Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> 5. A "member of CONLANG since" field. Perhaps this needs to
> be a fill-in-yourself date drop box, unless the listserv
> keeps track of such things? And even then, some people may
> have originally subscribed under a lurking e-mail then
> switched to their primary e-mail later...
Hmm. Does anyone know if the listserver stores this kind of data? I do
have a 'joined' field for when you joined the 'Your Ugly Mug' page. But
clearly, that will be different. :). If the listserver doesn't have it,
we'll have to enter it manually (a memory test...I'm not sure when I
subscribed to the list). :)
> 6. A "next" button when viewing an individual profile that
> takes you to the next profile in your sorted order, so you
> don't have to go back to the list each time.
A nice idea in conjunction with the "optional sorts" suggested by Stone
Gordonssen.
> 7. Customizable number of profiles to view at a time.
Hmm. Good idea, especially for those of us that have big monitors. ;)
> 8. A "filter" option when browsing, similar in function to
> SourceForge's filtering for logged-in users.
I've not used Sourceforge's user filter...but I assume you mean browse "only
those that meet my criteria"? How would this differ from the results of the
search?
> 9. Customizable fields displayed in the Browse view.
Hm....You're wanting to be able to select which fields are displayed on the
list in the browse view?
> 10. Enlisting of the graphically talented among us to snazzy
> up the look.
Input on this would be welcome, as long as we keep an eye on making it
accessible in most browsers and on slow-links. It is, clearly, a trifle
bland. :)
> 11. Links to
>
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?S2=conlang&q=&s=&f=USER@DOMAIN
.DOM&a=&b=
> to list all of the person's posts on CONLANG.
Excellent idea. :)
> 12. The birthday field label could be shortened to just "Birthday:"
(instead of the current "Birthday (year-
> month-day):". Because the year is 4 digits and the month is spelled out,
there's no chance for confusion.
You are probably right...I changed the date format to an un-ambiguous one,
and couldn't decide whether to retain that. :)
>Nitpick: In the Browse view, it says "Browse all penpals." Looks like
that string was missed in the conversion >from penpal to conlanger database.
:). That is probably not the only place. I keep intending to grep for
penpal throughout all the files, but never remember when I'm working on it.
:)
>Also, as soon as the list of subscribers gets updated[1], "Asha'ille" is
>going to need some hand-editting to get rid of the backslash that will be
added to its apostrophe.
*nods*. I think I better make it a priority to fix it so it doesn't do
that. Clearly a common problem. :)
>I think many of our suggestions require a "login" feature. I have no idea
how much changing you'd have to do
>to accomodate that into YUMII. :)
Yes and no. A login feature would only be required if you wanted it to
remember how it was set between sessions, from any machine. The basic
implementation would simply be to have the option to set those parameters at
all.
To keep the information...hmm. It'd be more work, but possibly not much
more. Your 'personalized' settings could be saved in in your profile
record, and use your e-mail and password that you already have.
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Hmm. Lots and lots of suggestions and bugfixes. Counting those mentioned
by list-members, and some others I've spotted myself, I have 19 items on my
YUM[1]-Tasklist. :)
Iain
[1] There is so much potential for trouble with that acronym...:)