So I rely on his twitch spam thread

Wasn't even aware there is one. That's totally fine. #tf also. Go for it.

I was talking exclusively about the other threads, e.g. map releases, other pc games, etc. It's just visual noise there. The threads have some sort of "documentation" aspect to me, so please don't extra clutter them.

(btw, I am following ionous on twitch iirc. I would be interested in watching him play map releases, but I've never once seen it timely enough in a news thread.) 

Then
a) contact author directly or #tf for the stream
b) post the link to the recording after it exported to youtube to the release thread (or if you can save twitch recordings longer than a few weeks, go for that)

Also, we need a better quaddicted for map releases. 

It's just visual noise there.
We, including Ionous himself, have given you several reasons why this is not the case. Just because you have no use for Ionous' occasional heads-up posts doesn't mean they're useless. Learn to live in democracy, pal. 

Also, we need a better quaddicted for map releases.

Sign me the fuck up. 

It's an amazing resource but relying on one admin (or a small group) is a bit precarious and since the site is so powerful I would imagine it's a pain in the ass and unruly to maintain. Perhaps a "Wikia" type of service where each author takes care of their individual map entries. There have to be enterprise services we can try that have some of the functionality of Quaddicted but can have many users/admins.

My vote would be something like Wordpress. It's easy to maintain and post, different permissions make it easy to control posts etc. it's popular and programmers can add custom functionality. Food for thought. 

Quaddicted is a wiki and the idea behind it was to allow people to contribute. Articles, tips, tutorials. But in all these years nobody could be bothered to do anything.

The site's structure and map system could be more streamlined and robust in its foundation and usablility, I agree. But the actual map archive part works just fine in my view. Sometimes takes a while for maps to be added to the database, but it's all there or will be eventually.

Spirit has other priorities nowadays, which is a bit unfortunate though understandable - however, despite his sometimes seemingly excentric ways on handling the files, he still keeps the site running. I doubt that a new system run by new people would make things better, especially considering how careless many of the recent releases were done.

If someone is knowledgeable in web systems, frontend/tool programming and similar stuff, by all means contact us and maybe something can happen. Best to discuss this on Quaddicted itself. IMHO, makeshift solution like your average blog systems, Discord or the like can fuck off. 

especially considering how careless many of the recent releases were done.

Fine and agree for the most part, BUT let in some more experienced admins or yes someone write a front end for non-technical folks like myself or perhaps some documentation on how to help with the current system.

I see a request to contribute to the site but zero information on how to add articles, tips or tutorials.

Links please. 

especially considering how careless many of the recent releases were done.

Fine and agree for the most part, BUT let in some more experienced admins or yes someone write a front end for non-technical folks like myself or perhaps some documentation on how to help with the current system.

I see a request to contribute to the site but zero information on how to add articles, tips or tutorials.

Links please. 

Maybe try clicking "post new topic" in the forums? 

I thought there would be more functionality than a forum post from what negke was saying. 

Small articles and links can be added freely to the Wiki part of Quaddicted without moderator's rights at all.

I see a request to contribute to the site but zero information on how to add articles, tips or tutorials.

That's as easy as it can be, and Spirit has showed the path to several times on Quaddicted's forums. I myself have contributed adding some things there.

It isn't hard to find either how to do it. The matter is that almost no one has put the effort to do so, like negke have said. 

from what I gather it seems to function a bit like Func_, with free-posting forums and a news section where articles need to be submitted for approval. What other functionality did you have in mind? 

good to see the general population of the board agrees to stream advertising. 

Come on now, let it rest. You seem to be the only one here who's bothered by what others find useful. 

Good to see the general population of the board agrees that you should stop using your fingers to type such nonsense with and instead use them to thoroughly scrape out under your foreskin and heartily inhale the extracts. 

Well bless my britches! So easy! I cannot believe more people haven't jumped in and contributed to the Quaddicted community.

So at Quaddicted I click on Wiki, scroll down to Wiki, click on that and from there all I see is what Wiki software Quaddicted uses and how to run it myself. So how the heck do I add something to Quaddicted specifically? Is it that hard to post a link and actually I don't know... encourage people with a tiny bit of direction? I guess not.

But you know what? Fuck it. I have my own blog and I'll host my own maps on dropbox etc. and spread the word through Twitter, YouTube, r/Quake and func_. And yes I will email them to Spirit as well. 

If the mods don't take issue with someone posting their stream, it's a non-issue. 

it is commercial advertising. 

Twitch is certainly not a clickbait site, has no ads and I've read that its streamers gain nothing from viewers. 

Ionous's stream posts are a good argument for a delete button. It's not very useful when they're still laying around after the stream is already over.

But I wouldn't say that in lieu of a delete/edit button for our own posts we should disallow stream ads.
Is it really so difficult to scroll past the post, or roll your eyes and click back when you open a new post notification and it's a stream ad? They're ten times less annoying than actual spam and some people even appreciate them being around.

From my perspective megaman is just coming across as lazy. It's too much work to ignore the thing that he doesn't like, so it'd be better if other people went to the trouble of deleting it or didn't bother to post in the first place. 

Just to show that tolerating or even defending this kind of content doesn't really make any sense.


BTW, why are my posts any different and/or more annoying than those of others? I don't really see the difference..? Please explain. 

Disregard #29603, no point in moving from Quaddicted if there would still be an obsessive, conceited jerk at the center of the thing. 

I mentioned it, because I actually think that a directory of map play-through recordings would be really cool to have.

However, the idea would be to have something that is community-driven, ofc. It's clear that work needs to be shifted from the mods to map authors, etc. The less work adding releases is, the better, because releases would be published sooner.

Basically create more infrastructure for the parts of quaddicted that can be formalized. 

I think my butt is taking quite a bit of abuse from my diet, oh boy. 

I only just now realized I forgot to add the megamap which explains the frustration... 'pon it!