NFSAddons Redesign comments

[Mike]

Mike site looks great just one thing i miss - Brands -

on the downloads page, if you are filtering to search for cars, there will be a brand drop-down where you can select the brand to filter by as well

[Blazn Motorsports]

Happy to see Brands are back - great job Mike

[MADMAN_nfs]

Guess the gross of the design changeover is done...
Wanna emphazise again: Great job!
Especially the search box is very useful and works very well. An additional author search in the download section would be great, but the search box works good enough i think.

Anyways, got some small bugs i noticed and listed them here:

1.
The brand system with the drop down menu works fine so far.
Though it seems, somehow the pursuit brand has not received any entries since 8 months (when sorted by newest), although there were at least 4 releases of cop cars in the meantime:
Search: https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/all/cars/brand:!pursuit+cars/
Releases:
-https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/cars/alpine/3313/alpine-1970-alpine-a110-1600s-gendarmerie.html
-https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/cars/landrover/2798/landrover-pursuit-ranger-discovery-series-i.html
-https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/cars/ford/2785/ford-police-interceptor-concept-hometown-sd.html
-https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/cars/ford/2784/ford-police-interceptor-concept-atlantica-pd.html

I did not look through all the brands, but i think you should check whats going wrong there.
Furthermore, for searching brands, the filter should automatically deselect the options "Tracks" and "Files/Tools" (ergonomic issue)

2.
Minor bug related to profile pictures:
Seems that some avatar image dimensions can cause overlapping-issues at the comment section
Example: Comment by "Lotec" here:
https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/cars/bmw/1524/bmw-bmw-m5-e39.html

3.
1930 Ford Model A Drag Pickup
I know i mentioned this before, but still the dead file is online as doublet.
So before the issue is forgotten and the valid, undamaged reupload gets removed, i mention it again:
The original upload by IH8COPS for this car is corrupted. The zip file (blank.zip) contains only folders, but no car.viv or other files. (Link, nfsaddons-car-id 82)
The reupload (thanks to pete9516) is exactly that - it is the unchanged, undamaged zip file (Link, nfsaddons-car-id 2834)
So you should keep the reupload or join the uploads to one entry.

4.
Site design:
Using the design for 2 months now and cope with most changes

Still, i think the white background colour is too bright and sterile (especially on the main page).
In my oppinion a colored background would look more convenient, maybe a blueish tone... What you think?

Okay thats all.. just some quick feedback from me.
Greetings

[Mike]

Thanks for your continued feedback!!

1.
The brand system with the drop down menu works fine so far.
Though it seems, somehow the pursuit brand has not received any entries since 8 months (when sorted by newest), although there were at least 4 releases of cop cars in the meantime:
Search: https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/all/cars/brand:!pursuit+cars/
Releases:
-https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/cars/alpine/3313/alpine-1970-alpine-a110-1600s-gendarmerie.html
-https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/cars/landrover/2798/landrover-pursuit-ranger-discovery-series-i.html
-https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/cars/ford/2785/ford-police-interceptor-concept-hometown-sd.html
-https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/cars/ford/2784/ford-police-interceptor-concept-atlantica-pd.html

I did not look through all the brands, but i think you should check whats going wrong there.
Furthermore, for searching brands, the filter should automatically deselect the options "Tracks" and "Files/Tools" (ergonomic issue)

Those cars are uploaded with the brands set as Alpine, Land Rover and Ford, instead of Pursuit Cars. I will work on adding a tag so cars can have multiple categories like that, but that will take a bit of time to get setup and working properly.

As for searching by brand, if you select Cars, Tracks and Tools, and then select a brand, it will still show you the tracks and tools, and the brand is only related to the cars, obviously. I thought this might be useful if you still wanted to see the tracks and tools, but I can easily switch that up. What do others think?

2.
Minor bug related to profile pictures:
Seems that some avatar image dimensions can cause overlapping-issues at the comment section
Example: Comment by "Lotec" here:
https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/cars/bmw/1524/bmw-bmw-m5-e39.html

Thank for pointing that out, I'll have to come up with some styling to prevent that

3.
1930 Ford Model A Drag Pickup
I know i mentioned this before, but still the dead file is online as doublet.
So before the issue is forgotten and the valid, undamaged reupload gets removed, i mention it again:
The original upload by IH8COPS for this car is corrupted. The zip file (blank.zip) contains only folders, but no car.viv or other files. (Link, nfsaddons-car-id 82)
The reupload (thanks to pete9516) is exactly that - it is the unchanged, undamaged zip file (Link, nfsaddons-car-id 2834)
So you should keep the reupload or join the uploads to one entry.

This has been fixed. I disabled the other one and setup a redirect so it goes to the new upload by pete. I also uploaded the original screenshot as an additional screen for pete's upload

4.
Site design:
Using the design for 2 months now and cope with most changes

Still, i think the white background colour is too bright and sterile (especially on the main page).
In my oppinion a colored background would look more convenient, maybe a blueish tone... What you think?

I am planning on releasing a dark theme and people will be able to choose, so that should help there

[MADMAN_nfs]

Thanks for your continued feedback!!

Ha, thanks for continuously working on the site and keeping it alive!
That was a very quick reply, too

For 1.
Ah okay, so probably lot of pursuit cars are quite hidden...

And indeed, when selecting a car-brand i find it logical to display car results only

For 2. & 4.
Cool stuff. Not sure different themes are necessary, but optional features are always nice

For 3.
Thanks for fixing that.

Greetings... oh and Happy Halloween 

[Mike]

Thanks for your continued feedback!!

Ha, thanks for continuously working on the site and keeping it alive!
That was a very quick reply, too

For 1.
Ah okay, so probably lot of pursuit cars are quite hidden...

And indeed, when selecting a car-brand i find it logical to display car results only

For 2. & 4.
Cool stuff. Not sure different themes are necessary, but optional features are always nice

For 3.
Thanks for fixing that.

Greetings... oh and Happy Halloween 

Yeah, there are probably lots of pursuit cars hidden, but I don't mind tracking them down and adding an additional category once that functionality is set up.

Personally dark themes make my eyes hurt, but I know lots of people prefer that, so I'll at least have a light or dark option available in the future

[Kana]

I have a problem  in downloads/nfsinfo sizegenetics usa there is The Need For Speed: SE instead of Need For Speed II

[AJ_Lethal]

uh, one tip: disable rating your own mods (found out about that one accidentally) ^^;

[Mike]

uh, one tip: disable rating your own mods (found out about that one accidentally) ^^;

good point. I'll disable that soon!

[nlgzrgn]

Looks like we cannot edit/update our own mods. Or I'm too shortsighted to find the Edit button.

Edit: In the main page, avatars for latest replies look stretched.

[Mike]

Looks like we cannot edit/update our own mods. Or I'm too shortsighted to find the Edit button.

Edit: In the main page, avatars for latest replies look stretched.

Editing your own addons is a feature I have planned. I'll post here when it's ready!

Image stretching has been fixed!

[DrSpeed]

RAR files are unsupported for attachments (and maybe all types of uploads).
And Forum Stats seems to be broken.

[Mike]

RAR files are unsupported for attachments (and maybe all types of uploads).
And Forum Stats seems to be broken.

.rar files are fixed. I'll look into the forum stats section. Thanks!

edit: forum stat numbers are fixed now also

[AJ_Lethal]

Looks like the notifications mix up the news pages with the mod pages

[LRF]

Yep,i had the same thing.
It surprised me because i have never commented on that download.