"Oh, this username sparked my interest... let me check out their profile."
<insert computer explosion>
If that hasn't happened to you, you must either have a really good computer, or never clicked the profile of a person with their top 3,000 favorite songs embedded as Youtube videos. You know what I'm talking about. Quite frankly, it's annoying as hell. Do they ever check their own profiles? You think they'd be more considerate about how hard that must be for users to load. I've got a brand new laptop and I have high speed internet both at home and school, and it's a hassle for me load pages with 4 or 5 videos on them. I honestly don't even know if anyone in the far corners of the earth sitting in the depths of a cave still has dial-up, but I mourn their souls if they do and fall victim to one of these profiles.
A limit to how many videos can be on a profile would be nice, but you know what would be nicer? People having more common sense and decency and only putting up one or two videos at a time. Not sure how many of you will remember some of the old profile coding we had. Not talking about HTML, that's a whole different story. But the codes that would display your PvP and PvA wins/losses as well as, my personal favorite, displaying the username of the person that clicked your profile. I always thought it was neat. Click a profile and it could say, "Hey <username>, welcome to my profile!" I guess it freaked a lot of players out though. Maybe that's why the feature didn't come back with the update? Actually, it's more likely it was just a minor thing to code and a waste of time, but I can see Youtube videos going this way eventually. Sure, they're neat to have. But people abuse them, and they don't even realize it.
Don't even get me started on the blinding blues and reds people use for their colored text. Y'know, that's probably because the FAQ doesn't tell them all they need to know.
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This should probably be fixed sometime. Heads up, you can use [hex=#hexcodehere]Text Here[/hex] instead and it works just fine + you get a wider variety of colors. Judging by profiles, many players know this. But on the chance you're a blog reader that doesn't, you've learned something today! Go forth and experiment... preferably with colors that don't burn out eyeballs.
It'd be really nice if pack and user profiles were changed so that the coding doesn't convert to HTML which is unusable when saved. That's certainly an annoyance. I know you can save the profile in a Wordpad document or the like on your own computer, but coming from a person with rotten computer luck, I lose my files all the time.
The next annoyance is more of a personal one. There's two sides of it, one of which I think more of you can relate to, and that's the side I'm guilty on. The other you probably haven't considered or have but didn't care, but that's the part that bothers me. I'm talking about the acceptance or rejection of customs.
For the first part, I know the staff haven't been doing an amazing job of keeping up with the A/R thread or Kessie. I do apologize for being apart of that, as I've had no computer up until recently so I haven't been able to participate in critique much. This is going to be the busiest semester of my life so I'm not sure how much that will change, but I'll try to hop on and provide my opinion every once in a while. I'm sure hiring more art staff and A/R helpers is on the agenda, but if you've read Karlos's profile...
"I am currently working on a new staff panel for our wonderful volunteer staff to allow them to control the website more effectively as well handle issues with increased ease!"
... well, you'd know there's a lot on the plate right now. I think hiring more staff will likely come after this update. We may get some earlier, who knows. But just be aware that the staff do know that we need more hands on deck. We're not that oblivious!
The second part is probably caused because of inactivity on the staff and helper side, but people haven't been posting in the A/R thread or messaging Kessie. It sucks to have people sending in customs for upload that might be rejected, when they could have had that checked ahead of time. Even worse - people selling customs that they didn't get accepted. That's low. Dirty even. At least put on your threads a warning. "This custom has not been accepted, buy at your own discretion!" or something like "This custom has not been accepted. I will, however, make any changes needed until it is." Buyers tend to trust that the artist got their custom work accepted before selling. Even if the custom looks amazing, it's better to be safe than sorry. Be very aware when shopping like this, because wouldn't it suck to drop some cash on a custom only for it to be rejected and the artist not be willing to fix it? Ask questions. If you want to buy something, ask staff members if they think it would be accepted. Ask the artist if they are willing to make changes for free to get it up to par if needed. In my mind, there's nothing worse than an artist with no sense of responsibility - out to make profit regardless of if the customer suffers because of their greed. If they didn't check to get it accepted, there's a good chance they don't care. They may have forgotten or just assumed the A/R was too inactive to be worth their time. But if you're a buyer, take some action to make sure you don't get ripped off just in case.
I think another big annoyance is the Idea Box. It was a great idea for a site feature, but the community has trashed it. Not only does it load really slowly, but the things people suggest... bah. You guys are lucky the staff deletes the worst of it before you have to see it. Not going to go into a ton of details about the content, but you can read what I've said about it before by going to this link.
It'd be good to read that over before suggesting ideas if you haven't already.
Welp, I think that's enough rambling for now! I knows there's plenty more annoyances to talk about, so comment and we might feature your pet peeves next time. :D
Edit: I just now noticed the news post on WH's homepage.
"...and of course we'll be hiring more Staff Artist! So if you've ever wanted to work for Wolf Haven start ptracticing. There is no date set on hiring, just tossing it out there for now."
Amg, I agree with you on everything Sheri. Some people these days..
ReplyDeleteAnd about the Staff Artist hiring; I'm totally going to be practicing more. Root for me!
You're definitely getting really good! I bet you'd have a high shot. :O
DeleteD'aw! I sure hope so. I'd love to help y'all out.
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