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CGI-Quality on 14 October 2024
VAMatt said:

Regarding site improvements....

What is the status of the relationship between our team (mods, admins, developer, etc) and the owner of this site? I have the impression that ownership is essentially MIA. If that's the case, I wouldn't advise anyone to put real time and effort into improving this place unless they get enjoyment out of doing the work. Ownership could nuke the whole thing (either intentionally or due to inaction when needed) at any time.

In fact, every time this site goes down I find myself wondering if it will be gone forever. I assume that one of these times, it will be.

The best answer? It's complicated. 

As far as the site going down forever in the case of those random blackouts, just know that we are nowhere close to that. 



                                                                                                                                                           

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shavenferret on 14 October 2024

I've been a long time lurker.  I remember coming here around 2006 and there was this guy named Bunkum that would give out vgchartz's sales #'s a few days before the owner put them up.  And there was some saucy girl here that had a mario di.ldo as her avatar way back then.  She thought that bunkum was awesome b/c everybody thought he worked at the NPD group which publishes the market research that vgchartz used for mabey a decade or so.  

I still feel like a big strength of this place is in the sales data in that this is something that few other sites give, so it's a unique strength of vgchartz. Perhaps we could get a writer that has a broad interest in the gaming industry and could give some analysis for the forum. This could be a big help to get people into the sales data again which just isn't something that interests people now. I think that y'all should consider calling up jacob mazel and telling him that you want him back on the team. Just an idea   Pitch him the idea of doing that as a side hustle and he'll be the super nerd that leads the thinking on here.

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firebush03 on 05 November 2024

I feel bad always coming in here with new suggestions lol (I love this site, just always have new ideas), but I feel like the option to add/change one's pfp should be a bit less "hidden"/convoluted. I remember for my first 8 months on this site, I was w/o pfp b/c I couldn't figure out how to set it up.

On almost all social media, you can edit your pfp with a simple button press on your picture...would there be any opposition to translating such practice to this site? A thought I've considered is if somebody is looking to add/edit their pfp, they should be able to go through the following steps: (1.) Click on their pfp in top right of website display (you will be brought to your account page, just as it is currently); (2) Click on your pfp, and be redirected to "Avatar Settings" page. From there, it is straight-forward on what is needed to change your pfp.