want to waste a few minutes? This article on the diamond trade is long as heck. I think it may have been written in the mid 80s as well. not sure, didn't finish it. Because I have to get some work done. FOR REALZ.
Also, google maps turns sinister sorta.
And, the GameDevelopersConference is going on right now... gamesetwatch has coverage.
that spore video is awesome. lol at "procedural mating"
Ok, all points well taken... I think you have alot of awesome design ideas billy, I will definately make the thread color different right now and think about the way that thread files will display.
The comments thread for the cremaster cycle on thepiratebay is the dumbest art critism I have ever read.
spore gameplay video, the game that eli is talking about right now.
After posting my 2 cents, I take back the part about a thread's image appearing at the right, in the same spot as the main page's thumbnails -- I bet most of our images would be cropped & look awful. I see your difficulty, Jon. Maybe the image could be automatically resized, and appear just below the thread title, and above the thread starter's first post?
Here are my 2 cents, since there are lots of questions & suggestions floating around:
I too like the idea of having to post an image in order to start a thread. It could be almost exactly the same as it is right now. The main page could still look identical to the current one -- a place to post general 'shouts' in reverse-chronological order, as we clearly enjoy doing. And at the right, the 5 image thumbnails, and maybe just beneath each image is the thread title, if the originator chose to create a thread along with the file.
Then, if you click on any of the 5 image thumbnails, instead of getting just the image in the browser, you would see the image at the right (possibly occupying the same space that the 5 thumbnails do on the main page) and the thread in chronological order at the left.
When you replace the image, you also delete whatever thread went along with the previous image. When you upload a new image, there's also a "start thread" box below so you can tag the image with a thread-starting piece of text, and give it the title which appears below the thumbnail on the main page.
Final suggestion: Have thread pages be a different color than the main page, so they look significantly different.
I actually don't know if there is a problem at all. I suppose that the main issue that I see with the threads (which is that they are not really being used heavily) will work itself out eventually as they are used more.
mildly confused here. are you having problems putting seperate threads in the file slots, or creating threads around posted images?
I suppose if the poster (or someone else) wanted start a thread on an already posted image, they could save the file and repost in the same slot?
Actually, the only (make that main actually, I have lots of reasons) reason that I didn't do the thread to file thing was because I couldn't figure out a decent way to work in displaying the whole picture along with the thread...
perhaps a bigger version of the image thumbnails as they are now?
Also, will there be two buttons? a replace and a 'discuss'? or maybe click on the image to bring up the thread?
all these questions, so don't know how to answer.