a journey to reedham (7am mix)
posted by max on October 10, 2006 at 10:08:30 PM
I'm hard at work on the new site creator, which turns out to be a lot more work than I originally thought. I'm well aware of the plethora of issues currently plaguing the site, and I'm working on them as diligently as possible.
Current issues:
So anyway, back to the new site creator and all its magnificent features.
As you can see from the flow chart, it's a much more intensive process than it is currently (at least from a programming standpoint). New features include:
Current issues:
- YTMNSFW voting I've put a hack in place to make voting work any time you click a nsfw link from the front page and browse pages, there are still some issues when you just type a url directly into your browser and I'm working on it.
- The Search The new search is more or less useless due to the lack of sorting capabilities. The search engine software I'm using is in the beta stages of sort ability so very soon it should be able to replace the old search. The reason the old search was removed is that it can no longer be updated at any reasonable frequency due to technical constraints. I think for the time being I'm going to switch back to the old search and just have to live with it only being updated a couple times a week.
- The site is too orange. Great, I get the fucking point, it's been two weeks. If it's still an issue for you get the fuck out. I may add a color scheme option at some point but it's not nearly as much of a priority as a great deal of new features.
- Site Moderation - Killed Sites I'm in the process of designing a whole new tiered moderation system with more of a self policing element to it. As it is roughly around five sites get killed per day, and usually with good reason. In the next week or so I should be inviting the current moderators to discuss all of the new moderation system and its strong and weak points. Which leads me to my next point:
- Gimmick accounts/Vote bots/Dupe accounts
- Shirts Yes, I'm aware you want shirts, I'm in the process of setting up with a new printer/fulfillment shop, so it's still in the works.
- Content box tweaking A few of the content boxes need to be tweaked so they change more often, ironically people seem to be complaining about top viewed not changing enough when the algorithm hasn't changed from when they were begging to have it back. Up and coming needs its vote cap reinstated as well as a few other issues.
- You Yes, you, get out.
I'm acutely aware of the plague of dip shits who think they've reinvented funny by commenting and voting the exact same way on every site ever created on YTMND. Not only is this shitty from a technical aspect, I'm fucking sick of hearing people complain about it as well as having to see it myself. I've already written scripts to weed gimmick accounts out, I just need to sift through them and make sure I don't pick up any innocents. At this point, dupe accounts have become numerous as well, and I have a gigantic list of those as well. I want you to be well aware using automated voting will result in not only your account deletion and an ip ban, but any of your linked ips. This means if your friends use your computer or vice versa, or your entire college shares the same ip, everyone gets deleted and ip banned. With any luck I'll kill the entire site.
So anyway, back to the new site creator and all its magnificent features.
As you can see from the flow chart, it's a much more intensive process than it is currently (at least from a programming standpoint). New features include:
- the ability to reserve a sub-domain for 24 hours.
- the ability to close your browser or navigate away from the site creator and then come back and pick up where you left off (with a 24 hour expiration as well)
- a nifty new dupe check system that warns you if you've: used a title that's been used previously, used an image/sound or combination that's already been used.
- "Original Content Tuesday": On Tuesdays, users will only be able to upload images and sounds never used before on YTMND.
- Color Picker for the hex inept
- Preloader update: option to auto-resync, automatically will hide site text until fully loaded.
- Live preview window: the ability to change one thing on your site and reload a preview window for easy tweaking.
- New "Classic YTMND" classification: will make for some new content boxes
- The ability for users to mark their own sites NSFW
- Hooks for a feature that's been needed for ages: Alerts. Alerts will allow you to be notified when a friend creates a site, when a certain image, sound or string in a title is used, etc.
As well as a bunch of other junk.
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I like the new changes and features are great... but you really need to consider changing the color. I mean, if someone offers me an orange ferrari or a red and white ford taurus, I think we both know what I'm taking. Plus, Ford escorts get better gas mileage. But that's besides the point. The point is that we come here to see the layout, not the sites. Thus, any functionality geared towards viewing the sites is a wasted effort. Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
DarthWang brings up a pretty good point, though: what's to keep someone from changing a small amount of data and making it so that it's not original content, but skips the filters? There should be a way to stop that from happening. Perhaps users should be able to flag unoriginal content and link to the original site(s), so that moderators could more quickly and accurately apply justice?
Oh, and about the other entries: Site looks fine to me, and the ideas for the new site creation setup are good. I agree that the gimmick accounts should be banned, but I have a few questions on those, too: are exclusive upvoters/downvoters considered gimmick accounts, and if so, what would constitute being worthy of a ban--say, 50% of votes are 1s/5s, or some other percent? And no, I won't GTFO because if I didn't have YTMND, I'd wind up, you know, doing something useful or, God forbid, going outside.
Syncan, is it really necessary to make the preloader compatible with WAV files? The real advantage of the WAV is that there is no gap at the end and it can loop seamlessly. Most sites that need to be synchronized do not need a seamless loop, since they are short films anyway. They need to sync properly when it repeats. Is it possible to remove that gap at the end of an MP3, or get it to start the sound over at a specific time instead of playing to the end? To be continued...
Continued from previous post... MP3s are much smaller, and converting a WAV to an MP3 is pretty simple. If the preloader could be refined to handle MP3s better, there may not be a need for WAV compatibility. I'm just not sure if it's technically possible (or plausible). By the way, the preloader works wonders on dial-up. Seriously, it's nice to see everything start at once, rather than have the image displayed for
I would like to see a new feature implemented. I think it would really enhance the whole ytmnd experience. I'm not sure if you are ready for this... turn back now if you're under the age of 18... but I think that max should implement a "ProgramCam" webcam feature that he can turn on so that we can watch him code ytmnd LIVE. Also we could charge by the minute for people to watch it. I think there's some website around that has some format that we might be able to borrow/copy/steal from. Anybody know one?
Can you please just give us an option to view everything with the old layout? You may have forgotten, but YTMND is still visited by people and the majority of those that I know have just stopped coming cause this layout sucks so hard, not even from an aesthetic standpoint, but from a usability standpoint.
umm... in the off chance you read this... do you have people helping you cause it sounds like you are doing this all by yourself and if you are, I'll enter you into guiness records for babysitting the most people at once. Anyway, I can only imagine you have a ton of sh*t to do, and it doesn't help that you have an angry mob of jr high kids riding you about temporary sh*t. Sorry you have to put up with that. I'm impressed that you are still going at it considering this is no walk in the park. GL dude
Interesting idea about Original Content Tuesday, hopefully it doesn't result in people uploading 'original' spam.
I like the dupe checking thing have a look at how many sites use [http://content.ytmnd.com/content/c/d/f/cdff5db61d8d33dd5c5d671fc8356a54.gif] and then have a loop of AC/DC 'I got big balls'... It's not heaps but does the site really need more than one?
Other than that this site keeps getting better and better!
"Original Content Tuesday" is a good idea in theory, but in practice people will just change the original file slightly so the hash is different. This is bad because that new file will be saved on the server too and take up more space than necessary. The other changes sound great especially the "Classic YTMND".
HA HA!!! sexymofo is about to get pwned!! Good on ya, Max. Well, I must say, I didn't like the new site when it came out (and I'm still not fond of the colouring, though apparently you've heard that already), but with all this new stuff rolling in, things are looking good. Keep at it. And please don't ban any dipsh*ts posting from my university... I'd really like to stay here on YTMND.
the 1 am version: What is so 'classic' about classic ytmnds? Who defines what is classic and what isn't? Why do I even give a sh*t about classic ytmnds? Aren't I here to look at good ytmnds? How about a 'good ytmnd' classification instead of this vauge, "watch me masturbate to a past I have given a hollow importance to" niche of site-making. I can understand wanting to make "classic(tm)" sites, but sectioning them off is pointless and just seems like pandering to pseudo-nostalgia.
a lot of common sense going on in 453rd. we're all using the same medium, corralling certain sites because they pay homage to a 5 year old joke is pointless. how about a feature that separates cinamatic or canvas styled YTMNDs from the Smarterchilds and the Yahoo News screenshots. 99% of users don't even really get the original YTMND anyway. any user who justifies the stolen content on his site with 'Well, max didn't create the picture or sound of the original' is too stupid to be here.
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max, the UpandComing has been rather impressive, these last few days. i dunno if i have you or the users to thank for that. that's why i keep the TopFav'd on my frontpage. today's holds a news screenshot, a SA Photoshop montage, and an 8x used image asset. it certainly gives me plenty to complain about. i'm pretty much in heaven.
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