Outwitters Sports Network Revived!

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(08-08-2013 01:06 AM)CodePenguin Wrote:  @Cor13:4,

This would not be too hard to implement. But the main problem is that you are leaving it up to users to determine how it is viewed. What if someone accidentally forgot to use the "no save" version of the view method? It would then be visible to everyone at that point.

One way to implement it would be to have a new menu item on the "Save" button dropdown that says "Save as private". OSN would then register the replay as a private replay and it would not be visible on the public facing parts. Then if someone tries to view or save it the normal way, it would see that it is a private replay and would prevent it from being stored in the public area. This way, the only people that could get access to it are those who have the actual replay link. This would have to be done before the link is viewed on OSN at all. So the first person to submit a replay to OSN would be able to decide if it is public or private.

This sounds like an excellent implementation. So, this procedure should work?
* original player copies link from outwitters
* open up browser and go to osn site
* paste link, click or dropdown menu to "save as private"
* paste link normally in private forum and it would display like a normal graphical link showing players, races, and winner
* other members in the private forum can click on link to view the game normally
* the game would not be searchable or visible to others without the link

Here are a couple other thoughts:
* When the first poster is viewing a game normally, it also might be nice to have the option to mark as private at that point. Just in case they misclicked.
* Is it "fair" to allow the first poster to prevent the game from being published for its lifetime? One player may want to publish and the other player may want private. Public should win in that case, I think. Maybe you should allow anybody viewing a private game to publish it (with a confirmation, ideally). That would be similar to that person publishing the link in a public forum.