what's on your wishlist?
28 Sep 2011 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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:
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.
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.
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Date: 29 Sep 2011 09:41 pm (UTC)(Obviously it would be necessary to be able to expand the results to display all bookmarks of that URL separately as well.)
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Date: 30 Sep 2011 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 30 Sep 2011 02:39 pm (UTC)Also I definitely think that the 'collapsed' view should show a counter displaying how many times each link has been bookmarked (new!delicious does this now).
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Date: 3 Oct 2011 04:30 am (UTC)(I prefer to avoid too much toggling whenever possible, because it means a lot of javascript that can slow down users on dial-up or older browsers. And if the same objective's reached by giving you the option when you start the search, then it's a kind of toggling but without the bandwidth-hog of adding yet another script -- since the script means it all must be loaded into the page, even if it's not visible to the user. So the "show only unique links" might also be a "speedy" kind of search, where you just get the barest results to suffice, and you can do a slower search when/if you have more time/bandwidth.)
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Date: 3 Oct 2011 05:20 pm (UTC)Alternately, I think you could also try having it as a user preference setting. I would never use that option, because I want to know ALL THE THINGS. But I think cimorene's point is well made, there are instances where it might be useful to some people.
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Date: 30 Sep 2011 04:09 pm (UTC)Off-topic, but:
Date: 30 Sep 2011 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 30 Sep 2011 10:12 pm (UTC)