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| CaveList Revamp Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:01 am — Posted by Livio |
ShareThisFirst of all, I've completely got rid of the Cave Grabber (the links to it are still up, but they bring you to the cavelist instead). Now if you want to look up a code, check it out on the CaveList!
And if the name isn't in our database, it'll automatically add it. I've also added a praise system similar to the cheap excuse for a rating system that the galleries used to have. But the point of the praise system is to have something super simple that'll help us find the good caves out of a horde of bad caves. So you guys should go around and praise all of each others' usernames.I've also added a search, which can let you look through both titles and names, so if you forgot the name of an account, you can use the name search to help you remember it.
Also note that titles of levels can change if that user uploads another level to it, and the title in our database updates every time the page for that username is loaded.Most important is the "Massive Username Addition" page that is only for mods, which let us upload massive quantities of names into the database while doing various checks and error logs. Oh and there's also a Random Cave button, which loads a random name so that you can spend the whole day playing HATPC levels off the cavelist. And whatever you do don't miss the big fat red link to open the HATPC Window. I learned through experience that people will miss that button no matter what, so that's why it looks like that.
Oh and with this the CaveList has reached its 2,000th cave!
User Comments (26)
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
btw, try looking up your usernames to make sure they are on the list. | |
| shos | ||
| ~Jack of all trades~ Age: 31 Karma: 389 Posts: 8273 Gender: Male Location: Israel pm | email |
do you remember the cavesearch? Marz's page? do we have that too..?  | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
there's a link to it on the sidebar. actually he gave me access to his database a while ago. Maybe I'll go run all of his names through our system.... | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
I think he said that he got his names from our list? But it's possible that some got auto-added through searches that we don't have, but it probably won't be very many. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
I think I gave him a list of them all, but yeah, he probably has some that we don't; and it'll be quick since I won't have to double check to make sure there's a level up. btw, both our systems are now very similar, except for the fact that he records much more information | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
New Updates! You now have some browsing options for when you're looking through the regular list-- so basically you don't have to go to search anymore in order to control the order of the results or to look up by praise. You can also look at a list of all of the levels that you've praised by looking at the new "Your Favorites" page. :O | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
The new features don't work across pages... Well... actually they do, just, the page buttons don't bring you to the right place. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
I need an example. b/c I'm looking across the list and I didn't see anything wrong. that, and my internet is started to get slow from running the cavebot... | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
"You now have some browsing options for when you're looking through the regular list" Try using those, and then going to the second page by using the links at the bottom. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
oh no! I forgot to update the pagination links.... | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
Yeah, I said earlier that it'd work with pages, except the links weren't right... What I believe I said was: "The new features don't work across pages... Well... actually they do, just, the page buttons don't bring you to the right place." Where's the confusion there, exactly? Well... maybe you thought I meant the favourites page... | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
yeah I thought you meant the links on the top of the page. I mean, anything can be a "page button". b/c hyperlinks take you to pages.... | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
You wanna update the news for #3000? It still says 2000, but there's 50% more caves now. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
no, I don't want to update this everytime we reach a new number. btw, I think I just fixed the glitch | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
*points to glitch mentioned in cavebot thread* | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
The CaveList now records more information, including: width and height of the cave, terrain type, water type, and if there's water in the cave at all. currently working on: map generator to convert cavecodes into images | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
I don't know if.... I like them being displayed all the time like they are now... I'm going to trust you for now, but I want it to look better when you're finished. Like, maybe they only need to show up on search pages? Otherwise, you have the text and you can (will be able to) get a graphical version if you want it, so you can figure it out... And if you REALLY need to know, like, the width, well, that never happens, but you can just do a search as a worst-case. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
what? the stats? yeah they don't look perfect.. but I was gonna fix that later | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
'Livio' said: what? the stats? yeah they don't look perfect.. but I was gonna fix that later That's what I was figuring you were gonna do when I said I was gonna trust you for now. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
Since there are going to be two version of the map generator (one small, one full-res) then I can probably set an option to whether you want to load a mini-map instead of the cave code every time. that would be cool | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
go to any page in the cavelist to see its generated map Tomorrow I'll add those extra search options that will let you browse and search based on the new data. I'll also add an option for you to turn off the auto-map generator in case it's too slow for you. I even added a counter to it to track how long it takes to load. And that's just tracking it on the server's side. If you have slow internet, it's gonna be much worse.  But the less variety in tiles that a level has, the faster its map loads. It's the same for when you're loading the map in HATPC, too. | |
| shos | ||
| ~Jack of all trades~ Age: 31 Karma: 389 Posts: 8273 Gender: Male Location: Israel pm | email |
very nice! | |
| Harumbai | ||
| [|]-X-[|] Age: 30 Karma: 260 Posts: 1743 Location: New Zealand pm | email |
'Livio' said: But the less variety in tiles that a level has, the faster its map loads. It's the same for when you're loading the map in HATPC, too. so as soon as you introduce another type of tile the map gets slower? Upcoming HatPC level: Sanctuary, coming soon to an internet browser near you... | |
| Yaya | ||
Age: 29 Karma: 747 Posts: 5367 Location: Ohio (US) pm | email |
Good job Livio, I guess I 'll start using cavelist now.  COMING SOON: A giant meteor. Please. Give me +karma. Give me +karma. | |
| shos | ||
| ~Jack of all trades~ Age: 31 Karma: 389 Posts: 8273 Gender: Male Location: Israel pm | email |
that's correct heh XD it took 0 seconds to load hannah_interguild, 1 second to load Zero G III, and 2 for imperio. quite funny.. | |
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