A good point was raised in IRC - that WIPs are rarely watched, because no one bothers to check all of the subforums, threads, etc, to see if a WIP is posted.
What if we had 1 mega-thread, which any person could post a WIP/encode, and then link to the discussion? Any discussion within that thread would have to be deleted by mods - every post in the thread must contain a WIP (possibly require an encode?) and a link to the discussion of said encode. No text allowed in these posts either. Moderators, such as myself could easily cull any discussion in that thread.
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This works both ways, I tend to ignore things that are megathreads because the quality is usually low.
But considering this is TASVideos, I don't really expect so much low quality stuff, heh.
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I'd already say the thread was a success for me--I had no idea that there was a Jazz Jackrabbit run out there! And of course, the SMW2 WIP is just amazing. I like this idea.
This works both ways, I tend to ignore things that are megathreads because the quality is usually low.
This particular megathread might work much better because it would be a distillation of the interesting content (in other words, the WIP videos themselves), rather than 10% being the interesting content and 90% being useless natter, as usual in huge threads.
There's the subject header in posts. True, they're small and sort of out of the way -- Who noticed the "Someone use the subject headers, too!" I put as my subject? Regardless, might not be a bad idea to put a useful note in there. Take a look at Critical five's posts, the header is getting use there!
System, game name, length of WIP, something. If someone actually looks there, why not show something of value? Besides, TASVideoAgent tells the IRC channel what the subject is, right?
Just a thought about making use of that tiny bit of text.
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Why instead of posting dumb embedded players there, why don't you just post the youtube player in the correct thread for the game and put links to them in that WIP thread.
And make an RSS feed for it.
Simple isn't it?
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All of the embedded videos mean that whenever I load the WIP thread, my computer grinds to a halt for a few minutes. Now, I'll freely grant that my computer is five years old, but it's not that clunky (2GHz dual-core / 2GB RAM).
Could we just link to the video instead of embedding it in the page? Odds are that the vast majority of page loads are only going to care about the last post in the thread anyway, so loading all the earlier videos is pointless.
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Could we just link to the video instead of embedding it in the page? Odds are that the vast majority of page loads are only going to care about the last post in the thread anyway, so loading all the earlier videos is pointless.
Another possibility would be that the flash player is loaded only on demand, like with the movie info boxes.
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And make an RSS feed for it.
This gave me an [wiki WorksInProgress]interesting idea[/wiki] (mostly an excuse to reuse the topicfeed module, but whatever).
I approve.
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Sorry to revive a topic.
I think the abandonned or completed WIP should be deleted from the topic?
Completed, I can agree with. Abandoned? Maybe someone will be interested in seeing it, if they attempt their own run? Also, how can anything ever be 'abandoned' versus put on hold indefinitely?
I have enough projects like that, lol.
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I was just looking at the WIPs in the WIP thread when suddenly, I got an idea.
Why dont we make one single youtube channel specificly for WIPs? It would be far easier to keep track of instead of searching through multiple channels of different users.
This could also help sort out all the completed runs from the WIPs since if a run is complete, you could just delete the video.
I was just looking at the WIPs in the WIP thread when suddenly, I got an idea.
Why dont we make one single youtube channel specificly for WIPs? It would be far easier to keep track of instead of searching through multiple channels of different users.
This could also help sort out all the completed runs from the WIPs since if a run is complete, you could just delete the video.
That'd require a lot of coordination between the encoders, something I'm not sure is possible.
I was just looking at the WIPs in the WIP thread when suddenly, I got an idea.
Why dont we make one single youtube channel specificly for WIPs? It would be far easier to keep track of instead of searching through multiple channels of different users.
This could also help sort out all the completed runs from the WIPs since if a run is complete, you could just delete the video.
That'd require a lot of coordination between the encoders, something I'm not sure is possible.
Especially since quite a few TASers who make runs for this site speak different languages like snark (who posted Paper Mario WIPs) and the Japanese SM64 TASers.
