Discussion of changes to Armageddon Website

[Vwest]

You have about 7 seconds to switch to another page if you want to deny that the other headers exist.

[Zoan]

Murder, Betrayal, FABULOUS.

[3kanks]

Since the GDB move we lost the voting tabs in the Leather Theme. Is that fixable?

[FantasyWriter]

I think it's cool. First time I noticed it, I thought the words were cycling through the different Elements.
I was sad when I realized I was wrong, but still super cool and eye-catching.

[Malken]

Murder, Betrayal, FABULOUS.

Murder, Betrayal,

[Morgenes]

Since the GDB move we lost the voting tabs in the Leather Theme. Is that fixable?

Fixed.

[Barzalene]

Since the GDB move we lost the voting tabs in the Leather Theme. Is that fixable?

Fixed.

Thank you!

[MeTekillot]

[Fujikoma]

+1

[Ender]

Could zalanthas.org just 301 redirect here while we still have the domain?

[Marauder Moe]

Could zalanthas.org just 301 redirect here while we still have the domain?

+1

I have noticed that the move broke posted links to other threads.  It's not a huge deal to fix it in the URL bar, but an automatic reditect would be nice.  (Alternatively, search through all posts and replace "www.zalanthas.org/gdb" with "gdb.armageddon.org" if that's possible/easy.)

[Ender]

With a 301 redirect Google will understand authoritatively that gdb.armageddon.org = zalanthas.org and eventually switch around the listings



Also I'm very happy the robots.txt problem will be going away, since no one ever implemented the robots.txt file I wrote for zalanthas.org  

[Morgenes]

Part of the reason why we've moved the GDB to armageddon.org is lack of access to zalanthas.org.  We are working on transferring the domain name over, and we've asked to get a redirect set up.  But the reason why we never implemented a robots.txt for zalanthas.org was we didn't have access to it.  Ender, if you want to re-send that info to me I'll look at making sure it's right on armageddon.org.

[Harmless]

Ya'll doin' good work. I have another issue to bring up here, and to pose it to the community:

I try to CC some clan on a "added note" to a request I made, but the field for CC clans is a freetext field. This is a little confusing. If, for example, I wanted to CC the Byn, I'm not sure how to write that in the freetext field because of the various ways one might type it out.

I think it should be changed to another pulldown... or at least have a pulldown option. Maybe a freetext field too, for some advanced use I know nothing about.

[Ender]

Part of the reason why we've moved the GDB to armageddon.org is lack of access to zalanthas.org.  We are working on transferring the domain name over, and we've asked to get a redirect set up.  But the reason why we never implemented a robots.txt for zalanthas.org was we didn't have access to it.  Ender, if you want to re-send that info to me I'll look at making sure it's right on armageddon.org.

The robots.txt set up on armageddon.org is just fine the way it is.  It was the one on zalanthas.org that was balls awful.  No need to change it now.

[Morgenes]

Part of the reason why we've moved the GDB to armageddon.org is lack of access to zalanthas.org.  We are working on transferring the domain name over, and we've asked to get a redirect set up.  But the reason why we never implemented a robots.txt for zalanthas.org was we didn't have access to it.  Ender, if you want to re-send that info to me I'll look at making sure it's right on armageddon.org.

The robots.txt set up on armageddon.org is just fine the way it is.  It was the one on zalanthas.org that was balls awful.  No need to change it now.

It doesn't look like there's one for the new domain gdb.armageddon.org.  When I look at http://gdb.armageddon.org/robots.txt it's empty.

[Ender]

Part of the reason why we've moved the GDB to armageddon.org is lack of access to zalanthas.org.  We are working on transferring the domain name over, and we've asked to get a redirect set up.  But the reason why we never implemented a robots.txt for zalanthas.org was we didn't have access to it.  Ender, if you want to re-send that info to me I'll look at making sure it's right on armageddon.org.

The robots.txt set up on armageddon.org is just fine the way it is.  It was the one on zalanthas.org that was balls awful.  No need to change it now.

It doesn't look like there's one for the new domain gdb.armageddon.org.  When I look at http://gdb.armageddon.org/robots.txt it's empty.

Good!

Unless there's stuff you don't want search engines to crawl, there's no reason to put up a robots.txt file.

The file doesn't actually keep Google or other bots from crawling and indexing pages, just keeps them from reading them and figuring out what they're about to assign rankings for keywords and stuff.  If a page needs credentials to access, the bot won't be able to access them anyway.

[Zoltan]

A robots.txt file can be used to set crawl-delay rules, which can help on a server getting slammed by bot traffic. This is mostly out of concern for bandwidth, and it's my understanding that there are better ways of lowering that anyway in the site's code (expires settings in .htaccess and the like, for example). Of course, robots.txt only really helps against legit search bots that choose to obey it. By the way, google doesn't give a damn about robots.txt, the only way to work with their bots is to have a google webmaster account with them.

Disclaimer: I only fix what's broken from a sysadmin point of view and am in no way a website developer.

[ShaLeah]

http://armageddon.org/help/view/Whirans

Still lists them as 4 karma.

[Morgenes]

http://armageddon.org/help/view/Whirans

Still lists them as 4 karma.

Fixed

[racurtne]

While you are at it, http://armageddon.org/help/view/Krathis and http://armageddon.org/help/view/Nilazi don't list karma requirements like all the others do.

[Morgenes]

While you are at it, http://armageddon.org/help/view/Krathis and http://armageddon.org/help/view/Nilazi don't list karma requirements like all the others do.

Fixed and Fixed.

[FantasyWriter]

Not sure if this is the right place, but:
From time to time, I have a habit of writing backgrounds too long to
fit into the text editor.  I always send the full background in through
the request tool, but I was wondering since we can update bios
through the website now, could it be made possible to add bios to
characters currently in the application queue?

[Morgenes]

Not sure if this is the right place, but:
From time to time, I have a habit of writing backgrounds too long to
fit into the text editor.  I always send the full background in through
the request tool, but I was wondering since we can update bios
through the website now, could it be made possible to add bios to
characters currently in the application queue?

I am not aware of any restriction that would keep you from doing this.  Have you tried?

[Nyr]

(For the record, there's not usually a need to send in your extended background since you can add the extended background in the biography tool.)