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[Spelt]

Personally, I think people are making a bigger deal about having 'last edited by' on their posts.

It's like giving a kid a lollipop and then taking it away.

 

[DtJ Glyphmoney]

Its more like giving a kid a lollipop who goes on to murder someone with it and then eats it to hide the evidence

 

[Spelt]

That would be a waste of a perfectly good lollipop.

 

[DtJ Glyphmoney]

I know right? Blame the kid who used it as a murder weapon I guess.

 

[Vinylic.]

This is because others are using ninja edits in any Mafia right?

Just leave it alone.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

People are still talking about this?

TokyoGamer, if you could just read anything on the previous page. Anything.

 

[Vinylic.]

I read them all.

Like Mic said, They're making it a bigger deal.

 

[Wave⁂]

Would it be possible for links to appear in a different color in the Orange Fever skin?

 

[Zankoku]

What color did you have in mind?

 

[Deleted member]

probably someting a bit more yellow would be fitting. reason it's the same as text colour was because I couldn't get the link colour in posts different from link colours in the topic list and was too lazy to search how I could split that. (most skins dont have that problem since they use some shade of grey as text)

 

[Wave⁂]

Yellow or red, since they're closest to orange.

 

[Mic_128]

Yellow or red

We'll compromise and make it orange.

 

[Wave⁂]

This man is a genius

 

[John2k4]

A link to the Steam Profile of that user...


Maybe the piston icon (

) underneath the post count, where the Skype/AIM icons are?

 

[Terywj [태리]]

That would be pretty neat.

 

[Kupo Rose]

Is it possible to have the phone icon show up when posting VMs and in social groups?

/reposting

 

[Fuelbi]

I agree with the above post

 

[Jonkku]

Is it possible to stop the phone icon from showing up at all? Besides AdBlock.

I don't care whether someone posts from a phone or not.

 

[Mic_128]

You can stop yourself from posting it in your user CP, but you can't stop others, much the same way you can't stop people from posting smileys. (unless there's an option to turn that off as well in the user cp)

 

[ndayday]

just out of curiosity really, but what's the purpose of the phone icon besides knowing that someone posted from a phone?

 

[Mic_128]

That's the purpose, people wanted an easy way to let people know they're posting via mobile.

 

[Strong Badam]

Can we have a Princess Luna smiley?

 

[Deleted member]

How about a status addition to user profiles?

 

[Strong Badam]

Can Unity Ruleset use not be a pre-requisite for a tournament thread to be stickied?

 

[John2k4]

Clicking the 'Mark Forums Read' button in any subform on mobile skin will mark the entire site as read.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

idk where to put this but i keep getting this if I click to the first page of the melee tier list thread (havent tested on other pages, but got it twice going there and none trying to come to this thread)

 

[John2k4]

Sveet's correct with that message, I got it too:

Spoiler

When I looked at the page source, it is the tier list pictures and whatnot that are causing it:

 

[Isatis]

Re-uploaded those to an image hosting site (for now). I've PM'd Slhoka with the details.

(btw if you're getting that error, it's safe to bypass the senate thread and PM any one of the admins, including me )

 

[Wave⁂]

So, uh, is the Orange Fever link color change going to happen?

 

[Zankoku]

I think I broke something. : \
TPK, if you have the headinclude I'll need it to fix stuff, but omit anything involving setting colors.

 

[PEEF!]

Is there anything that smashboards can do to provide us with some quality livestream support? Who do I need to message, I have tried everyone, but smashboards seems wholly unwilling to work seriously to help out the ONLY way left to grow the smash community, livestreams. Smash streams are easier to promote on speedrunning and starcraft sites, because they have actually put together good livestream support. It's really unacceptable. I have been asking about this for 6 months but nothing has happened at all.

 

[Strong Badam]

Just dropping in here to say that I love the new character stock icon pics in the character boards. :D Are there melee stock icon smilies yet?

 

[Mic_128]

Just dropping in here to say that I love the new character stock icon pics in the character boards. :D Are there melee stock icon smilies yet?

Yes, I just haven't got around to it.

 

[Mic_128]

Is there anything that smashboards can do to provide us with some quality livestream support? Who do I need to message, I have tried everyone, but smashboards seems wholly unwilling to work seriously to help out the ONLY way left to grow the smash community, livestreams. Smash streams are easier to promote on speedrunning and starcraft sites, because they have actually put together good livestream support. It's really unacceptable. I have been asking about this for 6 months but nothing has happened at all.

Might I suggest you give us specific instructions on what you think we should add, because short of embedding livestreams (which isn't an option) we've done pretty much everything feasible to promote livesteams.

 

[Deleted member]

I think I broke something. : \
TPK, if you have the headinclude I'll need it to fix stuff, but omit anything involving setting colors.

the what now?

 

[Zankoku]

I accidentally lost a bunch of your CSS that defined stuff like image sources.

 

[Deleted member]

eh, tbh I doubt I have that stuff saved. lemme dig through some files

 

[Supreme Dirt]

Simple thing: Add Smash Mobile to the quick style chooser at the bottom.

I like browsing SWF on my 3DS, but it's a pain every time I log on to go to my options and change it to smash mobile.

 

[PEEF!]

Might I suggest you give us specific instructions on what you think we should add, because short of embedding livestreams (which isn't an option) we've done pretty much everything feasible to promote livesteams.

Right now, the only way we can advertise is through the livestream editor link or the tournament calendar. The editor link, when it is working, would only let us stream if we put in that we planned to stream for 6 hours or more, and of course, we had to put it in beforehand, like a streaming "schedule". The problem with that is, because we aren't usually streaming an event, sometimes we just want to do something else after a couple hours, so although we said we would stream to midnight, we ended at 8PM and then everyone missed out and expected us to still be streaming, and the streamer is now undependable. The tournament calendar works the same way, except it also clutters the tournament boards. (I did figure out that I can just keep editing one event though, so that helped slightly.) The lesson here: Except for actual tournaments, user streams do not work well with the "preplanned time" setup. What does work well is the "On-Off" switch that teamliquid.net uses. Just hit the online button once youve signed in, and there you are on the stream page. What works even BETTER is the automatic detection that shows your stream as online or offline within 10 minutes (it checks your link.) I'm not sure if that is too difficult to code, but the switch should be okay.

The suggestion that I think is the most important is that the stream section needs to be at the top of EVERYONE'S page, not just the site minority that uses Vibrant Skin. Many people don't like Vibrant at all except for the livestream support, so they either have to use a skin they don't like, or (what they usually do) just say forget it and they don't get the livestream info at all. This is the biggest thing to be fixed.

The placement on the site is great. If the top center could be dedicated to streams on all skins, that would be awesome.

Require registration and membership limits. On TL, they require that you give a description of your channel and all that, and you have to have been a member for 3 months. I think that is a good idea. Although I wanted to advertise on TL straight away, the 3 months gave me time to make a new channel and prettify it, figure out what I wanted to do, etc etc. It is a barrier to the undedicated, but not a barrier to anyone who has been trying to stream here already. Play with the numbers if you want but I think time limits before streaming are a good idea to keep quality up.

TL has "Featured streamers" who are either the most popular, highest skilled, or most active streamers within the community. I think that until we regularly have 5-10 streams online at a time, this is unneeded. But once alot of people are streaming at once, having those streamers made bold and at the top or something is a solid idea. Not something to worry about yet id say.

On TeamLiquid, your stream is listed just as your username, with your game in front in brackets. I think this can be improved upon. I think the stream should have a chosen name and an option for a short subtitle whenever streaming. So instead of showing "[Melee] PEEF!" it could possibly show "[Melee] PEEFsmash: 12 Hour Melee Marathon" with all 3 sections editable, except perhaps the stream name, which should require a mod of some sort to change because you want that to stay consistent. Builds more viewers and more dedication to the site.

And perhaps best for last, we need a "User Stream" forum. It will be a section for all streams to be listed, described relatively in detail by the streamer with VODs and all that. This is used to build fans, make followers, and especially for other users to give feedback about the stream. Instead of describing it further, here is a link to TL User Streams http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/index.php?show_part=29 and here is the link to my User Stream thread. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=250585 I have over 11k views on this stream thread, which is like 5 times as much as my stream thread on Smashboards has -__-

So that is all I have for now I think. Everyone having a version of the site that has the stream section, and a new section of the forums for User Streams are the two most important I think, and I hope you consider them along with my other suggestions.

 

[Zankoku]

Note that I installed the top bar with streams, etc. for all skins a while ago.