GWJ bugs, feature requests, and updates

I wouldn't mind seeing a way to say, unless I post on this thread again, I don't want to see it in the "my recent posts". There were a bunch of threads I posted in once and just don't follow and end up just clicking on them all to reset at some point. Needless work for me and your servers.

So the idea would be

1. Post on thread, start's to follow it (p.s. a follow this thread without posting would be nice too)
2. You see it in the my recent posts thread
3. "Un-follow" button next to each of the lines, click and it leaves the list
4. Post again, it's back. WOOT! Because, I click on the wrong thing from time to time!

Cheers,

SodaGremlin!

p.p.s. - Thanks for the great site!

Would it be possible to have the "Popular forum threads" box have a icon to link to the "new" posts or even the last page?
Many of the popular threads such as the deal catch alls basically require an extra bounce through the first page.

Thanks for all the work on the great site.
(speaking of which who do we thank in particular for that?)

Rahmen wrote:

Would it be possible to have the "Popular forum threads" box have a icon to link to the "new" posts or even the last page?
Many of the popular threads such as the deal catch alls basically require an extra bounce through the first page.

Thanks for all the work on the great site.
(speaking of which who do we thank in particular for that?)

I know there are a few big contributors (at least content wise), but Certis is one of the all powerful beings that be.

SodaGremlin wrote:
Rahmen wrote:

Thanks for all the work on the great site.
(speaking of which who do we thank in particular for that?)

I know there are a few big contributors (at least content wise), but Certis is one of the all powerful beings that be.

Send your tithes to doogiemac and Pyroman. *Legion* likes them young. trueheart78 would like you to watch all seasons of The IT Show.. again.

I think that about covers it

[size=10]You mean there's something other than the forums on this site?[/size]

SodaGremlin wrote:

I wouldn't mind seeing a way to say, unless I post on this thread again, I don't want to see it in the "my recent posts". There were a bunch of threads I posted in once and just don't follow and end up just clicking on them all to reset at some point. Needless work for me and your servers.

So the idea would be

1. Post on thread, start's to follow it (p.s. a follow this thread without posting would be nice too)
2. You see it in the my recent posts thread
3. "Un-follow" button next to each of the lines, click and it leaves the list
4. Post again, it's back. WOOT! Because, I click on the wrong thing from time to time!

Cheers,

SodaGremlin!

p.p.s. - Thanks for the great site!

Or it we could just mark threads as favorite and the tracker had an extra option to pull up just favorites

Wanted to toss my hat in this game(a bit late, but have had busy life times)

I can offer Google AppEngine, anything Java server related, and Android. I would love to have a good android app for the site. Which would need a good data API on the backend that could be used by an iphone app as well. Is anyone working that yet?

I've updated the spreadsheet.

Robert

SodaGremlin wrote:
SodaGremlin wrote:

I wouldn't mind seeing a way to say, unless I post on this thread again, I don't want to see it in the "my recent posts". There were a bunch of threads I posted in once and just don't follow and end up just clicking on them all to reset at some point. Needless work for me and your servers.

So the idea would be

1. Post on thread, start's to follow it (p.s. a follow this thread without posting would be nice too)
2. You see it in the my recent posts thread
3. "Un-follow" button next to each of the lines, click and it leaves the list
4. Post again, it's back. WOOT! Because, I click on the wrong thing from time to time!

Cheers,

SodaGremlin!

p.p.s. - Thanks for the great site!

Or it we could just mark threads as favorite and the tracker had an extra option to pull up just favorites

Or I could just read the first page and realize all this stuff is up there... :/

taer wrote:

Wanted to toss my hat in this game(a bit late, but have had busy life times)

I can offer Google AppEngine, anything Java server related, and Android. I would love to have a good android app for the site. Which would need a good data API on the backend that could be used by an iphone app as well. Is anyone working that yet?

I've updated the spreadsheet.

Robert

Also a Java guy here with plenty of experience and happy to help out if there is something I can do. (little things, no major time sinks)

Spammers have defeated GWJ's anti-spam scheme by simply waiting two weeks (or even half a year) before posting their first spam message. It seems that this website needs something stricter. The easy way would be to remove the ability to link after two weeks of membership. Another way would be to crowdsource the whole affair and introduce some sort of "thumbs up button" for coffee grinders. Other GWJers could then "thumb up" their posts and after 10 or so "thumbs ups" they could post links. That would be a pretty complicated scheme, however. Maybe there are better ways.

Just a "report post" option would be nice and help us help the admins deal with spammers quicker.

Also you could at least restrict the spammers from creating new threads until x number of posts in other threads. It wouldn't stop spam entirely but it would at least keep the rss feed cleaner.

MannishBoy wrote:

Just a "report post" option would be nice and help us help the admins deal with spammers quicker.

Yeah that's the better option. We don't need some silly rating system for who's the best poster.

Whenever I see spam, I just send Certis a PM. A report button would be a nice bit of streamlining, though.

Especially if you could rig it up so it only alerted once on each message... so Certis wouldn't drown in emails if lots of us clicked 'report'.

I think that this is one of the few sites where one could have a button for reporting a post as spam, and after X people have reported it as spam, the poster automagically gets put on lockdown and the post removed.

mudbunny wrote:

I think that this is one of the few sites where one could have a button for reporting a post as spam, and after X people have reported it as spam, the poster automagically gets put on lockdown and the post removed.

You could have it that only tagged members count and that would keep it from being abused tooo much

A general thread/post tagging system could be useful too. Instead of a thread having catch all in the title, it's tagged for the game name and that it's a catch all, and no one will ever create a duplicate thread ever again, everyone will find the thread they're looking for straight away with no problems.

I'm wary of a report button that does anything but report. Even tagged members have been trouble in the past.

Yeah it's not like just because we've been around a while that we can't have a bad day, be a jerk once in a while. Nobody's perfect.

Except me.

So, there is this huge header space at the top of every page with nothing but the GWJ gray fill in it. Is there any way we can size that down and kill the wasted space? Maybe there is some way to change the user-links to be horizontal instead of vertical...

Perhaps not the best solution, but you should be able to change that with a custom userscript if you're using a compatible browser. However, a minimal skin on the site would be interesting. The whole site has a lot of spacing which while it has it's uses, does mean the scroll wheel on my mouse gets a lot of use.

I believe that space is for an ad banner. (Although I believe people who've paid to support the site aren't meant to see an ad there, and it doesn't seem to be working at all right now.)

Hypatian wrote:

I believe that space is for an ad banner. (Although I believe people who've paid to support the site aren't meant to see an ad there, and it doesn't seem to be working at all right now.)

So it's left over from before September 2008?

You know what would be really nice (and seemingly fairly easy)? Not having BBCode and HTML count against the character limit in a signature. I can't put hard links to both my Steam and Xbox profiles and then type even a single word afterwards, because the HTML has eaten up all the characters.

Minarchist wrote:

You know what would be really nice (and seemingly fairly easy)? Not having BBCode and HTML count against the character limit in a signature. I can't put hard links to both my Steam and Xbox profiles and then type even a single word afterwards, because the HTML has eaten up all the characters.

I've asked for this in the past, and there was a good reason not to do it, but I forget what it was.

Minarchist wrote:

You know what would be really nice (and seemingly fairly easy)? Not having BBCode and HTML count against the character limit in a signature. I can't put hard links to both my Steam and Xbox profiles and then type even a single word afterwards, because the HTML has eaten up all the characters.

http://bit.ly is your friend.

Although they have their uses, I generally hate url shorteners as they obscure where you're going to. I've got a script running that looks them up and expands them all, so after a page loads I see the sigs explode into long form links.

For various game profiles, gamertags, etc. there's already a section in everyone's profile for them, so I'd love to see those get used better.

NSMike wrote:
Minarchist wrote:

You know what would be really nice (and seemingly fairly easy)? Not having BBCode and HTML count against the character limit in a signature. I can't put hard links to both my Steam and Xbox profiles and then type even a single word afterwards, because the HTML has eaten up all the characters.

I've asked for this in the past, and there was a good reason not to do it, but I forget what it was.

It seems like no problem for other forums. I normally can cut and paste my sig between different forums, GWJ is the only one I need to customise it.

While unintentional thread necromancy is almost always amusing, perhaps the "post comment" button could require an additional step ("The last post in this thread was 532 days ago, do you really want to post a followup?") for threads older than a month (or other length of time deemed appropriate).

(Alternately, randomly encourage thread necromancy by occasionally making extremely old threads appear on the recent posts page.)