GP Gets Extreme Makeover
GP Gets Extreme Makeover
May 12, 2008
We are currently in the process of moving to a completely redesigned GamePolitics site as well as to a different host, RackSpace.
To go with our new look, we'll have more capacity to handle the increased reader traffic and a better, cleaner interface. We've tried to incorporate feedback from GP readers into the new design. So, yes, you will be able to edit your comments!
This could happen tonight, possibly tomorrow. So if we experience a little downtime, please bear with us...
To go with our new look, we'll have more capacity to handle the increased reader traffic and a better, cleaner interface. We've tried to incorporate feedback from GP readers into the new design. So, yes, you will be able to edit your comments!
This could happen tonight, possibly tomorrow. So if we experience a little downtime, please bear with us...
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Posted 11/08/09 at 09:02am
DarkSaber: http://tinyurl.com/yez7jyo
DarkSaber: http://tinyurl.com/yez7jyo
Posted 11/08/09 at 09:01am
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:53am
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:46am
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:31am
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:06am
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Posted 11/08/09 at 12:24am
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:26pm
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:23pm
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
Posted 11/07/09 at 03:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
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Something about that made me nearly choke on my coffee from laughing...
About damn time.
Because I err was joking about it before, you understand that right?
If you mean the livejournal one then yes I do remember (in fact you can still find all our archived discussions there).
Especially for those of us who remember the LJ days >.
Please I need an answer.
GP: I think you will like it... that's all I'm gonna say for now. It's not an LJ, that's for sure...
GP: - yeah, I'm adding them to the spammer list at this point.
I don't know what this site looked like before its last update.but it sounds cool!What's the big deal with the edit button?
T wod alow uo to red ths sntence bcs I wuoled bee able too edit it for correctness.
Hella! No more SPAMBOT!
Violets are blue
Old version of GP
I will miss you
Yeah. That's why it sucks when comments get pulled;You have all these responses to something that's not there anymore.
I can see why people love and hate the idea of an edit button. I know we've all submitted a comment without looking it over for correct spelling and/or grammar, but it never really bothered me too much. It made people seem real. The only real problem is that someone might completely change an earlier comment making following commenters look like asses. Think we can have a quote button?
though I'll be curious to see if we get threaded comments back. This linear format has really killed complex discussion.
Looking forward to the new look.
Do we all now get to feel like old timers, just because we remember the WordPress site?
I;m afraid the LiveJournal one was before my time...
I SECOND THAT NOTION!!!
You win the Internet, GoodRobotUs.
The gods of Edit will walk amoungst us once more!! (wonder if it has better control to ban the annoying types though)
Hey Dennis, does he-who-shall-not-be-named get a "personalized" version of the new site? Say with a GTA theme? ;)
Seconded.
We should have that.
These are probably concerns I should've raised before the day you're turning over the design...
Don't mind me. I'm just testing stuff.
Andrew Eisen
Another test.
Andrew Eisen
Can you bring back separation of usernames and full names, please? I'm feelin' kinda unsophisticated here.
Also, trying to switch between no-formatting and full or filtered HTML on the fly seems to bust things up -- my text went from bold to plain in between previews, and it still wasn't reading tags properly. In fact, html seems to be generally broken. My signature doesn't want to play nice, either. Not saying it's so bad to have button-enabled formatting, but I like knowing where my italics end and my bold begins (although maybe this solves that old problem where an unclosed tag made the rest of the comments go crazy.)
Definitely approve of the preview and edit buttons, tho.
Also, this post should've been a reply to my last one. Could've been a problem on my end.The Mammon Industry
Yep, another test.
I can do this all day.
Andrew Eisen
Edit: Edit test.
candy-red lollipop! Now throw some D's on that bitch.
This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!
Also, why are the fonts so frickin tiny?
Very nice Dennis.
"I'm not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelmThe captcha thing however, failed to load both times I loaded the page and I ahd tro right click and reload the image itself in order to get it to show up. Also, the quality on the image itself is total crap and is really hard to see... And I say that as someone who can see fine in the distance from himself to the monitor.
To be honest... and I don't mean to sound pushy... I'd reccomend removal of the feture and just killing spambots by hand. The problems with the new system need to be ironed out.
I just spent a good deal of time trying to get past the CAPTCHA in the Late Show article. It failed on my 10+ times because it's so small. It wasn't really tested for higher resolutions. It's such a pain.
(Failed Once on this post)
@GP:
FYI, some of the comments are scrambled as to order of receipt (e.g.,, the string following the article posting T2's Complaint against the CTA).