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Post by toei on Jan 20, 2018 2:48:04 GMT -5
I was able to get on it last night, but it's down for me now, too. There have been intermittent issues with the old server, so it's probably just that. Articles are still being ported over at a pretty good pace, so most of the content is accessible on the new site or will be shortly.
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Post by Discoalucard on Jan 20, 2018 8:43:08 GMT -5
Yeah, Kontek moved to a new server sometime during the summer (before our move) and it's always been a little sketchy since then. If you can't access the old site (or any of the other stuff hosted there like the Castlevania Dungeon and Metroid Database), just check back every once in awhile. AFAIK it's not going away.
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Post by Mathius on Jan 20, 2018 18:48:08 GMT -5
This is good to hear! I just checked tonight and it's back up.
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Post by nickz on Feb 10, 2018 21:12:04 GMT -5
I'm liking the new look of the site. It came as a shock at first, because I'm so used to the old look. I appreciate seeing a lot of the stuff I wrote back then reuploaded, thank you! Just one correction, I'm listed as the author for the Dynamite Headdy article, when it should be Kyle Kubiak.
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Post by Discoalucard on Feb 12, 2018 9:53:51 GMT -5
Thanks! There's definitely some articles with the wrong credits still, partially due to human error (like that one), partially due to plug-in used to change authors being somewhat glitchy (i.e. sometimes it takes a few times for a change to actually take effect).
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Post by pelluchan on Feb 28, 2018 6:26:48 GMT -5
Hi Kurt & rest of the team, HG101 is one of Internet's greatest videogaming treasure troves. Keep up the good work maintaining it. After some months accessing the new site, there are three minor points I'd like to share: * I access mostly through a tablet device in landscape orientation and in most articles, once it gets loaded and I begin scrolling down, bizarrely the image in the header of the article somehow seems to get constantly resized as I scrol down (a small number of pixels in fact, but it gets a bit annoying). No big deal, actually * Also, in the articles almost 25% of the left margin is "lost" to white space. I posted some screenshots to imgur to show how it appears on my device: imgur.com/a/qJMxh* Finally, the images at the end of the articles in some cases appear blurry, but I think this has been discussed in the forum previously already As I said, great job with the site!
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Post by Discoalucard on Feb 28, 2018 9:51:09 GMT -5
Hi Kurt & rest of the team, HG101 is one of Internet's greatest videogaming treasure troves. Keep up the good work maintaining it. After some months accessing the new site, there are three minor points I'd like to share: * I access mostly through a tablet device in landscape orientation and in most articles, once it gets loaded and I begin scrolling down, bizarrely the image in the header of the article somehow seems to get constantly resized as I scrol down (a small number of pixels in fact, but it gets a bit annoying). No big deal, actually * Also, in the articles almost 25% of the left margin is "lost" to white space. I posted some screenshots to imgur to show how it appears on my device: imgur.com/a/qJMxh* Finally, the images at the end of the articles in some cases appear blurry, but I think this has been discussed in the forum previously already As I said, great job with the site! I think some of the issues are because, for mobile, the site is designed to be viewed in portrait mode. The way it works is, if the horizontal resolution is low enough, is disables the sidebar and basically just sticks everything else at the bottom. I think the resolution you're viewing at is in a midpoint where it's not low enough to be disabled, but not high enough to actually fit anything it's supposed to, so it just ends up as blank space. I can try fiddling around with the value that dictates this, hopefully not enough to break anything else. As for the blurry pictures, are you referring to the screenshot comparisons, like the ones in the Insector X article? That's a result of the white space, probably. If two pictures next to each other don't fit, the site auto resizes them so they do, but in the process they'll distort the picture slightly. If you browse the site on a low enough resolution even on a computer, you'll see the same effect. So if we figure out a way to sidebar without mucking up anything else, it should fix that issue to. A few pages use galleries in cases where image fidelity doesn't really matter too much, and those end up getting a bit blurry too, though we don't use it regularly, and in some cases might be some early articles we designed before we really knew what we were doing, so they might need to be fixed. For the header, I've noticed a weird problem where it'll display then very slightly resize the image once it's done loading. I'm not really sure why, so I'm not sure if it's fixable. It's still totally messed up on IE.
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Post by pelluchan on Feb 28, 2018 17:49:31 GMT -5
Yes, it would be great if you could try to adjust the settings! Also, here is a screenshot of the blurry images I referred to, from the Stories Untold article that I've just read: i.imgur.com/wyjSRVo.pngThanks for your help!
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Post by Discoalucard on Feb 28, 2018 21:05:48 GMT -5
Yes, it would be great if you could try to adjust the settings! Also, here is a screenshot of the blurry images I referred to, from the Stories Untold article that I've just read: i.imgur.com/wyjSRVo.pngThanks for your help! OH, I think that's related to the same issue. That should be stuff on the sidebar, which is shrunk down to about 50% of their native size. So what it's doing is taken the downscaled version and then re-upscaling it because there's more room...which looks bad because they're low resolution!
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Post by aganar on Feb 28, 2018 22:49:51 GMT -5
The site's Search feature seems to have a great deal of trouble weighting articles for relevance. For instance, here's what I get when trying to find the Shin Megami Tensei article: www.hardcoregaming101.net/?s=shin+megami+tenseiTwo pages of results, and the article itself doesn't actually show up. This doesn't happen when using the Old Site's search: cse.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-0596905340593187%3A3048719537&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=shin+megami+tensei&sa=Search#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=shin%20megami%20tensei&gsc.page=1So I'm not sure if the engine needs to be tweaked, or what, but it's really difficult at the moment to find articles on the new site, since there's no longer a Master List I can scroll through. Secondly, while trying to open up this topic to post my above reply, I get this: imgur.com/a/FHXAHI get it, you guys us want ad revenue. But this is obnoxious. The yellow-on-white also looks intentionally hard to read, as if trying to obscure the option to not turn off our adblocker. That's what we call a dark pattern, and I think it's beneath this site.
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Post by Discoalucard on Mar 1, 2018 1:06:31 GMT -5
The site's Search feature seems to have a great deal of trouble weighting articles for relevance. For instance, here's what I get when trying to find the Shin Megami Tensei article: www.hardcoregaming101.net/?s=shin+megami+tenseiTwo pages of results, and the article itself doesn't actually show up. This doesn't happen when using the Old Site's search: cse.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-0596905340593187%3A3048719537&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=shin+megami+tensei&sa=Search#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=shin%20megami%20tensei&gsc.page=1So I'm not sure if the engine needs to be tweaked, or what, but it's really difficult at the moment to find articles on the new site, since there's no longer a Master List I can scroll through. Secondly, while trying to open up this topic to post my above reply, I get this: imgur.com/a/FHXAHI get it, you guys us want ad revenue. But this is obnoxious. The yellow-on-white also looks intentionally hard to read, as if trying to obscure the option to not turn off our adblocker. That's what we call a dark pattern, and I think it's beneath this site. Nothing is popping up for Shin Megami Tensei because it's not ported over to the new site yet. There's a "series" entry because it will be going there soon (well, more than likely a few months, since all of the entries are being entirely rewritten.) The search function is pretty good - better than the Google with the old one - so if nothing pops up, it's probably not ready yet. The migration won't be complete for several more months at least. The full alphabetical list of articles is here, it's the first link on the Review section: www.hardcoregaming101.net/alphabetical/As for the ad, that's from the forum, which I actually see exactly $0 in ad revenue from and have no control over.
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Post by Mathius on Mar 12, 2018 22:57:31 GMT -5
I noticed something on the new site. When searching via "Systems" selecting "Neo Geo" takes me to "Neo Geo CD's" search results. And there are very few articles displayed too but I assume it's because they haven't been ported over yet. As for the Old Site, which is where I still go since, like mentioned not everything's been ported over, choosing any article from the normal-looking Table of Contents displays a glitched screen. I'm using the newest version of Firefox. hg101.kontek.net/actraiser/actraiser.htmEdit: Also I have a friendly request. On the New Site could we please have a page like this one from the Old Site where we would get a screen shot above every game title? That's been my preferred way to browse the site since you implemented that feature a few years ago. hg101.kontek.net/catalog/alpha-0.htm
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Post by Discoalucard on Mar 13, 2018 9:47:58 GMT -5
Thanks, the Neo Geo page not pointing correctly is definitely a bug.
As for the glitched page, I noticed that for some too when I reference them. It can't find the CSS files, which suggests they were coded wrong. It's probably an easy fix but I'd need to look into it.
Sticking in pics with the index is probably possible, but I'd need someone to recode the index plugin to do it since I have no idea how. The other issue is that the way articles are cataloged is a little different now, since games have individual entries rather than series, so some indexes (like Action: Side-Scrolling) already have several hundred of them, which would either mean several hundreds pictures or breaking them down into seperate pages, neither of which is conducive for index browsing.
The index was tossed together last minute for launch and I haven't really looked at it since, since it's a lower priority than porting the articles. But once that's cleared up some more, they'll be divided up into other pages like they used to be, prettied up a bit with some customized intros, pictures, and suggested articles.
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Post by Discoalucard on Mar 18, 2018 20:24:14 GMT -5
As for the Old Site, which is where I still go since, like mentioned not everything's been ported over, choosing any article from the normal-looking Table of Contents displays a glitched screen. I'm using the newest version of Firefox. hg101.kontek.net/actraiser/actraiser.htmOK, I looked into this, and honestly I don't know what the problem is. I THINK the issue is that it's not reading the iframe for the header correctly, but I have no idea why. It works fine for me locally and all of the files are in place so it's not anything broken. So it might be a problem on the server side, which I can't fix directly. Broken (old server): hg101.kontek.net/finalfight/finalfight.htmOK (new server, same exact files): www.hardcoregaming101.net/finalfight/finalfight.htmI think for now the archive will just have be declared busted. I'm gonna be finishing up some of the longer pieces that still need to be transferred, and directly upload the rest to the new server until they're converted. I started this over the weekend but there's still a lot to do (the entirety of the Korean article, for one)
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Post by Mathius on Mar 18, 2018 21:26:18 GMT -5
Thanks for looking into all this, Kurt. I know there's a lot of work to be done so I will be patient.
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