richter Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Hey all. Some of you may remember me (I did the SF2 website and some other stuff). Anyway I recently completed a website I thought some of you may find useful: dirtybeta.com It's a software release aggregator, meaning it's a tool to inform folks about new software coming out. Some examples are: - OC ReMiX Store 2 - All video game releases (usually updated Tuesdays) - New Wii and DS games - Audio applications - All Macintosh software And these all have corresponding RSS versions you can subscribe to. So you can use it to inform yourself about what's new, or as a tool to promote your own software. A new OCR site project or the release of VGMixX would be examples. VSTs and audio software are others. Anyway, hope you find this useful and sorry if you find this spammy. (feedback is nice too!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifirit Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Cool. The fact that it's pretty well organized and that RSS channels are added makes this pretty functional about getting new release information on a category-wide basis. Now if only we could do this for Coming Soon info. As far as feedback goes, avatars or image tags would be useful for searching. (I say that as a visual learner, which is only personal preference.) I'd like a search box somewhere near the tags buttons. Also, it would be helpful to have a "search tags" option, since some of the tags are just incredibly small and hard to read, e.g. DS. Clicking on the RSS button on the bottom of the page, though, produces this error. An invalid character was found in text content. Line: 200 Character: 270 <description><![CDATA[RPG created by acclaimed artists Takehiko Inoue (Japanese manga creator, made famous by “Slam Dunk”), Kiyoshi Shigematsu (a famous Japanese novelist) and Nobuo Uematsu (Japanese music composer, known for creating the music for the “FINAL FANTASY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richter Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 Thanks for the feedback, ifrit -- good stuff. I've added tabs to sort by latest posted, latest released, etc. Good call on the search box in the sidebar. I should have implemented that a while ago. Also fixed the RSS feed Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC Ricers Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I think RSS feeds separated by system/platform would be a nice addition, for those people that don't own every single system, anyways. Maybe announce the games a week before release as a reminder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richter Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 Good ideas! I just pushed the latest build that includes just that. Thanks for the feedback! Some feed examples: RSS feed of new Wii games RSS feed of new DS games RSS feed of ALL new games Also I dugg this release because I finally think the site's past the buggy grossness stage. Hurrrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.