Update "Button" - DPChallenge Forums

05/23/2007 05:39:01 PM · #1

Since everyone calls it The Update Buttonâ�¢ anyway, why not make it a big-ass gaudy button that one could get some serious satisfaction out of pushing? (if that's how one would find satisfaction, of course)

Clicking a hyperlink just doesn't have the same dramatic feel, ya know?

And let's have a stat for the amount of times a user clicks 'update' per challenge...I think it would be a totally useless stat, but it would be fun. Or not.

Good stuff. Keep on...keepin' on.

fotomann_forever

05/23/2007 05:41:56 PM · #2

I think occasionally this button should also go into mouse avoidance mode and run around the screen for a while, seriously irritating the user :-)

Message edited by author 2007-05-23 17:42:19.

Simms

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

05/23/2007 05:42:02 PM · #3

Originally posted by mattmac:

and make it click.. like a REAL button.. I like your way of thinking Matt

Simms

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

05/23/2007 05:43:06 PM · #4

Originally posted by Simms:

Originally posted by mattmac:
Since everyone calls it The Update Buttonâ�¢ anyway, why not make it a big-ass gaudy button that one could get some serious satisfaction out of pushing? (if that's how one would find satisfaction, of course)

Clicking a hyperlink just doesn't have the same dramatic feel, ya know?

And let's have a stat for the amount of times a user clicks 'update' per challenge...I think it would be a totally useless stat, but it would be fun. Or not.

Good stuff. Keep on...keepin' on.

and make it click.. like a REAL button.. I like your way of thinking Matt

Or even model it after the shutter button on the users camera. and make it click like a shutter!!

PhotoDave

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM II

05/23/2007 05:46:15 PM · #5

or better yet make it fun, something like "Wack a troll" where a bag head pops out of a hole in the screen and you have to wack the little bugger over the head and maby the holes pop up randomly around the screen...

Trumpeteer4

Nikon D7000

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

05/23/2007 05:47:28 PM · #6

The turning point, DPC becomes a gaming website.

thegrandwazoo

Nikon D750

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

05/23/2007 05:47:33 PM · #7

Originally posted by dknourek:

I like it!

05/23/2007 05:48:07 PM · #8

Originally posted by fotomann_forever:

I think occasionally this button should also go into mouse avoidance mode and run around the screen for a while, seriously irritating the user :-)

Dude!! I was thinking the same thing*...totally 1998 internet style!!

*Now, sadly, I must end my life.

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

05/23/2007 05:48:39 PM · #9

Originally posted by Simms:

I want more of a *thunk*. With gusto.

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

05/23/2007 05:51:48 PM · #10

Originally posted by fotomann_forever:

I think occasionally this button should also go into mouse avoidance mode and run around the screen for a while, seriously irritating the user :-)

Kinda like the button you need to click to find out the meaning of life. ;o)

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

05/23/2007 05:55:03 PM · #11

Originally posted by fotomann_forever:

I think occasionally this button should also go into mouse avoidance mode and run around the screen for a while, seriously irritating the user :-)

Mind does that already....oh wait...that was those pretty white tablets that made that happen!

Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical HF for Pentax

05/23/2007 05:57:34 PM · #12

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
I think occasionally this button should also go into mouse avoidance mode and run around the screen for a while, seriously irritating the user :-)

Kinda like the button you need to click to find out the meaning of life. ;o)

Please explain to me how the Update 'button' is not the meaning of life?

I think we are on to something here, people...

:-)
edit to add smiley face. Nothin' cooler than a 6'4" 240lb dude with a shaved head using emoticons

Message edited by author 2007-05-23 17:59:01.

Jewellian

Pentax *ist DL

05/23/2007 06:16:28 PM · #13

Why hasn't this been though of before...?

Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical HF for Pentax

05/23/2007 06:19:34 PM · #14

Originally posted by Jewellian:

Why hasn't this been though of before...?

Yes. YES! I see that I am not the only genius here.

But that post was, like, so three days ago...

(My apologies, I didn't see your previous thread...nor can I read, so it wouldn't have made much of a difference).

Message edited by author 2007-05-23 18:37:34.

Jewellian

Pentax *ist DL

05/23/2007 06:32:31 PM · #15

Originally posted by mattmac:

Originally posted by Jewellian:
Why hasn't this been though of before...?

Yes. YES! I see that I am not the only genius here.

But that post was, like, so three days ago...

(My apologies, I didn't see your previous thread...nor can I read, so it wouldn't have much of a difference).

LOL I see this happen all the time, no hard feelings, it was just a lot easier to put all those replies to my thread to this one by being subtle... yes that's what I was trying for... I for one still think it'd be a great idea..

PhotoDave

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM II

05/24/2007 05:51:19 PM · #16

Just had a brain storm/fart take it as you wish, but how about a DPC KEYBOARD with a special [UPDATE] button right on it O_O !!!

Jedusi

05/24/2007 05:55:33 PM · #17

OK if you really want to mess with peoples mental stability how about a button which plays a little fanfare if you're score has gone up, and a groan if it has dropped . . .

:- )

PhotoDave