New features: topic-thumbnails, board viewer-count, member ads

General Discussions
#1

Showing thumbnails in showcase and featured section:

It picks the first image of the first post. Feel free to adjust your threads with this in mind.
N.B.: Members abusing this increased visibility (i.e. NSFW graphics or ads) will be perm-banned on the spot. Needless bumping your own thread will result in a warning.

Showing viewers browsing a specific board

Not really that interesting, but I saw IndieGamer do it, so…

Showing ads of games published by our own members

  • To see them: logout
  • On every page: one rectangle (160px) under [featured game] on right side of the page
  • On every topic: two banners (640px), interleaved in the messages/replies

If you have a finished game and a couple of banners, drop me a note and your ads will be served for free. You’ll get access to the ad-management interface that also shows statistics on how your ads are performing.

#2

How do you set a thumbnail to your showcase post?

As always, thanks for taking the time to maintain JGO Riven :slight_smile:

#3

I explained that in the post.

#4

;D oops didn’t read carefully

#5

Looks very nice :slight_smile: I like that the showcase/featured games section now looks a bit less like a forum and more like a portfolio.

Mike

#6

Thanks! It’s still not ideal, bit I agree it’s better. I actually got the urge to browse the older topics :slight_smile:

#7

Good work on ads and showcase thumbnails! 8)

#8

Very cool feature indeed! :smiley:

However, I did notice that some of the topic images have been scaled poorly.
I guess the author can adjust their images accordingly, but in that case I’d be nice to know how the scaling works / what resolutions are the most optimal. :slight_smile:

  • Scarzzurs
#9
  1. The image is scaled to a height of 128px.
  2. The width is scaled keeping the w/h ratio.
  3. The image width is cut off at 256px.

TLDR; to make the image fill the entire thumbnail: make the image twice as wide as it is high.

#10

I think the thumbnails are brilliant!

But they might be a little more brilliant if they were scaled to either a height of 128px or a width of 256px, whichever gives the smaller result (so no cropping). And I’m not really a fan of the black borders down the sides of the images - unless there’s a reason why you want all the thumbnails to end up the same size.

Simon

#11

very nice! at http://zfx.info we have some kind of pic dump on the main page. maybe you could add such a thing at the front page too. I think it motivates people to post pics.

#12

Thumbnails with different widths looks really messy.

Regarding scaling width vs. height… it’s not like I have the dimensions of the images… the URL is all I’ve got, so I can’t really determine the best way to scale

… well, I could write some obscure javascript executed on img.onload – sigh

#13

I agree, I already planned to add thumbnails to the sidebar - the code is ready, but I’m still messing with the layout.

#14

Great with thumbnails in Showcase and Feauture section! I saw several games now that I had missed before.

#15

There are limits to your power!? :o

#16

There are limits to my powder. :cranky:

#17

It looks really good!

#18

These preview images make the affected forums almost unusable on mobile devices. Can it be disabled somewhere?

#19

Now using HTML5 canvas to shrink the images ahead of time, instead of during reflow / scrolling.

Better? Works on my crappy Android phone.

#20

Yes, it’s better now… :slight_smile: