What's something from the first iteration of newpunch you really liked?
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I really liked how YouTube embeds wouldn't load until you clicked on their thumbnail. It made browsing music threads an enjoyable non-laggy experience. One flaw with the system though was that the title of the video was hidden at all times. If we could get that old system back, I'd like the best of both worlds.
I can't remember anything.
The backgrounds are nice.
i liked that it was a separate website from the main forum, let's bring that back
Labpunch was just a nice search feature, newpunch was the one what with the pixels and we're on newnewpunch right now.
Nothing
I liked the pixel creation, as much as I prefer the current avatar + background feature, the pixel stuff was neat, especially when everyone started sharing their stuff for forum icons and avatars.
custom css for each of the subforums
I wouldn't be against Garry bringing back the pixel stuff for thread icons, honestly.
Live post updates
Rating alerts
Ditto, it's not a big loss but it was neat.
I also liked rating alerts. Made me feel like part of the community knowing people were seeing my posts and had an opinion on it without the need of directly replying to it. Rating alerts made me revisit threads a lot more.
I really like how embeds work too. Love it when things are automatic.
64x64 px avatars
I miss tall avatars. It's going to take me forever to get back to 80x160.
I miss that we didnt have to use it
the code tag working (if it existed)
I liked that each sub forum could have their own additional CSS made by users, but hey that is just me.
The code block is completely broken so it's not entirely usable
It works fine for small bits of code, but breaks when anything wraps or gets too long.
For example, try copy pasting this. You can see the code being destroyed and corrupted before your eyes.
The Lua Developer Discussion is very hard to use at this point because every single thread contains corrupted code.
Resurrecting.
The lack of ghost pages.
Seriously, why remove it in the first place? If you get a shit ton of ratings, and don't care about them, there should just be an option to disable them. I don't understand why garry didn't just make it optional instead of just removing it completely.
There was already custom css so people who didn't give a shit about them could completely remove the notifications pane to begin with. Though notifications already have issues. It's randomly limited to only showing the 30 most recent notifications. Anything past that gets cut off until you're under 30. It kinda defeats the stated purpose of Garry wanting people to make use of the subscriptions system. Then again, so does the piddly thousand post thread limit.
Snow.
That feature that showed where users pointers were on a page, that was pretty fun (for the few days it was enabled)
Oh man that was a thing? I would have loved to have seen that.
Defined rules
I don't think it ever did have any rules.
At least that was clear instead of "There are no rules, we're not your teacher. Oh but you can get banned for flaming if the moderator has a thin skin today"
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