Cellpaint.com - Updated

talk design
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I have just rolled out the latest incarnation of my AS3.0 based flash site, cellpaint.com. This latest version includes several new features including:

Faster rendering
Cells are drawn to one of 4 large bitmaps rather than kept as individual instances. This has increased performance ten-fold especially when navigating the cells.

Editable cells
One of the most requested features. A user can now submit a cell and then edit it at a later stage. This will hopefully encourage users to take more pride in their work and keep them coming back to work on their masterpiece. The downside to this is layers are lost and the image is flatterned between saves.

Menu items
New since the previous version is menu buttons across the top of the screen. These currently don’t do anything so don’t panic if nothing happens when you click on them.

Backend updates
The backend has had various changes to make things more secure.

I still consider cellpaint.com to be work-in-progress and there are a few outstanding issues to be wary of. These include:

Menu buttons don’t work yet.
Cell submit button briefly locks up the player. This confuses people into thinking the button isn’t working.
Currently no password reset in place.
No ‘undo’ in the paint application. This is something that may not be included for a while. Users are encouraged to work with layers in the meantime.
Layer thumbnail not updated when a users edits a previously submitted cell.

As usual I would love to hear feedback, comments or critiques about this update. Hope you like it. Click here to visit cellpaint.com.

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Registration kinda ruined it for me, I don’t like having to go through a registration process just to paint a tile I won’t really come back and admire later.

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I wanted to paint a tile, and would have even went through registration, but all that I would have painted was a “effortless squiggle” to see how the app worked. Do you support that in this testing version, or no? I’d still like to try it, so you’ve still got my interest.

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Issues:

  1. Activation is too much
  2. At least automatically log me in once I activate
  3. Make enter a listener for login
  4. Embed your fonts for submit cell screen
  5. Submit cell screen doesn’t work, I can’t get past that screen
  6. When I refresh the page I have to relogin

Not sure what I am missing but I just went through a whole heck of a lot to find out the site app doesn’t work. I can’t even make anything.

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I’ve just stripped all the registration/login functionality out. I think I am going to rework the submission process so that anyone can claim a cell and paint on it without having to register. I still want to make it possible for people to edit a cell after submitting so I think letting a user set a password for each cell may be a good way to do it.

So to clarify, anyone can now paint a cell and submit it without registering. Note that until the submission process is fixed cells can not be edited.

This is still considered an alpha release so I can not guarantee cells won’t be deleted when I roll out a future version.

Have fun and let me know if you have any suggestions or encounter any bugs.

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I painted a cell, then hit submit, typed in my title, hit the submit button, then it just sits there. Is that supposed to happen?

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This [U]may[/U] be a cache issue so maybe try clear your browsers cache and refresh the page. But yes, this is a problem and it should be able to recover from a bad submit. I’ll look into it.

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I can paint without registration…But…i am not able to click on the manu’s button ! :frowning:

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I just updated again with a few changes.
[LIST]
[]Menus now work.
[]I’ve also updated the submit code. It shouldn’t lock-up the player as it did previously when hitting the submit button after entering a cell title.
[]The submit form now has an author field.
[]When resizing the paintbrush using the ‘[’ and ‘]’ keys, sizing will increment/decrement by 1 when less than 10.
[/LIST]

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There is now a ‘digg-like’ voting system in place which lets users vote positive or negative on a cell. This will hopefully help me moderate the site better and remove rubbish cells quicker. Hope you guys can have a look and let me know your thoughts.

www.cellpaint.com

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Due to people blatantly ignoring submission rules I have had to put the registration system back in (as I had originally planned). I will probably tweak it soon to give the option of being permanently logged in. At the moment logins last for 24 hours or unless logout is clicked before then.

I have removed the voting system that was up oh-so-briefly but I think I may re-introduce it at a later stage.

While I think some may not like the idea of registration I think it will really improve the quality of work on the site. I will have better control over the back-end but the most important benefit of registration is users can now [U]edit the same cell an unlimited number of times![/U] Hopefully this will encourage users to keep coming back and should be interesting to watch cells as they develop.

As usual I would love any feedback/ideas you have. Check it out.

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I’ve actually just removed the registration… again :d: I know it’s kinda been in, then out, then in again. I’m going to let people draw what they want now (within reason). Because there is no longer registration required cells can no longer be edited. As a matter of fact cells now ‘expire’ one week after they are submitted.

I decided to do it this way since people seemed to be submitting ‘quick’ scribbly stuff rather than full blown illustration like I had hoped. Having the cells expire should keep the site fresh and stop it filling up.

So to clarify, anyone can paint now without registering. Please try it out www.cellpaint.com.

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cool …looks nice…but when i submit it seems like it just hangs
also how do you select a cell thats in like the top 2 rows? or bottom two rows?
i just get the icon to move the stage around…and it moves a whole stage width so then i still cant get that cell

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I think it would be cool if you could add in that voting feature and then have a button that says something like “Display highest rated.” That way you can sort of weed out all the bad stuff and get to the good stuff like you want. The logo for cellpaint could also use some work :D.

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I’ve given the site a bit of a tweak in terms of the overall design. Only really cosmetic updates with this release.

You can now also help get CellPaint out there by [URL=“http://digg.com/design/Social_painting_Paint_in_your_browser_and_submit_instantly”]digging it here.