Regarding Entries Page

gizmo_thunder on 2011/04/15 07:06

i remember the entries page used to randomize the way the entries were shown? Is it turned off now?

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richard on 2011/04/15 12:41:

No, it should still randomise the list on a per-user basis.

gcewing on 2011/04/15 23:00:

The one I'm getting looks fairly random to me.

I think it's generating a random order for each user, and then keeping the order the same for that user. Which is good, because it's hard to find your way around a list if the order is changing all the time.

gizmo_thunder on 2011/04/16 11:59:

if it is storing random order for each user i guess its' all good :)

richard on 2011/04/17 00:18:

It doesn't actually store the random order - it seeds a random generator with your username :-)

superjoe on 2011/04/17 18:59:

Is this how the screenshots on the home page work too? What about people without user accounts? For the front page it might be cool to seed a random generator with the current year and month.

Martin on 2011/04/17 22:20:

The screenshots on the home page are from the winning games from Pyweeks 2-6. It would be nice if these could be brought a bit more up to date. I like the idea of cycling through some random games, but I worry that there are a lot of fairly poor screenshots from unfinished games which would end up on the front page.

richard on 2011/04/17 22:28:

The screenshots are just a selection that I put together some time ago. I should update it, yeah.

akira44 on 2011/04/21 02:40:

Yeah, you should update those, specially the one from that game that beat my team on my first competition... Not that I'm bitter or anything...

richard on 2011/04/22 08:20:

:-)

Cosmologicon on 2011/04/22 15:26:

I don't want to say anything, but I also would not mind having the winners from Pyweek 8 and Pyweek 11 up there. ;)

Maybe you could have a few random high-rated ("featured") games, along with a couple random games drawn from the entire list. Sort of like how pygame.com does it. The difference being that you can't do it chronologically here, since lots of games get submitted all at once.

richard on 2011/04/22 23:08:

I just need to write the code...

superjoe on 2011/04/23 00:09:

Do it! Or maybe one of us could provide a patch that you could simply approve? I know Django.

mauve on 2011/04/23 07:26:

If you're changing things I'd like a Pyweek blog that aggregates all the diary entries as separate from forum postings.

Also some way of browsing entries from all previous Pyweeks, by overall score, fun score, production score, etc.

Oh, and a field to enter judging notes to accompany each entry.

richard on 2011/04/23 08:12:

Hmm, the diary entries page is feasible.

As for the browsing all entries - try the "All Games" link under "Previous Challenges" in the menu.

By judging notes you mean stuff you want to enter for yourself, as opposed to feedback to the entry?

richard on 2011/04/23 08:12:

BTW, the chances of me actually implementing anything are kinda low-ish.

superjoe on 2011/04/23 08:48:

Richard, what about the chances of releasing the website code and accepting patches?

hodgestar on 2011/04/23 10:09:

I think Richard has already released it: http://code.google.com/p/pyweek/

richard on 2011/04/23 22:31:

Yes, that's the code repository. I've had other contributors in the past.

mauve on 2011/04/26 13:54:

I've created some issues in the tracker for your consideration.