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#1 2010-11-15 13:16:43

Lightnin
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Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Thanks to an idea from scmb1 and JTxt, and some work done by paulmedwal (creator of clutter), the newest projects row now displays a random selection of recently shared projects each time the homepage is loaded.

This means that when people submit a new project, it has a much better chance of being viewed on the front page - not by everybody, but at least by some of the people who are viewing the homepage. Previously, only 3 projects would be shown to everyone until the cache renewed (and all the other projects shared in the meantime would skip the front page).

Many thanks to paulmedwal for implementing this!  smile


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#2 2010-11-15 13:42:42

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Wow that is great it gives me new insentive to upload projects.  smile


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#3 2010-11-15 15:26:44

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

You'll be seeing more projects from me!  lol

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#4 2010-11-15 15:30:03

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Nice! I liked that idea, good to see that it's been implemented.


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#5 2010-11-15 15:43:46

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

gettysburg11 wrote:

Nice! I liked that idea, good to see that it's been implemented.

^^ Agreed.  smile


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#6 2010-11-15 17:11:45

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

I can tell - each time you refresh the page, there are new projects! Great work guys  tongue


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#7 2010-11-15 17:14:09

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Yay! What a great way for projects to get more views! Must... finish... Flight to Neverland and then i can upload it  tongue  This is a great idea (and i hope it can be implimented for most viewed/loved/remixed  wink  )


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#8 2010-11-15 17:54:58

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Great idea! Now you can see new projects, and semi new projects.


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#9 2010-11-15 18:23:12

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

I like this.  smile


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#10 2010-11-15 19:22:59

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Awesome! Thanks for implementing it.  smile


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#11 2010-11-15 19:30:28

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Woo!  big_smile


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#12 2010-11-15 19:36:36

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Awesomeness!  big_smile


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#13 2010-11-16 00:35:51

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Cool, this is much better than before.  smile


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#14 2010-11-16 09:29:27

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

This is a good idea. There's a higher chance of viewing more projects now.


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#15 2010-11-16 14:23:07

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Glad you all like it! Be sure to say thanks next time you see paulmedwal.  smile


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#16 2010-11-16 14:26:52

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

I came here because I thought the Newest projects page was broken lol. Good work scmb, JT, and Paulmedwal ;P


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#17 2010-11-16 15:01:51

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

i like this! It also makes the homepage a lot less boring - now there's new projects there every refresh!  big_smile


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#18 2010-11-16 16:02:41

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Good idea!


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#19 2010-11-16 17:05:01

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

oh dear it seems someone has already figured out how to abuse this  sad  someone with... quite a few usernames posted a project under mulitiple usernames and about every third time or so the project comes up... maybe it could be modified so that projects with the same name don't come up together at the same time?


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#20 2010-11-16 17:18:17

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

lilacfuzz101 wrote:

oh dear it seems someone has already figured out how to abuse this  sad  someone with... quite a few usernames posted a project under mulitiple usernames and about every third time or so the project comes up... maybe it could be modified so that projects with the same name don't come up together at the same time?

Are you sure that what you are seeing is abuse? When we see giant streams of projects that look the same but are shared by different accounts, the culprit is usually a school / classroom. 

Even if it is someone trying to get their project viewed by sharing it to a lot of accounts - there's really not much advantage to this. Each project will only get a few views / love its / comments, and it's not likely to add up to much. And of course when we discover people attempting to game the homepage, we block them for going against the Terms of Use.


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#21 2010-11-16 17:24:47

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Lightnin wrote:

lilacfuzz101 wrote:

oh dear it seems someone has already figured out how to abuse this  sad  someone with... quite a few usernames posted a project under mulitiple usernames and about every third time or so the project comes up... maybe it could be modified so that projects with the same name don't come up together at the same time?

Are you sure that what you are seeing is abuse? When we see giant streams of projects that look the same but are shared by different accounts, the culprit is usually a school / classroom. 

Even if it is someone trying to get their project viewed by sharing it to a lot of accounts - there's really not much advantage to this. Each project will only get a few views / love its / comments, and it's not likely to add up to much. And of course when we discover people attempting to game the homepage, we block them for going against the Terms of Use.

ah yes it may be a school! the usernames were mostly a string of numbers... so it's quite likely that! i just wanted to let you know that it may be a problem at some point. thanks  smile


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#22 2010-11-16 19:52:48

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

yeah i noticed that. i refreshed the page and there were new projects, and then i did it again immediately, and there were new projects, and I kept on reloading the page and the new projects kept switching, and at first I was like, "Scratch is getting a lot of projects" and then I thought, "hmm" lol.

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#23 2010-11-20 13:41:46

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

I think this helped my featured project get viewed more!  big_smile 
Thanks paulmedwal, scmb and everyone who implemented this!  smile


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#24 2010-11-21 14:50:07

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

Lightnin wrote:

Thanks to an idea from scmb1 and JTxt, and some work done by paulmedwal (creator of clutter), the newest projects row now displays a random selection of recently shared projects each time the homepage is loaded.

why does it have to be random?
can't it be that it shows the most recently uploaded projects, instead of a random selection from new ones

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#25 2010-11-21 14:57:43

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Re: Each new project shared gets a chance to be in Newest projects!

scimonster wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

Thanks to an idea from scmb1 and JTxt, and some work done by paulmedwal (creator of clutter), the newest projects row now displays a random selection of recently shared projects each time the homepage is loaded.

why does it have to be random?
can't it be that it shows the most recently uploaded projects, instead of a random selection from new ones

That's what it was like before - Not all projects got on the newest projects, so that had to change it to this.  smile


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