No offensive but I am kinda sick to see some robot over and over again without major updating on home page. Maybe they did that for some good reasons. May I suggest to have function to BLOCK those robots personally? So, who ever getting sick to see some robot they can block it and other can still see it? (Someone may hate my robot too so they can block me.)
If somebody make any
If somebody make any progress in hardware or software, it’s ok in my opinion. But I see more and more projects “pushed back” without any update. Some are marked with “new” but actually old without any update/progress. This should be avoided. I know if you change anything, maybe only a typing mistake, you land back on the top.
yeah, especially people like
yeah, especially people like me with poor English skill must correct typo or wrong word all the time. That would be good if the function is there. Beside I was thinking in the homepage has a rotating pool for old robot reveal again. I recently dig into old post and there are tons of wonderful robot out there and been forgotten. So, I try to mock up a page here: http://www.hardmouse.com/robots/ask4help/lmr.jpg
It's not very well designed, just a quick mock-up. Hope people could come up better ideas.
image had been shrinked, you may open up for clear mockup.
I think it would be a good idea
to rotate in old posts because there are tons of good ones.
That’s a really good idea.
That’s a really good idea. I’m sure those working on the software update are working on something already but all the same.
There are 2 sides to
There are 2 sides to this.
One way to look at it, is that the front page should reflect “which projects are active”, another is “what projects are new”.
When I designed it, I thought that it would be rather boring to just see what is new, it would be a more friendly community, more a place to meet friends, if the front page reflected who was active.
I knew that it would be a little “strange” that just because you changed a line of text, it would go to the front page. But I figured that it would be a cool “bug”, so to speak - I’d rather have an old project up again, than someone active being hidden on page 7 - two not perfect scenarios, and I chose the “be proud”-attitude; you did something, you should be on the front page again.
Of course the best would be an option to check “minor update, do not promote”, but I only had that many ressources, there where a lot to be done 
If you want to see what projects are new, like a list of newest robots, just go to “Robots”. As far as I remember, that is sorted by submission date. Same should work for other types around on the site.
There where in general many deliberate choises made to ensure stuff would appear and flow in certain ways, while working with what limited ressources I had. Another example is: Every now and then people complain over the shoutbox being too simple. But the point is / was to have a box that will not be used to really do any serious talks, because then this valuable information would be lost.
There are many ways to see this - but under all circumstances are Del Rudolph and me working on LMR V4 now, with a completely new core - so many things will be changed all together, and thus are we not doing much to work on this old kernal now
Thanks for the inputs!!
It’s a bug when something is
It’s a bug when something is marked as “new”, when its not - I never figured it out, sorry
Good inputs, thanks :)if any
Good inputs, thanks
if any one has more drawings like that, they are very welcome
FORM VERSUS FUNCTION –
There is a tendency to cram a whole lot of information onto one page. This practice of ‘content overload’ results in a convoluted website. Evidence of this is clearly demonstrated in Hardmouse’s LMR mock up. The example is so busy with information that it does not allow ample time for your eyes to focus on a particular item. An elegant solution and one that I favor, is the magazine styled layout.
The main page should consist of one or two columns: featured story/blog entry, commentary, large photo’s and video’s of new content. Major column headings simplified into five categorys (presented as an example): Start Here, Robots, My Profile, Forum, About.
The ‘My Profile’ page dynamically built by selecting a ‘tracking’ button on a featured story, blog, or project. Such that, when a user clicks on his/her profile page only subjects of interest are displayed in a linear stream similar in style to Facebook.
I have listed some websites that demonstrate the magazine styled layout:
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/
http://loopermovie.tumblr.com/
Something else to consider in the design. People are shifting from bulky computers and laptops to IPAD’s. To that end, the design has to reflect this new form factor. More than that – LMR – is about robots. Let that be the focus!
I like hardmouse suggestion
I like hardmouse suggestion – and some of those wouldn’t need any code change, just an updated CSS file. (For instance, to keep the forum topics on one line, could be done with a style “white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden;”.)
From a database perspective: having each user have a list of robot IDs to ignore can get pretty heavy on it, so I wouldn’t go for that. Especially with a lot of users some slowdown can be expected, as every list is cached on a per-user basis in stead of having just a single list to cache.
However, adding a checkbox for a ‘ignore this minor change on the front-page’ can’t be that difficult, now can it? Honestly, that’s like… a very, very, trivial thing to implement. I’m assuming the whole robot database is a custom thing in Drupal anyway?
I don’t see why anyone cannot simply add an extra field which value is tested when the list of robots is fetched for rendering the front-page?
If you or any one else want
If you or any one else want to get involved in the development of LMR, please get in touch with me, thanks.
I like those site you
I like those site you suggest up there. However, they are good for personal site or showcase but we have thousands of robots here. As the way it designed we probably have to scroll couple meters all the way down to view all the robots.