Yep, the board is three years old today. Man, that's been a lot of events and whatnot.


We're not planning to let the board go inactive and go down the memory hole, either. We have PLANS!


But that's not ready yet. In the meantime, let's party! (don't spam, though-- we're not LifeMushroom's board)

Also check out the Kuribo64 Shop! We will be adding more items to buy in the next days.

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Try clearing your cookies.

There was a change to cookies to make them cover the whole kuribo64.net domain instead of just the board (so they are seen by the uploader and such).

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powered by Acmlm


So here are all the changes this brings us:


* An overall simpler, more lightweight codebase. This is always welcome, especially if we get more of those Reddit waves.


* Goodbye display names. No more fucking name roulette and other abuse.

* Goodbye profile comments. Those were a quick way to send someone a message, but were often misused for posting useless bullshit.

* Goodbye post layout sidebars. I feel that more consistency in the board's interface is always good.


* Offline posting -- you don't even need to log in if you want to post on the go.

* No more quote pyramids -- when quoting someone, any quote tags are removed from the post.

* Easy multiquote -- if a reply form is available, the Quote links on posts insert the quote there rather than opening the new reply page.

* Spoilers limited to 7 per post -- no more retarded spoiler pyramids or misused spoilers. The limit could be tweaked if needed. Also, take into account that spoilers in your layout count towards the per-post limit.

* In the same fashion, youtube tags are limited to 3 per post.


* PM threads aka private conversations. All your previous PMs have been converted into conversations based on their titles-- let me know if anything went wrong.


* Item shop -- items will be added later on


* Partial birthdays -- if you don't want to give out your age, just leave the field blank, and you still get the rainbows!


and more little things



When will themes/homepage/downloads page/uploader/wiki/objectdb be ported?

Later on. We're getting there. Just be patient.

(and no, this won't end up like the RVL depot)



Anything went wrong? Let me know!

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omg it's getting close


So yeah, a few things I'd like to tell you before we do it. It's not for now though, there are still a few tidbits to polish before we start doing it.


* Post layouts: the new board doesn't allow customizing the whole post box, only the part with your post. Better adapt your layouts to that!

* Email privacy: the new board doesn't use email addresses for anything, so we figured that reimplementing the 'make email private' feature wasn't needed. If your email was set to be private before the switch, it will just be removed.

* PM threads: we will convert all the existing PMs into threads based on their title, date and sender/recipient. This should cover the majority of them, but it's not perfect. If there is anything important in your PMs, you should save it now. We never know.

* Uploader, wiki, ObjectDBs, etc...: we are first working on the board itself. The extra blocks will be ported later. (and no, this won't end up like the RVLution Depot)


If there are other things you want to discuss about, this thread is the place to do so.

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* Putting the images in spoilers: BAD

You open the spoiler and suddenly the page streches to the right like a mofo. And viewing the huge image unresized is unpractical.


* Putting the images in [imgs] tags: GOOD

The [imgs] tag embeds the image in thumbnail size. Clicking the image opens it fullsize in a new tab.


* Linking the images: GOOD

Doing so helps reduce loading times, but the downside is that there is no preview of the image. But this is still preferred over the spoilers.



I hope people stop thinking that slapping hugeass images in spoiler tags is the way to go.

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You may have noticed a few changes in our forum structure.


Mostly getting rid of the last subforums we had. Subforums tend to be less visible and less often checked. They're also not implemented in the Acmlmboard we'll be switching to, and I don't feel like reimplementing them because they overcomplicate things tremendously.

The per-galaxy forums in the SMG2.5 archive have been squished into the per-world forums. Tags have been added to the thread titles so we still know which galaxy they are about.


We're down to 38 forums instead of the 87 we had before. Good to feel lighter!



Let me know if anything was fucked up.

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I went and removed a few proxies from the IP ban list.


The reasonment behind that is that proxies can also have legitimate uses. For example, if you're at school or at work stuck behind a dumb filter.

In these cases, you can use a proxy to view the board, and you can also log in and post.

Of course, you can't register from a proxy. Either wait to be at home for that, or contact me if that's a problem.


If there are more proxies you'd want unbanned, tell us.

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We have noticed an increase of interest for SM64 hacking over here. Given we already hack SM64DS, which is SM64's little cousin, it makes sense to also hack the original game.

I moved all the SM64-related threads to the all new SM64 hacking forum. I put it in a separate category because we may be adding more forums if this grows.

Let's see how this goes.


If there are threads I forgot to move, be sure to let me know.


I have also been reorganizing the forums a bit to make things organized better.

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It's all for preserving our board's cosmetics aspect.


Profile backgrounds are now forbidden. Especially if you only change the background. It may look bad with some of our themes.


Post layouts must look somewhat nice. I reserve the right to remove post layouts that cause readability problems or otherwise look bad.

A prime example is fixed backgrounds that don't tile and don't fit everyone's monitors. It looks like shit when it cuts off. If I see any of that, and the user doesn't fix it, I will remove their layout.

And as I already said, refrain from using fixed backgrounds in your post layout unless your super layout effect of death relies on it. Fixed backgrounds can cause laggy scrolling.

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The message on said page gives you more information about why the IRC applet is gone. The gist of it is that I had to ban Mibbit from the IRC channels. And since the applet uses Mibbit, well...


Get a real IRC client. You won't regret it. I personally recommend HexChat.


If you really need Mibbit access, let me know and I'll add an exception for you.

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❶ I figured this would be common sense, but apparently it's not the case. When editing your layout, check your profile to make sure it doesn't look like utter shit and that YOUR POSTS ARE READABLE. Layouts breaking this rule will be modified or removed in whatever way I deem acceptable.


❷ Do not check 'Apply layout to whole post box' unless you have a layout that customizes your post's sidebars (.sidebarX, .topbarX_1, .topbarX_2). The result is UGLY.


❸ Be careful with custom fonts, namely:

• no bullshit font-family rules. Read how to use CSS fonts before trying.
• if using fonts that aren't available on all systems, be sure to provide fallback fonts (font-family: 'BlargFont', 'Arial', sans-serif; for example).
• if using external fonts, it is highly recommended you upload them on our uploader. Some browsers enforce the same-origin policy when retrieving font files, meaning that font files hosted on an external domain will be ignored.

This is an example of result of badly coded custom fonts:

(only given as an example, not to pick on that particular user. Besides the layout has since been fixed.)

In this specific case, a non-standard font is used, and no fallbacks are provided. The browser selects the universal default, Times New Roman. It's ugly. It's tiny.

You don't want to inflict that to people reading your posts.

Neither do I. I'm sick of seeing Times New Roman because people can't be assed to make proper CSS font rules.


❹ Please put some effort into making a pleasant layout. I'm kinda sick of seeing layouts that are just a fixed background applied on the whole post table. It looks cheap, can cause readability problems depending on the background chosen, and fixed backgrounds can cause lag.


❺ As said above, avoid fixed backgrounds unless your cool effect absolutely depends on them. Fixed backgrounds require the browser to redraw the page when you scroll, which can lag less performant machines, and is also prone to display problems especially on mobile devices.


❻ This is not related to layouts, but please refrain from altering your profile's background and just the background. On some themes, it doesn't work well. If you really want to customize your profile, either make a full theme, or don't mess with the page background.


❼ NEVER apply text-align:center; to topbarX_2. It would center the 'Link | Quote | etc' links and look dumb. And be unpractical.


Thank you.

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I finally got off my lazy ass and registered for my own server.

Kuribo64, and my other sites, are now running off Blargcity, our new server.

Enjoy! Something's broken? Tell me asap. (be patient though, it may be DNS caching fucking you over)

PS: IRC reporting is broken. Since I can't use NinaBot anymore, I'll have to set up my own bot.

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The board has been updated to the latest version of Blargboard 1.1. Said Blargboard will also see its first official release very soon!

Changes are:

* 82% of the board uses templates instead of hardcoded HTML, also meaning subtle layout changes
* better post parser, does its best to fix bad HTML
* 'Apply layout to whole post' in layout settings-- when enabled, the board doesn't theme your postboxes, so the themes don't interfere with your layout CSS
* Better interface for entering polls
* Finally a decent search (goodbye the old broken Google search)
* and more!

I'll let you find out


Enjoy


If anything is broken or missing, let us know
IF IT'S BROKEN, BEFORE POSTING, TRY CTRL+F5

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Please don't use huge opaque CSS blobs from someone else. Especially if that person is joietyfull from RVLution.

Basically, don't use CSS without having some understanding of it.


If your CSS breaks something, and I can't fix it easily, I'll just remove the whole thing.


Thank you.


Edit- from now on I'll just remove any CSS chunk I see that is made by joietyfull, rather than dealing with their consequences.

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As you already know, SM64DS is looking promising so far, and SMG is dead, so Kuribo64 will refocus itself on SM64DS. Like in the good old times.


We also become the official Blargboard development forum.

Blargboard site

I'm aware that this board runs off an old version, but still, any suggestions, bug reports etc... are welcome. They go in the help/sugg forum for now.

Blargboard is the next revolution in forum software industry. Or not. But hey, RVLution is already using it.

As for the changes between this and the Git version, well... compare this board and RVLution, minus a few things (their smiley picker for example, isn't official). For the end user, they're mostly the same, with improvements and subtle changes in functionality and other cosmetic fixes. And the Kuribo64 hacks removed.

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As you may already know, we have changed the way SMG2.5 operates.

In the past, everyone was doing their own thing, resulting in several galaxies getting little progress. This partly explains why after three years, the project still doesn't have one finished galaxy.


From now on, the project leaders will determine a galaxy, the focus galaxy. All the work will go to this galaxy and nothing else. Once it's done, they'll choose another galaxy, and so on.

You may look at the info box in the top right corner to find out which galaxy is the current focus galaxy.


cosmological also said this is SMG2.5's last chance. If this fails to give it a satisfying progress rate, we fail to see what else would, so we'll call SMG2.5 a failure and move on.

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Title says it all. The board update is finally finished!

New features include:

* Flexible permissions system
* All new site layout
* Allows for 200x200 avatars
* Improved post parser, not possible to confuse it with bad HTML anymore
* SWF and SVG tags removed. SVG didn't work, and SWF caused security issues. And Flash sucks.
* No more 'relaxland posts don't count' -- if people abuse Relaxland we can now ban them from it
* Not possible to delete a thread's first post anymore
* Normal users can report bad posts to the staff
* Post ratings
* And more!


About the post ratings: they affect your score. Your score now starts at 1000. If someone likes a post of yours, you earn 10 points. If staff deletes a post of yours, you lose 20 points.


Enjoy! If you find bugs, report to us!


If 'bugs' are just the site looking bad, press Ctrl+F5.

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melonDS the most fruity DS emulator there is

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So it's been over 4 months since we made Relaxland posts not count in users' postcounts, and now I feel like it had the wrong effect. Now the forum barely gets activity.

I don't believe this is good, we're not meant to be an uber-serious forum. Postcount racing and posting sprees are fun, too, except when people just spam stupid shit to inflate their postcounts.

Making Relaxland posts not count has removed much opportunity for postcount racing. That was done because certain individuals I shall not name here, fail to get Relaxland's purpose. Relaxland is NOT a spam dump for inflating your postcount with mindless crap.

Punishing the whole community because of a few individuals' acts is always unfair. Because of this, after the board gets updated, things will be ran differently.


Relaxland posts will count in users' postcounts again. Happy postcount racing will happen again. BUT...

We'll be able to ban users from specific forums. We won't hesitate to do it with Relaxland if people spam the shit out of it.


More words on the board update: I hope to have it done by the end of July. It will feature several awesome things. Sneek peek.

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It seems that a trend recently appeared, where people make duplicate accounts for whatever testing purposes.

The rules state that duplicate accounts are forbidden. Is that quite clear?


Next user who reregisters to test something, gets both accounts banned.

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