Necro!
So I brought back the QDB after it being removed and me fighting for it and getting suspended because of fighting for my ideals (right...).
Anyway, all I can give you guys right now is an image that just cuts quotes when the max size of sen siggy is met. Enjoy your cut quotes! and it's really not my fault. The quotes DB has always been random and will never change being random.
Now, the reason of why I necro'd this is because I haven't taken care of the QDB as I should have. I basically haven't accepted any quotes ever since I updated the script (thanks for your work QDBMans!) and I had time to spare right now and decided to go through the QDB! There's so many quotes I had never before seen and we're like at 200 more quotes from getting over 1000. There's dirty quotes with the silly shoutbox format:
User -- oh hai guys these -- totally mess up the rest of the quotes in the db!
So I'll be working on purging that and making an edit feture for QDBMans! that will allow them to edit quotes before accepting (I expect them to actually do it).
BUT! The REAL reason why I necro'd this is because I will have a few time to spare these next week and probably a bit of the next one and I'd like to get some more feedback on the QDB, what does it currently need and what would you like to see? So basically I took care of the QDB as one does for a bastard child and I'd like to give it more features for you guys
This is what I have so far from people that have randomly contacted me:
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On submit reverse quote, basically, shoutbox quotes are reversed (read from bot to top) which is annoying since almost all the quotes are read from top to bot. So I'd work on something like a checkbox for QDBMans! That they would check before accepting a quote and it would automatically reverse the order of the quote.
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Edit feature, for QDBMans! to edit out --s and other meaningless things like time or stupid MSN names that no one knows who they are.
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Mark for deletion/editing, This will be a feature for users, they'd check a box or click a link and the quote will be marked with a flag for deletion or editing. I'd probably throw in a "reason" box too. So for example if you think quote 760 sucks and is not funny you'd enter that in the reason and that it should be deleted.
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Rating script, I need to fix the rating script so that you cannot spam click it to rig the voting. I already know how to fix this, I am just lazy.
+Bring back conversations, for really long quotes or conversations that deserve to have a space in the QDB.
+Your suggestion here!
For me: (ignore this if you wish)
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Results Outputed, After doing some other scripts in Latova I found out a better way to output results, I'll work on updating that.
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I'd really like if you guys could help me out here and also provide some motivation. Plus I'd like to start a debate on wether I should bring back conversations or not.
I am proud to bring you (after a short while) the new quotes DB!
I've been working on this new script that fully incorporates to latova and uses a real actual database (MySQL).
It is far more powerful, allows me to do much more things and better management for quotes, of course.
Look at these adds I've made to help you familiarize with the new features:
You'll see below the changes I made, the features I added. I tried to compile every single change/feature but I'm pretty sure I'm missing something.
This update is huge and I'm satisfied with the results, I'm very happy and I hope you also like the changes.
I'm probably going to be doing a bit more stuff on this weekend, fix minor design issues and some lay outs over here and there. I also want to upgrade the search plug ins for vista, firefox and ie and also RSS feeds, I've checked the RSS feeds and doesn't look that hard to code and it's weird enough to motivate me to try it. If you guys want them I can force make me code them ;o
Also please note that I had helpers to re submit all of the quotes again so don't get all mad if you submitted one quote and the submitter doesn't say your name. There was no possible way to know who submitted what with the old DB.
I'd like to thank marxel, viet and DM for beta testing and stuff and I'd like to thank even more marxel, lil-inferno, Phobos and FlyingHat for helping me re submit all of the quotes again. I'd like to specificly thank even more FlyingHat for being my submitting slave this afternoon and help me submit the remaining 450+ quotes in just a few hours and helping me accept them. FlyingHat will be keeping his Manager status.
Also,
people applying to Quotes DB management rank may start submitting applications NOW, I'll be posting the fill in form soon.
Overall I'd like you to tell me what do you think, report issues and suggest more stuff to add. I might do something about it, who knows
Hope you guys like it.
Changes:
+ You can now customize the quote image as you wish for use as your own signature or use it in your site.
+ You can change the quote text color. r=# defines red, g=# defines green and b=# defines blue. Must be an (r,g,b) color and remember to separate them with ;
+ You can now make the image link to just one quote. If you looove one quote, you can just set id=# so the image displays only the quote of that ID.
+ You can combine both customizations for ultimate hax
+ The Quote DB now uses a MySQL database
+ Changes in the latova module for the QDB
+ Searchs now return paged results
+ "Read all" now returns paged results
+ If logged in in corboland the submit automatically gets user data for use as "submitter" and links to their profiles
+ There's now two modes of viewing quotes, the "basic" with just the quote, id and author (if any) and the advanced view accesible by clicking the quote id in the basic view. You can also randomize advanced view by just deleting the id=# from the adress bar.
+ Submit automatically gets the submitted date for use in the advanced view
+ You can now RATE quotes! Access the advanced view of a quote and rate it by selecting the desired rate and clicking "Vote". This will also provide number of votes, the average voting in case it isn't obvious in a rating script.
+ Admin CP, Quotes DB Managers can access easy tools for accepting/ignoring quotes by just accessing the CP. Super Managers also can delete quotes in the advanced view
+ The random image now displays the ID of the quote in case you want to look it up and rate it or whatever
+ You can access the advanced view of each quote via search, by clicking the ID just like in the basic view.
+ You can link to specific quotes in both, basic and advanced by just using id=#. You can also link to searchs by adding sq=$ (after do=result) you can also link to an specific page.
Issues known so far:
+ Minor paging issues, if the results are exactly 9 or a multiple of 10 it will create an extra page that displays nothing really. (Don't know how to fix
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+ Some laying out issues, Vote! and some Admin links seem to not be buttons (they aren't but I still don't wanna confuse people)
Want to do:
+ Commenting, for knowing a bit more on the quote background and context
+ Favouriting quotes (For corboland logged in users)
+ "Mark for edit" button. Supposed to mark a quote for edit due to missformatting such as a reversed quote, weird times, flipped quotes and so on.
+ Bring back the Plug ins, Firefox, IE and Vista searchs
+ Code RSS feeds, I've checked and doesn't look that hard.
+ Probably code a statistics page? Really superfluous, though.
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I'm shutting it down.
Anybody wants to take care of it?
Just kidding
I just find myself to be coding it again to improve some things on it. Basically I'm going to be re-doing it on MySQL to add some new features and all.
The current database is handled in a really bad way, it's just a .txt file and it kinda limits...everything.
The current database can be searched, show all quotes and you can now link to specific quotes (if you hadn't notice) it's the small link when you click the number on a search for example. The last feature is very inneficient sine if I add, for example, 1 quote the quote=2 becomes quote=3 making old links invalid. I'm hoping that with the new code I can fix this.
The point of this topic is for you to help the quote database!
I've thought of some features before but I made the mistake of not writing them down.
What I've been thinking of are:
+ Rating, I still don't know if I'll be able to implement some of those nice stars system that you click a star and all that jazz but I'll try.
+ Votes, pretty much comes along with rating. It's just a number that indicates the times a quote has been rated.
+ Author, of course, if the current one has author the new script should have it as well
+ Submitter*, it will automatically get the submitter.
+ Time, it will automatically get the time
+ ID links, you will be able to link to an specific quote, if you can do it right now you can do it in the new script
+ Search, of course it should have a search. This time I'll attempt to make it a paged search.
+ Favourites*, you will now be able to save your favourites quotes. (only if I can actually code this
)
*Will most likely have to be logged in to work.
The idea of the quote database is to be simple, always, so what I am going to do is, as always generate the random quote and make it clickable so when you click it you get the super unuseful information.
On the "basic" view you'd be able to see what you see right now, the quote and the author.
On the "Advanced" view you'll have to click the quote to view the advanced info and it will show the rating and all that crap.
What I need is for you guys, since the QDB is yours, to think of possible features to add. If it seems doable to my coding skills I'll do it, and of course if I like it.
I know that the main problem it has right now is that it is not updated as frequently as I'd like it to be. I can't really do better since I am almost always so busy. I even coded a manager for this current database but my designees turned out to be even lazier than me that they couldn't even save the link *sighs*
As an additional note I'd like to say that I will not be updating it again until I have the basic script running on mysql (random gen, search, read all, submit)
You can take this topic as an advertisement if you wish but I think that the QDB is more of SEN than it is of Corboland.
Gogogo!
Fill In Form
Name: (aka or real name)
Location: (Just the country)
Quotes you've submitted: (or at least before the resubmittance) and provide me a direct link to at least 5 quotes [like url=urlhere]#ID[/url]
Quotes you are in: At least five and the save format as submitted quotes
Reason why you want to be a qdb man: yeap, convince me.
Post has been edited 9 time(s), last time on Oct 3 2009, 3:34 am by Corbo.
fuck you all
