what's on your wishlist?

[kaigou]

ETA: you can find all posts on this topic at http://kaigou.dreamwidth.org/tag/fantabulous+delicious+extravaganza

I've been watching the spiraling storms of raeg around del.icio.us and its utter fail, and there seem to be about six different places that people are randomly congregating about possibly doing a fandom version. Consider this a welcoming home if you want to link/share for all suggestions in one place. I don't know if anyone else is organizing this, but I'm not talking about the heavy-duty of code. I'm talking about something that has to happen before anyone puts code to screen, or else any project would end up just as messed-up as the current disaster.

Short version: first step is to figure out the fandom wishlist.

I do business analysis & an information architecture (BA/IA), so this isn't scary to me. Those titles just mean I figure/find out what clients (that's all ya'll) want (the BA part), and I figure out how to shape that into something meaningful and findable in a web application/site (the IA part). Basically, I organize stuff. Granted, something like this -- which is effectively tagging potentially the entire freaking intarweebs -- is much bigger than anything I've ever done personally... but that just means I'd be [very!!] happy to be joined by any other IA, or UX, or BA, folks. And, if for whatever reason real life gets in my way, at least this post would stand as a collection-point for the reference of whatever team does end up doing the project.

[NOTE: I'm not volunteering to run this project. I'm not even remotely considering running it. I'm just not a project manager. I will happily defer to, and assist, anyone who is and is willing to take on the lead position. Just be aware that I know where I'm good and PM ain't it.]

To keep this easy to organize for me and/or whomever ends up compiling it:

• PLEASE do ONE requirement/request PER REPLY. If you have five things that you really really think are important, do five replies. It's okay, this isn't spamming. It just makes it easier for the next step:
  
  
• If you see someone else has a request and it's the same as yours, just reply to that request with a +1 as the subject line. Consider it a kind of informal voting; the more +1 replies a request gets, obviously the more important it is to the community.
  
  
• Feel free to suggest something that del.icio.us didn't do, but that you've seen elsewhere. Be sure to add a link to a screenshot or the app itself so the requirements-gatherers (me and my kind) can see your suggestion in action, if that's at all possible.
  
  
• If you want to volunteer, please do that as a separate reply just so it doesn't get lost in the requests. Just put "VOLUNTEER" as the subject line of your reply, followed by the specific task. Like, say, "VOLUNTEER: php coding" or "VOLUNTEER: user interface design" or whatever. If you want to volunteer for something & you see someone else already has, just reply to their post with your own -- this way, everyone with similar skills gets grouped together, and we'll (hopefully) keep the noise-to-signal ratio down a little.
  
  
• Link, share, pass along, signal-boost, whatever you like.

I'm not going to reply to every single post, just to keep the noise level down, but I may reply if I'm not sure what you mean, for clarification. (If you're also a BA, IA, or UX person, feel free to jump in wherever, as you think's needed. The more the merrier.) See first comment & reply if you're interested in the ongoing googledoc with requests to Pinboard. Feel free to extract & copy to this list, if there's a wish there that you'd want recorded here, as well.

Also, anonymous comments are NOT being screened, so be sure to sign your post if you're volunteering, so we can find you! (You do not have to sign your posts if you're just adding to the general requirements list.)

Be civil, help keep the threads organized for easy finding later... and dream big.

Comments

[bluevsgrey.livejournal.com]

I really would like the ability to label the purpose of a link group. For me it doesn't work right now because I see tags as a way to define and elaborate on the content of a link, where as this groups only the things I want without getting to specific.

IDK but my sequels tag has always bothered me and this seems a million times more intuitive.

[kaigou]

How about if you had a choice of labeling it (ie "epic fic, all parts") AND/OR typing it ("related content", "sequential content", etc). Doing one, the other, or both.

(I guess the default if you didn't like to label would be "untitled #1", "untitled #2", and so on..?)

[kaigou]

I think the first question is whether sticky posts would be considered links, themselves -- with tags, flags, and showing up in results (if public). Or would they be more like an informative profile-ey thing? -- in which case they'd be associated with the account you're viewing, and could be a link at the top (next to the name), like "view info" or "website" or something.

UPDATE: draft is up, but I'm still working on getting it into some kind of neater order -- it's at http://kaigou.dreamwidth.org/440976.html.

[kaigou]

So you're thinking something that's not a formal link (with tags, flags, etc) but is part of the user/community profile?

(see also my reply to bluevsgrey, below)

[drunkoffthestars]

yup! exactly! Not unlike the little field where delicious could display a homepage of you wanted. :D It seems like a much simpler way of marking the 'find me elsewhere' than going though the whole 'make it a link and then stickify it', which works and LJ doesn't offer any other options for keeping info displayed on your front page, but has always seemed ridiculously convoluted to me.

[drunkoffthestars]

I just wanted to update this a wee bit: I've been fussing around on Pinboard a bit and it does what I'm talking about.

EX: The tags 'duesouth' and 'dueSouth' are both pulled up when you look at the page http://pinboard.in/t:duesouth

Delicious also does it, I get 'duesouth' along with 'dueSouth' and 'DueSouth' http://delicious.com/tag/duesouth

So it's possible to do!

[drunkoffthestars]

Here is another list of ideas for a fan-oriented deliciousalike from paraka. I sort of feel like I'm using your journal as a repository for all the different projects that are wandering around, I'm sorry. But there are some pretty cool ideas, I think.

[kaigou]

I don't mind at all! Such ideas should have a repository somewhere, at least for everyone to reference, and I don't mind hosting it if it helps someone. Hell, I've heard rumors that even the owner/programmer of Pinboard's been checking out the discussions here, and if the suggestions here make his app better, too, then everyone wins.

I'm still working on compiling all the suggestions, plus what else I find in other places, so they make some kind of logical sense. I'll post those hopefully sometime tomorrow.

UPDATE: draft is up, but I'm still working on getting it into some kind of neater order -- it's at http://kaigou.dreamwidth.org/440976.html.

[deathjunke]

+1

Re: One current wishlist

[deathjunke]

+1 a fire fox add on for this would make everything so much easier

+1

[cimorene]

A great idea!

+1

[cimorene]

But either on separate pages or by filtering, not really a big deal as long as you can turn this part on and off

[kaigou]

That's what I figured, that you could pick at the top of the page, something like : "see all / private only / public only / network1 only / network2 only / etc " ... did I get that right?

Also, I've done a compiled post of everyone's requests, but I'm still working on getting it into some kind of neater order -- you can see the draft at http://kaigou.dreamwidth.org/440976.html.

[kaigou]

UPDATE: draft is up, but I'm still working on getting it into some kind of neater order -- it's at http://kaigou.dreamwidth.org/440976.html.

[kaigou]

UPDATE! compiled draft is up, but I'm still working on getting it into some kind of neater order -- it's at http://kaigou.dreamwidth.org/440976.html.

[kaigou]

UPDATE! compiled draft is up, but I'm still working on getting it into some kind of neater order -- it's at http://kaigou.dreamwidth.org/440976.html.

[kaigou]

UPDATE! compiled draft is up, but I'm still working on getting it into some kind of neater order -- it's at http://kaigou.dreamwidth.org/440976.html.

[kaigou]

UPDATE! compiled draft is up, but I'm still working on getting it into some kind of neater order -- it's at http://kaigou.dreamwidth.org/440976.html.

Volunteer: Ummm...gofer/dogsbody/lowly peon?

[37cats]

I don't know anything about anything as far as design/coding/what-have-you is concerned, but I'm willing to learn! Or just comment! Or provide moral support! Or anything else anyone can think of!

Just throwing that out there.