Content contribution
Crossfire runs on user contributed content which means we should facilitate all members to easily add, manage and share their content.
Crossfire 3 didn't offer many features, and especially not for the journal posting regulars. This is about to change. With the all new contributor module it becomes possible to create your own content in whatever format you want, whenever you want. This comes down to an intuitive editor which supports the good old bb-codes you're accustomed to, and a drafting system that will allow you to store your unfinished content. You'll be able to save a nearly limitless amount of content that you plan to finish later, making sure your quality content stays put until you decide when to publish it. We even go one step further and offer the option to derive your content from previously created templates. If you ever wondered how these nicely formatted ESL newsposts or tournament coverage articles were built up then you're in luck as we will predefine a bunch of global templates from which you can choose. You can also store your content as templates, in case you'd for example like your babes journals to have the same layout throughout the series you plan on publishing.
We also introduced the concept of generic content throughout the site, as it is now a matter of seconds to convert journals to news, forum threads to articles, events to polls, albums to journals and so on without losing any data doing so, including comments. Even when you'd like to revert back to the type you initially came from, it's all possible without giving it a second thought. Never again will your content be deleted because it happened to be in the wrong section.
Notifications
Letting you know what is going on is one of our main concerns when it comes down to usability. In case someone replied to your comment it used to take 3 clicks to see what the reply actually was. While this did generate a lot of pagehits (it seriously did), it was a primary example of the obsolete state of the website. With ajax and jquery, it's no longer rocket science to get a simple popup notification with a direct link to the reply. That's exactly what we've done, and we've continued to apply these functional aids for any notification you'd want to see.
Throughout the next week more features will be explained with the ideas and goals behind them.
Many of you will recognize a lot of the suggestions they made in the old Crossfire 3 columns and software update newsposts. This shouldn't come as a surprise, as your feedback is the cornerstone of Crossfire 4.
Crossfire runs on user contributed content which means we should facilitate all members to easily add, manage and share their content.Crossfire 3 didn't offer many features, and especially not for the journal posting regulars. This is about to change. With the all new contributor module it becomes possible to create your own content in whatever format you want, whenever you want. This comes down to an intuitive editor which supports the good old bb-codes you're accustomed to, and a drafting system that will allow you to store your unfinished content. You'll be able to save a nearly limitless amount of content that you plan to finish later, making sure your quality content stays put until you decide when to publish it. We even go one step further and offer the option to derive your content from previously created templates. If you ever wondered how these nicely formatted ESL newsposts or tournament coverage articles were built up then you're in luck as we will predefine a bunch of global templates from which you can choose. You can also store your content as templates, in case you'd for example like your babes journals to have the same layout throughout the series you plan on publishing.
We also introduced the concept of generic content throughout the site, as it is now a matter of seconds to convert journals to news, forum threads to articles, events to polls, albums to journals and so on without losing any data doing so, including comments. Even when you'd like to revert back to the type you initially came from, it's all possible without giving it a second thought. Never again will your content be deleted because it happened to be in the wrong section.
Notifications
Letting you know what is going on is one of our main concerns when it comes down to usability. In case someone replied to your comment it used to take 3 clicks to see what the reply actually was. While this did generate a lot of pagehits (it seriously did), it was a primary example of the obsolete state of the website. With ajax and jquery, it's no longer rocket science to get a simple popup notification with a direct link to the reply. That's exactly what we've done, and we've continued to apply these functional aids for any notification you'd want to see.Throughout the next week more features will be explained with the ideas and goals behind them.
Many of you will recognize a lot of the suggestions they made in the old Crossfire 3 columns and software update newsposts. This shouldn't come as a surprise, as your feedback is the cornerstone of Crossfire 4.
Imo ET is just an unattractive game for new players, so I dont think you well get hundrerds of new users with CF 4. So keeping the members that you currently have active as long as possible is also very important, and I think most of them didnt like the CF 4 Beta.
On the other side, CF4 was just not 'feeling' like the CF we are used to, so maybe we just need some time to get used to it.
I do admire the effort, dont get me wrong, and there certainly are things to improve. The content contribution and notifications updates are great. Keep up the good work!
personally I'd still make it a separate thing so that you'd have friends and people who you want to follow (even if they're not your friends). for example I might wanna see what some retarded user is writing if I happen to find his comments amusing, but would never want to be a friend of them
Trust me that
I feel theres potential for cancer joke here.
but please dont drastically change the design/layout
What can i say to cf:
- well, the new CF4 is really good feature wise. I am sure most people will enjoy it, atleast comparing to the first CF4 Beta. This one has this little CF3 feeling, somehow!
keep the good work guys!
Gonna have a reason to refresh Crossfire daily from now on ^^
CyberGamer went through the exact same change management issues with existing users when they changed over to the latest installment of their website. The important thing was they just got on with it knowing that the framework they were putting in place would overall, change things for the better.
While this community has its roots heavily tied to ET and RTCW, we all also like other games for differing reasons and ultimately it is other games that keep groups of players together over longer periods.
Have patience, give it time and be thankful for all the hard work the crossfire team have put in for us.
and please remove the space on both sides and the space between 2 comments is way to much. in some days i can name my finger a scroll finger :( :)
all in all im happy although i cannot login in anymore with mozilla. now im on inet explore which is fucking slow. worked proper with mozilla.... - cookies deleted worked
e. using cf on anndroid i cannot reply to messages, just dont recognize the username so i have to click profile/pm and so on instead of just reply. fix it pls.