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vex
Registered: May 2011
Posts: 4 |
FR: Let me * star releases to build my personal top list
It would be great if you had the possibility to "star" releases, so that you could build a list of your personal top releases over time.
There is sooo much good stuff in CSDb and it happens all the time that I stumble upon a good release and forget about it later, desperately searching for it afterwards...
With this feature all I had to do was a simple click on a star or some funky little logo to make that release go into my top list.
Just my five cents.. :)
Anyways, thanks for your great work here. CSDb is pure awesomeness. |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3193 |
this is not facepoop, anyway in userpage menu on top you can always look at your vote and comments history, assuming you have voted or commented in the entries you like. |
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vex
Registered: May 2011
Posts: 4 |
Yeah, that, of course, comes to mind. Then again, commenting or voting releases can't really make up for the kind of "bookmark" i'm proposing. Sometimes you don't have time to vote objectively and/or nothing to comment. And sometimes, you really want to come back to a release you had given seven points, but still found to be outstanding (in parts?).
Sure, I could bookmark the link locally, too, or use some other means of keeping track of that top list, but it would all be a workaround only. |
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Bitbreaker
Registered: Oct 2002
Posts: 508 |
Start doing your own demos, then the list of favourites is easy to spot: All your own releases. The rest is crap anyway. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094 |
vex, csdb code is hardly maintained, new features esp. wont happen. |
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Karmic
Registered: Apr 2015
Posts: 66 |
+1 Bitbreaker :p |
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MagerValp
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1078 |
Just use getpocket.com or any of the other bookmarking services out there. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2979 |
Quoting vexSure, I could bookmark the link locally, too, or use some other means of keeping track of that top list, but it would all be a workaround only. A workaround for what, really? Having your personal favorites in the database actually only really makes sense if they are public, such that people can go and see "Ah, what's on that guy's fave list anyways?" - i'm not so sure if that is so sensible, given that this really isn't Facebook. There are zillions of ways to comfortably manage browser bookmarks, and you can share them, too! |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1409 |
*likes this post*
*likes vex's comment* |
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Skate
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 494 |
vex, we're bunch of excellent computer geeks from the best era of personal computers who are unable to maintain a website code. use your browser's bookmark faetures. |
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Cruzer
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048 |
I use the feature called "download", and a feature in my operating system called "new folder" which makes it possible to collect all my favorite demos in one place. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2979 |
Cruzer: That's not social! You must download a demo each and every time you watch it. How else shall people wank over the download figures? :) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094 |
youtube lets you do all that shit, and you can skip anywhere instead of ffwd by warp :) |
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Peacemaker
Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 275 |
i watch the demos, and if i like one, i recode it every time i want to see it again.
greets ;) |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
Quoting Oswaldyoutube lets you do all that shit, and you can skip anywhere instead of ffwd by warp :)
Alt+H doesn't work as expected though. |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
LOL People asking for features on CSDb. What year it is, 2002?
All you could get is poop. |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Build your own scene database, harvest CSDb and add features as you like.
If only I had the time and knowledge... |
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vex
Registered: May 2011
Posts: 4 |
Okay, guys, so we have successfully identified the underlying problem, which is:
- hardly maintained code
Now, there are some obvious solutions:
1: code CSDbNG from scratch (not gonna happen, as we are all a bunch of lazies)
2: open source CSDb and branch to CSDbNG
3: give some young and motivated programmers access to
the CSDb codebase so things get fixed/added in the future (definitely not me)
4: Keep things as they are. Do your custom workarounds or just don't care.
I'd prefer option 2 or 3. 4 would be the worst from my point of view. Because things will start to break, fail, get hacked, be corrupted, etc. in a wonderful number of ways and if we're not able to maintain this site it will sooner or later be fubar.
Option number 1 would be nice, of course, but without database and code open sourced, it'd be a tedious task to rip all the information that's stored here. It's kind of a last resort solution.
Who's owner of the code, anyways? Maybe I should ask him. |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
@vex: This is hardly news. For the last 10+ years every once in a while someone gets fed up with some shit and a thread like this appears. But whatever is discussed in it quickly gets forgotten, so I wouldn't get my hopes up too high on any of those solutions.
Seems to me that the general concensus of the moderators/admins/devs is a detached, disinterested acceptance of the current situation, and we oughta deal with it. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384 |
everyone who had looked at the code so far came to the conclusion that rewriting all of it is the one and only practical solution, as its already patched and hacked beyond all hope and no sane webdeveloper would do things even remotely similar these days. opensourcing certainly wouldnt help a lot at all there, except scaring away more people perhaps =)
so indeed, mace gave the proper answer. just do it. harvesting the data (or even get the database and convert it) will be the least of all problems =) |
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Skate
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 494 |
I had sent a message to mods about an help offer but haven't got a reply, yet. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2979 |
Don't waste your mojo, Skate, the elders have decided it's unpossible to fix. :) |
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Peacemaker
Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 275 |
i bet the source does not even have comments.. damn it. the source is lost.. for ever
(sark off) |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384 |
the missing comments are certainly not the biggest problem in this code :o) |
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Skate
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 494 |
You can even obfuscate and precompile. There is always a way to reverse and refactor. So, whoever has the authority to invite me to the dev team and share the repo, please contact me. I'm fine with a denial but at the moment i didn't even get an answer. |
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Peacemaker
Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 275 |
i bet the source looks exactly how i would code it. so, i am your man, dear csdb \O/
:D |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094 |
bet a ready made site engine could do CSDB easily. forums and user system would come for free. rest is database and layout fucking. |
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Skate
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 494 |
i'd prefer an mvc php framework like laravel, nothing more. |
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Bitbreaker
Registered: Oct 2002
Posts: 508 |
Dudes, save up your energy for a proper X-demo. As for the c64, you also accept the restrictions that apply, and you are satisfied with what you have for 30 years without any new fancy features needed. So why should this platform change? |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2979 |
"It's just software, can't be hard." :)
But yeah, what Bitbreaker said. CSDb is fine as it is, no need to add vanity functions. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094 |
no csdb is not fine as it is, and its not a rigid hw platform.
- last comment should be editable
- all comment types should be displayed on one page
- search function is horrible
yadda yadda. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2979 |
Then go fix it. Or apply for it and never get answered back. Whining won't help in most cases. :) |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1409 |
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Skate
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 494 |
Still no official answer. My next request is just a "fuck you" overlay button in the middle of the page. Each time we press on it, it'll send mods&admins a nice petscii fuck. Who's with me? :)
@Bitbreaker: You have a point about X, i agree. |
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Moloch
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2928 |
Congrats, you killed the thread. |
