Well it's been a long road (for me), but the difficult work behind the scenes is starting to reach completion. The mysterious work isn't all that mysterious: I've been making lots and lots of tools for the staff to use for the approval and completion of suggested Pokémon. This ranges from making Superdex editing as easy as possible, to making it simple to claim jobs, and even to writing programs to extract sprites and read data from our own animated Pokédexes. (That last one was a doozy.)
The fruits of my labour are starting to become apparent on the site: On the Type Lookup, ALL pokemon now have sprites! The PFA and PF2 pokemon have all been added to our database of pokemon, and you'll be seeing more info on them as we fill it out. For example, Moppnttef is currently filling in the move lists for the PFA-generation pokemon, so you'll see them turn up in the improved Move Search. And when they have some more data, a new Pokémon Search will appear on the site, to make researching your suggestions even easier!
And, since we have their sprites on the site now, the Superdex will now display the older sprites of PF pokemon. There are currently 8 pokemon you can see this on: Howlunor, Spookloth, Florabin, Gargo, Skench, Salom, Daragor and Flamengo.
And in other news, we recently started a trial of a chatroom, an IRC channel. Staff and members alike seemed to like it, so it's now official! You're welcome to come in and chat with us, after looking at the info and rules, and maybe you'll find a staff member or two working on something cool; our usual veil of secrecy is a lot less thick when you can directly bug us. See you on IRC!
The fruits of my labour are starting to become apparent on the site: On the Type Lookup, ALL pokemon now have sprites! The PFA and PF2 pokemon have all been added to our database of pokemon, and you'll be seeing more info on them as we fill it out. For example, Moppnttef is currently filling in the move lists for the PFA-generation pokemon, so you'll see them turn up in the improved Move Search. And when they have some more data, a new Pokémon Search will appear on the site, to make researching your suggestions even easier!
And, since we have their sprites on the site now, the Superdex will now display the older sprites of PF pokemon. There are currently 8 pokemon you can see this on: Howlunor, Spookloth, Florabin, Gargo, Skench, Salom, Daragor and Flamengo.
And in other news, we recently started a trial of a chatroom, an IRC channel. Staff and members alike seemed to like it, so it's now official! You're welcome to come in and chat with us, after looking at the info and rules, and maybe you'll find a staff member or two working on something cool; our usual veil of secrecy is a lot less thick when you can directly bug us. See you on IRC!
