The Glowfic Constellation

[pedromvilar]

Yeah had the same thing happen to me when i was on page two of tags owed

[Anya]

So I'm not sure if this has been requested before, but I'd really like extra fields to put in additional faceclaims for one template instance? So instead of typing "Garrett Hedlund and Iain de Caestecker" and it showing up on the faceclaim page like that, they show up individually?

[Unbitwise]

Vaguely related: wouldn't it make sense to attach the facecast info to galleries instead of characters? For input, not display, I mean.

[Kappa]

It would make some amount of sense to attach facecast info to galleries instead of characters, but there might be cases where somebody wants a multi-facecast gallery, and there's certainly already cases where somebody has a gallery with no facecasts in it. Not sure which way ultimately makes more intuitive sense to me, but for now I think 'yes, extendable number of facecasts on a character makes some amount of sense'.

edit: Also, I often attach facecasts to characters who don't have any icons and probably won't for a while, because I know who their facecast would be, and I'd find it a little inconvenient to have to use empty galleries for that.

[Moriwen]

Request of the day:

In the character picker, if I search for a string which is not in the name of a character but is in the name of their template, I'd want the character to be displayed as a possible result. (For instance, if I type in Z-A-R, I'd want to see any character who had that in their name or screenname, and any instance of the Zari template, including e.g. Satira.)

This is another that might be antihelpful for some people, depending on their searching behavior, though; so maybe not, IDK.

[Timepoof]

Toggly box please if this happens.

[Unbitwise]

I previously not-entirely-seriously suggested an option to hide unread threads until they have a minimum number of replies.

It has now occurred to me that a boring-er way to get something of the same effect would be to allow the unread list to be sorted (descending) by number of unread replies.

[Throne3d]

This was already suggested about the same time, if I recall. And a few other times. And for a few other things. It's a pending issue and I think we're vaguely planning on doing the large-scale change together instead of bothering to add all the smaller sort-bys.

[jalapeno_dude]

(Yay sorting and filtering!)

Have you and Marri considered doing something like release roadmaps? Would be nice to know what the short/medium/long-term plans are for adding features.

[Marri]

This came up not too too long ago I think? Sooo I am in fact very good at roadmaps. Because they make me do them at work now instead of code, which is why I started coding on the Constellation instead xD So I have leaned more towards handwaving at the Issues page and then just writing the things. And obviously my schedule for Constellation is significantly less stable than a schedule at work. But quick attempt:

Short term, we're tight on memory again, probably as people's icon/character/etc lists grow. I'd like to go through and paginate-or-similar a bunch of pages, but would love input from people on how to do that without reducing functionality. (I've pinged a few people directly but feel free to chime in here.) It's also likely important to get the daily report off Throne's scraper entirely and onto the Constellation for good, cause his scraper pulls a lot of things at once.

Medium term: I just merged a large refactor of Tags (which are now called Labels). As far as you all can tell, the only thing that has changed is that they are now called labels; as far as the backend is concerned, it's now much easier to do things like "attach settings to characters" or "make a new thing called Canon" or whatever. So probably next step is to make a character's setting tie into the post setting system properly, and/or have the option to specify a "canon" separate from a "setting". (This seems overlappy in some potentially weird ways and is also open to input.) This ideally involves a bunch more refactoring of the tag system; it's kinda hacked together right now to handle adding new tags in the same field as existing ones. We also need to upgrade to Rails 4 sooner rather than later.

Longer term: I want release notes to be posted on the Constellation, not here; I want to finish a duplicate protection feature and a retire character feature that were requested by donors; I want a better search feature and a better post browsing/sorting/filtering/etc feature but those both kinda stall in my head on design.

Longest term: Well, the issues list exists? Things that pop into my head immediately include a proper moderation system, the post authors thing Throne's been designing which is the architecture behind various other things we want, character groups (this builds on the tag refactor too!), notifications built around favorites, a even slightly improved mobile UI, more view tests, a post-splitting feature, RTF editor properly on text inputs, improving edit/delete/etc for icons you uploaded rather than linked to, showing a post in Unread if the status (complete/abandoned/etc) has changed, and including a proper intro section.

More things may occur to me later? This is subject to change? But hopefully helpful!