https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9wn6niK2o
http://comp.tf/site/283/welcome-to-the-new-comp-tf/
This is something that has been in the works for months now, ever since last year I've been reaching out to people to test the waters for this idea. I actually got in contact with Buttnose way before thespire was launched so we could work on the project together, but he wanted to remain independent so it didnt work out in the end. I wanted to expand the project nonetheless so I decided to continue with the idea I had and here it is.
The aim with the site is to offer a place of discussion and coverage for everything comp tf2,from Highlander to 6v6, from Prem to Open. Since tftv stopped covering lower divisions and other gamemodes I've felt this was a huge open market ready to be explored with such a huge and diverse community. And we want to fill that void. That is our premise.
So here it is. I wont get much more into it because the last few weeks have been hell preparing all of this while juggling other responsibilities and I just want to finally get it out to the world. Best you visit the site and see for yourself.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9wn6niK2o[/youtube]
http://comp.tf/site/283/welcome-to-the-new-comp-tf/
This is something that has been in the works for months now, ever since last year I've been reaching out to people to test the waters for this idea. I actually got in contact with Buttnose way before thespire was launched so we could work on the project together, but he wanted to remain independent so it didnt work out in the end. I wanted to expand the project nonetheless so I decided to continue with the idea I had and here it is.
The aim with the site is to offer a place of discussion and coverage for everything comp tf2,from Highlander to 6v6, from Prem to Open. Since tftv stopped covering lower divisions and other gamemodes I've felt this was a huge open market ready to be explored with such a huge and diverse community. And we want to fill that void. That is our premise.
So here it is. I wont get much more into it because the last few weeks have been hell preparing all of this while juggling other responsibilities and I just want to finally get it out to the world. Best you visit the site and see for yourself.
Loving the look of it. Great job!!
Loving the look of it. Great job!!
Good job, I love everything there is in it!
I just hope that you and the spire can work together (maybe with Backcap too). I'm a bit afraid of this recent fragmentation, we need to be all together (and not decentralized) now more then ever.
Good job, I love everything there is in it!
I just hope that you and the spire can work together (maybe with Backcap too). I'm a bit afraid of this recent fragmentation, we need to be all together (and not decentralized) now more then ever.
Glad you folks like it! I'm one of the writer for the new hub site and we are trying to cover all scenes all around the globe and some cool articles in between!
Glad you folks like it! I'm one of the writer for the new hub site and we are trying to cover all scenes all around the globe and some cool articles in between!
cirloGood job, I love everything there is in it!
I just hope that you and the spire can work together (maybe with Backcap too). I'm a bit afraid of this recent fragmentation, we need to be all together (and not decentralized) now more then ever.
My reasoning was that through the Comptf competitive wiki and our youtube channel we had already built a very good brand within the tf2 community. We wanted to take advantage of that brand and userbase and expand on that, so I started testing the waters and reaching out to people when MM started being officially announced (before it was released). Buttnose was one of the people I contacted, as were many others, he was already leading another similar project which was also very early on, I tried to get him to understand my vision so we could work together, my only "condition" was to take advantage of the comp.tf brand and use our domain (which I think it's very valuable itself as its short and relevant). He didn't share my vision and said he wanted to remain with an independent project, I accepted that and kept working on this. I'm still open to work together with him and all his team tho, I think since tftv has positioned itself in such a way it will cover only high level 6s, we can fill the void for all the other competitive gamemodes and skill levels, without fracturing the community too much or even being a direct competitor to tftv.
Regarding backcap, it was already part of our project once and shounic, unfortunately for us, decided to part ways, I think it's an amazing series and would love to have it over on comptf again, but I don't think it will happen tbh.
edit: the wiki's not working properly, at the moment Im unsure this is due to the high server load from the site or a misconfiguration on my part, Im working on it tho
[quote=cirlo]Good job, I love everything there is in it!
I just hope that you and the spire can work together (maybe with Backcap too). I'm a bit afraid of this recent fragmentation, we need to be all together (and not decentralized) now more then ever.[/quote]
My reasoning was that through the Comptf competitive wiki and our youtube channel we had already built a very good brand within the tf2 community. We wanted to take advantage of that brand and userbase and expand on that, so I started testing the waters and reaching out to people when MM started being officially announced (before it was released). Buttnose was one of the people I contacted, as were many others, he was already leading another similar project which was also very early on, I tried to get him to understand my vision so we could work together, my only "condition" was to take advantage of the comp.tf brand and use our domain (which I think it's very valuable itself as its short and relevant). He didn't share my vision and said he wanted to remain with an independent project, I accepted that and kept working on this. I'm still open to work together with him and all his team tho, I think since tftv has positioned itself in such a way it will cover only high level 6s, we can fill the void for all the other competitive gamemodes and skill levels, without fracturing the community too much or even being a direct competitor to tftv.
Regarding backcap, it was already part of our project once and shounic, unfortunately for us, decided to part ways, I think it's an amazing series and would love to have it over on comptf again, but I don't think it will happen tbh.
edit: the wiki's not working properly, at the moment Im unsure this is due to the high server load from the site or a misconfiguration on my part, Im working on it tho
Why is the history bar covering the video?
Looks very nice otherwise.
Why is the history bar covering the video?
Looks very nice otherwise.
Having a hub that keep track of ALL the matches that happens (and not only those covered) it's pretty much something i've always felt the need, as much as more articles about game/matches/future events or whatever. I just don't see the need of another forum. I think the fact the after a lot of years we managed to have big centralized forum is really important, it's just that. Other then that i support 100% your project as i see it as something needed, thanks!
(P.S. there are just some little things to polish it a bit, even if it's already looking great. [reworking the spaces and make it "smaller" on higher resolutions; i like it at 90/80% with 1920x1080])
Having a hub that keep track of ALL the matches that happens (and not only those covered) it's pretty much something i've always felt the need, as much as more articles about game/matches/future events or whatever. I just don't see the need of another forum. I think the fact the after a lot of years we managed to have big centralized forum is really important, it's just that. Other then that i support 100% your project as i see it as something needed, thanks!
(P.S. there are just some little things to polish it a bit, even if it's already looking great. [reworking the spaces and make it "smaller" on higher resolutions; i like it at 90/80% with 1920x1080])
hookyWhy is the history bar covering the video?
Looks very nice otherwise.
My original intention was to have a neat background video on the history but the actual teaser video I edited was a bit more than a background video so it didn't work as well. Fixed it now.
cirloHaving a hub that keep track of ALL the matches that happens (and not only those covered) it's pretty much something i've always felt the need, as much as more articles about game/matches/future events or whatever. I just don't see the need of another forum. I think the fact the after a lot of years we managed to have big centralized forum is really important, it's just that. Other then that i support 100% your project as i see it as something needed, thanks!
(P.S. there are just some little things to polish it a bit, even if it's already looking great. [reworking the spaces and make it "smaller" on higher resolutions; i like it at 90/80% with 1920x1080])
We actually have some WIP template on the wiki for matches, similar to liquipedia latest matches template (http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Liquipedia:Upcoming_and_ongoing_matches), we're working (actually ffc is the man behind it) on adapting that to our wiki, and eventually it might even replace the current event thingy on the main site.
As for the forum, I didn't want to have generic wordpress comments, and I wanted to have a small place for discussion, after I saw thespire forum, I noticed it was a bit lackluster (bbpress, which I initially also implemented) I decided we needed a bit more than that. I found this really good platform that integrates apparently very well with wordpress and decided to give it a try and it ended up being much more amazing that I expected and I planned a full fledged forum around it. I think it's really user friendly and it has a lot of really cool features like PMs, reactions, activity feed, extra customizable and formatting options. So Im really happy with that. I know tftv is already the "to-go" forum for discussing competitive, but theres still a bit of segregation from other gamemodes and we want to be accepting of all of them and hope it can bring some activity to our forum.
[quote=hooky]Why is the history bar covering the video?
Looks very nice otherwise.[/quote]
My original intention was to have a neat background video on the history but the actual teaser video I edited was a bit more than a background video so it didn't work as well. Fixed it now.
[quote=cirlo]Having a hub that keep track of ALL the matches that happens (and not only those covered) it's pretty much something i've always felt the need, as much as more articles about game/matches/future events or whatever. I just don't see the need of another forum. I think the fact the after a lot of years we managed to have big centralized forum is really important, it's just that. Other then that i support 100% your project as i see it as something needed, thanks!
(P.S. there are just some little things to polish it a bit, even if it's already looking great. [reworking the spaces and make it "smaller" on higher resolutions; i like it at 90/80% with 1920x1080])[/quote]
We actually have some WIP template on the wiki for matches, similar to liquipedia latest matches template (http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Liquipedia:Upcoming_and_ongoing_matches), we're working (actually ffc is the man behind it) on adapting that to our wiki, and eventually it might even replace the current event thingy on the main site.
As for the forum, I didn't want to have generic wordpress comments, and I wanted to have a small place for discussion, after I saw thespire forum, I noticed it was a bit lackluster (bbpress, which I initially also implemented) I decided we needed a bit more than that. I found this really good platform that integrates apparently very well with wordpress and decided to give it a try and it ended up being much more amazing that I expected and I planned a full fledged forum around it. I think it's really user friendly and it has a lot of really cool features like PMs, reactions, activity feed, extra customizable and formatting options. So Im really happy with that. I know tftv is already the "to-go" forum for discussing competitive, but theres still a bit of segregation from other gamemodes and we want to be accepting of all of them and hope it can bring some activity to our forum.
Oook! I see your point. Thanks for answering :)
(oh i want to reaffirm i love for the wiki, thanks for what you've done and what you're doing. I'll keep trying submitting infos on it)
Oook! I see your point. Thanks for answering :)
(oh i want to reaffirm i love for the wiki, thanks for what you've done and what you're doing. I'll keep trying submitting infos on it)
For the time being I disabled the redirect from the main domain to the site because that seemed to be the cause of the css issues on the wiki. When I figure what was the problem Ill revert back to the fixed redirect.
The site is still accessible through
http://comp.tf/site
Apologize for that
For the time being I disabled the redirect from the main domain to the site because that seemed to be the cause of the css issues on the wiki. When I figure what was the problem Ill revert back to the fixed redirect.
The site is still accessible through
http://comp.tf/site
Apologize for that