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Title: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: matt on January 14, 2015, 08:28:11 pm
Hello all,

As you've hopefully noticed, we've been trying to get back in the swing of things around here. Scott and I are back to our weekly VGCollect work nights each Wednesday which will allow us a dedicated night to knock out a ton of updates and maintenance items. I'm working through a back log right now but we have a bunch of features / fixes and updates in the works that we'll be slowly rolling out.

VGCollect is continuing to grow at a great rate. In order to help with these, we've decided to promote pacpix to a staff position. Believe it or not but he has had an account with VGC since August 21st of 2011. He will be helping us with approvals, forum moderation and other site duties. Please welcome him aboard!

We'll be pruning the admin positions in the coming weeks and hopefully adding another new face to the team. Stay tuned...

As for other updates my current focus is on 3 items:

1. New grid/shelf view
2. Reimplementing devs and pubs
3. Better category organization

More news coming on those fronts within a week.

Thanks!
Matt
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: badATchaos on January 14, 2015, 08:37:17 pm
Awesome to hear. Great job Matt and team. Congratz Pacpix my man!
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: scott on January 14, 2015, 08:39:47 pm
I do believe he's the youngest staff member now too.
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: stethebubble on January 14, 2015, 08:40:47 pm
Congrats Pacpix.

This place just keeps getting better.  All your hard work is very much appreciated
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: pacpix on January 14, 2015, 09:20:24 pm
Thanks everybody!  Excited to join the staff!
(http://i.imgur.com/ThjDJM9l.jpg)
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: stuntman64 on January 14, 2015, 10:34:58 pm
Hey pacpix. Make 2015 the best year ever at VG. I should become admin. Than I would be youngest on the team. That would be an honor.  8)
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: stuntman64 on January 14, 2015, 10:36:26 pm
Kudos to pacpix. *sets off fireworks* Make 2015 the best year ever at VG. I should become admin. Than I would be youngest on the team. That would be an honor.  8)
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: scott on January 14, 2015, 10:46:03 pm
Alrighty. I went through a list of things and tonight I've added these to the categories. There is still a lot left to do, but hopefully these will tide you over for a bit.

New Categories Added!

Interactive Figures (Skylanders, Amiibo, Disney Infinity and their accessories)

- Interactive Figures [AU]
- Interactive Figures [EU]
- Interactive Figures [JP]
- Interactive Figures [NA]

Dedicated Console (Pong Consoles, Plug & Play systems)

- Dedicated Consoles

Amstrad CPC

- Amstrad CPC Hardware
- Amstrad CPC [EU]

Game Boy

- Game Boy [CN]

Super Nintendo/Famicom

- Super Nintendo [AU]

Arcadia 2001

- Arcadia 2001 [EU]

CD-i

- CD-i [JP]

Atari 2600

- Atari 2600 [AU]

Intellivision

- Intellivision [EU]
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: critter7405 on January 15, 2015, 01:09:13 am
Congrats pacpix!


I noticed that interactive figures have been added...

The figures are posted differently ... For example ...
 Skylanders have the name of the Skylander then the series they are from...
It would be easier to search if everyone imputed them as Skylander game first then actual name of Skylander ... Same with the rest...

I just think you can look and add them faster if the figure names were listed second and what they actually are was listed first...

Thanks let me know what you think...

If this was already talked about disregard

Thanks again  :)
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: MJMaranan on January 15, 2015, 01:27:18 am
:o

Congratulations, pacpix.  Really looking forward to the upcoming projects for VGCollect.
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: disgaeniac on January 15, 2015, 06:47:14 am
Good stuff!

Gratz' pacpix!
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: campercarl on January 15, 2015, 07:29:24 am
"Reimplementing devs and pubs"
Oh god can't wait. How many years has it been since that got removed?
Appreciating all the hard work you guys are putting in!

Oh while we're on the topic of new categories, we need a N64 [AU] category.
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: stethebubble on January 15, 2015, 07:42:50 am
Congrats pacpix!


I noticed that interactive figures have been added...

The figures are posted differently ... For example ...
 Skylanders have the name of the Skylander then the series they are from...
It would be easier to search if everyone imputed them as Skylander game first then actual name of Skylander ... Same with the rest...

I just think you can look and add them faster if the figure names were listed second and what they actually are was listed first...

Thanks let me know what you think...

If this was already talked about disregard

Thanks again  :)

Makes sense to me
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: scott on January 15, 2015, 09:06:05 am
Oh while we're on the topic of new categories, we need a N64 [AU] category.

Added!
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: bobster on January 15, 2015, 09:31:08 am
Yay Matt! Glad to see you're back around and gearing up to get back on track! Hopefully that means your life has settled down a bit. Congrats Pacpix!

Really looking forward to seeing the site grow even more.
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: abe on January 15, 2015, 09:34:16 am
Is there any chance we could get some kind of clone console category? Rather than having all the clone consoles in random categories like we do now (they're all over the place, some are even in with the official consoles), it would be nice for them to have one place they're supposed to be in. That is, unless I'm missing something and they already have a category they're supposed to be in but nobody actually puts them there.
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: matt on January 15, 2015, 09:41:43 am
Yay Matt! Glad to see you're back around and gearing up to get back on track! Hopefully that means your life has settled down a bit. Congrats Pacpix!

Really looking forward to seeing the site grow even more.

Thanks! It's been busy but all for good reasons. The homebrew shop has been doing really well so it feels wrong to complain. Just more difficult to find spare time.
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: bobster on January 15, 2015, 09:45:51 am
Yay Matt! Glad to see you're back around and gearing up to get back on track! Hopefully that means your life has settled down a bit. Congrats Pacpix!

Really looking forward to seeing the site grow even more.

Thanks! It's been busy but all for good reasons. The homebrew shop has been doing really well so it feels wrong to complain. Just more difficult to find spare time.
That's awesome to hear! Homebrewing is really taking off these days so hopefully you get more and more busy  ;D.
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: retroone on January 15, 2015, 04:06:58 pm
Great to hear Matt!! Also congrats to PacPix!!
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: karyann on January 18, 2015, 09:30:58 am
I'm a bit late, but congrats Pacpix!  ;D
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: disgaeniac on January 18, 2015, 12:03:38 pm
I'm a bit late, but congrats Pacpix!  ;D

It's never too late to kiss up to the staff here; right soera? :P
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: soera on January 18, 2015, 12:42:30 pm
I'm a bit late, but congrats Pacpix!  ;D

It's never too late to kiss up to the staff here; right soera? :P

Absolutely!!!!
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: desocietas on January 18, 2015, 01:14:10 pm
Is there any chance we could get some kind of clone console category? Rather than having all the clone consoles in random categories like we do now (they're all over the place, some are even in with the official consoles), it would be nice for them to have one place they're supposed to be in. That is, unless I'm missing something and they already have a category they're supposed to be in but nobody actually puts them there.

You should copy this to the site feedback subforum so that they can see it later.
Title: Re: UPDATE - New staff and more
Post by: abe on January 18, 2015, 09:52:12 pm
Is there any chance we could get some kind of clone console category? Rather than having all the clone consoles in random categories like we do now (they're all over the place, some are even in with the official consoles), it would be nice for them to have one place they're supposed to be in. That is, unless I'm missing something and they already have a category they're supposed to be in but nobody actually puts them there.

You should copy this to the site feedback subforum so that they can see it later.

Good idea. :)