A little extra something

2012-09-27 05:50:21 pm

Caution: This user contains Kana ^_^

If your run gets accepted then your name is shown on the front page anyway (at least forum name). If not … well may-be it stays hidden, but it doesn't have to be. On the other hand, it would do its best to prevent personal sympathies if verifiers didn't know whose run they were watching. But then again, most follow the game threads, and know exactly who is the person in question by the 12,758th frame Wink

UraniumAnchor

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UraniumAnchor: 2012-09-27 07:04:52 pm

2012-09-27 07:03:51 pm

Not a walrus

Let me clarify the way the visibility rules work.

If you're an admin, you see everything.
If you're one of the runners listed on a submission, you see most things. The stuff that remains hidden is for admin use only right now.
If you're listed as a verifier or otherwise have been granted 'access' to the run (on a per-run basis), you'll see the checklist progress and the run comments, but not the runner name.
Otherwise, you only see the run title, the completion date, and a few other categorical things.

You'll also sometimes see run links that have been made public, such as a link to the Verification Decision thread.

I'm certainly not about to ask that somebody gets banned for pointing out a potential security hole, but in the future I'd prefer you PMed me about it.

If it bothered me or the other admins that people could just enter in random numbers and see other runs in the database I would have put something in place to prevent it. There are certainly a few runs right now that you can't see, but that's intentional. And me explaining what they are would defeat the purpose of them being hidden. Smiley

Let me clarify the way the visibility rules work.

If you're an admin, you see everything.
If you're one of the runners listed on a submission, you see most things. The stuff that remains hidden is for admin use only right now.
If you're listed as a verifier or otherwise have been granted 'access' to the run (on a per-run basis), you'll see the checklist progress and the run comments, but not the runner name.
Otherwise, you only see the run title, the completion date, and a few other categorical things.

You'll also sometimes see run links that have been made public, such as a link to the Verification Decision thread.

I'm certainly not about to ask that somebody gets banned for pointing out a potential security hole, but in the future I'd prefer you PMed me about it.

If it bothered me or the other admins that people could just enter in random numbers and see other runs in the database I would have put something in place to prevent it. There are certainly a few runs right now that you can't see, but that's intentional. And me explaining what they are would defeat the purpose of them being hidden. :)

CrypticJacknife

2012-10-01 05:40:20 am

Ganondorf = Donkey Kong LOOK IT UP!!

Verification time reduced from 10 months to 8. CRITICAL HIT!

moooh

2012-10-01 11:19:55 am

Exoray

Actually with the new system we have a full overview over verifications and which ones has gone stale so we would be able to catch any extreme cases and take action before it takes that long.

slowbro

2012-10-04 11:29:01 am

The good SDA people are always coming up with great ideas (like marathons) and slick improvements to the site (like the Taiga forum and this new queue system). I've hardly been around at all for a long time (haven't had the urge to speedrun) but I still have a very high opinion of SDA, its community and all its work Grin

DK28

2012-10-04 09:37:42 pm

General Kong - Bullets and Bananas

^ Yeah! Used to see you and that cat everywhere... Wink

Uilnslcoap

2012-10-04 11:32:50 pm

F*ckin' sanity effects...

Thank you for your continued efforts at this awesome site.

UraniumAnchor

2012-10-07 05:46:18 pm

Not a walrus

New treat for the users in general (most of what I've been adding has been backend stuff):

http://queue.speeddemosarchive.com/queue/myruns/

This does NOT include runs that were already on the site when we started working on this. Other than that, let me know if there's any weirdness.

MAS8705

2012-10-07 06:06:52 pm

SDA Apprentice -- (3-1)

wow! It is all neatly organized!

Two quick questions to ask though, once a game has finished with the verification, is accepted/reject and/or is posted on the site, does that run get taken down off the queue list?

Alongside with that, what is the alternate way for us to access this: Queue/myruns?

UraniumAnchor

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UraniumAnchor: 2012-10-07 06:09:55 pm

2012-10-07 06:09:01 pm

Not a walrus

To answer your second question first, it's linked off the root page if you're logged in.

Eventually, maybe, someday, all existing runs will be in this system. All runs submitted after we starting using it as a backend will never be deleted (unless they were created in error). Even cancelled runs live on in the system. Paper trails are good. Smiley

Aftermath

2012-10-07 06:39:41 pm

Quits halfway

Not sure if it's because it's multiplayer, but the cvhd multiplayer NG+ no-zip ch1-6 IL table is duplicated. This is really cool though! Awesome to see stuff improving on SDA.

UraniumAnchor

2012-10-07 06:41:45 pm

Not a walrus

Is it printing the same link twice, or are there actually two entries?

Aftermath

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Aftermath: 2012-10-07 06:43:45 pm

2012-10-07 06:42:57 pm

Quits halfway

Same link printed twice on that myruns page, going to run 238.

UraniumAnchor

2012-10-07 06:43:45 pm

Not a walrus

Alright, I'll look into that when I get the time, then.

Sir VG

2012-10-07 11:16:13 pm

Fucking Weeaboo

Holy...wow. That is fucking awesome.

PJ

2012-10-07 11:20:20 pm

Is PJ

The CVHD multiplayer table only shows up once for me (yea, this is also my run). Strange that Aftermath gets it twice.

Also yea, I second VG. This is amazing. Great work!

UraniumAnchor

2012-10-08 01:16:37 am

Not a walrus

The My Runs page filters out duplicates now, though I'm still not clear on why I'm getting duplicates to begin with. I'll investigate it more after I have other stuff implemented.

Glad you guys like it, I've definitely got plenty more goodies planned...

sinister1

2012-10-08 08:59:32 am

sinister1

so pro u don't even know

This is great UA!! Really nice work man.

Paraxade

2012-10-08 09:31:10 am

Wow this is awesome. Love it.

Svenne

2012-10-08 09:48:22 am

Smörgåsbord

Sweet! Most awesome!

DK28

2012-10-08 09:11:01 pm

General Kong - Bullets and Bananas

Youkai

2012-10-09 06:20:33 pm

Don't know what to speedrun :(

Question UA. If we see something in the queue does that mean it's out of the runners hands at that point? I ask because one of my games currently has the following under Remaining Checklist:

--Commentary Track
--Postverification
--Prerelease Check

I'm assuming the last two aren't me. Is the first one saying that I (the runner) need to provide the commentary track or is that just a note that it is going to have one? I wonder because there is a commentary and I'm pretty sure I provided it. I'm tempted to PM Flip and confirm but I don't want to annoy the mods unnecessarily.

If it's possible for there to be something in the checklist that the runner needs to provide could we update the checklist to state that the runner needs to complete the task? I think that might prevent unnecessary queries. If it's completely out of your hands by the time it gets to the checklist then this suggestion can be ignored.

UraniumAnchor

2012-10-09 06:27:07 pm

Not a walrus

'Commentary Track' means it's marked as waiting for one. If you already provided one, or aren't planning on providing one, then one of the admins can mark it off. Commentary was a bit haphazard before so after migrating all the old information over I had no idea which runs had commentary and which didn't, or which were waiting on them, so I erred on the side of caution and just marked everything as needing commentary. Eventually I'll give runners a bit more control without having to contact an admin, such as being able to submit a new set of comments directly into the interface instead of having to send it to Flip or puwexil. Everything will still require admin approval, of course.

The last two are things that the admins do such as making the game page and making sure the videos are properly encoded. If there's something you need to do here you'll generally be contacted by an admin.

Heidrage

2012-12-30 09:48:26 am

Willing to teach you the impossible

I know this is mainly about verification, but I would like to ask about a small change that took place not too long ago.

What happened to the SDA logo and the (more important) link to the SDA main page? Is it just my browser acting up or was it removed? And if it was removed, why?

moooh

2012-12-30 09:51:33 am

Exoray

It's still there, maybe you just have it hidden?
There's a blue arrow like shape at the top left that let's you show/hide the top part.