Not up to me!

Been working on the journals as you can probably see! Plus some CP changes... not had much time this past week though. Need to do a little more work on the journals yet too... but yeah, can move whenever.

I have noticed sometimes this host seems to timeout occasionally, but refresh the page and it works fine after 5secs or so... odd. I'll take that over globat though

Any word on when we can make the move? im getting impatient.

Does anyone els think if the number of votes casted were show next to the stars in the maps section, instead of only when hovered over, it would increase the number of people that vote?

Or maybe simply voting could earn you snark points? only after downloading the said map of course.

Just a thought.

It looks like you have corrected the spacing throughout the site. The whole thing looks better. It's stunning how such a small change can make a huge difference.

now on the new "send PM" page where you now can type the name of the user you want to send a pm to, there should be a (memberlist) link to I think to help look for members if you want to find members via the filter on that page.

larchy said:
'cos my brains will melt.

Well, it seems you are human at last!

I know this is quite a headache-topic, because it would require a few additional functions for managing forum threads.

I don't think you need a complete archive of old map versions (downloads, screenshots, etc.), if that is what you mean.

I just always liked to start a new thread for each version of a map (I often had 5 betas or so) and, at the same time, make sure that old threads are both locked and that it is clear that they are outdated.

Tabs sound like a nice idea for structuring. Where would you put them? It's hard for me to imagine. I think they would only serve as an archive (it's always nice to follow how feedback transformed the map over time). I don't think old versions have to be too prominent. Just one small option to look how the map has changed over time, only interesting for people who really look for that historical info.

I have thought a little bit about how to handle map versions reaper...

I was thinking that we could have tabs... like we have on the user control panel for instance... with the latest version displayed by default and older versions accessible via tabs. Could tab the forum discussion thread too.

I haven't fully thought that through though so not sure how practical it is or exactly how everything would be arranged... I mean... what content would be different between versions? Would a whole new set of screenshots be required for instance? Would older version dl links be removed? Bleh

I'd say that's a definite future thing to think about though as there is so much changed with v6 that I'm starting to get a little concerned with moving all the content over and don't want to complicate things any more than they already are 'cos my brains will melt.

Arhar, the larch is a busy larch. I like this!

re: domain. Bleh, I haven't got anywhere yet - contact between me and Lep has dropped again. If it becomes too much of a headache to get it sorted we may just roll with the contingency plan of using snarkpit.net to redirect.

larchy, the ranking system works perfectly for me! Very nice that abandoned maps are now hidden from the official list.

Also, to make sure you don't have enough time to breathe, I think we should try and come up with a better way to update and maintain those "official map threads".

First, I think you should be sent to the most recent post rather than the first page of the thread. That would solve a lot of the initial confusion.

Then (and this is of no priority for now, just an idea), I think that the map-thread should re-start with every new release. For example a beta2 map should start with a changelog about what is new, then the feedback posts about the changes. Beta3, the same... For the final release, you should just use the comments (in fact, direct comments should be disabled for beta maps, I don't know if they are right now).

Now I have no idea of how to implement this elegantly, but I generally liked the system of the old-old Snarkpit, where you could have "thread chapters" for each release (sadly usability of that feature was not-so great and few people used it). The main flaw of that system was that people didn't recognize what chapter was the latest and just posted randomly. This could easily be solved by locking outdated ones (just keeping them as an archive).

I think that the map forum is still one of the most important features of this site, and would deserve some extra thought.

Any page you're thinking of in particular?

The forums do this when you make a post, but it requires the placing of anchors on the page that the redirect url can link to.