We've maintained a relative equilibrium here for a while, and in terms of everyone's part in the progression of the site's features and changes, has primarily been hand-off, which is fine. But I thought I'd give you all a run-down on where we are, what's in development and what's in queue.
I maintain a list of ideas and improvements in the Site Suggestions thread to go back to, but it's not necessarily complete, chronological or all things that will be done.
Right now aside from fixing the last unread GG Weekly feature, the top priorities for specific functions are in order
I've been in the meanwhile looking for more appropriate ways to handle news posting. Just grabbing all the news from one site defeats the purpose of the feature in the first place. Here the best solution in mind may just be an additional feature to the current structure. The GGWeeklyBar extension for Firefox was a start, but what I'd like to do is to add custom buttons to known gaming news sites that allow you to dynamically submit news. For example, if you browse to IGN with the extension installed, you would see a "Submit to GG Weekly" button that would bring up a pre-filled box to submit the article.
The top redesign is dependent on the login updates. And minify is a backend improvement.
Following that stack we have a need for lots of stats. There's a lot of information that could be provided to users both on an individual and collective basis that may be of interest.
That's what I'm working on. No telling when anything may or may not be done, but that's your update for now.
I maintain a list of ideas and improvements in the Site Suggestions thread to go back to, but it's not necessarily complete, chronological or all things that will be done.
Right now aside from fixing the last unread GG Weekly feature, the top priorities for specific functions are in order
- Custom skins and layout
- Login box redesign (forgot login, etc.)
- Apply minify library to improve loading
- Overhauling GG Weekly news posting
- Implementing AJAX forum functionality (autoload new comments, chat view, etc.)
- Top bar and menu redesign
- Stats
I've been in the meanwhile looking for more appropriate ways to handle news posting. Just grabbing all the news from one site defeats the purpose of the feature in the first place. Here the best solution in mind may just be an additional feature to the current structure. The GGWeeklyBar extension for Firefox was a start, but what I'd like to do is to add custom buttons to known gaming news sites that allow you to dynamically submit news. For example, if you browse to IGN with the extension installed, you would see a "Submit to GG Weekly" button that would bring up a pre-filled box to submit the article.
The top redesign is dependent on the login updates. And minify is a backend improvement.
Following that stack we have a need for lots of stats. There's a lot of information that could be provided to users both on an individual and collective basis that may be of interest.
That's what I'm working on. No telling when anything may or may not be done, but that's your update for now.
Recently Spotted:
*crickets*
No, they are lazy and so am I. I get tired of this updating, can't wait to be replaced by a Yoda's coding.
But not all their stories are interesting. If you want I can post the interesting ones from that site each day to save you the trip. (In the past I've avoided the site as it's traditionally been your and GG's beat -- the way I kind of handle andriasang.com and Hamster does the gonintendo stories).
We'll all be out of a job soon...
...Wait, we're not getting paid!
Bring it on.
IS it?!