Like seraph0x said, your opinion was valid, but your tone wasn't friendly. I think that if it had been, people might be focusing more on your opinion than the way you expressed it. Of course, you probably think that nobody would listen if you didn't say it the way you did, but it's only a matter of perspective. Everybody's distracted by how you said it, rather than what you said. I don't think that's what you wanted.JD wrote:Firstly, where exactly did i not show any respect... i can't see where i have been rude. I have merely stated facts in a plain talking approach.
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The Secret Project has been and gone. Wake up and smell the roses. The current 1st page of webteases contains 1 flash tease, and umpteen original style. Hence the project was a dud. Lets not try to coat it in sugar and pretend that it was a hit.
About the flash teases, well I and I'd think others as well, are waiting for the next version of Nyx to be released. There are certain bugs some of us are waiting to be fixed, such as being able to edit a vast quantity of pages at one time, and additional small changes that would just make editing much more efficient and flexible. Also, flash teases are something special, not just any user has the technical knowledge and will to learn how to use the editor and do it effective. So of course, there will always be more traditional teases than flash teases.
Anyways there was some discussion already on saving teases but it didn't get too much attention. I said some of what I thought there, but I'll say some more. Saraph0x asked for more feedback anyways, so here's my opinion. I think adding bookmarks would be a good, and easy, addition to the site. There's a reason that websites such as youtube, facebook, personals, shopping sites, and everything else have their own form internal favorites.
The largest reason for having internal favorites I feel is the way in which you view them. It'd be so much more conventional to go to Milovana, click the favorites button, and see a list of the teases you'd like to revisit. A browser simply gives you a list of teases with the only description being the title of the page. When I look through teases, it is very important to see the picture as the title is only half of how you remember a tease's content - the picture, of course, is the other half. There is also the added benefit of being able to sort the teases in different manners, view the tags of a tease, and see who made the tease and view their profile - something you can't currently do once you enter a tease. Those are all things that browser bookmarks can't bring, and something that other websites that host content have realized.
While the teases you rated five stars are nice, favorites can be used for more than just teases you've gone through. There is the fact that not everybody gives five stars to their favorite teases, as we all don't share the same rating criteria. Personally though, I'd like to "flag" or "bookmark" teases rather than "favorite" them. Some teases I like so much that I want to go back and go again. Many more teases I want to flag so I can come back sometime and do them when I have more time or am in the mood.
It really wouldn't be that hard to implement, either. Add a new table with two fields, one for the user id and one for the tease id. Add a button or a link next to a tease when you're browsing them to interact with the table, simply to simple add (favorite) or remove (unfavorite) records. Done.
And if you've read all this, thanks, lol... You must be very patient.
Have you guys considered recruiting an extra web designer? There are programs to coordinate editing files on the server so that all the administrators always have the up-to-date versions on their local drive. I imagine your concern would be though, more about trust and the like, though.
