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Hi folk,
I believe someone suggested the idea that the voting period of the debates should be prolonged if the mods delete any votes, so what do you think about it?
Should we go for it? And if so, for how long should they be prolonged?
Should we go for it? And if so, for how long should they be prolonged?
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Bad news on the PMs system:
So I wanted to start working on making it real time and allowing group PMs but there is a little problem. So the language that I used to write the chat part is a one guy show, no jokes, it's almost literally one guy writing the language and most of its main libraries and recently they updated the language and among the changes there was a big "fuck you", which caused many third party libraries supporters to say fuck you back and just abandon their projects. So in order to make it real time in this context, I'd have to use some outdated and unmaintained libraries which is not something I like to do so I've decided to also send that guy to hell and rewrite the whole damn thing in another language, supported by Facebook. Now, rewriting the code is only a small part of the task, the bigger task is to handle, what's called an assets build system, without breaking anything and that may take me a while to do, since it's a bit outta my expertise. So I've decided to rewrite and improve the chat during my New Year holidays when I'll have lots of free time. I am sorry for making you guys wait on that for so long but I am afraid we'll have to wait even more time.
In the meantime, I will try to either improve the debates system or maybe implement something new, among some minor fixes and changes, whatever keeps me interested.
In the meantime, I will try to either improve the debates system or maybe implement something new, among some minor fixes and changes, whatever keeps me interested.
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@Username
Could you please elaborate on this one? I am not sure I understand it correctly. Do you mean it's worth adjusting the stats table on the profile pages so that in the "won" debates category the number would include not only finished debates, but those where you are currently winning?Do you still remember my idea? Whoever is winning the debate has it in their wins category rather than only once you have won. Like on DDO?
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@RationalMadman
Yes, it's about time I get awarded for my loyalty. Yandex has already put us on the third place for the "online debates" query, but I had to do some dark stuff for the Russian mafia to get there, as you probably know.They will, you are a good Illuminati member. You will be rewarded in due time. Especially because you encourage users to use Chrome and have that symbol for Religion Debate-section. Patience is your friend here.
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I have finished a bunch of SEOs, it has taken me pretty much the whole week. Hopefully now the Gods of Google will be pleased.
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@Vaarka
Can you make announcement links or PM links clickable?
I could try at some point but it's tricky and could take quite some time. I apologize for the inconvenience :(
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@David
Yeah, exactly. I imagine that at some point we may make it interesting for some other folk that don't participate in the debates but like some other formats but it will be in the future, at the moment debates are the priority.
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@Alec
Probably because this is just a narrowly focused website, I don't think we'll ever have any huge number of people here. All we can hope for is to build a nice and active community, but I doubt it will ever be big.
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Yeah, I think RM is right. All I can add is that I have finished some SEO fixes and maybe in a couple of months we'll have some people from Google as well but who knows ... Also I will try to attract people from Facebook groups devoted to debates, maybe we'll have some luck there.
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@Polytheist-Witch
I have some pms you might want to look at before they are deleted. Thanks.
It surely looks like you have some pms there.
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@RationalMadman
Please move it out of this topic, it's not the best place for this argument.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Yeah, that makes sense, don't know why I didn't add it from the beginning ...
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Oh I see, that's also simple enough, I'll try to release it this week, if I don't forget :)
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@Ramshutu
this may have been mentioned, but a leaderboard for votes: and having debates with more than half the rounds forfeited counting towards win/loss - but not ELO (if you’re the winner).
Leaderboard for votes is simple enough, shouldn't be a problem. The second part is more tricky, so now we have the logic so that the ELO rating doesn't get changed only if all arguments have been forfeited, otherwise it does change. First, I believe, we wanted to make it work the way you mentioned but then some good arguments were made why it may not be the best idea. You may go a few pages back and read it :)
Design assistance is always appreciated, thank you :) You're working with UX/UI stuff?Also, are you looking for design, and implementation assistance?
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
If I understand it correctly, you suggest to add the names of the users that mention you into the emails, right?
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@Polytheist-Witch
Your opinion is very important to me, thank you very much.
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I've just found quite a few serious issues that may affect SEO of the website so I am going to work on them for the next few days.
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@David
Yeah, I can imagine. I think some people actually thought we'd have a propaganda system in place here haha
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@3RU7AL
Sorry mate, I didn't mean to cause so much confusion.
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Oh come on people, it's a quote from Orwell's 1984 haha
It's not actually a propaganda system, it's a global notifications system, if you will. It's going to be used to announce some important changes on the website and things like that.
It's not actually a propaganda system, it's a global notifications system, if you will. It's going to be used to announce some important changes on the website and things like that.
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New changes:
1) We now have a propaganda system, you may see an example in the list of your activities :)
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Yeah, I tend to agree with RM on this matter, I also think it should be an opt-in thing. I am thinking about implementing a popup for the "favorite" buttons that would allow users to pick what they want to be notified about.
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@Castin
Eh, just had a bad day, it happens. Should have gone to some YouTube video and blew off some steam in the comments section there haha
Thank you for the kind words, it's really nice of you to say :)
Thank you for the kind words, it's really nice of you to say :)
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@drafterman
I thought I had already done that, my mistake. Anyway, thanks, I will check it again tomorrow.
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@RationalMadman
Yeah, that's for sure. It's a good way to reduce the expenses without limiting the users in any way.
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@Raltar
Yeah, I can imagine. I am not sure I understand why people do things like that.
Yeah, the website will always be free, but probably with a donation system, like Patreon or something of the kind, at least to reduce the hosting expenses.
Yeah, the website will always be free, but probably with a donation system, like Patreon or something of the kind, at least to reduce the hosting expenses.
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@Raltar
Yeah, fair point. I don't really care about her opinion, just had a bad mood at the moment. I feel ashamed now and sorry for the harsh language.
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@Polytheist-Witch
I am sure you can do better, with absolutely no budget and only a few hours available after work, you fucking smart ass.
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@drafterman
Believe me or not, but I am gonna work today on a similar thing, a site wide notifications, I imagine it could quite useful to announce important things. Regarding the topic scope, that'd require some thinking but I'll see what I can do.
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@Castin
Yeah, when I push stuff, I also bring the server down but usually it takes me only a few mins.
They didn't send any emails, that's for sure, I had to go to the provider's dashboard to see the notification. It's also my fault because I don't have a script in place which would handle these reboots by the provider, I will write it this weekend so it won't happen again.
They didn't send any emails, that's for sure, I had to go to the provider's dashboard to see the notification. It's also my fault because I don't have a script in place which would handle these reboots by the provider, I will write it this weekend so it won't happen again.
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Yes, it was a "Emergency Maintenance" by my hosting provider, I really wish they'd send an email about such things first, especially when the ticket on their website appeared only 12 hours before the event. I imagine quite a few people got bit in the ass by this. Anyway, my apologies, I'll try to prevent such situations in the future.
Also it seems like they've moved my server to a different machine, it shouldn't have any complications but if you notice that something is not working, please, let me know asap.
Also it seems like they've moved my server to a different machine, it shouldn't have any complications but if you notice that something is not working, please, let me know asap.
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My sincere apologies for the website being down, I was asleep and couldn't handle sooner. I am not sure what happened exactly but I am gonna investigate, at the moment it seems like the hosting provider just restarted my machine but I didn't get any notifications.
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@RationalMadman
I love how ethang and drafterman preach so harshly against bsh1 and ignore the complete, utter, immovable oligarchic capacity to spy, use and abuse all private information of users able to be obtained via accessing this site (including page you came from and left the site to) haha you have blinkers on if you think "Mike" is the good guy and bsh1 is the evil one whispering in his ear.I do not give a damn what you say, there is nothing we can do to defeat Mike. You have submitted now pay the price, stop pretending there's an option 2 where you fight bsh1 and feel less like you're under absolute, immovable oligarchy.
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@David
What I'd like to see is something where you have to select a reason for the report and then write a comment on why you believe the post should be moderated.Same thing with votes. WHen a vote is reported state why the vote should be removed.I'd also be open to limiting 5-10 reports per day
We already have the 10 reports / day limitation in place
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