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| * February 9, 2012 - The main structure of the database and CDN are in place. The apache cache system and browser cache control is in place. The lazy loader is in place. Still young, but functional. Server overhead on a page with 10 episodes is now only about 186KB. On the old site, it was about 30MB for 5 episodes. So we're //definitely// having success in minimizing server resources and therefore increasing performance exponentially. The test pages are loading almost instantly. | * February 9, 2012 - The main structure of the database and CDN are in place. The apache cache system and browser cache control is in place. The lazy loader is in place. Still young, but functional. Server overhead on a page with 10 episodes is now only about 186KB. On the old site, it was about 30MB for 5 episodes. So we're //definitely// having success in minimizing server resources and therefore increasing performance exponentially. The test pages are loading almost instantly. | ||
| * February 28, 2012 - The main output of the episode list is pretty much complete (Season 5 only ATM). The home page module with the current episodes is in place and coded; slider works fantastically well. Lightboxing for video playback is in place. 300px ad space at the right column has been integrated. A "popular keywords" feature has been written to allow users to focus on any of the top 25 keywords. Getting ready for Phase 1 beta this weekend. | * February 28, 2012 - The main output of the episode list is pretty much complete (Season 5 only ATM). The home page module with the current episodes is in place and coded; slider works fantastically well. Lightboxing for video playback is in place. 300px ad space at the right column has been integrated. A "popular keywords" feature has been written to allow users to focus on any of the top 25 keywords. Getting ready for Phase 1 beta this weekend. | ||
| + | * March 3, 2012 - V3 Beta began. Progress updates will now be presented directly to the team via email. | ||
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| **__Please make your own suggestions by creating a list under Yourname's Suggestions.__** | **__Please make your own suggestions by creating a list under Yourname's Suggestions.__** | ||
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| - <del>Use browser cache to leverage CDN speed enhancements and reduce cost of CDN.</del> | - <del>Use browser cache to leverage CDN speed enhancements and reduce cost of CDN.</del> | ||
| - <del>Lazy-loading images by default (again, cut down on CDN costs and accellerate page delivery).</del> | - <del>Lazy-loading images by default (again, cut down on CDN costs and accellerate page delivery).</del> | ||
| - | - Use [[http://www.refresh-sf.com/yui/|yuicompressor]]/[[http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/|imageoptimizer]]/[[http://smush.it/|Smush.it]] to minify/compress files before they are placed on the CDN. Must also remember to minify all inline javascript. | + | - <del>Use [[http://www.refresh-sf.com/yui/|yuicompressor]]/[[http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/|imageoptimizer]]/[[http://smush.it/|Smush.it]] to minify/compress files before they are placed on the CDN. Must also remember to minify all inline javascript.</del> I one-upped my own idea... created an __amazing__ system to automatically create and compress all images! Oh my goodness, this bad-boy is going to save me a TON of work every single week! |
| - User should be able to set preferences which saves a cookie. This will for example allow them to toggle between a lightbox player or separate window player. Or perhaps Justin.tv vs Ustream.tv when viewing live. | - User should be able to set preferences which saves a cookie. This will for example allow them to toggle between a lightbox player or separate window player. Or perhaps Justin.tv vs Ustream.tv when viewing live. | ||
| - <del>Site to use minified jquery hosted on Google CDN. Mootools will be deprecated and number of loaded javascript libraries will be minimized.</del> | - <del>Site to use minified jquery hosted on Google CDN. Mootools will be deprecated and number of loaded javascript libraries will be minimized.</del> | ||
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| - <del>Site to include new Postcard Map feature (a world map with pins where we have received postcards from, when clicking on a pin you'll see the postcard).</del> | - <del>Site to include new Postcard Map feature (a world map with pins where we have received postcards from, when clicking on a pin you'll see the postcard).</del> | ||
| - <del>Site to support lightboxing of episodes and content.</del> | - <del>Site to support lightboxing of episodes and content.</del> | ||
| - | - Separate episodes by season. | + | - <del>Separate episodes by season.</del> |
| - Separate shownotes from actual episode data in the database. This way, we can post old shows // even if we don't go to all the trouble of doing their show notes. // So in otherwords, we'll be able to put up Season 1 episodes pretty much in // no time // and then do the show notes some other time when we're not so pressed (as it seems we never have enough spare time to do that...) | - Separate shownotes from actual episode data in the database. This way, we can post old shows // even if we don't go to all the trouble of doing their show notes. // So in otherwords, we'll be able to put up Season 1 episodes pretty much in // no time // and then do the show notes some other time when we're not so pressed (as it seems we never have enough spare time to do that...) | ||
| - **All Episodes, from all seasons, imported and available.** Current Progress: 0 episodes imported | - **All Episodes, from all seasons, imported and available.** Current Progress: 0 episodes imported | ||
| - | - Show pages to include an oversized embedded player and popout. | + | - <del>Show pages to include an oversized embedded player and popout.</del> |
| - RSS Subscription links on every page. | - RSS Subscription links on every page. | ||
| - Ability to request email notifications of live broadcasts (to go out 1 hour before each live show). | - Ability to request email notifications of live broadcasts (to go out 1 hour before each live show). | ||
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| - <del>Have the Chat Logs as a hover beside the video on each episode page, so if someone wants to view them it could be like a hovering iframe that opens them. That way they wouldn't need to scroll down to see the chatlogs. **Denied: Chat logs are elitist. Including them with the player adds unnecessary overhead for a majority of viewers.**</del> | - <del>Have the Chat Logs as a hover beside the video on each episode page, so if someone wants to view them it could be like a hovering iframe that opens them. That way they wouldn't need to scroll down to see the chatlogs. **Denied: Chat logs are elitist. Including them with the player adds unnecessary overhead for a majority of viewers.**</del> | ||
| - Could existing Viewer Testimonials be ported? I would like to at least port in everything from the latest season, if not since the relaunch last year. **Approved: I will first attempt an automatic conversion, but may need your help (and the help of some of the beta team) to do proofing and minor edits.** | - Could existing Viewer Testimonials be ported? I would like to at least port in everything from the latest season, if not since the relaunch last year. **Approved: I will first attempt an automatic conversion, but may need your help (and the help of some of the beta team) to do proofing and minor edits.** | ||
| - | - Forum should be hosted on its own sub-domain, preferably with a prebuild system in order to save coding time. I think this user DB should be 100% independent since forums are heavy spam targets, especially pre-built systems. -- Forum is not needed on launch, this can just happen as it is needed. **Approved: I will start selecting the software based on which can easily be ported from Kunena (to try to preserve old posts). The forum should also become elitist, which means it will not be at the forefront, but available to those who really want it.** | + | - <del>Forum should be hosted on its own sub-domain, preferably with a prebuild system in order to save coding time. I think this user DB should be 100% independent since forums are heavy spam targets, especially pre-built systems. -- Forum is not needed on launch, this can just happen as it is needed. **Approved: I will start selecting the software based on which can easily be ported from Kunena (to try to preserve old posts). The forum should also become elitist, which means it will not be at the forefront, but available to those who really want it.**</del> Done. [[http://forum.category5.tv|http://forum.category5.tv]] - please feel free to begin migration. |
| - <del>Try to make it so users only need one account between the main site and wiki. --This will require heavy testing before being implimented, so isn't a high priority nor should be done at launch. **On hold: for now. We'll look at this--possibly--down the road. Again, the wiki is a bit elitist.** //Since the wiki is elitist like the forum, lets just leave the user DB completely separated. This would also make future updating easier. Agree?// ** Yea, actually that's a great point. I think we'll save a ton of work to keep it separate. Thanks for the suggestion. **</del> | - <del>Try to make it so users only need one account between the main site and wiki. --This will require heavy testing before being implimented, so isn't a high priority nor should be done at launch. **On hold: for now. We'll look at this--possibly--down the road. Again, the wiki is a bit elitist.** //Since the wiki is elitist like the forum, lets just leave the user DB completely separated. This would also make future updating easier. Agree?// ** Yea, actually that's a great point. I think we'll save a ton of work to keep it separate. Thanks for the suggestion. **</del> | ||
| - <del>Make each shownote section (Links, News, Topics Covered, etc.) collapsable and collaped by default in order to minimize initial page size. **Denied: the javascript code in order to make the items collapsible will weight more than the text itself, which usually consists of about 20 lines of plain text.**</del> | - <del>Make each shownote section (Links, News, Topics Covered, etc.) collapsable and collaped by default in order to minimize initial page size. **Denied: the javascript code in order to make the items collapsible will weight more than the text itself, which usually consists of about 20 lines of plain text.**</del> | ||
| - | - I don't think it is worth having the "sharing" links built into the pages. They barely get used and it people really want to share they will copy a link. Personally, having links like that is a waste of space on the episodes pages. **Approved: we will be looking at new ways of integrating social media, but the existing sharing buttons are inadequate.** | + | - <del>I don't think it is worth having the "sharing" links built into the pages. They barely get used and it people really want to share they will copy a link. Personally, having links like that is a waste of space on the episodes pages. **Approved: we will be looking at new ways of integrating social media, but the existing sharing buttons are inadequate.**</del> |
| - Do we need to have avatars and all this other information in the profiles? It is *nice* for those of us that hang out a lot, but otherwise not necessarily needed and just added extra cruft into the system. **On hold: I don't consider avatars to be cruft, nor the code to implement them. But since we will be entirely rewriting the user subsystems, avatars will indeed be part of this. The avatars will be hosted either locally or through a 3rd party avatar host and not on the CDN. This will not even become a consideration until we begin development on the new user subsystem, which could be quite a while after initial launch since the entire paradigm of our user subsystem must be re-thought in order to add value to registered users.** | - Do we need to have avatars and all this other information in the profiles? It is *nice* for those of us that hang out a lot, but otherwise not necessarily needed and just added extra cruft into the system. **On hold: I don't consider avatars to be cruft, nor the code to implement them. But since we will be entirely rewriting the user subsystems, avatars will indeed be part of this. The avatars will be hosted either locally or through a 3rd party avatar host and not on the CDN. This will not even become a consideration until we begin development on the new user subsystem, which could be quite a while after initial launch since the entire paradigm of our user subsystem must be re-thought in order to add value to registered users.** | ||
| - Commenting on Episodes should be implimented at some point as well. It can be a handy thing to have but isn't pressing for initial launch. **Approved: this will be part of the launch if possible, but may tap into third party comment systems to improve performance and reduce the overhead of our own database.** | - Commenting on Episodes should be implimented at some point as well. It can be a handy thing to have but isn't pressing for initial launch. **Approved: this will be part of the launch if possible, but may tap into third party comment systems to improve performance and reduce the overhead of our own database.** | ||
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| - You could also include a Chatroom quote of the day and have the most memorable chatroom quote regarding an element of the show displayed, like the mentioning of Erik looking like a Canary! This would encourage users to use the chat room while bringing some laughs to the over all experience. **Approved: it's funny you'd say this. I had the same thought and in my head had called it "Memorable quotes", which could include something the hosts said, or something that was said in the chat room. This feature will be part of the episode's show notes, and will only be available in future episodes (eg., we won't likely go back to old episodes to try to get memorable quotes).** | - You could also include a Chatroom quote of the day and have the most memorable chatroom quote regarding an element of the show displayed, like the mentioning of Erik looking like a Canary! This would encourage users to use the chat room while bringing some laughs to the over all experience. **Approved: it's funny you'd say this. I had the same thought and in my head had called it "Memorable quotes", which could include something the hosts said, or something that was said in the chat room. This feature will be part of the episode's show notes, and will only be available in future episodes (eg., we won't likely go back to old episodes to try to get memorable quotes).** | ||
| - Include OpenID login integration - This would make it easier for people to login, I am not sure if this is practicle for your imaging of the site so far but might be nice addition | - Include OpenID login integration - This would make it easier for people to login, I am not sure if this is practicle for your imaging of the site so far but might be nice addition | ||
| - | - Have an form to suggest additions to Perfectbuntu if your still working on that. | + | - <del>Have an form to suggest additions to Perfectbuntu if your still working on that.</del> **- the Perfectbuntu page already has that.** |
| - | - Maybe at some point (can be after launch) have the show notes link to specific episode forum topics for dicussion of that topic. If you use a free solution for the forums like phpBB this can be implemented through a plugin and even be automaticly created. | + | - <del>Maybe at some point (can be after launch) have the show notes link to specific episode forum topics for dicussion of that topic. If you use a free solution for the forums like phpBB this can be implemented through a plugin and even be automaticly created.</del> **- We had that on V1 and it just lead to a ton of empty forums since many episodes will see no activity in a forum.** |
| - | - Include a search feature for chat logs, allow people to search within a specific IRC log. Again not sure if this is a huge undertaking or not but might be useful. | + | - Include a search feature for chat logs, allow people to search within a specific IRC log. Again not sure if this is a huge undertaking or not but might be useful. **- Approved.** |
| - Implement an API call to the YOURLS instance on cat5.tv to generate unique short URLS for each episode once the show notes are posted (basicaly linking to the show notes page). | - Implement an API call to the YOURLS instance on cat5.tv to generate unique short URLS for each episode once the show notes are posted (basicaly linking to the show notes page). | ||
| - Better promotion co-host projects! They work for free so people like Christa could probably benefit from the free publicity. Alot of your users would be more willing to use someone they know a bit about for webdesign and what better way to know someone then have them host a show you watch often. Only way better would be knowing them in person. | - Better promotion co-host projects! They work for free so people like Christa could probably benefit from the free publicity. Alot of your users would be more willing to use someone they know a bit about for webdesign and what better way to know someone then have them host a show you watch often. Only way better would be knowing them in person. | ||
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| ** Giles' Suggestions ** | ** Giles' Suggestions ** | ||
| - | - Implementation of polls within the forums | + | - <del>Implementation of polls within the forums</del> - ** done** |
| - | - Use a cache system for regular users (if they click on say JustinTV regularly make it the default player)(Probs hard to implement but bee cool)(realised basically covered in Robbie's #15) | + | - <del>Use a cache system for regular users (if they click on say JustinTV regularly make it the default player)(Probs hard to implement but bee cool)(realised basically covered in Robbie's #15)</del> ** yes, covered by my post and development already well underway** |
| - | - make the page and elements scalable as sometimes i want to see the whole page in a small windo or lo res like a netbook whereas other times i want the elements taking up my whole screen 1980x1080 or 2640x1440 and higher in the future | + | - <del>make the page and elements scalable as sometimes i want to see the whole page in a small windo or lo res like a netbook whereas other times i want the elements taking up my whole screen 1980x1080 or 2640x1440 and higher in the future</del> ** I took your suggestion and made the video max out at 960px width. So now, if you resize your window, the video window will automatically scale to the frame ** |
| ** Greg (G_dog1985)' Suggestions ** | ** Greg (G_dog1985)' Suggestions ** | ||
| - | - we could add a standalone player with list of ep so people can watch the show in diff window at the same time use the website. | + | - we could add a standalone player with list of ep so people can watch the show in diff window at the same time use the website. - ** Might consider this for a side project, but I don't think I can fit it in for V3 ** |
| ** tordeu's Suggestions ** | ** tordeu's Suggestions ** | ||
| - | - I support the migrations of viewer testimonials and would like to offer my help. | + | - I support the migrations of viewer testimonials and would like to offer my help. - **Thanks. you're on the beta list?** Yes, I am. |
| - | - I support the migration of the forum database and would like to offer my help, since this could be quite a lot of work. | + | - I support the migration of the forum database and would like to offer my help, since this could be quite a lot of work. **again thanks! But please confirm that you are on V3 beta as the directions will be sent via the list** Yes, I am. |
| - As for captcha stuff: I don't know how sufficient it is, the captcha DokuWiki supports (via plugin) is quite nice. If JavaScript is available, it fills in the correct answer automatically and hides the text input field. This way, users do not even see a captcha, but all spam bots that do not interpret JavaScript fail. | - As for captcha stuff: I don't know how sufficient it is, the captcha DokuWiki supports (via plugin) is quite nice. If JavaScript is available, it fills in the correct answer automatically and hides the text input field. This way, users do not even see a captcha, but all spam bots that do not interpret JavaScript fail. | ||
| - | - Put things like Flattr, Paypal Donations etc. a little more prominently. Most sites have those buttons on the home page, so most people will probably assume that a site which does not have those buttons on the home page and directly next to the content does not use them at all. I don't think users would search the site trying to find if those buttons exist somewhere. I know the current page has those Flattr and Google+ buttons on the episode pages, but people who watch them live, via miro or YouTube will probably never go to these subpages. | + | - Put things like Flattr, Paypal Donations etc. a little bit more prominently. Most sites have those buttons on the home page, so most people will probably assume that a site which does not have those buttons on the home page and directly next to the content does not use them at all. I don't think users would search the site trying to find if those buttons exist somewhere. I know the current page has those Flattr and Google+ buttons on the episode pages, but people who watch them live, via miro or YouTube will probably never go to these subpages. - ** will do; thanks for the suggestion. Still working out the layouts but this is a good suggestion** |
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