Say hi to our newest member, QuartzRaven!
Gwil
haymaker said:Haha! oh dear, big apologies, bit of a daft error in the script that handled creating all the map threads... quite a few of the links to the actual maps would have been b0rked.
Wierd loop here: http://www.snarkpit.net/index.php?s=forums&f=2&t=10179&tp=#175243
ect). Even if this was implemented some things could (probably should) be left purely to the total amount of points accumulated (pits). There could even be a little store set up in the control panel.
Fjorn
reaper47 said:We've got 'unlimited' bandwidth and disk space, but exactly how 'unlimited' they are I'm not sure
Quick question: Is it... "impolite" to actually use SnarkPit's new file hosting for maps instead of providing an external mirror?
I think the best thing is probably just to see how it goes... but tbh the site in general is image-heavy and uses quite a lot of bandwidth before even thinking about downloads. This may be something that we need to discuss and have a good think about.
reaper47 said:Haha, I've thought about this before, I even used to avoid hosting my level images on Snarkpit because I thought it was "impolite".
Quick question: Is it... "impolite" to actually use SnarkPit's new file hosting for maps instead of providing an external mirror? I mean regarding bandwidth or available storage. I don't mind either way, it just seems very convenient to use the on-site hosting now.
Riven said:'edit' link added to each entry on both the front page and on a user's profile page.
I don't currently see a way to be able to moderate user journals.
aaron_da_killa said:Agreed.
As for the "L" next to people's name, I think that should be removed or changed. It gets to me a little bit that Haymaker has an "L" next to his name, what exactly is the factor that decides who is and isn't an "L"? I sure hope it isn't number of forum posts or number of maps etc. I think it should be a time period of say 30 days instead.
larchy said:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database#Ranking
Snarkmark calculations - down to you lot really, I'll just the change the calculation to whatever people want. It's based off the average rating currently. I don't really like the idea of getting more snarkmarks just because a map/download/article is more popular and I think we talked about this on the Alpha site. Still, whatever you guys decide!
aaron_da_killa said:I didn't say 'between each post' I said in the header of pages.
"I very much so agree with what you said about listing the forum topic in between each post, but as for the popularity of maps."
larchy said:-Sounds good. Crono will be happy
"the actual thread title is probably being pushed off the small space you have on a tab. I can reverse the order to fix this issue."
aaron_da_killa said:Aaron, I think you misunderstood me. Let me clarify: The more votes a map receives the more weight those ratings get. But the weighted points shouldn't out-do a map with fewer votes and higher ratings. Maybe it isn't necessary, but I feel this makes more sense, -which is why I bring it up. I haven't thought out the math involved or anything, but I think it could come into play after a map here has received more than 10 votes, then the more votes it gets, the more points (snarkmarks) an average rating of 5/5 stars or #/5 stars tributes to the author. That is to say, (I guess I'm gonna have to think about the math now
"I think its a bit silly to give more snarkmarks to people with "more popular maps", its starting to sound like a competition, but I think it has its benefits such as it encourages people to rate maps and want their maps to be rated and whatnot. I think this needs to be balanced with the marks awarded for higher rated maps also so that a person with a 5/5 map rating is likely to receive more points than a person with a 1/5 map that is popular."
) maps can receive a max of 50 snarkmarks right now if they have 5/5 stars. Let's say a map has an average rating of 4/5 stars which would tribute the author with 40 $SM. Now once that map has received 11 votes each vote over 10 could add +1 $SM to the total tribute of $SM for the author. So the user [in this example] would get 41$SM for his 4/5 star rated map with 11 votes. larchy said:Sounds splendid. Yea, we can call it an 'FAQ' and I'm good for locating it down at the bottom. The welcome message sounds like a good idea too. It can link to the FAQ and let users know who to contact with direct questions. And be very brief. -Like you said reaper, describe the SnarkPit in two sentences or less. Although, to direct new users further to read their 1st PM, I suggest some kind of extra layer that could appear as a word balloon or bright arrow pointing to the 'messages' link. Just to let them know they have a brand new message that is very important for them to read. (or we could include it on the confirmation page after they log-in for the first time. Now we need to settle on what actually should be said for new users. If you have time reaper, would you like to write up a short draft? -Or perhaps come up with a draft for the 2-sentence description? I'll write a draft when I get the time (and patience) to do so. We can start a separate thread or talk about it in here, whoever gets to it first, or posts in here first; I don't care.
"We could just add a faq page for all the introduction stuff. We could have a link to it... oo, I dunno... amongst the footer links (about.donate/contact etc)? Probably link in the control panel too... an auto-pm with a 'welcome to snakrpit, read the faq' message for newly registered users?"
larchy said:-Sounds easy enough
"Icon sizes shouldn't be a problem because I'll just...er... resize them :P"
larchy said:-Working on it!
"take a screenie of the forums and 'shop yours into place, see how it looks, have a play about. There'll be a way of making them work!"
Riven said:ahem
For users who have reached well beyond 200 snarkmarks, do we have the 'custom title' feature in place yet? I have seen no evidence of it yet? -(and have been asked about it).
thanks[center][img]http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5706/rightwalk.gif[/img][img]http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/9739/sigspacer.gif[/img][url=http://aarondakilla.freehostia.com/index.html][img]http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/4464/sigaaronsstuff.gif[/img][/url][img]http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/9739/sigspacer.gif[/img][img]http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/294/leftwalk.gif[/img][/center]larchy said:No worries, I'm actually really disappointed with imageshack and don't recommend it to people anymore. I've found that a small array of images, different everytime, can be unavailable for days, probably due to server issues. I've also permanently lost some images, mainly older ones I've uploaded 1 or 2 years ago.
aaron:
I've disabled your signature because the imageshack image links were taking around 45s to load, your two posts on this page making the page take over 90s to load.
Gwil
Yak_Fighter
tnkqwe
). Once a game is selected on the left, the content at the bottom would reflect just that game's content. But if it's on the "Welcome to the Content Database" page, then it can be purely random content of any sort from any game. I imagine for a Game's Info page, there would be the Game's banner, then an almost article style layout. (you could use the same article paginating bbcode to allow for extra long descriptions if needed). Allow the admin making the game info page to upload images for that page and reference them. -You could add it to the "edit" page for games in the super admin cp.
larchy said:Oh, I didn't see those. Thanks
That's what the icons are for.
Yak_Fighter
Riven said:I think this is a really good idea, especially if it were expanded to include things like links to quick start guides, console command lists, important editing files, level editing guides, bots, etc.
I think for our maps section, people may not know what all the games listed are all about, or where to go find them. I think each game added to the database deserves an info page of some sort that has links to where it can be found and images of the game itself, as well as a section at the bottom showcasing some of the content we have for it in our database (like the randomly generating featured maps list).
Lemme work some stuff up.
This new info pane will only appear if a game has a description - all the admin stuff is there to edit this info Riven It's just on the normal edit game page.