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Customize site, Some new features.
Posted by SleePy on November 22, 2008, 09:30:21 PM
The customize site was updated a couple days ago, I have really been meaning to get this out to the community sooner to explain one of the new features.
In light of SMF 2.0 having some new features, we have put a few of these on the customize site. Authors will notice that on editing/submission of their work, they cannow be lazy and use the WYSIWYG editor 
A Mini-profile was added as well. We do plan to add more to the profile, but at this time it shows you the authors customizations for both the mod and theme site. As well if you are viewing your profile, you can manage notifications of updates.
One of the other new features is notifications of updates. As a user, you can subscribe to updates. When the author updates their work, they can choose an option to send the update notifications. Allowing you to be notified of updates (Such as a new version support or feature enhancement in a customization).
Another new feature we added is Additional Authors. For the regular end user, this just allows you to know that more than one author has created this customization. For Authors, this is a whole new game. You can easily allow others to maintain and update your customization. In addition during the approval process, they will receive pms from the customize user as the regular author does when we send a pm.
For authors looking to transfer ownership of a customization, we have also added a feature which lets us easily transfer a mod over to a new author. This means their name now appears as the author and the topic starter of the support topic (Which allows them to moderate the topic).
That is all for now. I was supposed to get this out when I updated the customize site, but it has been a busy couple of weeks for me in trying to keep up with everything going on in Real Life in addition to Simple Machines.
In light of SMF 2.0 having some new features, we have put a few of these on the customize site. Authors will notice that on editing/submission of their work, they can
A Mini-profile was added as well. We do plan to add more to the profile, but at this time it shows you the authors customizations for both the mod and theme site. As well if you are viewing your profile, you can manage notifications of updates.
One of the other new features is notifications of updates. As a user, you can subscribe to updates. When the author updates their work, they can choose an option to send the update notifications. Allowing you to be notified of updates (Such as a new version support or feature enhancement in a customization).
Another new feature we added is Additional Authors. For the regular end user, this just allows you to know that more than one author has created this customization. For Authors, this is a whole new game. You can easily allow others to maintain and update your customization. In addition during the approval process, they will receive pms from the customize user as the regular author does when we send a pm.
For authors looking to transfer ownership of a customization, we have also added a feature which lets us easily transfer a mod over to a new author. This means their name now appears as the author and the topic starter of the support topic (Which allows them to moderate the topic).
That is all for now. I was supposed to get this out when I updated the customize site, but it has been a busy couple of weeks for me in trying to keep up with everything going on in Real Life in addition to Simple Machines.
I got a question, can Additional Authors have full control over the mod? Like editing the mod, editing the topic etc?
The "Top 10 Downloads" is at least a fair metric.
How about adding a feature, "Most Popular Recent Downloads" ? Like average the downloads over the last year or something... Or downloads per month rated upon the last month's activity?
Additional Authors can do everything other than add/remove other additional authors.
They can't moderate the topic because they are not the topic starter.
One of the things I need to do is make it when you update the description on the mod site it does it on the mod support topic. Someday I will get that done
Top 10 Downloads just counts a Mods total downloads, Top 10 Most Popular mods are mods with a high download count over I believe it is a week (Maybe two). They are different enough.
Actually there should be an explanation given in how that list is calculated, just so that people understand the metric. Data is less useful if you don't know how it is calculated.
You know some mod authors add additional information to the topic starter, screenshots and such. If you change that I'm sure there will be some surprised people, although I imagine it might be a good way to have that work.
That way the "top 10 downloads" would have the long term data, and the "most popular" would show the current trend. That would be kind of like the top 10 music charts on the radio.
Perhaps a link to an explanation or a key or something might aid in understanding the data.
I agree with VB, definitely getting better.
Um... may I suggest you round it off to no more significance than tenths? I'm sure you took the same statistics that class I did, although of course many years later.
you might add an asterisk and a note * downloads/day
The link of additional authors does not lead to the same area as authors does and in the author's profile it doesn't link the mods they are in as a additional author.