When you click on projects all you see is a gigantic list. The list can only be viewed 10 items at a time which is way to few (at this point I don't need to see everybody's gigantic project icon/pic/logo taking up most of my screen real estate).
Some of the drop down options are not something anybody would be interested in listing them by or are duplicated by others (e.g. popularity? most views? what is the difference between those two anyway). For example, is ordering by most views going to generate a significantly different ordering than sorting by last updated or popularity does? I mean all the older projects are likely to have more views than the any of the newer ones, so ordering by create date isn't going to be significantly different than ordering by most views. This isn't a major problem, frankly more options are better than fewer, but the ones you really need (which projects are "the best" and which are "not worth the effort", which are done which are still in progress) isn't there.
I think it would be great to have two ways to rate projects -- one similar to the NWVault's rating system (is it a good idea, do people like it, etc), and another where people could rate the "buggyness" or "stability" or "ease of setup" type things about the project. Or perhaps just a screen with two or three categories to rate that get computed into some overall rating (e.g. Design/Idea 1-10, Stability/Ease of Use 1-10, Something Else 1-10). For me it would be far more useful to be able to filter and sort on these kinds of peer judged criteria than by "most views" or a generic "popularity" based on what? How many members they have there making no progress? How long they've been making no progress? Another example, somebody makes a pixellated nudity project. Don't know how others feel about this but for me game nudity is pretty silly. Fun/funny to look at once, but not something worth adding to my game. It is however no doubt going to get tons of views simply due to the curiosity factor and people's unrealistic hollywierd brainwashing propaganda driven obsession with sexuality. So these mostly useless projects are going to show up prominant in a "most viewed" list. But if you are looking for useful stuff to add, you'll end up wading thru this crap because the criteria is based on curiosity rather than some substantive purpose. Maybe projects need a sex rating system similar to what hollywierd does to help with this particular issue (e.g. G, PG, PG13...XXX).
Would be nice to be able to filter out completely all those projects with fewer than X members.
Would be nice to be able to filter out completely all those projects that haven't had any activity at all for X days.
Abandoned projects clutter up the list enormously. Projects should be automatically disabled or destroyed if there is no activity in them for some threshold criteria length of time and they remain incomplete/never started.
Modifié par Axe_Murderer, 25 novembre 2009 - 06:35 .
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