WOW, the activity on the quack board is totally AMAZING! 87% done!

Probably because the visible tiles make discussion possible.

I really think that the next pixelation board should have the same format! Just saying

YAY! Deployed to live!

http://tzigla.com/boards/3

http://tzigla.com/boards/1

Since yesterday, based on feedback and earlier requests, the following changes were made:

- option to show only comments in the board activity stream
  - events are also dimmed so they don't stand out
- artists in the header are sorted by the first tile they reserved
- borders are now visible for the ccc64 board
- we also log an event when a tile becomes visible (only applies to quack board)

ps: Thanks to Mathias for the wake up call that let us know these things were really needed!

The problem with showing all the borders all the time is that it looks very ugly

Here's how it looks with our development data (which is based on some old tiles.ice.org board)



Also, I think that having all the borders makes it less random since as you say, it will allow people to see more than what they need. But I understand where you're coming from, you saw something that's related to your tile but now it's gone.

Because of the ugliness, I don't really want to show all the borders all the time. But we're thinking about how to make it somehow temporary? Maybe we should show all the borders of the surrounding tile when you click on an available tile (one with a plus)? Or, maybe have it as an option once you reserve a tile?

ps: the commenting and activity stuff is coming along great and we'll probably deploy something today!
pps: we've figured out why some tiles had shitty colors on the quack board. tech explanation: it's because of browser handling of embedded color profiles in png files. we'll start removing color profiles from uploaded files so things will blend

Thanks for the long post and ideas!

First, tzigla is definitely its own entity. One that loves to integrate with others . It would suck to have it closed and just available to only one forum.

re: ranking/rating. I think that instead of making tzigla a competition and having newbie users feel sad that their stuff is not as loved, I'd rather have the admin pick a skill level for the board then handle people out of line through moderation. Newbs would probably not enter high end boards and high end artists won't enter newb boards by themselves. Less automated policing, more human interaction.

re: awards. We were thinking about badges or achievements or such, but that might again turn things into a competition. We will probably add some sort of simple like/favorite/start button. But its main use would be that so you can keep a list of things, raking tiles by it will be a distant second and most likely there won't be a top 10 or such.

re: team collabs. Same things as above about competitions. But teams might allow for more fun things tho

I agree that competition is a very good driving force, at least it is for me, but we'll be very careful about how we add it to tzigla, since having other motivations besides making nice things might push some to optimize for gaining points/badges/awards instead of making nice things. Competitions also mean that someone loses, and this is not what a collab should be about.

We're might even go in the other direction by adding some PixelJoint style collabs with all tiles visible, WIPs, CCs, allowing people to edit each other's tiles, etc.

After this week, when we'll finish the commenting/activity stuff and UI revamp, we'll then add hexes and then think about this kind of things.