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Resources/Downloads -- Now Available on BoM!

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Sep 18, 2015.

  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    If you've been keeping close watch on what's been going on here over the last few days, you've likely noticed a few changes. Forums disappearing, the "New Resources" list appearing on the forum index, the Resources tab starting to get populated, etc.

    What's been happening is a relatively big change for Sorcerer's Place. We've now officially moved to hosting all the (future) downloads right here, on the forums. All the files previously submitted to our Download Central (now defunct), have already been converted into entries within our Resources/Downloads vault. And yes, there's a how-to as well, no worries!

    Most of you have likely seen this kind of download areas on other forums already, so their benefits should be readily apparent. In our case, they are:
    1. Members get to submit, edit and update their content as needed directly.
    2. The delay between submission and public availability is reduced to the time necessary for the first moderator to look the submission over and approve it.
    3. We can easily expand the submission categories to games or content not covered on the site.
    4. We get to process/convert all the old & backlogged submissions while all the new submissions are being handled independently, via Resources/Downloads.
    5. High level of integration of submitted content with the community, including ratings & reviews.
    6. Ease of use.
    In short, there are plenty of upsides to this change. While it does present quite a bit of a challenge for us as well in terms of how we'll convert the 1000+ existing downloads on the site to the new platform, I'm confident that we'll come up with a solution in the near future.

    While we're working on further improvements, do check the new tab out and post any feedback that you might have!
     
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  2. Keneth Gems: 29/31
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    Looks good. :thumb:
     
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    Looks good, I like that you can click on the tag and it automatically filters to this tag (e.g. Soundset). But when I was trying to add tags it said that the tag "BG" was invalid?
     
  4. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Can you write the steps to reproduce what you wanted to do?

    We need to distinguish between resource prefixes (the single, main coloured descriptors in square brackets, e.g. [Guide] -- these can only be chosen from the list of available ones) and tags, which can be multiple and aren't selected from a list but freely entered.
     
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    Maybe tags are 3 characters minimum?
     
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    Sorry, we were leaving so I wasn't quite as clear as I should be.

    The tags I wanted to add was like the normal tags you can add to any thread. I was trying to add tags like "BG", "BG2", "Baldur's Gate", etc.. I do believe there was mention of the BG tag being too short to be a valid tag, but I'm not entirely sure anymore.
     
  7. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Keneth was right, the limit was 3 characters. I've now changed it to 2, so it should work.
     
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    Is there any particular need for a 2-character tag? I should think "BG1" would be just as good if not better than simply "BG".
     
  9. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    It would, but it wouldn't occur to everyone to use 1... and there might be other uses for 2-character tags where an extra number can't be added.
     
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