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Yonaton Ellecon
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#181 - 2013-07-04 21:52:07 UTC
I would like to give a suggestion to CCP. How do I do that?
Orion Pax
Yoyodyne corporation
#182 - 2013-07-06 15:56:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Orion Pax
It would be nice if you could categorize it into both men and women. Having an all time favorites gets boring over time, so in addition to that, it would be awesome to have a more dynamically updating system similar to 500px.com (it's a photo sharing site) where we could see new faces everyday based on short term popularity trends. Unfortunately I have no idea how 500px.com's popularity algorithm works so you'll probably have to create your own.
JAG Fox
GunStars
#183 - 2013-07-07 17:10:09 UTC
website down!

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Kisses!Foxie.
Nova Kierra
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#184 - 2013-07-07 18:13:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Nova Kierra
JAG Fox wrote:
website down!


The hosting provider is experiencing some technical difficulties. Hopefully they will come back up soon.
As for the "head to head" matches, I like the idea and it shouldn't be too difficult to implement!

UPDATE: Exceeded disk quota.


Orion Pax wrote:
It would be nice if you could categorize it into both men and women. Having an all time favorites gets boring over time, so in addition to that, it would be awesome to have a more dynamically updating system similar to 500px.com (it's a photo sharing site) where we could see new faces everyday based on short term popularity trends. Unfortunately I have no idea how 500px.com's popularity algorithm works so you'll probably have to create your own.


While I could manually separate male and female avatars, in the long term it's not going to work out. I could also add a gender radio button when adding a character, but it relies solely on the truthfulness of people. Nothing will prevent you from adding a male avatar and selecting a female checkbox.
To determine character's gender with 100% accuracy, I'll need everyone's full API which is not practical - because who wants to give out their API keys just for some avatar contest website!
I like that "trending" popularity idea, but it will not work as well as on 500px, reddit, stackexchange. Those websites have a constant flow of new posts/images that are time-sensitive. You don't necessarily care about popular stuff from last year. You care about popular images or posts that are up-to-date.
On New Eden Faces there is a fixed number of total characters and I just don't see a good way to translate "trending" algorithm to newedenfaces.com project. What I could do is reset leaderboard every week/biweekly to keep it somewhat changing.

New Eden Faces -> www.newedenfaces.com
Thetabetalpha
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#185 - 2013-07-07 20:34:21 UTC
Upon another visit to the site I noticed it is up to 2534 capsuleers. It is easy to click through for so long to get to even remotely interesting avatars.

But here's an idea:
Idea Display results of the last, let's say, 5 matchups in individual character info.
Brit Green
Hagkaup
#186 - 2013-07-09 22:14:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Brit Green
Brit Green wrote:
Nova Kierra wrote:
A lot of similar avatars too: http://www.newedenfaces.com/characters/90380309 and http://www.newedenfaces.com/characters/93458077

Sometimes I have those moments - "wait didn't I just vote for this avatar?!" But they were in fact two different characters.


Once upon a time some guy made character portrait for the original portrait games. Since there was no CQ at that time he didn't care about the fact that his character, while hot, had a fat ass and no boobies. As time passed he wanted a new character and found that it gave him the heebie jeebies to look upon the hot, fat assed character he made so long ago. So he made another one that was similar but had a decent body.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it Blink


Since I was selling my CEO and needed a new one, I actually logged into Brit for the first time in forever.

I thought I'd take a look in the mirror and see if I could fix the lighting a bit. I got a pop up asking if I'd like a re-sculpt! Well, as it happened, I did want one.

Now I have the body to go with the face. Woot!
Ila Gant
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#187 - 2013-07-09 23:08:22 UTC
Nova Kierra wrote:
JAG Fox wrote:
website down!


The hosting provider is experiencing some technical difficulties. Hopefully they will come back up soon.
As for the "head to head" matches, I like the idea and it shouldn't be too difficult to implement!

UPDATE: Exceeded disk quota.

The site is popular enough that people loaded it up with more than 2500 users. I do miss it when it's down.

Nova Kierra wrote:

(snip)

While I could manually separate male and female avatars, in the long term it's not going to work out. I could also add a gender radio button when adding a character, but it relies solely on the truthfulness of people. Nothing will prevent you from adding a male avatar and selecting a female checkbox.
To determine character's gender with 100% accuracy, I'll need everyone's full API which is not practical - because who wants to give out their API keys just for some avatar contest website!

Alternatively draft a few of us to go in and add the information. You'd have to have an incoming queue.
Nova Kierra wrote:

(snip)
On New Eden Faces there is a fixed number of total characters and I just don't see a good way to translate "trending" algorithm to newedenfaces.com project. What I could do is reset leaderboard every week/biweekly to keep it somewhat changing.

But... I just got there... Smile
Ila Gant
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#188 - 2013-07-09 23:10:35 UTC
Brit Green wrote:

Since I was selling my CEO and needed a new one, I actually logged into Brit for the first time in forever.

I thought I'd take a look in the mirror and see if I could fix the lighting a bit. I got a pop up asking if I'd like a re-sculpt! Well, as it happened, I did want one.

Now I have the body to go with the face. Woot!

Still a great portrait, but I do miss some of the older lighting and skin tone options.
Nova Kierra
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#189 - 2013-07-11 03:52:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Nova Kierra
Sorry guys I've been busy with some real life stuff and I was not able to fix the errors that caused the crash who knows when. I just found out why I was hitting the "Exceeded disk quota". My log file was accidentally printing all 2500 characters into a text file on each request.

After bringing the server back for 5 minutes, the brand new log file was already at 11 megabytes. It's a lot of megabytes for a website that is less than 1 mb in total.

I am currently working on the improvements I have mentioned earlier. In addition I have considered the gender-separated voting and think that's a good idea. For that I am going to need a few trusted volunteers who can set a gender to existing characters.

For future character adds I am considering whether there should be an approval process signed off by me once a day, or have a report button next to character's name, in the case when opposite gender is encountered .

UPDATE

Many bugs have been fixed, added gender support, as someone has suggested I have added sorting by winning percentage for the top 14 and top 100 but first they are sorted by number of wins, this prevents new players with 100% winning percentage to be in top ranks.

Added previous matches on character summary page that shows a list of 2 avatars per row, winner of the vote highlighted in green, loser of the vote highlighted in red. It's still in basic shape, but good enough for now.

Added notifications for report button, report threshold has been lowered from 10 to 3.

Sometime this week, once everything is ready I will push the update live.

Thanks everyone for your feedback.

New Eden Faces -> www.newedenfaces.com
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#190 - 2013-07-14 21:03:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
Just want to comment, I've been offered the same character twice in less than 20 rounds. Is this supposed to happen?

Edit: another repeat, some 40 rounds inbetween.

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JAG Fox
GunStars
#191 - 2013-07-15 22:02:15 UTC
Nova Kierra wrote:
Sorry guys I've been busy with some real life stuff and I was not able to fix the errors that caused the crash who knows when. I just found out why I was hitting the "Exceeded disk quota". My log file was accidentally printing all 2500 characters into a text file on each request.

After bringing the server back for 5 minutes, the brand new log file was already at 11 megabytes. It's a lot of megabytes for a website that is less than 1 mb in total.

I am currently working on the improvements I have mentioned earlier. In addition I have considered the gender-separated voting and think that's a good idea. For that I am going to need a few trusted volunteers who can set a gender to existing characters.

For future character adds I am considering whether there should be an approval process signed off by me once a day, or have a report button next to character's name, in the case when opposite gender is encountered .

UPDATE

Many bugs have been fixed, added gender support, as someone has suggested I have added sorting by winning percentage for the top 14 and top 100 but first they are sorted by number of wins, this prevents new players with 100% winning percentage to be in top ranks.

Added previous matches on character summary page that shows a list of 2 avatars per row, winner of the vote highlighted in green, loser of the vote highlighted in red. It's still in basic shape, but good enough for now.

Added notifications for report button, report threshold has been lowered from 10 to 3.

Sometime this week, once everything is ready I will push the update live.

Thanks everyone for your feedback.


Sounds interesting Nova. I look forward to seeing the changes. Also, probably using a "report" feature would be the best way to go for the gender match-ups - although with some avatars it's pretty hard to know gender with 100% certainty.. lol

anyway, thanks for the update!

 Fox Pin-up

Kisses!Foxie.
Nynette
Mouth Trumpet Cavalry.
Mouth Trumpet Cavalry
#192 - 2013-07-29 19:01:23 UTC
Site's dead?
Sirinda
Ekchuah's Shrine Comporium
#193 - 2013-07-29 19:07:24 UTC
Ahriantis
The Forsakened Few
We Forsakened Few
#194 - 2013-07-31 17:19:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Ahriantis
My toon has yet to be added.


Edit: Scratch that, It's in.

Edit2: Whoa repeats... everywhere. Addicting..... !!!!

Edit3: NEED MORE VOTES!
Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#195 - 2013-07-31 17:25:31 UTC
I seem to have dropped from 73 to 95 in the top 100 since yesterday. Damn.

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Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#196 - 2013-08-20 19:50:31 UTC
... and, it's down again.

Proud founder and member of the Belligerent Desirables.

I voted in CSM X!
Ayallah
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#197 - 2013-09-24 22:13:38 UTC
Some answers are being counted twice. Link shows screenshot.

http://i.imgur.com/ZRM6Rcz.png

Goddess of the IGS

As strength goes.
Ayallah
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#198 - 2013-10-01 19:48:05 UTC
http://i.imgur.com/4OLC3uF.png

Seems it is happening again somehow. This particular portrait has about 10-20 more votes than anyone else because of this.

I do love the site, I hope all the problems get fixed soon =)

Goddess of the IGS

As strength goes.
Chaotica Donma
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#199 - 2013-10-01 20:01:02 UTC
This is a really interesting idea, pretty sweet. It's been working pretty smoothly for me since I started playing with it. Nice work!

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Ungoliant Telmun
Doomheim
#200 - 2013-10-23 01:17:02 UTC
Riggity Rig1..
Rig2.