The first Panther projects have been submitted and uploaded to the Panther site. This is only a temporary laoding method, as soon as our proper sharing site is up and running, there will be an upload button in Panther that will save me a LOT of work! For the time being, I'm afraid we have a 5mb upload limit for files, which means that Kingdaro's AMAZING beat jam project could not be uploaded I will be sure to load it onto the new site just as soon as it comes up.
Users may notice that we have a colour coded rosett seal system in place, this allows you to make educated guesses about the projects we have on our site.
here are the two we have agreed on so far, other will follow. The rosetts apply to the user and the project.
green: Means that the user has never released any dangerous projects in the past or that that project has been checked by a member of the Panther team and found nothing that could be even potentially harmful.
black: (user only) this user is a Panther member of the Panther team and can be completely trusted.
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Please read!
Now that people can share their projects on the Panther site, we have included a verification system to stop people impersonating you and uploading dangerous or indecent projects in your name. This requires you to register your email account to your scratch username.
Don't worry guys. we're not gonna spam you or anything, it's just so that we know the project we got really is from you, and stops us getting projects from unknown authors.
what you do:
go to the register page and give us your email address and your scratch username. THE EMAIL IS NOT USED FOR ANY PURPOSE BUT VERIFICATION AND WILL NOT BE REDISTRIBUTED OUTSIDE PANTHER
as soon as I check my email (oh for want of an automated system ) I will send a message to the scratch acount name listed asking if that person did send us an email to ensure that no one used someone else's name when registering their name.
You reply telling me (hopefully) that you did in fact send that registration request thank you very much.
I add your email to the list of registered people and any emails I get from you with an attatched project will be uploaded to the Panther site.
I send you a confirmation email telling you that you can now send projects.
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It's probably less work for you than it is for me to process it, and I hope you understand I just want to make sure we don't get impersonators on the site, doing things they shouldn't in your name.
Oh, please do tick the box asking if you'd like update emails. It's nothing big, and you're probably not going to get them often anyway. It's just to keep you in the loop and tell you when bug fixes are done or new versions are released.
Thanks for reading all that. If you have questions, or can suggest a better method, do let me know, I'm all ears
Last edited by sparks (2010-05-19 05:34:34)
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It's great that we will be able to upload directly to the Panther Site. This will save us a lot of time.
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sparks wrote:
What's <foo>? it keeps popping up and it sounds funny :p
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sparks wrote:
green: Means that the user has never released any dangerous projects in the past...
This isn't a very convincing criterion. If you mean "the user has previously released zillions of project none of which were dangerous" that'd be better. (I do understand there's a startup problem!)
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bharvey wrote:
sparks wrote:
What's <foo>? it keeps popping up and it sounds funny :p
ah. thanks
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bharvey wrote:
sparks wrote:
green: Means that the user has never released any dangerous projects in the past...
This isn't a very convincing criterion. If you mean "the user has previously released zillions of project none of which were dangerous" that'd be better. (I do understand there's a startup problem!)
don't worry, we have plans for new users to have a different colour rosett as default, if they have that colour, it means they have been registered for less than two weeks or have less that 10 projects, whichever comes first.
the message would be something like:
this user is new, please be helpful and friendly towards them, but take some care when watching their projects as this person has not proved themselves reliable yet
.. it needs a lot of work, I know, but I think that something along those lines will help.
we'll also be likely to have special colours for people who have, say, 50 projects that are all green, to indicate they are trustworthy and maybe ones for citizenship if they are very helpful at all times, and ones for winning competitions, though we're trying not to over complicate the colouring, otherwise people will become confused.
Last edited by sparks (2010-05-19 07:14:57)
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sparks wrote:
No external file. But make at least one file called temp1.txt with options for temp2.txt +. type 'empty file' into each one.[from project description]
If I'm understanding correctly, I think this points out the need for a <FILE EXISTS?> predicate!
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Thanks to everyone who has registered so far, I'm glad to see that this idea is working
Yes bharvey, I want that one too, I just have no idea how to do that one. at the moment, I just do <not<contents of file[test.txt] = > (blank)
Last edited by sparks (2010-05-19 07:17:17)
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sparks wrote:
the message would be something like:
this user is new, please be helpful and friendly towards them, but take some care when watching their projects as this person has not proved themselves reliable yet
What if you have been on Scratch for over two weeks or have over ten projects. Would that still count? Or does it only apply to new Panther users?
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I would think it applies to Panther users and projects only, It's still in developmental stages at the moment, and the colour system isn't going to come into full effect until the proper sharing site is up and running. For now, I think black, green and orange will the the only colours (orange being an unchecked project or one that has file blocks, custom blocks or URL blocks in it)
I have to go to a psychology lesson now, expect me back in four hours or so.
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sparks wrote:
don't worry, we have plans for new users to have a different colour rosett as default, if they have that colour, it means they have been registered for less than two weeks or have less that 10 projects, whichever comes first.
Hmm. (1) Two weeks isn't a very long time. If I wanted to mess up your computer I'd be willing to wait two weeks. Indeed, I would probably want two weeks' experience before I dared post a project of mine anyway, security issues aside! (2) The trouble is that you're using the same color for this weak criterion as for the strong(er) criterion of you having read the code, so since I'm going to discount green thingies I don't get the benefit of you reading the code.
Sorry, I don't mean to beat on you, especially during your convalescence from net starvation. But -- maybe this is a transatlantic cultural difference? -- I expect "green" to mean "really for sure okay."
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sparks wrote:
and ones for winning competitions
Sadly, being smart is not a guarantee of being well-intentioned. (I was thinking of listing well-known examples but don't want to start a political flame war ) When you have user pages running, you can put decorations on users for reasons like that, but you should keep decorations on projects to mean just safety. Imho.
PS You should hurry up and get sandboxing working to avoid the need for all this; an unwanted side effect of a big visible security scheme is that it will make people hesitant about Panther altogether. (I'm thinking about that "my parents won't let me download it" message a few pages back, although those particular parents weren't worried about Panther per se.)
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bharvey wrote:
I get "page not found" when trying to download all the developer projects.
Same Here. They Need To Fix That.
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I can't register now as your site is blocked in school. But when i get home I will be sure to register on the site.
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Hi. I can get a .co.uk domain name, will take about a week to set up. If you would like it. Just send a reply to me if you are interested and what domain. This will be provided free of charge.
Thanks.
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rossyboyfilm wrote:
Hi. I can get a .co.uk domain name, will take about a week to set up. If you would like it. Just send a reply to me if you are interested and what domain. This will be provided free of charge.
Thanks.
Could we maybe have something like 'pantherprogramming.co.uk'?
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SeptimusHeap wrote:
rossyboyfilm wrote:
Hi. I can get a .co.uk domain name, will take about a week to set up. If you would like it. Just send a reply to me if you are interested and what domain. This will be provided free of charge.
Thanks.Could we maybe have something like 'pantherprogramming.co.uk'?
I have just asked him and he said he'll get that. If there is any other requests for domains please ask.
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Sperry wrote:
SeptimusHeap wrote:
rossyboyfilm wrote:
Hi. I can get a .co.uk domain name, will take about a week to set up. If you would like it. Just send a reply to me if you are interested and what domain. This will be provided free of charge.
Thanks.Could we maybe have something like 'pantherprogramming.co.uk'?
I have just asked him and he said he'll get that. If there is any other requests for domains please ask.
Yeah just to confirm what Sperry said, I will be aquiring your domain and it should be with you soon. If you would like any other ones then please tell me as I can get them free with a packagr I have got.
Please note that the web adress will be www.pantherprogramming.co.uk, you will have to put all the www's and the .co.uk. I searched Panther.co.uk but this is taken. Personally I think that pantherprogramming is a bit too long but if you have any other suggestions please tell me.
Thanks!
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I have a question: May I use Panther for my hack Oxid for SilverOzone? More here.
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Hi guys, just quickly signing in in the break
blimey, I can see that our colour systems has some big flaws
Rossyboyfilm, you've been helping alot lately, It's nice to see so much support for Panther. I like the idea of a .co.uk address, though why do you think we should change sites?
erm... what else... oh yes, I'l hae a look at the page not found problem when I get home, there's also a problem that they're all .sb because they were made before we changed to .pt so I think I'll try to re-upload them with the correct extention.
The more I and others use Panther, the more glitches appear. It seems that we need to address those things soon, and post a major bug fix for them We'll announce it here, on the Panther site and via Panthernews so people will hopefully notice it when it's published.
I'm not here thursday to sunday either , so Sperry will hopefull cover for me and keep the glitch reports coming in
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meew0 wrote:
I have a question: May I use Panther for my hack Oxid for SilverOzone? More here. I will give credit!
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sparks didn't answer my question...
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meew0 wrote:
meew0 wrote:
I have a question: May I use Panther for my hack Oxid for SilverOzone? More here. I will give credit!
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sparks didn't answer my question...
Whoops, sorry. I'm not really that sure what you mean. I'm all for it, but I don't understand what you're doing.
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