Whew, I still have some dust removal to do around there! This is why you don't slack off writing things.
_index wrote:
Are you going to continue project? Just found and it looks awesome. But i suggest you to remove "preview" pictures and instead of it use a simple algorithm:
I will! It's just that I've been recently busy looking for ways to give it more stability in case something happens.
This is the graph from Dec.1 until today. Those spikes are scary, ain't them?
They're the disruption of services that I wanted to avoid with the page (as a result of using puush, mediafire, etc.) .
Anyways, I've had something like your idea in mind for a long time (rather than a static image, a full animation trying to resemble how it would look ingame. Crazy? Maybe, but eh, I'm the one who started making a skins db.)
Looks like, queuing said preview images (in order to avoid even more wait for the uploading process), it could work...
After I finish with other suggestions, I'll sure get on that one.
Also, rather than being user-uploaded pics OR system-generated ones, why not both? Looks like another tab at the start could do the trick, too. (And would fix a related situation I have in mind right now... Nice!)
tl;dr: On the to-do list, sounds like a good idea.---
As for the previous poster, I'm sure s/he won't read it, but it's still worth a shot. Wanted to get it out of my chest anyways.
Martinawa Hatsuhi wrote:
In fact, the osu! Skin Compendium is a thread that tries to compilate all the skins avaiable in the vast osu! skins subforum in one only site. You're already trying to do that with your page, with the exception of giving the freedom to all osu! users to post their skins there without having to wait any confirmation to be there. So having the osu! Skin Compendium as a section of a page that tries to be an skin compendium looks a kind of redundant and even silly. You of course can have all that skins in your page, but having them separated of the rest because of appearing in a list that has only a random bunch of skins is maybe a bit too much.
...You might be right, however we've got now the problem of popularity. That compedium drives thrice the amount of users going to the most seen skin (this month, eight thousand). Removing it would make people leave earlier...
I might replace it with Completed skins when I have it ready.
Martinawa Hatsuhi wrote:
Completed Skins, although, have a difference respect the rest of the skins, and that is that all the skins there have all or almost all their elements skinned. Of course, they may be more skins out of there that are complete, but you're sure that the ones inside there are complete because there is a control before they are moved there. So you maybe should be more aware of them. They are not many of them so you can upload all of them and dedicate its special place, as they have in the skinning subforum. At least, find the ones that are already in the page and list them.
I don't really want to upload more skins without having previously the author's consent. I already did it once with the Compedium, and I didn't really like it (the same way I wouldn't want people to reupload my things without my permission).
What deadbeat does with his new one, however, is different, since he isn't storing it online, available for everyone, instead saving a private copy and sending it privately.
...Alright, it might not be that different. Still, I refuse to upload them.Martinawa Hatsuhi wrote:
Tagging the current ones, though, is doable. I'll get to that too when I get the completed skins page done.
As an additional suggestion, you should think about a tag/category system. Maybe thematical skins are easy to find (e.g. Touhou, Vocaloid, etc.), but conceptual or pro skins are really difficult to find by their name because you can expect almost anything of them.
Done!
(Wow, what a wall of text.) Thanks for everybody's interest on this!
