Shack Snack: July 14, 2014

End your day with a Shack Snack, a short recap of three big stories you should know.

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    July 14, 2014 5:30 PM

    Steven Wong posted a new article, Shack Snack: July 14, 2014.

    End your day with a Shack Snack, a short recap of three big stories you should know.

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      July 14, 2014 6:20 PM

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        July 14, 2014 7:18 PM

        Yeah, stretching picture from the front page across the top of the story's page doesn't work more than it does.

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        July 14, 2014 7:24 PM

        Lol yeah noticed that. The design really needs some work.

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        July 14, 2014 7:25 PM

        I thought Chrome was bugged where the purple bar content never changed or went away

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        July 14, 2014 7:39 PM

        So are you telling me that you don't like Grim Fandango?

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          July 14, 2014 7:45 PM

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          July 14, 2014 7:51 PM

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            July 14, 2014 7:57 PM

            I believe this gentleman was put in charge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shxlvpja8Ig

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              July 14, 2014 8:03 PM

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                July 14, 2014 8:30 PM

                Alright, before we start getting into "I had high hopes for you guys wtf happened" territory, I can honestly say this is the first time I've heard of the issue. Can you elaborate? Is this something that happened after the relaunch or awhile ago?

                I think having the archive of Chatty indexed and searchable (and showing more than just the last 18 hours of activity) sounds like a grand idea, but would like some more info.

                In the meantime, we're working hard folks. Appreciate the heads up and we'll fix up some stuff (hopefully you've seen that over the last several days) and we will continue to push forward. Appreciate the patience tho.

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                  July 14, 2014 10:07 PM

                  Well, since there hasn't been follow up, at least not here, just to clarify in this context Shack Messages = Private Messages. The ones folks had archived went poof a while back under Gamefly's rule. I would assume they are probably gone, but I guess there was never a definitive answer.

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                July 14, 2014 8:41 PM

                I'm going to assume whatever gamefly fucked up and deleted is long gone.

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        July 14, 2014 9:28 PM

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        July 14, 2014 9:57 PM

        it's almost like massive website redesigns are a lot of work and take time

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      July 14, 2014 7:52 PM

      it unfortunately pushes the image from the frontpage to the main article image. Going to put in a fix so we can upload a separate one rather than the same. THX for pointing this out all

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      July 14, 2014 9:30 PM

      LOL MY FACE. WHAT.

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        July 14, 2014 9:55 PM

        You can see.......everything.

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