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Post by Wrangler Dash on Oct 8, 2012 21:39:11 GMT
The AO3's official list of feature requests: trello.com/board/feature-requests/4f0cd935f97f91cf29246288Check out the different categories. Any favorites? Any proposed ones that you don't like? Of the things that have been approved, any you wish could be fast-tracked? Any in the rejected pile that you wish could be revived? |
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Post by nonniesock on Oct 8, 2012 22:50:36 GMT
A lot of the things that would be on my wishlist seem to fall into the area of subcategories, which someone said in one of the other threads is something that is unlikely to happen on AO3.
But as I've said before, distinct categories for different types of fanworks (fic, art, meta, etc.) Crossovers and fusions clearly marked. The request at trello is about filtering crossovers out, but I want to be able to find them easily, and as a lot of people seem to not bother adding a freeform crossover tag, if they list multiple fandoms, at the moment it's not possible to find them easily if they don't have that tag.
Pairings and characters divided into primary and secondary would be awesome, that way when you're looking for rare characters or pairings you don't end up with a multitude of fics about the most popular pairings and characters where your favourites get a two line mention.
A way to sort and filter your history would be wonderful, as it would make finding a fic you remembered reading so much easier.
I like the idea of a list similar to history, which shows all your comments and kudos.
From the rejected list, the ability to kudos chapters, it could be a second button, giving people the option to kudos the whole work or an individual chapter. with the whole work kudos count displaying on the work's main entry and the chapter kudos count on each individual chapter.
And the ability to adjust the number of works displayed on a page, that would make browsing through fandoms so mch easier.
And my pie in the sky wish for freeform tags. I get that the archive isn't going to restrict freeform, as they've chosen to prioritise the writer's choice to tag with anything they like. But what if the way the freeform tags were displayed could be changed. With all wrangled tags appearing first in the list (like angst, fluff, D/s etc.) with the unwrangled tags (like I wrote this while drunk, all the feels etc.) appeared at the end of the list. That would make it easier for readers to find the kind of tags that apply to content, while still giving writers freedom to add any tag they want.
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Post by an0n on Oct 9, 2012 3:26:03 GMT
The one I want the most is already on the rejected list, alas. I'd really, really like an option to turn off comments and kudos. I already post fic to my LJ with the comments turned off - anxiety issues - and it's frustrating that I can't do the same for AO3. Comments are not so bad because I can at least delete them, but kudos sit there forever and there isn't even an option to hide them like there is with the hit count. It's mostly frustrating because the official seems to be they want to keep kudos for the benefit of people with social anxiety. Hah.  |
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Post by samjohnsson on Oct 10, 2012 14:46:33 GMT
As a reminder for anyone who doesn't want to create an account on Trello to vote there, you can send Support an anonymous ticket (by removing any email in the field) and they'll make sure your vote is counted. And the coders do review and pull things off the Rejected pile - it's one of the reasons those cards are still there! |
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Post by an anon on Oct 10, 2012 19:31:12 GMT
Listed on there:
A way to filter out crossovers
Categories for media of fanwork (fiction, art, video, etc)
Private Messaging
Ignoring of articles (the) in listings
A way to keep tags not belonging to a fandom from the filters (THIS.)
Primary/Secondary Characters and pairings (very hard to implement well, I think)
Persistent user search preferences
I've seen some Ao3 people say that the real problem is not freeform tags or whatever, but searching and filtering. Not sure how true this is, but even with the current system, filtering could stand to be improved a lot and the tagging system makes that more complex. I think the filtering system should have some alterations, with user input.
Not sure if listed there:
Sort fandoms in a category by popularity (as it is on ff.net)
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Post by nonniesock on Oct 10, 2012 19:59:33 GMT
Sort fandoms in a category by popularity (as it is on ff.net) I don't use ff.net much, but as far as I can see they have "reviews, favourites & follows" as sort options, is that what you mean by popularity? AO3 lets you sort by hits or bookmarks, which give some indication of popularity, but another option would perhaps to be adding sort by comments and/or subscriptions. |
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Post by JustSoxes on Oct 10, 2012 20:36:52 GMT
I'd like to have the blurbs like less space and to have more per page. Scrolling takes so long, there's so much information I don't read and then I have to switch pages for the next 20 or so.
I don't read fic with more than two lines of tags or no summary or a novel for a summary or only telling me where to find the prompt the story was written for but not what it's about.
Same goes for feeds, too long.
And I'd like the kudos email header to say how many kudos it has. I already missed kudos I got, because I don't expect more than one in an email and it looks very similar to the rest of the info text at the end of the email.
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Post by an anon on Oct 11, 2012 0:42:55 GMT
Replying to Nonniesock:
No, what I mean is like, on ff.net you see the category "TV Shows"
You click on it and are taken to a listing of TV show fandoms. You can either view them by alpha order or sort them by # of fics (sorry, should have been more precise).
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Post by nonniesock on Oct 11, 2012 2:28:53 GMT
No, what I mean is like, on ff.net you see the category "TV Shows Oh, like the fandoms with the most fic show up at the top of the list. That's actually kind of cool, i didn't realise you could do that. Usually if i go to ff.net, i'm looking for a specific fandom, so i've never searched that way. It would be a good idea to be able to filter the various categories that way, so you could see at a glance which fandoms had lots of fic. |
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Post by guest on Oct 11, 2012 6:08:07 GMT
I'd like to have the blurbs like less space and to have more per page. Scrolling takes so long, there's so much information I don't read and then I have to switch pages for the next 20 or so. They have skins that change what is displayed. |
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Post by samjohnsson on Oct 11, 2012 13:32:01 GMT
I'd like to have the blurbs like less space and to have more per page. Scrolling takes so long, there's so much information I don't read and then I have to switch pages for the next 20 or so. They have skins that change what is displayed. Agreed - everything set of items in the blurb is within a .classed LI, so you can knock it out with a skin using the property {display: none;}. From what I've heard lurking about, "20" is due to the Rails app and the hardware the Archive is running on, and performance massively changes if that number goes up. Feeds, though, pull the same information as the whole blurb. I for one prefer to have an idea of what I'm getting into before I click. And short of cranking the character count way down, I'm not sure there's a way to limit the length of summaries. |
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Post by foxinthestars on Oct 11, 2012 15:07:24 GMT
Discussed among wranglers lately, but something I'd really like is a kind of "accepted alternate versions" of a tag that would work like syns but show up in autocompletes and such. For example, with translated tags, I agree with the region-neutral philosophy of "original name | translated name", but users might not always want to use it, and having commonly-used versions separately show up in autocomplete would help users avoid typos or creating extraneous synonyms. My experience with anime/manga is also that if, for example, people see something first in fansubs, they can get very attached to renderings of series titles, characters' names, etc. that are different from the official translation or the standard transliteration rules --- ie, more than one rendering can be common usage in a fandom, and it would be good to build in some acknowledgement of that.
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Post by JustSoxes on Oct 12, 2012 14:18:46 GMT
I'd like to have the blurbs like less space and to have more per page. Scrolling takes so long, there's so much information I don't read and then I have to switch pages for the next 20 or so. They have skins that change what is displayed. Skins are all or nothing and only available when logged in. I'm not interested in each and every assine side fandom, character, pairing or additional tag an author gets the jollies from just tagging, I want the main ones. There's not reason to have the character count for summaries cranked so high. FFN's is too short, AO3's is too long and also for too much formatting. |
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Post by misssockysock on Jan 6, 2013 3:16:30 GMT
I very much would like a way to block particular users (and fast-tracked ASAP). Currently I'm being trolled by someone. I did send an abuse ticket, but until the abuse ticket's solved, the person can still comment on my story. With an instant block feature, I won't have to worry about that troll.
I don't know how that would work against people that aren't logged in, but for those who are, it would be such a relief for me.
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Post by samjohnsson on Jan 7, 2013 19:53:57 GMT
::slides his foot over to rest it on his official hat::
@misssockysock - added your vote for a blacklist to the feature request board. I'm pretty sure there's no one working on it, and there's been concerns about the overhead effect on the servers to implement it, so no promises on if it'll get implemented.
::kicks his official hat away again::
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