Hello! I'm back
Hello Crossfire!
After some ridiculous amount of time on the road I am finally back! How are you? I've been far and wide on my travel, to Gamescom, MLG, PAX and many other places and this weekend I'll pop my Dreamhack cherry by going to DH Valencia. All lovely? No.
Niceties aside in the period of being away there's no hiding the neglect that's gone on here on old Crossfire. Unfortunately the timing of the release and timing of a massive trip coincided probably the most important period that would be post release bugfixes , usability requests and content creation.
So lets get that all back on track eh?
Here's whats in the current pipeline for CF4 so that you're aware (timelines tbc)
- New Search - Our SOLR Indexing has now worked so replacing with a usable search engine is very near
- New Admin Features
- New Spam Protection
From there the next set of features are really up to you, we can divert those to whatever people whine about the loudest!
The second part that really needs addressing is content of course and I'll be doing my best to write more content on the site myself, but I'm no longer filled with exciting content I'm afraid so we'll be launching a content competition with a Valve Forever code as the prize (Means you get all valve games past and future forever). I'll be doing that more formally tomorrow. On the content side I would like to run another online tournament as BFB1 & 2 were so successful but we're still awaiting delivery on the prizes for BFB2 winners so I dont want to do another one without a clean slate!
Anyway, hello I'm back!, let me know what you're not happy with and I'll do what I can to fix it.
After some ridiculous amount of time on the road I am finally back! How are you? I've been far and wide on my travel, to Gamescom, MLG, PAX and many other places and this weekend I'll pop my Dreamhack cherry by going to DH Valencia. All lovely? No.
Niceties aside in the period of being away there's no hiding the neglect that's gone on here on old Crossfire. Unfortunately the timing of the release and timing of a massive trip coincided probably the most important period that would be post release bugfixes , usability requests and content creation.
So lets get that all back on track eh?
Here's whats in the current pipeline for CF4 so that you're aware (timelines tbc)
- New Search - Our SOLR Indexing has now worked so replacing with a usable search engine is very near
- New Admin Features
- New Spam Protection
From there the next set of features are really up to you, we can divert those to whatever people whine about the loudest!
The second part that really needs addressing is content of course and I'll be doing my best to write more content on the site myself, but I'm no longer filled with exciting content I'm afraid so we'll be launching a content competition with a Valve Forever code as the prize (Means you get all valve games past and future forever). I'll be doing that more formally tomorrow. On the content side I would like to run another online tournament as BFB1 & 2 were so successful but we're still awaiting delivery on the prizes for BFB2 winners so I dont want to do another one without a clean slate!
Anyway, hello I'm back!, let me know what you're not happy with and I'll do what I can to fix it.
I just hope u actually realise how much u fucked up with the new cf design
(its quitted not quite'd)
But they are still here! They just make less journals cause CF is dead.
Btw, Why did you update this site? CF3.2 worked well and we all had fun then! Now cf 4.0 and no fun at all. Thanks to that all the good spammers are gone ( razzah ) Who made this site alive. Just with hes random chick journals and so on :) WE MISS THOSE TIMES.
wb
but dont act like u werent doing handstands :D
wat
- approval for newsposts
As
- activity tab at profiles
I don't recall this feature ever working 100% properly, at least not for me. I get an HTTP 500 Internal Server Error when I try to select the Activity tab at most user profiles, yet it works sometimes at some profiles. It is a nice feature, if only it worked!
- stickies
Frankly, I don't see the point in "stickying" something if it doesn't appear at the top of the list under each section, like it was in the old Crossfire. I like the idea of allowing journals to be stickied as well, but again, it is not noticeable unless the complete list of journals is opened. There is also no clear label (as far as I can tell) for stickied newsposts, while stickied journals and threads have a "pin" next to the titles.
- display settings
Perhaps users could be given the ability to display more or less of various things? This is quite handy on GamesTV (http://www.gamestv.org/myaccount/display/), being able to choose how many comments, threads, events, news, etc. are shown. Personally, I would prefer to see more than 5 items in the News section, especially with the recent surge of "random" newsposts. Important CB & ESL newsposts are being "pushed down" pretty quickly at the moment due to less important newsposts like those concerning one-day cups and other games. It would also be nice to see a few more items under Recent.
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I like this feature and wish it was used a bit more often. Main News and Other News can be a bit of a mess when 1 newspost takes up half a page while 4 or 5 newsposts fill the other half. I was under the impression that the feature's intention is for only the first sentence or paragraph of a newspost to be displayed in the list, until the actual newspost is opened and the rest of the content is revealed.
- flag page
Does a flag page still exist? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
- tags (filters)
Have these been "fixed" at all? I remember when they were first introduced, it was discovered that unchecking some of the boxes led to a ridiculous amount of content disappearing for no apparent reason. I haven't really tried editing them myself recently, though.
- information at profiles
The area under Information in user profiles is quite messy. Gender, Website, and Achievements are lumped together with CPU, Mainboard, HDD, etc. while I think they should be separated a bit.
That's pretty much all I can think of right now. I also agree with what
My biggest concern with CF4 is not the font/background/layout, but rather that many enjoyable and convenient old features have been removed and replaced with broken and annoying new features.
- sticky system is broken,period.
That's what I can tell you for now.
I've also edited my post a bit with better explanations
would be nice if the user flag (can craft content and what not), could be removed, they're pretty painful.
Also I'd love to see the 'friends online' like in cf3.2
wb anyhow :)
I got four already! But the game deserves some attention, it got potential.
- last visitors
- a feature in outbox so you can see if someone read your message yet or not ([ b ] [/ b ] like on cf 3.2)
- also would be nice to see which status a user has (admin,mod,user,cheater etc)
- a note that everyone can see near comment if somebody edited it or not. (last edited on 15:52 blablabla cf 3.2 style) because I noticed that everyone edits comments so much because it's not possible to see if it was edited :p
- maybe an other colour of new comments or something else, so you know where you finished with reading after last login
- would be nice to have [urlnew= ] [/url] back , because it seems like it doesnt work now
can't think about more at the moment + most of my thoughts have been posted above by other people already
oh and i kind of lost my rights on new crossfire. can only delete comments + approve newsposts.. also lost an access to private channel (:
http://www.own3d.tv/wade/video/783712
http://www.own3d.tv/wade/watch/783712
http://www.own3d.tv/video/783712
http://www.own3d.tv/watch/783712
also, embedding a video with a HD link (e.g. youtube.com/watch?x=1398239128&hd=1) - the &hd=1 has no effect anymore in embedded videos (to the movies section at least.
own3d videos don't work with the [videos] tags, or if they do, it's specific to ONE link like "/watch/1337/" rather than all of the linkable adresses. all I know is that for example the one in my profile, doing [ video ]own3d link [ /video ] makes no embedded video, it is just the same as [ url ] [ /url ]
- hits
- Move journals and news to the top
- Make polls and events more noticeable
- Optional themes, light and dark
- Get et button
- Make a my account box showing inboxes etc..
- Changing nicknames
- Put 'recent' to the bottom (no one cares about it)
- Red triangles
- At the top of the journals have a sticky journal that has a lot of interest ( most commented journal per week)
- More active admins
All cf4 features with cf3 design would kick ass. Flags on names are gone. User profiles are totally boring now, hits are gone., what is Followers lol , i "follow" ppl i barely seen once in et ..
When you hit "online users" --perhaps implement a chatbox there? would be handy to search for scrims since et irc is dead. Read all the journals whinign about cf4, alrdy pleny stuff written there, but i give you a sum of what i seen most ppl think: cf4 killed et? perhaps give some "old" feeling to the site or probably there wont be much ppl around to even whine -
gl tho
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You need better crew and CF 3 back. Also you need a "Last comments" box. It sucks like it is. Best example this post i just wrote. It will take a long time for anyone to see it, if someone ever will
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