Zaphod's new web project: devbump

[Mazy]

Cool stuff Zap~~

[Hourences]

Good stuff indeed.

I hope the site stays active, ill place a link to it on my new in progress level links page.

[FrieChamp]

Very cool, this what the Mapcore news system should have been!

[redhood]

Zaphod - The what is devbump/FAQ could use a little tweaking. It's sorta overwhelming at the moment with so much to read. And so much that casual surfers won't really want to bother with. I think the most crucial information, selling the idea of devbump, should be the priority and the terms and conditions and license be linked individually at the end of the article or perhaps in a help section.

You could also follow other pages examples and edit the information making it direct and accessible from the frontpage. I've always liked that form. That way I don't have to snoop around a page to find out what it's all about. I know immediately when I enter. I know Digg uses the learn more which is maybe why you chose to design it that way, but you don't want to be an exact replica do you?

Here are some examples of popular pages with a direct about on the frontpage just so you know what I mean.

Odeo - Over one million audio files—from podcasts and all over the web. Listen, download, subscribe...

Reddit - reddit is a source for what's new and popular online. reddit learns what you like as you vote on existing links or submit your own!

Flickr - The best way to store, search, sort and share your photos.

There are plenty more examples but those are just the ones that came to mind. And I think you get the idea. If you don't go for the headliner approach then separating some of the about content would be beneficial. Right now, I think, it makes the page look like a bore.

I know everything is still undergoing development so I'm sure there will be a lot improved and changed over time. Anyhow everything looks fantastic! I'll definitely be making it a daily stop. Can't wait to see how it takes off and how it evolves.

[Defrag]

Looks like a potentially great & useful resource, good job!

[DelaZ]

Nice, only thing you should do is add just the title of the 10/5 most bumped topics on top.

Like here: http://pspupdates.qj.net/

[zaphod]

thanks for the suggestions redhood! All that stuff does still need to be tweaked, everyone's input helps a lot.

once I do get all these things tweaked and polished with everyone here's help, then I will start going around to different communities and news sites to promote it and get lots of users. Hopefully that will be sometime next week!

[Zacker]

Looks like a great idea and site Zaph! I really do think that you should take amount of votes into account when calculating position on the frontpage.

[insta]

Signed up and favorited. Good idea zaphod.

[Bic-B@ll]

i added the rss feed to my google homepage, though its not as neat as the digg one, you can see the source for theirs here:

http://digg.com/goog/ig.xml

it shows you the number of diggs in the same type of box you'd see on the digg page

this is what they both look like side by side

there should be a button to subtract a bump too, maybe say "kick" or "slap" or something

[zaphod]

do you guys have any suggestions for communities I can go to to pitch the site? I can think of a few off the top of my head, but I want to have a large list of places to pimp this thing next week.

[ShaDoW]

do you guys have any suggestions for communities I can go to to pitch the site? I can think of a few off the top of my head, but I want to have a large list of places to pimp this thing next week.

http://www.interlopers.net

http://www.hlfallout.net

http://www.game-artist.net

To name a few favorites.

[dissonance]

mapcore + digg = fucking brilliant.

bookmarked, signed up, etc.

[redhood]

A couple more...

http://www.gamedev.net/

http://forums.cgsociety.org/

Don't limit yourself to just game dev sites, maybe try to shoot an email to Techcrunch or look into pushing it on Squidoo, Delicious, Magnolia and other similar sites.

[Thrik]

Yep, definitely give some of the bigger 'Web 2.0' sites like TechCrunch a buzz. This puts a fairly unique twist on the whole Digg clone concept, so they might want to give it a go.