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Post by Oliveriver on Sept 19, 2015 17:10:47 GMT
I've been wondering lately whether any changes should be made to any of Thrive's internet presences to make them more appealing or engaging, whether it's adding new features or links or something else. This thread is for suggesting anything you'd like to see on the website, the dev forum, the community forum, the subreddit, etc. Like ideas for the game itself, we won't do everything everybody suggests, but someone might think up something we hadn't even considered which turns out to be really useful.
Here are a few of my own ideas - what do you all think of these?
- A chat client thing on the community forum (for whole forum chat, group chats and private chats); brought up recently in the shoutbox - A list of recent topics from the dev and community forum in the community forum's sidebar, and maybe even displayed somewhere on the website - Better-looking links on the website home page to the forums and gameplay overview (possibly using images as links)
Suggest away!
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Post by Captain McDerp on Sept 19, 2015 17:25:48 GMT
A way to streamline the process of requesting underwater civs to be a feature.
Please don't ban/kill me...
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Post by limeyhoney on Sept 19, 2015 18:36:19 GMT
How about a way to make any post that has the phrase Underwater Cities be automatically deleted?
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Post by mitobox on Sept 19, 2015 19:48:21 GMT
How about a way to make any post that has the phrase Underwater Cities be automatically deleted? Better yet, have it be detected like curse words and replaced with "nothing." "Underwater civilizations" would be the better phrase to censor, though.
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Post by limeyhoney on Sept 19, 2015 20:09:07 GMT
How about a way to make any post that has the phrase Underwater Cities be automatically deleted? Better yet, have it be detected like curse words and replaced with "nothing." "Underwater civilizations" would be the better phrase to censor, though. I know! Have it be censored with: "I am an idiot."
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Post by Oliveriver on Sept 19, 2015 20:12:04 GMT
I was looking for actual serious suggestions, you realise?
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Post by limeyhoney on Sept 19, 2015 20:19:23 GMT
Sorry oliver.
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Post by mitobox on Sept 19, 2015 20:48:58 GMT
Wait, you guys were joking?
Uhh, maybe something like the Species ALRE website, with the image slideshow functioning as links?
Also, could there be something for when the website has problems or is down for maintenance, like a special page with an asteroid crashing into a planet?
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Post by Oliveriver on Sept 19, 2015 20:58:04 GMT
Also, could there be something for when the website has problems or is down for maintenance, like a special page with an asteroid crashing into a planet? Nice idea but I've no idea if that's possible, seeing as if the website's down like the time before we won't actually be able to edit anything on it.
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Post by limeyhoney on Sept 19, 2015 22:46:30 GMT
Wait, you guys were joking? I wasn't, but I thought I'd be safer if I said I was.
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Post by elementalred on Sept 20, 2015 11:36:21 GMT
I've been wondering lately whether any changes should be made to any of Thrive's internet presences to make them more appealing or engaging, whether it's adding new features or links or something else. This thread is for suggesting anything you'd like to see on the website, the dev forum, the community forum, the subreddit, etc. Like ideas for the game itself, we won't do everything everybody suggests, but someone might think up something we hadn't even considered which turns out to be really useful. Here are a few of my own ideas - what do you all think of these? - A chat client thing on the community forum (for whole forum chat, group chats and private chats); brought up recently in the shoutbox - A list of recent topics from the dev and community forum in the community forum's sidebar, and maybe even displayed somewhere on the website - Better-looking links on the website home page to the forums and gameplay overview (possibly using images as links) Suggest away! About the chat, is it going to be something instantaneous like Windows Live Messenger?
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Post by Oliveriver on Sept 20, 2015 15:25:04 GMT
That's the plan, if it's doable.
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Post by elementalred on Sept 20, 2015 17:01:58 GMT
Okay then. Otherwise, I don't have any particular idea... :/
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Post by Oliveriver on Sept 25, 2015 17:46:33 GMT
I've messed about with some chat plugins on here during the past few days, and so far I'm not overly impressed. Ironically, the best ones seem to be integrated into Wordpress via Buddypress. We considered using Buddypress/bbPress for both the dev and community forums back when setting them up, but went with Discourse and Proboards respectively instead, and it's far, far too late to move now.
A couple of the options I tried, ordered from best to worst:
Kiwi IRC
Pros: Nice design, open-source, free, PMs and group chats Cons: No persistent accounts, ambiguous mod and editing tools, security issues
ChatWING
Pros: Persistent accounts, customisable design, PMs and group chats, full mod tools Cons: Free version lacks many features, frustratingly slow
Mibbit (I didn't actually try this one, but it's on the old forum)
Pros: Not many Cons: Ads in free version, few security options, annoying design
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Post by afosynthesis on Sept 28, 2015 20:48:55 GMT
Any updates on this?
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Post by Oliveriver on Sept 29, 2015 17:09:09 GMT
Not really. I never found a chat client which ticked all the boxes. If anyone wants to help search for one I'd appreciate it.
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Post by afosynthesis on Sept 29, 2015 17:21:08 GMT
Not really. I never found a chat client which ticked all the boxes. If anyone wants to help search for one I'd appreciate it. Do the chat clients have to be web based? Also, what are all the requirements for one?
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Post by afosynthesis on Sept 30, 2015 19:04:46 GMT
Alright, I've looked into a few programs and I think I've found some. None of them are web based however. All of these are open source. Tox:tox.chat/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_%28protocol%29Pros: Has accounts, group chat, private messaging, voice chat, video chat, file transfer, fairly customizable design, and I guess fits what you call secure. Cons: Not many Retroshare:retroshare.sourceforge.net/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RetroSharePros: Has most things that Tox has. Cons: Is more complicated and comes with some unnecessary things in our case. Pidgin:pidgin.im/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_%28software%29Pros: Is compatible with a wide range of services, very customizable, supports plugins, file transfers, group chat and PMs Cons: Has voice and video but only for XMPP on Unix-like systems, is pretty complicated for new users
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Post by Oliveriver on Oct 6, 2015 18:46:29 GMT
I did see those, but yeah, we need something web based that can be embedded using HTML.
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Post by Oliveriver on Oct 7, 2015 16:46:33 GMT
Ok, I found a few more which might work. I quickly tested the first on here, but it didn't load for some reason. Other than that it's likely the best choice we have. tlk.io/
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