So first of all I would like to say that the site upgrade turned out very great and looks really good! Then the actual suggestion, so my first idea/suggestion was that there was a page in the link https://status.lcpdfr.com or https://lcpdfr.com/status that displays the current site, lspdfr sync and api status in all regions, my second suggestion is that the queue is visible to the public or that in the approval message your position in queue.

I second this. It would actually be very useful. That way people can check to see if the site is having issues in just their region or if it was all over. Also, I believe a queue would be nice because then people submitting a file would get that extra bit of transparency that will allow them to not only know how long it will take, but roughly when to post the announcement to their Discord server when it will be updated.

From a moderation standpoint, the queue position would be entirely useless to gauge anything on your part. How moderators handle the queue is different per person, but I think the general way is to do it in batches. 

 

So basically, whether you're number 1 or number 30 makes no difference as it will really just be approved the next time a moderator checks the approval queue.

 

Also, "position" doesn't mean much as files can be approved in a queue (where they can be also be skipped, and honestly I have no idea what order IPS, our software, puts them in) or from the downloads page.

1 minute ago, Will said:

From a moderation standpoint, the queue position would be entirely useless to gauge anything on your part. How moderators handle the queue is different per person, but I think the general way is to do it in batches. 

 

So basically, whether you're number 1 or number 30 makes no difference as it will really just be approved the next time a moderator checks the approval queue.

 

Also, "position" doesn't mean much as files can be approved in a queue (where they can be also be skipped, and honestly I have no idea what order IPS, our software, puts them in) or from the downloads page.

That's fair. After typing that, I realized that while a number could be given, there is no time frame for when it will be looked at because there is no around-the-clock support or even a timeframe of like 9 AM to 5 PM where they are guaranteed to be looked at. It would just be a number that could either be updated via automatic DM as the queue gets smaller, but other than that, not much else. And again, I dont even know if that automatic update DM is even possible.

I guess we could have something that would indicate, generally, what our moderation workload currently is based on the amount of active reports and how long the approval queue is.

As Will said, it wouldn't be hugely useful as approvals are usually batched.

 

 

As for server status in regions, we do already have this on our server status page. You can scroll down to check each region server, Europe, US West, US East and Oceania