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Sort Official sets above Unofficial sets in the Buttons page #1510

Open edpegg opened 9 years ago

edpegg commented 9 years ago

Make the Buttons page sort the official sets above the unofficial sets, something like the following.

1999-2003 Rare /Promo, 2004 Origins, Balticon, Brawl, Bridge and Tunnel, Brom, Bruno, Button Brains, Buttonlords, Club Foglio, Demicon the 13th, Diceland, Dork Victory, Fairies, Fantasy, Fightball, Freaks, Geekz, High School Drama, Howling Wolf, Japanese Beetle, Legend of the Five Rings, Lunch Money, Majesty, Polycon, Presidential, Renaissance, Sailor Moon, Sailor Moon 2, Samurai, Sanctum, Save the Ogres, Sluggy Freelance, Soldiers, Metamorphers, Unexploded Cow, Vampyres, Yoyodyne

2000 ShoreCon, 2002 Anime Expo, 2005 Rare Promo, 7 deadly sins, Bar Mitzvah, Big Top, Blademasters, Blademasters: The Second Shot, Blademasters: Third Attack, Chicago Crew, Chicagoland Gamers Conclave, Classic Fanatics, Cowboy Bebop, Four Horsemen, Free Radicals, Gaming Guardians, Hodge Podge, Iron Chef, Japanese Beetle (unofficial), Las Vegas, MegaTokyo, Nodwick, SFR, Tenchi Muyo!, The Big Cheese, Victorian Horror, Wonderland, ZOECon

irilyth commented 9 years ago

Why? I think this would just make it harder to find things, relative to keeping them alphabetically.

Alternative proposal: The Buttons page should actually list buttons, not sets; there should be a button-sets.html page for button sets. And if we wanted to make button-sets-official.html and button-sets-unofficial.html pages to go along with it, hey, great. :^) (Or, a thing to click on that hides and shows official and unofficial sets?)

blackshadowshade commented 9 years ago

So, what do others think about this suggestion for sorting the Buttons page differently?

edpegg commented 9 years ago

Perhaps the CheapassGames sets first

Brawl, Brom, Diceland, Dork Victory, Fantasy, Freaks, Presidential, Samurai, Soldiers, Unexploded Cow, Vampyres

Then perhaps the more popular sets:

Big Cheese, Button Brains, Buttonlords, Lunch Money, Renaissance, Studio Foglio, Legend of the Five Rings, 7 Deadly Sins, Big Top, Hodge Podge, Victorian Horror, Wonderland

Alternately, in the drop down menus in History and other places, sort all the buttons alphabetically, rather than making us remember the ordering of the button sets.

irilyth commented 9 years ago

I still think it would be better to consistently sort things alphabetically -- the button sets on list of button sets, the buttons themselves on lists of buttons, etc.

jimmosk commented 9 years ago

I'm abstaining from the Buttons page question because I pretty much never use it. As for drop down menus, I think they should be sorted alphabetically only in cases (like on the Game Creation page) where there's first a menu letting you select one or more sets (or "All"), and then below that a drop down menu of the buttons in which only the buttons from those sets are listed. And I'm in favor of using that two-tier dropdown system everywhere, not just on Create Game.

irilyth commented 9 years ago

I like the idea of filters a lot; if, on the button sets page, you want to see only official sets, or only official sets and sets published at conventions, or whatever, it'd be great to be able to do that.

plongitudes commented 9 years ago

what about expanding on that tiered idea where your primary selection is a toggle between official and unofficial sets (or maybe a slightly larger set of groupings as mentioned previously like ['official','popular unofficial','other unofficial']? then you can choose the set from the resulting list, and then the buttons from that set, filtering down at each step. i know UI decrees that less clicks is better, but filtering is also good :)

just a thought.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:06 AM, irilyth notifications@github.com wrote:

I like the idea of filters a lot; if, on the button sets page, you want to see only official sets, or only official sets and sets published at conventions, or whatever, it'd be great to be able to do that.

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ManvilleFog commented 9 years ago

My two cents: I'd give the option of either alphabetic or in set-order according to the db. The db order is: official by year of release (though Las Vegas, Wonderland, Metamorphers, and Bar-Mitzvah are included in the official sets), followed by DHS sets (created specifically for the old site), followed by other unofficial sets, and ending with fanatics.

I think the list should be searchable. Also, I really need to start working on tags . . .