General site updates, TODO list and discussion

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron November 30, 2014, 08:49:04 AM

IMO they should be necessary only when downvoting. I usually don't write much more for the vote than a post giving my opinion...

u/novenary November 30, 2014, 09:44:31 AM

Quote from: Juju on November 29, 2014, 08:26:45 PM
Hehe, everyone likes when everything goes better than expected.

(inb4 we didn't even launched yet and we're more active than Omnimaga)

Edit: Wait, we are? I did the math and for the 18 days since the site creation until I write those lines:

Omnimaga posts: 1080
Omnimaga topics: 62
Codewalrus posts: 892
Codewalrus topics: 55
Number of days CW's been more active than Omni: 6 (33%)

Way to go, guys.

Factor in the number of people posting and we are effectively more acitve than omni members.

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron November 30, 2014, 03:28:45 PM

Factor in the members who are more active here than there! :p

u/Dream of Omnimaga November 30, 2014, 05:17:13 PM

Quote from: Eiyeron on November 30, 2014, 08:49:04 AM
IMO they should be necessary only when downvoting.

The main issue right now is that the karma mod lacks such feature. It's either mandatory reason for both or none at all.

u/Yuki December 01, 2014, 02:42:59 AM

If we mod that mod, that might be doable.

u/Dream of Omnimaga December 01, 2014, 04:44:36 AM

Ok so robot.txt is gone now (unless there is another one elsewhere?). Although we are not sharing it ourselves the site will probably have some meta-tags soon too.

Also on Omni I decided to use the Walrii avatar that has the spikes power up to reduce confusion.

EDIT: I also got rid of the orange links in the site theme. I thought it kinda looked nice at first, but now that most stuff is green it looks a bit weird to just have those orange.

Last Edit: December 01, 2014, 07:33:07 AM by DJ Omnimaga

u/novenary December 01, 2014, 05:21:36 PM

Maybe the blue should go away too. Also the pink text.

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron December 01, 2014, 05:26:37 PM

Yeah, I was wondering if I would ask you which was would have done that

u/Dream of Omnimaga December 01, 2014, 05:43:56 PM

Quote from: Streetwalrus on December 01, 2014, 05:21:36 PM
Maybe the blue should go away too. Also the pink text.

Do you mean the blue-gray-ish links for other links? I thought about making them green, but then I would need to change the CodeWalrus staff color.

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron December 01, 2014, 05:49:44 PM

Do you mean the breacrumb? It's quite useful in some times, but only some times... Nah, drop it.

u/Dream of Omnimaga December 01, 2014, 08:23:56 PM

Yeah those, as well as Quote, Modify, Remove, etc

u/Dream of Omnimaga December 02, 2014, 04:06:30 AM

Custom site navigation has been implemented. Some links were moved under Forum or elsewhere and links to the site downloads section, as well as the external store, were added.

Unfortunately, unlike in SMF 1.1, in order to edit SMF 2.0 navigation, you must edit the SMF source files (subs.php). This could prevent site upgrades, although we will only see when SMF 2.0.10 is out. If that's the case, then either the navigation will have to be moved to index.template.php like in SMF 1.1 or it will need to be removed then implemented again and again during each upgrade.

However, this basically means that my todo list for urgent stuff has been processed entirely. The rest, written in bold purple, is under juju/Streetwalrus/pimath's hand. I still need to update a lot of stuff, but all of it is either non-urgent or cannot be done immediately.

By the way, thanks a lot to everyone who helped so far and others who voiced their opinion about possible site updates. Hopefully we can present a fully functional site on January 1st 2015.

On a side note: For all the non-staff members who were let into this website before opening, ever since this website project started the plan was that I would be solely Forum maintenance staff. In other words, I will admin board categories and stuff, but once this site opens to public, I won't be full moderator nor will I have full server access. I'll be more like some sort of CEO I guess, a position I am more comfortable (and stable) with. Had I been able to return to Omni administration back in 2012 (I ran Omni from Sept 2001 to July 2011, although my server privileges were reduced starting in Feb 2011 and mod privileges by May 2011), the lack of mod privileges would have been my condition, but unfortunately split usergroups happened too late, preventing such non-moderator admin position.

Last Edit: December 02, 2014, 04:21:08 AM by DJ Omnimaga