Elma Monthly & history archiving discussion

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 30 Jan 2012, 23:10

lousku.net

Hi guys, this is my project for this year. If people like it, I'll probably keep doing it next year etc.

It's a monthly compact summary of noteworthy happenings in the scene. It can be useful for people who are not really active, but would like to follow the scene anyway. Hopefully it'll also be useful at the end of the year when everyone is trying to recall things to suggest for Golden Apple nominations. I have plenty of spare time and I follow the scene actively, so perhaps I'm a fit person to do this. Let's just hope I have the motivation to keep making updates every month!

Thanks to jon for some help with the site (namely that magic color inversion button), and many others for reviewing content.

Did I miss something? Mistakes? Have any suggestions for improvement? Nice comments? Unnice comments? Post here.

Next update at the end of February.

Labs · Post by **Labs** » 30 Jan 2012, 23:30

Nice site lous :*

Lee · Post by **Lee** » 31 Jan 2012, 03:59

Good idea. This could be linked from Moposite.
Could use a bit of colour though.

ville_j · Post by **ville_j** » 31 Jan 2012, 06:54

Very nice idea, hopefully you have enough interest to update it every month for a long long time!

Igge · Post by **Igge** » 31 Jan 2012, 08:32

Very nice! Very, very nice!

Edit: Maybe add a suggestion/tip option? Or perhaps you have sach mega good knowledge of the scene that you don't need?)

Fabio · Post by **Fabio** » 31 Jan 2012, 09:37

Very nice... easy and organised to read.

hope you do this for the next couple years...

Grace · Post by **Grace** » 31 Jan 2012, 13:18

Max site, just needs max theme too.

Zweq · Post by **Zweq** » 31 Jan 2012, 14:57

exxelent. now to move back in tiem also

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 31 Jan 2012, 15:04

Thenks for comments alles!

Lee wrote:Could use a bit of colour though.

There is a black option (click teh bullet next to archive link) but I do realise black is not a colorful color. Sure, perhaps I'll make a colorful option.

Igge wrote:Maybe add a suggestion/tip option? Or perhaps you have sach mega good knowledge of the scene that you don't need?)

I figured this lauta thread would be sufficient, but I can add a suggestion form too.

Zweq wrote:exxelent. now to move back in tiem also ;)

I've only been around for about 2 years. =( Take it as a sign that the scene is not dying anytime soon. =)

Tigro · Post by **Tigro** » 31 Jan 2012, 15:39

extremly nice site lous, nice and easy. congratulations. If you hang on keeping it actual i will vote for GAA site 2012

niN · Post by **niN** » 31 Jan 2012, 21:02

This is awesome

I would love to be a reporter!

BlaZtek · Post by **BlaZtek** » 1 Feb 2012, 03:21

Good site and idea Lousku! And I agree with Jappe2, was nice with such simple design, just perfect

Lee · Post by **Lee** » 1 Feb 2012, 11:17

Right. I missed that bullet button. Still, black and white doesn't compliment Elma's truly colourful graphics. The simplicity is nice though.

Madness · Post by **Madness** » 1 Feb 2012, 19:36

Excellent! Thank you for doing this.

pawq · Post by **pawq** » 6 Feb 2012, 20:51

mmax proest idea)))))))))))))) you prolly have to check the number of visitors somewhere to see the interest, i'm surely goign to read))) very many needed feature of lousku(.net))

Cfilorvy · Post by **Cfilorvy** » 2 Mar 2012, 20:52

News from February soon?

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 2 Mar 2012, 20:59

Yesss, I'm working on it right now.

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 2 Mar 2012, 22:26

February entry is up.

A bit late, sorry about that.

Madness · Post by **Madness** » 2 Mar 2012, 22:54

Nice writing. Keep up the good work.

niN · Post by **niN** » 2 Mar 2012, 23:34

Great Lousku! Truly great!

It's so nice to read a summary of each month. Some things I hadn't seen before like Leeland's amazxing LGR and anpdads AH rec =)

gimp · Post by **gimp** » 3 Mar 2012, 08:35

Idk how many people read it, but I do and it's pretty cool. Keep up the good work.

Schumi · Post by **Schumi** » 4 Mar 2012, 10:04

plz share that lgr, thanks

Lee · Post by **Lee** » 5 Mar 2012, 06:16

Schumi wrote:plz share that lgr, thanks

Only when I get rid of the white pixels on some images. Right now, I don't get why they are even there.

Lukazz · Post by **Lukazz** » 5 Mar 2012, 19:48

wow, anp's AH rec

where did he share that?

jonsykkel · Post by **jonsykkel** » 5 Mar 2012, 19:52

Lee wrote:
Schumi wrote:plz share that lgr, thanks :)
Only when I get rid of the white pixels on some images. Right now, I don't get why they are even there.

i know photoshop makes changes to the palete of indexed images when you do certain stuff, ez check if it has changed from the one elma uses for that lgr which is the one in q1bike.pcx

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 5 Mar 2012, 19:55

Lukazz wrote:wow, anp's AH rec :o where did he share that?

http://mopolauta.moposite.com/viewtopic ... 34#p216034

Lee · Post by **Lee** » 6 Mar 2012, 05:00

jonharkulsykkel wrote:
Lee wrote:
Schumi wrote:plz share that lgr, thanks
Only when I get rid of the white pixels on some images. Right now, I don't get why they are even there.
i know photoshop makes changes to the palete of indexed images when you do certain stuff, ez check if it has changed from the one elma uses for that lgr which is the one in q1bike.pcx

Got rid of those white pixels. I don't get why they wouldn't disappear earlier; they cleared right up just now. Anyway, here it is:
http://jappe2.net/upload/iltlgizcjjkuy/Silho720.lgr
Made for movie making (720p). I'd like to see some very detailed silhouette levels made with this LGR. Like a junkyard with ramps, trucks to drive on and nice looking bridges.
Also tell if I missed some pale dots.

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 1 Apr 2012, 20:41

Updated for March. http://www.lousku.net/

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 3 May 2012, 07:28

Updated for April. http://www.lousku.net/

I'm planning on hosting all downloads so there will never be broken links. Later.

ville_j · Post by **ville_j** » 3 Jun 2012, 18:08

Where updates??

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 3 Jun 2012, 22:34

'tis coming, thanks for interest. :))

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 4 Jun 2012, 21:30

Wasn't much to write about so I wasn't motivated. :P

Anyway, updated for May.

totem · Post by **totem** » 5 Jun 2012, 19:54

keep elma-monthling, it's a good thing

mr.potato · Post by **mr.potato** » 8 Jun 2012, 12:05

ppl pls make more achievements/noteworthy stuff
good sites need you to survive

good project lou, all 3 thumbs up

Lukazz · Post by **Lukazz** » 5 Jul 2012, 11:12

that didn't last long

Zweq · Post by **Zweq** » 5 Jul 2012, 17:53

i can start writing the timeline backwards, in acrossish ;X no i cant

anpdad · Post by **anpdad** » 5 Jul 2012, 18:36

do it anyway

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 7 Jul 2012, 16:44

This is a long project, sort of an archive of near history in Elma. It shouldn't be too interesting to read about the past month, so I don't take much stress about updating on time.

Anyway, updated for June.

Igge · Post by **Igge** » 7 Jul 2012, 18:45

a month sometimes has 30 days.

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 2 Aug 2012, 20:33

July bunp.

Zweq · Post by **Zweq** » 4 Aug 2012, 15:49

hey 7m polevalt happend too

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 5 Aug 2012, 12:40

Terrible sorry for neglect. He is update.

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 29 Aug 2012, 14:30

Thorough history?

Okiz. This whole project is a bit silly as it it. Writing history from 2012 when there's liters of juice in the 15 preceding years? I will continue it and I'm able and willing to write it back to 2009 when I joined the scene, but what about 97-09? The info is there. Lauta, mopo news and irc logs probably hold nearly everything relevant, but this is just a fuckton of work for someone who has no actual memory of it. I could make a page for each month since the release of Across with WR tables parsed from moposite and a submission box for veterans to throw in their content, logs, memories, whatever.

Any interest for this? Ideas?

Igge · Post by **Igge** » 29 Aug 2012, 15:43

It would be very nice to make this site like an elma bible of some sorts. I say the more info you can get, the better. Maybe let others edit, or at least make some google docs or sach where people cane contribute.

ideas · Post by **ideas** » 29 Aug 2012, 15:48

sorry for bursting the bubble. lousku, you have many nice ideas, and the current application of that idea of yours is impeccable, although i must confess that i believe this is a bad idea. newspapers are to be thrown out and recycled after usage. old news are not interesting enough to anyone to justify such an effort.

efforts would best be spent elsewhere, for example over at

http://wiki.elmaonline.net/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasto_Mania

just for those two cents of mine to be dropped in.

culinko · Post by **culinko** » 29 Aug 2012, 16:36

well it won't be like elma bible because there will be facts :S

pawq · Post by **pawq** » 29 Aug 2012, 17:26

GED
The Great Elma Diary
by the Elma community

Igge · Post by **Igge** » 29 Aug 2012, 17:39

CuLiNo wrote:well it won't be like elma bible because there will be facts :S

Ha!

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 29 Aug 2012, 18:24

Pawq wrote:GED
The Great Elma Diary
by the Elma community

Except... monthly, so... GEM! Wander if gem.com is taken.

Igge wrote:It would be very nice to make this site like an elma bible of some sorts. I say the more info you can get, the better. Maybe let others edit, or at least make some google docs or sach where people cane contribute.

There will most likely be a suggestion/discussion section for every month.

Abula now wants me to take charge of archiving everything related to Elma. The plan is to use the newly rehosted Elma Wiki and organize all the archived content on Moposite in there. Others can then easily add more things into the great archive. This will be a great resource for Elma Monthly, we'll just have to make it first.

I assumed there would be IRC logs, but nobody seems to have comprehensive logs from 1997-2001. Any help with this would be huEG.

Order of business:

get this topic moved to General, SveinR? :)
redo layout on my site (this has been on my todo list for long, not a big task)
start working on an archive structure on the wiki
start working on the actual wiki archive (many people need to contribute to this)
make it easy for people to add their input for Monthly
write monthly entries since 1997 (they won't be completed in order. generated pages that will be filled slowly)

A bit of a project, but doable. ;)

Lousku · Post by **Lousku** » 29 Aug 2012, 18:38

Ofc it would be easiest to just have history sections on the wiki, but I think it's best for consistency if 1 person writes all of the final text. Any thoughts on this?