Posted: 12/9/2009 12:15 AM
Post subject: How about a "planet tasvideos"?
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Dromiceius
Joined: 10/3/2005
Posts: 1332
There's a pattern among some communities to aggregate relevant RSS feeds into one site. The site usually has the word "planet" in it. For example, Planet Lisp contains blog posts written by Lisp users, news about meetups and software, trials, tribulations, and things of that sort. That way, relevant information can be centralized and kept current without having to do everything manually. I bring this up not because it's a fantastic, ground-breaking idea, but because I noticed that Bluetoaster is out of date. I'm not blaming the maintainer of that page for not keeping it up to date, since that is mostly a machine's job, and IIRC, that site was created before all the emulators went into code repositories, so its purpose is also more or less obviated now. In other words, this seems like an opportunity to trade up, and enhance the site. So, what could go in planet TASVideos? Here are a few ideas: ♥Updates to emulators and other tools, via Googlecode and Sourceforge RSS feeds ♥New submissions/publications ♥Feeds to relevant YouTube, Nicovideo, etc profiles ♥Site news, policy updates, and other words from our Fearless Leaders ♥Other things of possible interest... TASer blogs/wiki userpages, maybe? You'll notice there's some overlap with the TASVideos front page, and indeed it would probably be better as a replacement of, or addition to the front page instead of an actual "planet" subdomain. But that's just my 2¢. Edit: I ♥ UNICODE.
Posted: 12/9/2009 9:09 AM
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DaTeL237
Active player (356)
Joined: 1/16/2008
Posts: 358
Location: The Netherlands
Although I think a centralized place is a good place, I have very poor experiences with those 'planet' domains you mentioned... since usually they were way outdated or incomplete :/
TASes: [URL=http://tasvideos.org/Movies-298up-Obs.html]Mr. Nutz (SNES), Young Merlin 100% (SNES), Animaniacs 100% (SNES)[/URL]
Posted: 12/9/2009 11:55 AM
Post subject: Re: How about a "planet tasvideos"?
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Raiscan
Joined: 11/11/2006
Posts: 1235
Location: United Kingdom
Dromiceius wrote:
I bring this up not because it's a fantastic, ground-breaking idea, but because I noticed that Bluetoaster is out of date. I'm not blaming the maintainer of that page for not keeping it up to date, since that is mostly a machine's job, and IIRC, that site was created before all the emulators went into code repositories, so its purpose is also more or less obviated now.
I stopped updating bluetoaster for a number of reasons:
  1. I had(have) other projects to be worked on
  2. Originally there was only random mirrors on places like mediafire; ad-ridden sites that can't be relied on. Once all the emulators got google code pages, the need for a central emulator repository was needed less.
  3. I've run out of space on my external server where the site is hosted, and I don't really have the funds to upgrade my package :(
That said, I'm happy to add emulators that are sent to me in private message (though sometimes I forget, in which case pester me :D ). It's still an ideal place to have archived versions of emulators which can be good for reference, research and playing back old movies.
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Posted: 12/12/2009 11:36 PM
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Nach
Emulator Coder
Joined: 3/9/2004
Posts: 4588
Location: In his lab studying psychology to find new ways to torture TASers and forumers
I think a place aggregating RSS feeds and various news features could be useful.
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