Still needs to be done / bugged / working on / etc
General
- Overall code and html clean up
- Overall visual improvements
- Permissions / security / etc
File Data
- Handle images better
- Upgrading files (eg: new versions)
- Find and do all the colors in map names (w/ more closer color codes)
- Authors
- Block title edit on uploaded maps
- NEW: Unability to mark file opensourced
File View
- Reporting (inappropiate, unplayable, wrong info)
Splash page
- Make it sexy with more relevant data
Comments
- Pages (atm display limited last 15)
- Reporting (ie: inappropiate, spam)
Favorites
- Add session code to prevent spamming links
- Go back to last real page after marking
- Notices sent to all people that favorited the file upon upgrade
File upload
- There's a problem with a certain type of protection that corrupts player force data
- There's another problem with titles being unlisted upon upload...
- Hopefully, eventually make screenshots automatically upon uploading
Search
- Code it
Rating system
- Code it
Admin side
- Code it
Site stuff that affects DLDB
- Special characters... I will lessen the security to allow korean and other characters
- Characters in the url... ATM, white space will crash the script (%20), I will change that as well.
Intentions / Concept / Features
Learning from v4's failure, the drive behind v5's database was to be more user friendly and be less tedious on the admin side. From the crappy third party code that eventually ate up tons of bandwidth, v4's system was hacked into ugliness. So here's a list of things that haven't changed:
You can upload stuff.
Now a list of what has changed:
Tags, similar to like all video and image sites, are meant to be searchable terms where the content can not provide it itself. As no script can listen to a video or look at an image and equate words with the content, tags are meant to solve the problem. The tag system will replace categories to almost all extents. If the community as a whole takes care of said tags, it will be a beautiful system. Essentially, we will still have our traditional categories, one click away, with tags such as "Bounds", "Arena", "Movie" and so forth. Melee will benefit the most, I would assume, with labels such as symmetrical, asymmetrical, micro... etc...
Mods, sounds, and tools should all fit in very nicely as well.
This really depends on the community because, like i said, it could be beautiful with upkeep... or it could be a complete failure. Hopefully the community as a whole establishes some type of tag etiquette for certain types of files. With tag and search tracking, hopefully showing tag statistics will help out.
Community editing, while there still will be a DLDB team to check file reports, scan for viruses, and clean out the crap, the community can edit any file that isn't locked. Anyone can lock any file, effectively saying, for whatever reason, they will be responsible for and manage the file's data (though this might change if abused). Anyone can upload a screenshot or change the tags. So because of such, it won't take much to get banned from the dldb and possibly the site for screwing around. If you don't know exactly what to do, stick to your own uploaded files and ask for help.
Automatic map data, with a lot of thanks to clokr, the DB will grab map title, desc, tileset, dimensions and player setup.
File linking, some files will have practically indentical versions. Such as, some maps (team arena) are the same map with different speeds. So now they can be easily kept together.
Some ideas I'm still considering:
Major projects area. An idea from the possible merger of other sites, this was supposed to close the gap between SEN and CC. Basically, a production thread turned into a production workspace. It's own forums, page with user html, etc. I'm not sure how practical this would be.
SEN's Policy:
We are pro-whatever-the-author-wants. We encourage open source maps, and there is a tag to label your maps as such. SEN will not automatically unprotect your files.
There was a lot of good features discussed in various v5 database topics. If I'm missing something important, let me know. A bunch of people had great ideas on how things should work and I think I have forgotten them.
Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Jan 27 2008, 11:33 pm by isolatedpurity.
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