@Everyone who faces/faced troubles submitting levels

[-BY]

This post by -BY was thumbed up by: 4

Asterocrat (November 18th, 2015, 2:48 pm) • Joshio01 (November 19th, 2015, 11:30 pm) • l.m (November 18th, 2015, 2:52 pm) • Oranjui (November 18th, 2015, 2:59 pm)

[Kimonio]

Couldn't we essentially remove the text from the portal page and just have a left and right image, linking to the separate portals?

I agree, the process is very complicated, unless you are or were around during the days the system was developed, discussed, or before it was ever thought of.

[Oranjui]

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Kimonio (November 18th, 2015, 8:07 pm)

[Kimonio]

I know this is a shot in the dark, but why not dropdowns on mousehover?

[Supershroom]

The first thing that new users are encountering before registering are our general rules. Those should be filled with links to every important topic and feature on the site, including the links leading to submitting a level, so if a new user claims that he couldn't find the way to submit a level, then it's just their own fault. The portals are merged into the forums for a reason. If a new user wonders on where to submit a level, they'll just have to scroll down the Board Index page. And if they still have trouble on the process then they have a note in a vine red border linking them to the new level posting rules/guides from now on.

I agree however that the links on the portal lists pages are not very shiny and, referring to OJ's post, this could be improved in a way like the LL site already does (if you look at the bottom of the LL portal you know what I mean).

[~MP3 Amplifier~]

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Oranjui (November 19th, 2015, 2:32 pm)

[Oranjui]

but there are still links to each level portal on the main page. If you go to the forum portals it says at the bottom "Submit a Level", which is the first place I would have looked if I was a newbie wanting to post levels.

Anyway I just want to point out that one possible solution is to just make the "Submit a Level" button on the portal pages (which can be accessed from here) larger. It's really puny as is:

way down in the bottom right corner: show

And even on the Levels List page that can be found on the forum index, the submit buttons are still tiny, though more visible than in the other two lists:

: show

So either increasing the text size/placement of those buttons, or just converting them into flashy images could help, in addition to maybe having better links in the header? Not really sure.

[Venexis]

Seconding OJ. I am only just now actually seeing the submit a level button- if he hadn't said "way down in the bottom right" I would still be looking.

[~MP3 Amplifier~]

I think I was on my tablet when I looked at the portal yesterday so that might be why it was so easy to find for me, because the screen was able to zoom in etc.
Then yes, with that point, I agree that we should definitely either move that link to the top of the page right in the centre, or increase the size of the writing. Or just do both lol.

But I have a feeling we'd still need access to the inner workings of the site to be able to do this, and afaik it's not worked so far.

[Doram]

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-BY (November 20th, 2015, 10:08 am)