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 Caves Dweller
Rascii
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8/27/2011 | |
I will have some free time in the upcoming week to update the website.
If you have found any broken links or other problems with the website, please let me know on this thread and I will fix it this week.
If you have already notified me previously via private message and it wasn't resolved, please post the problem again here.
Thank you everyone!
- Rascii |

Malkin
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8/27/2011 | |
The most recent version of Aquatilis Caverna is Version 4: Version 4.
This replaces version 2 and the two patches which are currently on the CC.com AC page.
Thanks Rascii! Hope Seoul is treating you well. 
My TCR Norns |
 Caves Dweller
Rascii
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8/27/2011 | |
Fixed! Thanks for the suggestion, Malkin.
Please keep the suggestions coming! 
- Rascii |
 Patient Pirate
ylukyun
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8/27/2011 | |
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the recent COB image on the main page is always stretched out. I forget how long it has been like this, but it seems to have gotten bigger over time.
There is a button under "sites to bookmark" linking to edash.net which no longer exists.
I swear I've seen more problems but I can't remember what they are. Of course I could be thinking of A2K. Will post ASAP if I find more.
And thanks for the great work keeping the site running  |

Malkin
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8/27/2011 | |
There's an optimal size for cob images (probably 120 x 150 pixels), if the image isn't the right size it sometimes displays poorly on the front page.
My TCR Norns |
 Caves Dweller
Rascii
     Administrator

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8/28/2011 | |
I have fixed the COB image problem and removed edash.net from the Bookmarks section.
Please let me know if there is another button I should put under the Bookmarks section instead.
- Rascii |
 Patient Pirate
ylukyun
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8/28/2011 | |
Wow, that looks much better!
I have a few suggestions for buttons. The Creature Repository would make an excellent choice, as would Creaturetopia. There are others but I think the links section probably covers them.
Another post reminded me of this: Is it feasible to have the topic titles constrained in some way, instead of just truncating them? Eg making the field length smaller. Apologies if you have already seen to this. |

Deskman
 
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8/28/2011 | |
Speaking of the bookmarks section, Albia2000 is pretty much death as well. |
 Patient Pirate
ylukyun
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8/28/2011 | |
I agree.  |
 Tea Queen
Laura
    

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8/28/2011 | |
Just seen that the links to the Zaharo, The Tropics, The Seaweed Tavern, Random's Room and the Agent Room metarooms are no longer working.
Edit: The link to the C12DS metaroom also needs updating (since it currently directs to the GW forums)! There's a working link on the Creatures Wiki.
Cheers!  |
 Caves Dweller
Rascii
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8/28/2011 | |
ylukyun wrote: I have a few suggestions for buttons. The Creature Repository would make an excellent choice, as would Creaturetopia. Can you provide me links to the websites/buttons?
ylukyun wrote: Another post reminded me of this: Is it feasible to have the topic titles constrained in some way, instead of just truncating them? Eg making the field length smaller. Apologies if you have already seen to this. Which topic titles specifically? Forums, news, etc.? Please be specific. 
Thank you for the suggestions.
- Rascii |
 Caves Dweller
Rascii
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8/28/2011 | |
Laura wrote: Just seen that the links to the Zaharo, The Tropics, The Seaweed Tavern, Random's Room and the Agent Room metarooms are no longer working. You can edit metarooms now. Hehe. Thanks!
- Rascii |
 Chaotic Spriter
mea
  

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8/29/2011 | |
The Timer agent on the Tools page of the C3/Ds agents area always downloads a corrupted or dead zip file. I've tried downloading a lot of times, but the zip fails to open every time I try. |
 Patient Pirate
ylukyun
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8/29/2011 | |
I was thinking of the forum titles. It isn't a huge deal because people can edit them but I've seen it trip quite a few up (and not everyone edits )
Creaturetopia is at http://ctopia.treesprite.com/index.php or just http://creaturetopia.org
The button I found is
although there might be a better one somewhere.
The Creature Repository is at http://tcr.diagonalfish.net/ and this is the button

A nice feature for the image gallery would be to have the image description on the page. A tooltip on the thumbnail might work well. (Edit: Got a bit carried away there, I realize this is not a feature request thread.) |
 Caves Dweller
Rascii
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8/29/2011 | |
OK, I've implemented limits on the length you can type in the Forum Topic subjects and also News headlines.
And feel free to suggest new features here. 
- Rascii |
 Peppery One
Papriko
    
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8/29/2011 | |
What about a link or a button to mark all topics of sub-forum as read? It is nice to see the community is still going on, but frankly said: why for example should I click through the newest C2 discussions when I don't even have C2 at all?
Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... |

Don
   

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8/29/2011 | |
Topic width issue:
A set pixel width (and overflow hidden) would fix the width problems with forum topic posts where long links or scrolling breaks the website layout in certain browsers.
e.g.
http://www.ifIpostthishereitwillcausewidthbreakageproblemsinsomebrowsers.com
Don
AmberCreatures
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Gumbo
    
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8/29/2011 | |
Just an idea here, maybe not practical...
Maybe have like a update system? Like a little box in the corner that says 1 uupdate, 5 updates, etc. You'd get an update if someone messages you, if yyour topic in the forums gets a new ppost, if someone comments on you image in the galleries, if someone responds to your poll, etc.
Might get a little annoying but you can mark them all as read if you dont want to visit each one individually.
Especially if someone responds to your forum topic, that could get annoying in sstrangeo. Maybe be able to disable them after a while?
Eh.
in the spring you gotta let the flowers fully blossom
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 Sanely Insane
RisenAngel
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8/30/2011 | |
I'm seconding a "mark all topics read" button.
As well, there's something that's been bothering me since I joined. When one goes into a forum and tries to change pages to look at past discussions, the topics that were on the first page get mixed in with older topics and things just go screwy. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but it makes trying to find older topics extremely irritating unless the search function is used.
~ The Realm ~
Risen Angel's Creatures Blog
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 Caves Dweller
Rascii
     Administrator

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8/31/2011 | |
FYI: I fixed the news posting/add to forums issue, so that if you choose to post a new topic and create a forum topic at the same time, the link will be correct. 
- Rascii |
 Tea Queen
Laura
    

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9/6/2011 | |
Should be 'Metarooms' be added to the 'Posts:' section in our profiles? 
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Jessica
    

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9/6/2011 | |
I went through the list of links and found the following broken ones. These include ones that go to an error page, and those that go to standard searches/domain sales pages. Note that servers sometimes go down, so it's best to double-check these at some point.
Hope this helps with the clean up!
Albian Oceans
angel51431. Sketches.
Albian Website Directory
Blueamcat's Creatures
Bibbleworld
Bug's Lair
Creatures MainFrame
The Creatures Jungle
Creatures Palace (Not broken, but all broken images and empty)
Custom Norn (C2)
Custom Norn Maker (C3/DS)
Creatures Archive
Creatures 1 Database
Emmental's DS Agents
Edash's Creatures
Gameware Shop
The Grendel Warehouse
Grensoft Productions (Looks like a new site in progress)
Helen's Bibble Directory
The High Tech Hand
Heartlands
Creatures Holland
Jennie's Creatures Stuffs
Kiz's Creatures
Lunatic World
Mandy's Creatures
Martina's Welt
The Norn Rock
NornenMeister
Norn Temple (ID #155)
Nina's C3 Adoptions
The Other Realm
openc2e
Phr33z3's Creatures 3 & DS
Sorted Creatures
Twilight Cat's Grotto
Underneath The Fur
zareb's creations
* Creatures Docking Station is listed twice, under "C" and "D."
* Iggdrasil has the wrong link with www.creaturescaves.com in front of the correct link, which works.
* Laburnum should be updated to http://www.geocities.ws/laburnum/
* Norn Temple is called Veharke Temple on the site, and the thumbnail image is also broken.
* SilverINK does not appear to have anything Creatures related anymore.
* Winter Blue Albia has a working landing page, but there is no further content.
Discover Albia |
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Laura
    

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9/6/2011 | |
* Creatures Docking Station is listed twice, under "C" and "D." Ooops, my bad! I added the duplicate under 'C', because I didn't see that Don had added it herself under 'D'. All gone! Thanks Jessica. 
I've helped a bit by making the other corrections you've pointed out. Winter Blue Albia does appear to have some content on these pages? I've also left the broken links alone (the ones I can edit/delete anyway) because I'm not sure what to do with them, whether they could be kept for the sake of nostalgia, or not. I'm sure Rascii will have a better idea!
Rascii:
Helen's Bibble Directory is now hosted at http://creaturesvillage.com/helen
Emmental's DS Agents is now hosted at http://creaturesvillage.com/emmental |

Malkin
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9/10/2011 | |
It might be an idea to separate the worlds/metarooms list by game, like the COBs list is.
The Pumpkin Pie here shows a picture of the Zora Castle. 
My TCR Norns |

Liam
  

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9/10/2011 | |
Any chance you could split the Metaroom list up into 2 pages (or have it sortable) for C1/2/3, Rascii? That would be super useful.
- Liam / K'aeloree
Spellhold Studios, a Baldur's Gate II, Neverwinter Nights and Oblivion Modding Community |
 Tea Queen
Laura
    

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9/11/2011 | |
Malkin wrote: The Pumpkin Pie here shows a picture of the Zora Castle.  Never fear, Laura's here (fixed the Pumpkin Pie). 8) |
 Caves Dweller
Rascii
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9/14/2011 | |
I have updated the links page. Thanks for your help, Jessica and Laura.
I'll work on the Metarooms page later. 
- Rascii |

sam999
  

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9/21/2011 | |
Two ideas:
1. Section for each game, breed uploads. A zip file, text saying who made the breed and what it is, a picture of the breed, and a download.
2. A Geat option for C3DS in adoption. Sure geats sometimes crash the game, but all in all I think they can be worth it. |

Don
   

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9/25/2011 | |
*points to the broken topic width in Chrome* 
Don
AmberCreatures
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 Patient Pirate
ylukyun
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9/25/2011 | |
Chrome and Firefox. (6.0.2 Win) |

Malkin
     Manager

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10/10/2011 | |
Could we please be able to search the image gallery's descriptions and comments? With over 3000 images split across just four categories, it's difficult to find what you're looking for.
Several of the links in AquaShee's CAOS chaos no longer work, as they point to the gameware.co.uk site instead of gameware.com.
My TCR Norns |
 Caves Dweller
Rascii
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10/31/2011 | |
Thank you for your suggestions, Malkin. I have updated the CAOS Chaos articles accordingly. I'll work on implementing an images search soon. 
- Rascii |