I'm currently restyling all of these new plugins. I've knocked out about half of them. It's like easy and hard. It's easy cause I have already established the colors for this site and I have also already written a lot of reusable classes and I have written so much css this month that I don't have to think about what to do. It's hard cause one thing leads to another and another. Making sure that I have clicked through all the possibilities is tedious to say the least. It's all good. We'll have even nicer stuff when I am done and that will make all this effort worth it.

I installed a plugin that reorders the forum in descending order. I tried to find a plug-in that allows my members to decide how they want it ordered but, I was unable to find one. My line of thinking was it is better to NOT have to scroll like crazy and paginate to the last reply than to let members decide if they want to. In my travels though, I found a plug-in that adds more detailed information to the forum listings. Basically it does everything that Nahuel suggested in his very first post. I am POSITIVE this is going to wreck the shit out of the forum display and it will require a lot of restyling. I AM going to do the work, just not right now. I need a break from css. I am not a fan of css. I maybe even hate css. Just give me a day or so to resign myself to rework like 500 lines of css and I will make the forums more informative. Maybe I will even get a wild hair and do it tonight...just not right now.

I haven't turned on the rich text editor yet but, I will in a minute. I wanted to make a backup and optimize the database. This reminded me of something. I have a cache plugin that is currently inactive. I left it inactive because I am still building this and the last thing I need is for me to be fed a bunch of cached pages while I make changes. I will be turning the cache on in the near future. What does this actually mean? This means that "first visits" to pages get cached and that cached version lives for 30 minutes. The next visit to a page after the 30 minute life span is considered a new "first visit" and the process starts over. There are a few exceptions. If a new post is made the cache is dumped for that page and a new cache is made. This will speed up the site greatly. Certain pages with massive amounts of images and youtube videos (ie tools compendium) will load instantly. This also means that compression will be applied to images and they will not be as "hd" as the original. This is a trade off that is worth accepting.

I haven't gotten deep into the SEO end of things here yet but, I am well aware of numerous things that are killing my SEO. One of those things is load times. The "heavier" pages here are some of the most important content-wise and they are also the slowest to load. I have some very long term goals here and one of them is to outrank every quake site in searches. This is how we build our community and create heavy activity here.

There are more things that will appear here. Eventually this site will be plugged into facebook and twitter in a way that cornerstone content is posted to these social media sites under an account that is specifically tied to this site. This will NEVER mean that any of you have to use facebook, twitter, G+ etc to participate here. It simply means that my site will leverage these platforms to reach a broader audience. There really is an unfathomable amount of work to do here. I basically have to be and learn how to be a one-man internet enterprise. That's fine. I'm not scared, concerned or worried about it in any way. My goals exceed keeping this community alive. I want to expand this community to encompass the entire planet. World domination of Quake. Mark my words - if this is possible, I will accomplish it. Those of you that have projects or quake enterprises of your own will benefit greatly from this. Here is an example. Right now ArrrCee has a strong following for his channel. ArrrCee will ALWAYS be promoted here in a very obvious fashion. Let's pretend that I accomplish my goals ~ The entire world of Quake will be following ArrrCee. This goes for all of you. I have a long way to go but, I don't stop. This is not a "five years from now" endeavor.

The funny thing is I am spending all of this time tying all of these plugins in and making them presentable but, as soon I feel like my site is rich enough in content and members I am going to pay a professional to build something a million times better than this. I give zero fucks what it costs. I'm actually just biding my time a little bit and waiting for 3D browser tech to be good enough for me to implement my real ideas. We aren't there yet. WebGL is kind of garbage. My ideas are NextGenQuake and everything you can imagine that involves the next generation of presenting & implementing "quake 1" tech. If things were better we would already see at least a shadow of that happening here. Unfortunately, for now, I have to be satisfied with "collecting" quake and providing it in tables that will NEVER disappear from the internet. My compendium is barely an example of what it will be in the near future.

let's see if this works. This should be an entire imgur gallery

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YAY, now you can post entire imgur galleries! All you have to do is make your imgur gallery and then copy the url for the entire gallery and post it here. There is actually a LOT more you can do with this. I just tested imgur but you can do google (docs, draw, maps), soundcloud, facebook, twitch streams, more more more. I'll restyle this shit later. Imma take a break and go for a walk.

I couldn't resist doing one more. This should be the google map for Big Ben

[embed class="is-loading"]https://www.google.com/maps/place/Big+Ben/@51.5007325,-0.1268141,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x487604c38c8cd1d9:0xb78f2474b9a45aa9!8m2!3d51.5007292!4d-0.1246254[/embed]

hmmm, that didn't work. I haven't even touched the settings page for this feature yet maybe there is something I need to set.

lol, I never even activated the stupid plugin. The imgur embed was apparently already something you could do. However the google map thingy is still not working.

One of the stipulations for this to work was to use the visual editor (admin thingy). I had a rich text editor that added the visual editor. Maybe if I put it back this shit will work. Lemme go see...

And now it works! But I hate this editor. All you have to do to embed stuff is click "visual" and dump a link in. If you need to know what link to use you can go to https://pressshack.com/embeds/ to learn how to use it. I'm sorry this editor looks like shit. I only got halfway through restyling it. I promise I will make it better but I really need some fresh air and a walk.

I activated the visual editor and styled it. It's about as good as I can get it. I can't tint the background without breaking into the source because technically the editor is an iframe so, the white background is actually a completely different webpage embedded in the editor body. That webpage does not inherit from my stylesheet so, no matter what I do from this end it will not affect it. The buttons are all using images instead of stylable icons so, I had to go with a lighter color so you can easily see the options. For those that don't know, the "p" at the bottom is not an error. That is an indicator that you are populating an html <p>aragraph element. You will notice as you make different selections that the information at the bottom will change to indicate the type of html element you are using. Mostly, you can just ignore it. Somebody like wizardmachine might find that info useful but, it is useless to your average user.

Honestly, I hate the new editor. It breaks my style for the page and mostly looks like shit. I was actually tempted to just leave it all white. The problem is, without that editor we lose a shit load of new features that I added. Considering there are a number of quake mappers and players that use twitch I'm pretty determined to keep the editor so we can embed twitch streams. I use the hell out of the google suite of products and it may be beneficial to me at some point to be able to embed files created with google stuff. I can't speak for anyone else here regarding your needs or desires for embed possibilities but, I can say that having these features are not ruining anything for you. Also, now there is an inline image uploader (last button on the right) so, you don't have to use your gallery, buddydrive or some 3rd party solution for sharing images.

Every single solitary file that is uploaded in any of the various ways that are possible on this site are stored in the media library (admin section) so whether you use buddydrive, gallery or the inline image uploader in this editor it's all the same shit. The only real difference is whether or not you will have multiple references to the file. Personally, I would recommend NOT using your buddydrive or gallery just to upload an image for a post because, you would just be eating up your storage when using the inline loader doesn't affect your storage at all, and it's all the same uploader. As a reminder your buddydrive has 1gig limit and gallery is 100mb.

Lastly, If you are only posting text I wouldn't recommend using the visual editor. You might find that it will start pissing you off. For instance, normally before starting a new paragraph most people hit enter twice to create a single line break between paragraphs. If you do that in the visual editor it will skip numerous lines because hitting enter once invisibly pops you into a new <p>aragraph element. There are other little "smart-edit" bullshits that I find incredibly annoying. Technically this is the same editor that I have to use on the backend to make pages. I NEVER use the visual option cause I will seriously fucking kill somebody it is so annoying. I use the text version and type all my html raw.