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Pests · Novice Joined: Feb 24 2003 Posts: 84 Offline

ChatNet Clients.

I feel Resources is good.

Working on cleaning up the system, ensuring pages have the correct categories, getting rid of unnessacy pages, and renaming some of badly named pages.

Pages I've renamed:

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Protocol ChatNet - ChatNet Protocol
Protocol TCPBilling - TCP Billing Protocol
Protocol Ping - Ping Protocol
Protocol UDPGame - UDP Game Protocol

Grelminar · Creator of Asss Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 378 Offline

I never liked the name "chatnet" for the protocol. I named the module that implements the protocol "chatnet" by analogy with "net", which implements the udp protocol. I'd rather it be called "simple chat" or "tcp chat". Or we could come up with some fancy acronym like SSDTP (subspace drivel transfer protocol).

Bak · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:31 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

SSDTP... that doesn't sound like a dirty word.

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CypherJF · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:08 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Is there anyway that MGB could add a link next to Server Help | Shanky.com .. for this; so I can easily go from the one site to the other.... :/ ?
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Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:14 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

CypherJF · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:36 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

hah ty!

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So this means it is no longer a beta test? Or did you fall for Cypher's trick?

CypherJF · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:56 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

rotfl... i think it's taken off quite well... sure there's still prob lots more we can do w/ it but not bad for 2 / 3 days...

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 1:35 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Its still in beta testing because I havn't setup everything in it yet. I just noticed that the MATH part doesn't work, so trying to get that working. I just set up the texvc program, now I have to intermix this with latex so it will create pretty images/correct MathML.

D1st0rt · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 2:39 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

for a name...
STD Transmitter?
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ExplodyThingy · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:52 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

boinc
Boring Old Instant Network Chat

boink boink boink boink

Continual User Messaging.

Simple CHat and Instant Subspace Messages

Subspace Language Advancement Protocol

Textual Instant Transmitter for Subspace

Protocol for Echange of Network Information for Subspace

Simple-Message and Instant-Textual Exchange

Subspace Protocol for Exchange of Recent Messages

Acronyms are fun!
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Pests · Novice Joined: Feb 24 2003 Posts: 84 Offline

I think we should rename "Server" to "ASSS" and then perhaps create "Subgame". Right now "Server" doesnt say much and I created "Servers" for pages like SSCU, SSI, ect. Then we could move asss-specific categories into ASSS as well (ie: Module).

In fact I think this would be a good idea. Im going to change things over if no one has any objections.

Bak · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:12 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

STD works, Simple Text and Drivel Protocol... and refer to it as the STD Protocol

CypherJF · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:19 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

STD's and ASSS' what more can the general public want... har. lol.

ExplodyThingy · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:32 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Go for it pests. section subgame already exists, and subgame2 redirects there.

And to keep the deck shuffling straight:

zones should be a page listing off the zones in the game and their links. zone should be a definition. at the moment we have the reverse.

about that page, lets not list things as "Unknown hosts." Its so, undimplomatic. I suggest "Other". FYI the two asss test zones there are SSCX-A

And for servers: SSCU may have only two official locations, but 17th parallel maintains the SSCU prefix and uses a server in norther Virgninia, either Reston or Herdon, very near to me.

Pests · Novice Joined: Feb 24 2003 Posts: 84 Offline

Was mentioning subgame category, not section, so tutorials for that (and not asss) are categorized correctly as well.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

"ASSS Wiki" seems like a misnomer at this point

Pests · Novice Joined: Feb 24 2003 Posts: 84 Offline

Agreed.

Fixed Zone and Zones confusion. Zones is now a list of all the zones and Zone is the definition. There were a few pages that were linking to the Zone page expecting a list of zones but even with the change I think they still fit. Only big issue in determining if they should link to Zones or Zone is if the page wants to give a definitin or a list of zones. Can someone please check out this link and check the pages listed if the links should refer to the zone list instead of the definition.

I do suggest we abandon the Sections page and use categories but I think some quick links (FAQs, Tutorials, Glossery, ect) should be added to Main Page with a "more..." link to the categories page perhaps.

Thanks.

Smong · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:05 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Subspace/Continuum Developers Wiki perhaps (I expect some of you will come up with foul acronyms, although I did like SLAP), but the name ASSS Wiki can be used to lever people into using ASSS over subgame, this will accelerate the rate at which issues are discovered and fixed.

Pests · Novice Joined: Feb 24 2003 Posts: 84 Offline

I set up a template named disambig. Templates are just like pages but they can be included on any page by using a tag like {{name}}. Changing the template changes all the pages it is used on. The disambig tag refers to page names that could have multiple meanings, for example the 1stStrike page. Any other ideas for templates? You can pass parameters to templates to make them dynamic as well.

Im starting to not like the term/category Definitions, I feel at the moment its a Glossery which has definitions of words.

Also, should FAQ and Tutorial (caterogies) be plural?

CypherJF · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:12 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

plural is categeories; Glossary..

I'd rather see like a table of contents, where if i neeed to look up a certain word, it's just easily done from a page... topics + vocab + etc. combined much like the back of a book. but there again, there is a search box...

i dunno do w/e it seems like you and the other peeps are keepin it organized.

Pests · Novice Joined: Feb 24 2003 Posts: 84 Offline

Started to switch over to categories for navigation. Set up a category list with main categories and added some nice looking quicklinks to the main page. Organized some format pages into a new category, Format.

Would be nice to have some *good* descriptions of each category since this will be the main entry point into these files.

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I have an idea for a template, most of my released modules use pretty much the same help document. To save me from writing the help twice I'm just pasting it into wiki slightly edited for formatting and typos.

Could you make a template that took parameters for this sort of thing? I've added another module's help so you can compare the common bits. I haven't added many custom module help documents, so it's not too much effort to change the format if anyone doesn't like it.
http://wiki.minegoboom.com/index.php/Using_Custom_Modules

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:26 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

You guys seem to know now what a "Minor Edit" means. Its there, so when people, like myself, browse the Recent Changes page, can filter out little things that doesn't matter. Such as spelling errors, reordering a list, changing a link, etc.

If you are actually adding content, redoing a design, replying via the Talk pages, or changing more than one or two small things, please don't check the Minor Edit button. This allows people like myself who browse the histories to ignore small changes that doesn't matter too much, but allow us to look for larger changes that make a difference.

Also, when creating a page, that doesn't count as a minor edit. Please try to use this feature for what it was meant to be.