload, we would only refer to a certain link of content which has license issues (and that's not illegal).
It also brings back Quadropolis more to it's roots; providing feedback and support towards the others within community. Only the chain of adding a node and commenting is necessary as people can get the map just as easy from file-storage websites as from Quadropolis. The content only needs to be downloaded a few years anyway as the project is dead after that time. And people that couldn't download the content after all these years that you actually could don't get my statement about Quadropolis quite yet.

So just creating a node; wait for comments; interacting to those comments by improving your content; waiting for reviews and thus comments again; making a final version; link towards it on your node and then be done. That's my opinion about the never ending cycle of content on Quadropolis. There's no archive in that other than a specific amount of time of that process

man, try to read your answer again cuz I'm not able to see any good reason supporting what you're sayn'.

quadropolis is not an archive? eh? please check the website..

license what? please, put a Terms and Conditions page and don't worry. Force users to choose a license that means something and agrees with T&Cs and you're done. Where is the problem?

I got your idea of bringing quadropolis back to its roots, but I don't think that your idea of quadropolis' roots is right.

quadropolis in my idea should be a place to share your creations at their bests. this means providing users a service wich is designed on their content's needs.
If you lack this, then ANY web platform is already ok for you. whatever-forum will be more than perfect, even too much.

where is the point of making a stand-alone website, if you don't need it?
what are we talking about ?

noone used the site, so i stopped paying for it.

I was planning to a month ago but can't create a map within a day (at least not which is reaching my standards). I hope it's done within a week, but can't promise anything.

lol around twenty people registered but didnt post a single content. i'm not wasting my time nor my money on quadropolis or cubeclans any longer.

nobody even uses the alternatives either.

It died as no one except kz1 can actually change something to the website after our incident.

R.I.P Cube.
До свидания и заткнись
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cubeclans still works lol.

Really, because every time I try to load it, the site either just stops loading at "whitescreen" or gives me error 404.
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Weird, works fine for me from multiple browsers at multiple locations (home/school/mobile).

Edit: though if you have the same ip as a spambot, you might be banned lol

Okay it's working now.
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seems i am the only one activating accounts.

you probably activated mine so thanks :P

Yes, I just went through quite a few this morning :-)