posted by max on October 10, 2006 at 10:08:30 PM

I'm hard at work on the new site creator, which turns out to be a lot more work than I originally thought. I'm well aware of the plethora of issues currently plaguing the site, and I'm working on them as diligently as possible.



Current issues:

• YTMNSFW voting
I've put a hack in place to make voting work any time you click a nsfw link from the front page and browse pages, there are still some issues when you just type a url directly into your browser and I'm working on it.


• The Search
The new search is more or less useless due to the lack of sorting capabilities. The search engine software I'm using is in the beta stages of sort ability so very soon it should be able to replace the old search. The reason the old search was removed is that it can no longer be updated at any reasonable frequency due to technical constraints. I think for the time being I'm going to switch back to the old search and just have to live with it only being updated a couple times a week.


• The site is too orange.
Great, I get the fucking point, it's been two weeks. If it's still an issue for you get the fuck out. I may add a color scheme option at some point but it's not nearly as much of a priority as a great deal of new features.


• Site Moderation - Killed Sites
I'm in the process of designing a whole new tiered moderation system with more of a self policing element to it. As it is roughly around five sites get killed per day, and usually with good reason. In the next week or so I should be inviting the current moderators to discuss all of the new moderation system and its strong and weak points. Which leads me to my next point:


• Gimmick accounts/Vote bots/Dupe accounts

I'm acutely aware of the plague of dip shits who think they've reinvented funny by commenting and voting the exact same way on every site ever created on YTMND. Not only is this shitty from a technical aspect, I'm fucking sick of hearing people complain about it as well as having to see it myself. I've already written scripts to weed gimmick accounts out, I just need to sift through them and make sure I don't pick up any innocents. At this point, dupe accounts have become numerous as well, and I have a gigantic list of those as well. I want you to be well aware using automated voting will result in not only your account deletion and an ip ban, but any of your linked ips. This means if your friends use your computer or vice versa, or your entire college shares the same ip, everyone gets deleted and ip banned. With any luck I'll kill the entire site.


• Shirts
Yes, I'm aware you want shirts, I'm in the process of setting up with a new printer/fulfillment shop, so it's still in the works.


• Content box tweaking
A few of the content boxes need to be tweaked so they change more often, ironically people seem to be complaining about top viewed not changing enough when the algorithm hasn't changed from when they were begging to have it back. Up and coming needs its vote cap reinstated as well as a few other issues.


• You
Yes, you, get out.

So anyway, back to the new site creator and all its magnificent features.

As you can see from the flow chart, it's a much more intensive process than it is currently (at least from a programming standpoint). New features include:

• the ability to reserve a sub-domain for 24 hours.
• the ability to close your browser or navigate away from the site creator and then come back and pick up where you left off (with a 24 hour expiration as well)
• a nifty new dupe check system that warns you if you've: used a title that's been used previously, used an image/sound or combination that's already been used.
• "Original Content Tuesday": On Tuesdays, users will only be able to upload images and sounds never used before on YTMND.
• Color Picker for the hex inept
• Preloader update: option to auto-resync, automatically will hide site text until fully loaded.
• Live preview window: the ability to change one thing on your site and reload a preview window for easy tweaking.
• New "Classic YTMND" classification: will make for some new content boxes
• The ability for users to mark their own sites NSFW
• Hooks for a feature that's been needed for ages: Alerts. Alerts will allow you to be notified when a friend creates a site, when a certain image, sound or string in a title is used, etc.

As well as a bunch of other junk.