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| eightbit:
--- Quote from: Luxury on February 09, 2003, 02:08:44 pm ---Personally, I think that the info on the site is amazing. unfortunately - it seems a little scattered or compartmentalized. Meaning that right now i know a ton of very specific methods of doing what i want to do - but as a whole, kind of questioning the compatibilty of all of these smaller sections. more gerneralized tips and answers would be very helpful. also - a lot of the questions are "which is the best" type of questions. maybe adding some sort of rating system? --- End quote --- Perhaps you could suggest a better method. People complain about how its organized but no one has any suggestions to make it better. The examples sections has almost 600 project examples pages. If you can't find general information your not looking very hard. How would you propose a rating system? You can't rate things like joysticks. There are several reviews or links to reviews of sticks and thats all you can do is review them and report. An example is many feel the supers are the best stick because of the round action, but others argue the competitons are better because you can feel the corners. Then theres the $40 p360's, its not a fair comparison to a $10 stick. Most things are that way. If someone tells you something is the best its only there opinion. Even if you could come up with a rating system its still subjective. |
| Duran:
1. Yes, there are over 600 projects, but there's nothing to tell you which ones might be more relevant than others. Someone converting an existing cabinet with an arcade monitor isn't a terribly big help to someone building their own cab from scratch with a TV. Better descriptions, perhaps? 2. The Newbie Guide is good, but it only scratches the service. For example, in the interface section, it talks about different methods, but doesn't mention Hagstrom or Ultimarc anywhere. Isn't that kind of a large omission? I understand the desire to stay "neutral", but this is information newbies would be searching for. |
| saint:
RE: 1) That section of the site (examples) was not designed with the size it has reached in mind, or with "usability" for lack of a better word in mind either. A revamp of that area is on the wish list but will not likely see any action soon (time constraints). 2) The newbie guide is just out of date. A revamp etc... (see above regarding time). However, anyone willing to take a stab at updating it and sending it to me I'd be happy to look at it. However, it takes me a while to get to such things even when someone else has done the editing... :( --- saint --- Quote from: Duran on February 09, 2003, 06:38:18 pm ---1. Yes, there are over 600 projects, but there's nothing to tell you which ones might be more relevant than others. Someone converting an existing cabinet with an arcade monitor isn't a terribly big help to someone building their own cab from scratch with a TV. Better descriptions, perhaps? 2. The Newbie Guide is good, but it only scratches the service. For example, in the interface section, it talks about different methods, but doesn't mention Hagstrom or Ultimarc anywhere. Isn't that kind of a large omission? I understand the desire to stay "neutral", but this is information newbies would be searching for. --- End quote --- |
| Duran:
--- Quote from: saint on February 09, 2003, 07:08:28 pm ---RE: 1) That section of the site (examples) was not designed with the size it has reached in mind, or with "usability" for lack of a better word in mind either. A revamp of that area is on the wish list but will not likely see any action soon (time constraints). 2) The newbie guide is just out of date. A revamp etc... (see above regarding time). However, anyone willing to take a stab at updating it and sending it to me I'd be happy to look at it. However, it takes me a while to get to such things even when someone else has done the editing... :( --- saint --- End quote --- Sorry if I came off a bit harsh - it was certainly not my intention. I was simply trying to say why people tend to ask the same questions over and over on the message board. It's not necessarily because they are lazy. The site itself is what got me interested in building my own cabinet in the first place, and it has been an invaluable source of information. The details I didn't get from the resources and links were easily obtained from the message board. Hmm...a better question might be why did I type "service" instead of "surface"? Perhaps I shouldn't try to have a conversation with the SO at the same time. :) |
| eightbit:
--- Quote from: Duran on February 09, 2003, 06:38:18 pm ---1. Yes, there are over 600 projects, but there's nothing to tell you which ones might be more relevant than others. Someone converting an existing cabinet with an arcade monitor isn't a terribly big help to someone building their own cab from scratch with a TV. Better descriptions, perhaps? 2. The Newbie Guide is good, but it only scratches the service. For example, in the interface section, it talks about different methods, but doesn't mention Hagstrom or Ultimarc anywhere. Isn't that kind of a large omission? I understand the desire to stay "neutral", but this is information newbies would be searching for. --- End quote --- I think most of the repeat questions are new people that don't know about the faq. I think the message board concept might even be new to most of them so they aren't aware of the search functions. Thats why I often point them at the faq or at the search engine. Occasionally I'll link but I think its more beneficial to them to find it with a little help. The examples section is an incredible resource. I have gone to every working link and have seen some incredible things. My biggest problem is remembring where I seen some incredible thing I wanted to do when I get around to doing it. |
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