tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post1837855760511807353..comments2024-03-26T20:47:12.919+00:00Comments on Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog: On Torhead and TORCommunityShintarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-40920696971718041242015-04-15T07:52:16.992+01:002015-04-15T07:52:16.992+01:00I've been wondering how much time Dulfy actual...I've been wondering how much time Dulfy actually devotes to her site... clearly a lot, but I couldn't see it making enough money to make a living off it? I'm probably wrong, or else she may simply be funded through other means.<br /><br />I agree about the problem of tackling a project this size as something on the side. Getting more contributors in has certainly helped TORCommunity, but we'll see how it goes in the long run.<br /><br />All in all, a very insightful comment. Thank you! :)Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-21835312040961891682015-04-15T01:32:03.594+01:002015-04-15T01:32:03.594+01:00I know Haywood, rather loosely through when I used...I know Haywood, rather loosely through when I used to be a sub healer for the rep guild he was in. I think pretty well of him as a player and person, though I haven't discussed torcommunity with him since my swtor time mostly consists of looking at your site, The Cantina, and other sites in your side bar. I believe swtor_minor has no issues working with him so I figure my read on Hayward and the others is pretty good.<br /><br />All that being said, such as it is (lotta words for not much content, my specialty) I have concerns on the grand plans similar to you. I can say that for the parser, the original developer wrote it with no scalability in mind and the person recoding it has had a fair amount to do. That decision to recode came after months of trying to find bandaid solutions but knowing, not yet admitting to self (my pov) that a full rewrite would be necessary. I think most of the reason for the slow progress is that this a pure side job for the folks involved, though they did pick up some new folks in the last 6 months. I think serious progress in a timely manner seems hard to envision given that they work full time, play a decent amount (assumption), and presumably have regular real life competing for time spent working on the site.<br /><br />As I see it, the drama boils down to folks doing it on the side wanting to make a site that is respected as a resource but is "competing" against a site run by someone as a full time job who can not only spend all day on pts grabbing screen shots and info, but who 1) is respected by the community and likely gets good will submissions of images/info due to her early presence as the only real resource for swtor, and 2) due to running it full time, can pay developers, or if she has the skills herself, devote serious time to implementing new "features" / pages / galleries / whatever.mooftaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-67131867110746722882015-04-14T21:52:44.071+01:002015-04-14T21:52:44.071+01:00I used to use WoWWiki back before it got overrun w...I used to use WoWWiki back before it got overrun with malware, but aside from that I pretty much muddled through by myself.Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-68207546236813659442015-04-14T07:44:07.833+01:002015-04-14T07:44:07.833+01:00Looking good so far!Looking good so far!Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-5451921781817848142015-04-14T07:03:20.986+01:002015-04-14T07:03:20.986+01:00It's true that updates are important, but most...It's true that updates are important, but most content from the original game hasn't changed much since launch, so if you wanted to know what things a certain companion likes or how to do a particular quest, it remained useful for those kinds of things even as it became outdated overall.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-76832196741499006092015-04-14T03:27:07.224+01:002015-04-14T03:27:07.224+01:00Yeah some rando brought it up in the comments and ...Yeah some rando brought it up in the comments and one of the TORCommunity guys made the mistake of commenting on it - looked like he got baited pretty hard. >_<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-14451631286909450952015-04-14T03:22:48.259+01:002015-04-14T03:22:48.259+01:00It looks like TORCommunity has a basic frontend fo...It looks like TORCommunity has a basic frontend for their Items Database up and running now, and they released a beta Schematics database for Kickstarter backers the other day:<br />http://torcommunity.com/database/search<br /><br />They also put up a demo of their Interactive Maps, I really like what I'm seeing:<br />http://torcommunity.com/database/interactive-maps/balmorra-empire<br /><br />Looks really good so far, can't wait for the rest of the features!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-53568231301139443462015-04-14T00:03:53.588+01:002015-04-14T00:03:53.588+01:00I tried to use TORHead a few times but it was alwa...I tried to use TORHead a few times but it was always so far out of date that it was effectively useless so I never went back. With these type of database type site you really need to keep on top of content to make sure it is up to date which takes a lot of work but if you don't do enough you effectively take yourself out of the picture as you do not provide the latest info. I feel that TORHead was so far out of date that they will not really be missed.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05684294191795958441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-86833939757571878512015-04-13T07:23:25.859+01:002015-04-13T07:23:25.859+01:00How could you rarely ever use WoWhead (and before ...How could you rarely ever use WoWhead (and before its existence, Thottbot)? :D Wonder where that nice piece of gear/mount/pet is from? WoWhead! Stuck on a quest? WoWhead comments!Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-13891416764464983992015-04-13T03:41:20.115+01:002015-04-13T03:41:20.115+01:00TBH, I hardly ever used TORHead, but I also hardly...TBH, I hardly ever used TORHead, but I also hardly ever used WOWHead either. They catered to a subset of each game's playerbase, and the volume from SWTOR was proportionally lower than WoW's.<br /><br />Still, I wish the next generation of databases good luck.<br />Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-73604096371721016612015-04-12T10:05:01.185+01:002015-04-12T10:05:01.185+01:00Oh, that's clever, I hadn't even thought o...Oh, that's clever, I hadn't even thought of looking at archive.org... looks like there really wasn't very much there those first couple of years.<br /><br />(On a side note, it's also funny to look back at my own site back in 2012! I forgot just how much that colour scheme used to hurt the eyes... and it's interesting to see the old blogroll and how it's almost 100% different from my current one.)Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-25989085513903587492015-04-11T23:30:38.465+01:002015-04-11T23:30:38.465+01:00The domain was registered in 2009 and archive.org ...The domain was registered in 2009 and archive.org shows a hello world kind of post from that year. I didn't see any major development until late 2011, which makes sense, but then it stalled out between 2012-2014 and it's only started to pick up recently. I'd never heard of it either until I saw one of their posts on Reddit. Maybe someone was just off by 1 year? Anyway, I really like what they've been doing so far, but I'm not a fan of the drama.Pixelkaffehttp://www.pixelkaffe.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-3477276978288010802015-04-11T22:21:54.326+01:002015-04-11T22:21:54.326+01:00Hehe, I saw that thread on Reddit and thought it w...Hehe, I saw that thread on Reddit and thought it was weird... (assuming we're talking about the post about the interview that HealingSWTOR did with her). To be fair though, most people who posted seemed to agree that it was an odd thing to bring up... and I see no reason to assume that this had anything to do with TORCommunity.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-16628585315878008882015-04-11T22:10:03.138+01:002015-04-11T22:10:03.138+01:00" This competition has apparently been laced ..." This competition has apparently been laced with quite a bit of drama, but as a fan looking in from the outside, I have to say it's nice to see multiple sites working on supporting the community and (hopefully) pushing each other to try harder."<br /><br />Can't really say there's anything nice..or competitive, about 30+ comments questioning Dulfy's gender. How completely irrelevant and pointless. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com