Site suggestions/bugs

Yeah that last bit is quite true, it would be nice to be able to sort the map database by date added or date modified.

Like, err this? http://www.snarkpit.com/maps.php?game=HL&mod=&sort=date

:smile:

Date added you can look at by the map's ID number...

Like, err this? http://www.snarkpit.com/maps.php?game=HL&mod=&sort=date

:smile:

Yes, yes just like that in fact :smile: It turns out I was thinking of the reviews page, where you can't sort by date. I think it would be nice to be able to see the newest reviews, although obviously at the current idle state of the reviews page its not an issue.

beer hunter said:
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.

Fixed, thinking about, sorted (check prefs) :biggrin:

heh, the code monkeys been hard at work :smile:

oops ! forgot to mention - would be nice if there was another proggy other than Xat that gets pimped all the time :smile: see the Irfanview thread

When will we be able to write reviews ourselves ? I think there's a lot of review potential in here, enough experience.

Forceflow:
Quote - Leperous

"Soon, la monkee!"

Idea:

I would like to see a system implemented, that follows a map, from inception to completion.

say, mazemaster begins a map, and provides a link, people rate it (yeah just like we already have) then someone/s write a critique on it (say reno and wildcard) and we rate their critiques, then maze finishes the map, and we rate it, and someone reviews it and rates it, and finally we rate the review..

in this way, we have one map, but perhaps a half dozen participants, all vying for a piece of the pie, and perhaps, in a way, will motivate others to get involved..

it seems to me, that motivation is our only shortfall anymore.. if we could create ways to reward everyone involved in a maps completion it would surely help us in the long run..

in the end, each score would contribute to our overall snarkmark totals.. the quantity being decided upon how well each step did.. afterall, maze could have a great map, reno and wildcard a great critique, but the review and finished map never become a reality... at least reno and wildcard would get some reward for their participation, even if maze ends up scrapping the map in the end..

hope that made sense :smile:

Ratings, ratings, ratings... bah, I'm fed up of them, thread ratings and comment ratings everywhere. I'm not having ratings of people's ideas or comments, sorry, this is a website about maps. Anyway, the rest is an idea, but you seem to be 'timelineing' things. But you're right, it does need to be neatly tied together a bit more.

beer hunter said:
oops ! forgot to mention - would be nice if there was another proggy other than Xat that gets pimped all the time :smile: see the Irfanview thread

i just downloaded and tried this program, and i suggest if you are going to do critiques or reviews, that you stick with the XAT program, it may not have the perks this one has, but it is perfect for optimizing multiple images at once..

i can take 25 screenshot BMP's in HL, use XAT, convert them all to jpg, and optimize them with one click of the mouse, with the infanview program, you are stuck with only one..

course, there may be a way to setup the infanview program to remedy this, and if so, it would be perfect, but if not, .... well you decide.

bottomline, if you are not already using the XAT JPG optimizer, you prolly never will... but new members need to know this program is available, and possibly equal, or better than infanview.

Leperous said:
Ratings, ratings, ratings... bah, I'm fed up of them, thread ratings and comment ratings everywhere. I'm not having ratings of people's ideas or comments, sorry, this is a website about maps. Anyway, the rest is an idea, but you seem to be 'timelineing' things. But you're right, it does need to be neatly tied together a bit more.

sighs

in spite of every good thing we have here... participation is dropping.

veto my idea, but don't dismiss it out of hand.. perhaps someone else could think of some rewards that might incite more activity.. I'll be damned if we should have a stupid political, or religious debate once per week, just to increase post counts :sad:

lol ratings and petty 'rewards' don't help keep people around, unless they're aimed at the (oft unwanted) prepubsecent lot. Participation is dropping because of other, more obvious reasons, and I for one aren't bothered due to exams coming up and HL2 coming out soon :smile:

if i had to a vote, school or reviews, the vote would surely go school, but seriously, there are enuff members not in school to get involved.

and i take a personal joy in critiquing a map, and truth be told, its nothing to do with snarkmarks or any other imposed rewards, but i take a bit of offense to think of the current system as prepubescent :sad:

i have a lions share of snarkmarks, how i got them may be questionable, since i do not know the exact method in scoring, but i can assure you, its not prepubescent.. i am proud of my score, now that the post counts do not account for most of them, i would hope that i earned them all..

still, i bow to your wisdom, but would hope that there is some alternate method of increasing motivation..

for the record though, my thinking is to have a system in place BEFORE HL2 arrives, cause honestly, once its out, you REALLY wont want to edit the pit in any significant ways

i can take 25 screenshot BMP's in HL, use XAT, convert them all to jpg, and optimize them with one click of the mouse, with the infanview program, you are stuck with only one.

Go into Irfanview's File, Batch Conversion menu to convert more than 1 file. Its a flexible system and has some trick methods to select files.

beer hunter said:

i can take 25 screenshot BMP's in HL, use XAT, convert them all to jpg, and optimize them with one click of the mouse, with the infanview program, you are stuck with only one.

Go into Irfanview's File, Batch Conversion menu to convert more than 1 file. Its a flexible system and has some trick methods to select files.

cool, XAT has drag and drop :rolleyes:

tis good info to know, truly.. but with PSP 8 and XAT, i don't need irfanview, its just another clone IMO

i have nothing against it, but will continue to use, and promote XAT.. hopefully, between the two programs, we might convince these hard heads to optimize :eek:

[edit] i will leave the new program installed, to show my good faith, but doubt it will see much use.. XAT is just that good.

i have nothing against it, but will continue to use, and promote XAT..

I don't have anything against Xat either, just thought it was worth posting a useful, freeware proggy :smile:

hopefully, between the two programs, we might convince these hard heads to optimize

Doubtful, you'll always get some dweeb posting inline 1.5mb BMP's :sad:

Xat puts that annoying tag on images nowadays :/

Leperous said:
Xat puts that annoying tag on images nowadays :/

yes, we went thru this already..

the image optimizer, screws up the pic with the name tag.

the jpg optimizer does not.

for the purposes of my promotion of this program i am only, and always referring to the JPG Optimizer.

shame they ruined the image program, it was primo except for that :sad:

i just optimized 25 screen shots to 75k or less in about 3 seconds..

again, the JPG optimizer is fine.. no tags.

Numerous replies on a debate about image optimization programs.. are you people bored? :razz:

My bug isn't fixed like you said, Lep. Now as well as putting the 'some images have been resized' at the start of a message being edited, it has the image set up as a hyperlink in bbcode. No big deal or anything, but still a bug :smile:

I thought it was MEANT to act as a link, so you could click on it to see the fully sized version

I mean when you go to edit a post that already has been resized, the text and link are there, which means that if you re-submit the edited post wihtout removing these, it will add them again.

The image is meant to be a hyperlink (to the proper sized one), unless it's b0rking it up by 'layering' the BBCode multiple times..? Text problem should be fixed though.

Na that's it, all working now :smile:

Why do 99% of you goons have dark hair?

Leperous said:
Why do 99% of you goons have dark hair?

/me notices 2 things..

1) you seem to be one of the goons :biggrin:

2) your definition of dark hair is somewhat skewed.. i see the ratio closer to 50/50

there are a couple/few black and white photos, so its harder to say about those, but the black hair vs. blonde is about 99%, but there are far more brown haired people in those screens..

are you counting brown as a dark?? sure its darker than blonde, but i have always considered most browns light in color.

also, some of those kids have some crap in their hair, artificially darkening it with gloppy stuff

please, define "dark"

Orph, Gwil and AdamH seem to be the only non-dark hair people up until Crackerjack :/ Meh. Right now I'm more worried about what's happened to cookies on this website, they seem to have broken despite me not touching them

Leperous said:
Orph, Gwil and AdamH seem to be the only non-dark hair people up until Crackerjack :/ Meh. Right now I'm more worried about what's happened to cookies on this website, they seem to have broken despite me not touching them

yeah, /me noticed.. everything is old, in spite of them just being posted..

so you consider, anything not blonde to be dark haired.. interesting, considering i see a few red heads..

Hosts set the server time wrong So basically when they set it back, everyone's going to be logged in for an hour extra.. oh well, fewer posts lost. :razz:

Leperous said:
Why do 99% of you goons have dark hair?

Cus everyone here lives with thier PC constantly so the lack of sun has made even blonde haired people have dark hair :biggrin:

Also explains all the pale skin on everyone

/me thinks this smiley should be added for our musically minded members :biggrin:

Hah, I like that :smile:

:foofighters:

Leperous said:
:foofighters:

hmmm, very nice :smile:

much better than mine .. female guitarists always look better :heee:

I think that's a mullet as opposed to a female :smile:

scary_jeff said:
I think that's a mullet as opposed to a female :smile:

you look at your yellow dots your way, and i'll look at them mine :biggrin:

ROFL Funniest thing I've heard all day!

When you open a screenshot from a map profile the window remains the size it opens at rather than resizing to match the screenshot. Its been like this a while, but I only just realised that the "whos online" window resizes to fit its contents fine, so perhaps it could be fixed for screenshots?

Hrm, seems to be a Mozilla problem. I'll whack in some code which sets it to be 800x600 or so automatically for you guys.

Forceflow looks like hes crying for some reason, heh.

KoRnFlakes said:
Forceflow looks like hes crying for some reason, heh.

he took that pic, just moments after he heard of your immanent departure..

lol, it was meant to be immanent anyway. Im writing to the bank now to sort it out :/ im glad I decided to disconnect early. or id be in some trouble now.

I don't know the ins and outs of "user cleaning", or if purges still go ahead - but if they do, could possbly flag yourself as "on vacation"?

Thus avoiding annoyance at unreplied PM's, and possible purging (?) due to inactivity.

But then somebody can flag themself as on vacation, then never come back... I thnik it's just easier to look at last logged on date, and if somebody hasn't been here for 2 years, delete them. I can't see what the point in this is though... it's not like 1 row in the database takes up a lot of the site's resources, is it?

Resources or not, its still cluttering the database, which means its harder to look up other people who are active. Not that its that difficult to just search for their username and find them that way or whatever though.

I think if should just be people who have an empty profile after 6 months or something - if they plan on coming back then its not any hassle for them to create a new account using the same username.

I do purge sometimes, got rid of about ~100 users the other week. And Gwil, I like your idea about being away for a while... In other news, new BBCode, using a ^ sign automatically superscripts numbers, e.g. 43<SUP>6554</SUP>. And a spinkee new CP upgrade, note space for a bit more to come soon :wink:

⁵ Just checking in case you're lying. :biggrin: I like the updated control panel. Do you have a rough idea when you'll have the review section complete?

Whats the messages part in the maps list for? I've got a couple of my maps with the message "please update map details", and I've no idea why.

...¹²³ :smile: