Textmode category on pouet?
category: general [glöplog]
Why isn't there an own textmode category/type on pouet?
Would have been so much easier to find textmode demos and intros that way. And probably other uses as well.
I know ill be flamed by someone who thinks its a bad idea, but please tell me why it is?
(I bet someone else has suggested this before). Please tell me one good argument to why such an category would not fit here. Its exactly the same as dividing other categories into limitations. Textmode are limited to specific colors and number of characters per frame.
Would have been so much easier to find textmode demos and intros that way. And probably other uses as well.
I know ill be flamed by someone who thinks its a bad idea, but please tell me why it is?
(I bet someone else has suggested this before). Please tell me one good argument to why such an category would not fit here. Its exactly the same as dividing other categories into limitations. Textmode are limited to specific colors and number of characters per frame.
That would be nice even when releases outside of tmdc are rare - as far as I see.
It's a bad idea for at least two reasons:
Being textmode isn't a type, it's a trait. These kinds of things should be solved with something like user-tags instead. But Pouët doesn't support that yet, but demozoo does (as tomaes pointed out already).
- It doesn't fit as production-type because it's completely orthogonal to production type. You can make a textmode demo, 4k, 64k, whatever.
- Adding it opens the floodgates to micro-categories, which would create database-maintenance hell.
Being textmode isn't a type, it's a trait. These kinds of things should be solved with something like user-tags instead. But Pouët doesn't support that yet, but demozoo does (as tomaes pointed out already).
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Adding it opens the floodgates to micro-categories, which would create database-maintenance hell.
While agree with your points, we already have "invitation" as a type - which is bad enough.
Gargaj: Yeah, I agree that's bad. I guess that slipped throught the flood-gates at some point, but they seem to be properly shut now :)
I don't see it as a bad idea. But if pouet can't handle it.
Textmode! Yes. It could be used for certain Spectrum demos?
I would also like a category "good demos for which i have the right hardware and that are not too difficult to run tonight after a few beers" so it would be easier to find those.
I would also like a category "good demos for which i have the right hardware and that are not too difficult to run tonight after a few beers" so it would be easier to find those.
