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#21

The thumbnail thing is still too finicky. Why not allow linking to offsite, or not having a thumbnail at all? I made an image exactly 120x100 (using Photoshop) and saved as a JPG, it was 4kb. It still wouldn’t upload. When I resaved it as a GIF with 32 colors, it finally uploaded. And by the way, at least with Photoshop’s compression, your image takes up less memory as a JPG unless you go 32 colors GIF.

I agree with the top logo being too big. And if you’re going to verify every single game you might eventually become a very busy man. Why not have it verify automatically, then allow users to flag bad content?

#22

Thanks for all the feedback, it’s noted!

Once there are enough games in there and the main bugs are fixed, I’ll try to advertise it to the players. Obviously right now, there aren’t many people/players visiting as of yet.

[quote]A bug: my website address is broken because it contains java game tome site address.
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not sure what you mean?

[quote]Still deep-linking to screenshots. I thought we already said this was a bad thing?
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I wanted to store it in DB, but not enough space. I guess it’s OK if you submit the screenshot URLs for your game?

#23

The resulting URL of my website is http://www.javagametome.com/www.freewebs.com/jeromeblouin, which is wrong.

#24

If you can use a different host for your DB, I can give you some space.

And should people be able to rate their own games? I gave my own fair scores, but lots of people will go 10. I guess it won’t matter when more people start using the site.

I’m liking it so far, and I’m excited to see the library build.

#25

Also, maybe include a field that says was Java version is required.

#26

[quote]Also, maybe include a field that says was Java version is required.
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Please use the “Requirements” field if you require any special Java version etc.

[quote]If you can use a different host for your DB, I can give you some space.
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Thanks, but I am good for now. I am using 1and1 and so far they have a very reliable web service. My sites barely went down in the last 2-3 years (minutes at a time).

[quote]And should people be able to rate their own games?
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Yes. You should be able to vote on your own game.

[quote]The resulting URL of my website is http://www.javagametome.com/www.freewebs.com/jeromeblouin, which is wrong.
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You will need to add “http://” to the beginning of your URL. Simply submit a game update with the correct URL.

#27

Wow, you really to validate this situation then. Any developer could have this issue.

#28

One thing I noticed is that PHP is putting a \ before lots of your characters. I had this problem as well. Here is some code to fix it.


str_replace("¬å˚","\\",str_replace("\\","",str_replace("\\\\","¬å˚",$row[title])))

That is 3 nested replaces. Basically it replaces double backslashes with a weird random collection of symbols that hopefully nobody else tried to type, then it replaces the remaining backslashes with nothing, and finally converts the weird symbols back into backslashes. PHP converts \ into \, so in the end it will look like you wanted it to.

#29

Be careful with such approaches. You could circumvent auto-excaping this way, so that you open your server to a sql injection vulnerability. Make sure, you are only using this replaced strings for display and not for a db query :wink:

#30

Thanks for the info. By the way, most entry fields (description, comments etc) support BBCode ;D

#31

Yeah, I do this after I pull it out of the database, within my display section. Thanks for mentioning that, though. :slight_smile:

#32

Thanks for the escaping help guys ;D

I fixed it!

For all the others: where are the submissions? I can help creating the thumbnail images!? :’(

#33

I can’t upload my game as long as the following URL is invalid on your site:
“http://scarzzurs.dk/?target=HydroHydra”…

Also, while some may argue that two password fields when typing your password is a bit annoying, i think it’s comfortable to have it that way…

I’ll post more comments when/if i get the game uploaded…

  • Scarzzurs
#34

[quote]I can’t upload my game as long as the following URL is invalid on your site:
“http://scarzzurs.dk/?target=HydroHydra”…
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sorry - it’s fixed! Please try again…

#35

Wow, that was quick :slight_smile:

Aight, seems to be working, although i had to go back and resend the info to realize that the game had to be reviewed before it would enter the site. I guess i should have understud this from the text, all i’m trying to say is just that someone else will probably make this mistake aswell… :slight_smile:

Btw. with all these comments about the banner (some i agree with), it could be fun if you made a contest for a better banner…

  • Scarzzurs
#36

I’ll repeat my earlier point then - “if you don’t have the space to host them then you shouldn’t be using the images. Don’t waste my bandwidth because you’re too cheap to fork out for your own.”

Not only is deep-linking impolite, but it makes your website fragile and open to abuse. After a while you’ll end up like the old Tome where there were lots of broken images because images outside of your control were deleted, or if someone is feeling particularly evil they’ll change the image at the url to be goatse or something similarly unpleasant.

I also agree with EgonOlsen that the “play” link should be much more visible and obvious. I was hunting around for ages before I found it.

#37

I think what kingaschi meant is that if you provide the screenshot url yourself, that it could be regarded as implicit permission that the screenshot is deep-linked to, which is not so impolite.
However, I do agree with you with your other points that deep linking is a bad idea to begin with.

#38

Only 2 images were missing, I was implementing something to resize and put all the images onto the server just before I left the project. Please don’t lie, 2 images on a website that has 105 games does not mean “lots of broken images”!

#39

Something’s annoying… You enter a comment, you submit and ooops forgot to login. You login and … your comment is lost even if you use back of your browser.

Specially annoying for french people that take 5 minutes to write three sentences :smiley:

#40

What is “goatse”??