Graphicall.org 2.0
Everyones favourite site for the latest blender builds, Graphicall.org has received a major redesign. In addition to a visual overhaul, the site now features a new search function for builds, as well as improved navigation. Even more exciting is that the site will now be hosting builds not only for Blender but for other open source software including GIMP, Luxrender, and Yafaray.
I believe most of you are familiar with the www.graphicall.org website. For over 6 years now it’s been a place for people to share their custom versions of Blender 3D with the entire community. It was started by Daniel Salazar (ZanQdo) and Pablo Vazquez (venomgfx) back before anyone knew what “pinkify” (see anything made by Pablo) meant.
A lot has happened since then… The community has grown by leaps and bounds. Three Blender Institute movies and a game were made. Blender’s interface got completely rewritten… And the internet has evolved into a whole new creature with web 2.0, and social media. It was about time GraphicAll.org followed suit, and evolved.
We actually started development of the new system over a year ago. The folder Dolf Veenvliet (macouno) has been coding in says it was created March 20th 2010… so yeah… it took a while. But then, we didn’t just upgrade the website, we wrote an entirely new system from scratch. Gone are the iframes, the tables. In are a whole heap of fresh new goodies.
Also… something new to the Blender community that needs mentioning is the “blenderhead id” login system. Thanks to Nathan Letwory (jesterKing) www.blenderstorm.org is now an open-id provider. This means, you can log in to multiple Blender community websites using a single account. Currently it’s just GraphicAll.org and Blenderstorm.org, but more are on the way. So go register at Blenderstorm.org, if you haven’t already!
It has been a pleasure to work on bringing you the new website, and we are rather proud of it. We hope you all stop by soon!
The GraphicAll.org monkeys.
the title is wrong :)
riftmaster
Başlık yanlış:) riftmaster
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love the new site, particularly the search function
riftmaster
yeni bir site, özellikle arama fonksiyonu riftmaster aşk
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ohoh, Gimp button <3
Good job Pablo , Dolf and everyone around 'Graphicall' :)
ohoh, Gimp 'Graphicall etrafta <3 İyi iş Pablo, Dolf ve herkes düğmesi:)
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I mentioned Gimp needs something like graphicAll.org for a while now. Gimp is having lots of trouble currently, maybe this new GraphicAll.org feature helps them alot.
One of the best things in new Graphicall 2.0: now i can have a deepLink to my favourite Settings :-)
Ben Gimp bir süre için şimdi graphicAll.org gibi bir şeye ihtiyacı bahsetti. Gimp şu anda, belki bu yeni GraphicAll.org özelliği onlara çok yardımcı olur sorun çok yaşıyor. Yeni Graphicall 2.0 en iyi şeylerden biri: şimdi benim favori Ayarlar :-) bir deepLink olabilir
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Slow, cryptic, totally user un-friendly; a textbook example on how NOT to design a website. Well, from the command-line-is-good crowd we could not expect anything else.
GIMP has already enough problems; it does not need a similar site to ice the cake.
Yavaş, gizli, tamamen kullanıcı un dostu, bir web sitesi tasarımı nasıl DEĞİL bir ders kitabı örneği. Iyi, komut satırı-is-iyi kalabalıktan başka bir şey beklemeyin olabilir. GIMP zaten yeterince sorun var; o buz pasta benzer bir siteye ihtiyaç duymaz.
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@jpb06
there is nothing wrong with the site!
It is not slow. Possibly a little cryptic, but once you take 2 seconds to look at it it all makes sense.
and your just jealous you can’t use the terminal!
@ Jpb06 hiçbir site ile yanlış var! Ağırdan değildir. Muhtemelen bir gizli, ancak çok az bir kez bunu tüm mantıklı bakmak için 2 saniye sürebilir. ve sadece kıskanç bir terminal kullanamazsınız!
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It’s quite confusing, but I’ll get used to it.
Only big problem is slowness… For me it takes 5-10 seconds to load a page so it’s painful to check builds. And no, it’s not my Internet. :)
Ama, oldukça kafa karıştırıcı's ben buna alışıyorsunuz. Yalnızca büyük bir sorun yavaşlık olduğunu … Benim için onu inşa kontrol etmek için acı öylesine bir sayfa yüklemek için 5-10 saniye sürer. Ve hayır, bu benim internet değil. :)
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agree with MiikaH and jpb06, they need to make it more user friendly, it’s too obscure and crowded.
they should keep the old design but add the new features…I am not against change, but this is a bit too much..
MiikaH ve jpb06 katılıyorum, bunu daha kullanıcı dostu yapmanız gerekir, çok karanlık ve kalabalık. onlar eski tasarım tutmalı ancak yeni özellikler … Ben değişikliğine karşı değilim, ama bu çok fazla biraz eklemek ..
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I disagree with comments saying the new site being obscure, confusing, or cryptic. It’s new, so some things have changed, but you get to it quite fast, and gives you several advantages the old site couldn’t provide.
But yes, the old site was considerably faster. Maybe this needs some improvement.
Maybe some Graphic overload?
Or cross-loading from code.blender.org slows things down?
Anyways, loading http://graphicall.org/windows/32bit is still faster than loading the old site, picking “Windows-Builds” from the dropdown boxes and submitting two forms to recive two iframes, where you still have to manually fiddle out your 32-bit versions.
Ben yorum belirsiz, kafa karıştırıcı, ya da şifreli olan yeni site söyleyerek katılmıyorum. Yeni, bu yüzden bazı şeyler değişti, ama sen oldukça hızlı onu almak ve eski site sağlayamayan birçok avantaj sağlar. Ama evet, eski site oldukça hızlı oldu. Belki bu biraz iyileştirilmesi gerekmektedir. Belki bazı Grafik aşırı yük? Veya code.blender.org arası çapraz yükleme aşağı şeyler yavaşlar? Neyse, http://graphicall.org/windows/32bit yükleme hala daha hızlı, eski site yükleniyor açılan kutudan "Windows-Kurar" toplama ve hala elle keman iki IFrame, recive iki formlar göndererek fazladır senin 32-bit sürümleri.
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I guess I don’t know what graphicall everyone is at, I personally think the site looks great and user friendly (and I’m browsing from a touchscreen cell phone, so I am probably missing out on a few features). The layout seems very standard (in a good way), there are bright, colorful buttons that feature eady to understand pictures (good for Blender’s diverse user group, who obviously do not all read/speak the same language), and now hosts more than one open source graphics program (living up to the graphic-ALL name). All in all it seems to be a great new website that I hope to use for a long time.
Now if they would just host Wine builds… But I guess that has nothing to do with grapics. Still…
Ben graphicall herkes ben şahsen sitenin büyük ve kullanıcı dostu (ve bu yüzden muhtemelen bir kaç özelliği üzerinde eksik am, bir dokunmatik cep telefonundan göz gezdiriyorum) görünüyor düşünüyorum, ne olduğunu bilmiyorum sanırım. Düzen (iyi bir şekilde) çok standart görünüyor, resimler (Blender farklı kullanıcı grubu için, kim belli ki bütün / aynı dili konuşan okumaz iyi) anlamak için eady özelliği parlak, renkli düğmeleri vardır ve artık daha fazla ev sahipliği yaptı (grafik-ALL adı kadar yaşayan) bir açık kaynak kodlu bir grafik programı. Hepsi hepsi ben uzun süre kullanmak için umut yepyeni ve harika bir web sitesi gibi görünüyor. onlar sadece ev sahipliği yapacağı Şimdi eğer Şarap kurar … Ama grapics ile ilgisi yok sanırım. Hala …
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Just quick-tested some Blender-sites by [strg][f5]:
Blender.org (title-Page) loads fast
code.blender.org (Blender Developer blog) loads fast
graphicall.org/builds , the old GraphicAll site, loads fast
blendernation.com is slower, esp. if you measure until it finishes loading. But you get the first articles, the first full screen really fast.
Compared with these, the new graphicall.org takes ages to show the first glimpse of it’s content.
Sadece hızlı [f5] [ctrl] tarafından bazı Blender siteleri test: Blender.org (başlık-Page) hızlı code.blender.org yükler (Blender Geliştirici blog) yükler hızlı graphicall.org /, eski GraphicAll sitesi, yükler kurar hızlı blendernation.com, esp yavaştır. Eğer tedbir eğer yükleme bitene kadar. Ama ilk makalesini, gerçekten hızlı ilk tam ekran olsun. bu ile karşılaştırıldığında, yeni graphicall.org bu içeriğin ilk belirti göstermeye yaşları alır.
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Awful…
Korkunç …
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Thanks for the feedback, just reduced by half the total size at loading (both for the first time and reload).
We have a to-do list we’re keeping track of bugs and feature requests we read around.
The idea is you don’t have to browse around much now, search and thats it, you can always give a try while writing the url, instead of just typing graphicall.org, try “graphicall.org/windows/trunk/64bit” or so. Or just bookmark that to get always to the point in one load.
So please Shift+F5 and check how it loads for the first time, then F5, it should be faster now (main thing was checking for code.blender.org, was slowing down the connection before showing the actual page, will look into that!).
We’re happy most of the people liked the new layout, basically is the same concept, just improved in areas we thought needed work, and if not, this is a much better foundation to work upon now, compared to the previous nineties’ like system we had.
Cheers
sadece yükleme yarısı toplam boyutu azaltılabilir (ilk kez hem de yeniden) yorumunuz için teşekkürler. Biz-biz hata ve çevresinde okuma özelliği isteklerini takip konum liste yapmak zorundayız. Fikir etrafında artık çok göz gerekmez arama ve thats it, her zaman yerine sadece graphicall.org yazmak, url yazarken bir "graphicall.org/windows/trunk/64bit" denemek, denemek verebilir ya da öylesine. Ya da sadece bir yük noktaya her zaman için o yer imi. Böylece Shift + F5 lütfen ve sonra ilk kez, F5 için yükler, onu daha hızlı (ana şey gerçek sayfa göstermeden önce bağlantı yavaşlatan oldu code.blender.org için tarama nasıl olması gerektiğini kontrol, o bakacağız !). Temelde aynı kavram, sadece alanlarında gelişmiş biz ve çalışma ihtiyacı düşünce değil, bu şu anda üzerinde çalışmak için çok daha iyi bir temeldir, önceki doksanlı göre 'gibi, mutlu insanların çoğu yeni düzen sevdim konum Sistemimiz vardı. Şerefe
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Great new design!!!…
Harika yeni tasarım !!!…
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for me it takes 2 seconds for a full refresh.. the hosting service we use was also experimenting serious problems yesterday. So.. relax, try again, keep the feedback and above all don’t hate!
benim için tam bir yenileme için 2 saniye sürer .. barındırma hizmeti biz de dün ciddi sorunlar deneme olarak kullanabilirsiniz. Bu yüzden .. Tekrar deneyin görüşlerinizi ve tüm nefret etmiyorum yukarıda, rahatlayın!
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And BTW the old graphicall wasn’t prepared at all by the incredible amount of builds per day that we get (thanks builders! :) ) finding something was very hard. The new system is specially designed to deal with this vast variety and number of options
cheers
) Bulma şey çok zordu: Ve BTW eski graphicall biz (! Teşekkür inşaatçılar) olsun günde inşa inanılmaz miktarı ile hiç de hazır değildi. Yeni sistem, özellikle bu çok çeşitli ve numarası seçenekleri tezahürat ile başa çıkmak için tasarlanmıştır
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Why only 7 versions for Windows 32?
Where are the optimized compilations?
Neden Windows 32 için sadece 7 sürümleri? Burada optimize derlemeler vardır?
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Some folks need to learn how to give constructive criticism without being complete jerks. It would reduce a lot more unnecessary human drama in this world. Information without sharp criticism and a bad attitude is not only possible, but necessary. But some here have given some constructive criticism to consider in a good manner.
Anyways, I personally found the website beneficial in its changes. I didn’t have any problems getting around the site, and of course, ANY new changes to an interface takes a little time to adjust to using. The original website was in need of at least an internal upgrade to handle its much higher demand than it had 6 years ago. I’m not sure if a new interface was in demand, but it is a bit refreshing. I personally didn’t find the interface cryptic–it was new, but I wouldn’t call it cryptic. I’ve already adapted to it, esp. thanks to the mouse-over descriptions. And I find the icons used in identifying the nature of the builds to be quite useful, though at this time, one thing that seems to be missing is two icons for Mac builds, one for Intel-powered Mac and an one for PPC Mac builds. Though the interface is more graphical, it takes a page about one second to load for me.
I think even in the future should new changes or additions be done to the website, it will at least have this current work to be worked with easier. The site was just built, so naturally improvements to the speed will be made and any debugging needed will be done over time, though I personally didn’t experience any slow loading times. I say, give it time. give your criticism in an appropriate manner, and be considerate to these developers who’ve developed on our behalf.
Bazı millet nasıl tam gerizekalı olmadan yapıcı eleştiri vermek için öğrenmek gerekir. Bu dünyada çok daha fazla gereksiz insanlık dramı azaltacaktır. keskin eleştiri ve kötü bir tutum olmadan Bilgiler sadece mümkün, ama gerekli. Ama bazı burada iyi bir şekilde dikkat etmeniz gereken bazı yapıcı eleştiri verdik. Neyse, ben şahsen kendi web sitesi değişiklikleri yararlı bulundu. Ben ve site çevresinde alıyorum herhangi bir sorun yoktu elbette, bir arayüzü HERHANGİ yeni değişiklik ile uyum sağlamak için biraz zaman alır. Özgün web sitesi bir iç yükseltme onu 6 yıl önce olduğundan daha da çok daha yüksek talep işlemek için en az ihtiyacı vardı. yeni bir arayüz talep olsaydı, ama biraz yenileniyor emin değilim. Ben şahsen bulamadık şifreli arayüz – yeni oldu, ama gizli çağrı değildir. Zaten, o esp adapte ettik. sayesinde fare açıklamaları üzerine. Ve ben bu sefer olsa da, oldukça yararlı olduğu kurar doğasını tanımlamada kullanılan simgeler bulmak, eksik gibi görünüyor bir şey inşa Mac inşa için iki simge, Intel destekli Mac için tek ve PPC Mac için bir tanesidir . arabirimi daha fazla grafik olmasına rağmen, bir benim için yüklemek için ikinci bir sayfa sürer. Ben yeni değişiklikler veya eklemeler web sitesine yapılmalıdır gelecekte bile düşünüyorum, en azından bu mevcut iş var 'de daha kolay çalışmış olmak olacaktır. Site sadece çok doğal olarak hız iyileştirmeler yapılacak ve ben şahsen hiçbir yavaş yükleme süreleri tecrübe etmemiş olsa gerek herhangi bir hata ayıklama, zaman içinde yapılacaktır, inşa edilmiştir. Ben o zaman vermek demek. , Uygun bir şekilde sizin eleştiri vermek ve bizim adımıza geliştirdik bu geliştiricilere saygılı olmak.
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Oh, and thanks, jesterKing, macouno, venomgfx, and ZanQdo!
Oh, teşekkür, jesterKing, macouno, venomgfx ve ZanQdo!
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I understand changes which are aimed at improve funcionality, but graphicall.org site is ugly now. Very ugly.
Ama funcionality geliştirmek hedefleniyor değişiklikler anladım site graphicall.org şimdi çirkin. Çok çirkin.
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Excellent! So much faster and visually easier to see what’s going on. The color-coding & icons is perfect. Love being able to save shortcuts directly to the builds that I use most often! Great work, guys!
Mükemmel! Çok daha hızlı ve görsel olarak daha kolay üzerinde neler olup bittiğini görmek için. Renk kodlama ve simgeleri mükemmel. Aşk doğrudan kısayolları tasarruf edememek kurar ben en sık kullandığınız bu! Büyük iş, çocuklar!
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About being a jerk, I am a follower of the dont-fix-what-aint-broken philosophy and I passionately hate cuteness-for-cuteness-sake.
As decently clean example of a search application with category selections you might look at http://www.apertodomenica.com/. It is an italian site which tells you every day (especially important on Sundays) where and which shop/mall/etc is open (in Italy). You first select the Regione (imagine the state for you yanks), the Provincia (a smaller administrative subdivision, think a county) and keep refining the search critieria. At the end you submit the form and get the results. The visual side is not great but who cares? what matters is that the data this site provides are extremely accurate and it is of very fast search. Simple, fast, accurate and to the point; see what I mean?
Anyway, thanks for the suggestion of bookmarking URLs.
çok görgüsüz olmak hakkında, I dont-fix-ne-aint-kırık felsefesinin takipçisi ve ben tutkuyla zekâ-for-zekâ-sake nefret ediyorum. kategori seçimleri ile bir arama uygulaması terbiyeli temiz bir örnek olarak, http://www.apertodomenica.com/ bakabilir. (Özellikle Pazar günleri önemli) her gün söyler nerede ve / etc shop / alışveriş merkezi (İtalya) açık bir İtalyan sitedir. İlk kez (sizin için devlet hayal kopyalar), Provincia (daha küçük bir idari alt bölümü, ilçe düşünün) Regione seçin ve Araştırma kriterimi rafine tutmak. sonunda formu gönderin ve sonuçları almak. Görsel yanını büyük değil ama kimin umurunda? önemli olan bu sitenin sağladığı veriler son derece doğru olduğunu ve çok hızlı arama olmasıdır. Basit, hızlı, doğru ve nokta; Ne demek istediğimi görüyor musun? Yine de, URL yer imi önerisi için teşekkürler.
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Great rebuild, although the design is a little bit too busy for my tastes. I hope they are spreading the word to other communities (eg. Gimp), that there is a place to post development builds, otherwise it probably won’t be used for the other software programs, but it is a great idea to include them.
tasarımı biraz fazla benim için tadı meşgul olmasına rağmen Büyük, yeniden. Ben aksi takdirde muhtemelen diğer yazılım programları için kullanılmaz, inşa gelişme sonrası için bir yer olduğunu, diğer toplulukların (örneğin Gimp) yıla yayılması olacağını umuyorum, ancak dahil etmek harika bir fikir.
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Really like it.
I especially like the dark background. The trend to darker backgrounds is something that I can really go with. The whole “lets use white because paper has always been white” paradigm is very tiring on the eyes with lots of blinding glare and is imho very old-fashioned and redundant in a digital medium.
Anyone else prefer reading white text on a dark background? The emphasis is on the words not the “paper” and the words stand out far better if they are bright and the background is dark.
I also like the different colour shades for the different builds. Even without the filters it’s easy to differentiate between them.
I’m not too sure about the big white panel though…
Site loads really fast for me on a 1Mb ADSL connection. :) I’ve not tried it on my phone yet though.
Nice work on the redesign, and it’s good to see a portal to builds from the whole open source world in one place.
Gerçekten seviyorum. Özellikle karanlık bir arka plan gibi. koyu arka planlar için eğilim gerçekten gidebilirim şeydir. çok parlak göz kamaştırıcı bir sürü gözü yorucu paradigma ve imho çok eski moda ve gereksiz bir dijital ortamda bir bütün "kağıt her zaman beyaz olduğu için beyaz kullanmanızı sağlar." Başkasının koyu arka fon üzerinde beyaz metin okuma tercih ediyorsunuz? Vurgu kelimeleri değil "kağıt" ve kelime ve uzak onlar parlak olup olmadığını daha iyi öne arka plan karanlık. Ben de farklı inşa için farklı renk tonları gibi. filtreleri bile olmadan bunları ayırt etmek kolaydır. Ben de olsa büyük beyaz panel hakkında emin değilim … gerçekten çok hızlı benim için 1Mb ADSL bağlantısında Site yükler. :) Ben henüz ama benim telefonda hiç denemedim ettik. yeniden Nice çalışma ve buna bir portal görmek çok güzel bir yerde bütün açık kaynak dünyası kurar.
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Well I have to say that I absolutely love the new site. The navigation suits me perfectly: what could be easier than clicking on those icons to filter the search? Being able to bookmark directly to my preferred settings is also a real plus.
Personally I found the site a bit ugly at first, but I think it is only because of the blue/white/black backgrounds, which is not consistent over the page and so it seems to lose continuity. For some reason I also find those triangular corner pictures (showing the OS) unattractive. If it was me, I would keep the blue for the News/Twitter bit at the top only and give the rest a white background. The corner pictures would look a lot better (as I think it is the clashing with the blue that is my problem with them) and the site would look more coherent. That said, fundamentally it is pretty, I think, with those nice icons making it very clear exactly what you are looking at – there has obviously been a lot of thought put into making it quick to understand what each build is – just needs an adjustment to the background colours to make it look cleaner.
I do wonder where all of the builds have gone. Are they still there, but reorganised/recategorised (is that a word?), or have some not been transferred over? For example, there used to be Freestyle builds under GSoC, but they seem to reside under Experimental now (which makes more sense nowadays, to be fair).
It is a nice touch that when there is only filter result (e.g. optimised Luxrender builds) you go straight to the download page.
Unfortunately I no longer seem to be able to download at work. It gets stuck on the “download” link and never starts on the actual build. Probably something to do with the firewalls, but obviously a bit of a shame for me personally, as it leaves me stuck with my slow home connection. That said, on my 30kb/s connection it takes <5 seconds to load/refresh any page, which is as fast as I could ask for, really.
So it's a big "thank you" from me for the update. It was clearly a lot of work and it has been well worth it in my opinion.
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Amazing!
Thanks for all these years of dedication of hard work!
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Looks like the graphicall server is still setup to drop connections after a couple minutes. If that sounds like a long time, consider that much (maybe most) of the world uses slow mobile connections, not 3G, for Internet. In my location 20 KB/sec is all that’s available. So I’ll continue to build Blender from trunk when I want an update, though it would be nice to be able to try some of the more exotic builds on Graphicall.
Nothing wrong with a white background for the website.
I’m not a fan of the changes. It seems much harder for new users to figure out whats going on. Yes search is great but only if you know exactly what you are looking for. For someone new to the scene I think it will be terribly confusing. How are they supposed to know what builds they want? I like simple and clean, I get enough bright colors and “eye candy” watching commercials.
Also it does not display correctly in IE. I know, I know, save it, no matter what you are going to say about IE it still has more users than any other browser. Regardless of if it is hard to code for you need to if you want to be accessible to everyone.
I agree with jusposted. I like the new re-design, but I think the colors are a bit chunky and misplaced. Maybe it could also use some new CSS3 rounded corners and box shadows like the old site.
i like the new design.
but i have problems to download the builde from the new sites!? is the server on an other location hosted?!
when i now download a file with my free download manager, it is not possible to continue aborted downloads and it is not possible to download a file in turbo mode (more than one connection at the same time on the same file)
the download from the old style sites was much faster – it was able to continue aborted downloads and it was possible to have multiple connections to download a file.
hopefully you can fix the download issues to have a good new design and the good download performance…
Small world Deevad ! ;)
@ jpb06
Me, too, man. I’m one of the strongest supporters of the don’t-fix-what-ain’t-broken philosophy and I also passionately hate cuteness-for-cuteness-sake. Thus my hatred for Microsoft (who constantly change things, esp. about their internal systems to MAKE developers relearn them again), and my recent sadness with Mozilla with Firefox 4. But I also wish a lot of folks in this world would just communicate better. You were a bit rude there. There is a way for anyone to communicate their concerns without such an inconsiderate manner.
Personally, as a programmer myself, I don’t like to just bash someone else’s hard work (UNLESS it’s Microsoft, who I’ve just lost all respect for), but rather with a some care, communicate my concerns in a considerate manner. I think you gave some good concerns, but just could have been a little better about giving them.
The beautiful thing about open-source developers is if you bring your concerns to them nicely, often times they’ll gladly consider your input. They want a successful result as much as you do. But there’s nothing worse than having folks just rudely unload on you about something that’s free for them but was time-costing to you. Even though I was speaking to more than one person, I apologize for calling you a jerk, esp. seeing how you as well as I do not like unnecessary change to what was working fine.
Nice filter options that interplay nicely :-)
OSX should really be split into two PPC and Intel.
Me again.
“don’t-fix-what-ain’t-broken”?
unecessary changes?
The functionality of the new Site is far beyond the old one. Go back to the caves if you like that better. They weren`t broken either. Houses simply were newer, and, in some circumstances, better suited, so no need to “fix” that.
Websites aren’t used for their (graphic) design, but for their functionality/content. This way it’s a logical and undoubtable clear step forward.
And after the changes of day one, its also pretty fast now.
Do I like the (graphic) design?
On the screenshot the design is more consistant than it really is now. Probably this is due to the fact you speeded it up after day one, as GraphicAll.org mentioned they “just reduced by half the total size at loading”. This may be fixed again, so it looks more consistent again.
I`m not a friend of White text on Black background, and I know that’s not really a question of taste. There are scientific investigations that at last in the long run dark text on light background is easier to read and less tedious. For eye-catchers it is Okay, but not for real Text.
For a site like GraphicAll.org i think it is Okay though, but I`m glad BlenderNation is Black-on-white, and the Blender Documentation Wiki (white on Black) thus is really horrific.
hmmm…
the new site is currently not working well…
frequently i run into a “server error” page from the “apache” web server of graphicall.org;
and downloads will not start or will stop and not able to continue…
It seems the site doesn’t use gzip compression and this might help save some kilobytes.
You can even serve web fonts compressed.
I have .htaccess files with magic words like this:
# Compression using deflate
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
This is a nice site for getting optimization tips:
http://websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
It seems the site doesn’t use gzip compression and this might help save some kilobytes.
You can even serve web fonts compressed.
This is a nice site for getting optimization tips:
http://websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
Site looks cool. However something that I consider terrible un-practical is querying the Database right after one Filter is selected. This generates more requests and more time wasted in the Client’s machine. It badly needs a GO button, so we select all filters we want ( for example: windows–32—Optimized–Trunk ) and then hit GO, submitting the query and building the client’s page.
Maddes, I’m not sure those tests are entirely accurate, and are most likely biased.
If you operate a computer in a dark room most of the time, having just the screen lit up can hurt your eyes if the whole thing is super bright. Many ‘hardcore’ computer geeks do this, hence they want everything on-screen to be dark… With only what they need to pay attention to being light, such as text.
In a brightly lit office space, with computer monitors lit up at about the same amount as the light reflecting off a piece of paper on a desk, then I’m sure black on white is the most effective.
On paper in general, black on white is best. You never want white on black with printed materials, at least not for smaller text such as an article.
Overall, what matters is your target audience/medium. Is this a website, an ebook, or a printed article? It’s a website. Websites are generally shown on a backlit computer screen. Who’s going to go to the website? People who want to use the latest and greatest Blender. What sorts of people do that? Computer geeks. Sure there are exceptions, but based on this, it is likely that the majority of people who visit the site will be computer geeks who may prefer dark rooms.
Personally, I think they should have a theme changer, so people can choose what they want.
@ TYNACH
Why a theme changer? This is a site that you just come by to download the latest version of your software, it is not intended to spend the whole day looking at !
Well whatever the case, I keep getting a server error when I try to go to it, so I can’t really say yea or nea on this…