Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 4:41 pm Post subject:
PPM offers Unofficial News Forums for your mod!
Subject description: Get your news posts automatically spreaded in PPM in a forum dedicated for your mod.
Hello everyone! As I've mentioned in the Happy 2016, from PPM! news post, we are looking to improve our community news coverage. And, in order to do that, we are offering a new service here:
The Unnoficial News Forum Hosting
-> What is it?
This is a service offered for mods that stands as a subforum that imports content from RSS feeds. Basically, PPM News Reporter will import your news posts twice a day, allowing members of this forum to discuss them here and your mod releases to be quickly promoted to through our frontpage and news tracker.
-> How does it work?
We will create a new category in our forums between Pre-Alpha Projects and Inactive Projects that will be called Community Projects. This category will have one subforum for each mod covered with the authorization of the mod leader. Twice a day, our server will fetch information from the RSS feeds related to each mod, adapting their content as new topics in the forums. It works in a similar way as seen at VXLSE III's SVN News Feeds. The mod leader will be able to moderate the forums, post news of his(her) own if (s)he desires to do so and edit the posts from the news bot. Forum members will be able to post replies and discuss the news, but they won't post new topics there.
-> What are the requirements?
Your mod needs to have at least one RSS feed and it needs to be approved by me. ModDB offers a couple of RSS feeds by default. Revora may export forum contents as RSS if you request the administrators there. Most new IPB forums may export RSS feeds, etc...
-> Why is it good for mods?
It catches a new public in a quite quick way with little to no effort at all (since the news posts will be here automatically). Posts with mod releases might be promoted to our frontpage. Our news tracker will also catch news about your mod. It will also be good to make PPM more active.
-> Is it open to every project?
Technically yes, although we will start slow. Converting RSS feeds for phpBB's BB code and bringing external news into PPM forums requires some adaptation and constant attention. We'll have a RSS feed in our end that will convert your RSS feed into something that will be appropriate to this place. So, that requires some effort from my end (not yours). This is why we are starting slowly, being tempted to priorize projects that are more popular in first place.
- How do I get an unofficial news forum for my project?
Post a reply in this news post asking for an unofficial news forum for your project and we'll discuss everything else with private messages. QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Location: Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 6:03 pm Post subject:
If this will work with the ModDB articles RSS feed then damn this sounds interesting - asin interesting enough that I guess I'd apply for one even. _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Past C&C projects: Attacque Supérior (2010-2019); Valiant Shades (2019-2021)
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WeiDU mods: Random Graion Tweaks | Graion's Soundsets
Maintainance: Extra Expanded Enhanced Encounters! | BGEESpawn
Contributions: EE Fixpack | Enhanced Edition Trilogy | DSotSC (Trilogy) | UB_IWD | SotSC & a lot more... QUICK_EDIT
Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 6:47 pm Post subject:
Yes, it works with ModDB RSS feeds. ModDB only writes the summary in their RSS feeds and not the whole news post content, however, there is a trick that may catch the whole news content as long as they do not change their site layout... but that demands some work and analysis. QUICK_EDIT
Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 6:59 pm Post subject:
Graion Dilach wrote:
If this will work with the ModDB articles RSS feed then damn this sounds interesting - asin interesting enough that I guess I'd apply for one even.
Yes, I've finished a script that converts news posts from ModDB to a BB code compatible with PPM forums. And I've made a sample with your mod. At the moment, it should covers bold, underline, italic, quote (not tested), list, img, url, youtube, moddb videos, center, h1, h2 and h3.
So, PM me the description of your mod news forum and I also want to know a couple of things:
1) Would you prefer to see the posts being posted by the PPM News Reporter bot or by your own account?
2) Do you want every post to link the original moddb post in the end of the post or not? It seems to be more appropriate when using PPM News Reporter to post the news. QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Location: Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 4:24 pm Post subject:
Community Project News group is still hidden though.
But yay, linking a public forum in a hidden forum works. _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Past C&C projects: Attacque Supérior (2010-2019); Valiant Shades (2019-2021)
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WeiDU mods: Random Graion Tweaks | Graion's Soundsets
Maintainance: Extra Expanded Enhanced Encounters! | BGEESpawn
Contributions: EE Fixpack | Enhanced Edition Trilogy | DSotSC (Trilogy) | UB_IWD | SotSC & a lot more... QUICK_EDIT
Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:39 pm Post subject:
I've created a forum for it, in the Community News Project. Only you (Matthias M.) can see it at this moment. Except for the latest news which used an unexpected iframe (I've edited the post, replacing the iframe with a picture that does the same thing), it could import everything else correctly. I'm waiting a couple of hours until it becomes public, just to ensure that no duplicated news will be imported. QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Location: Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 5:54 am Post subject:
Don't mind me banging into that, but sure OpenRA should be in the Community News? Why can't the end result be a subforum of the OpenRA Editing Boards? _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Past C&C projects: Attacque Supérior (2010-2019); Valiant Shades (2019-2021)
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WeiDU mods: Random Graion Tweaks | Graion's Soundsets
Maintainance: Extra Expanded Enhanced Encounters! | BGEESpawn
Contributions: EE Fixpack | Enhanced Edition Trilogy | DSotSC (Trilogy) | UB_IWD | SotSC & a lot more... QUICK_EDIT
Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 7:53 pm Post subject:
Update: Considering that nothing wrong happened to the posts of OpenRA's news forum, I've followed Graion's suggestion and it is now online at the OpenRA Editing forums. QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Location: Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 6:38 pm Post subject:
Apparently this went a bit bad with OpenRA since ModDB mirrors mod news on their respective games' site as well... _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Past C&C projects: Attacque Supérior (2010-2019); Valiant Shades (2019-2021)
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WeiDU mods: Random Graion Tweaks | Graion's Soundsets
Maintainance: Extra Expanded Enhanced Encounters! | BGEESpawn
Contributions: EE Fixpack | Enhanced Edition Trilogy | DSotSC (Trilogy) | UB_IWD | SotSC & a lot more... QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Location: Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 3:45 am Post subject:
You could use the OpenRA developers RSS feed instead of the OpenRA feed to prevent picking up mod news. http://rss.moddb.com/company/openra-developers/articles/feed/rss.xml _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Past C&C projects: Attacque Supérior (2010-2019); Valiant Shades (2019-2021)
=======================
WeiDU mods: Random Graion Tweaks | Graion's Soundsets
Maintainance: Extra Expanded Enhanced Encounters! | BGEESpawn
Contributions: EE Fixpack | Enhanced Edition Trilogy | DSotSC (Trilogy) | UB_IWD | SotSC & a lot more... QUICK_EDIT
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