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Jank Golem
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« on: September 10, 2009, 04:30:25 pm »

Hey guys, It's been awhile and it looks like magic has changed since my days of playing. Lot's of good memories.

Anyways after I quit mtg I picked up web development as a way whittle away my time and I was thinking the other day about what a hassle it was to read magic related content from different websites back when I played. So the other day I threw this together, http://mtgbuzz.com as a way to aggregate mtg content for people that aren't already hardcore feed readers. I'd love to hear TMD's feedback, particularly any websites I should add, I'm sure there are tons of new sites that I left out. Thanks guys.

Sorry mods if this is considered too spammy, if it is please just delete it and forget it ever happened.
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« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2009, 04:49:40 pm »

Hey guys, It's been awhile and it looks like magic has changed since my days of playing. Lot's of good memories.

Anyways after I quit mtg I picked up web development as a way whittle away my time and I was thinking the other day about what a hassle it was to read magic related content from different websites back when I played. So the other day I threw this together, http://mtgbuzz.com as a way to aggregate mtg content for people that aren't already hardcore feed readers. I'd love to hear TMD's feedback, particularly any websites I should add, I'm sure there are tons of new sites that I left out. Thanks guys.

Sorry mods if this is considered too spammy, if it is please just delete it and forget it ever happened.

I like it.  Bookmarked. 
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« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2009, 10:48:05 pm »

Nice web site!

Here's what I'd recommend for you:
1) Have links open in a new TARGET window, so the reader can keep your page open at the same time. So code the links something like this (in basic HTML):
<A HREF="http://www.whatevertheaddressis.com" TARGET="Zendikar_Spoiler_For_Example">Zendikar Spoiler</a>
2) For each website have a link after the initial 10 links that says MORE>, and when the user clicks on MORE it can link to say the previous 20-30 articles from that website. At the bigger sites like StarCityGames and Wizards you could have 10-15 articles a day sometimes.
3) The color scheme could use some work. Think about what's easiest on the eyes and go from there.
4) On the 'TheManaDrain Forums' section you have links to the 5 most recent replies, rather than the actual threads. So for example if the last 3 replies were all in one thread the top 3 links will all be to the same thread. That seems less than ideal.
5) 'The Starington Post' should be 'The Starkington Post,' with a k.

Overall it's pretty good, but with those tweaks it could be even cooler. Keep up the good work.
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« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2009, 01:22:00 am »

Thanks for the feedback JACO, incredibly useful.

All links now open in a new tab by default, which I think is what you were looking for. I also changed up the color scheme, so let me know how it looks now. The green/blue was getting a bit hard on the eyes. Also fixed the Starkington post typo.

I'll see what I can do on having more/different feed items. The number of feeds depend on how many items are in the individual website's rss feed, something I can't control at this point. I'll see what I can do though.
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« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2009, 08:02:28 am »

Nice work.  I will definitely use this site.
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« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2009, 01:24:22 pm »

Looks better with that color scheme. Just keep playing around with it until you find something you like that is easiest on the eyes.

Changing to open links in new window works great too.
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« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2009, 01:26:11 pm »

Very cool site.  I currently check puremtgo, SCG and these forums daily.  Your site opens up others I have never been to and has a nice set up.  The only thing I could say for you to add would be links to different emulators and draft simulators.  There is a new one introduced in these forums called Cockatrice that is pretty sweet.    I have bookmarked it as well.   
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« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2009, 03:01:59 pm »

I definitely appreciate your aggregating these feeds.  One possible way to improve it would be to allow users to drag and drop where they want to see each site's list (I've seen this elsewhere though I have no idea how complicated it would be).  Another suggestion is to include the content from ChannelFireball.com.

Thanks!
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« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2009, 09:46:15 pm »

Thanks again for the feedback guys. Added ChannelFireball and a few other sites and tweaked some small stuff. Any other site suggestions would be great.

I'm sure their are feed readers/websites that offer custom drag and drop of feeds, kind of out of the scope of this site though.
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« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2009, 01:18:50 pm »

fivewithflores and top8magic are good things to link too. Quiet Speculation is another new magic blog (he has a bit of an aggregator as well).
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« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2009, 04:31:54 am »

This is a very nice aggregator, thanks a lot.
For the StarCityGames.com articles, would it be possible to indicate wether the article is Premium or Free content ?
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« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2009, 11:02:32 am »

So there is a fairly attractive aggregator site called MTGBattlefield. It might give you some design ideas about making your site less bare bones.
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