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RAGNTS - Your website is bad and you should feel bad

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Q: Your website is bad and you should feel bad
TLDR: Yes, I already know.

Long answer: BG Forum will soon celebrate its 12th years anniversary. To put things in perspective BG is older than: Facebook (which back then was thefacebook.com), Youtube, WoW, MyDoom / Novarg worm, HTML5, Twitter, Stack Overflow, Digg, Reddit, Github, Megaupload, Dropbox, Instagram, Tumblr, Firefox 1.0, the Apple iPhone, the Ninth Doctor. This pretty much sum the impossible legacy we have to maintain.




Q: Why can’t we have more skins?
A: With vBulletin every single post need to be recompiled for every skin we use which at the moment sums up to roughly 1.3GB per skin. Yes I know that drive space is cheap nowadays but we have to work with SSDs and shit tons of RAM to back it up.






Q: You guys should make tons of money by now.
A: We mostly break even. Project Wonderful is pretty transparent about this and you guys probably saw that the daily bids rarely go above 1$ per day and they take 25% of it. We're still not desperate enough to accept these 5000$ paychecks that gilsellers and porn sites keep offering us to put their ads on BG. Yay pop unders with noises!




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Q: Why can’t I have X?
A: We usually try to give back when things go smoothly on BG which resulted into the BG Wiki and BG Bucket but don’t expect much when to staff consists of something between 0 and 2 people, one of which is usually always sleeping and one of which is a mentally challenged turtle.




Q: But I saw that this site has X why not BG?
A: Forums on the Internet are something of the past that didn’t evolve in about 10 years which resulted in many forum software not being up to date with the “web 2.0”. If no one else can provide it for a forum software it means more custom coding has to be done by our no-staff staff. Also they usually have obnoxious ad space, notice how many annoying ads you get on BG?




Q: Why does BG Chat still use Flash?, I heard it’s made of evil.
A: STFU you used IE6 when you registered to BG.




Q: What happened to BG Frontpage / Newsletter / Wikis?
A: Ain't nobody got time for that. Septimus did, but then he ran into a galka that was too much for even him.




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Q: Are you guys related to the Order of the Blue Garter on Excalibur?
TLDR: The only guy from the original BG that is in their FC currently (as far as we know) is TwentyTwo and he, like most of the WoWBG people, did not leave on the nicest of terms.

Long answer: Our BlueGartr (with the missing ‘e’ because of PS2 limitation lulz) started in 2003 on Bahamut by EdwardtheBlack with Ondori as the site admin.

During the WoWpocalypse of 2005-2006 many members moved to WoW on Azshara while we kept playing FFXI. More drama happened in WoW and they moved to Mal’Ganis… even more drama happened and they joined Aurara under Carraway which is now the current leader of the Order of the Blue Garter on Excalibur.

During this time BG FFXI was still soldiering on doing all the events, farming up relics, having adventures, barely camping kings but still being accused of botting by the people who freely admitted to botting.

At least that’s the best explanation I got from all this mess. Also keep in mind that Carraway never met the minimum requirements to be able to join BG back in the XI days. (multiple XI geared jobs that counted, ventrilo access, no real life)

Updated 2015-10-16 at 01:42 by Ragns

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  1. SephYuyX -
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    You're the best, Ragnsmuffin.
  2. synistar -
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    I think I had an iPod mini back when BGschism/WoWpocalypse happened.

    RIP BigKills
  3. 6souls -
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    12th years?
  4. Ragns -
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    Quote Originally Posted by 6souls
    12th years?
    http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/29918-Welcome-all!
  5. Serra -
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    I say we take the porn money! Just think how many mentally challenged turtles we could buy with that kinda money!
  6. Charismatic -
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    Where's the like button Ragns? How can I like your post without a like button!?
    We need this feature just so I can do this one thing this one time.
  7. 6souls -
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    I miss Rooster. He was the person that convinced me to register on BG.
  8. Corrderio -
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    1.3GB per skin? Holy fuck...
  9. Zetanio -
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    This website sucks.
  10. Charismatic -
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    What does it suck?
  11. Zetanio -
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    Eggs.
  12. Charismatic -
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    Oh, just eggs..? I guess I'd better zip back up.
  13. Ksandra -
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    He's saying your grammar is bad, and you should feel bad.