On May 12 2014 19:49 Dingodile wrote: How I can sort "upcoming events" or/and "live event" by name/game? If I see: 6h 17m Go4SC2 Mon €75 then I never know if this is for sc2 or dota or whatever game. Livestream offers this option.
On May 12 2014 20:03 broodmann wrote: TL is only useful for providing steam links and a schedule for both dota and Sc2, I can't be the only one annoyed by there being two separate schedules for them now. Furthermore the new schedule on the Dota2 site doesn't provide links to offline steams, something the old does fairly often, I don't want to have to manually find the thread to find the stream link if I want to watch Vods.
What a tough life you have, my friend. Hang in there!
Nice comment, I guess we should all say we support the change regardless of what we really think. I wouldn't want to inconvenience anyone by writing why I don't like the change in the thread that discusses this very topic......
How about not being a bitch about it?
How about providing more than meaningless ad hominem? Now there are four useless posts in the thread that have nothing to do with the topic discussed whatsoever, just so you could write some condescending bullshit.
On May 12 2014 20:03 broodmann wrote: TL is only useful for providing steam links and a schedule for both dota and Sc2, I can't be the only one annoyed by there being two separate schedules for them now. Furthermore the new schedule on the Dota2 site doesn't provide links to offline steams, something the old does fairly often, I don't want to have to manually find the thread to find the stream link if I want to watch Vods.
What a tough life you have, my friend. Hang in there!
Nice comment, I guess we should all say we support the change regardless of what we really think. I wouldn't want to inconvenience anyone by writing why I don't like the change in the thread that discusses this very topic......
How about not being a bitch about it?
How about providing more than meaningless ad hominem? Now there are four useless posts in the thread that have nothing to do with the topic discussed whatsoever, just so you could writing some condescending bullshit.
You sound like you could use a hug, so here you go: *hugs broodmann*
Basically there's no point bitching about this anymore, since the change will not be reverted. I personally greatly disappointed about LD, but can't really blame TL since growth is everything, and LD might be the best way to further expand dota section.
I don't like the new colour scheme on the LDota website. I think it should use the same colour scheme as TL or even a colour other than blue (I guess I always imagined being more red :S).
Initially I hated the change but I'm starting to come around, although my preference would be for something like this.
On May 12 2014 07:05 Lonyo wrote: A better idea would have been, IMO, to make pre-configured settings where someone could click "Dota 2" and have a regular TL website which was preset to show only Dota 2 and general community stuff, with a Dota 2 theme/banner. If they then wanted to add back other games, they could do that by customising things in more depth.
The argument I found most convincing for the change was the analogy with GG.net and HS but I also think you are over valuing "growth"... Even if the # of users hasn't increased, the quality has risen sharply (even since TI2).
My complaint is that I enjoy looking at games I don't usually play. I won't usually read SC2 or Smash's General Discussion threads but I will read a lot of their featured articles. I also think splitting the community makes it harder for TL to attract new members to the smash community but I suppose that will always be dominated by the smashboards.
btw I love the new banner and the work you've done on the new site (but especially the banner).
The right side bar is quite nice but I can't help but feel that joindota still does it a bit better. One other small thing, it would be nice if you kept the SC themed profile pictures from TL instead of the heroes. It's a nice little reminder.
On May 12 2014 20:03 broodmann wrote: TL is only useful for providing steam links and a schedule for both dota and Sc2, I can't be the only one annoyed by there being two separate schedules for them now. Furthermore the new schedule on the Dota2 site doesn't provide links to offline steams, something the old does fairly often, I don't want to have to manually find the thread to find the stream link if I want to watch Vods.
What a tough life you have, my friend. Hang in there!
Nice comment, I guess we should all say we support the change regardless of what we really think. I wouldn't want to inconvenience anyone by writing why I don't like the change in the thread that discusses this very topic......
How about not being a bitch about it?
How about providing more than meaningless ad hominem? Now there are four useless posts in the thread that have nothing to do with the topic discussed whatsoever, just so you could writing some condescending bullshit.
You sound like you could use a hug, so here you go: *hugs broodmann*
You're obviously just trolling, I'm not wasting any more time on the likes of you
On May 12 2014 20:26 tauon wrote: One other small thing, it would be nice if you kept the SC themed profile pictures from TL instead of the heroes. It's a nice little reminder.
A veteran of TL might see it as a nice bit of nostalgia, but to the average new visitor it simply is going to reaffirm the belief that 'TL is an SC2 site that also does Dota on the side'.
Besides, you'll soon be able to purchase items to customise your hero. No way you can do that with SC units.
On May 12 2014 20:26 tauon wrote: One other small thing, it would be nice if you kept the SC themed profile pictures from TL instead of the heroes. It's a nice little reminder.
A veteran of TL might see it as a nice bit of nostalgia, but to the average new visitor it simply is going to reaffirm the belief that 'TL is an SC2 site that also does Dota on the side'.
Besides, you'll soon be able to purchase items to customise your hero. No way you can do that with SC units.
Hm I personally don't like this, but it won't affect me much since I'm almost a pure Starcraft guy. But every once in a while when there was nothing new in the starcraft section, I'd go and look at some Dota or HS stuff. But I can't be bothered to visit LiquidHearth or LiquidDota, so this just means I'm less likely now to branch out to these games, since they are no longer on TL.
This also just seems to split up the community more, not sure what the advantages are, but I hope it goes well and both new sites get a cool community going.
On May 12 2014 20:26 tauon wrote: One other small thing, it would be nice if you kept the SC themed profile pictures from TL instead of the heroes. It's a nice little reminder.
A veteran of TL might see it as a nice bit of nostalgia, but to the average new visitor it simply is going to reaffirm the belief that 'TL is an SC2 site that also does Dota on the side'.
Besides, you'll soon be able to purchase items to customise your hero. No way you can do that with SC units.
With real money? :O
Nope. A system will be implemented where you get gold from things like posting, updating calendar, liquipedia, etc. With that gold you can buy items to equip your hero icon.
On May 12 2014 20:26 tauon wrote: One other small thing, it would be nice if you kept the SC themed profile pictures from TL instead of the heroes. It's a nice little reminder.
A veteran of TL might see it as a nice bit of nostalgia, but to the average new visitor it simply is going to reaffirm the belief that 'TL is an SC2 site that also does Dota on the side'.
Besides, you'll soon be able to purchase items to customise your hero. No way you can do that with SC units.
Fair enough. Although I think using heroes was a poor choice. You could make it similar to TL but with items instead of units and make it based on post count. I see those hero portraits and I think of the JD forums or Reddit.
On May 12 2014 20:03 broodmann wrote: TL is only useful for providing steam links and a schedule for both dota and Sc2, I can't be the only one annoyed by there being two separate schedules for them now. Furthermore the new schedule on the Dota2 site doesn't provide links to offline steams, something the old does fairly often, I don't want to have to manually find the thread to find the stream link if I want to watch Vods.
What a tough life you have, my friend. Hang in there!
Nice comment, I guess we should all say we support the change regardless of what we really think. I wouldn't want to inconvenience anyone by writing why I don't like the change in the thread that discusses this very topic......
How about not being a bitch about it?
How about providing more than meaningless ad hominem? Now there are four useless posts in the thread that have nothing to do with the topic discussed whatsoever, just so you could writing some condescending bullshit.
You sound like you could use a hug, so here you go: *hugs broodmann*
You're obviously just trolling, I'm not wasting any more time on the likes of you
You sound almost as mad as I am when I make the mistake of joining a pub game in DotA. I'm not trolling, I'm just trying to get you to cheer up. Oh well, I tried my best. Have a nice day, bro.
Right now it feels like my a ISP trying to upgrade my connection to a higher speed but giving me a monthly data limit. edit: noticed that website feedback doesnt really belong here.
As someone who has been here over 10 years, this sucks T.T. It was so handy having broodwar/dota/general etc all in one place, bleh.
As some others have said, it feels like im getting kicked out, i was here for broodwar, not sc2, and now i follow bw/dota and it feels like im being punished/kicked out for being a regular.
On May 12 2014 20:26 tauon wrote: One other small thing, it would be nice if you kept the SC themed profile pictures from TL instead of the heroes. It's a nice little reminder.
A veteran of TL might see it as a nice bit of nostalgia, but to the average new visitor it simply is going to reaffirm the belief that 'TL is an SC2 site that also does Dota on the side'.
Besides, you'll soon be able to purchase items to customise your hero. No way you can do that with SC units.
Fair enough. Although I think using heroes was a poor choice. You could make it similar to TL but with items instead of units and make it based on post count. I see those hero portraits and I think of the JD forums or Reddit.
Items did actually cross our mind for a short while but it also wasn't feasible.
On May 12 2014 20:26 tauon wrote: One other small thing, it would be nice if you kept the SC themed profile pictures from TL instead of the heroes. It's a nice little reminder.
A veteran of TL might see it as a nice bit of nostalgia, but to the average new visitor it simply is going to reaffirm the belief that 'TL is an SC2 site that also does Dota on the side'.
Besides, you'll soon be able to purchase items to customise your hero. No way you can do that with SC units.
Fair enough. Although I think using heroes was a poor choice. You could make it similar to TL but with items instead of units and make it based on post count. I see those hero portraits and I think of the JD forums or Reddit.
Items did actually cross our mind for a short while but it also wasn't feasible.
On May 12 2014 18:42 haduken wrote: Nice change, how ever why is it that TL.net don't display properly in mobile while the new site does?
The new site had a lot of extra work put into it by Wolfwood and R1CH into making it responsive, meaning that it resizes itself based on the resolution of your browser. I would expect it to eventually be ported over back to TL, but it might take some time.
This is why you use a Frontend framework like Boostrap with RESS and LESS for the graphics along with JangularJS for the code, It takes wayy less time to develop and deploy if you use existing frameworks instead of re-inventing the wheel
While I'm not a programmer and R1CH will probably know a lot more about this or tell me I'm completely wrong, TL is a very very old site that has been upgraded over the years.
He would prolly have said that you are very much correct on this one.
From what I understand of preprocessors and framework modules, the existing codebase makes both impossible to use i'm afraid. :/
On May 12 2014 20:26 tauon wrote: One other small thing, it would be nice if you kept the SC themed profile pictures from TL instead of the heroes. It's a nice little reminder.
A veteran of TL might see it as a nice bit of nostalgia, but to the average new visitor it simply is going to reaffirm the belief that 'TL is an SC2 site that also does Dota on the side'.
Besides, you'll soon be able to purchase items to customise your hero. No way you can do that with SC units.
Fair enough. Although I think using heroes was a poor choice. You could make it similar to TL but with items instead of units and make it based on post count. I see those hero portraits and I think of the JD forums or Reddit.
Items did actually cross our mind for a short while but it also wasn't feasible.
How about Jungle creeps by post count?
I don't think that'd be anywhere near as interesting unfortunately.