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[Speeder]

As I was never in senate and The Senate has been dissolved so I couldn't post it there, I'll post it here. The thing is about CnC Guild.

CnC Guild was supposed to be primary C&C source site hosted at Revora, to upgrade it - C&C Central and Guild merged. But imho, this is not enough. I look at the Guild today and wonder - when the heck are they going to enhance it? Let me get in then....

1. I really dunno why, but always when I get on CnC Guild index page I think it is empty and hell, it doesn't live! I get that feeling with many sites, but from C&C-based websites only the Guild is missing something what I really dunno what is it yet, so this was just my opinion about it. I think that some other people think the same, just compare for ex. CNCNZ and CnC Guild. Don't you see a diffrence?

2. Okay, but now this is more serious - News on Guild - they cannot be only reffered to C&C mods hosted by Revora. We should collect news from other sites, to make it better information site for users 'starving for more C&C'! And I think that more news viewable at the site should be enabled, I think that currently you can view only up to 5 of them. This is not a good manner.

3. Some parts of CnC Guild are SERIOUSLY outdated - I mean mainly the Mod Listing here. Hell! Even no MO there! Also many hosted RA2 mods are missing there for instance. Does anyone update it? I have also big doubts about the 'Collective' section on the right side of the website - it lacks many links. As we have Revora Network Menu now on the top of each hosted site - what is use of that?

4. Downloads - God, probably the weakest side of CnC Guild. Decent C&C site should have lots of files there - trailers, mods, maps, patches, editors, movies, themes, mod related things... I know what I have in mine C&C site - CnC Reactor, that's why I think that somebody should take care of it.

I see also good Game info secion there and many Articles. Shame I am so short in the C&C community, can anyone tell me how the previous version of C&C Guild looked like? And btw, Am I the only one with suggestions for CnC Guild?

Edited by Speeder, 24 August 2005 - 11:26 AM.

[Tom]

No need for downloads really, YR Arg will cater for that once we get it revived.

[Banshee]

We already hired some people to revive it. Admiral GT, Immoman, Xeno and Liberator will now have some responsability to give some life for it.

1) The news there are no news. They are simply copy and paste and everything there can be seen in the revora.net. So, there is no inovation on the news over there for now.

2) I definitelly agree and hopefully, with this new staff, we'll have this kind of thing .

3) I agree again.

4) Once again, agreed.

[Ash]

+1 to speeder...all points make sense. However, downloads will be put on ToM when it is done, as Hybrid said.

Speaking of which, is there an ETA on that?

[dancam]

Personally, I'd rather see downloads as part of the Guild site. There is no need for further website creation when we have plenty that can already do the job.

[Mastermind]

I think the idea is to make the Guild a more general news site with a different C&C Resource site for downloads. Different specialties as it were.

[Beowulf]

If you want a resource site, make ES a part of the network and send everything my way. I'd have something to add finally and we'd have everything on one big site.

[chemical ali]

Yeah ES is better for that now, fens active and ES would be up to date.

[Blodo]

We should have one big site with everything on it, instead of several smaller ones. Id vote for making a guild download section and not reviving yr arg.

[ComradeJ]

YRArg is very well known, and respected. I do agree about the big site however, but nobody ever explained me why they don't just use Revora's front page, but another one.

[Shine On]

It would be nice to use ES as an equal to YRArg because it can then also host TS work which YRArg currently doesn't do alot of. And there is a fair amount of TS stuff out there.

[dancam]

As far as I'm aware, this new redesign's primary purpose is to make things better for hostees, and for those who actually use the sites. Our customers as you will. Now, if you were looking for something, would you rather

a) Go to one site, and with the benefit of using a search function, be able to find what you are after within a matter of minutes

b) Spend a considerable amount of time navigating your way across several poorly designed websites in order to find what you are looking for.

I think the answer is obvious, and if nothing else is accomplished by the Relaunch, I want it to be a slimming down of the number of websites that Revora has for the same purpose.

[Tom]

YR Arg is respected and known, merge ES with YR arg not the other way around ROFL. Nah we have an idea of our own for YR Arg anyway.

[Blodo]

Seriously though i think that idea oughta be dropped, and a cnc guild download section activated. As dancam said its far easier to use one site with everything on it and a good search function embedded, rather than several smaller sites.

[dancam]

Knows what he's talking about.... If we want Revora to succeed this is the route we need to go down.

[ComradeJ]

But why use CnCGuild as the main site, instead of Revora's front page? If I hadn't been around before the merger, I would never have associated the both.

[Banshee]

What are you talking about, ComradeJ?

[ComradeJ]

Well, as far as I understand it, you want CnCGuild to be a place with news and downloads. However, Revora's Front Page already has a news section. Just put a download section into that, and you don't CnCGuild at all. Or am I missing something here?

[Ash]

You misunderstand...the Guild is for CNC news. Revora is for Revora news.

And CNC Guild is also the hubsite. There's no need/point to putting all the resources there. As it happens I'm taking over the new, refurbished YR Argentina when the web design is up and running. I'll keep it up to date no worries Besides, if the authors of the resources on YR Arg didn't submit to ES, I have no right to hand them over to you without their permission. And I'm not going chasing up 100-odd people to see if it's ok to put their stuff on your site

[Beowulf]

Half of the stuff on YR Arg is on ES, by Arg or at every other C&C resource site ever made.

It would be quite easy to move it without a problem.

Edited by Fenring, 25 August 2005 - 11:27 PM.