So here we go friends, huds.tf is finally public! It's super exciting and I'm incredibly nervous about it, but there we go.
(If the "coming soon" page is still loading, refresh. CTRL + F5 will do it)
It's been a fair bit of work, although being honest, I've been lazy with the development until recently. The site has a bunch of new features which need to be explained, so let's get to it.
- The HUDs listed on the home page are sorted randomly, although alphabetical sorting may come in the future depending on how much people care. Unfortunately, we have no good way of sorting HUDs by when they were last updated or by how popular they are. We're not looking into sorting them by popularity either, as it may be harmful to those with less popular HUDs. We want to give every HUD a chance, and we hope you do too.
- HUDs also have their own pages, which give you in-depth information about the HUD you may be looking to use, including screenshots, operating system support, resolution support and customization options. Every HUD has also been given it's own custom URL, which means you can reach HUDs using a url like notohud.huds.tf or flathud.huds.tf, for example.
- The Blog page is a new edition which we'll be using to get updates about HUD related stuff to the community, like the recent release of hudcreator.co.uk. We're also planning on releasing the blog to HUD editors, so they can push their HUD updates to the blog.
- The Guide section is what it says it is. It's for HUD Guides. However, it's still a little barren. We're going to avoid "stealing" guides from other websites and either obtain our own, or gain proper permission for already existing guides, such as Rays' Video Tutorials.
- The HUD Archive is also what it says it is. But to go into greater detail, the HUD Archive is a list of HUDs that are either out of date, or maybe not fully submitted to us to gain their own huds.tf page. You can find a full explaination on the Archive Page.
You can still submit HUDs to the site, but more information is required than the previous information needed for tf2huds.net. There is also a Guide Submission form on site too, rather than messaging me on Steam about them.
We're still working on 4plug support (which should be coming really soon) and we've been toying around with the idea of forums, but we'll leave this to your feedback. Would you like to have HUD specific forums, or leave it down to TF.TV to fill that need? Does huds.tf having forums seem necessary for the entire TF2 community?
I want to give a huge thanks to tstm for all his hard work on the site design and the very few people that got to see the site before release for giving feedback.
Now I'm going to sit here in fear.
Thanks friends
omnibombulator
So here we go friends, [url=http://huds.tf/]huds.tf[/url] is finally public! It's super exciting and I'm incredibly nervous about it, but there we go.
(If the "coming soon" page is still loading, refresh. CTRL + F5 will do it)
It's been a fair bit of work, although being honest, I've been lazy with the development until recently. The site has a bunch of new features which need to be explained, so let's get to it.
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[*] The HUDs listed on the home page are sorted randomly, although alphabetical sorting may come in the future depending on how much people care. Unfortunately, we have no good way of sorting HUDs by when they were last updated or by how popular they are. We're not looking into sorting them by popularity either, as it may be harmful to those with less popular HUDs. We want to give every HUD a chance, and we hope you do too.
[*] HUDs also have their own pages, which give you in-depth information about the HUD you may be looking to use, including screenshots, operating system support, resolution support and customization options. Every HUD has also been given it's own custom URL, which means you can reach HUDs using a url like notohud.huds.tf or flathud.huds.tf, for example.
[*] The Blog page is a new edition which we'll be using to get updates about HUD related stuff to the community, like the recent [url=http://huds.tf/blog/index.php?id=11]release of hudcreator.co.uk[/url]. We're also planning on releasing the blog to HUD editors, so they can push their HUD updates to the blog.
[*] The Guide section is what it says it is. It's for HUD Guides. However, it's still a little barren. We're going to avoid "stealing" guides from other websites and either obtain our own, or gain proper permission for already existing guides, such as [url=http://huds.tf/guides/?guide=rays0]Rays' Video Tutorials[/url].
[*] The HUD Archive is also what it says it is. But to go into greater detail, the HUD Archive is a list of HUDs that are either out of date, or maybe not fully submitted to us to gain their own huds.tf page. You can find a full explaination on the [url=http://huds.tf/archive/]Archive Page[/url].
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You can still submit HUDs to the site, but more information is required than the previous information needed for tf2huds.net. There is also a Guide Submission form on site too, rather than messaging me on Steam about them.
We're still working on 4plug support (which should be coming really soon) and we've been toying around with the idea of forums, but we'll leave this to your feedback. Would you like to have HUD specific forums, or leave it down to TF.TV to fill that need? Does huds.tf having forums seem necessary for the entire TF2 community?
I want to give a huge thanks to tstm for all his hard work on the site design and the very few people that got to see the site before release for giving feedback.
Now I'm going to sit here in fear.
Thanks friends
omnibombulator
This website is beautiful.
This website is beautiful.
The hype has definitely been worth the wait. Fantastic job on this, Omni! Can't wait until more HUD submissions start rolling in! Thanks for all of your hard work, Omni and Tstm!
The hype has definitely been worth the wait. Fantastic job on this, Omni! Can't wait until more HUD submissions start rolling in! Thanks for all of your hard work, Omni and Tstm!
Well done, this is fucking amazing.
Well done, this is fucking amazing.
Awesome work, great looking site.
Awesome work, great looking site.
i dont think huds.tf should have its own forum. directing people to tf.tv is good for competitive.
even pub players use huds so saying "go check out the hud modifications thread on tf.tv" is spreading the word, however small. the only reason i can think of would be if people hate seeing huds threads on tf.tv and they can just disable seeing tf2 customization if thats the case.
i dont think huds.tf should have its own forum. directing people to tf.tv is good for competitive.
even pub players use huds so saying "go check out the hud modifications thread on tf.tv" is spreading the word, however small. the only reason i can think of would be if people hate seeing huds threads on tf.tv and they can just disable seeing tf2 customization if thats the case.
Think you should put this in the site somwhere.
Really awesome guide by Doodles.
Think you should put [url=http://doodlesstuff.com/?tutorial=tf2hud]this[/url] in the site somwhere.
Really awesome guide by Doodles.
A chatbox on the frontpage or comment section under each hud would be awesome.
A chatbox on the frontpage or comment section under each hud would be awesome.
hanbroloi dont think huds.tf should have its own forum. directing people to tf.tv is good for competitive.
even pub players use huds so saying "go check out the hud modifications thread on tf.tv" is spreading the word, however small. the only reason i can think of would be if people hate seeing huds threads on tf.tv and they can just disable seeing tf2 customization if thats the case.
The hud modifications thread is a terrible reference. The thread is dedicated to sharing hud ideas and development.This website is for people who want an easy way to find complete and working huds.
[quote=hanbrolo]i dont think huds.tf should have its own forum. directing people to tf.tv is good for competitive.
even pub players use huds so saying "go check out the hud modifications thread on tf.tv" is spreading the word, however small. the only reason i can think of would be if people hate seeing huds threads on tf.tv and they can just disable seeing tf2 customization if thats the case.[/quote]
The hud modifications thread is a terrible reference. The thread is dedicated to sharing hud ideas and development.This website is for people who want an easy way to find complete and working huds.
m0rehud is missing :o?
but knhud is still there.
anyways thanks for listing bladehud :D!
m0rehud is missing :o?
but knhud is still there.
anyways thanks for listing bladehud :D!
MartyThink you should put this in the site somwhere.
We would have to ask Doodles permission for this as we can't just slap stuff on the site, but it's something we will look at it.
La_maisonA chatbox on the frontpage or comment section under each hud would be awesome.
This is an aspect we will need to discuss, as much as it is a nice idea to have! There are also problems that come with it which could be possibly fixed. Aspects like spam, trolling, negativity and complaints/bug spamming are all issues.
[quote=Marty]Think you should put [url=http://doodlesstuff.com/?tutorial=tf2hud]this[/url] in the site somwhere.[/quote]
We would have to ask Doodles permission for this as we can't just slap stuff on the site, but it's something we will look at it.
[quote=La_maison]A chatbox on the frontpage or comment section under each hud would be awesome.[/quote]
This is an aspect we will need to discuss, as much as it is a nice idea to have! There are also problems that come with it which could be possibly fixed. Aspects like spam, trolling, negativity and complaints/bug spamming are all issues.
Great site, really loving it. Covers the hud aspect almost entirely
tstmWe would have to ask Doodles permission for this as we can't just slap stuff on the site, but it's something we will look at it.
Pretty sure you don't have to worry about that unless you only want to incorporate guides into the website and not linking to exterior sites. Personally I think having an external guide section with links to other guides wouldn't be a bad idea.
On top of my head there are a couple more guides not linked there that are on comp.tf custom huds page.
Great site, really loving it. Covers the hud aspect almost entirely
[quote=tstm]
We would have to ask Doodles permission for this as we can't just slap stuff on the site, but it's something we will look at it.
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Pretty sure you don't have to worry about that unless you only want to incorporate guides into the website and not linking to exterior sites. Personally I think having an external guide section with links to other guides wouldn't be a bad idea.
On top of my head there are a couple more guides not linked there that are on comp.tf [url=http://comp.tf/wiki/Custom_HUD]custom huds[/url] page.
why is there a link to this at the bottom of the website
why is there a link to [url=http://league.tf/]this[/url] at the bottom of the website
Permzillawhy is there a link to this at the bottom of the website
Because Omni apparently has a sense of humour, don't worry I asked the same thing...
[quote=Permzilla]why is there a link to [url=http://league.tf/]this[/url] at the bottom of the website[/quote]
Because Omni apparently has a sense of humour, don't worry I asked the same thing...
Ultraz
The hud modifications thread is a terrible reference. The thread is dedicated to sharing hud ideas and development.This website is for people who want an easy way to find complete and working huds.
I wrote a guide for the site; I understand its purpose (and its usefulness).
My point was that someone who says "what is this hud edit?" often gets pointed to the hud modifications thread and therefore the home of competitive tf2. An extra forum on huds.tf is just unnecessary.
I'm not sure you read the entire OP/understood what part of it I was referring to. None of your post gives any justification for a forum on huds.tf as opposed to the current setup of a subforum that is basically dominated by huds and configs anyway. I can see the benefit to centralizing huds discussion of course, but it's basically already centralized here (ETF2L too I guess) so moving an already established huds subsection doesn't make sense.
[quote=Ultraz]
The hud modifications thread is a terrible reference. The thread is dedicated to sharing hud ideas and development.This website is for people who want an easy way to find complete and working huds.[/quote]
I wrote a guide for the site; I understand its purpose (and its usefulness).
My point was that someone who says "what is this hud edit?" often gets pointed to the hud modifications thread and therefore the home of competitive tf2. An extra [b]forum[/b] on huds.tf is just unnecessary.
I'm not sure you read the entire OP/understood what part of it I was referring to. None of your post gives any justification for a forum on huds.tf as opposed to the current setup of a subforum that is basically dominated by huds and configs anyway. I can see the benefit to centralizing huds discussion of course, but it's basically already centralized here (ETF2L too I guess) so moving an already established huds subsection doesn't make sense.
hanbroloI wrote a guide for the site; I understand its purpose (and its usefulness).
My point was that someone who says "what is this hud edit?" often gets pointed to the hud modifications thread and therefore the home of competitive tf2. An extra forum on huds.tf is just unnecessary.
I'm not sure you read the entire OP/understood what part of it I was referring to. None of your post gives any justification for a forum on huds.tf as opposed to the current setup of a subforum that is basically dominated by huds and configs anyway. I can see the benefit to centralizing huds discussion of course, but it's basically already centralized here (ETF2L too I guess) so moving an already established huds subsection doesn't make sense.
The reason I brought up the idea of a forum is for a discussion base for anything HUD related. Where as I understand that TF.TV and ETF2L both have these options available, and I don't necessarily want to take away what they both offer, not everybody in the TF2 community is interested enough in competitive TF2 to join a competitive community just to ask about HUDs.
I'm kind of thinking in the same vain as tf2maps.net; we get topics about maps here but they get different topics about maps there.
TF.TV also has this problem where threads are created asking about something that has been asked a million times before. But this isn't the problem, because this isn't necessarily a bad thing. The problem is that some threads get no reply and a whole bunch of downvotes. I don't see that as being helpful to anybody with questions.
But, I haven't implemented forums yet because this is the kind of feedback that I'd like more of. So if anybody else has any thoughts on the matter, I'd love to hear them.
[quote=hanbrolo]I wrote a guide for the site; I understand its purpose (and its usefulness).
My point was that someone who says "what is this hud edit?" often gets pointed to the hud modifications thread and therefore the home of competitive tf2. An extra [b]forum[/b] on huds.tf is just unnecessary.
I'm not sure you read the entire OP/understood what part of it I was referring to. None of your post gives any justification for a forum on huds.tf as opposed to the current setup of a subforum that is basically dominated by huds and configs anyway. I can see the benefit to centralizing huds discussion of course, but it's basically already centralized here (ETF2L too I guess) so moving an already established huds subsection doesn't make sense.[/quote]
The reason I brought up the idea of a forum is for a discussion base for anything HUD related. Where as I understand that TF.TV and ETF2L both have these options available, and I don't necessarily want to take away what they both offer, not everybody in the TF2 community is interested enough in competitive TF2 to join a competitive community just to ask about HUDs.
I'm kind of thinking in the same vain as tf2maps.net; we get topics about maps here but they get different topics about maps there.
TF.TV also has this problem where threads are created asking about something that has been asked a million times before. But this isn't the problem, because this isn't necessarily a bad thing. The problem is that some threads get no reply and a whole bunch of downvotes. I don't see that as being helpful to anybody with questions.
But, I haven't implemented forums yet because this is the kind of feedback that I'd like more of. So if anybody else has any thoughts on the matter, I'd love to hear them.
omniTF.TV also has this problem where threads are created asking about something that has been asked a million times before. But this isn't the problem, because this isn't necessarily a bad thing. The problem is that some threads get no reply and a whole bunch of downvotes. I don't see that as being helpful to anybody with questions.
I like the tf2maps analogy, that makes sense. However, I thought we were pretty welcoming here in terms of answering hud based questions, even if they seem simple or easily google-able. Do you have some examples of threads that got downvoted more than once or weren't answered?
[quote=omni]
TF.TV also has this problem where threads are created asking about something that has been asked a million times before. But this isn't the problem, because this isn't necessarily a bad thing. The problem is that some threads get no reply and a whole bunch of downvotes. I don't see that as being helpful to anybody with questions.
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I like the tf2maps analogy, that makes sense. However, I thought we were pretty welcoming here in terms of answering hud based questions, even if they seem simple or easily google-able. Do you have some examples of threads that got downvoted more than once or weren't answered?
This layout is stunning. Thank you.
This layout is stunning. Thank you.
The website is not responsive :(
That's a shame because it's really good looking.
The website is not responsive :(
That's a shame because it's really good looking.
tstm La_maisonA chatbox on the frontpage or comment section under each hud would be awesome.
This is an aspect we will need to discuss, as much as it is a nice idea to have! There are also problems that come with it which could be possibly fixed. Aspects like spam, trolling, negativity and complaints/bug spamming are all issues.
That's what I feared as well but I believe the benefits outweigh the possible downsides. I mean, it's certainly worth a try, and if the community doesn't fuck this up, it could be similarly useful as the chatbox on tf2center. YMMV, of course.
Would it be difficult to implement Valve's OAuth token to gain access to comments? Maybe it's indeed easier to have a link under each HUD that leads to a reserved subsection in a forum, but adding a spot in the forums for each individual HUD would probably be tedious, too..
[quote=tstm] [quote=La_maison]A chatbox on the frontpage or comment section under each hud would be awesome.[/quote]
This is an aspect we will need to discuss, as much as it is a nice idea to have! There are also problems that come with it which could be possibly fixed. Aspects like spam, trolling, negativity and complaints/bug spamming are all issues.[/quote]
That's what I feared as well but I believe the benefits outweigh the possible downsides. I mean, it's certainly worth a try, and if the community doesn't fuck this up, it could be similarly useful as the chatbox on tf2center. YMMV, of course.
Would it be difficult to implement Valve's OAuth token to gain access to comments? Maybe it's indeed easier to have a link under each HUD that leads to a reserved subsection in a forum, but adding a spot in the forums for each individual HUD would probably be tedious, too..
Having a subforum for each hud is not necessary imo. There's always the thread for the hud here and every hud has a link to the hud developer's steam account or other contact method.
Having a subforum for each hud is not necessary imo. There's always the thread for the hud here and every hud has a link to the hud developer's steam account or other contact method.
La_maisontstm La_maisonA chatbox on the frontpage or comment section under each hud would be awesome.
This is an aspect we will need to discuss, as much as it is a nice idea to have! There are also problems that come with it which could be possibly fixed. Aspects like spam, trolling, negativity and complaints/bug spamming are all issues.
That's what I feared as well but I believe the benefits outweigh the possible downsides. I mean, it's certainly worth a try, and if the community doesn't fuck this up, it could be similarly useful as the chatbox on tf2center. YMMV, of course.
Would it be difficult to implement Valve's OAuth token to gain access to comments? Maybe it's indeed easier to have a link under each HUD that leads to a reserved subsection in a forum, but adding a spot in the forums for each individual HUD would probably be tedious, too..
How about an irc channel and implement it into the website?
[quote=La_maison][quote=tstm] [quote=La_maison]A chatbox on the frontpage or comment section under each hud would be awesome.[/quote]
This is an aspect we will need to discuss, as much as it is a nice idea to have! There are also problems that come with it which could be possibly fixed. Aspects like spam, trolling, negativity and complaints/bug spamming are all issues.[/quote]
That's what I feared as well but I believe the benefits outweigh the possible downsides. I mean, it's certainly worth a try, and if the community doesn't fuck this up, it could be similarly useful as the chatbox on tf2center. YMMV, of course.
Would it be difficult to implement Valve's OAuth token to gain access to comments? Maybe it's indeed easier to have a link under each HUD that leads to a reserved subsection in a forum, but adding a spot in the forums for each individual HUD would probably be tedious, too..[/quote]
How about an irc channel and implement it into the website?