Site suggestions/bugs

Duncan, is your option to add a new map there in the control panel? It's just blank under maps in mine.

Why does it say "please update map details" by one of my maps?

The 'basic' theme needs to be marked with a *, because it doesn't work :smile:

Add those smilies!

I've got the add new map option sat there, no problems I can see. And jeff didn't you read my post? :razz:

See, it's missing! Maybe Lep was being a smartass and took it out assuming I'd never use it?

Heh sorry, should be fixed :razz:

Yeah, all good now. Thanks. :biggrin:

hears flogging sound anew

we are still getting map screens uploaded above 100k.. is there not some realistic way to prevent this? one that does NOT rely on these peoples ability to comprehend compassion?

personally, i am considering starting a humiliation thread, one dedicated to people so hard headed that they fail to realize 100k images are the extreme upper limit..

yeah, /me considers it strongly.. maybe a bit of finger pointing will straighten them up :sad:

PHP does have functions to adjust the quality of images, but that doesn't help when the image isn't hosted on the snarkpit. It is also possible to copy an image from a remote location, then get it's file size.

Perhaps when you post with images, it could copy these images from the reomte location to the server, and if any of them are too big, a window pops up with a <100K jpeg version of the image for the user to upload to their webspace? This is definately feasable, but it sounds like more effort than it's worth...

IMO, if the images do not fall within the perscribed criteria, you cannot use them.. period.

why should people care if a 600k image is hosted someplace else? its still 600k

IMO, if you cannot post screens well below 100k, you obviously don't care, and neither should we..

snarkpit should be able to decide whats acceptable, and veto the rest..

100k is the extreme upper limit.. 50k is preferred..

why extend consideration to people who are obviously not worthy..??

the point here is, we hare having to discuss something easilly solved, and past due in solving.. if it cannot be done with code (looks at lep for confirmation of this) the links should be removed.. with a warning to the author..

and if somebody hasn't been here for 2 years, delete them

Thats a bit long isn't it???
<SUP>123, wow it works, how do i get it off?? /me takes out glasses</SUP>

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Orph I thank you for your criticisms but lately it seems like you're telling me how to run this place I can get it to save images > 200k or so in size at a lower quality automatically, I'll look into that in the next few days if I get some time.

Leperous said:
Orph I thank you for your criticisms but lately it seems like you're telling me how to run this place I can get it to save images > 200k or so in size at a lower quality automatically, I'll look into that in the next few days if I get some time.

i can stop, just give the word..

sighs

i could say, of late you have been over-reacting to my posts..

i have been here almost the whole time this site has been around, if i wanted power, i am sure i could have had it by now.. stop competing with me.. this is after all the site suggestion thread, where else would someone post them?

look around this site, i recommended almost everything here, i may not have suggested it first, or fifth, or fifteenth, but the point is, i agree with 99% of the site, why would i attempt to upset that?

you wound me with false accusations, i know there is a smiley, but it rings of a truth, and i am uncomfortable with it..

i argue with people over almost everything, i have yet to argue over the pit as a site..

as i said.. if you want me to stop debugging.. say so..

before ANYONE asks why i didn't post this in the PM's, cause lep felt it important enuff to post openly, why should i not return the favor :rolleyes:

Sorry, meant to use some sarcasm tags there really, didn't mean it in a bad way (hence smiley). Making the website automatically convert images is much easier than getting people to do it themselves and having warning message etc., and I certainly wouldn't appreciate you doing a naming and shaming campaign anyway :razz:

Leperous said:
Sorry, meant to use some sarcasm tags there really, didn't mean it in a bad way (hence smiley). Making the website automatically convert images is much easier than getting people to do it themselves and having warning message etc., and I certainly wouldn't appreciate you doing a naming and shaming campaign anyway :razz:

someday, you people (the whole pit) need to explain the correct way to vent..

my comment was akin to saying "i'm gonna kill him" knowing full well you are not going to do any such thing..

if i were going to do anything.. like that, i wouldn't be secretly optimizing screenshots for my friends :smile:

200k is a bit OTT, but its way better than 5 or 6 hundred.

is the zip file for the new forklift model really empty, or have i borked something somewhere?

empty for me too bud

but it begs the question, how do you create an empty zip?

It happens (more than you think!), not sure how - usually linked to zips off scratched cd's/corrupt archives/incorrect usage of archiving program :smile:

Well in this case it was my FTP program not uploading the file :/

Leperous said:
Well in this case it was my FTP program not uploading the file :/

truly?? explain?

how can an ftp upload the zip, but not the contents?

i was able to download the zip, it was empty..

mental bubble

we can spam future sites with empty zips if this is possible

It probably just defined the file as there, sort of said "create these files", but then never got around to actually copying the contents from Lep's computer to the newly created forklift.zip. So the file exists, and the extension shows it is a zip file, but the file is actually empty.

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...So the file exists, and the extension shows it is a zip file, but the file is actually empty.

i've had some weird ftp'ing like that - had a few files that looked as tho' they uploaded ok but ended up as zero bytes long :sad:

A possible solution for big images hosted outside of SP - if an images bigger than X bytes and its in-line then change it to an external link so users have a choice of viewing it or not.

And popup a message to the poster saying whats been done.

I'm not familiar with php so i dunno if this is even possible or worth doing ?

/me see's a plan

we download leps empty zip, make a million copies of it, and upload 100's of megs of empty zips..

rubs hands together

its foolproof

Er, you can actually make an empty zip file anyway, in XP you just click new ? ZIP file, or just delete all the contents of one...

Leperous said:
Er, you can actually make an empty zip file anyway, in XP you just click new ? ZIP file, or just delete all the contents of one...

how does one acquire this knowledge... unless....

Unless you, say, cut the contents of a ZIP file out and paste them somewhere, or just happen to notice there's an option to create a new ZIP file along with texts, WADs and other formats when you right click..?! :razz:

Leperous said:
Unless you, say, cut the contents of a ZIP file out and paste them somewhere, or just happen to notice there's an option to create a new ZIP file along with texts, WADs and other formats when you right click..?! :razz:

sure...

/me reconsiders plot to sabotage some unsuspecting sites..

/me considers... if lep can figure it out.. must not be such an intelligent idea :biggrin:

/runs

Just had a thought, instead of simply having page numbers in forums wouldn't it be better if mods/topic starter could 'name' them, i.e. have chapters to a thread too? Be quite useful for longer conversations and map threads (start a new chapter with a new build or with new screens, or have multiple chapters to this thread such as one for bugs and one for suggestions, etc.)

Wow yeah that sounds great! I think letting the poster specifiy new chapters in the mapping thread would be good, but in the general thread, not so good, because the poster could annoy poeple by 'having the last word' in a given chapter, then starting a new one. I know it sounds petty, but in addition to this, half the fun of the general forum is that threads go way off topic - 'chaterising' them would seem to take away from this slightly

I think threads in the editing forum would need to be chaptered by the mods, so when some newbie has asked two questions in the same thread, a mod can come along and make the second question the start of a new chapter within that thread, which could make that question come up seperately when somebody searches the 'answers database' (The same as if the person had started a new thread for their second issue).

Well, chapters could just be left open anyway and not locked, so it wouldn't work like that. I guess it would be just 'threading' a topic but keeping replies linear... gets to work

Just noticed the new control panel feature for the maps. Really cool. 'cept when the download counter reaches 3 digits, its placed under the download icon instead of on the side. Just a little point.

Did you change the snarkmark formula? I've dropped a few hundred, which isn't an issue, just something I noticed...though it has made me a mere "rabid snark" :razz:

ReNo said:
though it has made me a mere "rabid snark" :razz:

Yea Lep, fix that, theres no way me and ReNo are on the same level here...

He should be lower :biggrin:

I did change it slightly, yes, but turns out that it hadn't been adding on any marks for people's comments before so it wasn't just a negative alteration :razz:

cough

Chapters and reviews. :biggrin:

Quiet, you! :razz:

/reference to a Simpsons reference

I have a directory that I can access but not delete.

http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/alien_sniper/screenshots/

Also, on the user stats page the highest rated user is Peter Manson with 3 votes of 5.

Well that would make him the highest rated user then, wouldn't it :smile: Perhaps you would like to suggest where the line should be drawn?

I thought it used somehow incorporate the amount of ratings too, sorry.

Well it does, but... but... pets Mr Manson some more

Oh deary me, his rating seems to have mysteriously dropped!

You're such a twat

Leperous said:
You're such a twat

inquiry:

how does this differ from prick?

before you be a smart ass, i am asking a serious question.

i might wanna use twat someday..

in arkansas twat = puss/sissy

In England it's a slang term for a vagina.

In this context it means much the same thing as prick though, but less severe.

I would class them as equal in severity personally...but both are normally used on people in jest from my experience.

It's basically c**t-lite, i.e. the type you can call your friends for a laugh. :smile:

ok, let me clarify, cause all of you missed my point..

1) prick can mean dick/penis... but i used it as prick=annoyance/thorn which is another valid definition.

2) lep got mad cause of term prick.

3) twat can mean vagina, but in this case i am unsure as to leps terminology, so i put ours, which is puss or sissy.

4) should dave get as mad at lep, as lep got at me? and should we retract leps admin privileges for such?

hence.... my inquiry..

Well I just said that twat was less severe than prick so that nullifies point number 4.

Duncan, if you were pissed of at someone you'd be likely to call them a prick but not a twat, at least in my experience.

Hmm, I don't know if I would, I'd be more likely to resort to far more inflammatory words :biggrin: But out of those, perhaps prick is slightly more insulting...but its a really close call.

Orph - Lep said it with a smiley, and it was obvious it was meant as a joke, so no :smile: