Site suggestions/bugs

It does the same for map screenshots, so it would be nice if it auto refreshed I guess.

/me wonders if its not a browser setting, cause in the years i have been here, i have only been forced to refresh maybe 3 times.. anyone else?

Kain said:
does anyone know if there's a size limitation for posting? I was trying to post a list of really funny jokes on the general forum, but it I'm getting an error message each time. The text is not so long but it's full of

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those signs, u know.. Is that causing the error?

Well you managed to post them there, so no they won't be causing the error (on their own). There is a post size limitation, yes, but you know it would be really helpful if you said what the error message actually was :razz:

And Korn, I can't really do anything about that, unless maybe there was some cunningness done with the URL......

Anyone have any profile customisation suggestions?

I'm not sure I get what you mean by that - ways in which to make your profile look different to other people's? I'm not sure that would be a wise thing to allow, I think standardisation is a good thing for the profiles.

ReNo said:
I'm not sure I get what you mean by that - ways in which to make your profile look different to other people's? I'm not sure that would be a wise thing to allow, I think standardization is a good thing for the profiles.

ditto, i think a broader file format could be employed, but not individualization..

we could end up with questionable content, and then we would have to assign profile police :sad:

as far as how much more design, i will have to think on it a bit, hasn't been brought up enuff to capture my attention to now :/

"frmAddMessage.map.value is null or not an object"

this is what is says

Kain said:
"frmAddMessage.map.value is null or not an object"

this is what is says

scratches buttocks

could be totally wrong, but as i read it.. it either means an invalid format upload, or an empty one..

are you leaving any spaces blank?

hey! it worked in spite of the error message :smile: ; this site has excellent mechanics! thank you guys, and sorry if i answer late; i'm on modem, and they often need the line here

Orpheus said:

Kain said:
"frmAddMessage.map.value is null or not an object"

this is what is says

scratches buttocks

could be totally wrong, but as i read it.. it either means an invalid format upload, or an empty one..

are you leaving any spaces blank?

I dunno Orph; maybe it's a bandwidth problem coz my connection is slow... never mind anyway, and read the jokes instead :smile:

suggestion:

how hard would it be to add this to the snarkpit homepage???

it might be handy, might look stupid..

I think it would be better if Lep made his own somehow :biggrin: Its really not much bother actually going to the search page though...but perhaps it would be nice if the search page link was more obvious.

ReNo said:
I think it would be better if Lep made his own somehow :biggrin: Its really not much bother actually going to the search page though...but perhaps it would be nice if the search page link was more obvious.

well, since i don't know code, if he is going to bother making a word search, why not incorporate a spell checker into the reply window :biggrin:

i would even be satisfied with one that used silly UK words like "colour"

I don't think it would get used to be honest. And a spell checker would be a nightmare because there are so many words we use that wouldn't be in it, and would take ages to add, for example OMGLOLWTF!?!

scary_jeff said:
I don't think it would get used to be honest. And a spell checker would be a nightmare because there are so many words we use that wouldn't be in it, and would take ages to add, for example OMGLOLWTF!?!

i personally use IE spell, its not foolproof, but it helps.. but since a few hard heads refuse to use such a wonderful browser, i was hoping it would help them..

we have to look out for those less fortunate among us :smile:

How the feck am I meant to make a post spell checker?! I could make something that automatically corrects certain common spelling mistakes, but you know what, it's more fun to annoy the people who just can't be bothered to spell. (fair enough if you're dyslexic, but I thought reading is hard for them as well, and thus forums aren't really the best place to hang out..?)

as i was typing that bit of sarcasm, i was giggling, cause the mental image of you scrunching up your face at the thought was killing me

hah. I personally like the way you can get outlook to automatically spell check and correct all your incoming email. I mean how sad do you have to be to enable that option?

I didn't actually mean the spell checker, I meant make your own search thing permanently on screen, since the current search page is a bit hidden away and not easily noticed.

Would it be better to give the number of guests in the 'who's online' thing by seeing how many seperate IP addresses loaded a page in the last say 10 minutes? Or something like that... not an important issue at all, just an idea :smile:

lep uses the ip address to narrow the spammers down.. i could see the ip address of everyone who posted within my realm of influence in the forum i modded..

If you edit a post that had an auto-downsized image in it in non-java mode, "Some images in this post have been automatically down-sized, click on them to view the full sized versions:" gets added to the text of your post at the start, so if you don't realise and edit, it says that twice.

I think lep asked for site skins at some point, is that still going ahead? if so, which images would be changed?

Right; if people want to search ctrl+f or a quick glance or google site search will cure what ails you, and I can't think of a much better place to put the link! Jeff I have thought of doing an actual guest tracker, but rather with the usual cookie setting instead of unique IPs perhaps. And I think the 'some images have been automatically down-sized..' text thingy has been fixed from now on.

And Korn, themes can be done whenever, if you have any ideas for different images/colours then fire away :smile:

another bug perhaps???

If you get that error, it means 'get a bigger damn screen resolution' :smile:

scary_jeff said:
If you get that error, it means 'get a bigger damn screen resolution' :smile:

its not that smartass, its in the thread you just posted in.. "contest rules"

and its royally screwed up your post as well :sad:

No, it means the signature is b0rking up when it's too long. tries to fix

Leperous said:
No, it means the signature is b0rking up when it's too long. tries to fix

remove the image link.. didn't you disable sig images?

No, it's links in your signature being cut off that's causing it.

Leperous said:
No, it's links in your signature being cut off that's causing it.

then edit his profile sig then.. its hurting my browser

Popular polls should have a flaming poll snark icon.

You could have a random map spotlight thingy somewhere on the front page. It would be wise to somehow restrict it to high scoring maps though. :smile:

I guess it could go beneath the forums bit on the sidebar of the front page...though to be honest I'm not sure its needed, what with the new maps bar, and the map of the moment / newest map part of the features page. Obviously thats not a very useful page of the site at the moment, but once reviews start up again (and presumably more things like interviews or other articles may follow) that page will be used more frequently.

Inquiry:

we are still getting screen-shots in the maps section in excess of 300 to 500k, can we not cap this lep..??

I suggested that before Jon, a limit of 200k is more than reasonable.

Blair, less of your crappy can't-do attitude. Go flatshade your kitchen or something. Bitch.

:biggrin:

Alien_Sniper said:
I suggested that before Jon, a limit of 200k is more than reasonable.

200? there are 3 screens allowed for maps, why tolerate 600k?

i have seen some prime screens at far less than 100.. i can go down to 50, so i think 100 is fair to all..

Here's the image for popular polls!

100k is perfectly achievable for high quality images at 800x600, so I think its a suitable cap.

ROFL A_S I guess if the feature could be easily implemented, there would be no harm in it. I do like the feature when I've seen it elsewhere (eg. HLAtlas, or GA) now I think about it.

On a map review, if you press the "Click here for more details and comments" option, it just takes you to the map listing, rather than the mode details and comments page of the respective map. I'm guessing this is just something you haven't finished up yet though, considering its next to the "write your own review of this map" option, which is definately not implemented.

I was just looking at the 'maps' section, and I hadn't realised before how many maps there are that never have a forum thread during the beta stage. I think it would be nice to make it more prominent somehow when a user either adds a new uncompleted map, or increases the progress, so that everyone gets a chance to make some comments in spite of the lack of a forum thread. It really did supprise me to see how many decent maps were in progress by users who obviously never use the forums.

The new reply button on the classic theme still isn't working, but the others are - just incase updating it has slipped your mind.

Also in the classic theme, when a person uses a quote in a post, the background of it is sometimes black and so is the text, so you need to highlight it to read the quote. Strangely, on other occasions the quote background is a very fitting grey

It's hard to catch all of the quotes and 'convert' them :/

I would like to be able to choose the width of the textbox for new post/thread in my preferences. At the moment, long URLs and image locations can make the textbox have a horizontal scrollbar, which is annoying IMO. Obviously the default width has to be kept down for the benifit of people with lower screen resolutions. I know this is easy to implement for the non-java posting mode, but perhaps it is harder for the java mode?

Pertaining to HL Editing Forum

Option for question poster/moderators - categorise question under appropriate section (and possibly subsection) - eg, you could use dropdown check boxes to have it "flagged" (an extra SQL field or somesuch) as entities/architecture/textures/... etc etc.

Then you have pre categorised questions, and also answers. Possibly something for when HL2 arrives, but basically focussing on a more efficient knowledge databasing system.

:dorky:

A while back you profile listed your tutorials, I think that was a nice thing to have and would like to see it back. Similarly, it would be nice to have peoples prefabs listed in their profile. I guess that could mean profiles get somewhat bloated, but perhaps they could be subsections (ie. view prefabs by this user, view tutorials by this user).

Yeah, the Java mode is a bit harder to, iframes and the like not working just right :/ But I've always intended to get a 'screen res' preference going, and maybe put some extra things in the top of the screen for people who can cope...

And Gwil, that would be a good idea, along with having 'keywords' maybe. Problem is, although it could be made to work well for a lot of people, there are 1000 n00bs without a brain for every one of those who'd just c**k it all up :/

Just another little colour problem in the classic theme - if a user can't be rated, the text that says this on the sidebar of their profile is black, which is the same colour as the background.

Sorry, fixed. Got a few more ideas in the pipeline too for the site- reviews, forums and CP improvements... should really get a 'map readme' generator going too

Bug to fix - when logged out and clicking on the ::Maps:: option at the page top, the browser pops up a dialog error window after 20 seconds or so - "Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page". It affects Moz and IE.

Suggestion - the "about:faq...search" bar at the page bottom is out of the way and easily missed. It needs to be more noticeable or incorporated into the "map editing:maps" menu at the page top. Will prolly be easier to nav the site if theres a single menu bar.

The New Maps section at the left side only displays 4 maps, its easy to miss new maps or if 4+ maps get posted at the same time. Maybe increase it or use another page with last 16 maps on.

/goes off to shoot Klaus :smile: