Rainy´s site gets a facelift
Tuesday, April 20, 2004 by moshi | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Rainy, the creator of Rainlendar and Rainmeter has updated his website. not only does it have a new look, but also:
- updated forums with more categories. this also makes it easier to see wether questions have been asked before.
- Rainy´s site has now a skin section. this section is synchronized with the new sections for Rainlendar and Rainmeter at Custo. so if you want to see your skins at Rainy´s site you´ll just have to upload them to www.customize.org
Rainy´s site: http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php
two hints if you want to upload:
- visit Custo with a modern browser (that means: not Internet Explorer). else the popup windows will kill all the fun.
- at Custo you will get "honest critisizm", something you might not know yet. let me explain: if your skin sucks or you have no skills at graphics editing, there´s a good chance somebody will tell you. whining and crying for an admin will not get you far.
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- updated forums with more categories. this also makes it easier to see wether questions have been asked before.
- Rainy´s site has now a skin section. this section is synchronized with the new sections for Rainlendar and Rainmeter at Custo. so if you want to see your skins at Rainy´s site you´ll just have to upload them to www.customize.org
Rainy´s site: http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php
two hints if you want to upload:
- visit Custo with a modern browser (that means: not Internet Explorer). else the popup windows will kill all the fun.
- at Custo you will get "honest critisizm", something you might not know yet. let me explain: if your skin sucks or you have no skills at graphics editing, there´s a good chance somebody will tell you. whining and crying for an admin will not get you far.
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moshi
Reply #2 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:44 AM
Reply #2 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:44 AM
he? i think it was a valid warning with a little sarcasm. you have at least one guy every four days that complains about critisiszm here on the message board and crys for an admin. and let´s not get even started on ratings. the whole "negative" comments thing is indeed handled pretty different on variuos sites, so why not a warning?
personally i think Deskmod had the best solution. a little checkbox that you could check while uploading that would prevent comments at all when you were too scared of them.
what happened? having a bad day?
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personally i think Deskmod had the best solution. a little checkbox that you could check while uploading that would prevent comments at all when you were too scared of them.
what happened? having a bad day?
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Jafo
Reply #3 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:48 AM
Reply #3 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:48 AM
It was valid sarcasm with a little warning.
I often wonder why you bother.
I often wonder why you bother.
Jafo
Reply #4 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:53 AM
Reply #4 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:53 AM
Listen, Darling....Litestep was in B21 when I first ended up at Customize.org....initially it was the ONLY place....but fairly quickly went sour....fortunately skinz came along....then Custo died its death.....eventually being revived and going through severe resurrection pains....since when it has improved.
Apart from that...leave your criticism of admins here and/or elsewhere to yourself.
No-one is really interested.
Apart from that...leave your criticism of admins here and/or elsewhere to yourself.
No-one is really interested.
Frogboy
Reply #5 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:01 AM
Reply #5 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:01 AM
I think Moshi was meaning that Customize.org comments can be rough.
moshi
Reply #6 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:03 AM
Reply #6 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:03 AM
when i said that Deskmod had the best solution for this why do you consider that to be critisizm of the admins here? what´s your problem with that? is it not allowed to like features of other websites?
KarmaGirl
Reply #7 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:19 AM
Reply #7 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:19 AM
Hmmm... I like that Deskmod feature. It would be good for people who post stuff that they don't want comments on (like, for people who don't go back to look at comments) but still want to post. I guess a little "you can leave a comment but I won't read it" in their original comment would do the trick, too.
Customize.org comments are a bit rough. It's more of a no-holds-barred type site.
paxx
Reply #8 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:51 AM
Reply #8 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:51 AM
I think moshi's comments was directed at the hyper-sensitive uploaders, not at all meaning any wrong towards the admins. And I must agree to some degree. I'm one who says, if you're afraid of public opinion, don't expose your work to the public. I recently got a funny comment on one of my uploads. Well, anyway, I thought it was funny, although I'm not sure it was the original intention.
Phar0e
Reply #9 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:22 AM
Reply #9 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:22 AM
All that having been said...It's great to see Rainy continuing development of his modules.
Maybe we can beg him to create a working weather module (for Litestep).
Maybe we can beg him to create a working weather module (for Litestep).
moshi
Reply #11 Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:17 PM
Reply #11 Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:17 PM
PharOe: no Rainweather, but a Rainmeter plugin. see here: http://vapaa.dc.inet.fi/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rainy/Forum/ikonboard.cgi?s=cb44e5848c2e6886fe6995aab46eb3e6act=STf=1t=2
Old_Crab
Reply #12 Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:25 PM
Reply #12 Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:25 PM
Yes the site is better. Readable. Old eyes need big readable TEXT. In bold type. Ahem. Just a thought all. And a new Rainy version is out. No. Update. Go away. >
Phar0e
Reply #13 Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:31 PM
Reply #13 Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:31 PM
Hey, thank for the link Moshi. Hopefully Rainy finishes up the next version of Rainmeter soon.
On a related Litestep note, a new module called wazup was just released. From websites it grabs info that can be displayed in a label. Nasty looking config, but who knows? I''m gonna play with it a bit more.
On a related Litestep note, a new module called wazup was just released. From websites it grabs info that can be displayed in a label. Nasty looking config, but who knows? I''m gonna play with it a bit more.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:41 AM
Ignore the fact some of us were members of Customize.org before even skinz.org existed....