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Micah2
in Hello from Maine November 2007

bq. I am (slowly…) working on chronicling old sessions and working my way up to current sessions. Work has gone crazy so chronicling and game sessions have slowed waaaay done. Damn that pesky work stuff :) A word of advice: don't worry too much a…
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in can't post jpg picture November 2007

Send the pic to [email protected] and I'll take a look. The only thing I can think of is that the file size is too big. It should accept gif, png, and jpg at least.
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in ADDED - Campaign Subscription/Favorite Campaigns November 2007

The list of fans is on the todo list. Also, would it be better if the profile list were ordered by last update time? This would push the most recently updated ones to the top. Currently, they're ordered by when they were added as favorites, and…
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in Hey All November 2007

Welcome! This site is not really geared toward play-by-post, although there's nothing that should make it impossible. The adventure logs are freely editable by anyone in the campaign. Still, we don't have features such as sending notifications …
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in FIXED - Expanded character limit in private messages? November 2007

This is fixed. There should be no limits now.
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in ADDED - Campaign Subscription/Favorite Campaigns November 2007

Added it just now! Ask and ye shall receive!
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in ADDED - Newly Updated/Added November 2007

You can now add a campaign to your favorite list, and this will display when last it was modified. There are a lot of things that will trip the modification time (new/edit blog post, new/edit wiki page, new player joins, etc.) but it's still a good…
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in Copyright Issues November 2007

Take a look at the terms of service at the bottom of the every page on the site. We used a freely-available template from Wordpress.com, a site that deals with similar issues. Specifically, subsection 5 details with copyright issues and how copy…
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in Hey-o from Texas November 2007

Welcome to the community. If you're claiming the entire setting of Eberron, you'd better have some great material to back that up ... ;) I can't wait to see what you've got!
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in Greetings from Wisconsin November 2007

As much as it pains me to say it, if you've got a huge amount of background content in wiki style, posting it here probably isn't the best idea. Our wiki is very basic and doesn't have a lot of the features of more advanced ones. So, I think you h…
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in Worthy of Wikipedia? November 2007

Thanks! Another editor came along and removed it as link-spam. Of course, I disagree, but that's wikipedia for you...
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in Why are features coming along so slowly? November 2007

Some of you may have noticed that our speed of implementing new features has slowed significantly lately. Mainly that's due to 2 things: h2. Real Life Ryan and I work on this site in our spare time. We hope to eventually make a little money …
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in Yo. November 2007

Hello! It's OK to be a forum lurker as long as you're updating your adventure log and wiki. That's why we're all here: to show off our campaigns ;) Keep posting! Micah
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in Greetings from Dire Wolf November 2007

Welcome! The whole purpose of the site was to encourage people to be better about tracking their game content. It's just too hard to store this stuff in notebooks. I've used blogs and wikis on and off for a couple years, but I finally decided t…
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in Navigation November 2007

Navigation is a big problem with the site. We do our best, but we're not professional designers. We're gamers, like you guys! It helps a lot to know what sort of problems you're having (like this post), so please keep the ideas coming!
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in ADDED - Newly Updated/Added November 2007

It's on the list, but not for anytime soon. We're working on the list of favorite campaigns and a few other things right now. For now, I suggest subscribing to the RSS feeds for the campaigns you're interested in. These will be updated automati…
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in ADDED - Filter Games with no Content November 2007

It's a good idea. I'll add this to the list, although it might be awhile before I can get to it.
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in ADDED - NPC Hidden Info November 2007

This is something I had thought about before, but had somehow forgotten. I apologize for letting it slip. The current plan is to do pretty much as DMaple suggests: add another field that is only visible to the GM. As to timeline, there are ot…
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in Ratings November 2007

Ratings can change. Each user gets 1 vote on each rateable item. They can change their vote as often as they'd like.
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in Worthy of Wikipedia? November 2007

So is Obsidian Portal worthy (yet) of Wikipedia? I was browsing around the other day and found their "page on Role Playing Games":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game There are several community sites listed at the bottom, and I think we…
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in Ratings November 2007

I've been thinking more about this. I'm currently leaning toward making the ratings public. However, since they have been anonymous up until now, I might simply clear out all the ratings and start over. That way, anyone who went through and rated…
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in Our 500th User - Bog97th November 2007

Congratulations to "Bog97th":http://www.obsidianportal.com/profile/Bog97th, our 500th user. I we had prizes, I'd send you one. For now, all we can offer is our thanks for signing up!
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in Mini-Forum November 2007

Actually, now that I think about it, I have had an idea somewhat like this. I am planning to add a "Campaign Comm Center" that will have some communication tools. For the first pass, it will be something like Facebook's wall, just a place to jot…
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in Mini-Forum November 2007

Hmm, this is a good idea. The main issue would be making it useful without spending too much effort on it. It's easy to make a crappy forum, it's hard to make a good one... I'll add it to the list of ideas.
Micah2
in Ratings November 2007

To be 100% honest, we're not going to go with any kind of crazy weighting system or learning algorithm (ala Digg). The ratings are sideline to our main offering here (Campaign blogging and management). We try to focus on our core features and get …
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in Ratings November 2007

We want to add comments to the adventure logs, but we're a little bit worried about possible abuses. We don't want to force GM's (and players) to constantly be moderating trolls and jerkwads who constantly post garbage. What does everyone think?…
Micah2
in Ratings November 2007

This is a common problem with any sort of community moderation scheme. The hope is that as the number of users rises, this will become less of a problem. Still, your suggestion is a good one so I'll think about it.
Micah2
in Requests for new game systems November 2007

I've added Burning Wheel, Spirit of the Century, Scion, and Pendragon. I'm not too sure about PDQ. It looks like a rules system, but no one would use it straight out. Instead, they would play in a particular instance, like the ones you mentione…
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in New Banner Graphics November 2007

Tell us what you think of the new banner graphics. These are for you to use on other websites in order to link back to your campaigns. To see the banners, log in, go to your campaign's adventure log, and look for the "Campaign Banners" box in th…
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in ADDED - Campaign Subscription/Favorite Campaigns November 2007

I've been thinking about this for a while. It shouldn't be too hard to implement, it's just a matter of when I can get to it. For now, I would suggest subscribing to the RSS feeds of the campaigns that you like. There are lots of RSS readers, l…

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