Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31234217-20170606232934/@comment-31372003-20170615135016

I wasn't even planning on migratrating the old entries into the new system. I would just put a link in the initial post to the "archive" friend's codes. No one is going to care about those old ones in a month anyway.

The forum should only show  x number of posts per page, so it wouldn't load the whole code list for the general user. Loading times should not be too long because few images are posted with the codes. Maybe posting of images can be blocked on that thread if needed? Is the wiki actually limited to x amount of storage space? If so, we should be able to request an increase if needed.

Since it would be a thread, no one could move a post. They could only add a new post.

Not being a mod, I don't get to see the difficulty in checking for reposts of codes that you do. Most everything on a moble device is harder than on a puter. I think that if a mod is using a puter, it wouldn't be a problem to load say 100 or more replies per screen (however many code posts/month that would need to be checked for dups). Then copy and paste a possible repeat code into the ctrl+F (find) function of the browser and it will show if the code is there more than once. Being on cable internet with a puter seems like no problem for me as far as bandwidth usage goes or in reguards to speed of searching for repeats. I just think that the code page should not be moderated by someone with moble just because of the difficulty reasons that you have stated. Maybe we can find someone that would be willing to just mod the codes and that would free up time for the rest of you?

The best solution, as metioned before, is hosting the codes on a server that will allow us to make a bot. I'm pretty sure that there is someone that would be willing to set up the site and make a bot for it. I would do it, but I haven't done web design in decades and I just don't have the time to figure it all out now from scratch.

Maybe the ultimate solution is getting out of the friend code thing all together. By that I mean maybe we should set up something like http://www.wishingtorch.com/ I've never used that site so I don't know how it all works, but I am using it an a proof of concept example. Maybe we should make www.MSMfriendcodes.net which is just for the codes and we can control how it all works. I'm not saying that we need a fancy TLD name, it's just an example of what it could be. Then our current friend code page just links to the new friendcode.net or whatever it might be called. As far as any expense goes, it could be free or we could probably do it better if we had ad placement to pay for some enhancements that we might want. I think that the friend's codes is a valuable service, but we also know that it is a pain to do the way we are doing it. I think we need to totally rethink it and have ppl that who are specifically dedicated to the task of caring for it and who do not have to worry about modding everything else in the monster forum world as well.