Anyway you do it would be fine. I don’t even know if the game type is necessary, I am just so used to using Steam Tags for a reference point I thought of it for here.
I actually meant Turn Based Strategy, but perhaps acronyms are not clear, so things should be spelled out).
Thanks for listening 
Curses! The preview on the main page doesn’t respect bold type, either (or links, or italics), it’s not just line breaks. My current solution is to list the platforms at the beginning of the review, followed by space-bullet-space. That sets it off a little, anyway. I’d like it to be clearer, so I may poke at this some more, but that’s a start.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll talk over with the other staff to see if they have any ideas.
Wordpress usually strips out the HTML from posts to create a preview since it can’t guarantee that the closing tags will be included in the text preview that it takes.
We need a search field on the front page so we can search the articles. I know you can get them through the forums but it would be nice to have the ability to search right from the website and to only search articles, not forum posts. Thanks.
That turns out to have been way easier than I was expecting. Guess I needn’t have waited for a good opportunity!
As this site is also looking into PC games, how about a little presence in Steam? I’d fancy a Stately Play Steam Group and would love to see a SP-Steam Curator. The last one not for me, but to raise interest in other potential readers, and maybe even for the profit of some Indie-Gems that SP approves of.
Is it worthwhile to use the site links to buy games? i.e. I want to support the site by buying games through your links if you get a benefit. Otherwise, I’ll just get myself to the app store any quick way I can.
What’s going on with your front page? I’m sure it is more frustrating for you than us. I don’t see new articles on the front page, but they are there in the forum. I also just saw a new article about a game coming in May but it disappeared. What that an oops?
Gotta agree. I’d say figuring out this front-page publishing thing has to be top priority right now.
Like with the 64-bit post. I typed up a comment saying, “hey, this is a great forums post; it should be re-purposed into an article” … but, apparently, it is an article?
Another example: I can’t comment on the Race for the Galaxy post. It doesn’t show up in the forums, and there’s no “reply” button on the post itself. And, as everyone knows, I have fascinating thing to say, so this is a big loss for the community.
The publishing issue should be cleared up. The article about RftG was an “oops” on my part. I broke an embargo and removed the post until I hear from the publisher.
If they still want me to hold off on reporting it until next week, I’m going to need all of you to act surprised when the story reappears next Tuesday.
We get a little money for links to the App Store, so if you could use us to buy all your iOS games we’d love it.
If I use the link but then buy a different game do you also get a little money? Or is just for that game.
I want to support this website the best way possible.
Well, right now we apparently aren’t getting money for shit. I must have broke something on the back end that isn’t giving the correct link to the App Store for us to get our cut.
I’ll be fixing that ASAP, but to answer your question, I think we only get compensation for the game we linked to and not others that you might find afterwards while exploring the app store. I will look into it but, for now, go with that.
Maybe some sort of SP shopping list post with links to every game reviewed on the site might help with that?
I believe on that other site, when you got into the app store tru their link to whatever game it was linked to, they got money for all purchases for like 20 minutes. At least I recall having read that somewhere.
Oh, okay. Maybe that’s how it works. Seriously, it’s incredibly opaque and I really just signed up and ran with it. The links should be working again, however, so we will get a little $ from your forays to the App Store from SP now.
I’m looking at creating a page that would include all reviews, similar to PT’s. I really want it to automatically include new reviews so I don’t need to manually update the page whenever a new post is created. Working on it…
Is it possible to extend the amount of people you can ping per post?
Currently you can only ping 10 people. Usual Ascension and Star realms Tournaments here in the community are more then 10 less than 20.
For ease of use in pinging participants - is it possible to change the limit to say…25 please?
I think it is! Should work for up to 64 now. If we get a spam problem, maybe I’ll dial it back, but it seemed a tournament-friendly number.
Here is a minor suggestion.
From the front page, when clicking on the link next to the comments (just to the right of the article’s author), it would be nice if it went directly to the forum and the first comment (or at least to the forum). Right now it goes to the top of a mash-up of the article and the first few comments. You then have to scroll down to the bottom and click on the “continue the discussion …” link.
Thanks.