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I propose the following notification changes/additions: Banner (All of these would be placed to the left of the character’s name, same as the new tubmail notification currently): – Add an icon link for deliveries, tubmails, kyoubai, and domination – The deliveries icon (Log in to see images! would work well) would obviously link to deliveries if you have them, or be greyed out if you have none to collect. – The tubmail icon would simply be permanently there, but grey out if there are no unread messages. – The kyoubai icon (a miniature bidsquid, maybe) would link to your bids. Highlighted when you are outbid, greyed out if you are still winning all of your bids. – Domination (no idea what the best icon would be as I don’t actually play dom, but people might like this) could notify you when you’ve lost the lead or been screwed or something I don’t know/care
Char select pane: All the same notifications, but in another column to the right of the character to which they pertain. Clicking a link here would switch to said character, then take the actions outlined above. DOPE-HARDCORE-0 edited this message on 02/12/2009 1:34PM |
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Posted On: 02/12/2009 12:55PM | View DOPE-HARDCORE-0's Profile | # | ||||||
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Have I told you that you’re awesome today? <no_homo>
Signed, I like these ideas. |
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Posted On: 02/12/2009 12:59PM | View Acid Flux's Profile | # | ||||||
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The problem is I always directly tubmail my ideas to ET, and while he is very receptive and responsive, the ideas fade as his TM fills up, his staff gets on to more important other stuff, and I forget what I’ve subbed. So, I just will make these thoughts public record and see what happens. |
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Posted On: 02/12/2009 1:35PM | View DOPE-HARDCORE-0's Profile | # | ||||||
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This-is-at-the-bottom-of-page-1-and-needs-bumped |
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Posted On: 02/13/2009 1:27PM | View DOPE-HARDCORE-0's Profile | # | ||||||
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You do realize that the current tubmail notification icon only appears after you visit your character page, right? And not when you get new tubmail?
It’s no doubt designed that way as a performance consideration. To have to poll tubmail every time the forum header is loaded would put quite the demand on the server, let alone having to hit all those other things you talk about.
However, a potential way around this would be to modify the same table which holds the remaining forum visits to also include flags for all these things, and update those flags using triggers on the appropriate other tables. Not sure how much of a hit that would be, but my guess is it would be within tolerable limits. Then the header code wouldn’t have to hit any additional tables. |
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Posted On: 02/13/2009 1:32PM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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Sounds more like a good thing to code for greasemonkey, especially for the deliveries |
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Posted On: 02/13/2009 3:03PM | View Aldo_Anything's Profile | # | ||||||
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Aldo_Anything Posted:
greasemonkey script to do this would also hit the server, as it requires loading pages. |
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Posted On: 02/13/2009 3:14PM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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this is a really good idea…
very,very.very good idea..
but how to impliment it…... |
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Posted On: 02/13/2009 3:19PM | View Jarwain's Profile | # | ||||||
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Jarwain Posted:
query once and get an array returned, parse the data and use as needed via jscript
E: Also, save some bandwidth and maybe consider stripping them from flamebate header requests
E2: Alternately, offset it some by charging BP for it, at the account level. This was how I originally pitched it to ET, as a microtransaction. DOPE-HARDCORE-0 edited this message on 02/13/2009 4:28PM |
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Posted On: 02/13/2009 4:11PM | View DOPE-HARDCORE-0's Profile | # | ||||||
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Bump for ET |
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Posted On: 02/23/2009 11:36PM | View DOPE-HARDCORE-0's Profile | # | ||||||
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this could be an alternative to having newsfeed about every kyoubai happening |
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Posted On: 03/12/2009 1:55PM | View DOPE-HARDCORE-0's Profile | # | ||||||
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Acid Flux Posted:
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