New Forum Coins and Levels - General

Not sure tbh, I'm level 13 and I'm still getting coins at maybe 1 per every thirty minutes. Hence why I was suggesting adding minigames and going the Gaia Online/NeoPet route by making it so people can earn coins by doing puzzles, slots, poker, ect.

neopets 2 or bust

How often do you browse? Post? Do you use multiple devices? I've been stuck at 85% for at least a few hours now.

I've been playing a little catch up since I've not been on Facepunch much as of late. Can anyone fill me in on a few things? From what I understand Garry feels that Facepunch is stagnating and needs a refresh, which is why the FP Lab and now these forums are underway. Correct? Are there just not as many active users anymore? If not, why is Garry still financing a forum that is "dying"?

I realistically speaking only use my computer for accessing Facepunch. Sometimes I will also access Facepunch via my phone and browse while out and away from my PC. As for posting, not a whole lot. I tend to just keep browsing around and reply to things---------which I have an opinion on.

It's not the community that's stagnating, it's the software. We'll always have a growing community as long as Facepunch keeps releasing new games.

FP lab is dead. vBulletin is kind of crap, so Garry just decided to make his own custom forum software and TBH it already seems a lot better than vB.

This definitely does feel a bit snappier and fresh. I'm interested to see what the next year will be like as the migration takes place.

it's the opposite for me, i am pretty disappointed with how it currently is loading the first page of "new forum comments & suggestions" consistently takes two seconds to show any posts for me, when "forums discussion" on the old site loads in a second the new site has the disadvantage of using a js framework for putting text on the screen, so on every page load there's a short time it shows just the background (and the top header) until the script loads and shows the content the forum software on the old site just outputs everything as html that can be displayed as-is without relying on scripts and hoping you have a fast enough cpu

Technically the old site still uses scripts, but the calculations are done serverside and sent as regular html. You just get slow loading rather than the illusion of fast loading but still slow.

When ratings get a list of who did them, will it be allowed to do coin based raffles, like how people do giveaways occasionally on oldpunch by randomly selecting a name from the list of a specific rating? If so, will it be bannable to offer a prize in exchange for coins/diamonds and then not pay out at the end?

I seem to average about a coin per day and have been level 4 for a long time now, which makes we wonder about the connection between posting and leveling up. I know garry said its not per post, but maybe its cumulative? I browse often and rate posts pretty often, so I don't know entirely.

I wonder if being gold member means being privileged because I seem to get about double/triple.

posts must be of the utmost highest possible quality to be eligible for coinage you can use this post as a template for future posts, with a one coin fee per useage

I really think thats the case, which is kinda sad because I'm not sure if its been said how to get gold for newpunch? I've been here longer than quite a few other golds, but just never racked up the post count to get it on oldpunch.

you can buy it on betterpunch for 25 buckies

That so? I don't know if I can justify that kind of cash for gold status, but I suppose I may consider it since it goes towards the community and all that. Probably will just wait and see what sort of stuff will come around as newpunch develops further.

I believe if you've already merged with Newpunch there is no way to acquire gold status through buying on Oldpunch. It's just a waste of money then.

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Should be interesting, let's give this a go!