whoa.... ray, your the new f@#!ing drama queen...
that was sick and tasteless...
your only helping if everything is done how you want it, and what you say goes, and its all or nothing... gtfo
TUS NO WANT YOU BLOODCLOT HELP THAN MON!
I insist on doing it one way because I have a reason for it and I know for a fact that it just cannot work otherwise. I've been part of design teams and I know how the thought process works which leads to actual solutions, I want the best for this site, that's all.
This site needs a complete change of source code and one good graphic, not user submissions. Why is everything user-submissions here? Nevermind, nothing will ever change here, just people will leave and quality will decrease until it's going to be like WWP.
If by source code, you mean HTML output, yes. Since TUS2, it is possible to have a 100% different output on any part of TUS. From images to HTML tags etc etc...
TUS has changed a lot since its creation, I may have a lot of bad qualities as an admin, but one thing I have shown and that is I'm not afraid of change. However I can't change "user-submissions". I live in a country with total dictatorship and few people who think they are better than anyone and decide for us. Maybe that has exaggerated my point of view but I don't think I'm better than the community and I don't want to be considered as one. I'm one of them. If they need anything I'm here to help.
See, you have offered us to volunteer, but nothing is organized. If you want something to happen, you, as a leader, have to put a team together. That team would set up a conference, where you talk, discuss and try to find a way to solve the problem. First of course you have to find the problem. But like this, nothing is ever going to change.
If you are willing to do that, I'm offering you my help. But save the "what do you want community?" threads then. Put together a team of volunteers who know what to do and discuss with them, on Skype or whatever, what is to be done and then execute that. I am willing to help and be part of that.
Why a volunteer must need so much preparations before starting?
DarkOne is an example of volunteer work. I didn't even know the guy before and yet out of nowhere he popped on TUS and start making thing better. I'm a total newbie comparing to him, yet he started working on a website done by someone so much lower than him, also a website with so much criticism at the time he started.
THeDoGG is an example of volunteer work. He opened up his Photoshop and gave me illustrations of his design. Then he asked for TUS files to edit to suit his own design.
Xray99 was an example of volunteer work. Many of the things on TUS league, the way it looks and handles things are inspired by him.
It has been 4 years that TUS is using the same design concept. Its pro/cons are known to everybody. If you think you have the answer to a better design, great, but it would be only you, because there's nobody else interested in design to team you up with. No one has offered me any help since. There are many people whining of the current designs, but almost all of them don't wanna get bothered with or doesn't have the skill.
As mentioned by people, TUS is suffering from the design concept, mostly the way links are shown and create confusions. If someone has a solution, all it takes is to show us some image that how things/elements on TUS must get arranged. That must be done NOT by removing some major links. For example "Maps" is pointing to map database, you can't ease the design by removing maps link.
There's no need to go for the full design with codes and stuff at first. If a new design is done and that is what people use the most, it will become TUS's default design.
The problem lies elsewhere, namely: there is just too much stuff that this site does not need. At all. Why we'd need to discuss stuff with other people as a team is simply to get the answer for this: what can we remove?
And yes, we do need leaders! Even "the best democracy" needs leaders. A bad system is where leaders make decisions to get advantage out of them, while great leaders take responsibility for their actions and listens. That doesn't mean that everything should be accepted from anyone. I hope you get the difference.
Designing is much like that. You need a team, you need thoughts and ideas from people who know what they are talking about. Sorry if that sounds harsh... but that's how it leads to a solution.
For instance, when we at our company design a website for a client, the last thing we go with is the client's word and it's because they don't know what they
need. They have a rough idea of what they might want, but we are the experts at how the clients can use their websites to get actual results, for example, bigger sales.
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