New version of stepmania.com

[Staiain]

Re: New version of stepmania.com

wow could it even support like, playlist-ish pack so that i can make "staiain's speed favorites" from various other packs and just make it generate a download from that list if i shared it with someone?

[Razor]

Re: New version of stepmania.com

stepmix plz

[shakesoda]

Re: New version of stepmania.com

i'm tellin ya, let's start another stepmix

stepmix plz

I'm totally cool with doing another stepmix once things are in a better state

but I don't have any cool swag for the winners, would have to think of something

...also I'm broke

wow could it even support like, playlist-ish pack so that i can make "staiain's speed favorites" from various other packs and just make it generate a download from that list if i shared it with someone?

Yeah, that's something I've wanted to be able to do.

[TC_Halogen]

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You guys realize that Stepmix is pad charting, right?

[Fission]

Re: New version of stepmania.com

can someone give me a rundown of how to properly utilize Git and GitHub?

github is just hosting the repository that you clone local copies of. making patches is and most likely what you are going to be doing with git in this case. to do this, refer to: http://ariejan.net/2009/10/26/how-to...atch-with-git/

[choof]

Re: New version of stepmania.com

You guys realize that Stepmix is pad charting, right?

is that bad or something?

[dAnceguy117]

Re: New version of stepmania.com

is that bad or something?

well most of us don't usually step for pad, so our output might be bad, which wouldn't be too rad

github is just hosting the repository that you clone local copies of. making patches is and most likely what you are going to be doing with git in this case. to do this, refer to: http://ariejan.net/2009/10/26/how-to...atch-with-git/

tyvm

[Izzy]

Re: New version of stepmania.com

I would like to host an SMO server on stepmania.com and have better lobbies/matching in general... eventually. For now, working with smo.net on things sounds great.

It seems like to me that the only real way to move forward for a new smo is to update the smo protocol and kill all backwards compatibility. If this happens I feel like the game client will need a forced updater that checks for the current version to get online.

It needs to be able to pass the .sm file as a hash to check for exactly the same files because right now it only uses the song title and subtitle.

If it ever comes to it you could probably convince houkounchi to host the new smo and just redirect to smo.net and sm.com etc..

[shakesoda]

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It seems like to me that the only real way to move forward for a new smo is to update the smo protocol and kill all backwards compatibility. If this happens I feel like the game client will need a forced updater that checks for the current version to get online.

I dunno about a forced updater but it'd at least need a way to say "go update the damn game!"

It needs to be able to pass the .sm file as a hash to check for exactly the same files because right now it only uses the song title and subtitle.

This is actually built into the engine, SMO just doesn't use it.

If it ever comes to it you could probably convince houkounchi to host the new smo and just redirect to smo.net and sm.com etc..

Yeah, something like that would be viable, probably.

[shakesoda]

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shakesoda outta nowhere

http://www.stepmania.com/ has been moved to the new design. if you need something that was on the old site that somehow wasn't already broken it's at old.stepmania.com.

I haven't got a bunch of the features I want to be on the site rolled out but unlike the other thing it at least functions.

[kommisar]

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was wondering why i couldn't find my old threads haha


now if you could integrate the website into sm5...........

[Wafles]

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Looks really clean and simple

One thing I'd recommend is having a "Getting Started" page or something to that degree. Some kind of basic introduction as to what StepMania actually is. Having the tiny little box at the top of the home page really isnt sufficient and the list of blog posts doesn't really need to be shown to new players going to the site to download it for the first time. Consider the audience a little better maybe because I don't think your home page is really working as well as it could.

My two cents at least..

[dAnceguy117]

Re: New version of stepmania.com

completely forgot this was a thing. I'll try to start semi-frequenting, especially while out and about because it looks AMAZING on mobile.

oop looks like I gotta update my SM client

now if you could integrate the website into sm5...........

oohoohooo

[rCaliberGX]

Re: New version of stepmania.com

is SMO integration going to be a thing?

[shakesoda]

Re: New version of stepmania.com

is SMO integration going to be a thing?

how much integration are we talking

was wondering why i couldn't find my old threads haha


now if you could integrate the website into sm5...........

what if I told you...

Looks really clean and simple

One thing I'd recommend is having a "Getting Started" page or something to that degree. Some kind of basic introduction as to what StepMania actually is. Having the tiny little box at the top of the home page really isnt sufficient and the list of blog posts doesn't really need to be shown to new players going to the site to download it for the first time. Consider the audience a little better maybe because I don't think your home page is really working as well as it could.

My two cents at least..

Yeah, the main page isn't very noob friendly and a getting started page is a good idea. I just haven't had time to dedicate to designing + writing that up.