1. Ability to add streams to favorites (and when they are on favorites show them at the top of the list regardless of viewers)
2. Alert system for events or games (could work through e-mail alerts or steam) trade.tf has a pretty cool alert system (http://www.trade.tf/user/go_alert) that works through a tf2 bot that whenever there's a update to the game the bot sends you a text message on steam.
3. Customize number of posts per page, particularly extending to 100 posts or something like that.
4. Customize the number of upcoming events, latest articles, forum activity, community news that appear on the sidebar.
5. If there was a pm system + users could have an extended inbox or messagee limite (of course this isn't the situation atm)
6. Subscribe or favorite threads
7. Also not applicable to plus users only but everyone able to gift tf.tv plus to another user, as tl+ and reddit have.
8. A icon/badge showing you're a + member, name colors are cool and all but honestly I think this would be much more of a perk. besides, a favicon size badge won't mess with your minimalistic approach unless you have some kind of OCD
9. Private forum for plus users
10. Plus-users only giveaways or lotteries.
11. As I said before introduce other pricing plans like semestral or yearly subscriptions with a discount relative to the absolute price of course.

I could go on, but this is what I got so far. I'm not saying I want all of this and I want it now, I'm not delusional, but I do think the subscription value warrants a few more perks to be worth the 5$ monthly. Of course most of this is not coded atm or even possible at the moment but here are my suggestions

I'm just saying from experience from what I tested, tf.tv is fast, yes I won't deny it, it's pretty fast for a forum of this magnitude in fact but I have seen faster forums running other forum systems including my own forum,, I was just answering to the previous guy, I didn't even imply tf.tv was slow to begin with

as I said in the first post, it was not meant as a personal attack or any attack of any kind, its just me trying make some constructive criticism of what I saw. If you don't like or want feedback I can just turn around and dont come back to this thread, I'm the kind of guy that likes to give feedback and scrutinize things to make the best out of them or at least try to help doing that, I don't see how that is bad or mean in any way. As I said I love everything that was accomplished so far but there is a long way to go and Im just trying to help along.

Regarding tf.tv plus, as I said, I think it's a pretty steep subscription, reddit gold or even tl plus that you mentioned yourself are more affordable and offer plenty more perks to it, this alone should justify the initial point I made about not being happy with it.

I'm not saying its the way to go, and I know that the aim here is for a more simplistic approach, but you can still achieve that with a few more features or perks. Anyway those icons don't clutter anymore than the current post starts, so... And there are great smf or phpbb forums, their functionality is great even if its still a bit cluttered, but you can still achieve a minimalistic look as well with those "free board like invision" which by the way is paid and costs 175$ minimum a license.

Yeah, sorry but no. I have a SMF forum with 5k users and the forum has faster loading times than tf.tv. And there are plenty other examples. It just depends on the optimization or maintenance the site has.

While I agree with the main goal being supporting tf.tv, I think there are plenty ways you can make it worth $5.

I think the way to go here would be to have it work automated with ESEA / ETF2L API for prem / invite players, and I don't see why a small icon should matter anything, sure name color is simpler, but since its for + subscriptions now, you could have just a small icon or text saying the player is a invite/prem player

Sorry but this is not true. Most major forum systems already have this system implemented and it is stored on a per user basis on the database, and the way it works is that it stores the post ID of any given topic on the database as the last viewed post on that thread. And these are forums with thousands of users I'm talking about here, so while this has definitely a performance impact on the forums, every major system out there has it implemented and I don't think it has a relavant impact comparing to other features

Supporting the site and the community is cool and all as well but I also think 5$ month is a little steep. Making some yearly / semestral price plans as well as making the monthly somewhat more affordable would be the best option.

Also the "perks" here besides supporting the community aren't all that appelative. Removing the color names for invite/prem is cool but I still think those players should be at least recognized in some way.

I kinda like ozfortress approach to this, it might not be the ideal option but I feel they got it kinda right.

http://i.imgur.com/0rUyMFa.png

For example just a quick mockup (of course dont take anything serious this is just a quick thing out of the top of my head) but I think the post bar with your username and your profile overally has a lot of potential to expand or at least include some perks / rewards to who is supporting the site or who is prem/invite. (I would get rid of the stars altogether, they are ugly imo and dont fit the forum style and are pretty much out of place.)

http://i.imgur.com/b4xOfjQ.png

But I still think before all this a lot could be improved forum wise. The editor is still very simple, you can't even make numbered or bulleted lists (afaik), no pm system, no full post or thread history (just recent activity) overall its still lacking a lot compared to the commonly used forum softwares out there (smf/phpbb, etc)

I understand you might want to follow the minimalistic approach similar to gotfrag, but there is still a lot that can be accomplished within the forums while still keeping the same style / approach.

Overall don't take this as a personal attack or any of that kind, simply trying to get some constructive criticism out. I do think from a platform built from scratch (or near that) what was accomplished so far is really amazing, but reinventing the wheel is kind of pointless imo.

delete post, double posted

My first bet proved true, well the controller does look somewhat original, just need to know how it will feel

To be honest Im not very familiar with that or IRC for that matter, didn't even know being on IRC made you vulnerable to ddoss (guess by querying you actually get the person ip). Care to share how to prevent it?

danielj dun goofed.

I changed my "bet" on whats coming today as well...I think it's source 2 + a game possibly l4d3 instead of the gamepad I originally thought

Dont be too harsh on yourselves I think your team did great given the circunstances, just keep practising and please dont drop, I think you have the potential to steal some points from the bigger teams and place in a decent spot.

this is good cringe material

I have sent the server details to the EU cup winners, so everything should be done by now.

Many thanks to SimRai who partnered with us and for having really great servers and support!

Missing the unusual contest winner which will be announced shortly

[citation needed]

http://i.imgur.com/b4iNOJH.png

To be fair when you did say it there was no mention anywhere on the site, so you were just wild guessing at that point, but good it worked out well for you

have an internet point

I thought you taunted because you only loaded 3 rockets and by the time you fired the first one at the medic you realised you didnt have any more rockets loaded and just taunted.