jimdahl
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Please drop the discussion of the personal lives of non-public figures. Thanks.
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This article prominently features a bottle of "H-Sioux-O":
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90157503/the-fraught-history-of-americas-most-pervasive-brand
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21 hours ago, Texas rancher said:
May as well, not like you have a football game to worry about perry mason
This was pretty off-topic... the topic of this thread is NDSU, and taunting UND's performance to distract from that could be considered trolling. We also could have done without the responses to this.
Everyone back to NDSU football, please. Thanks!
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On 11/27/2017 at 11:01 PM, geaux_sioux said:
Yup. The sports tab is condensed and grated out but clickable. To see the sports options listed it needs to be clicked on. A minor annoyance. Doesn’t do it on my wife’s phone for some reason.
There should be an arrow to the far right of the green bar that you can click on to re-expand it.
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A "UND Athletic Department" forum would be obvious and easy enough. Is there really enough traffic to justify it, would it be better to rebrand "Other Sports" as "Athletic Department and Other Sports", or do you think this is a situation where the creation of the forum will drive additional discussion on those topics?
I'm less sure about the other. The basic idea is to separate UND-related news from other (Grand Forks, North Dakota, and regional) news?
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On 11/20/2017 at 11:36 AM, geaux_sioux said:
The mobile version of this site is acting strange. When I click tap on “siouxsports.com forum” the option for sports is greyed out.
Hmmm... the "UND Sports" category title is gray on green. But, it is clickable. (Though clicking it just narrows the list of forums from the full list to those in that category). Am I looking at the right thing, or am I on the wrong track?
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In a thread, there should be a "Follow" box near the upper right. Click that, and you'll be following that thread.
What following means is somewhat up to you. It can notify you when you load the site, send you an email with any new replies, etc...
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Ok, I think this works. Thanks for pointing it out everyone.
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Yeah, this is nothing more than trolling at this point.
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Huh, sorry about that, I honestly hadn't given that situation much thought. But you're all right, it has to change.
I could move it as a subcategory to other sports, and add a "(retired)" tag, but then it would still float at the top of other sports because its a subcat.
I could just merge the posts into other sports, but then it would lose its individuality as a separate forum.
I could also just add an "archive" or "retired" category, and move it as a subcat to that. Then it would still have its separate identity, but clearly be historical/not seeming more important than active sports.
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Hmmm.... do you see them all now?
http://siouxsports.com/mens-hockey/schedule/und/
I do, but could be a bug in the HTML that makes it fail on some browsers.
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Just now, FGHTNSX Hawkey14 said:
It is sticking, for better or for worse (a bit less so with hockey fans) but all the proposed Hawks names sound kind dumb IMO.
Yep, hawks is tough to work with. No doubt about it.
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5 minutes ago, FGHTNSX Hawkey14 said:
I think something with just North Dakota is best. As said previously, Hawks is generic, and all of the available names related sound kinda dumb. It would appeal (or at least not appall) fans of the Hawks name, Fans of no nickname (kinda me), fence sitters (also me), and also the militant Sioux forever type (me to a lesser extent).
I almost went undfans.com during the transition, but never got my act together. Now I feel like I should go Hawks, the name seems to be sticking.
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14 minutes ago, darell1976 said:
How about UNDFightingHawks.com or UNDHawks.com or UNDFightingHawksSports.com or UNDFH.com
Don't believe I've managed to snag any of those. I have some close--undhawksfans, undhawksports, undhawkstalk.
Believe me, I've been testing these names on people for years. No one agrees, which is why I still haven't done anything.
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On 7/31/2017 at 4:40 PM, Siouxperfan7 said:
Maybe a committee can be formed to narrow the list down 3 to 4 times before we have 3 votes to decide the nickname?
I've joked about how if I held a vote, I'd still just do whatever I want (just like the nickname process!)
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As I mentioned above, "Hawks" is such a common (generic) name that all the best variations are taken. hawksnest.com, for example, is taken. hawksperch.com is as close as we've been able to get.
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After testing the waters 2 years ago (and reserving quite a few candidates), then debating with a few different groups of friends and supporters last Fall, I was actually just pondering a site name change this Summer.
The problem still is that Hawks is such a common team name that all the really obvious Hawks-based domain names are in use. As a prize for reading an obscure thread in the admin forum, I'll let you in on some leading candidates...
ndhawktalk.com was a leading favorite a couple years ago among people who wanted a more generic ND/UND association, and liked the rhyme. The primary complaint is that it's awkward to say (4 syllables).
hawksperch.com is emerging this year as a leader among people who want a short, memorable name. The only real complaints about this one are that perch is sort of a funny word (and, sometimes, a fish).
I have a dozen or so other candidates that most deem inferior to those two (e.g. once you get "fighting" in there, they become pretty unwieldy).
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5 hours ago, UND Fan said:
I can now update the Wiki front page but when I go to the specific page ( 2018 FB Recruiting, for example), the third tab is "Show Pagesource" rather than "Edit This Page". It won't let me do anything. Thanks for looking into this!
I see. Ok, I've got that working now, too. Let me know of anything else!
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On 5/13/2017 at 0:32 PM, UND Fan said:
I have been trying to make some updates to Wiki but I can't do so and continue to get the below message. Could this be due to the new server? Any suggested?
Writing /www/siouxsports.com/wiki/data/cache/8/8f6be5fe88eccf99229b173a0edaa085.metadata failed
Probably. I made a permissions change, try again please.
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I'm cutting siouxsports.com, including the forum, over to a new server tonight. The transition is gradual over the course of up to a day or so, so there could be some weirdness as some people are on the old one and some on the new one. I'll keep an eye on things and hopefully all will be well.
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With Denver's win, a huge tie. Congratulations to:
UND-1, Oxbow6, Redneksioux, iluvdebbies, Stms
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4 hours ago, Redneksioux said:
Hey Jim,
looks like it's not updated yet after last nights games.
Thanks! I see what happened, it wasn't scoring those right. My mistake was spot checking johnboy's bracket, but he didn't get either game outcome correct.
Should be fixed now!
Looks like there's going to be a tie no matter who wins.
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Yesterday's games were unkind to johnboy.
http://siouxsports.com/hockey/bracketleaders.php
Edit - the sentence below was wrong.
Looks like its going to birdman with a Duluth win or Diggler with a Denver win, though johnboy is guaranteed to at least tie for most overall correct picks. -
Hahaha usually people don't start complaining about that until June. I don't switch to the next season until August 1, because that's when the next season's schedules are reliably finalized and posted on the sources I use for schedule data. But, I suppose I could just hide the scoreboard a couple weeks after the last game, or something.
2018 Bracket Challenge please
in Men's Hockey
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Haha, you know, it occurred to me on like Tuesday afternoon (completely slipped my mind last weekend), but then the lack of complaint led me not to put in the effort. Let me see what I can do.