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Hiya guys, Aye, I've been mulling that feature around for a little while. It's one of the things I intend to add shortly. I am thinking that I'll add a "Propose changes" button to the moderation page, which will allow you to change/add any field to that specific request. Once a change request has proposed changes, I'll reset its approval/denial count, which would then send it back through moderation normally. So as to prevent trolling, I'd limit the reset count to three, which would make any further edits impossible to that specific request set, but would probably give us enough tries to get it right as a group :). Make sense?
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@DOS76 - The reason for them not being in the navbar at the moment is due to the fact that Jason, Myself and Brad need to review them. To be fair, they shouldn't be on the add new game page either, as they're not "production-ready" yet, but I'm rolling out the UI anyways as the database is still in Alpha status. (i.e. we need to change the verbiage, spellcheck them, format them so they look better, make an interface so as to allow for easy editing, make a webpage to display them properly, remove a lot of them as most of them were band-aid fixes to DB bugs or limitations, etc). Basically, guidelines are still a work in progress, but they should be done shortly-ish :).
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Heya @neil9000, Guideline info boxes are available on the "add game" page. I'll be adding them to the edit details view shortly, as well as a full listing of them through a navbar link.
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Open - Deletions not functioning properly? - Issue #339
Vlansix replied to DjBlades's topic in Troubleshooting
Heya Dj, Not yet. I've just noticed that Jason implemented something partially like what I'm trying to do, and I'm not sure why. I'll have to leave this one up for a while, as I'm uncertain as to whether or not there was a reason for keeping them around. (i.e. there's already a function on the server that looks for and identifies all images that are being impacted by this issue. It does nothing with them, just tells you what the problematic images are, so I'm not sure if he was already looking into fixing it and never had the chance to finish, or whether he wanted to do something else with them.) All in all, we'll have a fix when Jason comes back, I just don't want to randomly delete one thousand-ish images he may have had plans for :P. -
Open - Deletions not functioning properly? - Issue #339
Vlansix replied to DjBlades's topic in Troubleshooting
Heh, so, good catch @DjBlades! Basically, the image deletion process sometimes encounters an error which causes it to fail at deleting some of the images hosted on images.launchbox-app.com. Sadly, it often fails while trying to delete the actual image being hosted, and not while trying to delete the thumbnailed image we're showing online, which causes ghost images to be downloaded. There's about one thousand of these lying around the site right now. I'll erase them all and add a cleanup script to the DB maintenance routines. Basically, if this happens again in the future (which it probably will, as it's basically a threading/file IO issue which is a pain to handle gracefully with the current system we're using), it'll catch it and erase it at midnight, which should prevent these images from being downloaded randomly. -
Open - Deletions not functioning properly? - Issue #339
Vlansix replied to DjBlades's topic in Troubleshooting
So, looking into this now. You're completely right. I'll have a fix up shortly to handle all of these. -
There we go. Fixed it. Also removed all erroneous carriage return HTML entities from the database.
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Resolved - cannot add to the database - Informational
Vlansix replied to diamondgeezer's topic in Troubleshooting
Hiya @diamondgeezer, Can you provide more information, and confirm that the issue is still present? -
Heya guys, I'm currently looking at adding more fanart and reconstructed categories, but I'm thinking we'll need to forget about concept art. I'd love to host it, but there's a very real danger of getting recently-purchased art book scans in, which is something we really don't want, due to potential copyright issues. I'll check with Jason later, as there's the potential for adding custom image fields in the future, which would allow you to integrate whatever you have into LaunchBox, but as far as us hosting it, we really don't want lawyers kicking down our doors and throwing stacks of costly papers at us, if that makes any sense :). In any case, new fields are coming shortly :). Thanks for the feedback, gang!
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Resolved - Moderation Page Not Working - Issue #???
Vlansix replied to diamondgeezer's topic in Troubleshooting
Heya @diamondgeezer, If you ever run into any error like this in the future, make sure to mention my name here (add an @ before my name in your message), I'll get a notification on my phone :). Otherwise, I may not see it for a while, and that may be bad. Anymoo, thanks for taking the time to report! -
Hi @Freestate, We're currently working on this stuff. Please either lookup the patch notes for LaunchBox itself, the twitch livestream and/or youtube videos where Jason develops the LaunchBox client live, or join the LaunchBox public discord and drop into the database channel to get the latest new re: what's being worked on and/or what's already fixed :).
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Open - Deletions not functioning properly? - Issue #339
Vlansix replied to DjBlades's topic in Troubleshooting
That's odd o.O. I'll look into it again in a few minutes. Please send me the URLs for the games you're talking about specifically so I can make sure I'm looking at the right thing :). -
Games Launching In RA But Not LB On Some Platforms
Vlansix replied to akilatem's topic in Troubleshooting
FYI - Moving this to the correct subforum ;). -
Problem with importing Hyperspin ready Sets and LB Database
Vlansix replied to Chris Kant's topic in Troubleshooting
Hi @Chris Kant, The database side of things already does that, so no worries there :). We're currently working on improving the name matching in the LaunchBox client as well. It'll probably come in with the addition of alternate name matching. -
Open - Deletions not functioning properly? - Issue #339
Vlansix replied to DjBlades's topic in Troubleshooting
Heya Dj, Just looked through all the images we have in the DB for locoroco, that image actually isn't being hosted by us anymore, so it's probably just laying around in your images folder somewhere :). Same goes for mario party. -
Open - Deletions not functioning properly? - Issue #339
Vlansix replied to DjBlades's topic in Troubleshooting
The approval/refusal ratios are the same. The fact that the DB performs much better now allows for moderators to go through more changes quicker, is all :). -
Open - Deletions not functioning properly? - Issue #339
Vlansix replied to DjBlades's topic in Troubleshooting
Quick update. The fix for this is now live. Lemme know if it works :). -
Open - Deletions not functioning properly? - Issue #339
Vlansix replied to DjBlades's topic in Troubleshooting
Hi Guys, Thanks for the feedback! This is a different bug than what I fixed (i.e. we had an issue with deleting games that had alternate titles set.) I figured I missed something with Image deletion request, but I couldn't find examples of it going wrong. Thanks for the data! I'll get this sorted on Wednesday. -
So. Fixes are live now- 1. Some fields were being sent with invalid dates. This is still possible through the frontend, but the database engine will now automatically delete these erroneous entries once they are found. 2. The Wikipedia URL field has a maximum character count of 255 characters. Some users are submitting URLs longer than The Great Gatsby, which causes crashes. This is also being caught and deleted. Looking into Google's URL Shortener as a solution in the future. 3. Nameless games bug has been fixed, the issue was related to some changes being partially approved and, as such, losing their name as that seems to have been the only request that actually got through moderation properly. 4. Performance tweaks: All requests older than 31 days will now automatically be rejected. 5. Performance tweak: The tables containing the change requests, their indexes, their moderation status and the skipped games will now automatically archive anything older than 31 days. Both of these changes should dramatically increase moderation speeds. 6. Famicom merged with NES 7. Zombie requests are problematic (i.e. bugged requests that don't go away), these will automatically be rejected by the system now. 8. Internal server error on deletion: Currently working on it. Will advise once corrected.
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Aye, the invalid years issue is mostly sorted in the dev build. Once the server encounters an erroneous date field, it will delete it. This will still require one user to encounter an error (which is what I'm working on as I'd prefer it be seamless), but if I can't get it completely sorted by today, I'll at least upload that so we can get the submissions out of the moderation queue.
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Bad news. The frontend still tries to push the nonexistent data through (as all the changes go through multiple processing passes). Good news, it doesn't prevent anyone but the first user who falls on a submission from orocessing it normally. Same deal for all other corrupt fields. So, all in all, about 50% done :P.
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Cannot d/l box front image if it is the only image found
Vlansix replied to WTutwiler's topic in Troubleshooting
@WTutwiler - Can you confirm that you're only seeing the cover images for these games? I'm seeing a ton of images available on my end, so I just want to make sure. (i.e. http://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/images/40999 ) re: Windows import, aye, it's a bit lacking. Fixing the import wizard is on the todo list :).