µblogging and You: Noisegrid.com

[schild]

An extension of the radicalthon perhaps? And more useful on a large scale?

We could use noisegrid.com to twitter our gaming. Yes, I own it and yes, it's already set up to be twitter like.

Here's the implementation:








Anyone interested?

And if you're wondering why not use twitter?

1. The service is up and down like an asian hooker.
2. f13 can control it and the users.
3. Only signal.
4. Easier and has a cooler name than twitter and a better tags/works with general RSS feeds (EVERYTHING gets an RSS feed and they can be combinated).

Thoughts?

Also, I had set it up to be News and shit before, but it's too hard to maintain that and f13 and develop. Not enough hours in the day.

Edit: This has been sitting unused for a long time, and no one has a gamer service that's better than twitter. Until now?

[schild]

Note, this can be used for anything from:

1. What you've bought.
2. What you didn't buy and a link to why maybe?
3. One, two sentence opinions.
4. Links to new info.
5. An update on a single game. Yes, the frontpage will be FILLED with random shit, that's what tags are for.

Etc.

Basically, powered by you.

Ok, I've always wanted to say something that dumb. Not really powered by you, more like controlled by us (f13).

[schild]

Also, blame MrHat, this was inspired by his following of Demon's Souls tweets.

[schild]

Also, I should point out that once you're logged in, you don't have to log in again. That update block is right there under the banner on the frontpage. Also! We can do some sort of degrees of seperation from f13 users, all the first people that can use it are us and people I/f13 people invite and then from those trusted users (i can look up metrics on the back end), we can let them invite other people.

[Ookii]

Look at all the Roth.

[schild]

No one likes a party pooper, party pooper. Go play RE5.

[UnSub]

I'd use it.

I don't use Twitter, but feel I should just to keep up. Give me the alternative with more street cred, thanks.

[MrHat]

It's got a lot of potential.

[schild]

Who wants to reverse engineer and copy some software?

Noisegrid should have it's own bbcode sig function for the RSS feeds.

[Trippy]

What software?

[schild]

MrHat's Sigmyfeed.com thing.

Edit: Why? It's ugly as fuck. We can do better, as always. And I don't trust 99% of the web services out there.

[schild]

I'd use it.

I don't use Twitter, but feel I should just to keep up. Give me the alternative with more street cred, thanks.

Just sign up and I'll approve you. I really have absolutely no plans on letting outsiders (more than 1 degree of seperation from other users) anywhere near this thing. Twitter is too retarded and I won't have any of that.

[driph]

Hey, nice to see a new use for a dead domain. Sounds fun.

[Trippy]

MrHat's Sigmyfeed.com thing.

Edit: Why? It's ugly as fuck. We can do better, as always. And I don't trust 99% of the web services out there.

Mock something up.

[schild]

You got it, hombre.

Doing that after I write up some instructions for noisegrid folks.

[schild]

Perhaps, would it be better to just pull in the text?

UserName@time: blah blah blah - from noisegrid.com

[schild]

Everyone who previously had an account is now an author, so you should see the sweet ass setup when you go to the frontpage if you're logged in.

[Trippy]

Perhaps, would it be better to just pull in the text?

UserName@time: blah blah blah - from noisegrid.com

Not easily done unless you want to hack the SMF code to allow for javascript and or dynamically pulling in data from an external source. That's why sigmyfeed creates an image.

[schild]

Ah, then I'll mock something up. I guess it should only pull in the first X characters, is the big issue.

[Trippy]

That's not the hard part. The hard part is mucking around with ImageMagick to create the dynamic images.

[Rendakor]

Ok so, consider me old fashioned. What's the point? Just to randomly post updates about games and shit?

[MrHat]

Ok so, consider me old fashioned. What's the point? Just to randomly post updates about games and shit?

yes.

[Ookii]

Eh, why not just have a twitter account and just display the rss from the account on the website?

[schild]

Eh, why not just have a twitter account and just display the rss from the account on the website?

Stop naysaying. Twitter can eat a dick and fall in a sewer. That place is a cess pit and no one wants that unthreaded commenting shit mixed in with all the other twitter shitters. Without a closed system, everything eventually turns into shit. It's the MySpace effect.

Edit: The neat trick would be to just make all the noise grid stuff post to facebook and twitter so that people who use noisegrid don't have to give a fuck and it goes everywhere. Also, the twitter sigs are ugly also.

[schild]

Perhaps, would it be better to just pull in the text?

UserName@time: blah blah blah - from noisegrid.com

Not easily done unless you want to hack the SMF code to allow for javascript and or dynamically pulling in data from an external source. That's why sigmyfeed creates an image.

Something like that. Man, that font is bigger than I expected. Changing. Fixed.

[schild]

The world's most ugly and poorly formatted FAQ is now up. Gutting the frontpage to look how it does has effected any other page that requires any sort of formatting. Haha. So don't tell me it's ugly, I know. But who reads faqs anyway? (hint, authors should).

FAQ

[lesion]

Man, that's ugly. I feel techno and fierce.

[schild]

It really, really is very ugly.

Edit: Also, you've been upgraded.

[schild]

ScribeFire (the firefox plugin) does not work.
Deepest Sender does not work either.

And here's why:
Wordpress blogs are expected to use their monumentally stupid title/post setup and their terrible categories (instead of tags) setup.

We use neither of these. Noise Grid is far too heavily modified. It might be worth investigating making our own firefox plugin. :)

[schild]

https://twitter.com/noisegrid

Haha. The noise grid is now automatically injecting more noise into that godawful den of trashed DNA.

Edit: I hath killed it. Twitter is a formatting beast where the time necessary to put in is not worth the effort. Fuck them in their tiny bird ass.

Edit: Now I'm just playing with formatting. Lamaros, you've been upgraded.

[schild]

Deleted the facebook group, found a more elegant solution.

[schild]

Haha wow ok.

Facebook, with their new profiles, fucked up every single RSS importer. RSS Connect seems to be working damned hard to get feed back onto the wall. Until we can do so though, if you really want to add it, I've made a page for it:

The Noise Grid

Click on RSS/Blog for the feed. Really though, use your own RSS reader or just go to noisegrid.com, Facebook is also, now, as big a piece of shit as Twitter for fucking everything up.

Edit: Tempted to fool around with this later.

[MrHat]

Is it possible to throw "Latest Noisegrid" or something similar into a box up top, similar to the news box w/ the donation button in it?

[MrHat]

Fucking IE6 from work, page is all messed up.

Rather than make it work on IE6, I'm going to grab portable firefox over the weekend.

Fuck this noise.

[schild]

Is it possible to throw "Latest Noisegrid" or something similar into a box up top, similar to the news box w/ the donation button in it?

You have some hefty demands that aren't particularly worth investigating.

In short: I hate half-text, so no. I'm not going to rework that entire box to show a sentence.