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Jay520 on 24 September 2012
ioi said:

Which bugs, which tools, which clustered mess?

As far as I'm concerned, it is business as normal on VGChartz. We have weekly data, we have regular sales articles, we have forums. I have posted numerous threads in the last few months asking for lists of issues / improvements and most have come back with nothing so I'm keen to learn what the "bugs" are that you mention?

In terms of tools, a couple of months ago we added a bunch of the analysis tools back to the site (under the tools menu):

Are there any other specific tools you feel are missing?

Finally, how is the database a clustered mess? As has been mentioned previously, the ability to follow and rate particular games has now been removed (since this has now been superceded by Gamewise) but your old collections still remain. Basic game entries and data now feed through from Gamewise - when a date is added there it will update on VGChartz - makes far more sense than trying to manage two databases at once. Other than that, I don't see an issue here?

So yes, in terms of development / admin support then things are no different to how they have ever been. As has been explained in the past, we have been gradually streamlining and simplifying VGChartz back to a sales-focused site as it was back in 2006-2008 before we began expanding and "bloating" the site as many felt with new features - so a lot of non-sales functionality has now gone elsewhere as was the plan.

But to answer your original question no, nobody has been abandoned.

Check out this thread. The text editor is seriously underdeveloped

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=147802



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Mr Khan on 24 September 2012

One of my prayers, answered?

Tits.



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Kantor on 24 September 2012

I've been discussing this with some of the other mods on AIM, and we came up with this:

  • Improved PM system. Make it clearer who sent the message, maybe even add a profile picture. Remove that bubble system.
  • Give us the ability to edit the forum rules. We'll be needing that.
  • Mod chat on VGC itself so we don't need to use external chat clients.
  • Ability to remove things from VGC mod history.
  • The ability to change text colour and size in all posts.
  • The ability to post videos in the OP of a thread.
  • Wall to Wall (seeing a full wall conversation between two people). [low priority since we have comments now]
  • Mobile version of the website.
  • Visible moderation history from the moderation window.
  • Links in a user's "My Posts" section actually going to the post rather than the thread.
  • The return of VGC IM.
  • Edit, Quote and Report buttons on the View Post screen.

Probably more than that, but those are the important things.

Crossed out the unimportant stuff. Bolded the high-priority stuff.



(Former) Lead Moderator and (Eternal) VGC Detective

Lusche on 24 September 2012

I also would like a report button for wall posts ... so that you can ban those spammers.
I have deleted many wallposts making advertisement for porn pages ...



man-bear-pig on 24 September 2012
Kantor said:
  • The ability to post videos in the OP of a thread.


You can already do this...(at least, I can...?)



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

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Kantor on 24 September 2012
man-bear-pig said:
Kantor said:
  • The ability to post videos in the OP of a thread.


You can already do this...(at least, I can...?)

There's no insert video button when making a new thread, and pasting HTML hasn't worked for me since VGC 2.0



(Former) Lead Moderator and (Eternal) VGC Detective

Soma on 24 September 2012
ioi said:
morenoingrato said:

I don't mean disrespect to the administrators in any way. This is more of a question.

I understand Gamewise is a huge project that will probably be more profitable than Vgchartz, therefore, a lot of resources are on that site. However, and update of what's going on on the site would be nice.

Will the bugs be ironed? Will the tools be back? When will the database stop being a huge clustered mess? Will there be change? Do they even give a c*** about this site anymore?

Which bugs, which tools, which clustered mess?

As far as I'm concerned, it is business as normal on VGChartz. We have weekly data, we have regular sales articles, we have forums. I have posted numerous threads in the last few months asking for lists of issues / improvements and most have come back with nothing so I'm keen to learn what the "bugs" are that you mention?

In terms of tools, a couple of months ago we added a bunch of the analysis tools back to the site (under the tools menu):

Are there any other specific tools you feel are missing?

Finally, how is the database a clustered mess? As has been mentioned previously, the ability to follow and rate particular games has now been removed (since this has now been superceded by Gamewise) but your old collections still remain. Basic game entries and data now feed through from Gamewise - when a date is added there it will update on VGChartz - makes far more sense than trying to manage two databases at once. Other than that, I don't see an issue here?

So yes, in terms of development / admin support then things are no different to how they have ever been. As has been explained in the past, we have been gradually streamlining and simplifying VGChartz back to a sales-focused site as it was back in 2006-2008 before we began expanding and "bloating" the site as many felt with new features - so a lot of non-sales functionality has now gone elsewhere as was the plan.

But to answer your original question no, nobody has been abandoned.

 

Ok, just to be clear, will we have the option to add new games here again? Or we have to move to the other site for that?



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TruckOSaurus on 24 September 2012
Kantor said:

I've been discussing this with some of the other mods on AIM, and we came up with this:

  • Improved PM system. Make it clearer who sent the message, maybe even add a profile picture. Remove that bubble system.

About the PM system, PMs with an apostrophe (') in the subject can't be opened.



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man-bear-pig on 24 September 2012
Kantor said:
man-bear-pig said:
Kantor said:
  • The ability to post videos in the OP of a thread.


You can already do this...(at least, I can...?)

There's no insert video button when making a new thread, and pasting HTML hasn't worked for me since VGC 2.0


Just get the 'old embed code' from YouTube and paste it in the HTML window (which is found by clicking on the HTML button in rich text reply or when making a new thread). Works every time



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

Arcturus on 24 September 2012
Kantor said:

I've been discussing this with some of the other mods on AIM, and we came up with this:

  • Improved PM system. Make it clearer who sent the message, maybe even add a profile picture. Remove that bubble system.
  • Give us the ability to edit the forum rules. We'll be needing that.
  • Mod chat on VGC itself so we don't need to use external chat clients.
  • Ability to remove things from VGC mod history.
  • The ability to change text colour and size in all posts.
  • The ability to post videos in the OP of a thread.
  • Wall to Wall (seeing a full wall conversation between two people). [low priority since we have comments now]
  • Mobile version of the website.
  • Visible moderation history from the moderation window.
  • Links in a user's "My Posts" section actually going to the post rather than the thread.
  • The return of VGC IM.
  • Edit, Quote and Report buttons on the View Post screen.

Probably more than that, but those are the important things.

A mobile version of this website would be a blessing. This site is slow and clunky to navigate on both tablets and smart phones.

As other users have mentioned, there are problems with the Text Editor. One feature that has been broken for years is the Table Row Properties. I used to be able to set the Background color property and apply it to my tables, but it simply doesn't work anymore.