TOPIC: Forums Suggestion

Server Name: The Forums? (If this is the wrong place to put this I apologise

Suggestion Title: Shoutbox + Direct server connections

How would it benefit the server:

Direct server connection buttons
Currently (Not sure about other users) I find myself browsing Zarp forums before joining the servers. Simply for added ease for everybody (And at a very low time-cost) we could add buttons as a drop-down for the "our servers" tab that directly connect through the Steam or TS3 protocol to allow for a user to join the server at a click of a button, it's not a huge improvement and I'm sure many people may not see the point of it all, but the idea is there just to make life that little bit easier.

Shoutbox
I understand that Kunena is a... pain... to say the least when it comes to live connections of any sort, and the simple idea of having a shoutbox makes it writhe in agony, but it's still possible. Lots of Joomla templates work okay with shadowboxes and even if that's not the case with this one it's still possible to have a shoutbox on another page on the zarpgaming domain. [zarpgaming.com/shoutbox], and this could be used for quick communications. Somebody has probably already created one to work with the Kunena forums, and if they haven't I'd be happy to write you a program in Node.Js myself, I've written one for BBcode before.

Potential Issues/Exploits: None, so long as you integrate the shoutbox properly.

Additional notes: None

Direct connections would be cool, the Shoutbox has been suggested many a times before and has been denied due to the simple fact that that is not what we want the forums to be used as.

Yeah, direct connections are easy as fuck, all it is is a href with a protocol and an ip, as for the shoutbox, would everybody still be dead opposed to even just having a separate page for direct communications? Eg. People asking questions? Because you could just moderate it in that way to make sure it's only used productively.

Morgz wrote:
Shoutboxes were denied before but I do agree with direct connections.

We will never ever add a shoutbox. End of discussion.

Any what of the Direct connections?

Bump for an actual response on the direct join buttons?