FinalGear v3.5 LAUNCHED! - Page 3

Viper007Bond · August 5th, 2008, 5:10 AM

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[Mon 18:21:51] <&Quiky> My comments on 3.5
[Mon 18:21:57] <&Quiky> The stars are overkill.
[Mon 18:22:03] <&Quiky> Should just be a # rating
[Mon 18:22:53] <&Quiky> or change it to an enclosed bar with the # in it

http://pic.phyrefile.com/v/vi/viper007bond/2008/08/05/greenbars.png

http://pic.phyrefile.com/v/vi/viper007bond/2008/08/05/redbars.png

Compared to current stars:

http://pic.phyrefile.com/v/vi/viper007bond/2008/08/05/stars.png

I agree the bars looks cleaner, but I think the stars are clearer that it's a rating, etc. What do you guys think?

Hidden_Hunter · August 5th, 2008, 5:13 AM

The bar could be anything, eg health of the torrent to ambigious imo

Viper007Bond · August 5th, 2008, 5:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Hidden_Hunter

The bar could be anything, eg health of the torrent to ambigious imo

Mmm, good point.

fbc · August 5th, 2008, 9:50 AM

Stars FTW.

Viper007Bond · August 5th, 2008, 11:28 AM

http://www.finalgear.com/chat/ now snags your username from the forums if you're logged in, otherwise it defaults to "FinalGear" which of course will throw an error as that nickname is in use forcing the user to pick a unique username.

Of course let me know if this doesn't work for anyone.

ahpadt · August 5th, 2008, 5:08 PM

I like the red bar. The starts makes it look like eBay.

mpulztracker · August 5th, 2008, 5:27 PM

The eps and season listing is awesome work! Overall FinalGear is probably the most comprehensive source for TG related stuff...

Atze · August 5th, 2008, 5:30 PM

I'd also opt for the stars, but great work really! I really appreciate FinalGear being around =)

Edit: First post, I'm a forum lurker images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Hello everyone!

forlorn_hope28 · August 5th, 2008, 6:30 PM

i like the stars personally. as viper said, it's clearer that it's a rating. though, would a tachometer that redlines at 10,000rpm be too tachy (no pun intended) as a rating visual?

GT - R · August 5th, 2008, 8:04 PM

I think the stars look nice so if it aint broke dont fix it.

BTW

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Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Feel free to do any in the Wiki that don't have screenshots, minus season 8 and 3x5 -> 3x9.

Just finished all season 11 articles so is it ok if I do season 6 articles on wiki ? ( they dont have nothing on them ) ? ( BTW do they look OK ? images/smilies/smile.gif

?( season 11) )

Viper007Bond · August 5th, 2008, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mpulztracker

The eps and season listing is awesome work! Overall FinalGear is probably the most comprehensive source for TG related stuff...

Even more so once we flush out the wiki some more. images/smilies/happy.gif

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atze

I'd also opt for the stars, but great work really! I really appreciate FinalGear being around =)

Edit: First post, I'm a forum lurker images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Hello everyone!

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Originally Posted by forlorn_hope28

i like the stars personally. as viper said, it's clearer that it's a rating. though, would a tachometer that redlines at 10,000rpm be too tachy (no pun intended) as a rating visual?

It'd be too big (take up more vertical space) and plus it'd be a major pain to implement as I'd have to create images for each RPM or whatever.

Quote:

Originally Posted by GT - R

Just finished all season 11 articles so is it ok if I do season 6 articles on wiki ? ( they dont have nothing on them ) ? ( BTW do they look OK ? images/smilies/smile.gif

?( season 11) )

Feel free to any articles/images that are missing. images/smilies/smile.gif

emerson · August 6th, 2008, 8:05 AM

Suggestion: Include links to the 'Entire Season' torrents in each season page.

Oh and keep releasing the entire season torrents, downloading the season 3 pack now images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Kudos to final gear, great site!

emerson · August 6th, 2008, 8:09 AM

Just found a bug, might be temporary but anyways.

At this page, http://www.finalgear.com/shows/topgear/1/7/ clicking on "This episode's article on the FinalGear.com Wiki" takes me to the forum logout page with the message: "All cookies cleared" (http://forums.finalgear.com/login.ph...uthash=removed)

If i then click back and click the "This episode's article on the FinalGear.com Wiki" link again, I end up at an error page "Fatal error: Call to undefined method PPTemplateFrame_DOM::splitBraceNode() in /var/www/hosted/finalgear.com/wiki/htdocs/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php on line 158" at http://wiki.finalgear.com/wiki/Top_Gear_01x07

This seems to happen for all episodes, not just the one mentioned above.

Cobol74 · August 6th, 2008, 8:11 AM

Overall rating for the series on the "season" listing? Helps people new to TG with the quality of the season - could warn off people with the quality of the pre series 4 rips perhaps? Point them to 6, 7, 8 and 11. Any how nice work Viper - excellent.

Viper007Bond · August 6th, 2008, 8:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by emerson

Suggestion: Include links to the 'Entire Season' torrents in each season page.

Oh and keep releasing the entire season torrents, downloading the season 3 pack now images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Kudos to final gear, great site!

Yeah, this is planned. images/smilies/smile.gif

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Originally Posted by emerson

Just found a bug, might be temporary but anyways.

At this page, http://www.finalgear.com/shows/topgear/1/7/ clicking on "This episode's article on the FinalGear.com Wiki" takes me to the forum logout page with the message: "All cookies cleared" (http://forums.finalgear.com/login.ph...uthash=removed)

If i then click back and click the "This episode's article on the FinalGear.com Wiki" link again, I end up at an error page "Fatal error: Call to undefined method PPTemplateFrame_DOM::splitBraceNode() in /var/www/hosted/finalgear.com/wiki/htdocs/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php on line 158" at http://wiki.finalgear.com/wiki/Top_Gear_01x07

This seems to happen for all episodes, not just the one mentioned above.

Seems our vBulletin / Mediawiki bridge script doesn't like Mediawiki v1.12.0 which I just upgraded to. Fuck.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cobol74

Overall rating for the series on the "season" listing? Helps people new to TG with the quality of the season - could warn off people with the quality of the pre series 4 rips perhaps? Point them to 6, 7, 8 and 11. Any how nice work Viper - excellent.

There's only polls on the threads for recent episodes and I don't want to add polls for old episodes as few people will vote or the people who do vote will be random people.

Simply put, only new episodes will have ratings.

kyoru · August 6th, 2008, 11:28 PM

looks great viper, I wanted to offer my 2 cents lol...

http://www.finalgear.com/shows/topgear/

I think you should change the black / white arrows to a simple black gradient, the contrast burned my eyes when I saw it images/smilies/wacko.gif

can't imagine the back end work on this beast!

Viper007Bond · August 7th, 2008, 12:03 AM

The color is yellow, not white. Fix the contrast on your monitor. images/smilies/wink.gif

But yes, I'm having Blayde change them. It's too hard to read the season text on that background.

Martin · August 7th, 2008, 1:37 AM

So far, great job. I love the screenshots, the ratings, and the download notifier on the right. Is there any though on adding some search functionality so we could search for specific segments, guests, or car reviews?

Viper007Bond · August 7th, 2008, 1:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Martin

Is there any though on adding some search functionality so we could search for specific segments, guests, or car reviews?

There's a search button at the top of the site. images/smilies/wink.gif

http://www.finalgear.com/epsearch/

kyoru · August 7th, 2008, 5:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

The color is yellow, not white. Fix the contrast on your monitor. images/smilies/wink.gif

But yes, I'm having Blayde change them. It's too hard to read the season text on that background.

sorry haha i mean't yellow and black arrows with white text over top.

August 5th, 2008, 5:13 AM	#42
Hidden_Hunter D: Joined: Oct 7th, 2006 Last Online: 7:06 AM Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 21 Posts: 5,736 Car: '08 Honda Accord Euro Rep Power: 76	The bar could be anything, eg health of the torrent to ambigious imo __________________ My car is dark grey not black!

August 5th, 2008, 9:50 AM	#44
fbc Moderator Joined: Jan 8th, 2005 Last Online: 7:07 AM Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 34 Posts: 11,770 Car: 2006 MY07 Astra SRi Turbo Rep Power: 128	Stars FTW. __________________ www.sniffpetrol.com

August 5th, 2008, 11:28 AM	#45
Viper007Bond Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: 5:35 AM Location: Portland, Oregon Age: 25 Posts: 22,183 Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 292	http://www.finalgear.com/chat/ now snags your username from the forums if you're logged in, otherwise it defaults to "FinalGear" which of course will throw an error as that nickname is in use forcing the user to pick a unique username. Of course let me know if this doesn't work for anyone. __________________ There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005

August 5th, 2008, 5:30 PM	#48
Atze Joined: Oct 13th, 2007 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Germany Posts: 3 Car: Toyota Yaris Sol 1.3 2001 Rep Power: 0	I'd also opt for the stars, but great work really! I really appreciate FinalGear being around =) Edit: First post, I'm a forum lurker Hello everyone!

August 6th, 2008, 8:05 AM	#52
emerson Joined: Aug 6th, 2008 Last Online: October 12th, 2008 Location: Perth, Aus Posts: 2 Car: Subaru RS Liberty Rep Power: 0	Suggestion: Include links to the 'Entire Season' torrents in each season page. Oh and keep releasing the entire season torrents, downloading the season 3 pack now Kudos to final gear, great site!

August 5th, 2008, 5:08 PM	#46
ahpadt Joined: May 7th, 2006 Last Online: Yesterday Location: The Norwaylands Posts: 4,505 Rep Power: 55	I like the red bar. The starts makes it look like eBay.

August 5th, 2008, 5:27 PM	#47
mpulztracker Joined: Jan 6th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: United Kingdom Posts: 283 Rep Power: 20	The eps and season listing is awesome work! Overall FinalGear is probably the most comprehensive source for TG related stuff...

August 5th, 2008, 6:30 PM	#49
forlorn_hope28 Joined: Aug 5th, 2008 Last Online: October 23rd, 2009 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	i like the stars personally. as viper said, it's clearer that it's a rating. though, would a tachometer that redlines at 10,000rpm be too tachy (no pun intended) as a rating visual?

August 6th, 2008, 8:09 AM	#53
emerson Joined: Aug 6th, 2008 Last Online: October 12th, 2008 Location: Perth, Aus Posts: 2 Car: Subaru RS Liberty Rep Power: 0	Just found a bug, might be temporary but anyways. At this page, http://www.finalgear.com/shows/topgear/1/7/ clicking on "This episode's article on the FinalGear.com Wiki" takes me to the forum logout page with the message: "All cookies cleared" (http://forums.finalgear.com/login.ph...uthash=removed) If i then click back and click the "This episode's article on the FinalGear.com Wiki" link again, I end up at an error page "Fatal error: Call to undefined method PPTemplateFrame_DOM::splitBraceNode() in /var/www/hosted/finalgear.com/wiki/htdocs/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php on line 158" at http://wiki.finalgear.com/wiki/Top_Gear_01x07 This seems to happen for all episodes, not just the one mentioned above. Last edited by Viper007Bond; August 6th, 2008 at 8:26 AM. Reason: removed hash

August 6th, 2008, 8:11 AM	#54
Cobol74 Joined: Mar 21st, 2006 Last Online: 2:16 AM Location: Southampton Posts: 8,441 Car: Vauxhall Zafira 1.9 TDI Slush box. Rep Power: 117	Overall rating for the series on the "season" listing? Helps people new to TG with the quality of the season - could warn off people with the quality of the pre series 4 rips perhaps? Point them to 6, 7, 8 and 11. Any how nice work Viper - excellent. __________________ Lotus 7 Registration Mark = KAR120C : Engine Number = 461034 TZ Ross Brawn genius or what?

August 6th, 2008, 11:28 PM	#56
kyoru Joined: Oct 31st, 2007 Last Online: November 3rd, 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 111 Car: G35 Sedan Rep Power: 18	looks great viper, I wanted to offer my 2 cents lol... http://www.finalgear.com/shows/topgear/ I think you should change the black / white arrows to a simple black gradient, the contrast burned my eyes when I saw it can't imagine the back end work on this beast! __________________

August 7th, 2008, 12:03 AM	#57
Viper007Bond Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: 5:35 AM Location: Portland, Oregon Age: 25 Posts: 22,183 Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 292	The color is yellow, not white. Fix the contrast on your monitor. But yes, I'm having Blayde change them. It's too hard to read the season text on that background. __________________ There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005

August 7th, 2008, 1:37 AM	#58
Martin Joined: Jul 5th, 2005 Last Online: October 24th, 2009 Location: South Carolina, USA Age: 31 Posts: 132 Car: 2007 VW Golf Rep Power: 18	So far, great job. I love the screenshots, the ratings, and the download notifier on the right. Is there any though on adding some search functionality so we could search for specific segments, guests, or car reviews? __________________ "A 1992 Dateline expose revealed that GMC trucks were dangerous when explosives were strapped to the gas tank and then detonated." See story.

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