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Site Revamped
18th Apr 2008 06:22 PM GMT | Rushster | 10 comments
Welcome everyone to the new look Diabloii.Net. We worked out that it's been about 10 years since the site had a make-over, yes it's been that long! Elly, Flux, Wuushu and myself have been working hard these past few weeks to bring everything up to speed on the site and you'll notice a few changes.
Diabloii.Net has had so much Diablo content over the years that it made sense to finally get all the content you guys are using into a Wiki. This means that the whole Diabloii.net community can now contribute to the site. You don't need to re-register for the Wiki to utilise it, your forum account will work as your login to make things a lot easier. Note we are still adding a few things but feel free to start adding your own entries. The site can also be reached directly via Diablowiki.net.
We have revitalised the gallery providing a place for the community to show off their shots. We are still digging around our old screenshot archive and will get some of those up online as there are some classic screens in there :)
We have also added the news tagging system so logged in members can tag news stories they think are important to highlight them to the rest of the community. Simply go into the new story and click the 'Tag' number and you've tagged it. Note you need to be logged in to do this with your forum account which is used site-wide.
New to the site is the Blog system. This is a place for the Diablo community to post their own blogs which may or may not be about Diablo, it's up to you.
There have been a few forum tweaks which we are still working on and will continue to do so over the coming days.
That's it for now and we hope you like the changes.
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10 days ago
Absolutely awesome new updates and features! DiabloII.net will definitely have a future.
12 days ago
Updating this site was a smart move. Now just hope that it stays up to date with some dedicated people behind it.
15 days ago
I hope you guys will lock some of the more static and important pages so there's some relatively static safe data. If you make a good number of people 'moderators' on the wiki, like you suggested, they'll be able to feed those pages any changes that the community notices. The wiki will make it easy enough to make it obvious there should be a change. You've got a lot of decent, and by now - I mean, it has been 10 years! - grown up folks in this community, so I think we'll be alright with a wiki. :)
It's really fun to be back here. Last time I was really active was when I was 15-16, I think. So much has happened. Heh.
It's really fun to be back here. Last time I was really active was when I was 15-16, I think. So much has happened. Heh.
22 days ago
Yes, wikis are tricky things. Have to be careful. We did it in a wiki format rather than closed because we were having trouble keeping things up to date, mostly stats and would often get emails or PMs from folk pointing out this and that. It occurred to me that if they could have just hit edit on the page and changed that stat it would have been quicker than emailing me and the job would have been done. That's why I asked Rush to port it over to that. See how it goes.
As time goes on I think some moderators would be in order but for now myself and flux will keep an eye on any updates. There's a recent changes page which makes that easy to check each day and we can roll back anything incorrect very easily.
Glad you like the changes though.
As time goes on I think some moderators would be in order but for now myself and flux will keep an eye on any updates. There's a recent changes page which makes that easy to check each day and we can roll back anything incorrect very easily.
Glad you like the changes though.
23 days ago
Well, I can't find anything important missing in the content, and although I really liked the old look of the site, this one's not bad either... so the only thing I'm sceptic about is the site becoming a wiki. Not everyone should add their own entries... a lot of people think they're competent when in fact they couldn't be further from the truth. Other than that, great job, guys!
25 days ago
Looking great! I look forward to more =)
29 days ago
Holy smoke! This revamp is very sweet! Congratz guys! This makes me wanna reinstall D2 and play again!!!
29 days ago
Bravo guys!! Really nice work.
30 days ago
Cool new layout, but there seems to be a guide missing overlord by Poison Trooper i came here to find it and it seems to not be in the strategy lists is there any chance it will get added?
30 days ago
Thanks for the cool changes!
