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VGCollect Site Stuff => Site Feedback => Topic started by: insektmute on October 08, 2013, 10:12:26 pm
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One thing I'm sure I'm not alone in is that my wishlist has gotten pretty huge over time. So much so that I've found myself needing to keep a list of Most Wanted games, to keep them on my immediate radar and try to focus on those rather than getting distracted by sales and what's easily available new.
What about having a sort of sub-list option for us to keep track of the games in our wishlist that we want to prioritize above all others? Something where we can isolate those titles away from the main wishlist without outright removing them from it.
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Or maybe a way to designate the top 10 so they show up first in the wish list?
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Yeah, I think a way of denoting preference on the wish list is a good solution.... Maybe like a ranking system? Like 5 stars would be games you want the most or something like that....
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I do it myself personally. I edit my wishlist all the time to just show only a handful of items that are the most wanted for me.
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Um, Microsoft Word or Open Office?
Wishlists in general get too long for Word or OO to be practical. But a top 10 wishlist? That's easy.
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I think the point at hand here being discussed is more in reference to the fact that the wishlist feature on the site can get unwieldly for some.... I, for example, am looking for about 300 games or something probably, but there are about twenty that I REALLY want and take special care to scout for.... I think this was what OP was trying to reference....
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Yep, teck has the right of it. I use my overall wishlist just to keep it all straight, since it's easy to lose stuff (esp. imports) in the shuffle. I've done the spreadsheet thing, but I find I tend to lose track of those, or they just become excessive databases. When your list is a mash-up of domestic and import games across many different consoles though, it's easy to get distracted away from the stuff you'd like to push forward on the priority list.
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I think the point at hand here being discussed is more in reference to the fact that the wishlist feature on the site can get unwieldly for some.... I, for example, am looking for about 300 games or something probablt, but there are about twenty that I REALLY want and take special care to scout for.... I think this was what OP was trying to reference....
Oh yeah, I get that. That's why I said use the site for the unweildy 300 games list. And Microsoft Word for the small list of 20 most wanted games.
I don't know how hard it would be to add this option. But I'd imagine making a top 20 list on Microsoft Word that takes a minute and a half is a lot easier than adding a bunch of programming code to the website.
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I think the point at hand here being discussed is more in reference to the fact that the wishlist feature on the site can get unwieldly for some.... I, for example, am looking for about 300 games or something probably, but there are about twenty that I REALLY want and take special care to scout for.... I think this was what OP was trying to reference....
Oh yeah, I get that. That's why I said use the site for the unweildy 300 games list. And Microsoft Word for the small list of 20 most wanted games.
I don't know how hard it would be to add this option. But I'd imagine making a top 20 list on Microsoft Word that takes a minute and a half is a lot easier than adding a bunch of programming code to the website.
I pull the site up on my phone on the go a lot, as I'm sure others do as well.... I don't believe I have very much compatibility with .rtf files and the like.... I feel like promoting the site would be vastly easier with the more integrated support for specific collector features that are niche like this.... I mean, that's kind of the market that vgcollect natively appeals to anyways.... I dunno.... Regardless of how much use it gets, I can understand the demand for it even if I personally wouldn't use it.... Though, admittedly, I'd probably try it out....
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I actually use backloggery as my main wishlist and the wishlist here as my most wanted stuff (though there isn't anything on it right now). It isn't much of a solution to tell people to go to another website to make a separate wishlist, but for me personally, it works just fine. I especially like the "fortune cookie" feature which selects a game at random for me to buy.
Some sort of rating system could work for here though. Just like a box to tick that marks it as most wanted would be simple and efficient enough.
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Off-hand, I've tried 1UP, GameSpot, Backloggery, Listal, IGN, VGRebirth, Gametz, and spreadsheets for keeping track of everything... so far, apart from the occasional feature like this that I'd like to see, VGC has been by far the best of the lot.
I do still keep spreadsheets for keeping track of port differences and stuff, but those are still a bit of a mess. I have a habit of creating files, losing track of them, and creating new ones, only to wind up with like 6 different versions of things. One of these days, I need to sift through it all...
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I'm really meticulous about organizing and stylizing spreadsheets.... I have 3 separate multi-page spreadsheets for my comic book collecting alone, and managing that has proven to be an incredible time drain.... I don't think I could handle doing the same for video games to be honest.... I've never tried any of the other resources listed here though.... Backloggery seems to be a popular one however....
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It is possible that simply adding a priority to each Wish List item could solve this. It would have a default value so it'd be entirely optional. Thoughts?
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I rather like that idea. Would there be a simple way to resort the list so that the priority items could optionally be displayed at the top of the wishlist?
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I rather like that idea. Would there be a simple way to resort the list so that the priority items could optionally be displayed at the top of the wishlist?
That sounds cool. Amazon's wishlist has a priority setting where you can set your items as highest, high, medium, and low priorities. And there's an option to sort your list by priority, if you want to.
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Sounds like Amazon has it right. I think we could implement the exact same thing with sorting and everything. What do you guys think about the levels:
Highest - this one seems a bit unnecessary
High
Medium
Low
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I'd say High/Medium/Low is all we really need. Highest seems kinda redundant.
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Sounds like Amazon has it right. I think we could implement the exact same thing with sorting and everything. What do you guys think about the levels:
Highest - this one seems a bit unnecessary
High
Medium
Low
I like the Highest option on Amazon. It lets my wife know, when shopping for me for Christmas or a B-Day, what are the top 1 or 2 items on my list.
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I'd say High/Medium/Low is all we really need. Highest seems kinda redundant.
Yep, 100% agreed. Make this sort of thing too granular, and you wind up with the same problem you were trying to solve :D
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Sounds like Amazon has it right. I think we could implement the exact same thing with sorting and everything. What do you guys think about the levels:
Highest - this one seems a bit unnecessary
High
Medium
Low
That sounds like a good solution, yes....
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Update pushed out: http://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,4116.new.html
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Is there a way to change the priority of items already in your wish list? Or is it not working because I'm on an iPad?
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The edit button should work. Haven't tested any iDevices tho...
Oh and it doesn't seem to be updating the Item box until you refresh the page for now.
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I'm not getting an update on an edit even after I refresh.
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I'm not getting an update on an edit even after I refresh.
Scott - let's chat today and see if I can figure out why. It seems to be working on my end.
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I'm not getting an update on an edit even after I refresh.
I've always had that problem changing anything in edits.
If I refresh, it doesn't show up. If I leave the page, then come back, it doesn't show. It just takes time. Because when I look again the next day, the edits are there.
Kind of a pain in the butt when you're wanting to look back and see if you did it all right.
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I'm not getting an update on an edit even after I refresh.
I've always had that problem changing anything in edits.
If I refresh, it doesn't show up. If I leave the page, then come back, it doesn't show. It just takes time. Because when I look again the next day, the edits are there.
Kind of a pain in the butt when you're wanting to look back and see if you did it all right.
What browser are you using? Sounds like some aggressive caching is going on.
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Internet Explorer. My wife uses Firefox, so she has all her favorites and sign-in settings all set-up on there. So I just use IE because I want all my sign-ins and settings and stuff to not be messed with.
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Is there a way to re-organize our wishlist with those with priority on top of the list?
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Internet Explorer. My wife uses Firefox, so she has all her favorites and sign-in settings all set-up on there. So I just use IE because I want all my sign-ins and settings and stuff to not be messed with.
I figured IE would be the culprit. I always run into cache issues with it. I'll do some better testing with it later tonight. BTW - Chrome has a fantastic multi-user mode that my girlfriend and I use. It keeps everything separate and even still syncs with our phones and tablet.
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Is there a way to re-organize our wishlist with those with priority on top of the list?
Not yet - but there will be soon.
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Is there a way to sort your wishlist by priority? I don't see any way to sort it other than the default alphabetical. ???
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Is there a way to sort your wishlist by priority? I don't see any way to sort it other than the default alphabetical. ???
ha check the two replies directly above yours. Or to save you time - not yet. :)
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Ok Updates work on my end now. Thanks for figuring it out without me.
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Ok Updates work on my end now. Thanks for figuring it out without me.
ha and I changed nothing. Must have be a cache issue. I'll have to start marking versions in our javascript files. Those are usually the problem.
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Just added the sort feature. You can now sort the Wish List by pages or by priority.
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Just added the sort feature. You can now sort the Wish List by pages or by priority.
8)
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Hooray!
The sort order is kind of odd, though. It does it by priority, but ignores alphanumeric ordering.
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Hooray!
The sort order is kind of odd, though. It does it by priority, but ignores alphanumeric ordering.
Alphanumeric would be great, within priority.
But Amazon does the same thing. It goes by what you added last, within priority.
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Updated. It'll sort by Priority and then Alpha within each Priority.
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Updated. It'll sort by Priority and then Alpha within each Priority.
You are amazing!
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Matt, you are coding like a freakin' boss lately, thank you!
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Matt, you are coding like a freakin' boss lately, thank you!
Indeed.... Must have built up a hearty desire to bust out some work after all that time off for IRL stuff....
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So there's a bug with the last alpanumber-priority wishlist update.
While I was looking through my wishlist and updating things, I had it in "Priorty" sort for my wishlist.
I started to look at just my NES games, and decided to go back to alphanumeric for that task. After I sort it to alphanumeric, it goes to my entire wishlist again. But when I then try to select just NES games, it then returns to Priority sort and I can't get it to go back to alphanumeric.
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Actually, the more I play with it, once I put it in priority sort, I can't get my wishlist to go back to alphanumeric at all.
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Actually, the more I play with it, once I put it in priority sort, I can't get my wishlist to go back to alphanumeric at all.
Wow you are right. I suck at testing. I'm on the case. Expect an update later tonight.
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Actually, the more I play with it, once I put it in priority sort, I can't get my wishlist to go back to alphanumeric at all.
Wow you are right. I suck at testing. I'm on the case. Expect an update later tonight.
Ha ha.... Don't worry about it too much, you've come back full force at 200%.... You're bound to miss a thing or two at the rate you've been powering through stuff....