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| Livio's Summer To-Do List Monday, May 17, 2010 1:12 am — Posted by Livio |
ShareThisI've made forum topics similar to this in the past, but I think they were mostly in the staff forum. For a while now, the staff has been trying to make more public our discussions on how things should be run around here, and this is a great exercise in that.
Also note that this list is organized in by content, not by priority. In fact, I wouldn't even know how to prioritize this. There's also a mix between my own stuff, stuff that mainly concerns the staff (as in not me), and some personal goals of mine.
Aeon
- Long Term
- add more tiles
- add music
- add some real artwork?
- make a replay feature??
- learn more ActionScript 3.0
- Short Term
fix crawling-under-terrain glitchfix some mysterious glitches that let you go through tiles.finish upgrading Aeon's general organization (been working on this for the past few days)attemptfigure out how to get this to work: a new idea on how to cut back on load times and may also help in creating checkpoints.fix glitch where object images don't seem to line up with their collision areas- Design a decent pause screen
- Design a decent "win" screen for when you beat the level
- finish level editor
- add HB's spike graphic to the demo.
The Games System
We've been discussing this for a while in the staff forum. We plan to completely get rid of the current games system and replace it with something much more organic.
The Problem: Right now, you have to "submit a game" and wait for the staff to approve it before you can start uploading levels or writing guides or making other content about the game. Not only does this tend to be a super slow process (because the staff is lazy) but we have a lot of "empty games" here, where there is absolutely no content about them on the Interguild.
Solution to be Implemented: Whenever you want to add a level to the database (or add any other kind of content to the other sections of the site) you will have a choice of selecting the game it's for from a list, and if the required game is not among the list, then you should be able to select an "other" option. This option would make you fill out fields for the game's name and a link to the game. This is great because nothing gets in the way of you uploading a level for the game you like, and it means that we actually have to have content for a specific game before it becomes part of the site, so we don't have people suggesting games that "might" get popular.
Even with the revamp, we also have to:
- make new game pages and make sure they are awesome
- make the the GAMES tab on the topbar link to those awesome new game pages instead of the level database
- prune out the "empty" games
Level Database
The level database needs a revamp to go along with the new layout. I actually started working on this as I made the layout, but I decided to give up on the idea so that the layout could be released faster. Some issues that have to be fixed are:
- navigation and search options are not placed well
- favorites system has many glitches, is coded horribly, and is super inefficient.
- downloadable files should be made more secure by making the staff approve them, or something
- Adding some kind of Screenshot feature would be cool
- Finally adding that directory idea
- let people find levels based on awards
- mods should be able to add levels to all series, and also create non-public series for any member
- let people delete levels while still preserving topics
The current guide system stinks. I started working on a revamp around last December, but that was quickly replaced by the construction of the new layout. Since then, I've come up with a much more crazy and much more awesome idea on how to fix the Guides system. I first explored the idea here. I plan to get rid of the guides system entirely, and in its place, I'll give every member their own blog on the Interguild. Then everyone can use their blogs however they want: to write guides on how to use a certain glitch, give advice on good caving design, highlight what you think are this year's best levels so far, etc. It will then be up to the staff to make and maintain "lists" of worthy blog posts and group them into categories, such as "HATPC Tricks and Glitches Guides", or "N Level Design", or whatever. I'm hoping that this results in more information being written down in general and by more people.
Video Archive
Is this thing ever going to get revamped? We all know how horrible and broken this section is, but I seem to be seriously deprioritizing this. Perhaps it's because I haven't been inspired on how to make the video archive better, or maybe it just hasn't annoyed me enough? Anyway, here's what has to be done with regard to the Video Archive:
- show awards that are related to videos
- find motivation to improve video archive
- use motivation to improve video archive
Everything Else in no real order:
improve GAMES tabusing some kind of javascript to delay the Mouse-Out effect- learn javascript to accomplish the above item along with several other ideas mentioned later
- fix all the bugs on bug reports
- create a super cool, super new PM system that accomplishes the following:
- is coded much better than the current one
- be structured similar to a forum topic, where you can see all the past posts related to the conversation, instead of just the most immediately previous post.
- maybe also allow for private conversations among more than two people
- make more things around the site track IPs (useful for us staff)
- get more members by:
- creating link-back buttons and forum sig banners for members to use
further publicizing our facebook and twitter pages- doing stuff with other related sites, maybe some partnerships with other databases
Finish working with staff on how to reorganize our forum boards, and finally implement these plans- write more guides (or hopefully blogs) on more HATPC glitches that have yet to be written on
Make competition pages look better? At least have the new-comp and comp-results posts automatically link to each other.- get the staff to give out awards for those old "Best of 2007" awards, also known as the Caving Elections from the old site.
delete all the forum topics moved over from the old site, which are just sitting in a secret board, and have been plagued by name-changing glitches.decide whether we want to move over all those topics again. We may decide that it's not worth it, no one cares, and that it's embarrassing to see how bad our posts used to be.did I ever finish making all the forms around the site more secure? did I ever start?- Reported-PM page is a big mess, but no one cares about that.
- Comp-Judging page is just horrible.
- automatically refreshing chatbox? Maybe make it cool like dekudude's site where the refreshing is done subtly using javascript, unlike IceCaves' uncool every-five-seconds page reload. In fact, this shouldn't just be for the chatbox but also for all that other stuff in that area, which means it's finally a way to refresh the online members box without reloading the page
- Make a preview generator for Free Rider 2
- Make a preview generator for N
finally reachhold onto 100 karma.Or just getting past 90 would be good...- Let staff split topics
- Allow forum boards to be locked
- Allow forum boards to be semi-locked, where you may post, but not create new topics
- Make better, on-time weekly updates
Create a page that will let the staff edit the Featured Content- On the top bar where it says "Search Levels", make it so that when you roll over it, options will come up for searching through videos, guides, or whatever. Probably with javascript.
- FORUM SEARCH!
link-to-any-post page (give the id of any post and it'll redirect you straight to it)Make a page that will let users find out which of their posts is affecting their karma- Member Rankings page needs some more stuff, better organization, and add this secret thing that the staff has planned for since like December or something.
Get our Overlord D52 to return to us?- Play more levels
- Make more levels
- Fix all the glitches that are still around from the new layout. I just spotted some in the video archive today.
make an about-us page- organize to-do list with jell's advice
Add email confirmation to the register system.Add a karma-lock feature that stops people from rating certain users' karma.- Make the number of posts per page customizable.
- Ambitious idea: rebuild the structure of the site with more efficient database tables.
- Allow you to preview posts before you make them.
Allow for multiple authors of blog posts- Allow you to save a draft of a blog post so that you can save it on the site as you work on it.
- Add something that points out upcoming and current birthdays
- Add daily post limits on neezles's account.
- Make a map generator for Super Mario Flash
- Make something that will automatically remove the extra spaces at the end of HATPC level codes
- Karma-graph to let us see how users' karma has changed over time.
- Add a queue feature to the level database
- Add a feature that lets us mark posts/topics as unread.
- Let users order levels in their series
- Maybe let users feature their own levels in their profiles.
- Make a mobile version of the site.
User Comments (65)
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
hey, it's vid 513! The marquee sure makes you feel sea sick or something. edit: new page ftw | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
just finished crossing out a few things. next is to finish some little things with the blogs, and then game system reform and upgrading the level database. | |
| jazz | ||
Karma: 108 Posts: 3050 pm | email |
Hmm. You need to hold on to 100 karma now? Hmm. EDIT: Bad Idea. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
oh no! are you implying that if I give you minus karma for that post, you'll minus-rate me? But it's so tempting....... | |
| jazz | ||
Karma: 108 Posts: 3050 pm | email |
No, it means you might want to fix a few things. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
I don't see how I was supposed to get that from your post. Unless you oppose to the vid censors? | |
| Woodstock | ||
Karma: 9 Posts: 67 pm | email |
I had to kick Jazz off to say that we need a 'Merry Christmas' censor. Spoiler: | |
| jazz | ||
Karma: 108 Posts: 3050 pm | email |
Umm... you might need to fix the list. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
nothings wrong with it. The entire "Guides System" paragraph is meant to be crossed out. | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
'Livio' said: nothings wrong with it. The entire "Guides System" paragraph is meant to be crossed out. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
 Technically, I already accomplished that. I'm still just trying to hold onto my 100.....  | |
| KarmaBot | ||
Karma: 14 Posts: 16 pm | email |
'Livio' said: nothings wrong with it. The entire "Guides System" paragraph is meant to be crossed out. KARMA WAS SUBTRACTED FROM THIS POST BY AN INFERIOR USER. THE KARMABOT DOES NOT ACKNOWLEDGE KARMA HARASSMENT TOWARD LIVIO WHERE HIS OBLITERATION HAS NOT BEEN PROPERLY ANNOUNCED. TARGET: LIVIO OBJECTIVE: TEMPORARILY ASSIST KARMA HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS POST TO NEGATE THE UNCALLED HARASSMENT. | |
| Harumbai | ||
| [|]-X-[|] Age: 30 Karma: 260 Posts: 1743 Location: New Zealand pm | email |
'Livio' said: Technically, I already accomplished that. I'm still just trying to hold onto my 100..... Well you're doing a great job! /sarcasm Upcoming HatPC level: Sanctuary, coming soon to an internet browser near you... | |
| KarmaBot | ||
Karma: 14 Posts: 16 pm | email |
'Livio' said: finally reach hold onto 100 karma. TARGET: LIVIO OBJECTIVE: COMPROMISE BEING GRACIOUS, KARMABOT HAS DECIDED TO GRANT YOUR WISH OF HOLDING ON TO 100 KARMA. HOWEVER, LIKE THE DEVIL, KARMABOT IS CRAFTY AND FULL OF TRICKERY: YOUR 100 KARMA SHALL, INDEED, BE NEGATIVE. VICTORY: KARMABOTIANS | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
Just crossed this out: link-to-any-post page (give the id of any post and it'll redirect you straight to it) And I was surprised this wasn't on the list, so I added it, and then immediately crossed it out. Make a page that will let users find out which of their posts is affecting their karma | |
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