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Edited By snide

Editing a hamburger was never easier. 
Editing a hamburger was never easier. 
This is just a quick note from the engineering team to alert everyone to some new features we've added to the site in the last week. Here's the quick list:  

  • A brand new WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.
  • Wiki histories and rollback functionality for moderators.
  • Slightly modified the Private Message's UI to include more GMAIL like abilities.
 
We're most excited about our new editor which took a whooping 4 months of Ethan's development time. Considering we built the entire Giant Bomb website in a shorter period it only makes that fact even crazier for us to admit. Using this new editor should not only be a more consistent experience on our sites, but now allows you to edit Wiki articles in-page rather than in a popup. If you notice any bugs please report your browser (including version) and OS combo along with a screenshot. Editors can be extremely finicky with certain combos so the more information you can report to us the better. 
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#1  Edited By snide

Editing a hamburger was never easier. 
Editing a hamburger was never easier. 
This is just a quick note from the engineering team to alert everyone to some new features we've added to the site in the last week. Here's the quick list:  

  • A brand new WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.
  • Wiki histories and rollback functionality for moderators.
  • Slightly modified the Private Message's UI to include more GMAIL like abilities.
 
We're most excited about our new editor which took a whooping 4 months of Ethan's development time. Considering we built the entire Giant Bomb website in a shorter period it only makes that fact even crazier for us to admit. Using this new editor should not only be a more consistent experience on our sites, but now allows you to edit Wiki articles in-page rather than in a popup. If you notice any bugs please report your browser (including version) and OS combo along with a screenshot. Editors can be extremely finicky with certain combos so the more information you can report to us the better. 
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#2  Edited By lemon360

NICE

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#3  Edited By melkor456

yay

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#4  Edited By Matiss

Nice work, guys. The new editor works fine.

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so does that mean we can add in the PSN trophies like the 360 achievements on the side tab or will you just continue to crap on the PS3?
 
 
 
EDIT: I'm not talking about linking achievement or trophies to your account, I am talking about how every 360 game page has a tab for achievements which anybody can add as they are found, yet not even blank pages for the ps3 trophy system. Back to my original comment, so does that mean we can add those pages in now?

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#6  Edited By rinkalicous

Boom!

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#7  Edited By MjHealy

Wooo! Nice work lads.

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#8  Edited By karneh

I noticed the new WYSIWYG editor. 
 
Hot.

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#9  Edited By ahoodedfigure

Cool.  The PMs actually lost a bit of functionality, though.  At least for being able to go to the end of a conversation.  With conversations that are more than two pages long, you have to keep paging through to get to where the conversation currently is.  Might be time to tweak it slightly and put the newest part of the conversation first, instead of last.  Then I might stop bugging people by starting new threads every time the conversation got too long :)
 
I like that the wiki editor allows you to choose for a link to pop-up to a different window/frame.  Nice alternative to the standard click-through.

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#10  Edited By Nadril

Ethan is credit to team!

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#11  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

Yep, the recent updates to the site have been great. And the recent addition to your team of moderators was pretty good too :)

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#12  Edited By skidd

Wiki histories are a great addition, good job guys!

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#13  Edited By damnboyadvance

Yay! Thanks Giant Bomb! Now editing Wiki pages has never been easier, thanks to the WYSISYG editor! Looks great, and now I can't wait to edit the wiki!

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#14  Edited By mmarsu

I'm pretty new to the site, but I'm excited about this. The features on this website are so awesome :).

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#15  Edited By dietmango

Yay for Giant bomb =D

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#16  Edited By sparky_buzzsaw

Wow, thanks for the update!
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#17  Edited By buzz_killington
@PhaggyBigNastyMcKill said:
"so does that mean we can add in the PSN trophies like the 360 achievements on the side tab or will you just continue to crap on the PS3? "

First of all, are the words "trophies" or even "achievements" even mentioned in the post? No, it's about a new editor.  
Second of all, Dave has explained this already like 200 times. Sony does not release individual profile info like Microsoft.
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#18  Edited By CoverlessTech

Where is the white? Snide? Snide? SNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????

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#19  Edited By teptom

WOOOO!  
 
I'm really liking these updates! Especially the wiki histories.

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#20  Edited By Charon

Happy about the updates....but the site's font still needs changing.

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#22  Edited By vigorousjammer

I noticed the new editor a few days ago when commenting... so I checked it out while editing a page.
Pretty awesome stuff :-)
 
Keep hauling out the awesome updates guys! :-D

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#23  Edited By buzz_clik

Heh, I noticed the Wiki History thing yesterday and wondered how I could have missed it before. Uhhh... maybe because it wasn't there?
 
Nice work, guys. Three thumbs up (one for each bullet point).

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#24  Edited By IceColdGamer

Good works folks. I like it.

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#25  Edited By Stevokenevo

hell im gonna go edit a hamburger right now!!  and by edit, i mean eat.

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#26  Edited By Death_Burnout
@CoverlessTech said:
" Where is the white? Snide? Snide? SNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????? "
i've been thinking this for months, and weeks ago it was almost here! Gah!
 
Im too used the site the way it is now, i hardly care.
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#27  Edited By snide
@CoverlessTech said:
" Where is the white? Snide? Snide? SNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????? "
It's almost complete. Unfortunately I got pulled into some other projects and it will have to wait a couple weeks.
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#28  Edited By LaszloKovacs
@PhaggyBigNastyMcKill said:
" so does that mean we can add in the PSN trophies like the 360 achievements on the side tab or will you just continue to crap on the PS3? "
That's not up to the GB dev team. Sony isn't making the tools for that available like Vavle and Microsoft are. If you have a problem with it, tell Sony to hurry the eff up with their community stuff, but don't blame people who have nothing to do with it.
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#29  Edited By CoverlessTech
@snide said:
" @CoverlessTech said:
" Where is the white? Snide? Snide? SNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????? "
It's almost complete. Unfortunately I got pulled into some other projects and it will have to wait a couple weeks. "
Good to hear, I was starting to think it was abandoned after it was announced to be coming a while back.
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#30  Edited By RagingLion

I, for one, am excited by this news.  Being able to edit on the page rather in a pop-up window will save a fair bit of annoyance and it looks like adding in pictures to articles got a whole lot easier too.  Thanks Ethan!

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#31  Edited By citizenkane

All of this stuff is working out great so far.  Keep up the awesome work, guys!

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#32  Edited By Dr_Feelgood38

Awesome stuff! Is anyone going to go tell Endogene about all of these updates?

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#33  Edited By Brackynews

My god. It's full of text.

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#34  Edited By NoXious

Will there EVER be Opera support?

I demand Web Standards! 

EDIT:
Seriously though, what's behind this site that the Opera browser can't handle the editor - or is there just not enough testing done with Opera to put it out there for us Opera users?
It's a shame to see some of my favorite games only have 1 line of actual information and a bunch of screenshots which, without the information, mean jack all.
And I personally refuse to use another browser to simply add stuff because of folk slacking when it came to standards. (even to this day!)

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#35  Edited By CL60

Is it possible to add MB to private conversations yet? :P

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#36  Edited By RHCPfan24

There has been a lot of cool stuff this month, for sure. Let us not forget MattyFTM's new appointment to modship as well!!

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#37  Edited By MetalGearSunny
@PhaggyBigNastyMcKill said:
" so does that mean we can add in the PSN trophies like the 360 achievements on the side tab or will you just continue to crap on the PS3? "
It's Sony's fault for not having a good API, not giantbomb. They told us that a million years ago, so get that shit out of your ears.
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#38  Edited By AnEternalEnigma

Need white background. White text on black kills me.

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#39  Edited By nick69

sweet

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#40  Edited By Pkshields

Yay! Giant Bomb - making everything better

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@Metal_Gear_Sunny said:
" @PhaggyBigNastyMcKill said:
" so does that mean we can add in the PSN trophies like the 360 achievements on the side tab or will you just continue to crap on the PS3? "
It's Sony's fault for not having a good API, not giantbomb. They told us that a million years ago, so get that shit out of your ears. "
I'm talking about the actual gamepage you fuckatrd (hey you insulted me first). This has nothing to do with linking trophies or achievements to your profile, but rather i see a tab on the side of every 360 game that says achievements. It is a regular page that anybody can edit. But i don't see them for the PS3 equiv of trophies
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@buzz_killington said:

" @PhaggyBigNastyMcKill said:

"so does that mean we can add in the PSN trophies like the 360 achievements on the side tab or will you just continue to crap on the PS3? "

First of all, are the words "trophies" or even "achievements" even mentioned in the post? No, it's about a new editor.  Second of all, Dave has explained this already like 200 times. Sony does not release individual profile info like Microsoft. "
@LaszloKovacs said:

" @PhaggyBigNastyMcKill said:

" so does that mean we can add in the PSN trophies like the 360 achievements on the side tab or will you just continue to crap on the PS3? "
That's not up to the GB dev team. Sony isn't making the tools for that available like Vavle and Microsoft are. If you have a problem with it, tell Sony to hurry the eff up with their community stuff, but don't blame people who have nothing to do with it. "
 I'm not talking about linking achievement or trophies to your account, I am talking about how every 360 game page has a tab for achievements which anybody can add as they are found, yet not even blank pages for the ps3 trophy system. Back to my original comment, so does that mean we can add those pages in now?
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#43  Edited By MetalGearSunny
@PhaggyBigNastyMcKill: It's the same thing dude.
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#44  Edited By trophyhunter

what do the pm stars mean?

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#45  Edited By andy
@PhaggyBigNastyMcKill: No one is adding achievements to those achievement pages.  They're automatically populated based on data we get from Microsoft, Steam and WoW.
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#46  Edited By joelalfaro

thank you for all this FREE stuff!

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@Metal_Gear_Sunny: and if the new editing shit was good, people can just add in trophies like a wiki instead of waiting around
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#48  Edited By trophyhunter
@PhaggyBigNastyMcKill said:
" @buzz_killington said:

" @PhaggyBigNastyMcKill said:

"so does that mean we can add in the PSN trophies like the 360 achievements on the side tab or will you just continue to crap on the PS3? "

First of all, are the words "trophies" or even "achievements" even mentioned in the post? No, it's about a new editor.  Second of all, Dave has explained this already like 200 times. Sony does not release individual profile info like Microsoft. "
@LaszloKovacs said:

" @PhaggyBigNastyMcKill said:

" so does that mean we can add in the PSN trophies like the 360 achievements on the side tab or will you just continue to crap on the PS3? "
That's not up to the GB dev team. Sony isn't making the tools for that available like Vavle and Microsoft are. If you have a problem with it, tell Sony to hurry the eff up with their community stuff, but don't blame people who have nothing to do with it. "
 I'm not talking about linking achievement or trophies to your account, I am talking about how every 360 game page has a tab for achievements which anybody can add as they are found, yet not even blank pages for the ps3 trophy system. Back to my original comment, so does that mean we can add those pages in now? "
guess what their the same damn thing
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#49  Edited By MetalGearSunny
@PhaggyBigNastyMcKill: The reason the achievements are there are so you can compare them with other people, so if you want to just add trophies and do nothing with them, be my guest.
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@Metal_Gear_Sunny said:
" @PhaggyBigNastyMcKill: The reason the achievements are there are so you can compare them with other people, so if you want to just add trophies and do nothing with them, be my guest. "
I would if i could, yet this new fangled system just wouldn't let me