agree
thanks for the few people who do about 99% of the work on here - Webfork, Billon and i think System
agree
I'd say it's a lot of people putting in a lot of work over a lot of years -- there's a lot of credit (and blame) to go around Over the billon in particular has put in a ton of work over the last few years to keep database up-to-date and active, which is is huge as its kind of the pulse of the site. Just because of my schedule, it's not something I could take over from him.
User has been contacted.
But I think it makes more sense to post to the forum after adding an entry, instead of before, because then you wouldn't have the link to the entry, so you have to make a dummy post first, post an entry, then come back and edit the dummy post, which is all kind of messy.Something like 'please post in forums before submitting a program to the database' that a user has to click through to get to the Add view?' It might help.
How about showing an alert instead when the entry has been created? Showing the message right after creating the entry would be even more effective.Andrew Lee wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 1:59 am webfork has suggested in a PM to add something that would remind the user to post to the forum after adding an entry. Actually, his exact words were:But I think it makes more sense to post to the forum after adding an entry, instead of before, because then you wouldn't have the link to the entry, so you have to make a dummy post first, post an entry, then come back and edit the dummy post, which is all kind of messy.Something like 'please post in forums before submitting a program to the database' that a user has to click through to get to the Add view?' It might help.
I am thinking maybe add a bold red reminder near the "Submit" button to post to the "Submissions" forum (with a hyperlink to it). IMHO, that should be the best place to place the message.
Comments?
Good idea! Lemme work on that...How about showing an alert instead when the entry has been created? Showing the message right after creating the entry would be even more effective.
Looks great, thanks for thatAndrew Lee wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:48 amGood idea! Lemme work on that...How about showing an alert instead when the entry has been created? Showing the message right after creating the entry would be even more effective.
Update: All done. You can take a look at the wordings here: https://www.portablefreeware.com/postadd.php?id=2869
Will be shown after the user has added a new entry.
One additional request here: after the screen shows up, having the named link point to the entry would be ideal. Right now clicking on the link just goes back to the "postadd" page. In other words, I just added MusicBee to the database, but I couldn't get to the entry by clicking on the MusicBee hyperlink at the top.Andrew Lee wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:48 am Update: All done. You can take a look at the wordings here: https://www.portablefreeware.com/postadd.php?id=2869
Will be shown after the user has added a new entry.
@tproli: if you are reading this, could you help me out here? While the request sounds rather easy to implement, it is surprisingly difficult for a backend guy like myself!The display shows the minimum width allowed if you shrink the browser window; I find that's still overly broad. Online notices should be no larger than a regular newspaper column, i.e., something closer to the dimensions of the site sidebar -- or so sayeth the experts...
Thanks for spotting this. It should be classified as a bug, which I have fixed.One additional request here: after the screen shows up, having the named link point to the entry would be ideal. Right now clicking on the link just goes back to the "postadd" page. In other words, I just added MusicBee to the database, but I couldn't get to the entry by clicking on the MusicBee hyperlink at the top.