Site suggestions/bugs

Rumple said:
how did you manage that? i cant work it out (but it may also be that im running IE7)

The computers that do it are all IE6 or less. You just have to click where you want the smileys to go and then click the smiley you want.

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I have two chapters up in my map thread and everytime someone posts in
the intro chapter instead of the new alpha chapter I get worried that
they haven't seen my new shots.

I think the old chapters should be locked, or all the replies should automatically go to the most recent chapter.

? quoting Orpheus/runs

Us firefox users are a vocal bunch!

reaper47, I assume you're using FF 1.5. The java features at this
site has problems with that version. So, go to the SnarkPit
control panel then go to the preferences and tick the box to minimize
java features. That should fix your problem, and it won't
eliminate too many useful features from the site.

Or if thats too much trouble you could just roll back to FF version 1.0.7

Yea, just figured that out, thx.

Addicted to Morphine said:
I have two chapters up in my map thread and everytime someone posts in the intro chapter instead of the new alpha chapter I get worried that they haven't seen my new shots.

I think the old chapters should be locked, or all the replies should automatically go to the most recent chapter.

Chapters with new posts in them are slightly bolder and a slightly different color yellow. In the last hour or so, you had a couple new replies in each chapter. I knew this because it was as I described. So I checked both.

If people are aware of these slight alterations, they will know to look in the individual chapters.

Chapters cannot be locked because in a few cases, the other chapters have a different intention and you'd effectively end the discussion in them.

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Yeah, I know about how the chapters go bold when there are new posts in
them, its the same for a new page on a thread, but I wish people would
just confine there posts to my new chapter, since in the case of my map
the intro shots are much less developed.

I know that this has been mentioned before but:

I think critiques need more rewards than simple gratitude from the author. Yes thats important, but it might encourage others to do them more often.

In the editing help, we have the options "This is an answer to your problem" right?

Well we can post, "This is a critique to your map" and the author can mark it "Helpful" or "Not so"

Then the Snarkmark scores would go up, or not depending on the authors discretion.

Opinions?

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Thats why I pretty much ignore the chapters system - it does more harm than good in my opinion.

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Orpheus said:
I know that this has been mentioned before but:
I think critiques need more rewards than simple gratitude from the
author. Yes thats important, but it might encourage others to do them
more often.

In the editing help, we have the options "This is an answer to your problem" right?

Well we can post, "This is a critique to your map" and the author can mark it "Helpful" or "Not so"

Then the Snarkmark scores would go up, or not depending on the authors discretion.

Opinions?

I think this is a great idea. I enjoy giving feedback, but
there's no real way to quantify it right now. Do you think
there's absolutely any chance of Leperous coming back and implementing
it?

ReNo said:
Thats why I pretty much ignore the chapters system - it does more harm than good in my opinion.

Well, I've learned my lesson this time. No more chapters for me.

I didn't read any of the pages of this thread so don't be mad on me if I repeat something that was suggested. :wink:

1. Create a new suggestion thread, this one is way too long, and most people wont read through it all to see if something was suggested...ect

2. Every time I log in the main page it says I have a new message. But I don't have a new one for I read it already. It also says I have 6 PM but 2 of them I deleted. It doesn't remember anything I did in the other pages of this site but if I go to a diffrent page everything is back to normal.

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Its unlikely Lep will begin a new page.

But in response to your issues. Try lowering your settings in your browser. Most of your problems I feel are cookie related since the items involved with the site "remembering" are contained there.

If anything, my browser marks things to early. I have the opposite problems you have.

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<span style="color: white;">I can't delete my news post. I've made some mistakes, so I got back with "please check your spelling/punctuation or text formatting, and resubmit". So I've changed it and submited, but nothing happened. There weren't any changes. Next I've made new news post and submitted. It works, but I can't delete previous post. When I try to edit it and delete, I got "news isn't yours or doesn't exist", but it's still there.Next I've made new news post and submited. It works, but I can't delete previous post. When I try to edit it and delete, I got "news isn't yours or doesn't exist", but it's still there.</span>

I deleted your old news post from the admin page and modified your new one before accepting it. As far as I can see there is no other news post. I don't know whats happened if you can still see your previously submitted news posts, but I'm afraid there is nothing I can do :sad:

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I noticed that jpegs are re-compressed automatically, resulting in pictures that are 1kb smaller in size and look three times as crumbly. I carefully choose the compression rate (keeping them around 50-70kb but always under 100) for my jpgs. It's like automatically zipping a zip file. I don't even see a pattern like "keep them under 50kb" which I would understand.

That's not really a problem I know, but I but I find it so annoying.

Recompressed you say? I've never noticed and am amazed if it really happens since its something people wanted but Lep said he couldn't really implement. I know that the site automatically shrinks them in terms of their dimensions, which does hurt the quality, but if you keep images under 800x600 you can avoid that. Don't know what else to say I'm afraid.

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Recompressed you say? I've never noticed and am amazed if it really happens since its something people wanted but Lep said he couldn't really implement. I know that the site automatically shrinks them in terms of their dimensions, which does hurt the quality, but if you keep images under 800x600 you can avoid that. Don't know what else to say I'm afraid.

It definitely does something to the image. I submit them as 800x600. Maybe it wants pictures to be below 800x600 so 800x600 gets re-saved as... 800x600. At some standard compression rate of 50% or so. It's definitely not the same file. I think it's a good idea to re-compress images above 100k but if you already edited them yourself to a good size it should keep the original.

Now I have problems with edit news post. It looks alright ("News edited successfully"), but on news page are still old no-edited post. I want to add link to released map's page ( http://www.snarkpit.net/maps.php?map=2257 ). Maybe admin could make this, or it's only need admin acceptation.

Yea, noticed the same thing. Quite annoying especially if you don't have the routine with these kind of things (and no preview I believe).

ReNo said:
Recompressed you say? I've never noticed and am amazed if it really happens since its something people wanted but Lep said he couldn't really implement. I know that the site automatically shrinks them in terms of their dimensions, which does hurt the quality, but if you keep images under 800x600 you can avoid that. Don't know what else to say I'm afraid.

Lep implemented a program that if the images are stored on Snarkpit, its supposed to optimize them in some fashion. For some reason, some images slip through the cracks but on many occasions, the images are reduced to 800x600 and about 60-80k. I wish it worked full time but am unsure why it fails.

I never noticed a lowering of quality though. Most times its great. It could be that, the image is pre-optimized and doubling it only ruined the effort.

shrugs

G.Ballblue said:
Bug/problem: I am currently working on a tutorial, and everytime I save it and then press "preview" the Save button disapears. Litterally. I have to back-track in my browser and copy the new information into a point when the save button was there.

Lemme take a shot in the dark... Its a firefox bug.

/runs

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I have since noticed the auto-compression thing, and it is a horrible abomination! I uploaded pictures of my flatshaded island for HL1 as for ages I had pictures of the old version up. Anyway, the images were 800x600 and perfectly acceptable file size, yet the snarkpit automatically recompressed them and they came out looking horrible. It didn't even reduce the file size by all that much, it just ruined the image quality. That is a feature that really needs to be changed - either it should go, or it should only recompress screenshots that are unacceptably large.

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ReNo said:
That is a feature that really needs to be changed - either it should go, or it should only recompress screenshots that are unacceptably large.

Its a crying ass shame that someone has to baby sit supposedly responsible people.

The program has issues but, did you try uploading it upoptimized to test its capability on its own?

As I said, double optimizing may be the wrong direction.

If people would simply follow all the guidelines/warnings posted there would be no need to babysit. :rolleyes:

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What do I need to do to see my posts? I'm using firefox.

What do you mean to see your posts? Can you not see WHILE you are typing them, or once they have been posted?

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Once they have been posted yes. But not while typing.

What do I need to do to see my posts? I'm using firefox.

Turn off Java in your preferences page.

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Orph said:
Lemme take a shot in the dark... Its a firefox bug.
/runs

Yea, run! There is no such thing as a firefox bug. :wink:

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I'm glad the JPG compression issue was confirmed. I think it's ok to babysit people if it means less stress for everyone else. The thing is it would be a real great feature if it only recompressed 100k+ (or another size, it should just be mentioned somewhere) JPGs. But it applies it to every image, even a 30k one. It's inefficient and annoying which is a bit too much - worth changing for a next update.

Are you sure its every image? I've seen plenty that don't seem to have gone through the compression thing, yet others obviously have. Its strange - I don't quite know what qualifies an image for the compression

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I'm sure this message will never reach anyone with any sort of say as to what happens to the site, but:

I was thinking about this (just a moment ago) ... I'm curious how many email accounts registered on this site get spammed because of the "mailto" functionality!

I'd suggest, at some point, an authentication (through the database) so that if you click "send an email" it'll work, but spamming programs would have much more difficulty.

As it stands, all they have to do is search for the "mailto" tag ... then read in until they have reached a space or quote. Fairly simple and incredibly annoying! I think something like this may become an issue with the amount of traffic this site has and the availability it has to search engines. (Automating a program to do this through google, for example, is not difficult.)

Thoughts?

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

They just have to search for "@".

... and then read backwards? It doesn't work that way. You'd search for mailto, ignore it, ignore the colon, then read in until you reach a quote.

Starting in the middle of the string doesn't make any sense. Also, remember that it isn't a person sitting down and doing this.

Also, just to note, just because there's an at sign, doesn't guarantee that there is an email address. mailto, does. Since a valid email was required to register at the site. Meaning, there is some syntax checking going on to ensure it's a valid email address.

The way people type on the Internet is strange enough. Anyway, it's very easy to get this information from a mailto argument in an link tag. There are many more advanced spamming programs out there. Didn't you ever wonder why you have to type in words from a odd looking picture when registering somewhere? Even that isn't foolproof. I don't think it's that huge of a deal, but it is something to take into consideration, especially considering the size of this site. (and again, it is very easy to track down using google)

[UPDATE]
Are we ever going to get a spoiler tag? It's trivial, but, making something black text doesn't work for people using the lighter themes. (Obviously, spoiler tag should make the text whatever color the background is. OR, even better, is to make it black, then have a surrounding black box highlight. So, no matter what (even quoting) would make it unreadable until it is highlighted by the mouse.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Yea, there should be a proper black on black spoiler tag. I'm an example for people actually using the white theme (I love the white theme).
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I just wondered why people start writing their emails like "homer.j at hotmail.com" instead of the wohle thing. A search program could look for spaces and pick text with an @ in the middle. I mean thos search bots do crazy things from what I heared.

I'm not a programmer, of course. And it doesn't make your mail tag argument less valid. :smile:

I vote that we change the code not to say "forums" anymore... The plural of forum is fora.

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I think "forums" is officially allowed.

Haha fora. Nickel, you crack me up. :smile:

Suggestion: unsticky the two threads below this :razz:

I never got round to it.. industrial blindness?

Hmm, shoulda noticed that earlier :smile: Done.

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I have two suggestions:

1) If Lep isn't gonna update the site, that we begin a new thread and unlock this one so that whomever does update it will have current news to work on.

2) That someone use a truckstop terminal and determine what exactly is wrong with this site. When I am on the road, I cannot post here because the site has some scripting errors that need addressed. Since the terminal doesn't have the ability to post the error message, I cannot post it for you but take my word for it, Snarkpit is not user friendly outside my home.

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<span style="color: silver;">Site sugg: I'd like users to be able to see who is "watching" their maps.
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Good idea, Dark Tree.

Orph - thats not only an issue with truck stop terminals, it's evident
right here and i'm guessing it afflicts a large number of "non tech
wise" users here. When things have been arranged, and more importantly,
people have been in contact with us who direct "operations" ( :razz: ) , we
should hopefully move somewhere.

Finally.. A new idea. (or a new twist on an old one perhaps)

I'd like to see a bit of the anonymity reduced in SP version 5.

Whenever someone looks at a profile of another member, they will be able to see how that person has rated you in the personal rating system. Of course, if someone has their rating system turned off (for any and all personal reasons) then obviously, they won't see this, however if you have your system turned on, it should only be fair that you be able to see how others have rated you.

Some might feel that this would cause retaliatory actions but I honestly feel that the opposite would be true. It could actually prevent bad situations by removing the ability of those who have their system turned off from voting.

Don't misunderstand, I feel that its 100% in everyones rights to turn off your voting and/or being voted upon.

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Orpheus said:
It could actually prevent bad situations by removing the ability of those who have their system turned off from voting.

I think it would make sense for people to only be able to rate others if they themselves can be rated, but there's nothing really to stop people from activating the rating system, rating people, then deactivating it.

As for being able to see which people rated me what, I'd rather not know.

I'd like to see who rated me, but not let others see what I rated them :biggrin:

I rated a bunch when I first joined based on first impressions, and I regret all the ratings I posted.

I'm not sure if you know this, but you can just rerate them.

Oh. Here I go...

i was gonna post a threat on HL Editing section and a window popped up saying i can't if i don't search first.

well there's 2 sentences in spanish, bad translated and i thought you could change it to correct spanish, even if it's not that important:

No puedes postear una nueva pregunta en esta secci?n sin haber buscado la respuesta primero. Ser?s redireccionado a la p?gina de b?squeda.

j00 c4nt p0st 1n h3ar wiv0ut s3rch1ng 1st!
that's a good one

Hello. Thanks for the 598436958 suggestions, I'll try to look into some over the next few days, since I seem to have been magically and randomly drawn back here by fickle winds :smile:

But this thread loads waaaay to slow, so check out the new one.