Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs, Comments, etc Thread

Insane54

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Could you possibly display the persons gamertag in the quick info box that pops up? Its pretty tedious having to go each members profile information to find out what their gamertag is. It would really help with customs and inviting people quickly.

When you're looking at an event, control-clicking on any RSVPd name will open a new window that sends a message directly to their account (also, hovering over their name). But yeah, I can look into that anyway
 

Tomtris

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Suggestions:
  • Create some way of further enforcing a good write up for customs and maps. Whether it be putting the stickied guides on the game and map creation page, or an alert for new members trying to create a new game or map. I've seen too many games created 4 minutes before the start time that says (join me plz) and too many maps with 1 bad screenshot and a sentence write up on the map.
  • Only allow the BBCode Editor for the Signature page, as many of the buttons cannot be used for your sig.
  • Create a checklist on the trophy page.
  • Add an Italics button, a url button, and a Smiley drop down on the Large Shoutbox.
  • On the "Friends" tab on the forum page, get something for Ducain? As the plain link looks weird in comparsion. :p
  • Update the Affiliates page, and either create the RSS Feed, or delete the button
  • On the "What are you Playing" section of creating a custom, instead of a drop down, make it a textbox, like when you are editing your lobby
  • Add a like button for comments on Statuses
  • Include Emotes in Statuses, and comments for statuses
  • Include the User Group Color on here.
  • Include Steam IDs, PSN IDs, Orgin Usernames, Youtube Usernames, and Email to the Contact Details screen.
  • In conjunction with the "Likes you've received page", add a "Likes you've given" page.
  • Add a choice on user title for gold hosts, on whether they want "Gold Host" or "-Insert Trophy Rank Here-"
  • Add a restriction to Double Posting, encouraging people to address multiple posts with one post.
  • On the Forum Page, Move the "Minigame Contest" Sub-Section below "Miscelleous" Sub-Section
  • Include "Staff Picks" as a separate category for maps, as it takes it away from its proper section.
  • Increase the box size for a Map Rating, as the small box makes it seem like you should write a short review.
  • Add a "Follow Host" alert, so when your favorite customs host post a lobby, you are notified.
  • On the "Weekly View" section, start the week on the day you are viewing it.
  • On the "Weekly View" section, have it show who is a gold host.
  • Grey out the days the have already passed on the "Weekly View" calender.
  • Proper "Lobby rating" request alert
  • Update the "Signature" section on the "Rules" page, to include the rule of no BBcode.
  • Change the "Halo Customs" on the front page to "Media Stream"
  • Add some sort of way to alert staff to the shoutbox, if someone is breaking the rules, and none are checking the shoutbox.
Whelp, that's all the suggestions I could come up with... but I'll probably hit on the White layout, and some bugs sooner or later.
 
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PA1NTS

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When you're looking at an event, control-clicking on any RSVPd name will open a new window that sends a message directly to their account (also, hovering over their name). But yeah, I can look into that anyway

But sometimes I invite from my mobile device. You can't hover over text or control click even on a smartphone.
 

Tomtris

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Alright... time to list the fixes for the white layout.

Huh... thats alot smaller than I thought it would be.
 
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Hey when making a thread, you give the option to add a livestream. I noticed this after posting my lobby, so I went to the edit post button, and there is no option to add a livestream. I suggest adding a livestream option in the edit area would be wonderful. Thanks.
 

Insane54

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Hey when making a thread, you give the option to add a livestream. I noticed this after posting my lobby, so I went to the edit post button, and there is no option to add a livestream. I suggest adding a livestream option in the edit area would be wonderful. Thanks.

Currently livestreaming doesn't work, so we're disabling the option until we can get it working properly
 

Absentduck

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I noticed for a while that the bar at the top right was broken and hidden behind the search bar on ipad and mobile versions. Good to see it fixed,
 

Mr Rogers4

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Suggestion:
On the status updates, it would be cool if it has a like and reply options. Everything here like Forums has a like and reply button except the status updates. Especially in the comments of the status. I know it sounds like a rip off from Facebook, but it would be nice.
Example of reply:
Nobody said:
I like Trains
 

Jebus

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One problem I've recently encountered... Signature length.
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Now, I understand the importance of toning down the signature clutter, keeping the forums from looking messy and disorganized, however, I do not understand why the length of our signature is even less than that of a tweet on Twitter or even a status update on this site (both 140 characters).

My only suggestion is to raise this limit to 200 characters, or if not, 150. I could care less for other settings such as colorizing, resizing, etc. with signatures.
 

Insane54

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Dec 23, 2012
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www.halocustoms.com
One problem I've recently encountered... Signature length.
c69e218fb5af38c0fcc22296737e311b.png


Now, I understand the importance of toning down the signature clutter, keeping the forums from looking messy and disorganized, however, I do not understand why the length of our signature is even less than that of a tweet on Twitter or even a status update on this site (both 140 characters).

My only suggestion is to raise this limit to 200 characters, or if not, 150. I could care less for other settings such as colorizing, resizing, etc. with signatures.
Good thinking. I just raised it to 150 characters, not including tags.
 
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RogerDodger

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Suggestion: "Invite Editors" feature for all threads. The original poster of the thread can enable any user they wish to edit. Primary usage would be the first post in the thread, although if it can be expanded to any thread post that would be neat.
 
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Jebus

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  • Easier to find button for downloading custom gametypes
Fairly self-explanatory. I've found a few minigames and other content where a gametype must go with it but because some users are unable to seek the "Download Custom Gametype" link on the side, the map ends up having more downloads than the gametype. Here's an example of what it could look like:
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Tomtris

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SUGGESTIONS:
  • Make people have to confirm their email to sign up for the site
  • Add ArmorWatcher to the "Friends" Tab
  • Add the ability to give half stars, or implement with a numeric system, so we have at least 10 ratings, rather than 5.
  • Order the reviews by character count, and not by when it was made (To Promote the more In depth reviews)
BUG:
  • Reset Password does not work
 
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Swash

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Alright so I've been thinking about many ideas of slight improvements that could really help with the site.

1: Hosting custom games could be a bit faster and maybe more people would like it if we could easily save our old description and instead of making the entire thing over again or pasting it from another source... we could easily just save a template ect and click on it.

2: Time? It's automatically on 4 hours without changing it. I always host for 2 hours never more and if I could just easily save it so it's already set on 2 hours that would be great. Also if I could save a specific time I use like 2:00 PM (Random time) This would provide a more simple way for us who host frequently to click a couple buttons and be finished.

3: What are you playing? Well.. I have to submit the lobby and go back and press edit to type in Mini-games because before then it's a drop box and not a text box., (Random stuff I want after it)

4: The avatars... The 50 kb pictures is ridiculously small and I have a hard time on photoshop sometime's working to make it 50 kb. Maybe if we post like 10-50 messages and increase it maybe to 200kb that would be great. That would prevent people from uploading a 200kb picture right away. Rather than having to use my gmail account in order to get a picture that's more than 200kb.

5: When you click the (!) after the game to ask people for a rating.. It would be very kind if you could actually paste it in the description rather than putting it on our clipboard. Also maybe a description that describes what the (!) does. Like "Press this to ask your rsvp's for ratings" (I'm terrible at explaining things some-times sorry.

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Here are some bugs I found with the website that could be fixed. These bugs are on Google Chrome and my OS is windows 7 in case for whatever reason you need that info.

1: Not knowing if you fixed it or not.. I can host a lobby longer than 8 hours and put it some random hour number like 999 press enter and the lobby will stay there for 999 hours. Obviously that lobby will be at the top for more than 1 day and longer than 8 hours.

2: Some-times I have to right-click something to even view it after the lobby is over. The lobby is buggy and it's some-times hard to reply... or things will not appear in-less I right click and then open in a new tab. Like good host list or bad host list. Also when I press edit on the description. A lot of the times the things do not appear and halo customs starts getting slow and starts getting buggy on me until I refresh. This is very annoying.

3: For whatever reason when I click yes to rsvp to my own game it makes me want to send me a message. Yeah, that's annoying. Probably not a bug but it is very annoying. In my opinion that shouldn't even have been added.
 
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This will probably take little discussion to say no :p, but I was wondering if maybe you could give sponsored groups their own custom titles ex: Online Knights, POSL, BIOC, etc... This way, there may be a greater benefit in getting sponsored. Just a suggestion :)
Charles Stoot
GOLD HOST To Polar Opposite or POSL etc...
 
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Tomtris

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This will probably take little discussion to say no :p, but I was wondering if maybe you could give sponsored groups their own custom titles ex: Online Knights, POSL, BIOC, etc... This way, there may be a greater benefit in getting sponsored. Just a suggestion :)
Charles Stoot

GOLD HOST To Polar Opposite or POSL etc...

Uhhh... Short answer: No.

I could go into big explanation why... but I am lazy.