jlrm01

In addition to this, sometimes (only happened 2 or 3 times, so not often) when I click on an image to bring up it's options, it simply loads the image, losing all the work i'd not saved up until that point and requiring me to browse back and start the editor afresh.

Yeah, I'm a user at AV, too (same username). If you like anime / manga and like the "Whiskey Media style" (don't know how to call it in a simple way ^_^;) I think you'll like it. There aren't as many people as there are here, and quite a ton of pages are "skeleton pages" (they exist but no one has any points in them), so people that like to write can have some fun / help out.

Is it an interlaced PNG by any chance? Those tend to cause some trouble. I just tried it with an image of my own of that type and the same thing you mention happens. You can upload them but nothing appears after that, I suppose, because PIL can't handle those kinds of images (in the last dev podcast they said they use PIL). In the next PIL release this will be fixed (already works in the beta version available).

If it is that kind of image just saving it as a non-interlaced PNG or a JPEG is a possible solution.

Ah, so this was that strange PM I got.

" - Users who have 200+ posts"

Finally my low post count bit me in the ass. ^_^ hehehe

This happened to me once before while trying to make a concept page. I filled all the information, but when I clicked Propose as New Concept or whatever it says the page appeared just like that one. Seems to me that the name field somehow was received as blank, so when it tries to put together the URL, only http://<game id> remains. Back then I was told to try making the page again and that the staff would erase the page. The id of that page is 61-24010.

Apparently it was a failed attempt at creating Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart. The image that was used is this one:

Thanks for the answer. I really like the "more technical" direction the podcast is taking, and love the code examples, too. I was wondering about the database model for your sites, as I think I will have to imitate it somewhat for one of my programs (that uses both the API and web scraping for things I can't get through the API), but using sqlalchemy. Maybe in the summer I can actually work on that part. ^_^;

New sites are mentioned... and I was thinking: aren't you guys afraid of "spreading yourselves too thin"? How much more "attention" is needed from you guys when a new site comes up (I mean after the initial launch phase)? The code base is the same, but each site has its differences that may require bug fixing from time to time, and new major features may be needed (such as the Achievements, I guess) than don't work well (or at all) on multiple sites. The "editorial staff" will handle the content side, I guess, but the editorial staff is small, too, so things like deleting wiki pages (that only the staff can make) take a long time (it is really bad at AV). Are delegating these kind of things to mods being considered or is this the editorial staff's decision to make?

Ahh, so it was PIL that you used after all. I love PIL and quite a lot of the programs I make use it in one way or another.

You guys mention Ruby on Rails... why didn't you choose it instead of Django?