Re: General feedback
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:29 am
I thought you were going to suggest having an alter ego for some reason!Rhys Benjamin wrote:How to get round 50 trial games.
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I thought you were going to suggest having an alter ego for some reason!Rhys Benjamin wrote:How to get round 50 trial games.
Ideal if you value your dignity at £14.99 or less.Rhys Benjamin wrote:How to get round 50 trial games.
I checked the WayBackMachine on the Internet Archive but there is nothing from apterous.org. Dunno why, guess Charlie ducked out of it somehow? I don't really know how it works.Ben Hunter wrote:Anyone got a screenshot of the frontpage from around 2009?
SecondedPaul Howe wrote:Having the goat metamaxes in the recap is brilliant
It's meant to be the players who have played all the month's Duels, but it doesn't quite work properly, so it's actually the players who have played all but one of the month's Duels.Matt Morrison wrote:Just wondering what it means when a player's row is all in bold on the current Duel standings table on the right of the duel page?
At the moment the following players are all bold and I can't for the life of me work it out:
James Hurrell (#11), Graeme Cole (#18), Mark Tournoff (#19), Karen Pearson (#30), Eoin Jackson (#50), James Levison (#57), Jon Wells (#63), Milo McKenzie (#66), and Keith Williams (#87).
In theory that means they've played all the duels this month. Unfortunately, this table is still slightly miscounting the number, so we get one extra (from the last day of the previous month I think), so this bolding is inaccurate.Matt Morrison wrote:Just wondering what it means when a player's row is all in bold on the current Duel standings table on the right of the duel page?
At the moment the following players are all bold and I can't for the life of me work it out:
James Hurrell (#11), Graeme Cole (#18), Mark Tournoff (#19), Karen Pearson (#30), Eoin Jackson (#50), James Levison (#57), Jon Wells (#63), Milo McKenzie (#66), and Keith Williams (#87).
It is a bit.Matt Morrison wrote: In other news, I actually got a bit sad today thinking about going on holiday in summer and losing out on 3 ostraca and my 100% record
Is it too sad to get my sister to log in once a week and vote randomly for the games to keep my place atop the table?
Not only is it sad, it's cheating of the highest order, and I think you should probably be banned for even suggesting it.Charlie Reams wrote:It is a bit.Matt Morrison wrote: In other news, I actually got a bit sad today thinking about going on holiday in summer and losing out on 3 ostraca and my 100% record
Is it too sad to get my sister to log in once a week and vote randomly for the games to keep my place atop the table?
Cheers! It's nice to be at the stage where I can work on cool stuff rather than basic functionality.Adam Gillard wrote:Just to say I've been apterousing since February 2010 and so much cool stuff has been added to the site between then and now.
I've gone off Reams and Balog now.Fixed: Can no longer comment on ProRanks for weeks in which there were no ProRanks (thanks Steve Balog).
Your comments will live in the database forever, and will be displayed thousands of years in the future. You have that consolation.Gavin Chipper wrote:I've gone off Reams and Balog now.Fixed: Can no longer comment on ProRanks for weeks in which there were no ProRanks (thanks Steve Balog).
Probably, yep. Not sure exactly how that'll work yet.Eoin Monaghan wrote:Will notifications of tournament games be in this part or will they still be shown in a large notice at the top?
FWIW, a vote for "no" here. Notifications are for things that have happened. Tournament games (and GOTW voting reminders, etc.) are things that you need to action to happen in the future.Charlie Reams wrote:Probably, yep. Not sure exactly how that'll work yet.Eoin Monaghan wrote:Will notifications of tournament games be in this part or will they still be shown in a large notice at the top?
I was thinking more for tournament organizers, who could be notified when a tournament game is played or something.Matt Morrison wrote:FWIW, a vote for "no" here. Notifications are for things that have happened. Tournament games (and GOTW voting reminders, etc.) are things that you need to action to happen in the future.Charlie Reams wrote:Probably, yep. Not sure exactly how that'll work yet.Eoin Monaghan wrote:Will notifications of tournament games be in this part or will they still be shown in a large notice at the top?
That's my opinion anyway - reminders to complete tournament games and vote for GOTW would be lost in the notifications system - literally hidden away from sight unless you act on them the first time you see the notification. The way Facebook does it is anything you need to action IS often (but not always) mentioned in notifications admittedly but ALSO gets a special, more obvious, and persistent positioning somewhere else on the page too (think friend requests, event invites, or whatever).
I believe it's the last time they loaded a page while logged in. (Opening the game window also counts as loading a page.)Matt Morrison wrote:Charlie, how does "last seen" work on the website?
I'm really well behaved when it comes to trying to play tourney games to the point where I monitor people's profiles for periods, but several times when I've got excited about constantly-updating "last seen" dates nothing happens in terms of proper hardcore action.
Or they may have left the page open in some tab and forgotten about it (do normal people do this?).Matt Morrison wrote:Cool. So if it is updating they *are* still clicking on pages. THat's useful to know, thanks!
Oh right. So it isn't just a page load that is monitored but a constant update that they are still viewing the page?Charlie Reams wrote:Or they may have left the page open in some tab and forgotten about it (do normal people do this?).Matt Morrison wrote:Cool. So if it is updating they *are* still clicking on pages. THat's useful to know, thanks!
It includes the ping that updates the notifications panel, and also if they close the browser and reopen it then it would (on most browsers) reload the page. It's probably a good ballpark though.Matt Morrison wrote:Oh right. So it isn't just a page load that is monitored but a constant update that they are still viewing the page?Charlie Reams wrote:Or they may have left the page open in some tab and forgotten about it (do normal people do this?).Matt Morrison wrote:Cool. So if it is updating they *are* still clicking on pages. THat's useful to know, thanks!
And yes, I quite often leave an apterous tab loaded. Sometimes. But definitely not never by a long shout! I'm weird.
I will just add that I have just used Lexplorer for a quiz only 5 minutes ago! (I wanted to know a few words that contained the word TEACHER - I settled for HA TEACHER - HEARTACHE for my quiz).Adam Gillard wrote:It's been a while since anyone posted here just to say thanks for a feature. I know it's been around for a while, but I just want to say that Lexplorer is brilliant. Even if it were the only thing hosted on apterous, you could get a lot of people visiting the site just to use it for a number of word puzzling needs. I still use it all the time when I miss an obscure or infrequent max to see what derivatives it has and sometimes the definition too. I've recently found it very useful in making different types of word puzzles. I don't play Scrabble competitively, so I don't know what kind of similar online tools Scrabblers (or other wordy people) have, but I can say that it's miles ahead of anything comparable I've seen (despite the "Related words" section being a bit dodgy!).
So yeah, thanks for Lexplorer.
You're both welcome. It's been a fun thing to work on over the years. I thought of the name before I thought of what it would be, so clearly that's the way forward!Ryan Taylor wrote:I will just add that I have just used Lexplorer for a quiz only 5 minutes ago! (I wanted to know a few words that contained the word TEACHER - I settled for HA TEACHER - HEARTACHE for my quiz).Adam Gillard wrote:It's been a while since anyone posted here just to say thanks for a feature. I know it's been around for a while, but I just want to say that Lexplorer is brilliant. Even if it were the only thing hosted on apterous, you could get a lot of people visiting the site just to use it for a number of word puzzling needs. I still use it all the time when I miss an obscure or infrequent max to see what derivatives it has and sometimes the definition too. I've recently found it very useful in making different types of word puzzles. I don't play Scrabble competitively, so I don't know what kind of similar online tools Scrabblers (or other wordy people) have, but I can say that it's miles ahead of anything comparable I've seen (despite the "Related words" section being a bit dodgy!).
So yeah, thanks for Lexplorer.
Like Adam says, it's an awesome tool. I'm always using it for when I'm writing the anagrams for quizzes, and doing crosswords and stuff too so yeah, I raise my glass to Lexplorer.
Reminds me of this.Charlie Reams wrote:You're both welcome. It's been a fun thing to work on over the years. I thought of the name before I thought of what it would be, so clearly that's the way forward!Ryan Taylor wrote:I will just add that I have just used Lexplorer for a quiz only 5 minutes ago! (I wanted to know a few words that contained the word TEACHER - I settled for HA TEACHER - HEARTACHE for my quiz).Adam Gillard wrote:It's been a while since anyone posted here just to say thanks for a feature. I know it's been around for a while, but I just want to say that Lexplorer is brilliant. Even if it were the only thing hosted on apterous, you could get a lot of people visiting the site just to use it for a number of word puzzling needs. I still use it all the time when I miss an obscure or infrequent max to see what derivatives it has and sometimes the definition too. I've recently found it very useful in making different types of word puzzles. I don't play Scrabble competitively, so I don't know what kind of similar online tools Scrabblers (or other wordy people) have, but I can say that it's miles ahead of anything comparable I've seen (despite the "Related words" section being a bit dodgy!).
So yeah, thanks for Lexplorer.
Like Adam says, it's an awesome tool. I'm always using it for when I'm writing the anagrams for quizzes, and doing crosswords and stuff too so yeah, I raise my glass to Lexplorer.
Scrabblers have Zyzzyva, which does much more than Lexplorer, although I still use the latter for a few specific things (like the copypasteable stemmer.)Adam Gillard wrote:I don't play Scrabble competitively, so I don't know what kind of similar online tools Scrabblers (or other wordy people) have, but I can say that it's miles ahead of anything comparable I've seen (despite the "Related words" section being a bit dodgy!).
Seconded. Give that man a Spoon of Awesome.Quinne James wrote:I just want to express my appreciation for the absolutely nonsensical amount of work Charlie has done on the site in the last few days, and especially today. Cheers.
Yes, I'd have put this as a comment under the "I've been busy" news item if I could - Charlie puts a metric shit-tonne of work into apterous, and it seems especially so over the last few days.Nick Deller wrote:Seconded. Give that man a Spoon of Awesome.Quinne James wrote:I just want to express my appreciation for the absolutely nonsensical amount of work Charlie has done on the site in the last few days, and especially today. Cheers.
Maybe the fact that no points were scored, meant it was mentionless.