ARMASTACK: The place to ask your editing questions!

[Soul_Assassin]

Good initiative


Some recommendations:

a) Have a simple wiki in addition. To explain the site, provide links to various parts of it.
Especially feed usage is key.

b) Reduce the banner on the main site height a lot.

c) If possible adapt the interface to http://stackoverflow.com
Currently this is way harder to read. Usability is the key for such a project.

d) Remove the user pics (at least on the main page).

e) The font size is too small for text messages (this vs SO)

f) The related posts should be more visually separated.


Most important this should integrate with the BIKI.

So in most cases people should link to the BIKI with a bit of context.
If nothing is in the BIKI, create a simple new page, add your info and link it.

Thanks for your feedback! Will be taken under consideration.

Nice job, been wanting to make something like this myself.
Please optimize the text, we don't need a fancy design

Fancy design? :S The logo is pretty much the only image on the site :P

[Soul_Assassin]

A first round of UI updates have been done

[JdB]

Personally I would prefer to have the tags a little smaller than the actual questions/answers, since they are less important.

[Soul_Assassin]

Personally I would prefer to have the tags a little smaller than the actual questions/answers, since they are less important.

That also has been adjusted

[.kju [PvPscene]]

Well done.

You may want to try to add a border or light background to highlight the main text areas
(questions on the main site and answers on the given question page).

The font of the category buttons looks distorted now here (1280x1024):

[.kju [PvPscene]]

A few more points to consider:

• Profile option to disable the avatars
• Ability to turn off email notification by default
• You may want to rename "Find" to "Search" (people are used to the later .. unfortunately)
• Highlight the "Ask a question" tab/button
• Separate visually (space/position) the left filters, Ask a question and howTo+rules (similar to http://stackoverflow.com for example)
• An element to show the last ten answers on the right side would be an idea
• The rss feed post should contain the nick/name of the poster of the question/answer
• The answer text box is rather small. Can it be made more wide at least please
• Is there a Skype group chat or similar for ARMASTACK yet?
• Long term: multilingual interface

[PuFu]

A few more points to consider:[*]Profile option to disable the avatars

I actually don't mind them, even more i find it easier to visually recognize whoever is posting. My only gripe is with their size..

[*]Ability to turn off email notification by default

True, i already get my mailbox spamed (fixed by filtering in another folder)

[*]You may want to rename "Find" to "Search" (people are used to the later .. unfortunately)

Oh come on...Really?

[*]Highlight the "Ask a question" tab/button

...or change the order

[*]Separate visually (space/position) the left filters, Ask a question and howTo+rules (similar to http://stackoverflow.com for example)

+1. In my mind the How to shouldn't even be in the question list, but written exactly as the rules are.

[*]An element to show the last ten answers on the right side would be an idea

Goes together with a filtering option. For now though SA had enough PHP

[*]The rss feed post should contain the nick/name of the poster of the question/answer

True. Additionally the RSS should be a button on the top of the page, together with linked websites (mandatory in my mind should be the biki, BIF editing part of the forums, OFPEC, and eventually links towards tools/plug-ins...)

[*]The answer text box is rather small. Can it be made more wide at least please

Doesn't mind me

[*]Is there a Skype group chat or similar for ARMASTACK yet?

Not that i know of, but i don't really see its purpose.

[*]Long term: multilingual interface

I don't agree with this, especially since all answers will be in the official web language, which is English. The auto-translator capability of the Questions2Answers is not all that great...

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Additionally, comments should be counted as well per question if not views as well. Or at least show some activity in a question, otherwise there is no way to check if you got some reply, even if not a straight answer

[.kju [PvPscene]]

Unless SA wants to do this as an one man project, more people to join the effort, the
organization, administration, development and discussion should be a prime goal.

A group chat of any sort does that job well.

So what is your say SA? Do you welcome others to help you out or not?


PS: I don't get your attitude at all answering this one by one anyway. Everyone is
entitled to his opinion and impression. There is no right or wrong.

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Is it possible to define multiple sets of keywords for the code coloring?
if then else are part of control structures. They should have a different color than SQF commands.
Ref: http://www.armastack.info/index.php/...d-vehicle-crew

The site probably should be optimized on a default width of 1280. Less is probably no longer the standard
interface size people use.

Somewhat confusing is the enforced space between two lines, if you enforce a newline.
IMHO this should be removed - to use standard behavior is mostly a good thing and full control to the user
over the design is also meaningful.

[PuFu]

PS: I don't get your attitude at all answering this one by one anyway. Everyone is entitled to his opinion and impression. There is no right or wrong.

The point of answering one by one is that i find it easier for me to track each question, and by no mean trying to say i am right, and you are wrong, or the other way around for that matter
There is a reason that when i post messenges of this sort, i actually number each paragraph, instead of bulleting them, so one can reply using the same numbers as reference.

[Soul_Assassin]

A few more points to consider:

• Profile option to disable the avatars
• Ability to turn off email notification by default
• You may want to rename "Find" to "Search" (people are used to the later .. unfortunately)
• Highlight the "Ask a question" tab/button
• Separate visually (space/position) the left filters, Ask a question and howTo+rules (similar to http://stackoverflow.com for example)
• An element to show the last ten answers on the right side would be an idea
• The rss feed post should contain the nick/name of the poster of the question/answer
• The answer text box is rather small. Can it be made more wide at least please
• Is there a Skype group chat or similar for ARMASTACK yet?
• Long term: multilingual interface

Hey again thnx for the suggestions. Here are some points that I can answer straight away:

- the avatars stay. They really dont hurt anyone.
- The email notification is something to look at for sure. But for now you can just check off under the post before you submit
- the top menu layout will be looked at. Thnx for pointing it out.

About discussion channel: well I guess one can be made, I really dont mind, just find me on skype and we can make it.