Mod Site Updates

Started by codenaught, August 16, 2006, 03:12:24 PM

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codenaught

The Simple Machines Mod Team has been busy lately improving the mod site to make the site more convenient for users downloading mods and mod writers who submit mods to the site. Some changes were also made to better sync the mod site with the current theme site, with new features that were on the theme site but not on the mod site.

The changes that have been made are:

User Improvements

  • The number of mods for each category are now shown on the mod site index.
  • An error message is now shown when a user tries to download an unapproved mod.
  • The rating of a mod is now also shown on the mod's download page.
  • "Rate This Mod" link has been added underneath the "Link to Topic" link on each mod's support topic linking to a page to rate the mod.
  • Template changes to improve the look of the mod site and make it look more like the theme site.

Mod Writer Improvements

  • "Coding Guidelines" link added on mod site index that links to documentation on SMF's coding guidelines.
  • Once a mod is approved, a PM is sent to the mod author saying that there mod has been approved.
  • Notifications can be sent for a mod when it gets a new review.

Bug/Security Improvements
  • Spell check should now work properly.
  • Fixed a bug involving the body and htmlspecialchars function.
  • Small typo fixes
  • A check has been added to make the sure the "Report Mod Unsafe" field is not empty.
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xlegacyx

A slight glitch. The "Featured Mod" box goes outside the layout in Firefox 1.5.0.6. :P

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Can you please provide a screenshot?
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SleePy

Happens in FireFox 2.0b1 as well..


btw. It took 51 seconds to load this page.. says so at the bottom.. but going to post that in another topic.
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JayBachatero

Umm I'll look into the Featured Mod error.  About the time it took it's because the server is acting up.  It should be back to normal soon.
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JayBachatero

Ok do a hard refresh.  Should be fixed now.
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SleePy

didn't have to refresh. it showed fixed :)
good job..
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JayBachatero

Ok great.  Also for some of you the page might look a little discombobulated due to the cache.  To fix it just do a hard refresh.
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Rudolf

there's an s on the top of the page
can't provide a screenshot, but here's the html source

s
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html lang="en">
.
.
.

must be an echo in the source files or a typo
I will update all my mods in the next few weeks. Thanks for your patience.

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JayBachatero

Fixed.  Somehow it got added to the end of hte file when I fixed the float issue.
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winrules

I'm getting some wierd behavior on IE6:



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Alan S

Idea :  maybe it would be a good idea to provide a RSS feed for the latest say 10 mods that were submitted so users can view the brand new mods?

Quote from: SleePy on August 19, 2006, 01:07:17 PM
didn't have to refresh. it showed fixed :)
good job..


I like your firefox skin , do you mind me asking what its called?
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SleePy

Quote from: Alan S on August 19, 2006, 03:50:08 PM
Idea :  maybe it would be a good idea to provide a RSS feed for the latest say 10 mods that were submitted so users can view the brand new mods?

Quote from: SleePy on August 19, 2006, 01:07:17 PM
didn't have to refresh. it showed fixed :)
good job..


I like your firefox skin , do you mind me asking what its called?

FireFox 2.0 default Theme 
There isn't any good themes yet for 2.0.. Since 2.0 only recently went open beta and few mod developers have updated themes for 2.0
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Thantos

Quote from: winrules on August 19, 2006, 03:38:36 PM
I'm getting some wierd behavior on IE6:


Make sure you aren't caching anything, like the the modsite.css file.

winrules

Quote from: Thantos on August 19, 2006, 04:01:42 PM
Quote from: winrules on August 19, 2006, 03:38:36 PM
I'm getting some wierd behavior on IE6:


Make sure you aren't caching anything, like the the modsite.css file.
That might of been it, but I'll never know because I was just on a public computer (that's why I was using IE).


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destalk

Looks like that under Safari also.


Quote from: Thantos on August 19, 2006, 04:01:42 PM
Quote from: winrules on August 19, 2006, 03:38:36 PM
I'm getting some wierd behavior on IE6:


Make sure you aren't caching anything, like the the modsite.css file.

xlegacyx

Quote from: winrules on August 19, 2006, 03:38:36 PM
I'm getting some wierd behavior on IE6:


It looks fine to me on IE6. Delete your cache as suggested.

G6™

I have tested on FireFox 1.5.* , Opera9, IE 6/7, and Netscape and all the pages are looking as they should  :o

SleePy

Quote from: destalk on August 19, 2006, 05:58:50 PM
Looks like that under Safari also.

is that Safari 2.0?

Safari 1.3.2 Shows it correctly for me.
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