The organisation of custom mansions

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The organisation of custom mansions - brell - 02-02-2009

When Freddy and I accepted Vern's plead for admin responsibilities at this MM forum, one of our concern was how to present custom mansions to forum readers and MM players. Freddy came up with the idea which we have used for more than 2 years now:

1. Organizing the CM's by a) Author, b) Release date and c) CM name

2. Creating a CM

sub

category in such a way that when a user clicks on a link in one of the boards in 1. above, he is taken to a category where the CM's are named by their checksum as it is calculated when the CM zipfile is run through the command

openssl -sha

in the Unix Terminal program found in the ~/Application/Utilities folder. The idea was that the user would then be able to check whether the CM zipfile had downloaded correctly.

3. We also laid out a few rules of numbering CM versions in order to make it easier for users to check whether they had the newest version.

As most of you know my computer's hard disk crashed badly in last autumn and I just got my computer back a few days ago. For a few months only Freddy could upload new CM's or new updates of older CM's since there are a few things we look into before uploading and without a working MM program I was unable to do proper CM uploads.

And then Freddy had to attend to personal matters and has been away for a while now, making it impossible to upload new CM's (and updates) the proper way.

(I know that Freddy will be back eventually, so don't worry).

Meanwhile I have had a few new CM's to upload and the only way to do it was to ask the authors to upload them themselves in the

Talk

board. Then I made a new board for the uploaded CM and moved it to that board for downloading and discussing purposes in order to keep the same system that we have now: One CM in one discussion board.

I hope you are still following my storyline : Smile

Now we have most of our CM's in a special board for downloads where they are sorted according to authors, names or dates. Then we have a few mansions that can only be downloaded in their special boards.

My question is:

Do we want to keep the old system (and then I will move the most recent CM's to the download board),

OR

Do we want to be able to download the CM's from the CM discussion boards (in which case we will NOT make them available for download in the old system as well)?

Re: The organisation of custom mansions - Semi-Native - 02-02-2009

I vote for the old system. That way you can see which are the newest (and updates on old ones), you can search by name, builder, etc. I think it's less confusing that way.

Re: The organisation of custom mansions - margherita64 - 02-02-2009

I prefer the old system: it's more clear for me

Re: The organisation of custom mansions - otg - 02-03-2009

indeed, old it is

Re: The organisation of custom mansions - rose - 02-03-2009

Yep, the old system!

Re: The organisation of custom mansions - Sharpie - 02-03-2009

I like the old system.

And happy for you to finally get your Mac back. ;D

Re: The organisation of custom mansions - Mikee - 02-03-2009

Yeah, I also like the old system [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

Re: The organisation of custom mansions - aquaMat - 02-04-2009

I always liked the old system, too.

And I'm sure I will always like it in the future.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it...... as they say. Big Grin

Re: The organisation of custom mansions - sherryl199 - 02-07-2009

One thing I, personally, really do not like is the caption for each alphabetical group of mansions,

This category contains new posts

. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but some of those groups have the newest post months and months old. I tried clicking on every post, but that

new posts

message still appears. I would guess it is hard to do, but it seems that

new

posts should be no more than a month old at the most. Perhaps I don't understand if it is

new to me

or just some definition of

new

or maybe I don't get it at all Smile

Re: The organisation of custom mansions - brell - 02-07-2009

sherryl199 wrote: One thing I, personally, really do not like is the caption for each alphabetical group of mansions,
This category contains new posts
. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but some of those groups have the newest post months and months old. I tried clicking on every post, but that
new posts
message still appears. I would guess it is hard to do, but it seems that
new
posts should be no more than a month old at the most. Perhaps I don't understand if it is
new to me
or just some definition of
new
or maybe I don't get it at all .

Sherryl, I really do not understand why you have this problem. Do you mean that the same posts are marked as new everytime you log in to the system although you have already read them? Or do you mean that you never have read the posts?

If you have read them and they still appear as new then you are propably using the back button at the toolbar of your browser to go back to where you were. If you do that the YaBB software does NOT mark the post as read. You need to go back by clicking a link on the board, like

Home

Midnight Mansion Forums

etc. You can also click the links at the bottom of each page (

Home

and

Board

).

If you never read the post you need to do that so the system knows you have read it and thus marks it as read by you.

There is also the possibility to mark posts as read (or unread) at the top and bottom right corner of each page.

We cannot change how the system marks posts as read.