What to expect in the first public version. Well instead of having a private beta, I'll be heavily testing everything then I'll have an open beta. Hopefully I'll be able to get some bugs, ideas, suggestions, etc... This open beta will be the first public version of Cybele. This means not everything will be implemented and what you see may or may not be final. Things may be improved or taken out. So what can you expect in the first version? I'll tell you.
A live news feed. You'll be able to see live news on the home page along with statistics and links. The news will of course all be related to Cybele and whats going on with it. You'll be able to browse resources from the current engines listed. You'll be able to upload resources to the current listed engines. You'll be able to view resources and download the provided resources. And because I am awesome, hotlinking directly to images will be allowed. But if you do link we'd appreciate it if you'd link to the resource page and from there people can get the resources. We will have textboxes under the resource info containing links and the sorts. On the side there will be blocks that will be updated every 30 seconds while you're on the page bringing you live statistics without refreshing or navigating to a different page. Any link you click can be copied and pasted and shared and it will have the same effect as clicking on it. Clicking on a link on Cybele will not navigate to a different page but instead change the middle blocks page. Not only will this save loading time on your side, it will also relieve some stress off our database so its not constantly doing several queries on every single block.
What can you expect in later versions of Cybele? You'll be able to edit your resources. You'll be able to manage favorite resources, manage your own resources. You'll be able to mark resources as private so only people with the link can view. However, the resource isn't completely private and anyone with the time and will can find it. I'll also be adding several game creating engines as time goes by. Moderators will also be assigned. Moderators can edit any resource, see any resource in the search and categories even if marked Private. And has to confirm the removal of resources. Speaking of which, you will be able to delete your own resources, but you must have a valid reason for doing so and then it will go into the pending area where staff must confirm it. A comments system will be created as well. The comments and description of resources will both allow bbcode.
As you can see Cybele is going to be a pretty nifty program. And I still plan to make a standalone program for Windows users just for ease. Anyways I hope you guys are looking forward to this as much as I am.