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Squizz Caphinator
The Wormhole Police
#1 - 2012-11-16 15:38:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Squizz Caphinator
zKillboard is a new approach by Squizz Caphinator to killboards using fresh ideas and modern technologies. It's different, but it's a good different.

Various projects I enjoy putting my free time into:

https://zkillboard.com | https://evewho.com
Zarian Uphius
Adversity.
Psychotic Tendencies.
#2 - 2012-11-16 17:03:26 UTC
Your killboard is only usable when I zoom completely out via Ctrl+mouse wheel, but by that time I cannot read a thing. Otherwise it takes everything from eve-kill.net and makes it twice as hard to read.
Ashterothi
The Order of Thelemic Ascension
The Invited
#3 - 2012-11-16 19:01:30 UTC
I think it looks kind of snazzy, but the way to which you get to individual kill reports from the lists seems unintuitive compared to eve-kill. In fact in a related kill report, I wasn't able to find a way to quickly go to a specific kill report without scrolling down to the bottom.

Also related kills doesn't show how many more will be involved. When I am hunting for a good kill report, I often use that number to find the most complete report.

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Ashterothi
The Order of Thelemic Ascension
The Invited
#4 - 2012-11-16 19:07:35 UTC
Also, I don't see a way to see kills/losses broken down by month. There seems to be a lot of information that is missing, I hope you bring it all back in some way or another.

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Dei
Cosmic Core Industries
#5 - 2012-11-16 22:22:27 UTC
I really like it, especially using bootstrap - always saves a billion hours using that framework.

I'm wondering how you got such accurate market data - were you using the eve market relay or some other system?
Indalecia
#6 - 2012-11-16 22:38:58 UTC
Love the layout - simple and to the point.

Where's the source though? Blink

https://o.smium.org/ — v0.13.5 — A browser-based fitting tool and loadout sharing platform
Max Kolonko
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-11-17 14:29:00 UTC
looks terrible.

No ship fitting screen (not talking about EFT fit, but fitting visualization)

Dont try to copy that useless Battle Clinic KB with the way dropped/destroyed items are shows - we need proper visible distinction (like you have it right now with green background on dropped items)
To much information, to big boxes for each thing, we need it more condensed.

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Lairel Dallocort
Hot Lobster
#8 - 2012-11-18 20:03:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Lairel Dallocort
I just wanted to let you know I got the error, "SMTP Error: Could not authenticate. Mail error: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate." when I registered for the site. I can still login.
DelBoy Trades
Trotter Independent Traders.
Stealth Alliance
#9 - 2012-11-22 09:29:21 UTC
Eve-kill seems to forget pilots kills all the time now. As an enormous killboard whore, I check my main's killboards religiously, lately every time I look it says I either have no kills or only shows a few recent months of kills. Is this likely to be fixed soon or are we looking at a complete transition to the Zkillboard. I'm also a bit concerned that on EVEKill I have 1700 kills on a particular pilot but only 1100 on the Zboard.

Damn nature, you scary!
Karbowiak
Sacred Templars
Fraternity.
#10 - 2012-11-23 02:13:37 UTC
Zarian Uphius wrote:
Your killboard is only usable when I zoom completely out via Ctrl+mouse wheel, but by that time I cannot read a thing. Otherwise it takes everything from eve-kill.net and makes it twice as hard to read.


The size thing we are looking at, but it's hard to do much about, since bootstrap was made to look like this..

Ashterothi wrote:
I think it looks kind of snazzy, but the way to which you get to individual kill reports from the lists seems unintuitive compared to eve-kill. In fact in a related kill report, I wasn't able to find a way to quickly go to a specific kill report without scrolling down to the bottom.

Also related kills doesn't show how many more will be involved. When I am hunting for a good kill report, I often use that number to find the most complete report.


the related kill stuff will be overhauled and made easier to navigate and use :)
As for the number of involved, i think we put that onto the page :)

Ashterothi wrote:
Also, I don't see a way to see kills/losses broken down by month. There seems to be a lot of information that is missing, I hope you bring it all back in some way or another.


pagination and such is still missing, it is in the code, we just havn't found a way to show and make use of it yet :)

Dei wrote:
I really like it, especially using bootstrap - always saves a billion hours using that framework.

I'm wondering how you got such accurate market data - were you using the eve market relay or some other system?


We use EVE-Central i think, and just update the prices often. and otherwise take alot of smarter approaches to pricing (such as BPO/BPC stuff)

Indalecia wrote:
Love the layout - simple and to the point.

Where's the source though? Blink


Source is coming once we're done - once we're content with what we have made, we will bring more people aboard to help make it even more awesome :)
Karbowiak
Sacred Templars
Fraternity.
#11 - 2012-11-23 02:13:43 UTC
Max Kolonko wrote:
looks terrible.

No ship fitting screen (not talking about EFT fit, but fitting visualization)

Dont try to copy that useless Battle Clinic KB with the way dropped/destroyed items are shows - we need proper visible distinction (like you have it right now with green background on dropped items)
To much information, to big boxes for each thing, we need it more condensed.



Fitting screen is coming back, no worries. As for dropped/destroyed, we have taken much of the rage into concideration and have improved it to a point where we hope and think everyone will be happy.

As for information, we show less information on the page than EDK does, it's bigger yes, but that's mainly cause we're using bootstrap to ease development.

Lairel Dallocort wrote:
I just wanted to let you know I got the error, "SMTP Error: Could not authenticate. Mail error: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate." when I registered for the site. I can still login.


Yes, the SMTP stuff can error sometimes, not much we can do about it :(

DelBoy Trades wrote:
Eve-kill seems to forget pilots kills all the time now. As an enormous killboard *****, I check my main's killboards religiously, lately every time I look it says I either have no kills or only shows a few recent months of kills. Is this likely to be fixed soon or are we looking at a complete transition to the Zkillboard. I'm also a bit concerned that on EVEKill I have 1700 kills on a particular pilot but only 1100 on the Zboard.


EVE-KILL is horribly broken, so broken that we started working on zKB instead of trying to fix it. So in a month or two, we're swapping EDK for zKB meaning zKillboard will go onto eve-kill.net - we will still have eve-kill in on a different subdomain for those of you who can't let it go.

As for mails, yes, we are moving all mails from EVE-KILL over to zKB, so your stats should look perfectly fine once we get that done :)
Squizz Caphinator
The Wormhole Police
#12 - 2012-11-26 15:47:47 UTC
tl;dr: Eve-Kill is now zKillboard's *****.

Many of you already know that zKillboard is Eve-Kill's project on a new killboard. One of the big improvements we were able to make with zKB is the ability for efficient KillLog fetching and parsing.

Some history: zKB initially fed from Eve-Kill for several months using a shared cached system (that Eve-Kill was in charge of). Then zKB became more mature and began doing its own KillLog fetches while also using the same shared cache system.. And now zKB is in charge of this shared cache and eve-kill is feeding all kills from this cache.

In short, rather than me rambling I'll bullet point how this will improve kill fetching overall:

- More efficient and reliable KillLog fetching.
- Better error handling (<3 you CCP)
- Integrated corp director key fetches. If you have four directors each with their own corp key, then zKB can fetch new kills 4 times an hour! (CEO counts as a director)
- Don't worry, API verified kills on EveKill will still show up as.... api verified.

Next on my list of things to do is importing the ~12 million manually posted killmails from Eve-Kill to zKB. Now that, my friends, will be fun...

In the meantime, feel free to ask any questions or say EveKill sucks. You suck too, now go get some kills!

Various projects I enjoy putting my free time into:

https://zkillboard.com | https://evewho.com
AzAkiR NaLDa
Council of Exiles
Brave Collective
#13 - 2012-11-26 18:03:26 UTC
i for one like the look and feel of this zkillboard. it is about time we get some more funky **** instead of the old standardized looks and feels to killboards. i am quite looking forward to hopefully in the future set my own corp up with this board instead of the out-dated EDK.

Lone Star Warrior
Brain Gehirn
Macabre Votum
Northern Coalition.
#14 - 2012-11-27 04:19:54 UTC
The only reason that people still uses battleclinic is the general rankings (alliances, corporations and pilots)
Should be a good idea to make something like that :)
TheSkeptic
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2012-11-27 08:58:03 UTC  |  Edited by: TheSkeptic
Does have a much better look and feel to it... once you adapt.

The other kb's are dated, the only thing they have going for them is history.

One thing I did notice though, km's don't seem to display values > 1B?

http://zkillboard.com/detail/26795277/
http://zkillboard.com/detail/26792863/

The 1B+ valued mods all show as 999,999,999.99

...

Squizz Caphinator
The Wormhole Police
#16 - 2012-11-27 18:15:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Squizz Caphinator
TheSkeptic wrote:
One thing I did notice though, km's don't seem to display values > 1B?


Nice find! Seems we made a mistake in the template engine for formatting those numbers. *fixed*

Various projects I enjoy putting my free time into:

https://zkillboard.com | https://evewho.com
Squizz Caphinator
The Wormhole Police
#17 - 2012-11-27 18:16:12 UTC
Brain Gehirn wrote:
The only reason that people still uses battleclinic is the general rankings (alliances, corporations and pilots)
Should be a good idea to make something like that :)


All this is already planned.

Various projects I enjoy putting my free time into:

https://zkillboard.com | https://evewho.com
iskflakes
#18 - 2012-11-28 15:57:44 UTC
Looks good. WTB some proper API documentation though.

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Squizz Caphinator
The Wormhole Police
#19 - 2012-11-28 20:04:20 UTC
iskflakes wrote:
Looks good. WTB some proper API documentation though.


How much isk are you willing to pay? :)

Anyhow, its funny that you mention that as we just overhauled the API documentation. Enjoy!

Various projects I enjoy putting my free time into:

https://zkillboard.com | https://evewho.com
Squizz Caphinator
The Wormhole Police
#20 - 2012-11-28 20:06:58 UTC
DelBoy Trades wrote:
Eve-kill seems to forget pilots kills all the time now. As an enormous killboard *****, I check my main's killboards religiously, lately every time I look it says I either have no kills or only shows a few recent months of kills. Is this likely to be fixed soon or are we looking at a complete transition to the Zkillboard. I'm also a bit concerned that on EVEKill I have 1700 kills on a particular pilot but only 1100 on the Zboard.


This is because zKB only has API verified kills at the moment. So that 600 kill discrepancy means there are 600 kills that zKB doesn't have the CCP provided xml.

Yes, we will be importing manual mails, so no worries about that.

Various projects I enjoy putting my free time into:

https://zkillboard.com | https://evewho.com
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