Re: What chance of an update to the Diplomatic Pouch sites?

Able to contribute from the point of view of a player and active gamemaster here over the last six years. I'm not a programmer of anything!

Recently discovered that long past players may still think playing on the dpjudge means using 'primitive' email commands and getting game results as text. The gent I was speaking to had never found the excellent dpjudge web interface.

Thorin


--- In [email protected], "woelpad" <woelpad@...> wrote:
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> If there's going to be a council, I want to be part of it. Any coding that needs to happen, you can probably entrust it to me as good as to Manus. Of course, now that DPjudge is now opensourced, anyone can participate. Or did I speak too fast there? (Did this ever get announced?)
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> Integration is a good word. I have been focusing so far on game play, but all the community aspects certainly deserve attention. Any pointers as to how you envision that are welcome. We don't want to create a Bounced clone, I think, so try to stay close to the DPjudge philosophy: "Simple and flexible." Right, Manus?
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> Mario.
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> --- In [email protected], Chris Babcock <cbabcock@> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder how many (few?) people realize that the Pouch and the DPJudge
> >  are on different machines. The technology isn't too hard to put it
> > all together, but the performance and reliability wouldn't be too good
> > unless both were on the same network. I'd estimate the price tag for
> > this wish list to be $800/year plus labor.
> > 
> > If the Pouch competes with the nJudges and other servers by being more
> > closely coupled with USDP then that diminishes its ability to serve
> > the hobby as a whole because it will be harder to get content and
> > visitors from those "other" sites. Also, going vertical would mean
> > giving up on the idea of there being more judges using the DPJudge
> > software. So this wishlist would be a win for USDP, but a loss for the
> > DPJudge platform and The Pouch, in my opinion.
> > 
> > There are ways to rope me into contributing, but I'm not going to tell
> > Manus what they are. ;)
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:32 PM, thorinmunro <thorinmunro@> wrote:
> > > On my wishlist for an improved Diplomatic Pouch
> > > - simple home page with easy access for new players and viewing of new and in progress games, results, etc
> > > - inhouse tournament functions and player rankings
> > > - more active forum,
> >
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