TeamAnandtech.com new features wanted

[Jator]

I definetly miss the race BGod and I had going for awhile. Kept things interesting. 😉

 

[ottawanker]

hello fellow irc'ers. thanks to BKehoe, you can now stop by #acro on ta irc to play a game or 2 of acro.

basic game as follows:

!start to start a game

A will display in the channel some letters (for example YOH). You then make an Acronym from it and then (for example):

/msg A acro Your Acronym Here!

Note the /msg A acro (the acro is the important part).

Then there will be a voting session to see who's acronyms are best (and worst).

Now this is the important part! Stats are available at http://www.beerpalace.org/acro.html

Right now they only show your total score, but soon there will be stats including most frequent players, etc., etc..

 

[Nohr]

http://www.beerpalace.org/acro.html

 

[ottawanker]

also, it was brought to my attention that there is a java client! (my bad!)

for those of you who don't know, the link is:

http://irc.teamanandtech.com:8000/

 

[osmo]

What about implementing the OGR, Seti, GammaFlux, <enter your favorite DC project that has been left out> ID's to the members list page?

Osmo.
My Stats:
<--- this space reserved for Gamma Flux
OGR
RC5
Seti

 

[Mika]

Lots of great ideas here!

Integrating a picture in the profile should not be too difficult. Along with this, it would be easy to allow people to add more details about themselves, such as allowing age to be show, etc.

Would people need the ability to upload a picture, or just link to a picture that already exists on the ?

Once the d.net stats are fully db driven, having new kinds of rankings, such as Jarhead's suggestion, will be much easier.

I like the hardware trading idea. This will require a great deal of planning to develop a solid solution.

I also really like Ray's idea of having a &quot;featured cracker&quot; on the front page which changes (perhaps changes with each reload?). I don't believe this would be extremely difficult.

JimMc: There is a password mailer function on your profile page. ie, click the Email Mika's Password button on this page to send my password. There was a design decision to not allow people to enter their own password, as some people (probably not any of us techie people) use the same password everywhere, and we do not wish to have any trouble with stolen passwords.

efun: Also when the stats are db driven, you will have a permanent link to your stats. Something like http://www.teamanandtech.com/dnet/rc5/fullstats/Mika/default.asp instead of http://www.teamanandtech.com/dnet/rc5/fullstats/e32/default.asp (which changes as your rank changes).

The map will definately make a reappearence.

osmo: There is definately a need to get more options for other projects on the site. One thing I need for SETI is a way to determine TA SETI members. This will have to be done for the dcypher projects also. This is to confirm that only team members can add links to their projects.

Lots of great ideas in this thread which will help us build traffic and interest in Team AnandTech!

Mika

 

[RaySun2Be]

One more thing I thought of, is a &quot;racers&quot; page, that shows the members that are in a race to a particular milestone, and their standings. I think LeBlatt or someone used to maintain a page for racing, it was very well done, and one of my frequented bookmarks. 🙂

 

[ZapZilla]

How about an &quot;Updated at TIME&quot; / Next Update at TIME&quot;
or similar on the blue bar at the top of stats pages?

 

[Gazoooo]

Lots of great ideas........

How about something to get that spot between my shoulder blades thats just out of reach......😉