SUGGESTIONS?

[Rendezvous]

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Please, kthx.

Anyway, me, Izzy and Holly had this idea. What if The Wire, Green Horse Fields and Battlestone Downs was combined all on one site? That'd mean no more having to have three or more tabs open to find everything you needed. Those three tracks would be available for you right in one neat location. There would also be quick links to all of these tracks as well.

Not to mention you'd be able to use Jcink which, from my personal experience, causes less disappointment than Proboards. It's essentially the same site just more convenient, there's not much more to explain.

What I'm trying to figure out is if everyone would be interested in this love child of all three sites (staff included). The link I've posted is the BARE BONES of what I have in mind so do know that the finished product will be much more informative. The site will remain 100% SIM but if people want to roleplay than they can in the boards provided. 

It's been about what, five years that these triplets have been kicking so please respond to the poll and let me know if you say YES to the dress!

[Isabelle]

GHF been here ten years, btw. :3

I think this would work a lot better. I'd like the GHF board moved above the TW, just a nit pick XD but it technically came first.

We need a member board for stable links. Unless you want that in the registry or jockey room?

Could I prettie pwease have a showing magazine and board at the bottom? I'll work on names and stuff later, I'd just like to try it, if it bombs it can be removed.

Maybe instead of tagging the HOF/BHOF with GHF it can be its own set or in the above areas? We need a HOTY board along with that and perhaps a fourth board to even it out with maybe the stable profile pages?

PS Maybe a different name? XD

[S u N f r O s T ~]

I think that streamlining to one site is actually a really good idea. However, I'd prefer if we stay on Proboards, mainly because I'm more familiar with it (so personal bias!) and I prefer the Proboards nav bar (the Jcink one doesn't seem as convenient). Would I adapt? Sure. But I really like Proboards XD

We'd have to talk about how to combine everything most efficiently, but I think that it's an overall good idea.

[Sammy]

I know I have been a little absent lately but am now back. I love this idea just because of what was stated about switching tabs and what not. I wouldn't mind helping out as I am very familiar with JCINK sites. But I love this overall idea

[Holly]

I do like how clean the jcink board looks. It is appealing. Its just going to take some getting used to for some members. Could always think about doing ProBoards. Nothing wrong with ProBoards. I think we should do the Show board and let Isa work her magic on that. She is all out for it. I will run the marketplace and be in charge of sales that go on and help organize the sales members throw once they close.

I made a rescue. I know sometimes we get on to wanting to delete a horse or maybe the horse doesnt sell. Lose interest in racing him/her. Bring it to The Sanctuary! There they will be available for adoption and will have two sales each year. If a member goes inactive, instead of deleting the horse from the registry, bring it to The Sanctuary. I will also add horses to it myself and when we get new members I will have a small sale of pre created horses I make up so that way they dont have to worry about creating horses all the time. They could have some to choose from. We could put that in the getting started thread saying as how if they dont want to worry about creating horses, just choose a couple from The Sanctuary.

I am excited about this one site thing. From the looks of the votes, Im so glad others are too.

[Rendezvous]

If everyone wants Proboards I'll change it to proboards.


Also Holly, Isa I would talk to the staff about your thighs first. I had no intention of changing anything about the sites besides combining them into one entity and fixing a few minor things.

The sites themselves should really stay solely racing..honestly. I don't think it would be a good idea to add all these other things because I saw that the sites had t in the past and it fell through.

I know it's not my place to say but I really don't feel comfortable with the adding of shows when the site has based its entire existence around Racing. Nor do I think it'd be wise to add all these other breeds. QH Racing maybe.

I'm not trying to be rude so please don't take it that way xD I just refuse to have showing or anything like that for a RACING site.

Ripley Cruisey S u N f r O s T ~

[Cruisey]

I personally like Proboards more - I was on a few sites with Jcink and it was too confusing for me xD But I really like combining them into one site. It'll be different for sure but not having to go to 3 sites just to record race results will be a lot easier!

As for the bank, could we make it an optional thing? For me I'd rather not use a bank just because 1) I'm lazy and making brood/stud/sale fees is a hassle and 2) I'm going into my final year of university so things will definitely be more hectic for me come September lol

[Ripley]

I like staying proboards as well. Just easier for everyone, especially if us admins decide to change the skin now and again.

I'm interested in adding mods and directing certain tasks to those mods, but I'd like the admins to decide modding powers and who does what. I also want to stay away from showing. It adds so many more complications and if it's only going to be used by two members, it's not worth it. We've had showing in the past and really it wasn't worth the trouble.

I'm game for tokens instead of money, less numbers to keep track of in the long run. Otherwise, I'm done with the bank as well.

[Isabelle]

I have major issues with proboards with lag, freezing, being unable to see text, type text, internet stopping working, and other things. I've stayed with the games but I struggle virtually every time I used proboards. I only have these problems with proboards, no other forum hosts.

I'm really surprised you wont me at least have a small show board to try it as an option, I had no intention of a major showing circuit but something fun and relaxed to give retired horses something to do and a way to keep working with some of them if a member chooses to and it opens up more rpg options as well. Opens up some fun things too like some of you have a page for ponies you use for ponying on the track, well, they are technically useless as you do nothing with them, they sit on your page for rpg purposes. Well, this way maybe a member could have four other breeds they use as pony horses and also enter into a few dressage, jumper, or halter shows. This will be my last plea for it.

[Rendezvous]

How You Can Help!
Rendezvous ,Isabelle ,S u N f r O s T ~ ,Sammy ,Holly ,Cruisey ,Ripley ,

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Hello again everyone! Thank you SO SO SOOOO much for voting for this. I know everyone is going to love the convenience of being able to access all three sites in one location. Think of this as a belated 10+ year anniversary to all three of the sites and to its veteran members as well. I've pretty much gotten all the boards up that need to be there, but there are a few places where I need extra hands to get the ball rolling and get this done as soon as possible, and as efficiently as possible.

Race Results
Staffers, instead of reposting AAAAALLL of the old race results, I'd recommend just having a past winners thread for each year with every single race. Each month would have it's own post in that year's thread. These results thread will stay in the RACE RESULTS board of each respective track. This is for the races that do not have their own board, like The Wire has the American TC board, Dawn Treader, etc.

So instead of just moving the entire thread over, at the end of every month just repost the final copy of the ran thread and add the placings to it! Like this.. If you'd like you could also add who judged which race and include the feedback in each race as well. So there'd be a  sub-board that says "Y17 Races" in each of the race results board for each track, and within that board you'd have only 12 threads, each having four posts for each week. So within the board you'd have January Results, February...and so on. Instead of having 48 threads each year you'd only 12 threads for race results each year. Just a suggestion!

January Week 4
Dirt Races

True Heart Prospect - 12F - P Judge: Cruisey

1st Dash of Malibu
2nd Take Me Higher

[ Feedback would be pasted here!]

Running Mad Maiden - 9F - M Judge: Kenren

1st Silencio
2nd Virtuoso
3rd Katana 
4th Louisiana Blues
5th Amaretto Stone
6th Winter Soldier

Also instead of reposting all of the past race results from past years, I'd recommend just posting a thread and linking the results. We could always re-add them over time as well.

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Normal peeps like me!
Hey y'all! I see a bunch of people have already reposted their horse's registry info over on Final Furlong. This is a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE help, seriously! If everyone could do that, that'd be awesome! Keep the exact same registry info unless you need to make a change to the stable link or something. Right now we have TWO HUNDRED horses registered and I know there's tons more. If you're participating in the bank system still in 2017, copy and paste your bank transaction posts. I fixed the issue where you guys couldn't post there, my bad!

Until the staffers get settled in their new home over at FF, I'll help as much as I can until they kick me out ;) So, make SURE to gimme your stable info so you guys can get a stable sub-board. That will be the SOLE place you post your workouts for your horses. If you don't normally do that and post them on your site, that's fine too. Just when it comes to writing them on the site, they're going to go in your stable sub-board  

What else...

OH

The Dubai World Carnival! It's already passed but I've added the sub-boards for each different RACE instead of by year so we don't have to have a million sub-boards by the time we're grannies. 

Sammy I know you're over the Horse of the Month stuff, will that still be a thing? 

Kenren I gave you a magazine board for Battlestone Downs, called.... *drum roll* The Downs. 

As you can see I haven't really changed all that much. The horse in the banner is the friggin awesome SUN KING of Battlebrook *biased here. Underneath the site title you can find quick links with cute little icons, the links are the guide, registry, bank, marketplace, breeding, TW Race Schedule, BSD Race Schedule and GHF Race Schedule, Jockey's Room and finally advertisements. 

There's a news header thing that's always changing and that would be where you can find if it's breeding season, when the current race week closes and whatever else is important. I'm wondering if we can have a specific date that races HAVE to be closed? No ifs, ands or buts. 

Uhhh OH there's a track condition thingy and weather thing it doesn't have to be changed every day, just every month. Maybe it'll allow judges to add some extra spice and sugar to their feedback whenever it's given? 

There's an update thing for like...updates to the site..HOTY nomination times...reminders..stuff like that!


If two-three members can skim through TW/GHF and see if I've missed anything important and add those things that'd be awesome sauce.

[Sammy]

Hello, I wouldn't mind keeping up with the horse of the month for the new site. I can start anew with this recent year since I am back

[Rendezvous]

Thank you Sammy !

[Sammy]

Just let me know when to register

[S u N f r O s T ~]

I think the new site is looking awesome right now! Did we ever set a transition date? I'm going to work on getting my butt into gear and transitioning over there, though I think we need to set a transition date. And I will need to memorize the new link XD

One thing I have noticed is that there are a few extra things that have been added to the site. Renniekins, liking your ideas, but you might want to slow down slightly lol! We'll need to assign more staff, which I'm very happy to see that you're already doing, to certain tasks on the site. I think I just need to wrap my head around what I'm seeing first.

In terms of archives - we could link to the three original sites for archived races instead of compiling it all, at least for now. I think I'll probably come back and edit this thread when I've had a moment to think some more, but for now this is what I'm coming up with xD

[Rendezvous]

Ummm I haven't really added anything...? The only thing was the token system and a thread listing RL horse names...

Everything else is from ghf tw S u N f r O s T ~ even the shop items are from here except for twins and rare colored creates which isn't mucph to think about


The "role play" board is just an extension of that one lone downtown board of the wire. Events is just for when members post those threads like egg hunts on their site so they won't get lost in the discussion board

Interviews and stable tours is just for those threads that members post interviewing themselves