Game Development Community

The site wish list

by Ronny Bangsund · in Site Feedback · 08/11/2010 (1:38 am) · 90 replies

Derek suggested making a thread for this, so here it goes.

We know the site has some bugs and we know search is terrible. They also know, and are working on it. So let's list what we want improved, added or changed other than that!

My personal wishes:

  1. Private messages - hide our e-mail and let the site mail us instead.
  2. Categories for the resource section - one per engine would be fine, and optional private posts for engine changes so only engine owners can access it.
  3. A repository for resources would also be nice, especially for larger modifications which constantly change. Also good practice for all of those people out there who never heard of source control :)

What else do you lot want? Add to this, as they'll be watching this thread :)
#61
05/11/2011 (7:31 am)
As far as the codeblocks go I have been playing with a new library for that. I will be implementing those features sitewide soon within the next week or so. Still loving the feedback keep it coming.

A printer friendly view would be fairly easy to implement, I'm not so sure about the immediacy of all them crazy options though. Baby steps.
#62
05/11/2011 (7:34 am)
Pagination: The hatred among hatred when the site changed, time ago.

I'll quote Michael Hall
Quote:Maybe if we had an option for 20/50/100 posts per page as a preference then it might make sense... but as it is now it's mostly an annoyance.
#63
05/11/2011 (3:29 pm)
"Like!"

A "Like This" button/option for posts, blogs, recources, etc, would be of great help. Long time ago, Resources used to have a punctuation system; the number of likes would (also) intuitively denote the quality, helpfuness, etc. of a given post.

#64
05/22/2011 (1:48 pm)
How 'bout a way to subscribe via email updates to new items posted to the front page? (& Similar ideas, like following individual people (friends, notables) when they add new items?) How 'bout a way to r/q notifications w/o adding a comment on a thread?

Not urgent, but... doable? Commitable? :-)

Thanks, for all past and future hard work...
#65
05/23/2011 (5:06 am)
Automatically correct forum posts from server time to local time please. =)
#66
05/23/2011 (5:45 pm)
Restore the favicon to the TDN site.
#67
05/25/2011 (3:21 pm)
Can we have REAL search again? The current search is buggy as all get out, and doesn't show any useful information in the results.
#68
06/15/2011 (7:58 am)
Also, fix the escaping of backslashed things. It really breaks code to have character code escape sequences disappear.
#69
06/28/2011 (2:08 pm)
A few things that suddenly came to me...

1) The ability to add a 2nd email address to our profile so that we can use one for admin type stuff and another for public display.

2) A system whereby one member can use contact form to send a private message to another member.

3) A weekly digest sent on a friday night listing with preview all the blogs and resources posted since the last digest
#70
08/04/2011 (3:36 pm)
Share functionality (tweet, fb, etc, google +1) across the board?

Also echo - setting resource / blog faves.
#71
08/05/2011 (12:28 pm)
All good ideas. I just improved search and am looking to make it even better. I also fixed a bug where there were posts disappearing between page 1 and page 2.
#72
08/05/2011 (2:24 pm)
@Matt, the search is *definitively* better!


Another day-to-day [little] annoyance:

The links for the latest resources in the "Whats New" section, and the "Resources" section, use different url's.

As a result, the browser shows the resource's links as "already read" or "not read" depending from what page you are looking at them.
#73
08/05/2011 (6:55 pm)
Goto last page / post button on main forum lists and main pages.

Worth noting / remembering any search whether internet or not can always be manipulated by adding arguments i.e. +"T3D" if the functionality is not there at present.

Just done with dates and works quite well too! enter ...

what you searching for + "T3D" + "2010" [hit enter] e.g.
#74
08/19/2011 (12:33 pm)
Cool logging these last couple in.
#75
08/23/2011 (7:14 am)
I can't find old resources/blogs I've commented on or watched by going to my profile and looking through my old posts.
#76
08/26/2011 (6:54 pm)
"I wish this was working so I can read it" doesn't really belong here, so I made a new bug report topic.

On the wishlist though might be "ability to delete own posts"
#77
09/09/2011 (12:09 pm)
Thanks for the input Thomas. Unfortunately with the archiving that we want for our community members, deleting our own posts is not something we are reviewing at this time. Sorry.

We will however have a better way of reviewing your previous posts in the near future.
#78
09/09/2011 (2:17 pm)
Glad to hear about the improved previous-post viewing capabilities.
#79
09/15/2011 (6:03 pm)
What I would really like to see, is a way to send someone a private message through the forums.
#80
11/03/2011 (8:14 am)
Search filtering or sorting would be awesome. The search improved a lot after Summer, and adding that would make it perfect for me.