Rankk.org Topic - Changes ahead

• Changes ahead

  Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2007-05-01 19:42:48

  Bio and I met over coffee today and discussed some things about Rankk and future directions. The tutorial section has been long due and it was a subject we discussed in greater detail.

  The tutorial idea was mooted by Sapro in this post around December last year. Bio and I followed up discussing the idea, the coding, etc. Bio volunteered the coding and began pretty soon after that. It was done as early as January (I think) but I sat on it for a long time as I wasn't quite sure what to do with it when it's done. But after today, we've a fairly good idea what shape it's going to take.

  We also touched on privileges, something we had in mind right from the beginning but didn't have time to make concrete the ideas:

  Privilege 1

  - rank 18 or higher (Noble upwards)

  - power to add articles

  Privilege 2
  

  - rank 25 or higher (Merchant upwards)

  - power to select a forum username colour via Profile (the old Pyramid forum had such a feature and recently valsa raised the possibility of such a feature in a post here.)

  => done, but not yet visible on the forum.

  Privilege 3

  - rank 36 or higher (Priest upwards)

  - power to add a quote/joke/news/etc of the day to be displayed in the right panel
  
  Privilege 4

  - power to delete posts

  - invitational

  Privilege 5

  - power to publish articles

  - invitational

  Last edited on 2007-05-16 22:02:42 by Pha. Sphinx

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• Changes ahead

  Posted by Geb. valsa 701 from on 2007-05-02 06:34:34 Reply

  Nice Job Guys !

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• Changes ahead

  Posted by Viz. justonp6 955 from on 2007-05-02 06:41:03 Reply
  Sounds very promising! I can't wait to see it in action.

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  so I feel I stay on the 1% side. I bet the same is true for the majority of you, since you are reading Fravia's pages. If not, carry on and study some more essays, you will surely change your status.
• Changes ahead

  Posted by Geb. valsa 701 from on 2007-05-05 18:34:34 Reply

  May I ask if you already have an idea about the kind of articles do you expect to be posted (i.e. tutorial stile) or about the topics structure in case one is foreseen (i.e. Security, Exploits, PHP, Py, C, ...) ?

  Greetz

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• • Re^2: Changes ahead

    Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2007-05-05 18:52:21 Reply

    The articles will be based on common challenge topics found on most sites. They are aimed at equipping the readers with general skills on the various topics or domains. I'm stressing on the word "general" because they should not become spoilers for challenges here and elsewhere.

    P.s: Nice avatar :) Had thought Bio had enabled the *nix feature...

    Last edited on 2007-05-05 19:27:03 by Pha. Sphinx

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• Changes ahead

  Posted by Geb. valsa 701 from on 2007-05-05 19:26:08 Reply

  Ok, the idea is clear ty.

  I'll change the avatar as soon as Bio activates the *nix feature :-)

  Avatar changed 

  Last edited on 2007-05-05 20:03:45 by Geb. valsa

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• Changes ahead

  Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2007-05-16 22:01:00 Reply

  Been busy with implementing a couple of changes...

  The most prominent of which is moving the member information on the top right to My stats in the space below the Pyramid figure. Moving it closer to the user's view makes it more "personal" to the user. Information on the right now displays non-personal information.

  The idea to redesign the space below the Pyramid figure came about after silverknight suggested some sort of PM feature to allow the higher ranks to say hi or send congratulatory messages to the new members. That's certainly is a very interesting idea. The groundwork has been laid - if any such feature (PM) is implemented, it will go into that space.

  Caught up with Sapr0 on MSN a few days back. He said the links on the articles page looked "ugly" and suggested using drop-down menu. Bio and I had discussed the idea and felt that changing the links into a drop-down menu would make the page look empty. Also, there's that additional selection to make to go to the particular category page. So ultimately we decided maybe we'll rework the css to make the links look nicer.

  Woohoo, saw that Bio has added the event log for the forum so the information now appears near the bottom right.

  Time for a Feldschlösschen...hands one to valsa.

  Last edited on 2007-05-16 23:04:37 by Pha. Sphinx

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