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Voting for posts (+/-) would be great. As I suggested earlier, this option must only be allowed for higher than newbies to be perfectly reliable. And visually it must somehow display whether a post is heavily plused, or heavily minused. And something can in future be based on "post sanity" per user.
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Haven't checked in a long time the submission page but if the layout is pretty much the same, then I highly recommend a complete facelift. Make it much much more user friendly. For instance, instead of letting the user manually type how you want a certain part of a text should look like, why not adding buttons instead? Like the choices I had above me when I wrote this text.
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I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
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It was suggested that on http://tasvideos.org/Subs-List.html will be a link to current submissions forum (workbench), asking to vote for them. Because new users don't know it before they register. Anyone against it?
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
It was suggested that on http://tasvideos.org/Subs-List.html will be a link to current submissions forum (workbench), asking to vote for them. Because new users don't know it before they register. Anyone against it?
Err... Users can't vote before getting a few posts first (and for good reason).
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They will at least instantly know that it is POSSIBLE.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
When guest first time open site, he does not know anything about it.
He read "When human skills are just not enough", and think something like "cool".
He does not know that there is featured movies category, but he will see Featured movie at top of site content. And may be somehow realize that he can watch this movie on youtube. May be he will watch one TAS... I don't really think that someone will enter Forum or About right after watching some TAS. I have NEVER read About section. Or even if I read it, I don't remember.
Also, guest does not know about Latest publications, but he will see it at home page, same with Vault, and Latest submissions.
More difficult is to rate movie, you need to go into publication page, and somehow find "Rate this movie" link.
What about workbench, you need to:
1) Start with Home Page
1) Go into Forum
2) Somehow find Workbench in tons of threads and branches, and only after it you'll realize that You Can Vote Submissions!
Another way:
1) Start with Home Page
2) Go into Latest Submissions
3) Click on "Discuss this submission (also rating / voting)"
Hurray!
Ilari wrote:
Err... Users can't vote before getting a few posts first (and for good reason).
For example... There is one movies catalogue site, and one of its cool features, that it shows almost all registered user interface for guests. So you can easy understand what you can do if you are registered. For example, It shows directories (My films, Favorite...) in which you can put movie if you are registered, and if you not registered, it simply shows "this is allowed only for registered users".
I would never register there, if I didn't see all stuff from guest.
It would be nice to keep count of not intuitive things as low as possible.
Also, I didn't know about WIP storage, but when I learned that it is, I searched for a long time until I saw "Upload a WIP..." link at bottom of home page. :S
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Macros are widely used here as well, like
[if:!UserIsLoggedIn]
[module:DisplayMiniMovie|ratingsort=F|flags=NewcomerRec|notier]
[endif]
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Since the site is now steadily getting more runs in some of the newer categories, on this index page, I think it would be helpful if the line for "computer" was split into three lines for DOS, MSX, and Windows separately (they are three separate categories/tags in the database, after all); and several more categories now have enough movies that it makes sense to link to the stars and moons only, and have a second button for 'all' movies (the way is done for NES/SNES movies as well), e.g. the MSX, Arcade, and DOS categories.
Thank you for your time!
I have now split the computer category into DOS, MSX, and Windows separately.
Thanks. I note that on the "other movies" tab of any movie publication screen (e.g. this one) they're still listed as a single category; perhaps that could also be split?
This same list is also missing the categories for Gamecube, Atari 2600, Atari Lynx, and Colecovision; and it lists Virtualboy on the line with NES instead of the line with Gameboy. I suppose it's a bit outdated :)
Request for the Website,
most certainly would be the Work-In-Progress page.
It would be awesome if it were a search engine or had categories
( such as Lua scripts, watch files, movie files, etc).
I've been thinking, but what if we're allowed to rate the movies on the submission thread as well? That might make people rate movies more and allow for somewhat more useful ratings.
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jlun2 wrote:
I've been thinking, but what if we're allowed to rate the movies on the submission thread as well? That might make people rate movies more and allow for somewhat more useful ratings.
I was thinking the same a little while back. Having that option upfront would be very likely increase the number of ratings.
I think scrimpeh and solarplex's ideas are good, too.
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Rating submissions was in place for a while as the main voting system, but it wasn't very well-received so it was reverted back. I think it would work only if it were optional.
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Samsara wrote:
Rating submissions was in place for a while as the main voting system, but it wasn't very well-received so it was reverted back. I think it would work only if it were optional.
I think that would also be best. Maybe have the rating option appear right after one gives their vote.
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Well, my only concern about that is the amount of traffic a published thread gets over one that's still in the Workbench.
But either way, it would make the movie rating feature more visible.
"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." - 1 Corinthians 2:9
This was suggested before, but I agree that it would be nice to have a single area in the forum for TAS-related lua scripting queries. Currently there are many of these questions scattered all over the forum, but I feel it should be more obvious where such queries should be, if only for ease in browsing to see if others have answered your question. These queries are often not emulator specific, and are perhaps too in depth for the Newbie Corner, and too specific for General...
Even if it doesn't warrant its own subforum, there should be an obvious place for them. If necessary, just adding "and for lua scripting queries" to the description of one of the existing subforums would do the trick.
I have a small suggestion. I think it would be nice to have a visual indicator if a given game in the forum threads has a published run for that game or not. Even something simple like a checkmark. That way someone could scan the forums and see at a glance where open projects might be and how much work has been done.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
As nifty as the site's address set feature is, it feels incomplete and cumbersome to use.
I mainly have the following concerns with it:
1.It would be really nice to view address sets without editing them.
2.It would great to be able to preview address sets before saving them.
3.Disable automatic IRC notifications. Instead, have a "minor edit" checkbox as with other wiki pages.
I also really disagree with the choice of automatically ordering the addresses numerically, and culling duplicates and separators. It would be far better if the ordering could be chosen by the user, to better represent the game logically.
(This would require making an interface closer to the RAM Watch of emulators, and adding the ability to move individual addresses up and down in the table. Being able to edit multiple addresses at once (e.g. deleting them), would also come in very handy for this purpose.)
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Can we get a collapase function for posts?
Like if I want to post a LONG script, I should be able to put it into a tag of some kind and have the user click on "Expand" and they can see ALL the text. It may be called Spoiler on other forums. Where you can take a block of text and put it into a special box that can be compressed/expanded.
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Can we get a collapase function for posts?
Like if I want to post a LONG script, I should be able to put it into a tag of some kind and have the user click on "Expand" and they can see ALL the text. It may be called Spoiler on other forums. Where you can take a block of text and put it into a special box that can be compressed/expanded.
To add to that: Or put it in an HTML textarea.
All syllogisms have three parts, therefore this is not a syllogism.
Can we get a collapase function for posts?
Like if I want to post a LONG script, I should be able to put it into a tag of some kind and have the user click on "Expand" and they can see ALL the text. It may be called Spoiler on other forums. Where you can take a block of text and put it into a special box that can be compressed/expanded.
If you like to inject css:
.code {
max-height: 300px;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
Makes all code blocks larger than 300px scrollable.
Can there be a way to not load a video during posting? Currently every time I want to respond to thesethreads, it slows my computer down and drains my internet limit.
