The idea is to show how many tracks you have posted for others. If i count your own then its just boosting your count and not really representative of how you are being a trials user. For example trials commune would have 20+ posts but that account hasnt helped the community. Its more about how you have played others tracks. I hope you see what i mean.

that does almost bring up an idea on creaters with the biggest tracks list...but, i dunno if that would ultimately workout...it is a thought tho

well i can see what you mean about trials commune - but all the commune posts are 500 faults 30:59.999 - and the site forces those posts - if i could take them off i would - i'm actually posting real times on my tracks - i'm the creator AND the user - why does posting on others tracks equal being a "trials user" and adding tracks to the site for others to post on not equal that? - the creators supply the content for the posters - if anything adding tracks to the site should be encouraged - but the way you say i'm "just boosting your count and not really representative of how you are being a trials user" makes it seem like posting times is more important than adding tracks to the site - but if people did not add tracks to the site there would not be tracks to post times on - maybe you can nullify the posts that are 500 faults 30:59.999 - i can understand that you want to encourage posting on others tracks - but that should not mean that posting on your own tracks does not count

well, it is good to have 2 different aspects, there is already lots of things for the creaters to look at on the site, but there wasn't a whole lot for the users. even if it has to be divided into 2 different parts, at least it's there something for both sides.

for the creators there's the track(s) of the week, the custom tracks channel, the new track additions sections and the advertise your tracks stuff there

for both sides, there's the tournaments, challenges, player/track searches

for the users...there's only the tracks we upload

the users dont really have anything major for them to stand out or anything. i see what your sayin' and stuff but i'd have to agree with gamescrub. i looked at mine and i have 14, that tells me something, if it added my track times it would say i had 32, and technically that's wrong

I feel that the top posters is for the users - but i am both a user and a creator - as a user i've posted 116 of my times and that's how it should translate on the top posters leaderboard - as a creator i've posted 39 tracks but there is no more leaderboards for track creators - subtracting one from the other makes no sense - it's apples and oranges - it's like saying any touchdowns/homeruns/goals/freethrows/etc.. made in an athletes home town do not count towards their all time record - if you did it you did it - if you posted a time to a leaderboard than it should be counted in the overall posts

Did Murdoch's concern lead to a change on the site? I swore that when I added a track yesterday that the counter went up. Maybe I just can't count.

Anyhow, I think that top poster leaderboards is a great idea. I've been meaning to go through all my tracks and post the times that I have attained, even if they aren't great times. I started doing this yesterday think I posted about 50 times), but the game makes it a bit annoying to post times for some of the "ninja" difficulty tracks, because I don't want to re-run the track, or even watch my run on fast forward just to see my best time. So those times will get posted too, in due time.

Another great idea by the Scrub!

No you don't get more posts for your personal tracks. I haven't changed that business rule, I hope

But the idea was actually Murdoch Loch's so he is the one that should get the props. I just put it all together.

Okay, okay.. but just this once.

Good job Murdoc! Now get back to work.

Scrub - what's going on with the tops of some of the leaderboards? Infinity? is that some sort of joke? I noticed it on mine a wile back and now on BlueMageFTW - also my control panel track list does not scroll down so i can't see past my first 20 tracks - any idea when we're gonna get the ball rollin on season 2? If not soon maybe i'll run season 1.5 on the side

The infinity is caused because you guys are entering the same times for each track. Apparently some of your tracks have bronze, silver, gold and plat at 30:00.000 and that causes the formula to divide by zero. So for now I just return 0 if this occurs.

What browser are you using to view the website. I can't replicate it but I'm using chrome.

Season 2 is being ironed out trust me it will be bad ass. In the meantime I'm going to do another mini tournament and this will help test and debug the ranked battle system.

Not sure when I'm going to start the tournament but hopefully sometime this week.

Thx

thanks scrub i fixed the infinity issue - i'm using safari

New changes to the track search and details functionality.

Created a whole new article section that allows for user comments. This new feature will allow me to create community based articles quickly and people can comment on them.

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I'm going to start to use twitter http://twitter.com/trialshdnet as a means to communicate and share ideas. I don't want to do email blastings so if you want to stay up to date and you are not in my Friends List this is going to be a good way to stay on top of things.

Thanks

like how things are lookin' on the site, but when you to into a track to see the leaderboards for that track, shouldn't the video come first, cause when you get like 40 submissions or something the vid is way down at the bottom lol just a thought

we had a lengthy discussion about that on the web chat. Dosto agrees with your sentiments but ahhme2 and I think otherwise. Now both reasons are good, but in reality first and foremost my site is about leaderboards. Videos are just icing on the cake. NOW I'm no good with the user friendly side of website creation so if you guys can help me out with how it should be viewed I'm down to make the changes.

Maybe a link that will jump you down to the vid? show/hide the leaderboards or video when you click on something?

Most of the changes have been submitted by you guys so all your help is appreciated.

hmm...well, how about putting the vid right under the empty space under creator? like here...

assuming you can do that without the video stretching the page, like try to keep the same space width, maybe move the track description over to the track details to make that little longer, and the creator section not so big (not that it is big or anything), cause some folks have longer discriptions. the good thing about having vids on there is people can see the track before downloading it.

but yes, a link to the bottom of the page would be nice too. just as long as we can get to the video as fast as we can get to anything else

The following people have tracks with no proper times set. What should I do with these tracks? It's kind pointless to put your track up with no times on them. Why would people post their times when you didn't take the time to enter the information correctly. It kinda defeats the purpose.

1. Remove them?
2. Create an option to disable them from search queries?
3. Just let it be?

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If you see your gamertag please fix your times if you can. I'm trying to sanitize the site a bit and I'm going to add restrictions in the future to minimize this.

Let me know what you guys think it's the best course of action.

Thx

Tons of updates done to the site. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Track search by star rating and track search by most user times posted as well would be nice to have as options.

^^^ this sounds good.

also the little video icon and the tourny stuff i told you about

hey like the little icon thingy majigger

good ideas I'll look into it. THX!

Scrubby, I have some suggestions so I'll put them in order and let you know, probably by PM. I also went through and added 50 - 60 times today, and I'll see if I can do about the same tomorrow.

Stupid question....but I am not able to upload my scores. I don't know where

Can anybody help me out? If i press "update" nothing changes.

Thanks in advance!

Gamescrub-

what about the option to post a video as proof? just a thought - and as always thanks for all the hard work

ML

to tell you the truth uploading video proof is not that big a change, but it is something I can't use for tournament ranked battles. I'm not watching tons of vids to see if you finished on time haha.

Is your goal to create a track called tournament and have people enter the sum amount of their tracks with a video showcasing all of their runs together?

Or just to add hits to youtube vids on proof? It's a cool way to promote top runs as well!

no "goal" - just thought it'd be a nice feature is all

K sounds like a win win idea ill try and do it tpday

scrub - I had some more ideas for the site:

- Track Maker Options:
- wipe leaderboards (for updates etc.)
- Delete Tracks - I don't even have most of the tracks i have on the site anymore - it's pretty annoying that i can't delete all my old tracks from the site

- Track Rider Options:
- Subscribe - the site gives you notices when a track maker you've subscribed to puts up a new track - this could be a good reminder for people to post their times
- Delete scores - sometimes I've accidentally clicked log score and even if i don't hit submit i still have a score of 500 faults and 29.59.999 on the track - i'd like to be able to delete those

-ML

I can't add the wipe leaderboards feature because of the players that already setup the times. I know sometime a big update is done on the track. Just have people re enter the times. Also since I use that info for tournaments, it would suck if someone would just wipe out the leaderboards in the time I was going to enter scores for ranked battle.


Same Thing as above I can't delete tracks that have times on there what I can do is if you click a delete track from your control panel I can hide it from your list but it stays in the system. I can also maybe update the track to say expired or something.



The subscription idea is good but I only have so many emails I can send out with my current account. But I might implement it and have and see what happens. Remember you can use twitter as well that feature is there and I might make it easier to use in the future.

I'll work on the remove a score options from the system. That is a bug and I should fix it! Thx murdoch