How could we improve the portal?

[foultzboyz]

He means the type of thing where you reload the page and a video is randomly selected from a list of videos that could appear. Like, say you set up videos 1-10 to be a part of this. You load it once, it might select video 6, reload it, maybe it's video 4, again, video 10. They'd be pre-selected videos that would be randomly chosen on the page load.

eBay Partners is a good idea. This entire website is about a product, and people interested in the product will be the ones viewing our site. Maybe they have all the games, maybe not. Having a list of ongoing auctions right there, though, could interest them enough to decide to buy it for themselves.

[stan423321]

In case of player, small question. Maybe frames would be awful, but isn't it possible to:
1) Use something with instance contact ability for player.
2) Use a special kind of link that causes "pop-up" or new card effect.
3) Make both players connecting and swapping information about song.
4) Make first player killing its window.
?

I hope you get the idea.

[spiraldoor]

A RayTunes player should appear in a seperate window when you click the "RayTunes Player" button on the Portal. Then you could post in the forums etc. while listening to the music.

Also, I think RayTunes and RayWiki should have links back to the Portal.

[Hunchman801]

I've performed a few tests, and I'm afraid it's not possible to have a RayTunes player, for bandwidth purposes.
As concerns the embedded videos, I'd rather have a video of the day (or video of the week, whatever) than a random video. Of course, someone would have to take care of it.

Also, I think RayTunes and RayWiki should have links back to the Portal.

RayWiki does. But you're right, we should add one on RayTunes.

[Reese Riverson]

Hey, how about a page that shows the top 10 posters here at PC? I remember there used to be a topic that dealt with that, which was lacking in updates.

Or one that shows the top 10 most active members.

[Holy Crap]

I think I'd be in both. Although I'm not as active as I used to be...

[Xenon]

I would almost certainly be in both too.

[Hunchman801]

Forum Hall of Fame: displays the top ten members in terms of posts, Tings, boon score, etc.

It's already in the list!

[neo]

I'd totally be in this.

[Reese Riverson]

Forum Hall of Fame: displays the top ten members in terms of posts, Tings, boon score, etc.

It's already in the list!

Woops... I overlooked that.

Boon score?

Let me guess, you are developing a mod that is like a rating system that the Pr0oO group uses to rate our boon scores and it keeps record of it in our profiles?

[Serza5]

Hey, how about a page that shows the top 10 posters here at PC? I remember there used to be a topic that dealt with that, which was lacking in updates.

Or one that shows the top 10 most active members.

I'd be in both of them too. q:

[Hunchman801]

How would you quantify activity though?

[foultzboyz]

eBay Partners is a good idea. This entire website is about a product, and people interested in the product will be the ones viewing our site. Maybe they have all the games, maybe not. Having a list of ongoing auctions right there, though, could interest them enough to decide to buy it for themselves.

Any thoughts? I really kind of like the idea actually, and it'd work well with the product the entire site revolves around (plus encourage those interested to give it a whirl). And a little extra cash for doing so never hurt, eh?

[Holy Crap]

How would you quantify activity though?

ppd is a good indicator.

[Xenon]

Well, it's not necessarily an indicator because Beebop's PPD is pretty high, but he isn't very active anymore.
Maybe if only the posts within the last month were used though...

[Holy Crap]

That sounds good actually.

[Hunchman801]

A better indicator would be:

P is the set of the messages posted by the user, Tf the current timestamp, Ti the user's registration timestamp, and T(p) the timestamp of the message p. It is a post count weighted by time: basically, the coefficients follow an exponential decrease in function of how long ago the message was posted.

[neo]

I wouldn't know how to quantify....

[Holy Crap]

A better indicator would be:

P is the set of the messages posted by the user, Tf the current timestamp, Ti the user's registration timestamp, and T(p) the timestamp of the message p. It is a post count weighted by time: basically, the coefficients follow an exponential decrease in function of how long ago the message was posted.

um.....ok... well then.... do that...I guess......

[Xenon]

By the way Hunch, this isn't relevant to updating the portal, but...

Do you think we could have a 24-hour clock? Nothing overly important, but I guess it would be easy to do and it looks cooler.

(And speaking of clocks, are you going to put a visual analog clock on the portal? )