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Fangames => Help, Suggestions & Feedback => Topic started by: Zero-G on June 19, 2013, 07:33:10 PM

Title: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Zero-G on June 19, 2013, 07:33:10 PM
If you have found a bug or have suggestions for improvements please post them.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Ario147 on June 22, 2013, 10:32:45 AM
I think forum would look better in darker colours.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: pointyobject on June 25, 2013, 02:14:59 PM
Password recovery does not actually send an email, so it does not work D:

It would be cool if a user could hide sigs.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Starz0r on June 25, 2013, 04:52:43 PM
Password recovery does not actually send an email, so it does not work D:

It would be cool if a user could hide sigs.
Did you check spam? Because of how email systems are, our email system may be labeled as spam so I recommend you check there. If it isn't there please ask one of our admins to help you recover you password by verifying you are who you say you are.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: pointyobject on June 25, 2013, 05:43:06 PM
I did check the spam folder, yes.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Starz0r on June 26, 2013, 01:52:45 PM
I did check the spam folder, yes.
Thank you for the feedback, we will try our best to improve the password recovery system.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: lemonxreaper on June 27, 2013, 06:31:12 AM
Improvement: original BrainSlug and TriHard emotes,  :KevinTurtle: needs blackup.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Sephalos on June 27, 2013, 12:34:43 PM
original BrainSlug
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Ario147 on June 28, 2013, 05:15:21 PM
Make link like blue or something, because when link is hide in normal text, nobody will find it.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Sephalos on June 28, 2013, 08:39:24 PM
I also want :DBstyle:
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Holyanus on June 30, 2013, 05:04:43 PM
I think forum would look better in darker colours.

Nuff said
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: infern0man1 on July 06, 2013, 09:06:25 PM
When viewing other peoples profiles, ive noticed two things: it displyes their current location twice and instead of a colon, there is a parenthesis for the next posting level status
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Starz0r on July 17, 2013, 03:37:57 PM
I'm going to point this out, this thread is to point out errors in the forum, if you have a suggestion, I recommend making creating its own thread for the suggestion. Sticked Thread.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: infern0man1 on July 17, 2013, 04:01:43 PM
this is what i mean:

Quote
Username: _
Personal Text: _
Karma: _
Gender: _
Age: _
Location: _
Next Posting Level) _
Location: _


Also, I will keep that in mind, Starz0r

EDIT: Found another. If this is intentional, forget about it.


Quote
(https://www.iwannacommunity.com/forum/Themes/ClearSky_SMF2-Final/images/new_some.png) New Posts  (https://www.iwannacommunity.com/forum/Themes/ClearSky_SMF2-Final/images/new_none.png)No New Posts
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: infern0man1 on July 30, 2013, 07:06:42 PM
The old and new post thing is still in the wrong order. Managed to fix the location showing up twice. :IceFairy:
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Holyanus on July 30, 2013, 07:12:19 PM
Please fix it Star  :BibleThump:
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Reply Code: Alpha on August 15, 2013, 05:45:55 PM
I just figured the forums should be darker or there should be an option to have everything be black with white font like the 4chan Tomorrow visual style, I really like that one because standard is just too mainstream and too bright, it is hurting my eyes. ;C

Also @ Paragus, you should rename your thread on IWBTF into something like "abandon IWBTF, migrate to FC" or "the better forums" or "the forums mods don't want you to know about". Well, maybe something less aggressive. Just make it so lurkers can actually see that the thread will provide a link to another board!
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: TheJooger on November 03, 2013, 05:11:25 PM
This may just have something to do with the server you guys are on, and therefore may be out of your control, (Hell, it may just be my internet connection), but oftentimes I find myself getting hit with a 503 or 500 error.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: infern0man1 on November 03, 2013, 05:12:48 PM
I've never gotten a 500 error, but I almost always get a 503.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Wolsk on November 03, 2013, 10:36:54 PM
I really don't know why so many forums have a "Sent Messages" tab that never works properly.
If I send a message, I want to be able to read it again when I get a response.

fixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixit
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: infern0man1 on March 13, 2014, 06:46:42 PM
This has really been bothering me with my OCD:

(click to show/hide)


And when I go to that board, 8 pages of nothing:

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Zero-G on March 14, 2014, 09:34:28 AM
only from page 3-6 . i will see what i can do
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: HAEGOE on March 14, 2014, 07:01:55 PM
I'm not sure if it's error or not, but I have something to report. Guests was posting in one of the the Other languages board, and some of the guests were even attempting to starting a new topic there. I thought we should log in here to write in every board..

edit : after writing this, I saw a guest writing here, too. It looks like guest is doing whatever I'm doing, or the server perceives so.(Though I never tried to make a new topic here

Here: :RedCoat:

-infern0man1


edit by myself(HAEGOE): For comparison - :Kappa: :IceFairy: :FrankerZ:
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: infern0man1 on March 15, 2014, 11:51:06 AM
The Red Coat emote has an opaque.


 :RedCoat:

Edit: Going to Edit HAEGOE's post above to show ya a little better.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: patrickgh3 on May 11, 2015, 06:14:40 PM
A few things:

I wish the website and forums had a favicon. Right now it's sometimes a page, and sometimes the youtube favicon for me. I made this one real quick (C for community): (https://i.imgur.com/dX2kgXE.png)

It would be nice to have some options for color schemes on the forum. This has been suggested several times. I don't know how easy or hard it is to implement, but it would be nice.

I previously suggested that specific Game Maker questions be put in their own sub-board to clean up the Game Design board and help people find useful posts, in this thread (https://www.iwannacommunity.com/forum/index.php?topic=1597.0). Consider this a bump for that thread.

Thanks! I would also be willing to do this stuff myself if I had the privileges.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: patrickgh3 on June 09, 2015, 01:31:06 PM
Bump for my previous post. A favicon would be nice. And I strongly desire the Game Maker help questions to be put in their own group, since they make actual important posts in Game Design impossible to find. Also, I don't want to come across as pestering; I would be willing to put in the work to figure out how to do all this stuff if I had the privileges. Thanks forum team!

A few things:

I wish the website and forums had a favicon. Right now it's sometimes a page, and sometimes the youtube favicon for me. I made this one real quick (C for community): (https://i.imgur.com/dX2kgXE.png)

It would be nice to have some options for color schemes on the forum. This has been suggested several times. I don't know how easy or hard it is to implement, but it would be nice.

I previously suggested that specific Game Maker questions be put in their own sub-board to clean up the Game Design board and help people find useful posts, in this thread (https://www.iwannacommunity.com/forum/index.php?topic=1597.0). Consider this a bump for that thread.

Thanks! I would also be willing to do this stuff myself if I had the privileges.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Starz0r on June 09, 2015, 09:01:48 PM
Bump for my previous post. A favicon would be nice. And I strongly desire the Game Maker help questions to be put in their own group, since they make actual important posts in Game Design impossible to find. Also, I don't want to come across as pestering; I would be willing to put in the work to figure out how to do all this stuff if I had the privileges. Thanks forum team!

A few things:

I wish the website and forums had a favicon. Right now it's sometimes a page, and sometimes the youtube favicon for me. I made this one real quick (C for community): (https://i.imgur.com/dX2kgXE.png)

It would be nice to have some options for color schemes on the forum. This has been suggested several times. I don't know how easy or hard it is to implement, but it would be nice.

I previously suggested that specific Game Maker questions be put in their own sub-board to clean up the Game Design board and help people find useful posts, in this thread (https://www.iwannacommunity.com/forum/index.php?topic=1597.0). Consider this a bump for that thread.

Thanks! I would also be willing to do this stuff myself if I had the privileges.

I'll look into it, as for a favicon, I'm still looking into it and will probably find something soon.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: nops on July 12, 2015, 05:32:37 AM
For delicious-fruit, how about adding a real "top fangames" feature? It should be interesting for new players who don't know where to start. I know you can just go on the full fangame list page and sort by rating, but there are a few problems with that:
 - it doesn't take into account the number of ratings per fangame, which means I can just rate any new fangame 10/10 and it'll end up first on the list
 - the averages themselves don't take into account the "average rating" of people who reviewed it: for example, a 10/10 from someone who rates all his games 10/10 should weigh less than a 10/10 from someone whose rating average is around 5/10. A way to solve this problem is to use a formula like: average game rating = (sum of abs(user_x's game rating - user_x's average rating)*user_x's rating) / (sum of abs(user_x's game rating - user_x's average rating))
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: tehjman1993 on July 12, 2015, 01:55:30 PM
For delicious-fruit, how about adding a real "top fangames" feature? It should be interesting for new players who don't know where to start. I know you can just go on the full fangame list page and sort by rating, but there are a few problems with that:
 - it doesn't take into account the number of ratings per fangame, which means I can just rate any new fangame 10/10 and it'll end up first on the list
 - the averages themselves don't take into account the "average rating" of people who reviewed it: for example, a 10/10 from someone who rates all his games 10/10 should weigh less than a 10/10 from someone whose rating average is around 5/10. A way to solve this problem is to use a formula like: average game rating = (sum of abs(user_x's game rating - user_x's average rating)*user_x's rating) / (sum of abs(user_x's game rating - user_x's average rating))

Although this isn't posted in the correct thread, I can answer it here anyway!

To address your 'top fangames' suggestion - this, unfortunately, is much harder to implement than expected. A variety of reasons limit this suggestion to nothing more than checking certain users' clear/rated lists.
-Everyone has varying opinions on "the top fangames." This is the entire point of the site - to let you rate your favorite games high, and your not-so-favorites low.
-There is no concrete "top fangames" list. If you ask me, I have a list. If you ask Klazen, he has a list. If you ask anyone else, they have their own lists. These lists may have the same games or drastically different ones. Hell, maybe my favorite game is one of your LEAST favorite! This completely defeats the purpose of the "top fangames" list, as it is very subjective.
-Sorting by ratings is the best way to find the top fangames. Yes, 1 review that is 10/10 will obviously skew results. However, if you play through that game and do not like it and rate it 5/10, all of a sudden that game is now at 7.5/10 and no longer at the top. You can directly contribute to how well a game does on the top ratings list, which is the entire concept behind del-fruit.
-We are not willing to limit someone's ability to rate games. If someone goes around and rates 4 games 10/10 and 4 games 0/10, we are not going to make their review count as "less." This punishes users for taking an active role in our community. To combat the trolls on the site, Klazen and I have been actively monitoring reviews. We have removed reviews that we have deemed as "spam" or "troll", regardless of their rating. I can confidently tell you that we are on the lookout for this exact behavior. We reserve the right to remove anyone's account/posts/reviews at anytime, as stated by the ToS on account creation, and we have done so on multiple occasions to combat this exact problem.

I hope this helps! If you want to continue this discussion, have a question or comment, or have another suggestion, you can do so here: https://www.iwannacommunity.com/forum/index.php?topic=1386.0

-TJ&Klazen
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: infern0man1 on September 29, 2015, 11:35:39 PM
I noticed just recently that the English caption for the language sub board for Português is Brazilian; while this is technically correct, it should be Portuguese.

Also, while it doesn't entirely matter, there's no English caption for the Russian sub board.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: BaronBlade on December 01, 2015, 06:11:07 PM
I think we need to change the color on the thread page text, as it's really hard to see against the gray background.
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Hatebz on September 06, 2016, 05:25:30 PM
A typo.

(https://i.imgur.com/9cI6cvV.png)
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: Swordslinger on September 06, 2016, 06:24:28 PM
A typo.

(https://i.imgur.com/9cI6cvV.png)

How long has this forum been around again? I'm surprised no one caught that to be honest i didn't even catch it, or maybe someone did and no one mentioned it, did something happen i don't know about?
Title: Re: Collective Thread for forums errors / improvements
Post by: infern0man1 on January 09, 2017, 06:30:09 PM
https://prntscr.com/dtlohm just a small thing

This is a bit difficult to read; maybe make the Global Mod color a bit darker?