Chris Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 Hello everyone, and welcome to our new corporate site. This site is intended to become the new community hub for Goldhawk, while the current Xenonauts site is to be replaced with something a bit more slick and streamlined that will market the game a bit better. Why are we doing this? Well, we’ve had a tough couple of weeks where Paypal have pulled the plug on our account and the resulting story going viral sent so much traffic to our site that it crashed and sadly never recovered. Even now we can’t change the front page, which is pretty crippling. The good news is that this has proved a perfect excuse for us to upgrade our infrastructure, so here’s a list of major improvements over the last site: Forums: We’ve upgraded our forums from the creaky integrated Joomla forums we were using to vBulletin, which is far more powerful and a lot easier on the eye. The forums should now support attachments properly, and we’ve put in a few goodies like forum achievements and autopost of news items to the forums etc. You’ll also not have to re-register move forums once Xenonauts is released – our future projects will all be based out of this website too. The pre-orders will now be serviced through Desura, so the forum is no longer segregated into normal people and pre-orderers. Anyone can read the bug reports and pre-order discussions, although they obviously can’t take part until they pre-order! Blog: We’ll now have two seperate blogs, one on Xenonauts.com and one here. The Xenonauts one will be much more ‘in character’ and focused on the game than before, whereas the one on this site will be more focused on the team and what we’re up to. You’ll still be able to track both from this site, though, as we’ll run everything through the front-page news slider and boths news articles will autopost to the ‘Announcements’ section of the forums. Wiki: We’ve added an official wiki for Xenonauts on the site, which is the community is free to edit (although we’ll help you get started). This is intended to preserve the knowledge of the community – previously people would make long forum posts to explain things, but now we can just write a blog post or link to an existing one. This is going to be particularly valuable for the mappers and modders amongst you, as the game can be quite oblique at first but a couple of wiki posts should get everyone going nicely! Those are the key improvements over the last site. Our hand was rather forced on this matter thanks to the previous site imploding, but hopefully this new setup should make much easier for us and for you!
Jean-Luc Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 (edited) Heya, moved in and settling in. It's a bit bright in here but I'll adapt. I put the name "Chris" as my referrer, it's funny 'cause it's true. Looking forward to Desura pre-orders coming online. Edited October 19, 2011 by Jean-Luc
anotherdevil Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 Cheers, looking good here! Can't wait to get some new discussions up, but man is it going to be hard not being able to refer to all the things we've discussed ages ago!
iamkyon Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 (edited) The company website and the accompanying forum are quite snazzy! I'm also looking forward to the relaunch of Xenonauts.com. Here's to pre-orders coming up in droves! Edited October 19, 2011 by iamkyon
Chris Posted October 19, 2011 Author Posted October 19, 2011 Hmmm. Let me work out how to turn on forum avatars. Bit strange without them.
Sathra Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 Hello everyone! Oh yes, not being able to check and refer to old posts is going to be odd to get used to.
Tweakd Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 Bridged the gap. I think I still have all my appendages intact but I'm afraid to look. At least my fingers still work. These forums are indeed bright. I like it but I can't help but think we just spiked our electricity consumption by a noticable amount. Long live the new site!
anotherdevil Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Hey yeah, my little picture isn't coming up... Chris has one, so does Sathra and iamkyon. Any idea why that is? I certainly added one!
iamkyon Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Hey yeah, my little picture isn't coming up... Chris has one, so does Sathra and iamkyon. Any idea why that is? I certainly added one! It took me a while to figure it out, too, but your avatar and your profile image (which you seem to have uploaded already) are two separate things. Simply repeat the linking or uploading manoeuvre on the Edit Avatar page, and you're good to go!
anotherdevil Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Cheers Buddy, will get onto that when I get home!
Sathra Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Going to be strange not seeing Shouting Man anymore.
Jecrell Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 I will say though it might be necessary in the future to segregate between game owners/preorders and site visitors. When the game becomes more popular, the community will flood over time, and soon chaos will rule -- human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
Wolfpox Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 I think this is going to be a really nice site for the community.
Gauddlike Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Anyone else think it looks a bit like an Aperture Science test chamber in here with all these bright white surfaces. Hopefully Chris will provide cake.
anotherdevil Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Going to be strange not seeing Shouting Man anymore. Ha ha I can send you a little .jpg of that if you want it? Anyone else think it looks a bit like an Aperture Science test chamber in here with all these bright white surfaces.Hopefully Chris will provide cake. THE CAKE IS A LIE! No but I do agree with you. Quite bright after the Xenonaut's forums... Probably to hide the subliminal messaging...
Sathra Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Ha ha I can send you a little .jpg of that if you want it? Nah, its alright. The Chrissie is a good replacement
Ghost1082 Posted November 10, 2011 Posted November 10, 2011 Hi guys, Figured i'd make my presence known again on the new site Chris- Grats on the new site and all the kinks getting ironed out (digital distro, websites, forums, etc) Glad to see some familiar faces (some of the shouting kind as well ) Looking forward to the ever progressing game... its really turning into something amazing! Cant wait to play the final version!! -G
Sathra Posted November 10, 2011 Posted November 10, 2011 Hey, its Ghost1082! The old gang is all here!
Ghost1082 Posted November 10, 2011 Posted November 10, 2011 Just got all set up too... got my GREEN header and my shiny premium pre-order badge!!
anotherdevil Posted November 11, 2011 Posted November 11, 2011 Welcome Ghost! How did you get your title that funky colour?! Interesting that Ghost still has achievements displayed, but Sathra only has awards... Didn't Chris fix that up?
Sathra Posted November 11, 2011 Posted November 11, 2011 *shrug* No idea what's going on with that, but now I don't have the SPAM award, so oddly pleased and unhappy at the same time...
iamkyon Posted November 11, 2011 Posted November 11, 2011 (edited) *shrug*No idea what's going on with that, but now I don't have the SPAM award, so oddly pleased and unhappy at the same time... If I had to hazard a guess, I'd wager that the forum puts only recently acquired achievements on display. Edited to add: I guess I was wrong - it looks as though Gazz is still sporting all of his! Edited November 11, 2011 by iamkyon
Chris Posted November 11, 2011 Author Posted November 11, 2011 I probably broke something while (unsuccessfully) trying to move the pre-order bedges below the avatars.
anotherdevil Posted November 11, 2011 Posted November 11, 2011 So some of us have awards, some achievements, and Chris has nothing...
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