Suggestions

[Petie]

2. So if someone wants to post something they submitted on the forum, they have to either wait until the file is approved or upload it in two different places?

3. Ah, I didn't see that, but that does that still create a preview of the last sheet you uploaded so you can check if you made any errors?

4. I'm not talking about making the pending files open for public editing, just the ability to fix your own mistakes. Having to bother a mod every time I accidentally upload the wrong file seems both embarrassing and a hassle to the both of us. At the very least if you're not going to include a way to edit it, maybe instead just include a way to delete your own pending submission so you can simply try uploading it again?

Actually, combining 3 & 4 here ... if I were the one coding this, I would instead of instantly uploading the files and returning the user to the submission control panel, have the submit button take you to a page which shows you the temp files for the icon and sheet which you uploaded and asks you to approve it, with buttons at the bottom of the page reading "Approve", "Approve and Add Another", or "Decline".

2. Pretty much, yeah. And I'm not sure I really see any way around this short of updating your own links once you get the notification that your sheet has been accepted. The only other possibility is to copy the files over instead of move them but that leaves us with a mess and double the amount of files on the server.

3. It does. For instance, if you clicked "Add Another" on the Moai sheet from Gradius II (conveniently stolen from the home page for this example), you'd see this: http://www.spriters-resource.com/cp/arca...sii/56586/

4. I know you didn't mean entirely open to the public but it could still be problematic if what the staff sees isn't actually static information. Not knowing whether or not you (the general you, that is) are going to fix something we see as a mistake makes our job difficult. Do we reject it, PM you, or wait to see if you'll fix it, assuming you even know you've made a mistake so I don't really see users editing their pending submissions as likely to ever happen. That being said, I'm not entirely against giving users the ability to delete their own pending submissions so this is a possibility.

3 & 4. A preview confirming that you did, in fact, set up everything the way you wanted to isn't a bad idea but is it going to have enough utility to justify creating it? I feel like most people will get into the habit of simply clicking approve as soon as it comes up, rendering it pointless. And for those who would actually use it, I'd like to imagine that, in general, they won't need it. It also presents one slight technical hurdle since, before the submission is pushed through, I have nowhere to store the files. When they're uploaded, the server stores a temporary copy of the uploaded files only until the script finishes executing unless they are copied or moved. Since a submission would now require two different scripts to run in order, we'd lose the temporary files in between. This is easy enough to deal with by simply moving them to my own temporary location but it does make this a tiny bit more complicated. I'm not against this idea though and if it garners enough support, I'll add it to the list.

Edit:

I don't know if this is possible (or even remotely important) but how about making it so you can thank posts on locked threads?

I just checked. There doesn't seem to be an option relating to locked threads anywhere in the plugin so it seems like this is going to be impossible.