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2006-01-27 02:32:58 am

Sleeping Terror

Well, you'd just have to change the html pages and send them to him, and then he could check that you didn't destroy anything. You wouldn't need to edit the site directly.

trihex

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trihex: 2006-01-27 02:38:21 am

2006-01-27 02:36:40 am

Yoshi's eggs are at my mercy!

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Well, you'd just have to change the html pages and send them to him, and then he could check that you didn't destroy anything. You wouldn't need to edit the site directly.

Okay, if he does that, then he can't make any meaningful progress until the review forum is created. So, he has a URL to paste in each document.

Though, that "ignore the old runs" idea does sound progressive as well.

Psychochild

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Psychochild: 2006-01-27 02:51:06 am

2006-01-27 02:47:25 am

I would volunteer for that, though I would probably require moderator status in the Review Runs forum only for the duration I'm doing that and can have it revoked upon completion. I would need to be able to make these threads at the pace I work at and all, just working alphabetically to keep things simple...

Ekarderif

2006-01-27 05:15:05 am

Your almighty lordship

Radix knows Perl. Make a Perl script!

Psychochild

2006-01-29 05:54:39 pm

I dunno PERL! Feh!

Amazing Ampharos

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Amazing Ampharos: 2006-02-01 05:42:10 am

2006-02-01 05:41:52 am

I really like the idea because I often find myself after watching a run wondering about small things in the run. You know, stuff like "could using X move to kill the enemies in Y room have saved a second or so?" and "how did you manage to do Z?". It's certainly not worth starting a thread over, but it would be nice to be able to discuss matters like that. It would also be a really helpful tool to those hoping to improve a run as they have a nice list of potential improvements handily laid out for them. As per implementing, no rush would be needed. Adding in a few here and there each update while keeping them up for new runs would work. It's not so bad if all that linking takes 3 months; the topics existing would be the nice part. You could also have very specific strings in the topic titles/first posts that would make the search feature work wonders. For instance:

"SNES The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past any% single segment" would generate exactly one response, or at the very least the correct thread would be the first one listed, as the use of that string in any other thread is highly unlikely.

I really like the idea because I often find myself after watching a run wondering about small things in the run. You know, stuff like "could using X move to kill the enemies in Y room have saved a second or so?" and "how did you manage to do Z?". It's certainly not worth starting a thread over, but it would be nice to be able to discuss matters like that. It would also be a really helpful tool to those hoping to improve a run as they have a nice list of potential improvements handily laid out for them. As per implementing, no rush would be needed. Adding in a few here and there each update while keeping them up for new runs would work. It's not so bad if all that linking takes 3 months; the topics existing would be the nice part. You could also have very specific strings in the topic titles/first posts that would make the search feature work wonders. For instance:

"SNES The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past any% single segment" would generate exactly one response, or at the very least the correct thread would be the first one listed, as the use of that string in any other thread is highly unlikely.

Radix

2006-02-01 06:47:08 am

I'm addicted to games

I thought of a solution that would make this slightly easier on me. Instead of the links being on the html pages, they could be on the demo.pl download pages. Then there'd just be one file that would need mantainied, something that correlates the run name and the thread number, and I'm sure Psychochild could manage that. Of course I'd have to do a little more demo.pl alteration but I have many times in the past.

The question of course would be where exactly to put it on the download page?

Psychochild

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Psychochild: 2006-02-01 03:33:30 pm

2006-02-01 03:31:05 pm

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I thought of a solution that would make this slightly easier on me. Instead of the links being on the html pages, they could be on the demo.pl download pages. Then there'd just be one file that would need mantainied, something that correlates the run name and the thread number, and I'm sure Psychochild could manage that. Of course I'd have to do a little more demo.pl alteration but I have many times in the past.

The question of course would be where exactly to put it on the download page?

Great to see you're seriously considering it. Anyway, three ways I can see it happening....

*CONJURES HIS MAD MS PAINT SKILLZ, YO!*

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4049/madmspaintskillz5nz.jpg

One removes the Archive page link since its usefulness is limited to just seeing how many people downloaded the run and even then with Dreamhost or whatever being provided for the first week, it's not nearly as useful now. Another puts the link right under the Archive page link. The third just moves things down a bit and squeezes in above the "BUY SPEEDRUNS ON DVD!" stuff.

[quote]I thought of a solution that would make this slightly easier on me. Instead of the links being on the html pages, they could be on the demo.pl download pages. Then there'd just be one file that would need mantainied, something that correlates the run name and the thread number, and I'm sure Psychochild could manage that. Of course I'd have to do a little more demo.pl alteration but I have many times in the past.

The question of course would be where exactly to put it on the download page?[/quote]

Great to see you're seriously considering it.  Anyway, three ways I can see it happening....

*CONJURES HIS MAD MS PAINT SKILLZ, YO!*

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4049/madmspaintskillz5nz.jpg

One removes the Archive page link since its usefulness is limited to just seeing how many people downloaded the run and even then with Dreamhost or whatever being provided for the first week, it's not nearly as useful now.  Another puts the link right under the Archive page link.  The third just moves things down a bit and squeezes in above the "BUY SPEEDRUNS ON DVD!" stuff.

Radix

2006-02-01 04:40:25 pm

I'm addicted to games

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One removes the Archive page link since its usefulness is limited to just seeing how many people downloaded the run

Except I have to leave it there or archive will get mad. Plus when items move around (as can happen, see 'hyperzone links dead' for examlpe) they can still get the run from there.

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The third just moves things down a bit and squeezes in above the "BUY SPEEDRUNS ON DVD!" stuff.

Ooops, I forgot to remove that.

Psychochild

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Psychochild: 2006-02-01 04:50:38 pm

2006-02-01 04:49:49 pm

Well you can always just replace the "Buy Speed Runs on DVD" with something like "Got a slow internet connection? Consider our Data Disk Service!" or something equally weak like that. Not that I'm calling the service weak. Just my sales pitches.

Personally I like the option where we just add an extra line above the "Donate to Paypal" option. I think that works the best.

darkwasabi

2006-02-06 02:51:20 am

King of hearts

So is this idea being taken into consideration? I really hope so, it would make things much better because topics are dying so fast now even with 50 topics per page.

Enhasa

2006-02-06 04:38:33 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Unless it's too much work, archive is good even with dreamhosters because it has a different niche. You know, one of archiving.

Since apparently this is the feedback forum thread du jour, I will paste what I said in the other thread here. As you said, threads get buried a lot, and maybe this would help too.

Kinda, bisqwit's moves the workbench over to the published. I was just talking about the moving theads part.

You know, if we're gonna have a feedback forum, a workbench forum (for progress on actual recording) would be another idea. It would be on the honor system, but it would be useful for people to see what's actually being worked on instead of "hey, I like X! will anyone do it?" and planning topics. People can edit thread titles already, but that only works when the runner is also the thread creator. I don't really know what I think about this, just saying.

I guess you're right that it doesn't map 1-1. Eh, I'm sure whatever happens, I'll just get used to it anyway. Wink

Unless it's too much work, archive is good even with dreamhosters because it has a different niche. You know, one of archiving.

Since apparently this is the feedback forum thread du jour, I will paste what I said in the other thread here. As you said, threads get buried a lot, and maybe this would help too.

Kinda, bisqwit's moves the workbench over to the published. I was just talking about the moving theads part.
 
You know, if we're gonna have a feedback forum, a workbench forum (for progress on actual recording) would be another idea. It would be on the honor system, but it would be useful for people to see what's [i]actually[/i] being worked on instead of "hey, I like X! will anyone do it?" and planning topics. People can edit thread titles already, but that only works when the runner is also the thread creator. I don't really know what I think about this, just saying.
 
I guess you're right that it doesn't map 1-1. Eh, I'm sure whatever happens, I'll just get used to it anyway. ;)

KillerDreaming

2006-02-23 12:17:20 pm

Super Nerd

I would actually prefer to just keep reviews to my Blog, sure it's a nice thing to have a forum that cares enough to let their members partake in everything possible, but I'd rather have the ability to customize everything I want to about my review, and not be limited to a forum's thread. :-/