The rating system is a bit weird in that, afaict, nothing can be given 0 stars. Everything starts at 20%, everything implicitly has *some* merit, everyone gets their first star as some sort of consolation prize.
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Regarding the home page, I believe we could have a section just for recently updated content. It lives alongside new maps, and this can overshadow small new releases. A "recent updated" tab separated from "New maps & mods" would be great.
I agree it's a bit unfortunate that it takes up real-estate, but I haven't seen a good example of this happening yet to do anything about it. Besides, there's not really any space left on the home screen without removing stuff like the Resources cell, which I think is required otherwise we get this problem threefold with all kinds of things being lumped into one cell.
Also, these two "New Downloads" and "Recently Updated" would be the exact same 90% of the time, because people generally don't update outside of the release window of their mods.
The "leave a rating" interface appearing as an overlay modal really doesn't work on mobile — the interface is pretty complex and trying to cram it all in while still leaving space to show a sliver of the page 'behind' it eats up more valuable vertical space, produces confusing scroll behaviour, and doesn't add anything valuable to the experience IMO: I suggest the "leave a rating" button should stay as a simple link (on desktop too) for simplicity.
I would like to iterate on the off-topic forum part of the idea below. To my knowledge none of the quake communities have an organized way to talk about non-quake stuff. I think this is important for community building, and does not take away from the on-topic discussion, only keeps it cleaner. There are the discord, but real-time discussion is a whole different medium, not everyone's piece of pie. Then there would emerge the classic cliché topics like "let's count to 1000", "what are you listening to", along with proper content.
Instead of one chaotic giga-thread, I would suggest a sub-forum approach, similar to https://www.doomworld.com/forum/11-everything-else/, or even a section of multiple sub-forums.
In the end, I think it's "free" and wouldn't hurt to have one, but not having one anywhere could be already hurting the community, it at least hurts me and my forum nostalgia.
Instead of one chaotic giga-thread, I would suggest a sub-forum approach, similar to https://www.doomworld.com/forum/11-everything-else/, or even a section of multiple sub-forums.
In the end, I think it's "free" and wouldn't hurt to have one, but not having one anywhere could be already hurting the community, it at least hurts me and my forum nostalgia.
Suggestion 2: include Reviews in the message history under the the user profile menu
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There already is a page system on the downloads page? It goes back to the creation of the site.
I'm not sure if this is a feature already that I just can't find, but it could be useful to have a way of easily and cleanly searching/seeing every release that a specified author has participated in. Currently if I try and search for someone it shows a spam of posts for every individual update in solo releases, plus regular forum posts, and then depending on search parameters sometimes omits any jam they've participated in but didn't upload themselves. Ideally it would be good to just bring up a specific author and see just one entry for every map submitted, so it can be easily read.
We've been trying to find a good solution to this for a while. The way our framework functions, a single author always must have authorship over a download. We tried setting up resource teams, but right now they're not widely used *and* you cannot search strictly via them. It's sloppy, and we need to fix it eventually.
Have you tried using the tool at quak.cney.stream? It searches quaddicted and slipseer, and you can search by author. Though sometimes authors are credited under different names, and that's an occasional problem.
That still only lists the resource owner on Slipseer, not the full list of authors.
We also added Quick Search in Downloads, as a to temporary solution/replacement to poor performing Quick Search on top bar (which will require more time consuming rewrite...)
OOOOH. THIS is the shit. I've been struggling without proper search for a very long time. Wow. THIS is a big game changer
*Not really "struggling" of course
I could survive. But search is needed
*Not really "struggling" of course
I could survive. But search is needed
I think it'd be good/nice to have forum-style reaction buttons for reviews. Something simple, like here in the forums. Ideally there'd be at least a thumbs down, thumbs up, heart, and confused/question mark type thing. I guess I'd add that the forums could also add a thumbs up/down reaction as well.
Hey, I've noticed that the favicon is hard to see in Firefox's light theme on macOS. I was wondering if adding a dark background under the sigil would make the icon look nice on both light and dark backgrounds.
It could be usefull to make staff member badge clickable. Because it's unclear who is staff and how to find them
