đź“‹ Front/browse/search feedback thread

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago (Edited 1 year, 6 months ago) by admin

Feedback thread for the Front/Browse/Search page updates — the corresponding announcement and changelist is here!

🎯 Goals —

  • Reduce congestion in the character trade listings and search pages that was previously caused by a bunch of ads/non-characters being submitted to the site
  • Improve visibility on the top page for characters that are currently being pushed off by non-characters
  • Make it easier to find what you’re looking for when searching for characters/codes/resources/services/etc

📋 Seeking feedback for —

  • I wasn’t sure whether people would prefer having each character type separated out into a separate listing rather than everything just being types of character?
    • I opted to just add an optional filter since this seems more flexible in terms of search and customization (people seem to just be creating everything as a “Character” profile currently anyway, and a lot of the features are going to be the same), but let me know if this doesn’t feel good, or if anyone has suggestions regarding how to better structure the listings.
    • My original idea for the front page was to allow people to add an arbitrary number of blocks (eg. if you want to add a Popular Characters, Popular HTML/CSS, Popular Resources blocks separately), but the UI for the control panel started getting very long and confusing so I just scrapped the idea. I’ll probably be fiddling with this to see if there’s a way to do this that isn’t overwhelming for the average user.
  • Character categories:
    • These are currently “Character”, “HTML/CSS”, “Resource”, “Service/Ad” based on what we most commonly receive reports for, but this can be expanded or updated if we feel that this is missing anything or is too broad.
  • General UI/UX feedback:
    • If there’s anything confusing or if you have suggestions for how to improve any areas of the front/browse/search pages.
  • Extra features:
    • Are you someone who regularly uses the trade listings or front pages and feel like there are changes or extra features that could be added to make life easier for you?? Have ideas for how to help make the listings less frustrating and more accessible?? Let me know!!
  • Performance issues:
    • Is the site super laggy for you now??? If not site-wide, please do point out the specific pages that you’re having issues with.
  • Anything else related!! If you have any feedback for an unrelated feature, it may be better to submit a HelpDesk ticket rather than replying to this specific thread.

If you’re uncomfortable leaving feedback in public, please don’t hesitate to open a ticket via the HelpDesk. 

Thanks as always!

nightlustrous

Another suggestion; I'd love an additional category called Other!

I've found that profiles can be used for many other things that don't fall under the HTML/Resource/Ad categories, such as:

  • tag directories
  • personal or fandom-related AUs or stories
  • collections of fandom-related headcanons, fan-events for games you enjoy, and character concepts, ideas, or names
  • personal or fandom-related world-building
  • and other things
While I keep mine unlisted for personal reasons, I think it'd be great to have a way to categorize these as well!
restlessRenegade

I agree with @nightlustrous on the suggestion of an Other category! There are many things that would fit under that which don't fit into any of the other categories!

Huna18

Maybe sub categories for characters? Human, humanoid, feral, other, etc??  I love looking at cool human characters but they’re a little scattered!

And even codes? Separating HTML and CSS? Stuff like that, keeping it organized!

crumblecakez

i love this sm!!! i also agree with nightlustrous on the "other" option!

Skykristal

since the update rolled out I have a very huge gap when selecting a character/posting IC. I can not even scroll all the way down, something overlaps. just like the front page settings, this is also a modal. So I believe something got messed up in the process of making it

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Fehn

I wonder if it might be worth having a way to "report" incorrect listings, but something a little simpler than submitting a ticket to the helpdesk? just because helpdesk tickets have like a 30/70 chance of getting processed... ^^;

(unrelated, but it would be SO COOL to have a way to cancel helpdesk tickets ourselves for things that are no longer relevant.. I have tickets open from years ago that are completely irrelevant now)

CoolKaius

This is a fantastic development for the site as a whole! Thank you so much for listing to feedback ;u; You make me so proud to be a TH user!

DreamersArcadia

Can we please please have an option to organise links? I have a pretty popular thread here that I submitted in suggestions that still gets multiple upvotes frequently! https://toyhou.se/~forums/14.suggestions-bugs/95228.organise-links

MaryMaggotFace

Edit: it seems to be fixed now! Thanks for all the updates! 

Hi there! Tags don't seem to be working when searching for characters in the browse area anymore. Like the box isn't able to be typed into. 

admin
  • Update to the browse page
    • Previously:
      • The browse page would only use your front page settings if you clicked “Browse” from the front page (eg. it would just show default settings if you accessed the page from the navbar and you would have to change your settings every time)
    • Updated version:
      • The browse page now has it’s own configuration which you can save via the icon at the top right of the Browse page, and will remain permanently
      • These settings are separate from the front page and for each individual browse page (eg. feed, popular, recent)
      • This means that you’ll have to set your configurations for each browse page individually, but also means you can set different options for each page
      • Let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback, or if this feels awkward ^^
  • Update to front/browse page filters
    • It’s now possible to hide trade listings on both the front and browse pages
    • It’s now possible to show only trade listings
  • Mass manager:
    • Category updating has now been added to the mass manager, thanks for the suggestion! Pinky lonelysaturn nightlustrous Sorry to everyone who already did this for each individual profile 🙇
  • Bug fixes
    • You should now be able to search by hitting enter on the search page again
    • Tags will now search as expected even if not turned into a tag block
    • Search by price range should now be fixed, hopefully properly this time!! But let me know if there’s still any strange behaviours here
    • The weird bottom margin on the character selector should now be fixed
    • Search by most expensive / least expensive went missing in the update and has now been restored!

Thank you everyone for the feedback, am still sitting on the rest of the ideas to think about how we should approach this; particularly with the trade listings / category suggestions, we’ll likely wait a few days before making any changes.

On the fence about the idea of adding an “Other” category, primarily because I'm worried it may encourage spam, but if it’s a separated category I suppose there’s nothing stopping people from just filtering it 🤔

With regards to the trade listing options, it sounds like what we’d like is:

  • Separate “Trade” into “Trade (Character)” and “Trade (Art)”
  • Add a “F2E” option as a compromise between the Games/Contest and Freebie listings
    • I'm hoping that the option to hide trade listings completely from the browse pages will handle the complaints regarding F2E raffles (the main reason is because I don't want to make the control panel UI too complicated by adding an option to filter specific trade listings), but if we have a large number of people who'd like to specifically hide F2E raffles I can look into this as an option
If anyone has any other feedback related to this, just let me know ^^
Togo

thanks for adding the default browse settings - i think the separated menus work fine without cluttering anything! :D

Skykristal

thank you for the improvements!