TWHL4 Suggestions Created 9 years ago2015-12-09 03:48:44 UTC by Penguinboy

• Universal BBCode - the same BBCode will work in comments, forums, wiki, vault, and everywhere aside from the shoutbox. There's options for lists (bullets, numbers, nested), tables, youtube embeds, images (with optional alignments), headings, font size/colours, and some other cool stuff. The syntax is a combination of BBCode and something I've invented which is loosely based on Markdown.

• Live shoutbox - the shoutbox is now a JavaScript widget that docks at the bottom of the page, basically like a Facebook chat. It refreshes every minute. It can be minimised or disabled if you don't want to look at it.

• Automatic MOTM - MOTM is automatically created every month, instead of requiring someone to manually do it. The MOTM will be chosen from maps in the 'completed' section that were posted in a month, and the winner will be the one with the highest rating. Each MOTM will be two months behind to give people time to vote (e.g. October MOTM will be posted on December 1st)

• Reviews - because MOTM reviews won't exist anymore, the review system has been merged into the comments on vault items. Any user will be able to add a review. The regular star-based system is still available.

• Vault - maps are the first thing you see on the home page, right at the top. The MOTM and the latest map come first, then 5 top-rated maps and the 5 most recent maps. There's separate sections for models and textures, and potentially applications and tools. The upload limit has been increased to 16MB.

• Vault - YOU CAN ADD MORE THAN ONE SCREENSHOT TO YOUR MAP!

• Wiki - Several sections will be merged into the wiki: tutorials, the VERC archive, and most of the static pages (servers, about us, etc). Wiki edits will get prime coverage on the front page.

• Competitions - I'll be trying to get more regular competitions running. The new system makes it much easier to have competitions that are judged based on a community vote.

• Private messages - PMs are now threaded and the discussion can include more than one person. New people can be invited to an existing PM conversation.

• Accounts - users can now reset their passwords via email

The MOTM and the latest map come first, then 5 top-rated maps and the 5 most recent maps.

See example:

(Page 24 of current map vault)

• A more betterer layout for the list of maps, I think it looks like it needs to be tidied up a bit. Things like the time of the upload probably don't matter that much on the general list, while the date of the last update would be more interesting.

• More sorting and filtering options. Such as by uploader (so that you don't have to go find their profile somewhere else first), date, last update, download count (who doesn't want to know which is the most downloaded map on TWHL?) or other such things other people will start coming up with soon.

• As it was already discussed in the Shoutbox a few days ago, even if nobody would care because it's more about what's done internally , it would be convenient if the map download was delivered with the map's name as the filename, regardless of how it was stored (keeping the number in the server would probably be the cleanest)

Wiki edits will get prime coverage on the front page.

Accounts - users can now reset their passwords via email

• A more visible notification for private messages

I'd like to see the map upload size restriction loosened. 2MB is rarely enough and we've already lost a lot of externally hosted maps.

The upload limit has been increased to 16MB.

- Vault - maps are the first thing you see on the home page, right at the top. The MOTM and the latest map come first, then 5 top-rated maps and the 5 most recent maps. There's separate sections for models and textures, and potentially applications and tools. The upload limit has been increased to 16MB.

Wouldn't it be better if in this case, "latest map" would also consider maps that were recently updated even if they were old enough not to show up on this list?

I have a little problem with the current criteria for picking the top-rated maps. Right now, if you go to the map vault and sort by rating, it will sort by average rating. So if you have a map with 738 5-star ratings and 1 1-star rating

Things like the time of the upload probably don't matter that much on the general list

More sorting and filtering options. Such as by uploader

[sort by] date, last update, download count

map download was delivered with the map's name as the filename

Including if I fix an eight-year-old misspelling?

A more visible notification for private messages

2MB is rarely enough and we've already lost a lot of externally hosted maps.

I think I suggested something about tutorials a while back, but I've forgotten what it was. Oh well.

I'd like to see a better way to implement community competitions (mini-compos, if you will), though I can't really think of any way to do it.

Marking uploads as mods would be really neat.

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I'd like to see a better way to implement community competitions (mini-compos, if you will), though I can't really think of any way to do it.

it'd be like a crappy imitation of ModDB

• i would like to see design update too

Is TWHL 4 running on an off the shelf framework or your own ?

Will TWHL4 still be orange?

Will we still be on the "most-recent post" edit system, or on a "any post any time" system?

How different is this TWHL4 to the TWHL4 I got to play with a couple years back?

As for suggestions, have you considered adding a random texture spread feature to the face editor and also adding a tile-to-fit option?

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That feature is planned for TWHL5! Coming 2087!

Also, will it still be mandatory to have a screenshot in a map upload? Can there just be a "no screenshot uploaded" image to fill in instead?

Holy crap! That soon? Don't overdo it, man.

You should add a big red button that says a random swear word every time you press it, and underneath is a scoreboard of people who've pressed the button the most, and it resets each week.

Only if the button can randomly ban Dimbark 10% of the time!

Off the shelf: Laravel. It's far too much work to try and maintain your own framework, that's why the last attempt at TWHL4 failed.

How about the ability for users to set their birth date in their profile so it's displayed on the front page?
As was said more than once in the past, TWHL4 needs more <blink> and <marquee>.