Feature requests

[Dizzy]

Can we please have a paging option instead of infinite scroll when navigating uploads? I really hate infinite scroll and it makes exploring large lists a nightmare.

Thank you for the feedback, and I agree this should be an option.

[Finola]

Well, here I will leave some suggestions for possible updates.

1.- To be able to subscribe to a user to be up to date with their creations.

2.- Be able to delete a comment made in the updated their status.
https://i.ibb.co/Mh3hCxr/3.png
Admittedly, you can delete your comment... But this feature is only available until you refresh the page or re-enter the status. I don't know if it's due to something...

3.- Add a button in the file to mention the updates.
https://i.ibb.co/C0C56ZL/1.png

This is how it should appear when you click:

https://i.ibb.co/rvyz3LD/Dibujo.png

This is a small idea, it would be a little more organized than mentioning the update in the comments or in the description. To avoid misuse, it might be enabled in the Uploader range.

4.- Add a button that separates the downloads: a button for your uploads and another button for your creations.
https://i.ibb.co/KKS2Kh4/123.jpg
A problem that I commonly see in uploaders is a little difficult to find your files. Obviously you can also search using the "search" tool, but I feel that it would be a bit easier for users in general. The bad thing is that I think it would be a little difficult to implement the request...

[Finola]

It doesn't sound bad at all.
Unfortunately, we must bear in mind that it is not easy to make programming like this...
I really hope that in the future there will be this update, but for the moment we will have to settle for metadata.

[Brawllux]

That would be amazing but hard to do...

[Dizzy]

At the moment we have no way to use metadata to sort items so I can't add it. This is a feature that would need to be created. I'm moving this to the official feature request thread.


@Finola Could you please explain your feature request 3 ?
Do you mean the uploader would have to fill (optionally) the software revision ?
The problem is a lot of users would provide inaccurate or careless data, which could increase confusion (and give moderators even more work to do).

We also have the "Archive Last Modified" date in the metadata, which displays when the content inside the archive was last modified. It's filled automatically, which avoids a lot of problem.

[Finola]

@Dizzy

Exactly!
That option would be filled voluntarily when uploading a file below, a box could be marked that can be marked with the word "this is a update?", And if the mark would appear the box to fill with the details of the update... I love to give the details of the update... But sometimes when I upload an update with its details, they disappear when merging the files.
They are really useful when considering downloading an update.

The "Archive Last Modified" option works perfectly, but does not give important details. In addition, with any minimum change, this function is updated.

To avoid the problems of misuse, that authority should be given to trusted users. If an uploader can misuse this feature, then it would only be given to Senior Uploaders, which is a hard to reach range... Although I doubt they will use that feature.

Anyway, I think it was a bad idea, because you already mentioned that users can misuse that option, hindering the hard work of our moderators.
I guess I'll settle for putting the update in the comments next time.

Thank you very much for maintaining this website for a long time!

~We really admire you so much Diz~

[Finola]

Well, here are other possible suggestions:

Rename Lurker's rank.
I'm sure a lot of users get mad because we call them that, and I think it would be a good idea if we just changed their name. In this way we will save ourselves some anger and I am sure that they will have fewer excuses to participate. Maybe you could change the name to something like "Member" or "Fighter"

A new rank.
I heard that the rank of creator is exclusive for those who are trusted... But for those who are not trusted very much, it would be good to assign a rank... Maybe it could be called something as a "contributor".

I had more ideas to suggest, but honestly I forgot the others...

[Finola]

Well, here are other possible suggestions:

Exact name in the search tool.
I have noticed that when using the search tool, it throws you results that you are looking for... But if a word you are looking for is included in a file with several words, the search engine will show it to you anyway.
An example is that if you search for Goku and you put Balthazar in author... You will get several edits that you may not want to find.
I saw that this Exact Name option is in the forum search... So... Do you think it could be implemented?

https://i.ibb.co/8DbL66Y/1234.png

Create a kind of sub category within the original files.
Well, I feel like there are too many file edits that are flooding the categories lately... Doing this would
make the categories look a little neater...

https://i.ibb.co/ZmvJwcB/12345.png

Clicking on the link would show the small edits... That is, the fixes, the color separation patch, AI and other little things that users upload as a new file.
Although I think there should be someone to do that...

I think that's all for now...

[Dizzy]

Well, here are other possible suggestions:

Exact name in the search tool.
I have noticed that when using the search tool, it throws you results that you are looking for... But if a word you are looking for is included in a file with several words, the search engine will show it to you anyway.
An example is that if you search for Goku and you put Balthazar in author... You will get several edits that you may not want to find.
I saw that this Exact Name option is in the forum search... So... Do you think it could be implemented?

https://i.ibb.co/8DbL66Y/1234.png

Create a kind of sub category within the original files.
Well, I feel like there are too many file edits that are flooding the categories lately... Doing this would
make the categories look a little neater...

https://i.ibb.co/ZmvJwcB/12345.png

Clicking on the link would show the small edits... That is, the fixes, the color separation patch, AI and other little things that users upload as a new file.
Although I think there should be someone to do that...

I think that's all for now...

The first suggestion is very good and I am definitely going to forward it.

The second one however could be accomplished with tags so it seems redundant.

[marius851000]

Hi. I see this site seem to have some issue, so I wonder if distributing some of your file via a P2P network could be a good idea. From my personal knowledge, IPFS seem to be the most of them for this goal:
• The usual (for P2P network) “allow anyone to re-host and share your data automatically and securely” (like torrents)
• Not centralized at all (no tracker, if we keep the comparison to torrents).
• Have a public and free interface from cloudflare (allow anyone to download from the IPFS network without to install IPFS).
Inconvenient:
• The nocopy flag is experimental (and doesn’t work well to ensure file are not duplicated server side — meaning there will the standard file and the file stored in the IPFS store).
• Have some background network (doesn't seem to be too much, but still around 50 KiB/s from what I can see — to keep the network working. One interest to IPFS is that it scale wonderfully well).
• Can’t limit network by user (you can just limit the network of the daemon)

Usage example:
• Ensure the daemon is running (“ipfs daemon”)
• Add file to my node (“ipfs add <filename>”) (maybe add the experimental “--nocopy” flag to try to not duplicate the data, but it seems that in many cases it still ends duplicated). It will (at least without the flag) create a copy of the file inside the IPFS store, in its format (default to ~/.ipfs on linux/unix/maybe mac, unsure for windows).
It will output a hash. This is the unique id of the file. It can identify the file from anywhere on the network. An example of hash may be QmbXBAKDgbhE8HkGuEF4FuQQJej2mxqXtYSMsBPuJDqgjq . It is usually prefixed by /ipfs/ to clarify were speaking of an IPFS hash. The hash will be same if you re-add the exact same file to the network.
• The file is still in the original path
• Assuming the node is running correctly, I can access this data from another peer of the network via a variety of way (if you have the daemon running, there is a webui at localhost:5001/webui), or for example the command “ipfs get <hash>”. For example “ipfs get QmbXBAKDgbhE8HkGuEF4FuQQJej2mxqXtYSMsBPuJDqgjq -o hi.txt” should result in a file named hi.txt with the text “ipfs” inside. Technically, it will download the file from a node who have (it may be cloudflare that still have it in cache, or your node).
• If the daemon of this another peer (that fetch the file) is running, it redistribute the file until it is automatically cleaned from the IPFS store.
• If he want to re-host it in the long term, he may use the “ipfs pin <hash>” to store it until he decide to stop to share it (or any other similar method – for example, the equivalent way via the webui).
• If he rehost the file (and port redirection set up), someone who ask the file via ipfs will get it via one of the peer (knowing who have it via the DHT (distributed hash table, something many P2P network make use of now)).
• Someone without IPFS can download it via a gateway (like the one from cloudflare cloudflare-ipfs[dot]com/ipfs/<hash>)

(seem I can't double post, so the following is here: gist[dot]github[dot]com/marius851000/f9a954b0422c2d72d53ae89c476c2d67

[Um cool]

"You should hire more staff members"

At least to my knowledge we got kater15, Imperius, Juu-bei7(?) and Dizzy who are active right now. I'm not sure how busy the site is getting but yall some hard working people. I think @Finola would be a great staff member!

[ZEGA ZONIC]

At least to my knowledge we got kater15, Imperius, Juu-bei7(?) and Dizzy who are active right now. I'm not sure how busy the site is getting but yall some hard working people. I think @Finola would be a great staff member!

*coughs* Forgetting someone? Ah, just kidding. Everyone's great here.

[Um cool]

*coughs* Forgetting someone? Ah, just kidding. Everyone's great here.

Sure! You can be a staff member! I don't have any decision though, I just suggested someone and didn't want to get too wild so I just put down the first person on my mind for "person who can be staff"

[Mighty Stymie]

Hello, I would like to comment on this, not as a request but as an idea.
I would like to suggest two things...
1. Hide the uploader who uploaded a file. Some characters are controversial, they are not necessarily garbage... I feel that submitting it would be risking harassment and it would seem fairer. That only an administrator or moderator can know who uploaded it.
2. Hide our nickname changes
More than anything not for privacy but for security.
The mugen community outside of these sites is toxic and it is best to prevent us from continuing with all that stuff. To be able to start over and avoid harassment, it would be the best thing to do.

[UltimaEpic]

Making those optional would be a good idea.

[Dizzy]

Hello, I would like to comment on this, not as a request but as an idea.
I would like to suggest two things...
1. Hide the uploader who uploaded a file. Some characters are controversial, they are not necessarily garbage... I feel that submitting it would be risking harassment and it would seem fairer. That only an administrator or moderator can know who uploaded it.
2. Hide our nickname changes
More than anything not for privacy but for security.
The mugen community outside of these sites is toxic and it is best to prevent us from continuing with all that stuff. To be able to start over and avoid harassment, it would be the best thing to do.

1. This is a good suggestions but I have no idea when it can be implemented. It might take a while so in the mean time there is the option of uploading a file while being unregistered, then you could private message a mod to ask them to look into it quickly.

2. As for the nickname changes, only New Challengers or higher can see the name change notifications and history. Would you feel better if we increased the requirement to VIP member?

[Mighty Stymie]

1. This is a good suggestions but I have no idea when it can be implemented. It might take a while so in the mean time there is the option of uploading a file while being unregistered, then you could private message a mod to ask them to look into it quickly.

I think it's very good ... To avoid junk files this, from a higher rank like new challenger or decent fighter this function could be activated.

2. As for the nickname changes, only New Challengers or higher can see the name change notifications and history. Would you feel better if we increased the requirement to VIP member?

Sounds good. Though, does Uploaded count as a VIP rank? It seems to be a common rank.

[Finola]

Sounds good. Though, does Uploaded count as a VIP rank? It seems to be a common rank.

The Uploader rank is included in the VIP group.
https://mugenarchive.com/forums/announcement.php?a=2

You are close to getting it...

[Mighty Stymie]

The Uploader rank is included in the VIP group.
https://mugenarchive.com/forums/announcement.php?a=2

You are close to getting it... Cheer up!

*removed* Well, the other option could be avoided with the other, so that would be fine.

[Vogel]

i think it would be a good idea to add a shortcut to all of the rules on every page of the site so that lurkers and other users have an easier time of finding and reading them to cut back on the users violating the rules, im not sure about anyone else but the text for the upload rules on the upload page are a little easy to miss and since the community rules are only at the tops of a few forum categories some users may not know to look up there
i was thinking something like this

Before uploading a file, there is a shortcut to the upload rules... Unfortunately many ignore it.

https://i.ibb.co/6gFg09n/Here-In-the.png

It is only located at the top and is easy to see, it even has red letters...

Each section has a rule with a sticky so that they just read it, but as you know, they ignore it...
I think it would be the same way if we add those shortcuts.

as i said

im not sure about anyone else but the text for the upload rules on the upload page are a little easy to miss

i actually didnt notice that it was there until like my 35th upload or something idk. same thing goes for the stickys in the forums
i just think it would be a good idea to have the rules on every page so that people wont have to search around for them and since the black bar on the top is how you get to everything if the rule shortcut was up there also as a black box it would be harder to miss