New reviews ever going up?

ccovell · Post by **ccovell** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:08 pm

Hi, folks. To the guys running shmups: are you ever going to post the pending reviews? Are you still taking them? I wrote a (small) review and sent it in, but if it won't go up anytime soon, I'll be happy to put it on my site and share the URL. Nice little GB shooter.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:38 pm

Malc has been away from the site for a while, and he's the one who posts the reviews, so... not much we can do about it, at this stage.

ccovell · Post by **ccovell** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:42 pm

OK, then, the review is up. I recommend checking out ZAS; it's rather fun. And please let me know if you liked the review!

http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chri ... views/ZAS/

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:09 pm

ccovell wrote:OK, then, the review is up. I recommend checking out ZAS; it's rather fun. And please let me know if you liked the review!

http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chri ... views/ZAS/

I think it's great.

Tar-Palantir · Post by **Tar-Palantir** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:37 pm

*rushes off to look for the ROM*

Post by **Shatterhand** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:22 pm

Very good review

Someone should help Malc in uploading the reviews. I mean, its a waste that we have a review thats ALREADY Htmlized, and ready to just be uploaded, to NOT be here.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:05 pm

Sure, if Malc wants help and the admins are too busy, I'd love to help. Or maybe people could put up reviews on their own after a quick admin lookover.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:47 am

Shatterhand wrote: Someone should help Malc in uploading the reviews. I mean, its a waste that we have a review thats ALREADY Htmlized, and ready to just be uploaded, to NOT be here.

If I keep saying it, maybe someday it will happen....someone should help malc setup a wiki so everyone can contribute to the site. Can you imagine the day when shmups.com get daily updates!

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:21 am

Awesome review, I've never known aout ZAS before today. I'm definitely hunting this one down.

crithit5000 · Post by **crithit5000** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:57 am

Dave_K. wrote:
Shatterhand wrote: Someone should help Malc in uploading the reviews. I mean, its a waste that we have a review thats ALREADY Htmlized, and ready to just be uploaded, to NOT be here.
If I keep saying it, maybe someday it will happen....someone should help malc setup a wiki so everyone can contribute to the site. Can you imagine the day when shmups.com get daily updates!

I agree with Thunder Force (I think he's the one who's been against the idea)...any dolt can come into a wiki and wreak havoc just for kicks. It'd be a pain. I think it would be better if someone were to set up a php-enabled news portal type site and grab an active staff from the forums or whatever. It'd be just as easy to update, without the woes of 13 year old kids mucking stuff up for fun.

EDIT:INCORRECT! It was bloodflowers I was thinking of...

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:34 am

crithit5000 wrote:
Dave_K. wrote:
Shatterhand wrote: Someone should help Malc in uploading the reviews. I mean, its a waste that we have a review thats ALREADY Htmlized, and ready to just be uploaded, to NOT be here.
If I keep saying it, maybe someday it will happen....someone should help malc setup a wiki so everyone can contribute to the site. Can you imagine the day when shmups.com get daily updates!
I agree with Thunder Force (I think he's the one who's been against the idea)...any dolt can come into a wiki and wreak havoc just for kicks. It'd be a pain. I think it would be better if someone were to set up a php-enabled news portal type site and grab an active staff from the forums or whatever. It'd be just as easy to update, without the woes of 13 year old kids mucking stuff up for fun.

EDIT:INCORRECT! It was bloodflowers I was thinking of...

There are many controls you can place on a wiki to prevent this type of thing from happening. I mean, its the first thing they thought about when coming up with the concept! Changes can be submitted and reviewed before going live if you wantted. And even then, its a simple process to back out changes. There are many ways to run a wiki...I think those in charge need to take a more serious look at this rather than passing naive judgement on it.

Post by **system11** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 9:47 am

Dave_K. wrote: There are many controls you can place on a wiki to prevent this type of thing from happening. I mean, its the first thing they thought about when coming up with the concept! Changes can be submitted and reviewed before going live if you wantted. And even then, its a simple process to back out changes. There are many ways to run a wiki...I think those in charge need to take a more serious look at this rather than passing naive judgement on it.

Dude, I work with the damn things as part of my job, I absolutely despise them when outside of an environment where you trust every user (in other words, non internet facing ones). But hey, it also doesn't really affect me - as I have nothing to do (and want nothing to do) with running the main site.

However, there are bigger issues here. Even if someone else wanted to go to the trouble, nobody else has access to the hosting account. Someone could set up an extra site (reviews.shmups.com or something), but guess who owns the domain and needs to get changes made? Yup, Malc. Someone could set up a BRAND NEW shmups mk3 site that does 'all the above', but shmups.com is Malcs site, I for one wouldn't be happy to even approach replacing what he's done. Take a look at it now - that's a good site.

Best solution would be to find someone Malc could trust with account access, who is as competant as him with html and has the time to do it. That can't be me, just running the forum turned out to be in truth a little more work than I was looking to take on, and Akira who used to maintain the main site too, is generally busy.

Aside: easiest one I ever did run was done using a CVS repository - a script on the live server would pull the site every now and then, and all editors had access to commit changes.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:53 pm

bloodflowers wrote: Aside: easiest one I ever did run was done using a CVS repository - a script on the live server would pull the site every now and then, and all editors had access to commit changes.

Isn't CVS always the way to go for running small-to-mid-sized parts-separated projects?