How about a new fansite?

POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Sunday, October 28, 2007 13:46
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HAKEN

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 8:00 AM

This is kind of an open ended question. What features would you like to see in a new fansite? What feature should I complete first?

PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 5:49 PM

This one isn't going away... right?

I love this place. The only way this design could be improved would be little things like having the names of who started the threads, and dividing the threads into pages to make loading easier. Other than that, I love the setup, and I don't consider those to be big issues. This site it my home

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JAKE7

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 5:50 PM

This is a rather disconcerting question! Perhaps a little bit more info about what you mean?

I personally like the site as it is...

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MAL4PREZ

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 5:54 PM

I know there's been talk about making the BSR more searchable, like if the fics were sorted by subject and such that'd be awful nice.

I do love what we have Haken - I second the "keep this one" sentiment!

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PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 5:57 PM

On the BSR, I'd like to see little thumbnails pop up of the fan art the way the quotes pop up for fic. Once your art falls off, people don't tend to find it unless they go to your profile.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A troll's hair is still pointy, even when it's wearing a hat.

PDCHARLES

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 6:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
On the BSR, I'd like to see little thumbnails pop up of the fan art the way the quotes pop up for fic. Once your art falls off, people don't tend to find it unless they go to your profile.

Good idea, 'bout to mention that.

Also, I LOVE the black background. ...AND like the layout and simplicity of it now. I hate going to sites with tiny font and a thousand links/sections on the main page. Just the right amount now.

The things I see the most questions on over time are:

Avatars: There is a current solution to linking hosted images. Just peeps have to be pointed in the right direction. Not suggesting you host a billion images or anything.

Searching capability for entire site.

“View Visitors” link. Not sure of its original functionality. But, I can see cool stuff coming from that.

There was something mentioned a while back about a FanVid section. I do know YouTube is back on the infringement trail. Both of mine were just removed after survuing the initial hit.

Oh, and a caption game forum: J/K

Not sure if ur going for a backend re-vamp, if not, ignore this. It seems users with long usernames have trouble looking up certain items or the linkage to certain items is broken due to truncation. Guessing some "lookups" are done by string name and some by ID? (if it is an integrity nightmare changing it, I understand, more of heads up than anything)

RIVERISMYGODDESS

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 6:31 PM

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
dividing the threads into pages to make loading easier.

What the sexeh one said.

I love this place. :)

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PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 6:44 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by pdcharles:
I LOVE the black background. ...AND like the layout and simplicity of it now. I hate going to sites with tiny font and a thousand links/sections on the main page. Just the right amount now.

Ditto. And I'll add that I like being able to get to any forum from any thread, and the 'since your last view' function is my favorite thing ever, and really the fluidity of the site is just awesome.
A search function would be good. There's been one made, I remember, it would just have to be linked/embedded.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A troll's hair is still pointy, even when it's wearing a hat.

COSMICFUGITIVE

Thursday, October 4, 2007 4:15 PM

I wouldn't mind seeing a new selection of avatars as mentioned above. Plus, the ability to upload your own avatars using the same image upload function in the Blue Sun Room. It would cancel out the need to use href tags.

How about the ability to favourite thread topics or fan fic and fan art?

The site is fine as it stands though. It's easy to navigate. There are very little tweaks/improvements needed imho.

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SHINY

Thursday, October 4, 2007 5:22 PM

Give the mods more POWER!!! Buwahahahaha!!!

Actually, a couple things I've heard requested are an automated way to upload your own custom avatar, and preserving the original filenames when saving/downloading images from the BSR (instead of them all ending up as something like "0A6F1CA753EBA5B1A09779B757CD42C4.jpg"

And bring back the real-time browncoat visitor counter at the top! (unless it causes the site to crash again...then maybe don't) ;)

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