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It works for me.

6 (31.6%)

It does not work for me.

1 (5.3%)

I'd be willing to help test it.

6 (31.6%)

I'm not interested in testing it.

1 (5.3%)

I might be willing to help test it.

5 (26.3%)

Total Members Voted: 14

[Angle]

Yup, I'm doing a mapgen rewrite, and then maybe tackling z-levels afterwards.

I'm hoping this side project of mine will eventually allow me to get the Agora client working a lot faster. I'm learning a ton about lots of things like architecture, event-based systems, etc, all of which are applicable for the Agora client! This way we won't have to refactor it all the time as we learn new things!

Go for it! The client is pretty hacked together right now, and could use a major touch up.

Also, it occurs to me that it might be worthwhile to make a proper home page for Agora, with links to this page and all that. I'll go ahead and slap together some thing basic. Any suggestions for things I should put on it?

[Anvilfolk]

I think we have a couple of things on the Wiki of the github repo for the AgoraDocs. Might be worth taking a few things from there!

I think right now the only thing that's worth doing is sort of the mission statement. An online debating system with formal computed outcomes that make theoretical sense. Could be used for pure and simple debate, or for decision making. Provides more granularity than the competition. Is extremely flexible.

That kind of stuff!

[dorf]

Is extremely flexible.

Go, team Agora!

[Anvilfolk]

That is... incredibly disturbing! Hopefully that that will totally not be on the main webpage

[Angle]

I put together a very basic homepage. It's kinda ugly ad hella amateur, but hey it's a start.

[Angle]

Alright, so at this point I think we should begin considering what our next move is going to be. Should we work on improving the user interface, or implement some basic mod tools and enable registration, or just spend some time cleaning the code up? Whattaya think, people?

[Antsan]

I think when you are at a point to ask this question it seems like the right time to do some code cleanup before proceeding.
I don't know about the user interface. As soon as other people start using the library they'll probably want to design their own UI either way, so it might be sensible to move that to the back.

[Angle]

The trouble here, is that I don't expect anyone else to adopt our system until after they've seen it in use. That means we need to put together a proper demo so they CAN see it in use.

[Antsan]

Of course. My point is rather that you should make it usable first and foremost, beauty can come later. So, registration and stuff should come before a better user interface as long as the UI doesn't obstruct usability.

[Angle]

Well no, I'm talking about modifying the UI for usability. Right now the posts are super small, and if there's a lot of them they tend to cover each other up. You can see what I'm talking about right here.

[Arx]

Agora currently locks up my Firefox until I kill it with task manager, which is probably a problem.

[Antsan]

Well no, I'm talking about modifying the UI for usability. Right now the posts are super small, and if there's a lot of them they tend to cover each other up. You can see what I'm talking about right here.

That certainly seems like it might be a bit obstructive.

I see a menu on the left and a large blank area.

[Angle]

Ah, that's right. I eliminated the requirement to edit the java.policy file, but you'll still probably need to add the site to your site exception list for java. Anvilfolk is using a less restrictive operating system, so he can skip that step, but you and I use linux, so it's necessary for us. I'm pretty sure I could get around that if I bought a proper certificate, but I don't want to spend that kind of money right now.

[Antsan]

I am too lazy right now to try that again. I have been confused by Makefiles lately – that's enough for now.

[dorf]

Agora currently locks up my Firefox until I kill it with task manager, which is probably a problem.

It works here on Win 7 SP1 64-bit with Java 8U31 when using:
 - FF 4, 10, 34.0.5, 35.0.1 and 36.
 - Latest Chrome
 - Opera 15.0.1147.130

Probably doesn't work on:
 - IE 9 (it shows the alert window, but then the canvas is blank)
 - Safari 5.1.4 (because I can't get it to detect Java for some reason)
 - Opera 12.10 (it's having problems with Java Applets for some reason)