Dvader said:Sounds awesome. I dont know the first thing of web design so I can't help with most. The extension news thing sounds cool.
You just have to vaguely know what you want; the design is me telling you what you actually want 
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I think the login stuff is pretty important (automating the forgotten password/ user name) for clear reasons. Maybe adding a youth declaration on account setup (over 1
would provide some legal protection.
Skins, I don't have much to say, just make sure the font colors are conducive. Some times I have black text on a dark green background and it's hard to see (I use light, so my text is black -- I think in review submittal).
I like the extension bar idea. It seems we've had a drop off in news submittal, that would make it easier for folks and also underscore our differentiator (mobsourced news).
I've enjoyed the stability and reliability of the site for some time now. You've done some excellent work, even though you now work and school at the same time (and play Ogre Battle) - amazing.
aspro said:Maybe adding a youth declaration on account setup ( over 18 ) would provide some legal protection.
Legally speaking, not being a commercial site, I don't really know of any legal imperative. Practically speaking, that does nothing. Philosophically speaking, I don't think I should be telling other people, regardless of age, what they can or cannot handle.
aspro said:I've enjoyed the stability and reliability of the site for some time now. You've done some excellent work, even though you now work and school at the same time (and play Ogre Battle) - amazing.
The best part is that I don't have to do anything and the site will keep going
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aspro said:Skins, I don't have much to say, just make sure the font colors are conducive.
I think you missed it. Custom skins; that is, you control the colours (and fonts).
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My brain has been slowed along with the internet so when it's faster again I'll see if I can think of anything useful.
Can you make the site do Eurogamer updates automatically?
Iga_Bobovic said:Can you make the site do Eurogamer updates automatically?
If someone wanted to read every article at Eurogamer wouldn't they go to that site?
aspro said:Iga_Bobovic said:Can you make the site do Eurogamer updates automatically?
If someone wanted to read every article at Eurogamer wouldn't they go to that site?
What kind of logic is that?
aspro said:Iga_Bobovic said:Can you make the site do Eurogamer updates automatically?
If someone wanted to read every article at Eurogamer wouldn't they go to that site?
No, they are lazy and so am I. I get tired of this updating, can't wait to be replaced by a Yoda's coding.
Iga_Bobovic said:aspro said:Iga_Bobovic said:Can you make the site do Eurogamer updates automatically?
If someone wanted to read every article at Eurogamer wouldn't they go to that site?
No, they are lazy and so am I. I get tired of this updating, can't wait to be replaced by a Yoda's coding.
But not all their stories are interesting. If you want I can post the interesting ones from that site each day to save you the trip. (In the past I've avoided the site as it's traditionally been your and GG's beat -- the way I kind of handle andriasang.com and Hamster does the gonintendo stories).
We'll all be out of a job soon...
...Wait, we're not getting paid!
Bring it on.
gamingeek said:This toolbar sounds suspicious. Is it malware so Yoda can spread Darth's gay porn across our computers?
IS it?!
I maintain a list of ideas and improvements in the Site Suggestions thread to go back to, but it's not necessarily complete, chronological or all things that will be done.
Right now aside from fixing the last unread GG Weekly feature, the top priorities for specific functions are in order
- Custom skins and layout
- Login box redesign (forgot login, etc.)
- Apply minify library to improve loading
Separately, in terms of general improvements, I'm also looking at- Overhauling GG Weekly news posting
- Implementing AJAX forum functionality (autoload new comments, chat view, etc.)
- Top bar and menu redesign
- Stats
These are things that I'd like to do, but don't have clear concepts on how to execute, so any concrete ideas here are very welcome. Custom skins has been coming for a long while and is mostly there. The code is structured to allow for it, and it's mostly a matter of implementation of the configuration screen in your options. Layouts use 11 different colour settings, all of which will be editable, as well as font family and size.I've been in the meanwhile looking for more appropriate ways to handle news posting. Just grabbing all the news from one site defeats the purpose of the feature in the first place. Here the best solution in mind may just be an additional feature to the current structure. The GGWeeklyBar extension for Firefox was a start, but what I'd like to do is to add custom buttons to known gaming news sites that allow you to dynamically submit news. For example, if you browse to IGN with the extension installed, you would see a "Submit to GG Weekly" button that would bring up a pre-filled box to submit the article.
The top redesign is dependent on the login updates. And minify is a backend improvement.
Following that stack we have a need for lots of stats. There's a lot of information that could be provided to users both on an individual and collective basis that may be of interest.
That's what I'm working on. No telling when anything may or may not be done, but that's your update for now.
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