MLPaudiobooks.net — Forum

Good thing you have going here! A central hub for pony related audiobooks is quite in need and I agree with your notion of keeping things as sleek as possible.

I was thinking that maybe we'd need a category for publishing and commenting works, but then again that's a thing that's already available on the main portal. Something that would be very useful, though, would be a "Technical" category, for equipment, editing and possibly voice acting tips.

And maybe it's me but is there a link to the forum on the homepage? Cause I can't quite find one.

Would it be possible to have our uploads show somehow on our forum profiles?

Aanok said:

Would it be possible to have our uploads show somehow on our forum profiles?

I'll look for an easy way to do that, but probably won't find it. -_- So no high hopes.
Maybe there's an option|plugin to add user-descrtiption text to the profile. Will that do?

Aanok said:

quotes don't seem to be working properly

Fixed css a little, try CTRL + F5. Should be better.

Aanok said:

That's better indeed, but shouldn't there be a "Madmint Baker said:" at the top?

There should be, but forum does not handle nested quotes very well in that sense. -_-

Sorry for the delay getting things going here. For the second time in a month we've had one of our Siberian Huskies in for major emergency surgery so I've not really been in much of a position to work on anything this week as I had hoped :/

Vidatu said:

I gotta say, though, that fic authors should really be listed somewhere.

But they are. Though not very obvious. Just below categories and characters there's a list "Filter by author:"
Oh, or do you mean the writers? It's up to the uploader to put that in the description. Though I think I should run through all the fics and add links to the authors that people (including me) forgot to add.

Funny thing that I found this. As a programmer, I considered a very similar idea a few months back, as a hub for MLP audiobook uploads and collaboration tools. I was too busy with other obligations to bother working on something like that, but I'm glad to see someone did.

As a suggestion, linking forum accounts to the site accounts, for controlling uploads and such.

Also, upload management is still in Russian, even though it says English?

And finally, maybe a gridded layout for displaying the audiobook listings? (vertical just seems too long).

Awesome job though =) Is the back-end custom, or what are you guys using?

Yeah, I've tried out Vanilla before. Good for being open and free, and makes it easy to integrate. If he's minimalist, I'll bet the site front is a custom setup then. It's nice and pretty underneath hehe.

I'll have a look.  There's a lot of features not currently turned on.  Vanilla has a  LOT of plugins you can get as well, but MadMint has to install those.

Would it be possible to allow uploaders to embed videos from youtube rather than uploading mp3 files?  I have several multiple-chapter fics on my channel but I havn't hung on to the mp3 files and I think some people might prefer to embed from youtube because it might get their channels some more attention.  If not embedding than maybe let them put a link for each chapter.

Yo! This place needs a search function. I know there's category filters but a search would also do good. Among other reasons, I want to make sure I'm not uploading a fic someone else has already done.

I'm trying to upload a fic and once an mp3 file (20MB) would finish, I would get an unknown error message and the download  would say complete and then fade and start uploading the next mp3 file (I tried this also with only uploading a single file).  When I hit send after all required fields have been filled out, nothing happens except the page scrolls slightly, but to nowhere in particular it seems.  No new page opens up and nothing happens to tell me the story has been uploaded, which I don't believe it has since it does not show up when I search for the newest fics.  If there is any help to be offered I would be grateful.

Oh. DeepReader313, DeftFunk. I'll look into it.

I suppose I should say it might have something to do with my Browser, Opera. It's like outdated and stuff.

I've yet to test it with other browsers. That's kinda why I didn't mention it earlier.

Okay, Mr. Baker. I got a problem.

When I click the send button when I'm uploading stuff, all I get is that loady symbol thingy an no indication that it's actually working. In fact, trying to filter or sort the list of readings also gives me that loady symbol thingy and nothing else. I tried them in both Opera and Internet Explorer and got the same problem. I realized that I did not always have this problem. Something changed for the worse, it seems. Maybe the issue is the loady symbol itself? Surely I'm not the only one having this problem.

Switching between compact view and expanded view still works fine.

Also, this site came up as the subject of conversation in a Skype chat I was in. A few notable gripes came from that.

For one, you told me earlier using an in-browser search function for finding specific readings should be sufficient, and it is, but the simple fact remains that not many people like to Ctrl+F. I don't know why it is, but it is what it is. So a search or filter by name I think would help greatly. Also a sort by name as well. Those couldn't be that hard to program, could they?

One more thing that came up in that chat (that I forgot to capture) is that people don't know how to update an already uploaded reading with more chapters and I realize that I don't either. I can take a few educated guesses, but my point is, I think that that should be something that is explicitly stated in the upload form.

I would also like a way to credit multiple readers on a reading in a way that that those readings still come up when searched individually. Like tags on many sites are separated by a comma or something. This is a low-priority thing, of course but I figured I throw that in there.

As I thought, but my point was, I feel that it is something that should be explicitly stated. Like so:

"We'll send you a special link so you can manage your story and upload new chapters at any time."

Uploaded a new chapter today and reordered it, and when it submitted some of the chapters went a bit wonky. Several of them don't list times (and thus the overall time says it's less than it actually is), and when I attempt to update it it says the names on those chapters are invalid (but they are the same as they've always been, and changing them does nothing to fix it).

The audiobook in question is "The End of Ponies".