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Feature Requests and Ideas

Postby logokas » December 22nd, 2008, 9:13 am

A few things have been bothering me, so i'm going to toss them out here and see what you people think.

Feedback

I've been mulling over this for quite a bit and i've come to the conclusion that the current forum based solution isn't really working out too good. There are duplicates about same skins, and there's no notification about any comments being added to a specific skin that the author would be able to notice.

I don't have any idea what to replace it with, other than it should be something simple, like a tiny guestbook of sorts. That way the author is at least able to see the comments directly by viewing their skins.

Skin viewing

While the skins are well presented on the page, there's no individuality, meaning that if i wanted to link someone to a particular skin of mine, i cannot do that. They are forced to manually browse.

Skin labels

There are skins out there in the directory that are either broken or unpolished. Such info remains unknown to viewers until they actually download the skin and see for themselves. The reason is particularly so because the authors are not as well notified about these things as they could be.

Solution: Implement a labeling system. Just a quick variable of sorts to be added to the skin in the form of a 'Report Broken Skin' link, etc. Another thing like that should be the option to label a skin as 'miscategorised'. Such labels could also be used to notify authors about problems with their skins.

And finally, something more positive.

Badge system

We have all sorts of skins here that are different from others in terms of achievements. We have Skin Consortium competition winners, most populars and the like. To best show this, there could be a system like this to notify people of significant accomplishments. It would also serve as a motivator for the authors.

I think that's about it for now. Discuss!
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Postby SLoB » December 24th, 2008, 10:00 am

Skin Viewing could easily have the skin titles made into urls, seo purposes it should have been done yonks ago but not on the radar of importance but even a simple url would make a lot of difference
also the ability to have urls by section or author too

Badge
Well as you know over at SC we like badges, they help to define basic categorization, also a level to which skins should aspire to be part of a particular level so I'm all for having certain badges.
The practicality of that though is a concern, there are hundreds of skins now, it would take some while to sort through and categorize them into meaningful groups
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Postby Ilko » December 24th, 2008, 1:52 pm

Use this link for your skins logokas

http://xion.r2.com.au/index.php?page=skins&usr=logokas&srt=Added

just sort the skins page by the user of your choice, then copy the source link of the link "Recently added skins".
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Postby SLoB » December 24th, 2008, 8:25 pm

the links should be on the skin titles and author titles so no-one needs to have to craft a url together
it would also help the skins,authors get better serps with actual names/links
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Postby Cliff Cawley » December 27th, 2008, 6:04 pm

Everyone! Check out the skin I made ages ago:

http://xion.r2.com.au/index.php?page=skins&id=98

Also, don't forget to check out this one!

http://xion.r2.com.au/index.php?page=skins&id=260

Oh and also make sure you grab this one while you're at it!

http://xion.r2.com.au/index.php?page=skins&id=385

P.s. All skin titles are now clickable. They point to a perma-link so that you can send friends to that exact skin!

Cliff 8)
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Postby logokas » December 27th, 2008, 7:29 pm

Great! That's one thing out of the list.
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Postby SLoB » December 29th, 2008, 1:24 am

how about instead of using ids Cliff, we have the skin names in there instead, they could be seo-d if names have spaces, would make the urls more indexable/meaningful
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