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Posted on 08-23-12, 12:11 am
Super Mario
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So, right now, the front page sucks. A LOT.
We need to improve it.

What I've thought so far:
- New introduction text. Much shorter, cleaner and cooler. People don't like walls of text.
- Display only 1 or 2 of the latest news OR make Latest News more interesting.
- Make the last posts thing smaller or more compact
- Add a "Latest NSMBe builds" thing.

Also, about new content.

More news!
Maybe we need more news. Up to now, all the news have been boring website-related stuff. We need more stuff. Maybe about NSMB hacking, or other game hacking? Or promoting interesting websites/things. IDK. What could be interesting to put in the latest news section?

Video of the Week
(Or of the day if we get enough!)
Well, that. Basically, display a new video each week Also, old videos should be viewable. There would be a thread where people could submit videos for approval. Probably most of them would be featured, unless they're not interesting, or bad quality, etc. Common sense, basically.

Featured Hack
More of the same . I'm pretty sure many of you would like to see your hack featured on the NSMB main page, wouldn't you?
Maybe we should do it monthly, IDK if there are enough hacks
And I'm not sure on what to do about applications to be featured hacks. Probably nothing will be done, and staff will pick the best hacks out there. There's time for all the good hacks to be featured, this shouldn't be a problem!

Your suggestions
Yes, your suggestions. You can suggest stuff too! Go, post and suggest! Now!
Posted on 08-23-12, 12:25 am
Birdo


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Posted by Dirbaio
So, right now, the front page sucks. A LOT.
We need to improve it.

What I've thought so far:
- New introduction text. Much shorter, cleaner and cooler. People don't like walls of text.
- Make Latest News more interesting.
- Add a "Latest NSMBe builds" thing.


This plans sound good. I think the last post should be as they are now. Or a little more compact. (not as small as they were edited one of these past days)

Also, the featured videos and hacks sounds nice, since people here will be searching for hacks. But the problem is, there are almost no fully completed hacks, and they are many betas available, so I don't know I you will include those.
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Posted on 08-23-12, 02:04 am
Fuzzy
Full mod

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I agree with most of what you've said. I think the introduction text is actually pretty good though, it gives a good synopsis of the site without being too long. The box for it should be moved to the left side though. You want that to be the first thing people read when they come to the site and we read from left to right in English.

The last posts thing could be removed completely. There is already a last posts page if people want to see it and the new tags on threads are a way better way of reading the latest posts.

I don't know if we could have featured hacks/videos on the front page. People might start making more videos if you choose to feature them, but right now there isn't enough of this content created. Same goes for hacks. If you only wanted to feature completed hacks, you would potentially have to wait a while for a new hack to be created. I would push for a SMWC style for hosting hacks where there is a separate section under the navigation menu where users can upload and download hacks. You could show the most recent hacks or top downloaded/rated hacks on the front page a la SMWC.
Posted on 08-23-12, 02:19 am (rev. 1 by  gridatttack on 08-23-12, 02:19 am)
Birdo


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Posted by Piranhaplant
I would push for a SMWC style for hosting hacks where there is a separate section under the navigation menu where users can upload and download hacks. You could show the most recent hacks or top downloaded/rated hacks on the front page a la SMWC.


I agree with this. This sounds good. However, they should be broke in 2 categories. Complete and beta/incomplete, because they are little completed/full hacks and they are more incompleted with only demos available. Also, there should be some sort of list, resembling the member list, that one can search hacks by alphabetical order, popularity...etc. The help of a download counter would be good too.

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Posted on 08-23-12, 10:04 am


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I would suggest an NSMB-Hacking trailer displayed on the front page.
Posted on 08-23-12, 03:23 pm
Roy Koopa


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"Error 404 - The page you are looking for was not found.
Return to the board index"

When clicking on "Forum index" while you are in a thread/subforum
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Posted on 08-23-12, 03:29 pm
Super Mario
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Posted by ray
"Error 404 - The page you are looking for was not found.
Return to the board index"

When clicking on "Forum index" while you are in a thread/subforum

Thanks for reporting it, I fixed it now.
But, you reported it in the thread about the main page
Posted on 08-23-12, 03:33 pm
Roy Koopa


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Posted by Dirbaio
Posted by ray
"Error 404 - The page you are looking for was not found.
Return to the board index"

When clicking on "Forum index" while you are in a thread/subforum

Thanks for reporting it, I fixed it now.
But, you reported it in the thread about the main page


Oops sorry... Just a mistake
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Posted on 08-25-12, 04:57 pm
Porcupo
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Maybe you also could make a poll of the week, with questions about Mario and hacking
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Posted on 08-28-12, 09:46 am
Buzzy Beetle
I am UO, not UFO.

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This is cool, also the welcome message should be at the middle, not left of right.
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