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

Good point Thorin, I understand Manus has a plan to "SIGNON" and "SET
ABSENCE" using the web interface.

Mike.

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:43 AM, thorinmunro <[email protected]>wrote:

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> 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!
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> 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.
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> Thorin
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> --- 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?)
> >
> > 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:
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> > > 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
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> > >
> > > 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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