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etwee
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Hey guys iv just been thinking lately, i duno about you guys, but lately we havent had much luck in terms of wifi games, and overall having a community which involves the DS.

i mean we talk about it, talk about poems and random stuff which is all cool, but we dont do much gaming?

I was wondering, what are some ideas or ways we can improve this site, so its more popular and checked frequently?

any ideas and suggetsions from the users (YOU Guys!!)

* my suggestion - somehow a bar that can show the users that are online? so we can chat easier etc.. to organise wifi.. Forums are good for people who are on and off, but alot of us regulars stay on to wait for replies to msgs.

thanks guys for ur input
21/11/2007
melb
phatbass82
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Well, it's hard to say what will help this website out. I've been trying to get the traffic flow up by also posting my Catalogue Sales on this website as well as MyWii.

Some people from that website to come on here as well, but being that discussions are fairly slow here, it's hard to keep them here.

Competitions are always good for attracting people. MyWii has had a tournament for Mario Strikers which was quite sucessful. Medals were also given out for participation and winning the tournament.
21/11/2007
Gold Coast, Queensland
spyke
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...that Mario Strikers competition failed hard...people didnt turn up, people couldnt organise themselves, ithink i was the last eprson to have a match in the semis and no one played after that...torunaments on both sites have been **** so to speak
21/11/2007
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phatbass82
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spyke said: ...that Mario Strikers competition failed hard...people didnt turn up, people couldnt organise themselves, ithink i was the last eprson to have a match in the semis and no one played after that...torunaments on both sites have been **** so to speak



lol, oh yeah, but at least it made an attempt at attracting some people. Do you remember if anybody had actually gotten medals for participating?


Forum games are always fun as well, although I don't think Guyver would be too keen, after having to look after the ones on mywii. Speaking of which, that website needs another forum game...lol.
21/11/2007
Gold Coast, Queensland
Guyver
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Good to see you get involved etwee.
Ok with WiFi matches, the problem lies in members commitment in turning up, we have had many attempts at running WiFi matches with people putting their hands up saying they're in but don't turn up at the last minute.
Maybe we need a better WiFi game other than Mario Kart and Pokemon?

There are quite a few people on here that don't go to MyWii so Phatbass's catalog sales update is added bonus for them.

As for traffic we get our fair share, recently I've been seeing decent numbers on the visitor counter, this maybe because off recent upgrade in quality of news articles, the continuous expansion of the games/accessories section, user reviews and so on, good thread topics also make a differences when people are running Google searches.
We get quite a few new members each day, I know because I send each and everyone of them a welcome message entailing how to enjoy the site and what are the rules. It's good seeing new members sign up but it's up to them if they want to post and comment.

Forum games will be allowed here as long as they are sensible, if you have an idea for a forum game please PM me first for approval, we don't want a million of them popping up at once.

The best thing members can do to keep the threads more active is to post in them, be helpful and be creative with you thread topic ideas, the DS is most popular portable gaming device in the world we should have heaps to ta
21/11/2007
Metal Slug 7
Melbourne
etwee
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cool thanks for replying. would have been devasted if no posts !! hey guyz has any of the mysites have a game waiting lounge or something? where people can go in a place noting they want to play and are live?

22/11/2007
melb
Guyver
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etwee said: cool thanks for replying. would have been devasted if no posts !! hey guyz has any of the mysites have a game waiting lounge or something? where people can go in a place noting they want to play and are live?



the closest thing to that is the "What are you doing now" section, but if you have any more suggestions feel free speak up, may I suggest ones that maybe an admin can do.
22/11/2007
Metal Slug 7
Melbourne
etwee
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yeah i guess adding more programs or applicatiosn to the site is more up to the programmers or something, isnt it?. who are our programmers anyway? i mean if they can redo the whole site, should be able to add some stuff in.

wat about a list of members who are online?? possible for admins?
22/11/2007
melb
Guyver
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etwee said: yeah i guess adding more programs or applicatiosn to the site is more up to the programmers or something, isnt it?. who are our programmers anyway? i mean if they can redo the whole site, should be able to add some stuff in.

wat about a list of members who are online?? possible for admins?



Yeah members list has been mentioned a few times before through out the MyMedia network, there's some good in that because you'll know if your mates are online but the down side is you'll know if there's no admins around as well
We've just had a recent update as you may have noticed with many new features added fro both members and admin staff, but adding new apps is not an easy task for MrDS to do regularly, compared to most forum sites we have a lot of options and features it's up to you guys how you utilize them, use them to help the site grow and make it a better place for all of us
22/11/2007
Metal Slug 7
Melbourne
ShuffleZ
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etwee said:
* my suggestion - somehow a bar that can show the users that are online? so we can chat easier etc.. to organise wifi.. Forums are good for people who are on and off, but alot of us regulars stay on to wait for replies to msgs.
thanks guys for ur input



Yeah, I told you Admins and stuff about that aaaaages ago and you guys said"Hey thats a good idea!" and left it at that... >.>
22/11/2007
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Lokie
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it wouldn't be hard to implement in ASP let alone ASP.net just a Time Stamp and DateDif
26/11/2007
Sydney
etwee
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id do it cept, im terrible at programming... maybe lokie *hint hint* haha
28/11/2007
melb
Lokie
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I did one before... every page updates your last page refresh with Now() and then you just calculate the difference between RS("Now") and Now() .. if the difference is < 10 minutes the Response.Write "User Online"
28/11/2007
Sydney
 
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