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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on March 29th, 2017, 03:36 PM »
NEW: When sending an offer, LT will now show x0 quantity tradables/wishlists in the list, disabled, with a mention saying that's a no-no. Just for information-- and in case you want to try & convince the user to trade those items with you.
Sorry, nothing 'usable' for a trade, but I've just resumed work after fixing the last few annoying bugs due to the server move. (There's still one around, but it won't affect anyone, so it's fine, and only devotee can fix it I think.)
Sorry, nothing 'usable' for a trade, but I've just resumed work after fixing the last few annoying bugs due to the server move. (There's still one around, but it won't affect anyone, so it's fine, and only devotee can fix it I think.)
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on March 29th, 2017, 11:37 AM »
1/ How notifications work:
- The number on them indicates how many notifications you haven't read yet. An unread notification is a notification you haven't followed up on, e.g. clicked the link or clicked outside the link to load a preview. (Yes, there's a preview for offers, too. They will mark your notification as read, and your offer will be put into Pending mode, as opposed to Unread.)
- If the number is on an orange background, it means new notifications were sent since the last time you opened the notification popup.
- To decrease the number of notifications, either expand all previews, or click the 'Mark as read' link on the popup. Your notifications will be hidden, but you can still them by clicking the 'Latest' tab in the popup.
Yes, it's a pretty solid system. Not perfect, but I never do perfect, I strive for perfection and do good enough. That's my motto. :P
2/ Editing lists can be done by going to a game page and clicking the Add/Remove buttons below the game banner, similarly to Barter. I will implement site-wide editing as soon as I'm done with all the fixes I have to do to the website because of the server move. (Not that the new server is particularly buggy, but since I also maintain the public source code of the framework behind Wedge, I need to accomodate for all types of platforms, and being on a new platform allows me to ensure it works great for those platforms as well.) (THANK GOD I'm not behind Nginx anymore, though... I'm never, ever touching that again in my life!!)
3/ Syncing libraries with Steam was disabled last weekend I'm afraid. I should be able to re-enable it but I'm tired, and I'm wary of doing a mistake that could break user libraries. I'd need to back them up first, and it's the biggest table on the site, so... Just being careful.
As a reminder, the site is currently in early beta. I'd say around v0.5 or so. I consider I've done half the done before I can call it 'feature complete'. After which I'll work on further iterations. Hopefully for many years. :)
- The number on them indicates how many notifications you haven't read yet. An unread notification is a notification you haven't followed up on, e.g. clicked the link or clicked outside the link to load a preview. (Yes, there's a preview for offers, too. They will mark your notification as read, and your offer will be put into Pending mode, as opposed to Unread.)
- If the number is on an orange background, it means new notifications were sent since the last time you opened the notification popup.
- To decrease the number of notifications, either expand all previews, or click the 'Mark as read' link on the popup. Your notifications will be hidden, but you can still them by clicking the 'Latest' tab in the popup.
Yes, it's a pretty solid system. Not perfect, but I never do perfect, I strive for perfection and do good enough. That's my motto. :P
2/ Editing lists can be done by going to a game page and clicking the Add/Remove buttons below the game banner, similarly to Barter. I will implement site-wide editing as soon as I'm done with all the fixes I have to do to the website because of the server move. (Not that the new server is particularly buggy, but since I also maintain the public source code of the framework behind Wedge, I need to accomodate for all types of platforms, and being on a new platform allows me to ensure it works great for those platforms as well.) (THANK GOD I'm not behind Nginx anymore, though... I'm never, ever touching that again in my life!!)
3/ Syncing libraries with Steam was disabled last weekend I'm afraid. I should be able to re-enable it but I'm tired, and I'm wary of doing a mistake that could break user libraries. I'd need to back them up first, and it's the biggest table on the site, so... Just being careful.
As a reminder, the site is currently in early beta. I'd say around v0.5 or so. I consider I've done half the done before I can call it 'feature complete'. After which I'll work on further iterations. Hopefully for many years. :)
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on March 29th, 2017, 10:03 AM »
Just reload the page if it doesn't work. If you kept a tab open for too long the session might have regenerated and some actions won't work without a page reload.
Yeah, I dunno why there's a session check for search. I probably should remove it. It's a remnant from the original purpose of that search box.
Yeah, I dunno why there's a session check for search. I probably should remove it. It's a remnant from the original purpose of that search box.
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The Noble Talk / Re: barter.vg down?
« on March 29th, 2017, 12:01 AM »Sure thing, main focus should be LT.
But i remember you making some educated guesses about why barters sql is slow, so maybe just hint him in the right direction.
He said he was doing it similarly (and I can believe him, since there aren't 10 different ways to do it), but that his main problem was indexing it. I told him to index every single column and then progressively remove indexes and compare performance. I really, really couldn't have helped him more than I did, aside from doing it all myself. ;)
I just noticed today barter was reeeally slow. :D
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The Noble Talk / Re: barter.vg down?
« on March 28th, 2017, 11:36 PM »It seems that the barter admin has trouble with performance, something NAO seems to handle much better.
Might be a good idea if the two could work together.
2/ Last year I asked the admin for his match query to help improve it, he didn't send it. Yesterday he offered to send it to me, I said why not, and he didn't send it. I'm not sure he wants outside help. (Or at least from me.)
Really, I'm 100% on LT. I still need to release a tagging system, as well as write counter-offers, failed offers, decline reasons, tons of things left to do. I've already lost 2 days because I had to move to another server. (And again I'm very glad I did-- I get to talk more with devotee, and the site is 10 times faster.)
Tomorrow I should be back at work on LT. (I did work on it today, but it was on fixing bugs that were caused by the server move.)
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The Noble Talk / Re: Profile thoughts
« on March 28th, 2017, 01:21 PM »
There are so many ways to add some text to your profile/avatar in Wedge that I don't really know what to allow and what to just hide. Plus I might disable them in the future, once I find a 'right' way to enter short text that will be seen by everyone who needs to see it.
If you want to enter a string that's longer than a couple of words, though, there's only one place for now-- your signature.
If you want to enter a string that's longer than a couple of words, though, there's only one place for now-- your signature.
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The Trader's Clerk / Re: .
« on March 28th, 2017, 11:56 AM »
I don't know. Maybe Alex is an immature child who breaks her toys so that no one can play with them. Or maybe she had a real, absolutely fine reason to delete her post. And delete Lestrades.com entirely. Apart from "Oh, I don't want to be associated with Lestrade's anymore, let's delete it and not give it a fuck about a warning, because I can."
Any volunteers wanna write a new one?
I have the original in the backup, of course, I can send it to you. You just need to paraphrase it so that she can't complain that I'm not letting her throw her tantrum. Plus, I certainly don't wanna owe her anything.
Any volunteers wanna write a new one?
I have the original in the backup, of course, I can send it to you. You just need to paraphrase it so that she can't complain that I'm not letting her throw her tantrum. Plus, I certainly don't wanna owe her anything.
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on March 28th, 2017, 01:19 AM »
Yeah, he's been working all evening to help me move my other sites as well.
I don't want to impose so maybe I won't settle on this server, but I'm really glad I made the move. Alex's server was really too slow, even after the upgrade.
I'm tiring, I'm off to bed. Happy trading guys ;)
I'll resume development tomorrow, if all goes well.
I don't want to impose so maybe I won't settle on this server, but I'm really glad I made the move. Alex's server was really too slow, even after the upgrade.
I'm tiring, I'm off to bed. Happy trading guys ;)
I'll resume development tomorrow, if all goes well.
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on March 27th, 2017, 06:55 PM »
FIX: Well.......... Lestrade's is back online, obviously. :P
Much thanks to Alex for acting like a child and killing it without warning.
Much REAL thanks to devotee for stepping up (despite our common frustrations two months ago) and hosting Lestrades.com again, like he used to! There are still bugs to fix, but I'll get there.
NEW: Well....... Given that devotee has a better server, matching speeds are now through the roof. We're talking about 6 to 10 times faster. This is what I developed the site with. This is what excited me so much. The site feels so much faster and more responsive. I hope you all enjoy it.
(Note: this is from the point of view of someone who actually lives about 10km away from the server itself. So not only that, but my FTP access is now instantaneous and I can develop much faster.)
Much thanks to Alex for acting like a child and killing it without warning.
Much REAL thanks to devotee for stepping up (despite our common frustrations two months ago) and hosting Lestrades.com again, like he used to! There are still bugs to fix, but I'll get there.
NEW: Well....... Given that devotee has a better server, matching speeds are now through the roof. We're talking about 6 to 10 times faster. This is what I developed the site with. This is what excited me so much. The site feels so much faster and more responsive. I hope you all enjoy it.
(Note: this is from the point of view of someone who actually lives about 10km away from the server itself. So not only that, but my FTP access is now instantaneous and I can develop much faster.)
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The Noble Talk / Re: barter.vg down?
« on March 27th, 2017, 11:45 AM »
Yes, I'm talking with him and it's not looking great.
No wonder though. Apparently he fixed the Steam Connect problem, so that means he started to work on his site... the day after I released the trading system here. The day after Barter was suddenly no longer mandatory to sustain a trader's life.
No wonder though. Apparently he fixed the Steam Connect problem, so that means he started to work on his site... the day after I released the trading system here. The day after Barter was suddenly no longer mandatory to sustain a trader's life.
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The Noble Talk / Re: Trade discussion userscript!
« on March 27th, 2017, 12:49 AM »
Hey, I think it'd be a good opportunity to ask... What do you think would be good 'stock' reasons for declining an offer?
Barter has a few ones, added 'Not worth it to me' per request, but I feel like there must be more, like 'I'm not feeling it', or 'I have trouble finding my keys'. Or even, variations on the 'unfair' reply, such as 'I think it's a bit unbalanced' or 'This is grossly unbalanced, you monster!'
I'd like to keep my (our) options open.
PS: considering that I'm showing Canceled offers (possibly for just a few days before I remove them automatically), I could also add a 'reason for canceling'... I mean, sometimes I see a cancel and I just wonder why! I canceled an offer today and regretted not being to explain why.
Barter has a few ones, added 'Not worth it to me' per request, but I feel like there must be more, like 'I'm not feeling it', or 'I have trouble finding my keys'. Or even, variations on the 'unfair' reply, such as 'I think it's a bit unbalanced' or 'This is grossly unbalanced, you monster!'
I'd like to keep my (our) options open.
PS: considering that I'm showing Canceled offers (possibly for just a few days before I remove them automatically), I could also add a 'reason for canceling'... I mean, sometimes I see a cancel and I just wonder why! I canceled an offer today and regretted not being to explain why.
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on March 26th, 2017, 11:11 PM »
@humpaaa, so what was going wrong on your side? :^^;:Quote from Akylen on March 26th, 2017, 05:42 PM I agree. Maybe not an extra tab, though, I don't know. I'll think about it.
NEW: Game pages now show you the number of completed trades, and a link to trades that involved you. (Just like on Barter of course ;))
The bundles URL should be visible. Maybe another tab for bundles? I am sure new users will miss this one out.
NEW: Game pages now show you the number of completed trades, and a link to trades that involved you. (Just like on Barter of course ;))
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on March 26th, 2017, 05:33 PM »
If it doesn't then it's a bug. I tested with owned, but I match against all 4 lists.
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The Noble Talk / Re: Barter Sync. not working
« on March 26th, 2017, 05:06 PM »
Well, there are few features that are a bit slower than on Barter but I'm so ashamed of that, I'll just proudly gloat again about how much faster matching is.
Re: comments on top, lol I actually planned to have them at the bottom.... :P
I'm thinking we should have a Ponzi scheme :lol: of suggestion/bug posts:
- Regular users post in Issues / Suggestions topics,
- Moderators repost non-duplicates and interesting posts (to their discretion) in official, locked Issues / Suggestions topics, perhaps along with their thoughts on how urgent/important these could be,
- And then I decide what I deem to be more urgent than the rest, based on community discussions. Either that, or I maintain yet another locked topic with a poll featuring a list of current features being considered/worked on, and I try to tackle features in order of popularity.
What do you think of that?
Re: comments on top, lol I actually planned to have them at the bottom.... :P
I'm thinking we should have a Ponzi scheme :lol: of suggestion/bug posts:
- Regular users post in Issues / Suggestions topics,
- Moderators repost non-duplicates and interesting posts (to their discretion) in official, locked Issues / Suggestions topics, perhaps along with their thoughts on how urgent/important these could be,
- And then I decide what I deem to be more urgent than the rest, based on community discussions. Either that, or I maintain yet another locked topic with a poll featuring a list of current features being considered/worked on, and I try to tackle features in order of popularity.
What do you think of that?
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on March 26th, 2017, 04:46 PM »
NEW: bundle pages now indicate whether you own a game or not. (Do you get where this is leading..? Yeah? Well it'll have to wait a bit longer, as I don't have time to complete the feature for now. :^^;:)