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THE NEW ZELARON PORTAL! (No, it's not launched yet, but we need YOUR ideas! Now!)
The planned, new Zelaron portal is 100% vBulletin compatible. This means that you will be able to search the forums, browse the latest threads, see which users are online, switch between synthesis/ocean theme colors and so on directly on the portal itself. But, having a portal for these purposes alone would be stupid as all of these things can be accomplished on the forum anyway. This is the reason why our old portal failed. It didn't offer any new features aside from pointless eye candy.
So, what kind of features do you want to see on the new Zelaron portal? What would make YOU want to use it as your start page? A pre-selected Google search field? Your own customizable calendar which lets you add personal notes? Local weather and news reports? Post your ideas, anything goes! Even if they're completely insane! Note that Zelaron members will be able to vote on portal pages ("modules") to determine their usefulness. Considering that portal pages can just as easily be removed as new ones can be added, a trial and error approach to finding the perfect modules and content is definitely a possibility. |
Able to choose games on the arcade and play them in the same window through flash.
A small little bar that shows if you've done your 5 daily posts of the day. A shoutbox. A part of the window should show the new posts page and refresh itself every 1 minutes. |
I want more smilies.
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We definately need more smilies.
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I'm talking a DB of like 2-300 more.
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All of the same style? Or a mish-mash of different styles?
Animated? Static? There's something - we could get members to design some. |
Animated of course, ones that hold signs up etc, There's alot of pre-made ones out there on other forums, and we're stuck with the same 20-30..
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Local news/weather would be cool.
Maybe links to funny videos and such... |
I think putting something as simple as like a google search would give it some use. Instead of putting google as my homepage I could put the Zelaron portal, and get a google search along with other things.
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Yep, like vista has it built in on the bottom bar.
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Customizable stock ticker that enables you to pick which ones you want to monitor on top of the market as a whole.
Sports ticker with updated scores on all or any games you choose. |
A shoutbox sounds good. I'm not sure about an arcade game selector, governing how easy it would be to visit the arcade anyway. Maybe a pull-down menu with all available games would be useful.
Funny videos? I guess some kind of YouTube integration could work. E.g., we could have the pre-selected Google search field come with three radio buttons, "Google Search" being the default one. The other two would be options to search YouTube, and of course, Zelaron threads. Maybe a "featured videos selected by Zelaron members" page of some sort could work. More ideas:
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That all sounds good to me. A new calendar wouldn't hurt anything, since our calendar has been broken since like december. It doesn't go past march of 2007 and even then you've gotta mess around with it to get to that.
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Member profiles sound badass. That would def. spruce this place up.
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Chruser's book of the month club =P.
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Since when do I read books?
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Shoutbox would take activity away from the forums instead of adding it.
As for smilies, we have 65, not 20. If you need some obscure smilie, you can post it as a picture. I see no reason to add 200 smilies. |
Well, you're into art at least. Try and get some people here from deviant?
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WW, you see no reason to do anything as long as the forums are functional.
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We need front page articles. And we need me and grav to write them.
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Why hasn't anyone mentioned reviews yet? (Aside from my hypothetical book club.) Game reviews, movie reviews, book reviews. Definitely with unique elements that separate us from other, more established review sites. 20-word reviews? Image-only reviews?
If this works out, we could attract a lot of attention. If it goes exceptionally well, publishers may in turn contact us and give us pre-release games, possibly invite Zelaron reviewers to screenings and such. Either way, we don't have anything to lose. The forum will still be around. As for front page articles and news; they will definitely be there. Quote:
Anyway, I know you have more ideas! What are they? |
For the reviews, we have them already, and there's only like two members that can actually sit down and write good material..
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Well, no. I think the case is that there's only two members who will take the time to sit down and write good material.
If all of us put aside time to do it, then we'd have 30 or so members sitting down and writing good material. |
It'd be like homework!
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Oooh! We could do that! :D
Have a rating system put in place, with a grade for the number of good ratings you get! Say 80% of your ratings are positive, then you're on track for an A, but if only 60% are positive, then you're on a C. |
We would need Raziel back to write most of the reviews, or to at least grade and redline all the ones that get submitted.
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If there were a manga / anime section on the portal I'd be more then willing to update it with new fansubs and scanlation lists. Nothing would be hosted on the zelaron servers, only links to sites.
I'll draw some idea up later today when I'm bored. |
Well, I already have a script to leach Animesuki's data and make it many times more usable. The only work that would need to be done is anime that they don't cover, which will mostly be licenced.
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I'll write reviews. I can't promise the topics will be current or consistent, but I watch enough movies and read books often enough to provide something at least. Not sure how this would help a revamped portal, but I'll see if I can get to work on something soon. (Halfway through Ender's Shadow right now).
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I remember when we had a Review forum. I contributed a bit to that.
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I like the game reveiws idea! The ability to look at what people think of games without bothering to search for it would be nice. Maybe also some by zelaron members. That could be the reward for 3 rep bars!
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Having Zelaron members do the reviews is the idea...
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Bump! WetWired has worked quite a bit on the portal project, which I haven't had time to be involved in for a long while now.
Anyway, here is a list of the suggested features, arranged by myself based on how important I regard them as: Very important:
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How are reviews going to be done? Within the portal itself?
I said a couple of days ago, in the Chatbox, that we ought to resurrect the Reviews forum, seeing as it generated quite a bit of activity in its time. If it is resurrected, then it could be linked with the Portal - the newest/highest rated/most viewed/most replies Reviews on the front page, maybe a specific Reviews page with the latest reviews/see above, and then a link to the actual forum. |
I had been posting some game reviews/impressions on 1up, but their site's gone all batshit, so I wouldn't mind posting here. Just need to finish some more games. And write stuff.
And I'm all about the customizable RSS. |
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Keep working hard! This will improve my connection to what is happening in the outside world. I didn't even know Brawl was going to exist until a month before the release.
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