This website has made great strides since April 2009. At that point, it had a few tech demos and a buggy chatroom. About 50 visitors per day came to see the content.
Now fast forward to the end of the year. The website has DSiPaint with a gallery of about 10000 active paintings, 6 public chatrooms that regularly hit 40-50 total chatters in evenings, game shows, blogs and news with comments, messaging, and weekly polls, Nintendo WiFi scheduling. HullBreach Online is available for play on the DSi as an affiliate. Plus, one can't forget all the progress toward The Mystical Journey. The 50 visits per day has climbed to about 1700, and the joint membership across the related websites jumped from 5000 to nearly 13000.
I never even dreamed of having so much success with this website. If any members enjoy taking part even half as much as I do, then all the hard work has been worth the effort.
Now that 2010 is about to begin, let's hit the ground running with this website. I'd like all the suggestions everyone may have. Please keep The Mystical Journey and HullBreach Online Lite comments for a separate blog. I'll start off with some of the suggestions I have already received:
1. Allow admins to recommend other members to be admins through their profiles.
2. Lock certain avatars to specific members.
3. Link to DSiPaintings from profiles
4. Allow longer length bans for offensive members.
5. Blog ratings
6. Blog categories
7. DSiPainting comments
8. Tabbed chatrooms for PMs
I will not necessarily get to all of the above suggestions, but many are very good and worth pursuing. Let's hear some more...
I just found your site and am highly impressed. My favorite feature is the chats. More rooms would be amazing. General audience rooms are ok, but also not all DS users are teens, so a room for older would be great. Looking forward to seeing where the site goes. Ty!
when your voting for paintings, it would be nice if they would show up in order from the date made (if your searching a specific person) so you will be able to vote for all of them. when its random its hard to get all of their paintings if they have alot.
With TMJ how about the ability to go "offline" so you can play by yourself. what about the ability to only be seen and only see people in your friends list
<i>[u][b]An area or chatroom devoted to HTML and/or coding.
<li> A command that reports people or a report feature that would alert admins or overlord admins somehow.
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<br><li>oh and the ability to make shout outs and maybe have a sidebar on the main page or shoutbox and everyone see them.
•The ability to trade paintings an give painting to people who cant draw but want your painting avatar XD
DSipaint: Chatrooms
•The ability to use your painting as a avatar for the chatrooms
•To be able to go to chatroom to chatroom without haveing to go back to main page, Example: /room # [← the rooms name]
•To be able to Pm more then one person at a time
•To be able to report someone, if no admin is on, they can check the report an the chatrooms posts at that time
•To be able to be typeing an still be able to read the posts other members are posting, so when u send you dont have2 read it all to catch up on whats going on
TMJ
•Better sprites, meaning: they should be able to go, top-left, top-right, bottom-left, both-right, not just left,right,up, and down
•To give links in the Tmj-Lobby thing
•To be able to Pm
•To talk to people during your gameplay an ask for help
• A guide to help you through the game
•Make it so that if many people are on at once, it wont lag for you or anyone eles
i have an idea for a new command. i noticed tht alot of people on chat go to ssbb, so could you add a command like /brawl tht will tell people wen ur brawling, like the /away status
uh, heres a good one. change the invisibility code in Mt Hildar. It's way too easy. I guessed it after a couple tries. But, I do get straight A's. Still, alot of people know it. If you can, change it to something more complex.
1. We should have a huge contest where anyone who would like to send pictures of banners for the new name "DSiUniverse", you (and maybe some admins) decide the best 15. Then you set up the voting thing just like you vote for DSi Paints, and whoever gets the most votes has their banner displayed on the top of the webpage.
2. Friends only chatroom where you can only see what you and your friends are saying, even though there are other people talking to friends in it.
i have a possible thing that could happen were admins can make there own chatroom when ever like how they make a game but on the chatroom you have to be invited if not the accses in denided. ^_^ this would be awesome!!!!!
WAT ABOUT .. YOUR OWN SPECIAL COMMAND . ALL U HAVE TO DO IS TYPE /SPECIAL AND THE WAT COMES UP IS WAT U WRITE IN ON THE SETTINGS .. AND U CAN EVEN INSERT A PIC
1.a "ghost" option when logging in, only admins can see your name in the chatrooms.
2."create your own avatar" studio (for pc)
3.allow banned users to use the banlist
4.a report user button in the chatroom
5.nicer admins
There are many great ideas... too many for me to respond to them all. I will implement a few quickly this weekend. Some of the abilities are already in place, so I will point out those:
teopless 1. Ability to comment on your own blogs if arleady possible plz tell me
- Already possible if you search for yourself or go to My Settings and click on View Profile.
3. A new name for this website (DSiPaint refers only to... DSiPaint).
- I've been trying to think up a new name for a while. The website started as DS Opera SDK with the SDK meaning "Software Development Kit" because it was to be a set of tools to make browser games like Wii Opera SDK is, yet DSiPaint took over when I launched it. Now the website has grown beyond the bounds of DSiPaint. Name suggestions are welcome.
WHOOOSH 2. function dat allows blog admins to say !why! dey didnt accept ur blog, and dat if you correct this it can be accepted
- Admins should be posting comments as to why a blog was accepted or rejected. If they are not, then those admins are not properly doing their jobs. I'll add some admin guidelines for the news admins.
3. people can be UN-BANNED if wrongly banned (f generall chat occupants tink its unnecesary/mabye only admin dat banned can un-ban specific pl 4 safty)
- Overlord admins have a command to unban members, but 24 hours isn't really the end of the world.
also wat would be BRILLIANT is a place on dis site wer dere is lik a list off all wifi games (which admins can add games to) and wen u click on it you can give ur friendcode/name ect. so wen other ppl go der dey can take down ur fc and u can take down ders.
- Try the Nintendo WiFi Matchup app.
linkable 1. ability to have custom wallpaper
- You can change the wallpaper under My Settings, and it carries over for Wii Opera SDK and TWiiter Lite.
Skittles 3. on the avatarlist allow clicking the picture to set it as your avatar(though it might be hard since the pics are small.)
- You can already do that for both the DSi and Wii chatrooms.
ThunderArcher 3. use a painting as an avatar
- You can use DSiPaintings and WiiPaintings as avatars on TWiiter. I may work it into the chatrooms if I have a chance.
4. add games
- The Mystical Journey
SodaPop04 1.A command list so,people will know how to do different commands.
- In the chatrooms: /help
2.A link page,(full of links to other sites)
- I'm working on that. I had an article a little while back where I asked members to submit links to their sites.
3.A few more chatroom colors and avatars.
- There are probably about 20 hidden avatars. Can you figure them all out?
1. comment on paintings
2. status updates [like facebook]
3. use a painting as an avatar
4. add games
5. custom chats
6. rate half stars in dsipaint rating
7. advertising station
8. categories for blogs and paintings
9. poll system [make-ur-own]
10. report users
1.ability to set avatar preference
2.dsipaint comments
3.on the avatarlist allow clicking the picture to set it as your avatar(though it might be hard since the pics are small.)
anyways congrats on the longevity :」 i wish i could be on more often. school and life in general get i the way °~° though i usually go2 dsicade cuz i started there a month or2 before sdk.
I like that "Only admin that banned can unban for safety" thing.
I would like to suggest: 1)Weekly Contests. I thought of a good one. Every week, put up a theme on the top of SDk(or the "message board". Members can create anything that follows that theme(i.e.. A flipnote, a picture, a drawing, a sound..etc..)then they can send it to EMIAL... I know it might be a lot of work to go through all the emails and submissions so maybe making some admins that can go through all the messages and choose the best ones. I was thinking of this for my website and planning to make an email to submit to(submit@slickbrewed.com) but i cant so... There you go!
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2)Facebook like feature that shows your status on your page or what you are thinking about.
teo, if you ont know, many of the members doesnt know this page as dsipain, we know it like sdk, and it is a really good name, and the thing of the blogs you can do it