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I've stayed at my high school job for much longer than most would just because I like the people. It does not pay a lot, I could easily get much more elsewhere, but I agree that money < happiness.

The way I see it is just give it a shot. If GameStop ends up treating you badly you can always find another job or even go back to Target. In 2012 I quit my job at the movie theater I currently work at because I was tired of a lot of the things going on there and I had just graduated high school and wanted a change. I got a job at Best Buy as a cashier (I wanted to work on the floor but they said you had to be 18). best Buy apparently has a great reputation for being good to its employees but I did not enjoy my experience there. The place was huge, no one gave a **** a out you or told you anything, there was absolutely no sense of friendship between the employees. I might have unrealistic expectations because I was coming from a theater with like 15 employees including the managers, all who have workeworked there for years, so we know each other quite well, but Best Buy was an extremely alienating experience. I quit after two months and returned to my old job where I now still work.

once someone called the name misty (I was at school so I guess someone in the hall was actually named misty) and I turned around

Pretty sure there's something I can do about it, I'll try to have a look when I'm not on my phone

resolution =/= size of the container

Doesn't look too different on my laptop screen b/c it's tiny but I'll have to take a look on my 2nd monitor. It's about damn time though. There's no reason to have a fixed layout anymore.

i put way too much effort into this

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If you have a lot of old stuff to sell, I've made decent money off of eBay before. It'll hardly net you $4000, but every little bit helps. My mom has turned this into a sort of second income for herself; she has rather an eye for antiques, so she'll go to secondhand shops, buy things, then sell them on eBay for a profit. It's no day job but it helps pay the bills.

Otherwise, with little work experience and no trade-related skills (you could have some! you just didn't specify in your OP so I'll assume not), jobs in retail or food service are probably your only options. They're not necessarily bad jobs and they do pay, albeit minimum wage, but they are useful for building job experience. You could also consider looking at sites that pay you for things like transcribing if you're more of a solo worker. Amazon has a program to do this, I've never used it personally but I've read a bit about it. Each job doesn't pay much but again, every little bit counts.

Depending on what you need the money for and how your credit is, you could look at taking out a loan. However, I doubt a bank would lend to you if you're unemployed, and that's a dangerous path to start on. If your situation allows it, you might try to get a parent to cosign.

I think just distinguishing between Original Works / Fanfiction is specific enough, though that add-on is so cheap (and from a very reputable developer) that I don't mind snagging it for this. I'm sure it'd come in handy for other sections as well.

Welcome to the site Shinkiro! Glad to have you around and to have another listener. :) Feel free to contact me if you need any help getting around or just have some general questions.

Wow! This came out incredible. Thanks so much for sharing this with us and great job to those who submitted their art. I'll definitely be buying a copy, might even pick up a few to do in giveaways for the site. :)

I can set up an additional check box to hide signatures only on most mobile browsers. They should already hide when you're browsing on most mobile phones, but larger phone screens, tablets, or a simple landscape view might trigger them. I'll do it tomorrow prob (at work rn).

They are, yes. You can essentially create whatever ratings you would like and associate whatever image you want (as well as make them only useable in certain forums etc). For example, if we so wanted, we could have a "Poopoo" rating with a little next to it. It's a really customizable system.

I try to cut out as little as possible, but I also don't want episodes to get too long (I try to stay around an hour long max). Usually it's easy because we get off on tangents that can be removed, but little "sorry I wasn't paying attention," personal questions, or in this case, specificity are sometimes also good ways to save a few seconds. I try my best to not make edits noticeable, of course it's less so for the people who were actually in the call.

If money isn't an object and there are PS4 games you would like to play, I don't see any reason to not buy the console (unless there's something else you want and could buy with the money). I just don't think there's much of a benefit in waiting if the price is not a concern. I bought a PS4 on launch -- the title that I really wanted on it was Final Fantasy XIV, which only just came out. But I knew there would not be a price cut any time soon, certainly not by the time FFXIV was out, nor a new model, so there wasn't a reason to delay a few months. I can understand not wanting to purchase on launch because you worry about hardware issues but thankfully that wasn't a problem with the PS4.

Basically... if you want it, buy it. There are some entertaining games available for it (Resogun, Contrast, FFXIV, Infamous, etc.), and more on the way.

For the record I didn't want to just switch to XF without warning either, but the security concerns we had at the time made it necessary. I don't want to get into why just because it's a very sore & misunderstood subject that I would rather not dig up again, but ordinarily something as big as this would have been announced well in advance.

While it is true that they're certainly capable of replying to these things, the effort to move to XF was, ultimately, spearheaded by me (although the staff did know about it and were consulted about it). While Jayn and Plums have gotten really familiar with the system in the months since they were promoted, I'm probably the best poised to talk about its advantages, give perspective on why the decision was made, and explain what it's like to administrate a vB board vs. a XF board.

I know I can't please Jiku but I do think it's still important to at least reply to these things and try to help people understand. As you have said, one of the problems on this site (which goes back years and years) is the lack of transparency & union between the site and the staff (though I can tell you it is a hell of a lot better than it is on a lot of other sites, where the staff are basically a non-presence). Trying to understand the nature of people's complaints and clearing up misunderstandings is a step in the right direction, though. Normally I would encourage people to post in the feedback forum just because I feel that promotes a) more productive suggestions and b) an atmosphere not so inclined to bickering, but I'm also not going to just sit by and let people trash the site without at least trying to respond to them. I do agree that these things get needlessly personal, this thread included, and I am sorry about that: I'm human and it's quite disheartening to see people disrespect things I and the rest of the staff have put a lot of work into. If after explanations and appeals someone still doesn't come around then there are far more productive things for me to spend my time on. I don't really intend upon replying to Jiku any further in this thread.

It's mostly because I was cranky this morning, I check khv when I wake up & found this thread and more stuff about the rp mod. Now I feel like it's my duty to clear up misinformation about xf lol. also i am stubborn

I don't think it's a necessarily bad outlook to have though. As Ross said I've learned through experience that no matter what we do as a staff or I do individually (on here and in life) people are going to hate. I put a lot of thought into my decisions though, I'm not an impulsive person (unless I'm purchasing **** off amazon in which case watch out my bank account), and I'm confident in the XenForo software and moving towards it. I think most people have warmed up to it since the initial shock & adjustment, others will continue to dislike it and there's nothing I can do about that. I can just keep trying to provide a better experience for the people who do.

Besides expelling negative energy though, when you guys complain I can sometimes glean useful information off it about what exactly it is that you're reacting to.

It's not so much about load time, that's usually determined more by the server. With XF though you're loading less pages to do the same things a lot of the times -- it's much more efficient about how it presents information/features. This makes the experience seem "faster" to the user. There are other things that go into it of course (like caching, loading javascript, loading stylesheets, etc.), and XF outpaces vB in those regards as well.

Security is important and functionality is important. With XF, we're not choosing between them. If we're really going to limit it like that: vB is functional and has ****** security. XF is functional and secure. Which would you choose?

Incorrect.

http://kh-vids.net/threads/welcome-to-the-new-kh-vids.143335/
This is in lieu of the crappy mobile skin we had with vB. I browse on my phone a lot and I'm sure many others here do. The responsive design is incredibly important.

SEO refers to search engine optimization. Basically, XF is more friendly to sites like Google -- which means we're listed higher in search results on Google. That means more traffic & activity on the site.

No, they're not. vB urls looked something like this:

Code:

http://kh-vids.net/showthread.php?=1234
http://kh-vids.net/index.php?=kh2custcences

Whereas XF URLs...

Code:

http://kh-vids.net/threads/why-did-khv-change-to-xenforo-anyway.145534/
http://kh-vids.net/pages/kh2cutscenes

This is again good for search engines and I like that the topic title is in the link -- it lets me know what thread someone is linking to without having to click it.

That's right, you do need support from the KH-Vids staff. And where would we go if we're unsure how to do something? If there's a bug we find with the software? If we want to implement a new feature? Xenforo support.

Yes you absolutely do. You know those lovely add-ons we have sprinkled through the site? The ones we pay to have developed? We couldn't do that without the development community.

While keeping the passwords of our users safe is important to us, I was more referring to XF's resistance to hacking. If you remember, we were hacked several times while on vB, and during one of those times we lost a month's worth of data (posts, users, everything). I would like to avoid that in the future, but vB has easily exploitable security bugs that they don't see worthy of patching apparently.

New features and such are announced on xenforo.com. When we update our version on KHV (there's usually a delay while we check for add-on compatibility), we do update you when we update our XF version and when we install new add-ons and update existing ones. Some of these features you may not notice or utilize but plenty of others do.

Better development team > better software > better user experience. So yeah. It does affect you.

Broken images are, more often than not, caused by an issue with how the user hotlinks. Not the software. XF is no more susceptible than vB to it.

Nobody else has reported this issue, it sounds like a problem with your computer or browser. We don't use flash on this site for anything but the image uploader, and YouTube embeds but that'd still be an issue on YT's end, not ours. Flash shouldn't be used on modern websites anymore anyway.

No. If someone reports getting an error on KHV, or the site not responding, or anything like that, XF logs all errors so I can research what's causing it and fix it.

Yeah, we can. But creating styles doesn't take just a couple days, they're projects that span several months. Our staff team is composed of people who go to school or have jobs or both. If I could financially survive for the rest of my life by just working on KHV all day that'd be awesome but I have life obligations and bills to pay? As a frame of reference, KHV8 was started in early June of 2013 and wasn't completed until the following December, working on and off over those months. I'm working on something now that will make it vastly easier to churn out new styles and have multiple styles but more isn't always better.

And that's what I just gave you. If you're dissatisfied with the list after my explanations, let me know and I can continue to talk about the many advantages of XF over vB, but many of them are technical and, as just displayed, things that probably won't make sense to most users. What it comes down to, when you ignore technical aspects, is the experience. On my end, it is vastly easier to support, update, and new things to KHV now that we've updated to XF. I find browsing more engaging (alerts) and easier, particularly when on my phone. I encourage people to go to a vB4 site, post around, then come back here and see which you like better. I hadn't used vB4 in a while and I did this, I couldn't believe how slow and clunky it felt in comparison.

We usually do try to have them out every December, but I've started a big project related to it that could potentially make it either much faster to finish or make it take longer.

At the end of the day... posting is pretty much no different and that's everyone's primary interaction with the site. We're not going to be moving back to vBulletin ever so it would probably be easiest to remain open to xenforo if you still have legitimate problems with it. We also do have a Feedback & Assistance forum, I try to reply to nearly every thread within it, so if there's something that can improve your experience on the site then we can work on it in there. But just saying "I don't like it" without giving any constructive feedback doesn't give me anything to work off of. I hope that you guys appreciate the hard work that the staff puts into the site and making our users comfortable is a huge part of that; we try to put a lot of care & attention into the suggestions forum for that reason. It might take a while for us to get things out the door and some things just might not be possible but we do put an immense amount of effort into it.

I don't think we have any web developers here. @libregkd has researched the process of making add-ons but it's not something you just pick up in a few days sadly.