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[Neonivek]

Heh, a really good artefact thread....I expect he was in a fey mood when he wrote it.  The thread is made of posts.  It is studded with finely crafted links, and contains an image of Footkerchief in pixels.  The Footkercheif is nodding his head. 

Well it is older then people think, over a year old at this point: April 11, 2008

I was forced to make a new thread "Artifact Suggestions Redux" When I started to make a bunch of artifacts and I had little-no idea if I was making doubles. Unfortuntely unlike my last thread I've had little possitive response. Ive had more "This thread is pointless" posts

But such is life.

I won't abandon it anytime soon, baring one possibility, even without much forum support.

[PTTG??]

We need a new FoTF thread when the new version comes out. Who shall be the one to create it? We can't go around with ten or twenty FoTF threads.

[Neonivek]

We need a new FoTF thread when the new version comes out. Who shall be the one to create it? We can't go around with ten or twenty FoTF threads.

Toady COULD make it...

[Footkerchief]

Yeah, just let Toady make it:

So on FotF threads (not sure if this one or the other one would be the best place to ask, but this has the best name for it), what do people want out of those now anyway?  There are often questions mixed with meandering degeneracy, and I'm not sure how to set that up.  If I sticky one, I'd like it to be one I've made myself, so that I can change the OP if necessary, but I dunno what the OP should be, really, or what people want out of it.

Although hopefully there won't be as much need for a FotF thread after this release, since people will be busy talking about the releases themselves instead of asking speculative questions etc.

Incidentally, it might be nice if the FotF threads got their own archive subforum or something.  Would make it easier to search for dev info. 

[zchris13]

I thought you had your own little custom library program that automatically archived and indexed everything Toady said every about anything, Footkerchief.

[Neonivek]

I thought you had your own little custom library program that automatically archived and indexed everything Toady said every about anything, Footkerchief.

To my knowledge he uses the search engine on this site.

In fact you can even use it to get quotes from individuals. Here as I find you saying "Cookies"

I should eat a box of cookies.

[Footkerchief]

I friggin' wish.  No, I just have a very rough mental index.  The forum search software is pretty good, except that the general search never returns more than one matching post from a given thread, and the in-thread search doesn't allow you to restrict the search by user, and returns entire posts instead of relevant snippets. 

Toady has a little custom database or something for private dev info, which is apparently more extensive than the dev info he keeps online.  He talked about it here.

[Neonivek]

Hmmm Footkerchief said Chicken in at least 10 different threads unlike Zchris who never said it once.

[zchris13]

I friggin' wish.  No, I just have a very rough mental index.  The forum search software is pretty good, except that the general search never returns more than one matching post from a given thread, and the in-thread search doesn't allow you to restrict the search by user, and returns entire posts instead of relevant snippets. 

Toady has a little custom database or something for private dev info, which is apparently more extensive than the dev info he keeps online.  He talked about it here.

They are called "notes".  Pretty essential for anything larger than "HELLO WORLD"

[Neonivek]

I guess if I had absolutely no life I could take everything Toady ever said and create a database where it is organised accordingly.

[zchris13]

It shouldn't be all that hard.

Oh, wait.  It would be x10 easier server side.  Nevermind.

[Neonivek]

Well Toady made more then 8600 posts in total.

[numerobis]

fish leather

I was fairly certain one could in fact make fish leather in one's fortress.  You just need a chamber with untamed large fish in it (carp or whatever), drain the chamber, then butcher the dead fish.  I got into fish farming in one fortress at some point (following I3eReNt or whatever his name was).

[Nivim]

I was forced to make a new thread "Artifact Suggestions Redux" When I started to make a bunch of artifacts and I had little-no idea if I was making doubles. Unfortuntely unlike my last thread I've had little possitive response. Ive had more "This thread is pointless" posts

But such is life.

I won't abandon it anytime soon, baring one possibility, even without much forum support.

 I did not mean my response to be negative, but to change your target to one that would be useful, as in something Toady would read and consider when the time came.

[G-Flex]

I friggin' wish.  No, I just have a very rough mental index.  The forum search software is pretty good, except that the general search never returns more than one matching post from a given thread, and the in-thread search doesn't allow you to restrict the search by user, and returns entire posts instead of relevant snippets. 

Toady has a little custom database or something for private dev info, which is apparently more extensive than the dev info he keeps online.  He talked about it here.

They are called "notes".  Pretty essential for anything larger than "HELLO WORLD"

Look at the link he provided. He actually has a database program for them, not just text notes scattered around.