Jan 18, 2016

We really went back to the drawing board with this one, fam. Nearly every single aspect of our design was re-imagined from the ground-up. A huge goal of ours was to simplify the design without losing any functionality -- a cleaner interface, a better experience. While we've really managed to step up the aesthetics in Section Eighty 2.0, every change you see here today was made with a specific intent: improving the posting/navigation/browsing experience. I hope that shines through as you begin to explore.

...When working on 1.0 nearly 15 months ago now, we said that our ultimate goal was to have a fully customized theme -- a style that's unique to us, that contours to our current functionality, and one that allows us to grow our vision. If you take a look at what our original stock theme looked like, and compare it to where we're at now, it'll become clear that we've succeeded:

Spoiler: sxn80 version 0.0

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Shoutout to:

• Hasman: when he first presented this idea, I was so drawn-in that I didn't want to do anything but develop it. We succeeded in making 2.0 to the near-exact-pixel of what was originally drawn up -- the man is a visionary & a creative genius.
• Koolo for his continued dedication, next-level ideas, and for aspiring to & knowing that we can do greater and be the best. d--- near every intuitive mod concept you've seen implemented here so far has been his original ideas. The man eats, sleeps, & breathes sxn80.
• Loyalty: I can honestly say that 2.0 would not have happened without him. The project quickly became way too large for any one person to handle, and I likely would have had an aneurysm had it not been for him. Can't be happier with what Loyalty has brought to the team thus far. That's my partner right there.
• Our Staff & Plus members: We released 2.0 to them a couple weeks ago and their input has been invaluable to helping us fine-tune what you see here today. Thanks for being dedicated to SXN 80.
• Everyone else. Consider 2.0 as being a huge 'THANK YOU' for sticking with us. I know we've been teasing 2.0 for some time now, but now that it's here, I challenge the rest of the internet (not just hip-hop sites) to try to even come close to competing on our level. Stay with us. There's more good to come.

What's Next:
Know that even though we're launching 2.0 today, we already have plans for what we're tentatively calling "version 2.5". Next-next-level s---. Among those future features, expect to see PMs, profiles, & member cards to be overhauled, and to see The Portal to continue to be developed. Plus a couple other ideas that we're keeping under wraps for now..

We've invested a LOT of time in this project and I hope that you love it just as much as we do.

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Jan 18, 2016

As a late addition to the staff, only joining in late Sept. 2015, I would like to mention how grateful we should all be for the staff and the work they put in during the first 10 months prior to that. I never knew how much time and money is invested into this site behind the scenes so that we can all enjoy discussing various topics.

Having been using a work-in-progress version of 2.0 since early November, when I had to go back to 1.0 to fix something I gasped at how much progress we made and how customized the experience now is. Unlike a lot of you, I couldn't stand Night 1.0... but now I've been using Night 2.0 for a week and it's hard to go back to Day. Luckily with that handy new day/night toggle, it's not too hard

My quick thank yous as well:

Koolo, who is willing to drop his own money into this forum on a daily basis to implement things that haven't been done before. Since I've been staffed he's been @'ing me, skyping me, and whatsapping me to fix things asap because he wants it to be a perfect experience. And I don't complain because working on this stuff for our community is much better than coding for my actual job. My favorite Koolo 2.0 feature: Most Liked Posts/Most Liked Threads: You'd think an awesome idea like this would already exist in Xenforo, but nope, that was all his idea. Custom-made.

Slyk - like I said above, I can't imagine the amount of work he's put into coding during the first 10 months of this site, basically doing it all alone. Then when 2.0 ideas came about, he jumped on the project and was working on stuff whenever possible. At one point he put in a 50 hour weekend coding the basics of Day 2.0 just so we could get it out to you all asap. Then again when he started Night 2.0... he worked on it for a few solid hours and completed most of it. And lastly - he's always able to quickly figure out a problem that I'm stuck on. The man's got work ethic! My favorite Slyk 2.0 feature: Portal avatar changer. Go to your portal, hover over the avatar - easily change it! Slyk came up with this last minute which just goes to show the custom add-ons for S80 will keep on coming!

Everything you see before you was created by Mike Tyson. When I first logged into the Staff section and saw several beautiful mockups of the portal, home page, several dropdown menus, the news page... I thought there was no way we can do something this custom and creative. Any time the staff sent an idea his way, he soon gave us an awesome mockup. Even though he's not a coder he put just as many hours in as the coders, if not more, creating everything you see on the site from the mockups to icons to graphics. My favorite Mike Tyson 2.0 feature: Account dropdown user title updater. (Inspired by able) - Don't worry about going to your settings and finding the right field to change that little user title under your name. Just hover over your name up top, click on your current title, edit and save!

And another BIG thank you to staff, mods, vets, plus, social media, news/leaks team, and everyone else for keeping the forum going while we were distracted and busy updating the site. A special thanks to Ordinary Joel who took on the huge role of global mod during this project and has been doing exceptional. And another thank you to Cyreides for providing the background music for the video in the OP.

A few quick shoutouts to the plus section for helping us debug 2.0 before official release! I missed the first few days on a cruise to Mexico, but since I have been back the following have been a great help in pointing out problems/inconsistencies: able, Jet, Mano, rapmusik, and many more.

Welcome to



Also:

 

Nov 11, 2018

@BestMembers

 

Jun 19, 2017

@BestMembers

 

Mar 1, 2021

@BestMembers

One of the first things I wanted to do here was to revamp the way we approach modding—obviously we need people to do the nitty gritty stuff like moving threads and banning spacemonkey, but I always thought that they could take a more "official" role in creating content. For that reason, we've decided to revive sxn-specific moderators in addition to our team of global mods.

I call them SXN Ambassadors rather than SXN mods because, while they still have mod powers, their primary goal is to make creative threads and foster good discussion. Though SXN80 hit a slump in 2018 that lasted for nearly two years, we've had somewhat of a renaissance the past year that I think we can keep up beyond quarantine with the help of the Ambassadors, mods, and the rest of the forum.

So please welcome...

@Chuny as our Ambassador for the EminemSXN!

@Captain Awesome AKA Papa as our EntertainmentSXN Ambassador!

@Grim and @yeez2 as our Life SXN Ambassadors!

@Antman @Jeans and @Chrollo for our MusicSXN Ambassadors!

@Tyler is also going to be helping with the CreativeSXN and other aspects of the site, but isn't an official Ambassador.

In addition, some of our global mods are gonna be helping out the Ambassadors out with their SXNs—which is really more a matter of making things more formal because they've been breathing life into these SXNs for awhile now:

@Michael Myers will be helping with the LifeSXN
@Ricky with the CreativeSXN
@Sav Stanfield with the MusicSXN
@Sign Language with the EntertainmentSXN

Also: there are a few more Ambassador spots to fill (still deciding on how many per SXN and which SXNs even need one), so if you are interested in helping with that (or another aspect of the site), please post here or DM me. I need:
1-2 people for sports
1 person for the gaming/tech side of entertainment
1-2 people for creative
Possibly a spot or two for OT or other artist SXNs

Thanks!

 

Apr 18, 2016

hi

i been thinking of ways to better define "Plus" and active posters...Plus is something you get when you get to 12k points...an icon, and an access to a SXN....but 12k points would take new members a year to get...so i thought of other ways that might encourage people to be active

Enter custom icons

every Monday, a cron will run that will calculate and assign members to a group if they meet the following criteria
Member posted 200 times in the last 7 days

if you meet the criteria, you will join a group called "Active posters" and you will remain in that group for 7 days...then the cron will run again, if you still meet the criteria, you will remain..if not, you will be kicked out of it

when you are in this group, you have access to basically shitload of icons you can use



so who fits the criteria for this week?



if you want it, post 200 times before next monday

also the app is coming within a week...lets get it poppin

btw custom alerts will go out when you promoted/demoted starting next monday

 

Oct 29, 2015

@JFK app is back on and will be done within a month for ios..3 for android..and will cost $2500, i am asking members to donate for this goal, i will pay WHATEVER number is left..if its the full 2500 or just a 100
https://forum.sectioneighty.com/donate


full story time
i have a made a mistake 6 months ago, when i accepted that @BorisTheBlade do the app for free..i shouldnt have done that, thats cruel of me and put a stress on him as he is a grown man with 4 kids that he has to feed..and simply couldnt find the time to do it..i have offered him 3 grands and he accepted to do it for 2.5 out of his kind heart

i wanna say i respect Boris fully..he has been a complete gentleman to me..and has been truthful and upfront about everything

about our current app, it will be DROPPED in the next few days...the new app will be this

im so f---in sorry for tagging you guys like 5 times this week..i been trying so hard to bring you the app by force that i came up with a bad one just to satisfy your needs..it didnt work and caused the site so many errors..this is what i get for going for shortcuts

@BestMembers

 

Jan 21, 2016

Hi

if you remember our blog, it was very sucessful, it closed down because 95% of the work was done by only two guys, mike tyson and odb...for two young men who also has studies, it was too much to handle

this time im gonna aggressively look for bloggers to assemble a team...im looking for 10-15 ODBs...people who will post 3-7 articles a day...now i realize most people wont just blog for free..so i came up with a system

Ad revenue sharing system
for each article you post, the blogger will get 75% of the revenue the ads generate..SXN80 will only get 25%...how does this work?...well once you sign up as a blogger you will have a dashboard like this ..if you notice you will have a tab called advertise


now, in here..each author will be able to put his own ad code (SXN80 will not help you obtain this, you must get your own approval from adsense or any other ad company you want..keep in mind pop up is not allowed and you will be banned if you use it)...and then each time you post an article...two ads on the page will be yours...and the third one will be SXN80...this way you will be paid automatically through your own ad account without sxn80 needing to handle payments at all

this mean, the more you blog..the more money you will get

for people interested, pm me...i will be aggressively looking for bloggers through reddit ads and social media, park a spot now !

 

Jun 24, 2015

if you are following our new twitter account

https://twitter.com/sxn80

please post your twitter here so i can follow back...also retweet the s--- i post d---

@BestMembers

^^ i promise this wont be a habit of tagging this group...i know how annoying it can get...i am gonna use it here and tomorrow on the kdot tournament then will probably use it once per week...it wont get overused dont worry

 

Sep 6, 2017

Hello guys

1- the cost to build 3.0 is quickly getting out of hand, i have spent close to a grand so far on the mods i created already, and will need to spend another $1500 to build it, i encourage you guys to give a helping hand to poor Koolo by donating here

https://forum.sectioneighty.com/donate/

2- Plus is removed effectively now, there will be no more plus icon nor plus forum going forward, there will be a section for donors and an icon for donors (the key icon), there will be a monthly promotion/demotion based on the donations, if you donated $5 or more, you will be in the donor class for the next 30 days of your donation

so what are the perks to donors:
1- access to donor section
2- icon next to their name
3- 300 custom smilies
4- add tags to any thread

we will add more perks later, such perks might be the ability for donors to dislike posts..among other stuff

pls note you will join the donators group an hour after you finish donating, thank you

@BestMembers

you will not be given access to private just because you became donor btw

Current tiers:

More info on each tier to come

 

Nov 24, 2022

Happy 8th Birthday, @SectionEighty.

Shoutout to everyone who's been here since day 1, since before day 1, or anytime thereafter. Thanks for keeping things going.

 

Apr 29, 2021

@Chrollo !

Chrollo was an easy choice for mod because he's everything a good poster should be: thoughtful, funny, and intelligent, knowledgeable about up and coming artists and music in general, and never loses his cool even when people are pulling some absolute fuckshit. He's already been killing it as Music Ambassador keeping the sxn active and contributing to SXN80 playlists, and I have no doubt he'll be a great mod.

@BestMembers

 

Jul 30, 2018

Hello

3.0 is around the corner, and we can assure you it will be the greatest forum design/functionality in history...however, launching it at S80 current state feels like s---...we are running out of members, we are planning to email all current members once we launch 3.0, but we have decided to also give banned members a second shot and unban everyone

so

if some return, cool...if not..we banned them for a reason the first time so f--- them

 

Oct 5, 2016

In response to the influx of new members & ktt refugees, i wanted to point out some of our functionality so that s--- like this doesn't happen again and make me sad enough to check myself like cudi:

...so here ya go -- a visual list of some of (by far not all) the functionality we've worked tirelessly on these past 2 years (holy s--- -- it's almost been 2 years):

1.) Day/Night Theme Toggle

self-explanatory

Spoiler: see it in action

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2.) Mobile App

o s--- waddup there's a f---ing App. layout/theme is optimized for mobile + equipped with push notifications to your phone. get it on the Apple App store for iOS, or on the Google Play store for Android

Spoiler: see it in action

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3.) Custom Smilies

upload your own custom smilies, add mnemonics, use them everywhere

Spoiler: see it in action

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4.) Mention Groups

subscribe to different 'mention groups', which allow you to be notified (or notify others by tagging the group) of news, songs, artist info, etc. relating to that group topic

Spoiler: see it in action

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5.) Quick Forums

customize the forum, allowing you to see only the threads of interest to you, in a single click

Spoiler: see it in action

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6.) Giphy Integration

self-explanatory

Spoiler: see it in action

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7.) The Portal 2.0

we've recently replaced the old Portal with a new, alternate version. the original Portal was more of a dashboard view of the forum, and it didn't really take off since we ended up integrating the og functionality from there throughout the rest of the site. Portal 2.0 is more of a blog-type view of what's currently poppin here. Automatically updates, and is where our www.sectioneighty.com base url directs to today. some visual updates are needed here...soon

Spoiler: see it in action

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8.) Bookmarks

pretty straight-forward: bookmark posts you want to revisit later

Spoiler: see it in action

(be sure to bookmark this post now )​

9.) Media Auto-Embeds

auto-embeds content from over a hundred of the top media sources. just copy/past the url (no need to use any embed code or special urls)

Spoiler: see it in action

Spoiler: list of integrated sites

ABC News, Amazon Product, audioBoom, Audiomack, Bandcamp, BBC News, Blab, Bleacher Report videos, Break, Brightcove, CBS News Video, CNBC, CNN, CNNMoney, CollegeHumor, Comedy Central, Coub, Dailymotion, Democracy Now!, dumpert, 8tracks, ESPN, Facebook, Flickr, FORA.tv, Fox News, Funny or Die, Gamespot, GameTrailers, Getty Images, Gfycat, GitHub Gist (via custom iframe), Global News, GoFundMe, Google Drive, Google+, Google Sheets, Healthguru, Hudl, Hulu, HumorTV, IGN, IMDb, Imgur, Indiegogo, Instagram, Internet Archive, İzlesene, JW Platform, Kontinental Hockey League (КХЛ), Kickstarter, Kiss Video, Libsyn, LiveCap, LiveLeak, Livestream, Mail.Ru, Medium, Metacafe, Mixcloud, MRCTV, MSNBC, National Geographic Channel, National Geographic Video, NBC Sports, NHL VideoCenter, NPR, The New York Times Video, Oddshot, Pastebin, Plays.tv, Podbean, Prezi, Reddit threads and comments, Rutube, Scribd, SlideShare, SoundCloud, Sportsnet, Spotify, Steam store, Stitcher, Straw Poll, Streamable, Team Coco, TED Talks, The Atlantic Video, The Guardian, The Onion, TinyPic videos, TMZ, Trailer Addict, Tumblr, Twitch, Twitter, Ustream, VBOX7, Veoh, VEVO, Viagame, Video Detective, Videomega, vidme, Vimeo, Vine, VK, Vocaroo, Vox, WorldStarHipHop, The Wall Street Journal Online, XboxClips, Xbox DVR, Yahoo! Screen, Youku, YouTube, Zippyshare

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10.) Multi-Person (Group) PMs

group PM chat with multiple members, using commas to delimit the participant list.
else, the op can also open up the PM to allow the other person to invite additional participants.

Spoiler: see it in action

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20 additional features listed in the posts below... continue reading or sign-up now to explore

 

Mar 24, 2016

the user with most posts in April will be given $100 .. you can check the score from your profile page

new rule, previous winner wont be allowed to win the very next time..but will be allowed to win the time after...so they cant win 2 times in a row

@BestMembers