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Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« on: October 23, 2010, 12:41:28 am »
Tahin just noticed this... Just between My Messages and Members on the nav bar... is a button to THIS.

I've never even considered the possibility of this existing.

WHAT IS THIS? This is actually kinda useful. Birthdays, UN day. Halloween.

Was anyone else aware that this even existed?
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2010, 12:42:07 am »
Yes.
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2010, 12:42:36 am »
Yep.

It loses its novelty when you realize that it only has the birthdays of people you would never want to meet on it.
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2010, 12:45:45 am »
I discovered this accidentally a little while ago, but, while the calender doesn't display their name, banned users will still have a cake next to their age on their birthday.
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2010, 12:49:01 am »
PTTG?? didn't know there's a calendar?  The button's right there.  Although the format looks pretty different from the last time I saw it, which I guess would have been another version.

But yeah, it only displays the birthdays of people who actually log their birthday obvious, which is basically no one who does more than stops by to make an account.
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2010, 12:50:11 am »
Yeah, I remember before the switch, there was a box down by the bottom of the index page that displayed birthdays.
Never actually checked the calender itself until recently, though.
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2010, 10:24:03 am »
There's also a tutorial.
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2010, 10:49:29 am »
ein we have the same birthday dude.
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2010, 12:04:13 pm »
Lol, I didn't notice, but I never bothered to look for it.

I don't recognize anyone with the same birthday as me. Wow, B12 has a lot of members. I think a quarter of the people who play DF log on to ask newbie questions because they can't figure how it works :P

I noticed one amusing thing though... there's a lot more birthdays on 8/8, 9/9, 10/10, 11/11, 12/12. Are people having babies on these elegant days on purpose or are people just being lazy when registering?
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2010, 01:58:19 pm »
I've known of this forever.

Dragnar has the same birthday as me.
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2010, 02:08:30 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on October 23, 2010, 10:24:03 am
There's also a tutorial.

Does anyone else find it a little ironic that the tutorial for the forum interface is more developed than the included tutorial for Dwarf Fortress?
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2010, 02:14:16 pm »
Not really, since the forum tutorial almost certainly came with the forum software.

Also, the forum software has a well-defined and consistant set of features, while Dwarf Fortress is still in development and nothing is guarenteed to be the final version yet.
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Re: Did you know: There's a forum calendar?
« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2010, 05:32:08 pm »
not many people have my birthday :P
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