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What is this?This is a video of how I would like dAmn to behave. Mostly in regards to doing the /admin commands.

Why am I doing it?I've had this idea in my head for a few months, and decided to finally put it down on 'paper' and flesh out all the details.

Do I actually think this will happen?No not really, it's just my thoughts on it all. It's great if it inspires someone to make a Greasemonkey script or extension or something, and hey, if the tech guys see this, and it inspires them to change something to make it better, that's great.

What is this not?This is NOT a Greasemonkey script/Extension to make dAmn work like this. Hell, I don't even know if it would be possible to do this with a script or extension. This is simply a video showing how I would like dAmn to work. This is also NOT how I think it should look, it's more of how I think it should work. The buttons are too big, and just don't look good. The point here is to show how I think all the /admin commands could be improved.

And this is in NO WAY bashing the work of the coders of dAmn. It's really a great piece of work, and it has made MANY deviants happy. It brings people together like nothing else. This is JUST an idea of how I would like to improve it.

Like I said, I've been thinking about this for a while. The biggest problem I think dAmn has is that new users are totally lost when it comes to managing their own room. Simple things, like setting up the different privclasses and even making a title or topic can be hard for people. I really wish it was more intuitive and easy to do. More graphical and less command line. Sure, there is plenty of good info on how to do it all, but the fact remains that some people just don't work like that.

This would not replace any commands, it is just another way to do it. Most things are probably faster with the /admin commands, but then there's the dragging and dropping of privclasses that would be much faster. And the /manage/ page should stay where it is, because sometimes you may want to administrate something without joining the room.

Things to think about.I'm not sure if clicking the X by a user should ban them, or just kick them to the default privclass. Some people may not know how to /ban username, and that would clear that up, but I fear it may be too easy to accidentally ban someone.

Now if I was any good at coding, I would have just made an HTML page that has a real time demonstration of all this, but I'm just no good at that. I'm much better at video stuff, so that's what I did. I'm sure there's tons of things here that can be improved, but that's why you're here. Give me ideas!

As of making this, I've been up almost 34 hours. So I probably left something out, but I tried to get all the /admin stuff in there. Let me know if I missed something though.

Now for the details of the video.This was all done in After Effects, with nothing but screenshots of dAmn. I animated EVERYTHING. I even animated the mouse cursor moving around. So this ended up being 69 image/text layers, with one audio layer. There was a shit ton of position and opacity key frames too, I didn't use any effects, it's all pretty simple stuff. But I ended up spending 12 hours making it. It just takes time to make all the images needed and to figure out how to put it all together. The sound was from my favorite site, FreePlayMusic.com. I had to find something about 3:50 long, and that really limited my pickings. But I think it works pretty well.

Again, let me know what you think. I am very open to ideas

tl;dr: Just read it

Description
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¤ Please see this! ¤
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What is this?This is a video of how I would like dAmn to behave. Mostly in regards to doing the /admin commands.

Why am I doing it?I've had this idea in my head for a few months, and decided to finally put it down on 'paper' and flesh out all the details.

Do I actually think this will happen?No not really, it's just my thoughts on it all. It's great if it inspires someone to make a Greasemonkey script or extension or something, and hey, if the tech guys see this, and it inspires them to change something to make it better, that's great.

What is this not?This is NOT a Greasemonkey script/Extension to make dAmn work like this. Hell, I don't even know if it would be possible to do this with a script or extension. This is simply a video showing how I would like dAmn to work. This is also NOT how I think it should look, it's more of how I think it should work. The buttons are too big, and just don't look good. The point here is to show how I think all the /admin commands could be improved.

And this is in NO WAY bashing the work of the coders of dAmn. It's really a great piece of work, and it has made MANY deviants happy. It brings people together like nothing else. This is JUST an idea of how I would like to improve it.

Like I said, I've been thinking about this for a while. The biggest problem I think dAmn has is that new users are totally lost when it comes to managing their own room. Simple things, like setting up the different privclasses and even making a title or topic can be hard for people. I really wish it was more intuitive and easy to do. More graphical and less command line. Sure, there is plenty of good info on how to do it all, but the fact remains that some people just don't work like that.

This would not replace any commands, it is just another way to do it. Most things are probably faster with the /admin commands, but then there's the dragging and dropping of privclasses that would be much faster. And the /manage/ page should stay where it is, because sometimes you may want to administrate something without joining the room.

Things to think about.I'm not sure if clicking the X by a user should ban them, or just kick them to the default privclass. Some people may not know how to /ban username, and that would clear that up, but I fear it may be too easy to accidentally ban someone.

Now if I was any good at coding, I would have just made an HTML page that has a real time demonstration of all this, but I'm just no good at that. I'm much better at video stuff, so that's what I did. I'm sure there's tons of things here that can be improved, but that's why you're here. Give me ideas!

As of making this, I've been up almost 34 hours. So I probably left something out, but I tried to get all the /admin stuff in there. Let me know if I missed something though.

Now for the details of the video.This was all done in After Effects, with nothing but screenshots of dAmn. I animated EVERYTHING. I even animated the mouse cursor moving around. So this ended up being 69 image/text layers, with one audio layer. There was a shit ton of position and opacity key frames too, I didn't use any effects, it's all pretty simple stuff. But I ended up spending 12 hours making it. It just takes time to make all the images needed and to figure out how to put it all together. The sound was from my favorite site, FreePlayMusic.com. I had to find something about 3:50 long, and that really limited my pickings. But I think it works pretty well.

Again, let me know what you think. I am very open to ideas

tl;dr: Just read it