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As much as I usually dislike agreeing with a wall-o-text rambler, Tim brought up one point. I remember when the server move was completed, one of the first questions I had was about our comic layouts and if we'd be able to get Project Wonderful ads back on our comics so that we can actually make money from our work. I remember feeling some relief when I was told that PW ads were a high priority and that I shouldn't worry.
But that was several months ago. I even tried contacting Wowio and asking them about it and was overall…shunned is the best word I can use.
I like the Duck, and I'd hate to leave after so much time here, but it's really hard to keep focus when the site doesn't give the cartoonists much room to grow.
I'm not blaming anyone here since I know it's not really anyone here's fault and there's not much that can be done right now. I'm just sort of venting.
But I really wish Wowio could just put a little funding into getting DD a couple steps closer to what we used to have.
I uderstand your concern.
Heh, even for the PW thing that wasn't something old timmy brought up, but was something I presonally fought for before the redesign was even ever underway!
And when screaming timmy was told that he re-imagined it as his own victory… That sort of thing is sorta why we don't like him very much.
It was always supposed to be made part of the new DD, but without funds for Wowio proper, NO development of any kind can start happening.
That means no fixing of the current bugs, and no adding in of projected features like PW. When funding returns, then deveoplement and bug fixing can restart.
Till then, the site works, but not as well as hoped, and no PW yet unfortunately.
Well sorry to make the inconvenience (specially on the date, have a happy new year in any case) but extra to the date issue that Niccea has mentioned I am missing the "you have X new mail(s)" when you receive a PQ (or many of them).
Also I know I haven't fully checked the topic but I would like to know if the issue has been reported yet and sadly I know it is more of an annoyance but not a real bug but the idea of requests showing but PQs not can be a bit of a confusion to a couple of us.
For all your attention thanks.
Yeah, the lack of PQ notifications is an extreme pain and slows communication down to nothing on the site, but it's something that's known and we all have it…
I'm not sure of the full story but apparently PQ notifications as well as the notifiers that show whether there's been a new post in the forums and who it's by (on the forum overview) all had to be shut off due to some massive slowing down of the servers or something…
Well I know that the idea that i had was not on the pop up nor the notifier landslide. What I had in mind was that like the Request a number to show when it is above 0 still the idea would be when the situation changes and DD gets the coding in gear.
Just that when any user logs in and sees the PQ near to a (0) to a (X) but then again I know that is a decent code piece to an extent.
Happy new year and hope things get better.
I had to quit my account because the duck kept saying i don't exist except for when i tried to register again. It wouldn't let me log in, it wouldn't let me reset my password, it wouldn't let me post in the forums to ask why this was happening, and it didn't give the option to reach the admins by other means.
chease321 wrote:
I had to quit my account because the duck kept saying i don't exist except for when i tried to register again. It wouldn't let me log in, it wouldn't let me reset my password, it wouldn't let me post in the forums to ask why this was happening, and it didn't give the option to reach the admins by other means.
That's terrible!
But always remember there're links on the front page of the site to our official DD Twitter and Facebook accounts:
http://twitter.com/#!/drunkduck
https://www.facebook.com/DrunkDuckcomics
If anyone has a problem they can contact us through there- just remember to tell us your DD account name and e-mail so we know it's you.
All 6 of my books were averaging at least 10 hits per day. Now my stats show zero hits on all books since the switch-over last July. I find this hard to believe. Was it DD's goal to make the site less functional and hence less desirable to long-time contributors, or was this just an unlucky circumstance? I think the whole relaunch is a flop and I for one will be seeking other more user-friendly sites to post my future web comics. Smooth move, DD– not!
Is the 5th spot on the Most Popular comics row a spot where you put "DD endorsed" community projects now?
Just curious since the awards were there for a long time and now all of a sudden the Secret Santa is there and the Awards just vanished.
Before that I remember reading you was testing it with Pinky TA (and not DLP >:{)
Yeah ^_^
Previously that was Persona FTW3, which had stopped updated ages and ages ago, AND Persona FTW4 was in the top ten as well anyway (plus I'd had some complainats about the fact), so that spot was the prefect candidate for shifting up once I'd worked out how to do it.
Basically I can put anything at all there, and community projects seem like an ideal choice.
The entire top 10 can be comepletely revised… but there's no ethical or fair way to do that that I can really think of. Even though the current placements are just down to plain dumb luck and are not "earned" or fair or valid in themesleves: they just happened to be the comics with the most unique hits average over 5 days when the list froze.
If the list was still working some of them would probably still be there (Charby etc.), and some wouldn't.
So there's only a fairly thin argument for keeping them the way they are… But because there's no easy replacement, we basically keep them that way for tradition's sake.
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I always intened to put the secret santa there after the awards, I was just waiting for SS pics to be put up. With the way that the list is horribly static and not representative anymore, it's nice to be able to have some change there.
Can you rename the top 10? Or would that be a coding issue?
It'd be neat if the new top 10 shifted a bit through the year with the comics that updated and won awards in the DD awards.
It's kinda silly if they all just get to sit there just because the site is frozen. It may not be fair to remove them when they would more than likely be there anyway. But in some cases they may not be and it's not fair to those that should be there.
I was kinda thinking the same thing. Anything we can do without Wowio doing some major recoding should be done. Anything we can do to breathe more life into the site. That said we need a major community project for late winter/spring. I don't think we have one.
So far the annual projects have been:
June-September: Drunk Duck Awards
June: Mid-year Secret Santa (Summer Santa/whatever the frack we want to call it)
October 1st: 24 Hour Comic Day
December: Secret Santa
Just a thought to maybe get something anual for March/April if we don't have something already. You know me. Aways wanting to keep busy.
This has probably already been reported, but going live feature isn't working.
On Tuesday, I posted 2 comics to go live today and next week. However, even though the post date on the comics say posted on the 6th and 13th, people can already go to the site and read the comics.
Niccea wrote:
So far the annual projects have been:
June-September: Drunk Duck Awards
June: Mid-year Secret Santa (Summer Santa/whatever the frack we want to call it)
October 1st: 24 Hour Comic Day
December: Secret Santa
Just a thought to maybe get something anual for March/April if we don't have something already. You know me. Aways wanting to keep busy.
Empress!!
It may not be much, and it's relatively new, but there IS a DD Voice Contest.
I believe the Radioplay is the preferred manifestation, and I was thinking of posting a script contest next month.
I know Kroatz has been working on a massive script, but I think there might be others who'd like to contend for author-hood-ship (yeah, whatever).
*sputter* I mean, harrumph.
hugs and kisses
The Czarina (yeah - I'm looking at you)
arvtoon and joe5art: the stats tracking hasn't worked since July, when they changed the site over. They intended to get everything functional again, but they ran out of time/money and now the site is kind of in limbo. :[
ultimatez: people seem to have the best luck with Chrome and the worst with Firefox. That's not a solution to the core problem but it might work for you to get your page set up.
justnopoint: we can't rename the top 10, that's part of the page coding which we don't have access to. Otherwise we'd probably be able to do more with that spot.
niccea: Has it been more difficult to get people involved in community projects since the relaunch? I think we all definitely have noticed how quiet the site has gotten, and it seems like the same group of 20-30 people participating in everything. I'd love to get more people involved in things again, we can always revivie old projects like the beauty pageants or comic redux things- but I wouldn't want the same people to feel pressured into participating in everything because no one else is. :[
armagedon: It's just you who can see them, because you're the comic owner. If you try logging out and viewing your comic, you won't see them. :] It's not the best system.
Armagedon wrote:I'd like to second this. I don't know if it's a ong term problem, or something I only picked up on now.
This has probably already been reported, but going live feature isn't working.
On Tuesday, I posted 2 comics to go live today and next week. However, even though the post date on the comics say posted on the 6th and 13th, people can already go to the site and read the comics.
Sorry if it's a known issue like the stats.
Advice?
Re the comics being viewable even though they shouldn't be live yet- Only the creator can see that. Try logging out and look again. You should be able to see it as anyone else does: the pages that aren't live won't be there.
If they're still love even when you're logged out or logged into a different account, THEN there will be a significant issue.
ozoneocean wrote:I am aware the pages are visible from my account.
Re the comics being viewable even though they shouldn't be live yet- Only the creator can see that. Try logging out and look again. You should be able to see it as anyone else does: the pages that aren't live won't be there.
If they're still love even when you're logged out or logged into a different account, THEN there will be a significant issue.
I logged out, saw the page from the future. Had a friend look it up, they saw it too. Live date says 14th of Jan.
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