schneelocke

Age/Gender: 32, Female
Location: nowhere
Job: werewolf

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - Þig ég trega manna mest / Mædd af táraflóði / Ó, að við hefðum aldrei sést / Elsku vinurinn góði. - Proud to be a werewolf.

Newgrounds Stats

Sign-Up Date:
9/8/04

Level: 41
Aura: Fab

Rank: Sup. Commander
Blams: 49,844
Saves: 32,444
Rank #: 15

Whistle Status: Silver

Exp. Points: 17,820 / 18,660
Exp. Rank #: 281
Voting Pow.: 8.17 votes

BBS Posts: 1,838 (0.96 per day)
Flash Reviews: 184
Music Reviews: 4
Trophies: 0
Stickers: 5

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Redesign

Posted by schneelocke Jul. 17, 2007 @ 6:06 PM EDT

The redesign looks quite nice so far. I really like the pink auras (finally something for us grrls! ^^), and the fact that level XP requirements don't seem to depend on the highest-ranking user (currently pimp) anymore is sweet as well.

Some issues I've found:
* Typing in the BBS or in PMs (but not here, for some reason) is extremely laggy.
* There seems to be no combined B/P ranking.
* BBS posts in users' post histories link to first topic page instead of the one containing the post
* VP shown in profile is base VP rather than total VP.
* Editing posts gives you a "NG Front Page?" option even when you can't post frontpage news.
* Old-style profile links (like this) are not forwarded to the users' new profiles.
* Users who haven't filled in their profile still are listed as vagrants and given no link to their userpage in the BBS (the "users online" part, at least; possibly elsewhere, too).
* Messages you get when levelling up are quirky: "With that vote, you now have 3,600 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 19."
* Your batting average is not listed in your profile.
* When you quote a BBS post so long that adding the quoting colons will bring it over the character limit for BBS posts, the quoted post will be truncated.

Non-issues:
* Uploading user images is broken (in Mozilla; Opera works). - Turns out this was my own fault for using an older browser version. After an update, it all works fine. :P
* Pimp is level 50, not level 60. - Apparently, this is intentional. Yay! :)
* The level 60 icon does not come with different auras. - I suppose that's intentional, although it's also rather unfortunate.
* All flashes in the portal (latest, weekly best, all-time best) are numbered as "00". - Browser issue, apparently (Opera works fine).

Solved issues:
* The "simple" list of level icons (linked in the FAQ) doesn't display anything at all.
* The "detailed" list only lists levels up to 30 and gets the XP requirements wrong.
* Rankings have "[an error occurred while processing this directive]" instead of the number of users.
* The site is completely unreachable intermittently.
* Depositing XP gives the wrong numbers: e.g., it says "With that vote, you now have 10,210 experience points. You need 10,670 more to get to Level 32", when in reality, 10210 is my *old* amount of XP (the new one would be 10220) and 10670 is the *total* amount required for the next level.
* The number of flash reviews given in your profile doesn't update when you leave reviews. Neither does the number of music reviews.
* a:visited and a:link have the same text colour(s) in the portal, so you can't see which flashes you already checked out and which are new.
* The level 60 icon is broken in the "detailed" level icon list.
* Most rankings (saves, blams, signups, sticker orders, ratings, bookmarks) are broken.
* The "Flash reviews" links in one's profile don't work. Neither do the "Music reviews" or "Trophies" links.

There's probably more, too. :) I'll try to keep the above list reasonably up to date.

Updated: 09/30/07 8:06 AM Log in to comment! | Share this!

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Jul. 18, 2007 | 8:07 AM iscrulz says:

oh thats why I cant upload images for my profile I have firefox 0.09 I havent updated in years. Next I am proud your using the pink aura since you have two x chromosones (spe yeah) but too many others are. Oh and please dont ban me from this feature.

Jul. 18, 2007 | 12:22 PM schneelocke responds:

Thanks. :) And don't worry, I won't ban you, at least not until you give me a good reason to (which I hope you won't). :)


Jul. 25, 2007 | 5:45 PM Famas says:

Nice 'little' list you've got there :)
I'm sure most of the bugs will be fixed in due time.

Jul. 27, 2007 | 4:30 AM schneelocke responds:

Thanks. :) I hope so, too...


Aug. 1, 2007 | 1:24 PM NEVR says:

Good lord, that's incredibly epic.

And as for Pimp being level 50 instead of level 60 - I think that's probably one of the best things that has come out of the redesign. It gives the rest of us mortals a good 3 years to gain some of the higher levels without the requirements moving.

Aug. 1, 2007 | 1:58 PM schneelocke responds:

Oh, yes, I agree. :) Hmm, will the requirements actually go up again when Pimp reaches level 60? I was under the impression that for now at least, the requirements for all levels are set in stone (after all, the levels page says "Exp: 38,640 - ???" for level 60, for example, rather than just "Exp: 38,640").

Well, I guess we'll see in ~3 years. :)


Sep. 3, 2007 | 4:44 AM NickScott says:

Why not make a new blog?

Sep. 3, 2007 | 4:10 PM schneelocke responds:

You mean a new post? I'm not sure - what should I write about?

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