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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:57:16
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Since the site has successfully gotten off the ground, I thought it would be a good idea to compile the current issues and lacking features into a log of sorts.  Make any issues you have known, or they may go unnoticed.




  • GG Weekly timespan title

  • GGW archive to list weeks

  • Mailbox paging and deleting

  • Select from friends for PMs

  • Better design for reading messages

  • Smiley button for GGW comments

  • Comprehensive Profile page

  • Streamlined review process

  • Tracking of most clicked news

  • Paging for searches

  • Blog not to insert extra line breaks

  • Better formatting for things such as the link to write a new blog

I'll slowly be working through these.


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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:26:16
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Awesome to hear. Again amazing job you are doing.
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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:12:20
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I'd like to add one thing...I don't think you listed it. Would it be possible to get the page numbers in GG weekly at the top of the page?

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:46:23
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Can do

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:13:08
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Firstly great job man.

Secondly forum!

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:19:04
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Awesome Yoda. I love having them up at the top...don't ask me why.

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:19:36
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Hmmm, titles for each post like on 1up but optional use. And a banner I can update myself and change when I need to, as well as a title just under saying Week of 16th June or whatever.

I think a forum for everything else other than news related comments.

A better layout for blogs and reviews, I mean presentationally and all that. The comments for blogs looks a little weird, might be better if it was listed with the most recent on the bottom.

Great job Yo.

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:52:06
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Comments reversed.  As I said on your blog, I'll be a little slow on the bigger things due to time restraints.

On the design side, I'm admittedly relatively lousy in terms of making things particularly pretty.  If you had some specifics in mind on what needs adjustment, that may help.

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:55:12
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I just noticed there's no simple way to view all the reviews or blogs from a specific user.  That's a necessity.

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:08:17
Good idea. I don't have specific ideas for presenation, I guess more pics. Lavish the place with pics of the things we like. Like 80s movies we grew up with, artwork, our favourite games. All sorts I guess. I have a publishing experience background so I sort of have this layout and colour mindset where you have two oppossing colour schemes, logos and print and columns arranged.

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Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:10:05
Another suggestion is, it possible to highlight the page number you're on?

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Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:10:39
Oh, and how about a use list?

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Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:28:50
A use list?  If that was a typo of user, you can search users using the search to the top right and selecting "Users" from the drop-down.  Leave it blank to get a complete list.

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Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:26:48
It was indeed a typo. Grinning

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Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:54:13
How about small sigs under our comments? I don't like big sigs like some have on Gamespot, but its nice to have small sigs to break up people's comments more and to make it easier to see who said what.

Would this be possible?

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Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:04:17
Ah, signatures.  I'm not sure how I forgot about those.  It's pretty easily doable, actually.

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