What should IFDB work on next?

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There are a lot of bugs in IFDB’s bug tracker. https://github.com/iftechfoundation/ifdb-suggestion-tracker/issues

And it seems like there’s a lot of enthusiasm for combing through IFDB and tagging stuff.

I’m not sure if we want a poll/vote or whatever, but if folks were interested in helping us figure out how to prioritize work, that’d be helpful. (A good starting point would be for folks to link here to a few of your top-priority issues!)

For example, in the tagging thread, I wrote this.

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There are two different entries for A Player’s Heart by Melissa Scott:
1, 2.

Perhaps there are other such duplicates.

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Good catch! When you see cases like that, you can click the “Delete This Game” link at the bottom of the page.

That will take you to a form where you can explain why it should be deleted. In this case, you’d check the box saying it’s a duplicate, and you’d paste in the link to the other entry.

IFDB moderators can then merge the two entries (copying reviews, tags, etc. from one listing to the other).

I’ve already taken the liberty of merging the two entries you reported.

To find cases like this in general, IFDB could implement some sort of duplicate detector, which is filed in the “accurate data” category of IFDB bugs.

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Getting a tag wrangling team set up would be a priority for me, as that would help with several of the tag-related issues (and I’d be happy to be on such a team!). I’d be in favor of letting those people both remove tags from games and delete tags completely. Also echoing Encorm re: tag suggestions. Basically, getting some systems in place so that tagging can be improved going forward, even if every tagging issue isn’t addressed right now.

Just looked through all of these; the one I personally care most about in the first category is #496 (automatically mark reviewed/rated games as played), and in the latter, #333 (easier adding of off-site reviews).

I like the general idea of #332 and #340, but since some people copy over their forum reviews to IFDB, this would end up duplicating reviews… (i.e., there might be an IFDB review of a game by someone and also an offsite link to the same review posted on the forum or elsewhere). That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, but doesn’t seem ideal, either.

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Still would like to see deceased or otherwise uninvolved authors of prose source materials not credited alongside the people who did the Actual Game Programmin’. Split "author" into a table of credits · Issue #31 · iftechfoundation/ifdb-suggestion-tracker · GitHub