Springinfo ReStructure
Moderator: Moderators
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
There is now a development blog at http://www.dev.springinfo.info/
Feel free to register and comment, Ill be making posts on what my intentions are and what changes I make in more detail
Feel free to register and comment, Ill be making posts on what my intentions are and what changes I make in more detail
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
censorship!AF wrote:Also feeds don't necessarily get auto-published, for example, your own youtube feed is pulled in with the status 'pending' so that they can be manually filtered

But every "my first nubmap that does not even work" entry uploaded to springfiles gets published without review...
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
Because you don't get random youtube videos about completely unrelated games, timelapses out of car windows, or videos of red alert, being uploaded to the spring section of springfiles.
You are citing this as a 'what content we should or shouldn't have' problem. I disagree, I see it as a Where the content should or shouldn't be displayed' problem, for which there is already a solution. But as I keep saying, and people keep seeming to overlook, that solution isn't finished yet, and when it is, I'll deploy it.
Until said solution is deployed, I can counter that traffic and time spent on the site have gone up. The improvements are a success.
So be patient, stop trying to make me fix something that's temporary, and let me get on with the permanent solution.
You are citing this as a 'what content we should or shouldn't have' problem. I disagree, I see it as a Where the content should or shouldn't be displayed' problem, for which there is already a solution. But as I keep saying, and people keep seeming to overlook, that solution isn't finished yet, and when it is, I'll deploy it.
Until said solution is deployed, I can counter that traffic and time spent on the site have gone up. The improvements are a success.
So be patient, stop trying to make me fix something that's temporary, and let me get on with the permanent solution.
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
red alert always related.
it is just difficult to give feedback without knowing what is final or not.
Not saying that the site will not not get better but bringing up traffic at this point is as silly as those playernumber threads
it is just difficult to give feedback without knowing what is final or not.
let's stay realistic, the traffic is no evidence that the site got better: some hundred clicks gained from this thread do no indicate anything.Until said solution is deployed, I can counter that traffic and time spent on the site have gone up. The improvements are a success.
Not saying that the site will not not get better but bringing up traffic at this point is as silly as those playernumber threads

Re: Springinfo ReStructure
Traffic is up consistently, and not from this thread. Looking at the stats, the majority of the increase coming in referalls from this site is not this thread, but it's actually the frontpage news feed, which is showing a massive percentage boost.
Also the traffic improvement is not a lone spike.
http://www.dev.springinfo.info/29/sprin ... -analytics
Also this thread was more about announcing that things are changing so that we didnt end up with a 'what happened to springinfo' thread, and explaining major changes, rather than requesting feedback and details. I'd have preferred not to have talked about the details of things that haven't happened yet here but the subject was raised and things were mentioned.
While feedback is welcome, I don't expect it, and it would be unreasonable of me to expect it at this stage.
Also the traffic improvement is not a lone spike.
http://www.dev.springinfo.info/29/sprin ... -analytics
Also this thread was more about announcing that things are changing so that we didnt end up with a 'what happened to springinfo' thread, and explaining major changes, rather than requesting feedback and details. I'd have preferred not to have talked about the details of things that haven't happened yet here but the subject was raised and things were mentioned.
While feedback is welcome, I don't expect it, and it would be unreasonable of me to expect it at this stage.
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
impressive numbers but absolute it is up from 5 to 200.Referalls from the root page of springinfo are up by 1933.33%
the frontpage of springrts.com?but it's actually the frontpage news feed, which is showing a massive percentage boost.
Shouldn't springinfo.info bring traffic to springrts.com instead of other way around?
Tbh after seeing it broken for very long and with threads like http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26492 going nowhere, I assumed it was dead.so that we didnt end up with a 'what happened to springinfo' thread
- Forboding Angel
- Evolution RTS Developer
- Posts: 14673
- Joined: 17 Nov 2005, 02:43
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
SI sends traffic to all of the project sites, as the content links to the source. People should be coming to the spring site if they are developers. If they are players, they should be going to the game's sites.
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
That particular traffic boost is likely gone now since I changed the RSS feeds to link feed items to the original source rather than the post on springinfo, but it is a sign that the feed on the frontpage is getting used a lot more, and traffic stats say people are visiting more and staying for longer periods.
This is good considering it is only at the halfway point.
This is good considering it is only at the halfway point.
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
The games taxonomy update is now live:
http://www.dev.springinfo.info/36/games ... -goes-live
You can now drill down and show posts for a particular game regardless of category. More details in the post.
http://www.dev.springinfo.info/36/games ... -goes-live
You can now drill down and show posts for a particular game regardless of category. More details in the post.
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
hmm I can't create polls in this forum..
I have a question, who would oppose the wiping of all posts on springinfo? What would be the collateral of such an action?
I have a question, who would oppose the wiping of all posts on springinfo? What would be the collateral of such an action?
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
Post Management:
http://www.dev.springinfo.info/38/post-management
Server load progress:
http://www.dev.springinfo.info/37/load- ... now-take-a
http://www.dev.springinfo.info/38/post-management
Server load progress:
http://www.dev.springinfo.info/37/load- ... now-take-a
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
not possible in "general" though it works in "games & mods", dunno.AF wrote:hmm I can't create polls in this forum..
...and nothing of value was lost!I have a question, who would oppose the wiping of all posts on springinfo? What would be the collateral of such an action?
99% of posts are linking to off-page stuff so no content gets lost. I think the only posts longer than 2 sentences are some BA guides or something, maybe those could be saved (at least the text) for the "BA homepage"
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
There are guides but those are pages.
My concern at the moment is that for some games, 99% of the posts are hand written by the person, e.g. Azaremoth writes his own posts IIRC
My concern at the moment is that for some games, 99% of the posts are hand written by the person, e.g. Azaremoth writes his own posts IIRC
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
http://www.springinfo.info/game/the-cursed/
All links to his moddb page...
Btw I think there is a bug when you click on user names eg on "by knorke":
Instead of listing all posts by that person, it links to something else.
For example if you search "demonaut", click the post, then click "by knorke" it will just link to http://www.springinfo.info/?s=demonaut (the search results) again.
I would expect it to be a "view more posts by same person" button.
I think really 99% of handwritten posts are in the style of "[link to something] 1-2 sentences to describe link." Imo that does not qualify as "article."
Actually I have a hard time to remember any post that was not like this, except the mentioned BA guides.
(and I check(ed) springinfo somewhat regulary, not because I hope to find something interessting but to see what impression new people might get)
The 1% are the BA guides which I can not find right now and your (?) rant about AI interface.
But maybe ask the people who posted.
(I do not mind my stuff getting deleted if it makes for a fresh start)
All links to his moddb page...
Btw I think there is a bug when you click on user names eg on "by knorke":
Instead of listing all posts by that person, it links to something else.
For example if you search "demonaut", click the post, then click "by knorke" it will just link to http://www.springinfo.info/?s=demonaut (the search results) again.
I would expect it to be a "view more posts by same person" button.
I think really 99% of handwritten posts are in the style of "[link to something] 1-2 sentences to describe link." Imo that does not qualify as "article."
Actually I have a hard time to remember any post that was not like this, except the mentioned BA guides.
(and I check(ed) springinfo somewhat regulary, not because I hope to find something interessting but to see what impression new people might get)
The 1% are the BA guides which I can not find right now and your (?) rant about AI interface.
But maybe ask the people who posted.
(I do not mind my stuff getting deleted if it makes for a fresh start)
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
Oh that wasn't hand written.
At the moment the code checks to see if a particular piece of data was attached to the post and uses that as the permalink instead if it's found. The old feed scraping code did not add this.
Forboding also added code to link a users username to their site, though I've said in my dev site posts I intend to change this to author listings with a bio at the top.
At the moment the code checks to see if a particular piece of data was attached to the post and uses that as the permalink instead if it's found. The old feed scraping code did not add this.
Forboding also added code to link a users username to their site, though I've said in my dev site posts I intend to change this to author listings with a bio at the top.
- Forboding Angel
- Evolution RTS Developer
- Posts: 14673
- Joined: 17 Nov 2005, 02:43
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
^^ Yeah, that was a quick and dirty "fix" because by default the username wasn't linked to anything. Having it send to author's website was the quickest and easiest way at the time.AF wrote: Forboding also added code to link a users username to their site, though I've said in my dev site posts I intend to change this to author listings with a bio at the top.
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
As knorke hinted at - the major part of my posts/"articles" can either also be found here in the forums or on indiedb. Thus the loss of the news posts on springinfo is no total loss (only speaking for me here).AF wrote:There are guides but those are pages.
My concern at the moment is that for some games, 99% of the posts are hand written by the person, e.g. Azaremoth writes his own posts IIRC
- Forboding Angel
- Evolution RTS Developer
- Posts: 14673
- Joined: 17 Nov 2005, 02:43
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
Well, most of what he is talking about is extremely old info (as in more than 6 months old).
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
me?Well, most of what he is talking about is extremely old info (as in more than 6 months old).
show me some new, handwritten stuff then because I can not see any.
- Forboding Angel
- Evolution RTS Developer
- Posts: 14673
- Joined: 17 Nov 2005, 02:43
Re: Springinfo ReStructure
I don't understand what you are saying knorke.knorke wrote:me?Well, most of what he is talking about is extremely old info (as in more than 6 months old).
show me some new, handwritten stuff then because I can not see any.