TIME HAS COME

[Suyo]

Welcome to the Open Beta Test of the new Level Portal! Anyone can participate, so we can check better how big the flood will be when we close the old portal and everyone comes over here. Below is basically the thread for the Closed Beta copypasta'd.

Uh, Suyo, what are we doing now?
Glad you asked, Steve.
My name is Jack...
Shut up. Anyways, your task now is to head to the Level Portal and submit levels, rate, test, comment, just use it as if you were a normal user.

How can I submit a level?
Once you are in one of the portals for either SM63 or LL, click the New Topic button. There will be two textfields for code and description. Paste, click Process, click Submit, done.

What about multi-part levels or series?
ONLY ONE LEVEL PER TOPIC, and use [code] tags, not [spoiler]. Believe me, this has a point.
You can still edit the text in the posting field, just submit all the levels and link to each other.

Where's the rating?
In the first post of a topic below the Report Button. You can rate 1 to 5 stars. You can click the ? to see how the ratings differ. You can also do this on a users profile, so you can quickly spot and report downraters.

So the Level List is just those few top and newest levels?
Have you tried clicking the game names in the boxes?

Is everything done?
When the open beta is over (~1 week), I will ask you some questions, and depending on those we decide if we use the old or the new portal. If it's the former, I will update the main site and talk with Runouw on how we can implement the new portal in the games. I need your feedback, so if you find something that could be improved, tell me!

What about the old portal?
If the new portal succeeds, we will still retain the old portal for a while (without submitting/commenting/rating) and then it will be deleted.

[Republic]

I think we may do the following things:

Tyvm for demoting me, I hate the freakin cyan color, it looks like...Ghostly Fire:troll:

Guide how OLD LEVEL PORTAL makers send their level.

Guide how to use the LEVEL PORTAL (lolobvious)

NEW LEVEL PORTAL RULES

TALK ABOUT NOT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT NEW PORTAL

Just those, I can't think any more.


And some tips for other:

You can only rate once per account, you can only change your vote afterwards. You can rate as many levels as you want, but if you rate many in quick succession, we can see that.

[Master1.0]

Don't forget kids. The most important thing is that we got cookies for beta testing! *shot*

In other words, everybody (for the most part) did a great job at the testing, and it was a job well done.

Let's see how much better the levels are now. Beat this spammers!

[Suyo]

Little update: You can now only rate levels if you have at least one approved level, to avoid massive downrating by reregistering. Good idea? :D

[Master1.0]

Good idea is good.

EDIT: I didn't even realize until now somehow; this is the suprise! :'D

[Suyo]

Moar update: Fixed the page list displaying more pages than possible when sorting by score, and the top 5 on the front page now only show levels with 5+ votes.
Also you can now list someones levels by going to their profile.

[nin10mode]

Is there a way to delete ratings?

[Suyo]

I do not see a point in this, but meh - if you want to, I can do that.

EDIT: also http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/3186 ... fotods.png sorry my tablet is broken :<

[MessengerOfDreams]

...I think Suyo's pic just won the site. ...just like the last time something of Suyo's owned the site.

[nin10mode]

o/ \o
Internet high-five

Its just that the whole point of this is to cut down on portal spammers, so we should have some power over down/upraters as well.