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hi Admins! I was wondering if you have any thoughts about our ideas so far—what seems achievable? what are you aiming for especially, if anything? just general feedback? we say so much but it's obviously up to you in the end, so what are you thinking the changes will look like, ish?
I think you have all had wonderful, really thoughtful ideas. I am particularly struck by how much you all want to create a CB that works best for each other, not just for yourselves. My own hope is that we are able to get the CB to run more smoothly and provide the features that will work best for you all. My aim is to share all of your ideas with the rest of the team who will work on this change. But I am not the programmer, so I don't know exactly what is achievable or how it will all work in the end. – Admin
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Whoa! If the site migrates, the website adress is going to change along with the forum, isn't it? Then shouldn't we leave a link on the old page to redirect old CBers when they come back for the reunion? And what about all these amazing threads? I can't bear to lose any of them ;-;
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I like that idea. All the old threads stay here and this isn't deleted but there is a note saying "look for the new page here". Then all we migrate is the active threads, and others can be migrated at request if there is a desire to make them active again.
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Good point, it would be terrible if the old CBers couldn't find their way back for the reunion. And I absolutely can't bear to think of the pages and pages of wonderfulness that make up this website being deleted. It would be awful. Aside from the fact that all my conversations and interactions with everyone are here, and I love to reread them and remember the good old days and get re-interested in all the ideas I'd forgotten about, there are just so many truly fascinating posts here. I was reading a thread a while ago about an award ceremony – I think it was the Academy Awards or something? – and everyone had so many interesting things to say, and so many unique takes on it, and it was just really fun to read. And then there's so much amazing writing and humor and just ideas. This website is a treasure trove of things waiting to be discovered. By now it probably has more content than you could ever manage to finish reading, but that's wonderful! Pretty much every post on here should be kept.
I honestly think that at this point, the CB could be a cultural heritage website. I'm really interested in cultural heritage and museum studies and that kind of thing, and I'm pretty sure the CB would be a gold mine for that field. Let alone the fact that it shows how kids and teens have been over the last 15 years, it also holds the writing and thoughts of people who will probably end up being foremost writers and poets. Amethyst is a superb writer, and so are Artemis and pangolin and Periwinkle and CelineBurningBright and [*goes on and on and on*] It's almost certain that some of us will end up being published, recognized authors, and so our thoughts and dreams will hold great value for future generations. Imagine if William Shakespeare and J R R Tolkien had been on the CB when they were kids and had fun on Last-to-Post and made AEs and grumbled about homework. Their posts could never have been deleted. It's the same with us, I think.
The main reason, though, is that everything on here just has so much great personal value for all of us – it's the only fragments we have of dreams and laughter and interactions. We've forged such strong connections and friendships even though we can't meet irl and maybe never will, and because we're separated from each other, I think it's imperative that we at least preserve the records of our friendships.
Because of all these reasons, I have an important suggestion but I think I'll put that in a separate post because this one's getting pretty long.
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One of the reasons I had the idea for another section just for AEs, is because it could have profiles for the AEs. So if you came up with a new AE, or wanted to introduce your AE to someone for shipping or whatever, you could direct them to the AEs profile which would have info about that AE
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I mean, I honestly don't think we need a whole new section for AEs? We already have AE shipping (with the forms) and AE Diaries, so..?
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Yeah I guess you're right, sorry. I was just bein stupid with my random ideas.
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Ack sorry no you weren't at all being stupid and random ideas are great sorry if I made you think otherwise! 🙂
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Popping in to add that it would be wonderful if the CB's comment box could be made more compatible with copy-pasting from documents! Anything written from google docs or Word bugs out if directly pasted into the comment box, and it's always a time-consuming task to have to correct all the glitched format problems with the 'preview' button before posting comments. Especially if the post is long, like chapters of solo writes or written picturings…
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oh yes!! and also sometimes the format goes funny if you copy-paste from other CB posts, so it would be great if that could be fixed too!
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can we post videos? if not, that would be a cool update
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A small glitch that could be fixed could be when you copy+paste, italics and bold still stay. Also, maybe an option for strikethrough and underline? And maybe bulletpoints?
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All right, here's the important suggestion I mentioned.
First of all – @Admins, I have a question, because I don't quite understand what's going to happen to this website. Are you planning to leave it up but have all new activity take place on the new site? Or will this website be deleted/taken down?
If this website is going to be taken down, I have a proposal. My dad is willing to try to write a computer program for you that would enable the site to migrate without the loss of any content. He's an electronic engineer and has a lot of experience in computer programming. I was talking to him and my mom about the migration of the site, and, like me, they were very concerned about the possibility that some of its content would be lost (they've known about the CB ever since I joined and they think it's super great 🙂 ) My dad said to tell you that if you think it would be useful, I can put you (or the people who are in charge of the site's migration and updates) in contact with him. Then the people who are in charge of the migration can tell him what they need, and he can help out by writing or helping to write the program. We hope he can be of some assistance! Please let me know if you have any questions or need any more information 🙂
Poinsettia, thanks to you and to your father for your concern and suggestion. As far as I know, nothing has been decided yet. We're gathering requests and suggestions all this month. I have passed your comment on to our webmaster.
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Oh, wow! Tell your dad a big thank you from us please! 🙂
working on a response to your response btw, but also I shouldn't be on here rn anyways because my Chinese school final is tomorrow ACK I'm gonna fail gotta study byee–
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@Admin – okay, great! Please let me know what the webmaster says 🙂 I also just wanted to let you know that, according to my dad, the best solution would be to leave this site up and intact (except without the ability to post new comments, of course). That way, the content wouldn't have to be migrated at all; it could remain as it is for posterity, and another site could be set up for all new activity. I don't know if that's what the webmaster is planning, but I just wanted to make sure you know it's a possible solution. My dad says trying to migrate the site might be very difficult, expensive and messy. Leaving the old forum up but inactive would make a migration unnecessary and thus save everyone a lot of trouble and hard work. It would also eliminate the possibility of losing more than 15 years of content that is extremely precious and valued by everyone on the CB! All in all, it would be a perfect solution.
Anyway, I hope this was helpful 🙂 Whatever you decide to do, I really, really, really hope we don't lose anything on the CB!
Thanks again to you and your dad. I'm passing this along, too. Our tech people are reading all comments and suggestions.
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I like the idea, but make sure it is on the same cricketmagkids.com website otherwise it will double the hosting costs. I think there should be a program to migrate different threads at will if one thread needs to be active again. For example, we need to migrate Random Thoughts.
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Um, no, not necessarily, according to my dad, who's a professional in this field. Once the new site is set up, a CBer could just make a new random thoughts thread, and the old one could stay here so that people can still look at it if they want to. I admit it would be kind of sad not to have the old familiar thread active anymore, but it would be much simpler and possibly less expensive, so I'm good with it.
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It seems like it would be like Kyngdom is right now, where all the old threads are archived (which means we can't top them anymore whoa)?
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Yes, it would be similar to that 🙂 oh gosh, the thought of no longer topping does seem sort of odd… (Even Iffy's saying <odcfe>! Not sure what cfe means, but she definitely agrees that something's odd)
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Maybe something that enables the topping glitch when you make a new post, so you can turn it on if you want.
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Just popping in to say I personally think the topping glitch – and all other glitches – should be removed if the opportunity presents itself to remove them. "Top" would still be part of the CB because many people use it when they want to bring a thread to the first page of a section for everyone to see, and although older CBers might view these as integral parts of the CB, it's often confusing for new CBers. It disrupts the functionality of this site, and unless I'm misunderstanding, our goal is to make this site as accessible and easy to use as possible.
Anyways that doesn't really go with the current discussion about how stuff will be moved and all but I wanted to put it out there
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I read some of the comments people posted on here and I think these things should be kept/added:
Pronouns Box!
I really like this idea! I know some CBers put their pronouns in at the age/location box, but a Pronouns Box would be a good addition.
Accounts!
Honestly, I think this should be added but also it should be optional so people don't have to have an account if they don't want one.
Search Bar!
I think this should be added for threads. I have tried to look for an old thread of mine but it took an extremely long amount of time, so a search bar would definetly be good.
Fonts?
Maybe more fonts or emoji options would be a good idea, also maybe you could make your text a different color? Just a thought, although keeping the good ol' CB font would be good too.
Language options…?
Maybe you could change the language so it translates everything–I'm pretty sure most CBers on here learned through the magazine which only comes in English, but people are joining through their friends (or should), so this would be a good feature.
WE SHOULD KEEP:
Color Schemes!
I love the red/yellow together. DO NOT CHANGE!(pls)
Wow, this is probably the longest thing I've posted XD
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Also please keep the scrollover/mouseover text!! It's so cool to see what secret messages people hide! 😀
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different fonts and colors for text sounds really good!
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