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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #45 on: December 04, 2010, 05:28:51 pm »
Quote from: Builderboy on December 04, 2010, 05:26:42 pm
I haven't seen a review get posted in over half a year unfortunately :(

Probably that's because they have no review editor
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #46 on: December 04, 2010, 05:37:04 pm »
Quote from: ScoutDavid on December 04, 2010, 05:28:51 pm
Quote from: Builderboy on December 04, 2010, 05:26:42 pm
I haven't seen a review get posted in over half a year unfortunately :(

Probably that's because they have no review editor

They have one, but he (chronomex/Duncan Smith) is just lazy and/or rather busy.
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #47 on: December 04, 2010, 05:39:06 pm »
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They have one, but he (chronomex/Duncan Smith) is just lazy and/or rather busy.

That's what I meant, they have one but he's probably too busy :S
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #48 on: December 04, 2010, 05:39:13 pm »
or just forgot about the site O.O
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #49 on: December 04, 2010, 05:40:19 pm »
Quote from: Ashbad on December 04, 2010, 05:39:13 pm
or just forgot about the site O.O

That sutff happens, but I hope they fix, I'd like my prgorams to be reviewed and also to review others :D
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #50 on: December 04, 2010, 05:41:14 pm »
the last updated review was for Graph^3, and I wrote it O.O  months ago
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #51 on: December 04, 2010, 05:42:18 pm »
Quote from: Ashbad on December 04, 2010, 05:41:14 pm
the last updated review was for Graph^3, and I wrote it O.O  months ago


I bet I've had 1000000000 reviews on Racer3D: replay, saying AWESOME things, but they are not published, how bad!!
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #52 on: December 04, 2010, 10:20:56 pm »
Quote from: ScoutDavid on December 04, 2010, 05:20:38 pm
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 04, 2010, 05:18:45 pm
Nah, Ticalc.org was just kinda dormant at the time. Ultima V got featured 3 months after it came out, that year, and I remember sometimes they had no news for 3 months and it took over one month to get files processed.

They never got to 1300 files in the pending queue again since 2003, though. http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/7/78/78717.html

I think they reached 1371 or 1381, or something...

That's terrible!!!! I think they need WAY more staff...

Also, I've written 7 reviews and none of them showed up.

(latest one was 1.5 weeks ago, last one was today)
They're doing much better now. Back then they would have needed much more active staff. Now they would probably need one, like a co-news editor, because the two current ones are doing a great job, but when they're busy news starts falling behind considerably. 1381 files was a record set in 2003 I think. I never saw the pending queue reach 600 afterward, although it happened quite often. I remember when new files would be approved, the front page had like 200 listed. I wouldn't be surprised if this was why they started losing traffic, too. I'm glad ticalc got their act together 2 years ago and added Nikky and Travis. I hope Duncan/Chronomex starts processing reviews again, though...
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #53 on: December 05, 2010, 02:49:56 pm »
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They're doing much better now. Back then they would have needed much more active staff. Now they would probably need one, like a co-news editor, because the two current ones are doing a great job, but when they're busy news starts falling behind considerably. 1381 files was a record set in 2003 I think. I never saw the pending queue reach 600 afterward, although it happened quite often. I remember when new files would be approved, the front page had like 200 listed. I wouldn't be surprised if this was why they started losing traffic, too. I'm glad ticalc got their act together 2 years ago and added Nikky and Travis. I hope Duncan/Chronomex starts processing reviews again, though...

I have a doubt, all featured programs run automatically to POTY?
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #54 on: December 05, 2010, 08:28:07 pm »
As soon as a program is posted in a news article there, it gets a green icon besides its name. All programs from December 1st of the previous year until November 30th of the current year are eligible for the current year POTY. They used to feature files even if no news were posted about them, though.
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #55 on: December 06, 2010, 07:49:08 am »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 05, 2010, 08:28:07 pm
As soon as a program is posted in a news article there, it gets a green icon besides its name. All programs from December 1st of the previous year until November 30th of the current year are eligible for the current year POTY. They used to feature files even if no news were posted about them, though.

News should be made, like the Exodus, the Ndless 1.7 and Simul.

So, random people visiting the website could just go WOW, gotta download this.
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #56 on: December 06, 2010, 12:47:00 pm »
Well, the issue back in the days is that ticalc pretty much featured anything, even stuff that were not that feature worthy. In 1999 there were text-based RPGs being featured. Back then, ticalc.org posted news every day, sometimes 3 times a day. If they made news about every single features, their news would have been cluttered fast.
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #57 on: December 06, 2010, 02:07:17 pm »
Woot i got my confirmation and voted for illustat! :w00t:
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #58 on: December 06, 2010, 03:32:49 pm »
When did you request one? I hope it doesn't take 3-4 days O.O
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Re: Ticalc.org gets POTY again
« Reply #59 on: December 06, 2010, 04:46:21 pm »
It was in my spam  lol i fail
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