justincredible;1104366 wrote:Do you guys think I should add a background color/texture to the new site, instead of just white? I prefer the minimalist look of the white but I am definitely open to adding something.

Minimalist is OK, but when I look at something like our main page now with the blog posts it feels almost too simplistic, like as in it looks unfinished. Now, obviously it shouldn't be a crowded train wreck like the JJ main page, but somewhere in between, leaning toward minimalist.

Yeah, the main page is definitely unfinished. I'm definitely not going to clutter it up like the train wreck over there.

What about paying 99¢/month for posting? Obviously not everyone, but give the 10 posters with the most posts each month 99¢. Sure, it's not much, but it'd be pretty funny.

justincredible;1115968 wrote:What about paying 99¢/month for posting? Obviously not everyone, but give the 10 posters with the most posts each month 99¢. Sure, it's not much, but it'd be pretty funny.

LJ;1115977 wrote:

lol

LJ;1115977 wrote:

I like.

justincredible;1115968 wrote:What about paying 99¢/month for posting? Obviously not everyone, but give the 10 posters with the most posts each month 99¢. Sure, it's not much, but it'd be pretty funny.

I think the basic concept behind this could be useful. But justgiving it to the 10 posters with most posts is going to end poorly.

I think if you somehow incorporated FFT's old formula that tracked who created teh best threads and rewarded something like that (as it shows actually generating discussion) that might be better.

Otherwise I just see a lot of people spamming meaningless crap.

Yeah, I agree. Perhaps FFT can chime in with insight into his calculations.

justincredible;1116214 wrote:Yeah, I agree. Perhaps FFT can chime in with insight into his calculations.

*ahem* Justin, remember how you were going to create a script or something that I could download as a text file with the data I needed for this?

I'm happy to update my program to work with the new site and run some calculations.

fan_from_texas;1116252 wrote:*ahem* Justin, remember how you were going to create a script or something that I could download as a text file with the data I needed for this?

I'm happy to update my program to work with the new site and run some calculations.

I REMEMBER NOTHING!

But yeah, I remember that from a while ago. I'm thinking it could be something that I can incorporate into the new site and would just rank people in real-time.

justincredible;1116263 wrote:I REMEMBER NOTHING!

But yeah, I remember that from a while ago. I'm thinking it could be something that I can incorporate into the new site and would just rank people in real-time.

I can look into the logic behind it. I suspect it's not something the server could handle in real-time, but perhaps weekly updates or something like that would be good.

Generally, it involved taking everyone who posted within a given time (I think I had it at 90 days), then looked at the number of topics they started, the replies/views to those topics, the number of "home run" topics they started, things like that. Each was normalized to a 100pt scale with 10pt standard deviations, then weighted separately and combined into one big score. The trick is making each category somewhat logarithmic so that the person who has a 10,000 reply thread isn't heavily weighted compared to someone who, say, has 15 100-reply threads (which strikes me as being more valuable to drive site traffic). The idea is to reward people who consistently start threads that generate a solid degree of discussion.

I'm sure I could write a function that would rank users based on whatever sort of formula it was based on. And I could set it to run on any sort of interval with a simple cron job. Perhaps set it to run every Monday at 12am or something.

I'll try to pull the (tortured) logic together soon. Want me to just email it to you?

Yeah, that works.

[email protected]

Off subject, but this site is absolutely awful on Tapatalk now. Not sure if it is the app or the phone.

Only change I have noticed is since he changed how it remembers read posts, it barely lists shit under "unread"

ts1227;1116423 wrote:Only change I have noticed is since he changed how it remembers read posts, it barely lists shit under "unread"

yeah, that is what I am talking about.

ts1227;1116423 wrote:Only change I have noticed is since he changed how it remembers read posts, it barely lists shit under "unread"

Yea, this is killin' me.

And the avatars don't match up to the poster....lol

wes_mantooth;1116418 wrote:Off subject, but this site is absolutely awful on Tapatalk now. Not sure if it is the app or the phone.

It does it on Firefox too.

Apparently this forum is now so lame that Mantooth has to create names and then ban himself

LJ;1117009 wrote:Apparently this forum is now so lame that Mantooth has to create names and then ban himself

that sucks

yeah, that guys sucks.

It's fine on Tapatalk for me...just slow as shit.

justincredible;1116403 wrote:Yeah, that works.

[email protected]

Sent. But I"m pretty sure it'll be impossible to follow. I don't exactly, you know, comment my code. Looking at it, it's a hot mess.