You Have Chosen.Us

Pages updated: from the PC section all d, e, f, g, h, i, j pages.
Pages left: some 450 out of 583.

Yay for me. After looking at all of that code (making sure it’s all up to par, and the auto-replace didn’t make any mistakes, etc) any new solution for GameSphere will just have to have a WYSIWYG text editor…

If you’ve read Page layouts updated: pc/a, you know I’m pretty hesitant about recoding 583 (just over 500 left now), knowing it may well be time wasted. Still, as it stands, I’m undecided about how to progress the site (leaning towards blog, but unsure still). I just redid Vandaele.us and I think it looks sweet, so naturally I’m excited about doing something similar for GameSphere.com. Needless to say it’s impossible with both the old and new format, but if they all have one single, same format it would be a helluva lot easier to adapt all the pages so that it would be possible.

Anyway, all the PC Games B and PC Games C have both been standardized. Damn that’s a lot of extraordinarily boring work…

All the PC games starting with an A have had their layouts updated. I was going to do more, but then I stopped myself. Perhaps I should convert that part (or all) of GameSphere to either a blog or a wiki. A blog has obvious advantages - besides everything being automatic, it also supports multiple authors. The downsides are they would be hard to search (unless you put everything - reviews, hints, cheats, screenshots, … - all on one page), and it would be even harder to contain all the info to any given game. What bothers me most though, is that it only supports one author per page. If I post 4 cheats to a game, and you add 7 more, you wouldn’t get any credit. Creating two pages with cheats is just retarded, so I could only hope that wouldn’t be encouraged… It might also be hard to find authors, since I’d have to personally give you unrestricted access. I’m paranoid, so not quite comfortable with that idea. Still, a blog is a good prospect despite all of this.
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Since I’m confident the new anti-spambot measures (for which I never made a news post) are extremely effective, I decided to do another cleanup of (the most likely) fake forum users. There’s rarely a way to determine if a user is fake or not after they’ve signed up, so I simply deleted all the users with no posts: 24 in total. This was a reminder of how poor spam management is in phpBB 2.x, as it’s deleting several users is quite an annoying process. There’s no “delete by criteria” option (like, say, delete all users with 0 posts). There isn’t even a “delete user” anywhere besides on the “user detail” page in the administration panel. What I mean is a link on the members list page (two click deleting: delete -> confirm -> back to memberlist) to easily delete members. A bonus would be a delete user link on topics as well, so you could easily delete a spambot user, including all his spam posts.
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All the news - at least all I had since the previous webhost deleted my only copy - has now been transferred to its new location on this blog. While I do take periodical backups now (fool me once, you’re the ass; fool me twice, I’m the ass), let’s hope it never happens again… While I rather doubt this new system will shame me into posting more updates, it does have a rather nice interface. As a bonus, you can read whatever else I’ve posted while you’re here; after you’re done with all the news that is