Homepage improvement...

[Flame]

Random game & smallmaps on the homepage.
What do you think?

https://d.radikal.ru/d20/2007/fd/fe5b52d07c5b.png

[Flame]

I've left only "Random game" option with smallmap. Cause to much graphics may cause a big page load delay.

[Jamiet99uk]

The small maps on the right look cool.

Having a small map for a random game you're not playing in, is kinda pointless.

[bo_sox48]

Agree with Jamie about the maps on the left but I like the one on the right. Have you pushed a branch to the webDip Github? If you haven’t, please take the time to do that for me. All three devs (jmo, Squigs, and I) are short on time due to some positive real life matters so it may take us some time to check it out but I would like to pull it down and see how that works.

[Flame]

The small maps on the right look cool.

Having a small map for a random game you're not playing in, is kinda pointless.

The idea of "Random map" block - is to make a visual teaser for the rookies who are new to WebDiplomacy and to restrain him from leaving the site. Cause, when a new player register to the site - he is redirected to the homepage, where he find out an ascetic scene and immediately leave the website...

Yes I will send a code to github.

[Mercy]

Looks good. If the point is to tease new players, you could show a random game on the right if the player currently is not in a game.

[Octavious]

I'm not sure how good an idea a random game is. Many of our games are great, but others... not so much. We wouldn't do ourselves any favours by attempting to entice new players with the prospect of an unstoppable juggernaut slowly carving its way through a couple of civil disorders, the inept, and the globally furious.

[captainmeme]

Maybe show a Featured Game in that section instead of a random one? Like, the mod team could select a number of games that could appear there and then it randomly selects between them. Kinda like the old League of Legends client would occasionally pop up high level games you could spectate on its homepage.

[Flame]

Maybe show a Featured Game in that section instead of a random one? Like, the mod team could select a number of games that could appear there and then it randomly selects between them. Kinda like the old League of Legends client would occasionally pop up high level games you could spectate on its homepage.

Hmm.... smth like The Final Game of the recent tournament to be placed here or "The Biggest points Pot game of the server"...

[RoganJosh]

Like the Featured Game. There is already the start mark for the largest pot games, right?

[Flame]

Or maybe there we should place "random New game" or the best variant would be "Random game where substitution is needed"

[bo_sox48]

We can feature Pacifist Diplomacy as the longest running game, I’m sure that would be a lovely preview.

[Flame]

I've done 3 random NEW games in the left column (I think this will help to collect the needed amount of players for the game more faster).

[Flame]

3 RANDOM NEW GAMES IN THE LEFT COLUMN
https://c.radikal.ru/c07/2007/54/266c38ce1b6c.png

[Jamiet99uk]

3 RANDOM NEW GAMES IN THE LEFT COLUMN
https://c.radikal.ru/c07/2007/54/266c38ce1b6c.png

Seriously, you are obsessing about the wrong thing.

What evidence do you have that new players are leaving the site after registering, because of the lack of information on the home screen about random games that they cannot join?

[Flame]

3 RANDOM NEW GAMES IN THE LEFT COLUMN
https://c.radikal.ru/c07/2007/54/266c38ce1b6c.png

Seriously, you are obsessing about the wrong thing.

What evidence do you have that new players are leaving the site after registering, because of the lack of information on the home screen about random games that they cannot join?

Ok! I agree with you.

[Flame]

Ok. I put to the left side block with "Featured games" - one game randomly picked from the 3 top active games with the biggest money-pot.

[Flame]

We can feature Pacifist Diplomacy as the longest running game, I’m sure that would be a lovely preview.

May I post the code right here not to Github project?

[bo_sox48]

Pushing it to the open source project on Github is standard.

[Chaqa]

Flame, could you use a different image host? Maybe imgur?