First off, the boring news.My photobucket pro account has expired. Why is this news? I used to host a LOT of other people's screenshots and avatars.
I have deleted 90% of the Brawl pics off my photobucket in order to get back within the free restrictions. About a month ago, I made a backup of all 1,292 images on
here (thank you very much Dantarion); if I had hosted something of yours and it is now missing, you can find it
here or alternatively, download my archive in 2 180MB chunks
[1][2].
You really shouldn't need to worry about fixing links either on here or in the gallery, I've taken care of that with the creative use of the censor options.
On to the interesting news.As my programming languages teacher would put it, I "know enough to be dangerous". That is... I've had a lot of chances to experiment with HTML, Javascript, PHP, and SQL over the past few months. What this means for you?
A new Brawl Hacks gallery system! No longer will you have to wait on a staff member to manually input your latest work! Well... actually, you'll at least have to wait until I finish creating it.
What features will it offer?
- Characters, Stages, Models, Textures, Music, Sound Effects...
- All supported!
- Not too impressive, considering it just handles links to them. But... still, woo!
- Instant Submission
- Fill out a form, click a button, and you're done!
- New additions will instantly* appear on site!
- *By default, the gallery will display only "moderated" content. Unfiltered content can be set as an option.
- Searching!
- All pages are dynamically generated meaning allowing for custom searches.
- Search by type of hack, name, creator, or date of submission!
When will it be done? Not sure but, its already operational on my test server. The submission form is currently lacking quite a few choices, I'd like to minimize database queries by caching the main searches, and the layout is currently non-existent.
Also, it still will take quite a bit of work to convert the old gallery over to the new system. I'd be more than happy to have some help with that --- no technical skill required, just a lot of mindless copypasta into an excel spreadsheet. (Contact me for details!)
And because no post of mine is complete without it...
and a plea to visit my site! Click my sig already, damnit.