Planet Descent
Planet Descent => PD Feedback => Topic started by: The Chief on April 25, 2009, 04:45:59 PM
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Non-Staff members will achieve the following ranks based on post count.
- Bronze... 0 posts
- Silver... 5 posts
- Gold... 100 posts
- Platinum... 750 posts
- Purple Heart... 2000 posts
As members progress through the ranks, privileges are extended... for example, a bronze member cannot send more than 5 personal messages. A Purple Heart member can perform some self moderation tasks, such as moving, splitting our deleting his own topics.
You must be Silver (5 posts or higher) to upload avatars, or attachments. This is an anti-spam measure.
Maximum size of any one attachment is 900 kb.
Total attachment per post is 2000 kb.
Maximum avatar size is 65 x 65. Oversized avatars are automatically re-sized.
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Cool :)
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How about a chart showing what permissions for each group?
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What are the power-ups?
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Karma. If you like someone's post, +1 them. If they are posting crap, neg them.
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Now, that seems a little overkill. I can see where the use would be, but I'd doubt I'd ever really use it. :-\
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Ok, I gave you a +1 for your feedback ;)
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Now see, I wouldn't have ever noticed had you not mentioned it. I just don't go looking for that kind of thing.
And in a way, isn't it kind of demeaning to the poster? What makes one person's post better than another's? Has the world really gotten to the point where somebody's four sentences in an individual post in a forum is subject to such a rating system, where it can't be good enough for somebody? Is it really that important?
Furthermore, I can see this thing getting abused. Say somebody decides they dislike somebody. Couldn't they could track down every post the person has ever made and "power-down" each one just because they don't like the guy?
Okay, this is all probably really deep for something a trivial as this, but it's my two-bits, and you want input about the forums Commander and Chief...
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I don't like the two stars under your name. I'm gonna neg you for that Scy! ... Just kidding ... You're absolutly right, Except for one thing... It's all part of the fun...
(http://www.prepare4descent.net/p4dfiles/lmao.gif)
hehe... Anyway I don't think it's by post. Why don't I think that? uhm... i don't know!
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Guess the fun's lost on me, then. ::)
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Well, powerups aren't by post, they appear to be associated with the poster and you can power them up and down as much as you like. The only catch is you have to wait 1 hour between "Karma" events for a poster.
Scyphi, I gave you two power ups for that last post. ;D
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See? Again, I didn't even notice. It's just not that big a deal to me. :-\
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I have lots of feedback. I know that you use SMF which is an excellent forum system. All of my favorite forums to visit use SMF; it's powerful, secure, user friendly, and has a clean interface.
I'll start with the UI. When I go to modify my profile, I have to scroll all the way to the bottom and click on this tiny text to modify my profile, account, notifications, and other settings. Why must it use 6 or 4 point font? It's incredibly tiny and annoying to have to make sure I don't mis-click. I also don't like that when I scroll to the bottom of a topic, I have to scroll back to the top to use the navigation tree/path (right below the nav bar) to return to the forum index. You can put the nav tree/path on the bottom of topics to avoid tedious scrolling and clicking. It would be great to see the links used for "show unread posts since last visit" and "show new replies to your posts." I use the latter most often on other forums, and it's very useful in not having to browse entire sections to see replies to my posts in topics where I'm active, and having to remember every topic I am active or have been active in. I also do not like the tiny font used in the topic summary below the text field; I like to be able to read it without having to get closer to my monitor. FYI I have a 19" monitor at a resolution of 1280x960, but I don't use Firefox (v3.5) maximized.
The home page is the first place I see whenever I come to this site. There are lots of scroll bars everywhere that move just a couple pixels; the DIV or TABLE tags--whichever is used--could use some tweaking to get rid of those so that it looks less tacky. I see the same thing with the stats plane on the right side of the forum. Use of proportional rather than absolute sizes will help. I am a 4 year user of various forums and forum setups (vBulletin, PHPBB, Invision, etc), and I like having a clean, bug-free and easy to use interface.
I hope this information is of use and thank you for your time.
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and I like having a clean,
A clean, and a what? (http://basementnet.dyndns.org/ryan/phpbbsmilies/icon_razz.gif)
In general though the front page needs a LOT of work. It's nothing but a mess right now, especially compared to the PlanetDescent.com one, which has everything you need right at your view
Also, in the default SMF theme the forum index is WAY too tall, thanks to the giant post read/unread indicators, which are larger than most other forums I visit. PD.Com's index page fits on one screen 1024 pixels tall (not counting toolbars). From the top of the page only Mess hall - MPD show up here.
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What themes are you guys using?
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Forget the themes, who's going to get the Purple Heart status in his or her lifetime considering how Descent is so inactive? :P
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I will..
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You both already have well over 100 posts. Just give it a little time. ;)
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If I could get 3,000+ posts on PD.com, by golly, I'm gonna get that purple heart eventually. ;)
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I don't get the purple heart thing, but I did give Scyhpi yet another power up! ;D
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I am using the default forum theme. Still, I don't like dealing with tiny font. I run my monitor at 1280x960 and one of my browser windows uses about 3/4 of that.
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May I suggest you try some of the other themes, see if they're any better for you? :)
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I don't get the purple heart thing, but I did give Scyhpi yet another power up! ;D
When you get 2,000 posts you get Purple Heart. However, unlike the military (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart), you are not required to bleed or die at Planet Descent to get it. ;)
I think it should be more like 10,000 posts, with bleeding or dieing optional. :o
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Your fingers will be bleeding and dying from the extreme amout of typing by the time of 10,000 posts.
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Either that, or you'll be old enough to retire. :P
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May I suggest you try some of the other themes, see if they're any better for you? :)
That shouldn't be necessary. No forum theme should have text smaller than 8 point!
Some feedback on the homepage; the scrollbars were done away with! Yay!
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Well, I don't know about smaller than 8-point text, but I do know that some of the themes this forum supports has smaller text that others.
If all of them have too small font, then I think it's something on your end, bu that's just a guess. :-\
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I saw this at the Penumbra game forum. something like this, positive or negative review with comments. I guess it's okay, but I don't go crazy over it.
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No it really has no meaning, other than Scyphi who really likes it and is always after those plusses. ;)
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I do not! :P
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If I hotlink an avatar that's smaller than 65x65 (like my previous one), it always gets resized to 65x65. This does not apply to uploaded avatars.
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Isn't 65x65 the max size for avatars?
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yes, but if I hotlink an avatar that's smaller than that, it's resized anyways. (this does not apply to my current one). If I upload the same avatar instead, this does not happen.
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AFAIK ...
"Hotlink" avatars (referenced by html link to a different site) will always get resized if they are not 65x65 because 65x65 is the size specified by this site's code. You might be able to assign the size in your html link code ... but I do not know if this site will accept that coding in your avatar link code.
The site has to specify (or allocate) 65x65 for the avatar in order to maintain consistent structure and arrangement from post to post. This also allows the site to enforce avatar size rules (as set by the site administration).
When an avatar is uploaded to this forum, the site code works off of the size of the graphic from the file details (which is something it cannot readily obtain of graphics through an html "hotlink") ... which allows uploaded avatars to be properly sized.
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That's odd. It seems that DXX-Rebirth (A PHPBB forum) is able to pull the information just fine. My avatar is hotlinked to my webserver and in the generated HTML the size is set properly.
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What, would you rather be using phpBB? Of course not. ::)
We don't want bigger avatars. It's the way it's set up, to resize avatars:
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I'm not talking about bigger ones. I'm talking about smaller ones.
Let me demonstrate. The base image is http://basementnet.us/ryan/ricard_sprite.png (http://basementnet.us/ryan/ricard_sprite.png). The sprite is 48x52. Smaller than 65x65, right?
(http://basementnet.us/ryan/comparison.PNG)
Techpro's post made some sense, but why is PHPBB able to handle the undersized hotlinked avatar fine?
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ok, I changed a setting, try it again.
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It works now. Thanks.