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BakaBT => Site Feedback & Rules => Topic started by: zxcvbnm6000 on January 08, 2009, 05:06:20 AM
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Two quick suggestions I thought of for the site.
1. In the search feature on the main page, the English and Romaji names of animes should be linked.
Example:
Type Hell Girl -> you get one torrent
Type Jigoku Shoujo -> you get three torrents
You should be able to type either name and find all the torrents. Perhaps make this work as part of the "Did you mean" search as well. Or maybe add this as a field when the torrent is submitted, kind of like keywords.
2. This one is some that maybe I am only interested in. Custom banner and color themes that are user controlled. So for example have a box in the user profile page that hold image URL addresses, and when logged in, it will load banners you have chosen. Since the images will be off site and limited to one user, it shouldn't have any negative effect on the page. Color themes should be self explanatory.
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Two quick suggestions I thought of for the site.
1. In the search feature on the main page, the English and Romaji names of animes should be linked.
Example:
Type Hell Girl -> you get one torrent
Type Jigoku Shoujo -> you get three torrents
Uploaders should include both titles.
2. This one is some that maybe I am only interested in. Custom banner and color themes that are user controlled. So for example have a box in the user profile page that hold image URL addresses, and when logged in, it will load banners you have chosen. Since the images will be off site and limited to one user, it shouldn't have any negative effect on the page. Color themes should be self explanatory.
Give me money and I will.
--Jarudin--
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Two quick suggestions I thought of for the site.
1. In the search feature on the main page, the English and Romaji names of animes should be linked.
Example:
Type Hell Girl -> you get one torrent
Type Jigoku Shoujo -> you get three torrents
Uploaders should include both titles.
Agreed, but it doesn't seem to be monitor/enforced in anyway. If it were required as part of an upload offer then it would work better, especially since some people just might not think about it. Also how do you want it formatted? English in the title, Romaji in keywords, the reverse, in both?
Another suggestion I have, that is more important, is the use of Japanese characters in torrents. More specifically removing them from torrents. Though my computer is setup to display them, and number of programs can't handle them. Oddly Vuze and occasionally uTorrent have problems downloading files with different characters. Though I have seen very few torrents with them on BxT they are still there.
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Agreed, but it doesn't seem to be monitor/enforced in anyway. If it were required as part of an upload offer then it would work better, especially since some people just might not think about it. Also how do you want it formatted? English in the title, Romaji in keywords, the reverse, in both?
English titles as a bit of a farce anyway. Maybe: Japanese and possible English is better. Japanese and English titles overlap for most series so it doesn't really matter in my opinion. If you searched for 'hell girl' and didn't find it strange to find only one torrent then I don't think there is much hope anyway.
Another suggestion I have, that is more important, is the use of Japanese characters in torrents. More specifically removing them from torrents. Though my computer is setup to display them, and number of programs can't handle them. Oddly Vuze and occasionally uTorrent have problems downloading files with different characters. Though I have seen very few torrents with them on BxT they are still there.
Japanese characters shouldn't be a problem. Most torrents are encoded in UTF8. If you can give me some links I can look into it.
--Jarudin--
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Another suggestion I have, that is more important, is the use of Japanese characters in torrents. More specifically removing them from torrents. Though my computer is setup to display them, and number of programs can't handle them. Oddly Vuze and occasionally uTorrent have problems downloading files with different characters. Though I have seen very few torrents with them on BxT they are still there.
Japanese characters shouldn't be a problem. Most torrents are encoded in UTF8. If you can give me some links I can look into it.
Given that they are encoded in UTF8 is what makes it weird. The link I had a problem with (here (http://www.boxtorrents.com/torrent/129823/Utawarerumono_Soundtrack_Collection.html)), has one character in it. uTorrent seem to automatically change the character by adding a huge string of randoms letters (like when you pick the wrong encoder), and Vuze just can't seem to open it (I remember it had a feature for picking encoding types ??? ). Also IE (no surprise) and Firefox3 can't seem to display that one character either.
EDIT: To save you some time the file is Utawarerumono OST - CD1 - 16 - Taiketsu�C Soshite Tatakai.mp3. I haven't seen many torrents on BxT with Japanese characters, but they all seem to be trouble.
EDIT2: A torrent I just adopted (http://www.boxtorrents.com/torrent/129432/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_Complete_Collection_Flac.html) has a character issue, but its with accented letters. uTorrent doesn't seem to have an issue with it though ???.Cello - Dainichigen Ch�gen.flac. Does the main site and the forum have the correct language support added? Because every character not on the standard English QWERTY keyboard is displaying incorrectly (bad font?). I can see them fine on other sites.
Agreed, but it doesn't seem to be monitor/enforced in anyway. If it were required as part of an upload offer then it would work better, especially since some people just might not think about it. Also how do you want it formatted? English in the title, Romaji in keywords, the reverse, in both?
English titles as a bit of a farce anyway. Maybe: Japanese and possible English is better. Japanese and English titles overlap for most series so it doesn't really matter in my opinion. If you searched for 'hell girl' and didn't find it strange to find only one torrent then I don't think there is much hope anyway.
True enough, just thought I'd throw it out there.
EDIT3: Quick question, does the torrent description section allow Javascript and/or Flash code (assuming the files are off site). Also with in reason.
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EDIT3: Quick question, does the torrent description section allow Java and/or Flash code (assuming the files are off site). Also with in reason.
I highly doubt that it allows java, though I know it allow javascript. Why would anyone want to use java for that anyway? >.>
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EDIT3: Quick question, does the torrent description section allow Java and/or Flash code (assuming the files are off site). Also with in reason.
I highly doubt that it allows java, though I know it allow javascript. Why would anyone want to use java for that anyway? >.>
Meant javascript, my bad.
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With hiragana/katakana/kanji in file names, problems occur.
Jarudin, remember we had the same with mah Xenosaga OST torrent. ;_;
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The database wasn't in UTF8 before, so in the conversion something might have broken on older torrents.
If you reupload the .torrent it'll probably fix itself.
I'm not too worried about this, in the worst case you'll have to do a swap.
Chiya: I don't remember?
--Jarudin--
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I was having problems with it because some of the file names were not with default writing so Utorrent wouldn't recognise it propperly. Nor did Vuse.
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The database wasn't in UTF8 before, so in the conversion something might have broken on older torrents.
If you reupload the .torrent it'll probably fix itself.
I'm not too worried about this, in the worst case you'll have to do a swap.
On the Evangelion one, I will need to swap it anyways, but the other one is not in my control.
Out of curiosity do the characters display correctly for you on BxT? All I see is a black diamond in with a question mark (IE it is just a box).
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Out of curiosity do the characters display correctly for you on BxT? All I see is a black diamond in with a question mark (IE it is just a box).
I haven't had any problems at all showing any characters on BoxT or any other site.
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Out of curiosity do the characters display correctly for you on BxT? All I see is a black diamond in with a question mark (IE it is just a box).
I get this too, but most of the time, it is a comma or an apostrophe that has this error...
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The database wasn't in UTF8 before, so in the conversion something might have broken on older torrents.
If you reupload the .torrent it'll probably fix itself.
I'm not too worried about this, in the worst case you'll have to do a swap.
On the Evangelion one, I will need to swap it anyways, but the other one is not in my control.
So I swapped the Evangelion torrent today and character display errors on that torrent are gone. So it sees BxT is loading the characters directly from the torrent not using its own style code, so if the torrent is misencoded BxT has trouble displaying them correctly. Or someone fixed something else somewhere.
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Suggested format: "{(Romanised) Japanese name} | {English name} [{fansub group}]" <-- Replace italicised text in {round brackets} with the appropriate names. Words like "OVA" or "Movie" are not always necessary because of the category system (however, if the title of the show includes "OVA" or "Movie", you should add it). In case you're uploading only a particular season of a longer series, it is useful to include the season and/or the episodes (for example: My Series - Season 1 [01-25]).
If this was spelled out in a mini-popup, like the Sandbox, under the torrent name box in the offers pages, future offers might follow this naming convention more closely. I noticed that this was recently automatically done, but if someone follows the naming convention that most/all groups have of placing their group name in the front, the torrent names will have to be adjusted again later on.
The most notable contrary example to this naming convention is "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", since none of the torrents have "Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu" anywhere in the title. Perhaps there could be two title fields, one for the original Japanese Romanji name, and one for the official English title (request/require the ANN/AniDB name, similar to categories), and both fields would be searched if a title search was requested. The was a brief discussion in a recent offer (http://www.boxtorrents.com/torrent/142998/Ichigo_Mashimaro_Music_Collection.html) on whether "Strawberry Marshmallow" should be in the title name, along with "Ichigo Mashimaro". Especially with OST's, where the title name might vary in some way from the anime's title, but still be related, the alternate search field would be useful.
Also, instead of a separate fields in the database itself, entries for 'Japanese Name' and 'English Name' (both official) could be put into the templates, reminding uploaders to complete these entries, and description searches would capture alternate names.
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Just had an idea similar to the original one posted. instead of custom banners,colors, etc., why not just have templates? Like what anidb does. Just select which one you like and then it can be used as default. So that way you only have to handle the ones that you, or someone else who designed it and gave it to you, like.