The conversation around tagging and tag-related features is moving kinda fast. I’m available to do work on IFDB, but my availability is always limited for volunteer work.
It’s not totally clear to me what we want and what’s high/low priority:
- Allow anyone to delete tags
- Or maybe just “Trusted” users, e.g. appointed “tag wranglers”
- … and track tag changes in history (tags are currently not tracked in history at all)
- A way for someone to delete all instances of a particular tag. (Me, personally? Any admin? “Trusted” users?)
- An easy way for someone to tag all games with a certain tag with another similar tag, e.g. tagging all the games tagged “3d graphics” with “3D.” (It’s already possible for anyone who can write code to use IFDB’s API to search by tag and tag games. But that’s hardly “easy.”)
- Maybe all we need is a way to define “synonymous tags,” like @HAL9000 suggested. (And maybe just admins would do it…? Or “Trusted” tag wranglers…??)
- View tags in a list instead of a cloud.
- Tag suggestions.
- EDIT: Links between related tags
My overall feeling is that none of this will directly impact most people’s experience of IFDB very much, unless/until @otistdog can be convinced to share any code for his Magic 8-ball “similar games” algorithm.
Specifically, I’m quite concerned that TagFest will come and go, and IFDB will have nicer, cleaner tags, but nobody will really notice, because they won’t actually be used to find similar games or provide automated recommendations.
As he keeps saying:
I don’t think this can be considered anything other than an amusement.
Is tagging stuff more important or less important than home page stuff?
- Separate feeds for games and reviews · Issue #461 · iftechfoundation/ifdb-suggestion-tracker · GitHub
- Include "Games for Beginners" on the home page "New to IF?" section · Issue #464 · iftechfoundation/ifdb-suggestion-tracker · GitHub
- Link to underreviewed games on the home page · Issue #465 · iftechfoundation/ifdb-suggestion-tracker · GitHub
- Hot Reviewers: Top reviewers in the last N weeks/months · Issue #103 · iftechfoundation/ifdb-suggestion-tracker · GitHub
Or what about:
- Data accuracy issues?
- Improvements to moderation tools? (We still have no log of what actions admins/moderators take on IFDB, and it might be quite a bit of work to implement that…)
- Or reviews?
- Why do we even have an IFComp review spreadsheet? Couldn’t IFDB do all that for you…?
- Or at the very least have an easy way to auto-ingest the entire spreadsheet when the comp is over, so all those reviews show up as “external reviews” in IFDB…?
- At the very least you should be able to rate a game directly from the search results page, and/or mark games as played/wishlisted, so you can quickly improve the results on the “new to you” search (
played:no willplay:no wontplay:no reviewed:no rated:no)
So, uh, yeah, we’ve got a lot of stuff to work on, and contributions are welcome. I just found out that it’s easier than ever to get started, using Github Codespaces!