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Need Suggestions - PatronusCharm

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Lord Ravenclaw, Oct 30, 2005.

  1. Cervus

    Cervus Raptured to Hell

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    Have you any idea when this is going to be ready?

    Also, will you be including something similar to C2 communities? If you do can you please make it so that changing your story summary doen't remove your fic from the C2's it's listed in. This happened to me last week.
     
  2. Dark Syaoran

    Dark Syaoran No. 4 Admin

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    Really? Heh, didnt know that happened.

    I wouldnt mind having like an 'Admin's favorites' or something like that. People can check out what stories the admin's like and read em. Meh... just a suggestion.
     
  3. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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  4. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    I think I'll start out the site with lots of features, but add on the community aspect later, such as author blogs and story communities, possibly with simple chat.

    And when will it be ready? I'm not sure, but by the new year. I'd say two weeks for the coding (working on and off), the only thing holding me back after that are the pages. I can do the simple pages like login, register, activate, etc. because they're just throwing in some extra textboxes and buttons. In fact, I'm finishing up login/register/activate right now. But things like profile, front page, usercp, I'd prefer someone with a better designer's eye (Zev) to do. Then the only problem after that is converting documents (Microsoft Office the worst) to HTML. I can do OpenOffice pretty easily, though it requires a library only PHP5 has, so I might have to work up a PHP4 solution since I can't convert to PHP5 without breaking some of my client's stuff. RTF isn't too hard, and .txt is just text with no style formatting. Perhaps in December I can open up beta testing.
     
  5. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

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    December? That's soon. Sweet, can't wait! :D
     
  6. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Yes...soon you will all own you very own Lord Ravenclaw action figure! Annoy it and it hacks you to death, then steals your computer and takes over the world.
     
  7. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

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    Ahh, delusions of grandeur... :roll:
     
  8. Mordecai

    Mordecai Drunken Scotsman –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    I agree with everything suggesteed here, bar that comment about hiding slash fics.

    What rating limit would you have, ff.n's with M(or R) being the highest, or go up to NC-17? I would suggest the latter.

    Why not (not sure if this is possible) have it programmed so that a story title will show up in a different colour if you have read it in the last month or so. I personally would find it helpful, I read a lot of very short fics, wiht only a few chapters, and I don't bookmark them or anything. I don't like wasting time loading up a story fi I have already read it recently. If there was a way to mark a story that has been visted by your IP addy or soemthing it would help.
     
  9. ip82

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    What really irks me with FFN is that they filter your html code, removing everything save a few tags they allow (not to mention some very useful characters, like * or %). I also have an account at FicWad, but they're even worse, by removing paragraphs and making stories almost completely unreadable.

    You should allow wider a variety of HTML tags in chapter texts and rely on authors to keep their files readable. Those who hog their files with useless colorful crap won't get any public anyway.
     
  10. mournthewicked

    mournthewicked Mistress

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    I'll trade you mine for yours. That is Glass Cabinet material.
    XD
     
  11. Cervus

    Cervus Raptured to Hell

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    December! Yes.

    Soon, very soon ff.net shall die a most greivious death.
     
  12. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    I'll allow paragraphs, links, ordered lists, numbered lists, bold, italics, strikethrough etc., but no tables or divs as they can mess with the layout.

    I hope I never get as big as FF.Net...they must house at least 60 gigabytes of data.
     
  13. ip82

    ip82 Prisoner

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    I agree about tables, totaly unnecessary. Don't forget <blockquote>, I find it very useful.
     
  14. ip82

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    Err... don't get me wrong or anything, but are you sure that "PatronusCharm" is the best name for your site? I mean, many people don't even know how to spell "Patronus" (I admit, I had to check if it wasn't 'Patronius'). It could be a bother trying to type it.

    Furthermore, there's nothing in the name indicationg that it contains fanfiction at all. Let's face it, most people who're looking to post stories would check under suggestive names, such as fanfiction.net or hpfanfiction or potterfans etc. before looking any further.
     
  15. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    I'd prefer to have a unique name rather than these cookie-cutter fanfiction sites you see everywhere.
     
  16. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    plus the irony of a forum dedicated to dark Harry hosting a site named after the thing dark beings hate is just too sweet to pass up
     
  17. Lord Osiris

    Lord Osiris Auror

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    Oh yes such a wicked thing to do Lord Ravenclaw, i must certainly agree whole heartedly with Midknight!
     
  18. realmess

    realmess Slug Club Member

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    I'd say the name is so to scare away all those demented/fannish/crappy fictions, and let's just hope it works. I really can't wait to see how it'll all look like.
     
  19. Silke

    Silke Second Year

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    Will you be able to change the layout? or is it called background?
    Personally i get a huge headache of all the fucking white. It's just too bright :(.

    .... Your signature reminds me of someone Midknight, just can't figure out the name... You didn't happen to play Ultima Online, did you?
     
  20. Ohmamamia_mamamia

    Ohmamamia_mamamia First Year

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    Yeah but without those demented creeps where will we get our reviews. Those idiots are what make fanfiction go round. Ravenclaw you could have a Harry/ Ginny section. I heard it is very popular with this crowd. It hapens to be Midknights favorite pairing
     
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