pm preview button added

I've made a change when you edit a map - if you set it to 'abandoned' then the updated time won't change with the edit, so it won't then appear at the top of the maps page as a 'new' map.

At least that seems to work anyway - I knew something wouldn't be broke

The 30minute edit thing has come up a few times... it was only ever created because people asked for it after one user lost an argument he was having and went back and deleted all his embarrassing posts.

The setting can be changed to make it longer, or disabled altogether, in one of the admin panels... so I'll leave that one up to Riven

good spotting on the abandoned map thing! fixed.

Forum thingies fixed.

No idea how lists work (somewhat worrying since I coded the function that makes them ). Ask Riven - he's made some

The bbcode help thing sucks... probably needs rewriting altogether.

A few more things:

[list] - I don't like the idea of not being able to edit a post after 30 minutes. There are many good reasons why you should be able to do so (updating outdated information, links, fixing confusing errors, avoiding double-posts (such as this one) etc.). Identifying edited posts by a short warning (or maybe even archiving the originals) should be enough to avoid evil out-of-context edits.

• How about an "edit my map" button in map profiles for your own releases?

• In the four-thumbs list in the user's profile page, abandoned maps aren't identified as such in the overlays.

("A beta map by xxxxx" -> "An abandoned map by xxxxx" etc...)

• The "bbcode help" section is incomplete (how do I do lists correctly? ). Also I wouldn't make the link to the help look like a coding-button, but rather make it a short yellow text displayed between "Post New Reply" and the buttons, like " (view all smilies) " on the right of the post window. It's kinda hidden for something that should help you find...

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Everything looks excellent (well, regarding looks I'm not a big fan of the white-to-black color gradients, but that's negligible). Amazing job, larchy.

My suggestion regarding PMs:

First, there should be a "send to" button in the main "private messages" tab. Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find it. It seems the only way to send one is clicking on the icons next to a user name.

Secondly, shouldn't you be sent back to the "private messages" tab again after sending a message (instead to "control panel")?

Thirdly: A preview button, please.

Also:

" + ) shouldn't be turned into smiley...

"Code" doesn't seem to work right...
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The Achievement's idea could tie into that "hall of fame" idea I outlined earlier. -And then there could be a separate page under your control panel showing you which achievements are available and which one's you've accomplished.

I like the way L4D has formatted them: Things to take note of: on your control panel You would get a page like above showcasing all the available achievements with icons and progress bars. Unachieved ones will be dulled grey, or given a "lock" icon. Achieved ones will be filtered to the top.

On your profile page, it will simply list the titles and maybe smaller icons of each of the achievements that you achieved. If members wanted to find out what each achievement was about, then they could visit their own achievement page. Each achievement gets you different amounts of snarkmarks, so it makes some achievements worth more than others and could possibly give newcomers an easy direct route to becoming regular members. The achievements would 'guide' them. They would read through them and find the ones that could be the easiest and do them with the unintentional side effect of them being actual proactive members on the site!

Of course, this should be a side project we worry about later. The main last things I'd like to see back on this beta site before we make the move would be the "question answered/unanswered/incorrect" feature in the editing forums. The old ratings retrofitted into the new system to give credit where credit is due. AND a Maps "menu page" to help show users all the games in the database all nicely formatted and stuff.

The achievements and such are new and can be added later, but the features I listed above should be fitted into the current form of the site before we introduce users to it!

Of course, it's all on your time, so you should find the things that are most practical to your schedule (and patience) first!

Man, larchy, did you have any idea what you thought you were getting yourself into when you signed up for this job?

NEW TOYS!
Oh man, WOW! those commands really show off how much nicer the new Pit has become over Lep's version. If only everyone could see it; Let me reassure everyone, this site is dynamic! We can pretty much change anything about whatever if we need to! Wow, thanks for that larchy! I'm sure it will come in handy one day!

Added some new toys to the super admin panel Riven

Yeah shouldn't be a problem

I mean, I'm trying to get a featureset complete because I want to get us moved over to this new site and I can see me spending forever adding endless stuff... which I don't mind, but some stuff I might leave until after we've done the changeover if that's ok.

But I was thinking... since we're gonna have the unlocks system with little icons/pictures etc... of something similar where you could get little pictures/icons that you could have added to your profile, like a trophy if you won a competition etc

Was also thinking about some other automated stuff we could have, like icons for having so many 4+ rated maps for instance. We could have a bunch of 'achievements' like that that get added to your profile like most games have these days.

Holy crap there is a party going on in this thread.

"larchy" said:
Aaron and fishy are pwning everyone thanks to their forum spam

Anyway, I'm glad the snarkmarks feature is back, that was kind of a cool novelty. Larchy, do you think we could have a feature for the admins to reward snarkmarks for good behavior or whatever. If so, could you make it so that an automated pm is sent to you saying "admin x" has sent you 350 snarkmarks for "this reason".

The reason I asked this was back in the ol' version of Snarkpit in the older days, I spoke to gwil about having a competition where the winner is rewarded Snarkmarks just as a kinda cool extra thing. Like maybe a design an emoticon for Snarkpit comp or even a mapping comp and he said he couldn't do it because the code was a mess and he couldn't change anything.

The only thing I can find in the database is a rating value in the comments table, although this seems to be a value between 0 and 10.

Should be able to convert them into the new system, yeah!

Tags, nps!

Although I fear for anyone posting on a gaming site who doesn't know bbcode