Future of ModDB / IndieDB Thread

Just an idea, I don't really like ModDB putting my name to projects I haven't worked on.

Yep, I agree with this one. If someone visits my profile, he can see that I am working on a lot of mods and games which I have little to no association with. I would really like to choose which ones will show up on my profile.

Are there any plans to add notifications for when a comment has been posted on a page, perhaps as an option? Currently, you're only notified if a PM has been received or someone replies to your comment (the emailing of which isn't all that consistent, I've noticed), with everything else requiring you to manually check for and making them easily missable. If such notifications were to linked to the PM system, it'd make communication a lot smoother and intuitive too.

リーフ wrote:

Are there any plans to add notifications for when a comment has been posted on a page, perhaps as an option? Currently, you're only notified if a PM has been received or someone replies to your comment (the emailing of which isn't all that consistent, I've noticed), with everything else requiring you to manually check for and making them easily missable. If such notifications were to linked to the PM system, it'd make communication a lot smoother and intuitive too.

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Thanoshld wrote:

Just an idea, I don't really like ModDB putting my name to projects I haven't worked on.

Yep, I agree with this one. If someone visits my profile, he can see that I am working on a lot of mods and games which I have little to no association with. I would really like to choose which ones will show up on my profile.

Fair point, if your adding mods on behalf of others, we can move them to that users account, or put them under the guest account till they request control.

What I really meant was this: I may be a member of a dev group that is developing three mods and a game, and I actually only help out/work on one of these projects. But, because I am a member of the above-mentioned group, every mod and game that group develops is showing up on my profile and it looks like I am working on all of them. I don't know if this could be adjusted by the group's manager or not though. If not, it would be really helpful for us to be able to choose which projects will show up or not on our profiles.

But, the solution you are mentioning is also welcoming, since there are a lot of people who are uploading mods but are not their developers. This 'problem' actually discouraged me once of uploading a mod I found and was not featured on ModDB. I didn't want to look as the creator of it .

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Signed up to the testing group, looking forward to seeing updates in the future and will be happy to provide feedback!

One request to possibly try out - would it be possible to use YouTube videos directly on the mod page instead of being forced to upload them to ModDB? It would be good since we can use YouTube trailers across multiple sites and if we can have the actual YouTube player to count the views on ModDB instead of splitting it across YouTube and ModDB I think it would be far better. At least just having the option would be nice!

MattFiler wrote:

Signed up to the testing group, looking forward to seeing updates in the future and will be happy to provide feedback!

One request to possibly try out - would it be possible to use YouTube videos directly on the mod page instead of being forced to upload them to ModDB? It would be good since we can use YouTube trailers across multiple sites and if we can have the actual YouTube player to count the views on ModDB instead of splitting it across YouTube and ModDB I think it would be far better. At least just having the option would be nice!

Your never forced to upload your videos, however its a good idea as these count as profile updates and can make your profile look more active, either way you have a choice and can embed or upload as you see fit.

MattFiler wrote:

Signed up to the testing group, looking forward to seeing updates in the future and will be happy to provide feedback!

One request to possibly try out - would it be possible to use YouTube videos directly on the mod page instead of being forced to upload them to ModDB? It would be good since we can use YouTube trailers across multiple sites and if we can have the actual YouTube player to count the views on ModDB instead of splitting it across YouTube and ModDB I think it would be far better. At least just having the option would be nice!

its possible we could do this. Haven't thought much about our youtube strategy. Looking forward to your feedback once we start sharing our updates.

I removed the Adobe Flash Player from my computer. Now I can not watch videos on moddb. Do you plan to make a player without flash technology?

Cybermax wrote:

I removed the Adobe Flash Player from my computer. Now I can not watch videos on moddb. Do you plan to make a player without flash technology?

our player should work with html5 and flash. I'll look into the config

Any plans for revamping moddb's comment system?

For example: When someone comments on my profile, you have to refresh the page.

Same thing with PMs. You need to refresh moddb for it to show.

We all kinda need a revamp of the comments.

Anyways, will this suggestion be included in v5 or it is already planned?

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they are planned, v5 will be a redesign first then more advanced updates like that will occur

INtense! wrote:

they are planned, v5 will be a redesign first then more advanced updates like that will occur

Cool!

Anyways another suggestion:

We need to embed others/your reviews on blogs/forum sigs.

Something like this:

But in a truly embedded widget using HTML

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Hmm, I don't quite get what you suggest. Would you like ModDB to add our reviews in our forums' signature? I don't see a reason why, but that's only my opinion. I fully agree with your review though .

Another thing that I would find convenient, is for the implementation of a [X] (unwatch) button next to each thread you are currently watching (when you visit your threads tab). This way, you won't have to visit every thread you are watching and click on the Stopwatch option.

You can embed almost anything on the site, you just need to add /widget to the end of the URL (doesn't work for reviews, but it works for mods, games, engines, articles, downloads etc). For example Halflife 2:

<iframe width="560" height="180" src="https://www.moddb.com/games/half-life-2/widget" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

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works a charm awesome!

Is there planned support for better analytics in V5? Currently it seems a bit limited and it would be great to see more information about the kind of people viewing our mods so we can tailor news posts towards them.

If there are no plans for in-built support, the option to add your own Google Analytics tracking ID would be quite neat.

No plans yet @mattfiler but these are improvements that can and will be made with time. Present focus is modernizing, next step will be adding new features.

Were emails always visible to other Moddb users (regardless of whether you've selected to hide it or not), and are there plans to change that? Only recently realised mine was visible to other users, and would appreciate the option to hide it from everyone or restrict it to only friends.

リーフ wrote:

Were emails always visible to other Moddb users (regardless of whether you've selected to hide it or not), and are there plans to change that? Only recently realised mine was visible to other users, and would appreciate the option to hide it from everyone or restrict it to only friends.

Hmm, i dont think emails will be visible if it is selected in the profile edits section. That is, if it's a bug.

You can normally hide your email using the profile edit tab:

リーフ wrote:

Were emails always visible to other Moddb users (regardless of whether you've selected to hide it or not), and are there plans to change that? Only recently realised mine was visible to other users, and would appreciate the option to hide it from everyone or restrict it to only friends.

Only trusted long term members can see email addresses. However you are right there was a bug where the "hidden" status didn't work. I've fixed that bug in the next deploy

Wasn't sure whether it was a bug or not, but glad to hear it'll be fixed.

Thanks for the quick replies, guys.

Oh yes, when v5 is here, will it feature member's ages? I remember long ago you can see the age of a member, is it planned?

Captain✯MacTavish wrote:

Oh yes, when v5 is here, will it feature member's ages? I remember long ago you can see the age of a member, is it planned?

I think that is hidden now, we could make it an option to switch on?

INtense! wrote:

Captain✯MacTavish wrote:

Oh yes, when v5 is here, will it feature member's ages? I remember long ago you can see the age of a member, is it planned?

I think that is hidden now, we could make it an option to switch on?

That'll be useful

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