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@Vaarka
Yeah, that's another thing we need to add, that's for sure!
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@PsychometricBrain
It would be great if you added the function to delete votes after a debate has finished to prevent trolling and insufficient votes causing unfair losses.I have, for example, "lost" this debate: https://www.debateart.com/debates/756 due to an insufficient vote by "raaron" and I have requested that the debate be deleted to clean my record. However, I would naturally much prefer it if the insufficient vote was simply deleted and I got the fair win.Similarly, MagicAintReal, lost this debate: https://www.debateart.com/debates/525 due to four spam votes being cast shortly before the debate ran out.Technically, any user could easily create ten spam accounts and vote shortly before his losing debate runs out and thereby reach number 1 on the leaderboard and all the mods and admins could do is to question the user how these votes came about and possibly delete the debate after an investigation has been conducted.DART should introduce the function to delete votes after a debate's voting period has ended to ensure a fair experience of all users.
Yeah, it's been on the list for quite a while but it's rather tricky so I am afraid it will take some time :(
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@TheRealNihilist
When I see the message on the left. It stops at 999.Can you add another digit so that it can go up to 9999?
I could try, if there is enough space
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@K_Michael
A page with a list of who's online at a given moment.
Could be handy, true, I will add it to the list, thank you!
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@K_Michael
One or more participants cannot not found" Change "not" to "be".
"One or more participants is not found"? Or "One or more participants can't be found"?
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@K_Michael
Already in the requested features list :)Likes for forum posts?
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@TheRealNihilist
Can you add a platinum section to the medals?This would be medals above gold. You can move the 100 wins in an open voting system as the first plantinum medal then something like 10,000 forum posts and 5,000 forum topics for the other 2 platinum medals. You can increase the 100 wins to 500 and keep the 100 wins medal in the gold medal section.What do you think?
Yeah, the medal system will definitely be expanded more, probably sooner than later :)
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@Barney
Yeah, that would make sense, I will check it out tonight or tomorrow, thanks!
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@Barney
Yeah, I'd need to do that but it will involve quite some work because they'd be some special case of the debates and therefore would need to be handled differently. But that's a good idea, thank you!
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@TheRealNihilist
Can you add next to the instigator and the contender if they are for or against what the debate is about? Only just realised the colour red is con and green is pro. If it doesn't fit you can make the font smaller.If you don't want to do this why?
Oh, I thought it was obvious with the colors :/ But if I find a place where to put it, I will do, that's not a big task.
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@Vader
I am afraid it works only for the new forum posts, the ones that were created before I pushed the change weren't affected so it still works the old for them.
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@TheRealNihilist
Oh I see. Well, if Virt said it's okay then it's okay :)
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@TheRealNihilist
I am not sure I understood the question, what do you mean?
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@MrMaestro
You were right, the library now has the way to add the attrs to the links, check it out -> LINK
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@MrMaestro
Just out of curiosity, why do you have to parse the entire post? Couldn't you just amend the link function within the text editor? (This is pure speculation I have no idea how your website is implemented lol)
I believe I checked it a while ago and the library that I use for the rich text editing didn't support it but I will check it again because it would definitely be much more convenient than parsing the text haha
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@TheRealNihilist
When someone posts a post on my forum post without addressing me I still get a notification. That rule is not applied in debates. Why is that?
Well, because it's a half baked solution, truth be told. The logic that we have now is that you get notifications if you were mentioned or if you are subscribed to some forum topic and somebody published to it. But if you subscribe to the debate, it doesn't produce any notifications, because I still need to implement it properly.
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@MrMaestro
It's not that easy, I am afraid. The thing is that every forum post text is a huge string that contains HTML and which is generated by the user when he or she creates a post, so in order to add this attribute, I'd need to parse the string first and then add it to each <a> tag, and I am not sure if I can find library to achieve that, that's why I need to do some research :)
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@Vader
I can make a list of everything related to those categories(occupation, life priority & new medal ideas to youAgain, idk how hard it is to implement
That's an easy one :) You can go ahead and I will add those as soon as possible once you publish them :)
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@TheRealNihilist
I am afraid currently I save the pics in 140x140 size so making those bigger would blur them, but it's doable, just would take some time :)Any chance on making the profile pictures height and width larger?
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@Vader
We do have it on the features list but it requires some research, I am not sure how easily it can be doneIdk how hard this is to implement, but when a link is posted, there should be a new tab to that link versus the DART page transfering to that link
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@TheRealNihilist
Not sure about those, it's a lot of work and expenses (storage ain't free these days). Definitely not something to expect any time soon.
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@TheRealNihilist
I don't get all notifications to my email sometimes. I think it is because I am already on the page where someone is responding to me which is why it doesn't go to my email. Is that true?
No, there is a set break of 5 mins between the emails to prevent spam, that's probably the reason.
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@TheRealNihilist
Hey I am talking a lot to people.Will that help in the relevancy of DA?I'll keep doing it anyway but would like to know if you have some sort of information on how much I am helping in posting forum posts.I have like 350 forum posts in 9 days.
It's hard to say really, there are many factors that play important role.
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My apologies for a long down time, I had some unforeseen problems :/
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@RationalMadman
Ctrl+Shift+9 = numbersCtrl+Shift+8 = bullet pointsCtrl+Shift+7 = strikethrough
I had no clue about it haha
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@TheRealNihilist
Will this also take a year? (joke)
I don't know, I am the only constant dev on this project and with 7$ of donations, I can't get more work force so I don't know how long it will take. We're not Kialo with their millions of investments so things take some time.
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@TheRealNihilist
My apologies, I forgot to mention you.I apologize for assuming what you were stating. Next time can you have me as a receiver and don't know if I have a message from if I don't check this forum post?
Was the messaging system prioritizing quick and short messages rather then long messages?
I didn't really think about it but I guess so, yeah.
I would prefer an option where the chat system encompassed more of the screen so that I can read more messages that I have missed. Basically be "inspired" by DDO if you do have an alternative in mind.Is this another thing on your list of things you are going to add or was it something new I stated?
Yeah, I definitely have a couple of ideas regarding this matter.
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No no, I didn't mean to say that it was the problem, just mentioned that it's possible to clear cache locally.That wasn't the problem. It was memory. I never have a problem with cache due to the amount of free space I have. I think it would be half of the maximum space on my computer. The problem is RAM which I am thinking would be the memory side.
It is a video game. Basically 2D minecraft with more bosses and more options of movement. It basically had an update which drastically increased the minimum specifications required to run optimally.
Got it, thanks. We won't have the same thing happening here.
You don't believe me. Okay I will tell you. One is called service host: Superfetch and another is called Windows Explorer which is a thing I used to access files. For some reason it is open without it being open and I can't end the task since the prompt says restart.
I do believe you, I am not sure why you thought otherwise.
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@TheRealNihilist
That removes data I like.
You can delete only the data specific to this site, which would just delete some cached images and styles.
Please don't change that. I don't think this site would be as demanding as Terraria but please don't pull a Terraria.
I won't :) What's a Terraria though?
My problem would have to be memory. The internet meter or whatever it was called was full but my memory shoots up when these two apps are there. I require them because it speeds up my computer or can't even remove it.
Oh okay
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@TheRealNihilist
We had a problem with stale cache so if something weird starts happening, sometimes clearing cache works, but on my side performance should be okay, this site is super simple and should work really fast. The latency is a bitch though so if you are far away from London, where the server is located, then it may get slow, depending on the internet quality.
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@TheRealNihilist
Do you have group chats or is it in one of the things you would like to add in the future?
One of the feature requests, at the moment.
502 bad gateway happening every so often.My connection has slown down as well. Is this common because this is the first I am getting bad connection?It takes a while to get to a different page and post what I want.
When was the last time it happened? It usually happens only when I restart my server and it shouldn't take longer than 2-3 mins and I didn't release anything yesterday or today.
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@Human
I will definitely look into to, thanks!
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@Titanium
I am afraid I am still not following you, the donations are handled by https://www.patreon.com/, it's a big company and we don't receive any information about you. You'd just have to create an account there, but I think that's the only requirement.
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@Titanium
Could you explain what you mean please? What texts and such? Donations are handled by the service called Patreon and I don't think they collect lots of info about you.I don't need you people searching my texts and such.
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@Ramshutu
We're in the top page of results for “Debate Platform”, so it maybe worth including the word “website and online” hidden in other places to raise the rankings.Other than that, ask a bunch of questions on Quora about debate, then link back to here: that’s a good way of starting to improve your links. Obviously linking back here from edeb8 and ddo would help a bit. Most of its just going to be time. The majority of our dart views are via direct links - which means we do have to work on improving search hit - mobile should catapault you!
Yeah, I should definitely work on the words but I think that would mostly be a minor improvement. I've already put some links to websites like Quora and the like but obviously that's not exactly enough. And yeah, I completely agree, I think Google definitely loves when the websites have the mobile version.
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@SamStevens
Thanks for the good words, guys.
Regarding the SEO, I think there are 2 things that prevent us from going higher in the results: the absence of the mobile version and super small amount of links from other sites. I know how to fix the former and not so sure how to fix the latter.
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@RationalMadman
Oh that's a nice idea I think and it should be doable, I'll add it to the list of features.
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@TheRealNihilist
Can you describe more in detail what you mean exactly?
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@Tejretics
Can you try one more time please? I think it happened because I was pushing the new update and the server goes offline for around 2 minutes when I do that.
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@Human
Don't have the "Are you sure?" popup after creating postWhenn commenting, have the orange button say "Post Comment" not "Create Post"
Done
The other suggestions have been added to the feature requests, I will get to them a bit later.
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1366x768
Interesting, I have the same. Thanks.
Are you trying to make jealous? It would work if you had letters not icons.
If I switch to the words, I think all those buttons won't fit there. But I completely agree with you on this one, letters would be definitely better, I will check it again.
Wait what? Branding does matter and if people are consistent on what the brand represents then the discussion can be passed the fundamental level. Sure DART is the same as DA but two less characters is two less characters. Imagine how many times someone can say that still mean debateart.com while also not typing in 2 more characters.
We had a long forum discussion on this one somewhere, it's not that simple :(
1 year or 5 years or 10 years?
Well, hopefully 1 year will be enough to finish all the basic things and maybe after that I'll get to implementing some nice customisation stuff.
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@TheRealNihilist
I am not sure, I'll take another look at that. What's the resolution of your screen though?Can you have an option for that? My heads moves less if I can have all the text in the middle and gaps in the left and right.
Your sections are a lot bigger than DDO's and they were capable of putting that in. See the "add my favorites" part in debate on DDO to see what I mean.
There are also buttons there that are visible only for the mods.
I am going to go around calling it DA and see if it catches on. Hopefully it does. If not I will start correcting people. Less characters less wasted time. Can you be my source of authority for telling people off for not using DA? I will say "DebateArt.com said it was DA" I think DA looks better than DART or DAC which I never heard anyone use.
Sure, you can go with whatever you prefer. But other people can also call it however they prefer, I don't want to force DA on everyone.
What time frame should I expect if all goes to plan?
Definitely not any time soon I am afraid.
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