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FreeDOS

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Posted on 07-23-04 03:16 PM Link
I start this so I and other can just rant about whatever is on their mind. Something's pissing you off... making you really happy... whatever. I guess just stay with the basic rules.
GameFAQs has gone to Hell

The board code:
Sure, GameFAQs had a great ASP-based board system that worked quite well. Very few bugs and exploits were in it... and the ones that existed were minor. Spell-checker thought a correct word should be correct to an incorrect version, no title glitch, etc.

But now GameFAQs is no longer coded and maintained by Clarance Jeffery "CJayC" Veasey. The CNET team is on it. This is bad, very bad. They stuck it through an ASP2PHP converter, and fixed the code to the bare minimmum that works for posting. Naturally, problems would arise through such a process -- especially on a board system.

No, fixing it wasn't an option for them. CJayC (supposedly it was him) set up a "beta" copy of it, for what? only two weeks. Anyone with an ounce of brain would be able to tell that this is not enough time to test for anything serious. Especially the largest board on the Internet (BigBoards doesn't detect it as such because GameFAQs is one of few with automatted user and post purges). Brand-spanking-new modpics were taking due to exploits in the source. For those that don't know, the original modpics were HTML saves from a hacked moderator account. The new ones were exploits that let people become administrator at will

Since then, more than two dozen (that I can count) bugs/exploits have been reported and used several times on the GameFAQs board. These include extending boldicising and italicising through the rest of the page (for tables are no longer on GameFAQs), no word size limit, easy censor bypass (put ashita at beggining of post, and nothing'll be censored/auto-flagged), posting blank topic titles without any special methods (fixed by now). Most of them don't have a fix. And CJayC's lame solution to extending bold and italic to the rest of the page was to check that open tags are all closed. Seem sensible? Maybe, until you consider that the following line could do the same job:
$message .= str_repeat ('</b>', substr_count ($message, '<b>') - preg_match_all ('#<b>.*</b>#U', $message, $z)).str_repeat ('</i>', substr_count ($message, '<i>') - preg_match_all ('#<i>.*</i>#U', $message, $z));
The board at GameFAQs has been down three or four times since the PHP ones were put up. Yet the exploits remain.

Not to mention CJayC's new stylesheet. A bad decision? Maybe not. A lot of people like it. hmm... why do I have a paragraph on it, then? Because of his way of going back to the original look-and-feel. First of all, the one that's up looks like it was made in five minutes. Second of all, it resorts to the new stylesheet after twenty-four hours unless you edit your gamefaqs.com s cookie. Both of the stylesheets look like shit to me, so I have a custom CSS loaded that's a mix of the old and the new (for those that want it: download).

That's all I'm going to write for now... bye
KATW

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Posted on 07-24-04 07:31 AM Link
I always knew GFaqs was doomed from the start of the Cnet thing. Thats exactly why I hardly post there anymore... I dont exactly have anything to rant upon... wait, yes I do.

Lets see... one thing thats really bugging me right now is Marching band camp. Im starting it this fall, and this one thing is making me want to stop playing my instrument. Now, I know most of you are going to say "Suck it up and deal with it" But its not just band camp thats on my mind. Couple that with an extremely... errr... well, cant think of a word to describe her. She is that bad. What is worse is that my brother had her when he was in HS, and she made his life a living nightmare. And she knows that Im his brother. So can ya put 2 and 2 together and figure out how my life is going to go . Now... Im not usually one to complain, I usually go along with things without a complain, but this is probably the thing that Im going to dread until August 12...

And thats about it, I guess.
knuck

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Posted on 07-25-04 08:19 AM Link
What do you mean by 'has gone to hell'? It's always been in hell.
Colleen
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Posted on 07-25-04 08:48 AM Link
Eh... I don't think it's ALWAYS been in hell.

But as the amount of users increase, you get more lamers, and they have a CRAPLOAD of users... So yeah.
Legion
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Posted on 07-25-04 03:09 PM Link
You know....

I did some deep digging, and apparently there is more than just a message board at Gamefaqs.

I know, I know. You probably don't believe me but I think I may be on to something here...

More to come in the following days.
NightHawk

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Posted on 07-25-04 03:15 PM Link
Originally posted by Legion
You know....

I did some deep digging, and apparently there is more than just a message board at Gamefaqs.

I know, I know. You probably don't believe me but I think I may be on to something here...

More to come in the following days.
You know, come to think of it, I *have* seen something else there... something strange... with names such as "hints", "tips", and "FAQs"... perhaps some brave individual here could venture forth to find the meaning behind this?

NSNick
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Posted on 07-25-04 04:07 PM Link
Glitch in the Matrix. Pay it no mind. Go back and mindlessly post in the message board. Do it! Do it now!
Kitten Yiffer

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Posted on 07-26-04 12:01 AM Link
The old Gamefaqs layout loaded faster. The new one is so much slower.
Originally posted by Legion
I did some deep digging, and apparently there is more than just a message board at Gamefaqs.

I know, I know. You probably don't believe me but I think I may be on to something here...
Legion, it's a hidden imageboard there. You know. A place where you can post all sort of pictures. Both risky and quite tame pictures.

It's as well-known as Lost threads.
Ran-chan

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Posted on 07-26-04 12:22 AM Link
And so much more ANNOYING! I don
DarkSlaya
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Posted on 07-26-04 12:42 AM Link
GameFaq's old layout was really much better. At least, the search function wasn't buggy 1/4 of the time.
Dracoon

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Posted on 07-26-04 05:18 AM Link
I hate gamefaq boards right now. (I always have I think) Now the whole thing is a giant add thing and the faqs aren't very good. There is no true online site that can cover all the games. Fansites are better by about 5 trillion times.
Kitten Yiffer

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Posted on 07-26-04 06:10 AM Link
Originally posted by Millennium Neko
I didn
Colleen
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Posted on 07-26-04 08:14 AM Link
I almost got rid of the ads but somehow I ended up breaking access to the boards.

If I want to access them, I have to use Firefox.
Legion
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Posted on 07-26-04 08:30 AM Link
Originally posted by Kitten Yiffer
Originally posted by Millennium Neko
I didn
Colleen
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Posted on 07-26-04 08:56 AM Link
I didn't know about the imageboard.

Meh. Considering the number of hits GameFAQs gets, I doubt an overwhelming majority of users go there for the message boards.

Wouldn't be surprised if the number was in the 40-50% range though.
Dracoon

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Posted on 07-26-04 10:06 AM Link
I am going to say a lot less precentage goes to the boards. I think the precentage that goes to the boards is maybe 20-30%. No one likes the boards really...
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