New Front Page Idea

  • Solace
    8th Apr 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    Basically, my new idea for the front page is probably one of my best ideas for this site. 

     

    We all know that the front page has choices you can click on and see creations stemming from the choices. From what I see, some of them are repeats of another. Bomb and Nuke and Explosion and Explosive. Those can be forced into one choice. Call it Explosive and be done with it. That's one choice. 

     

    All I wish to see are the choices we can click on. We know the "by date" and "by votes" options are available, so if you have it so the choices are the only things on the front page, you can click on one of them and voila, you see all the creations that correspond to the specific choice. Then you cn click on "by votes" or on "by date" to see the newest or the best of them. Have those pages update on the daily or weekly like they always do. 

     

    Now you may ask how we see the works on their specific choice pages. That's quite easy to do. When we all post a creation, we don't specifically say what type it is. We never have an option to click on something saying that our creation is an explosive, a nuclear reacot, or an electronic. Some saves can be multiple choices. Some bombs are electronic and spark. Nuclear and Realistic. Etc. 

     

    All in all, this idea will hopefully make it easier to search what type of save you enjoy the most without having to type it out in the front panel. It also makes it easier to store saves in the right field without having to do it by hand. 

     

    Hell, with this idea, you can also now have a search bar for users that is separate from saves. A saves search bar allows you to either type in the save ID or the save name. The creator search bar allows you to search a creator without going through the hassle of typing "user:"

     

    Hope you like my idea. 

  • jacksonmj
    8th Apr 2016 Developer 0 Permalink

    Those choice things are known as tags, which anyone can add to a save even if it isn't theirs - click the big long box halfway along the bottom of the TPT game window when you have a save open.

     

    Tags are whatever random words people type in. There is no predefined list of valid tags (although when we find an offensive or gibberish one we can block it from being used), which is why there are tens of thousands of different tags, including some with similar meanings. The tags listed on the front page are the most popular ones.

     

    Perhaps there needs to be a textbox for tags, with some suggestions of widely used tags, when you publish a save. At the moment adding tags is something you can only do after publishing a save, not as part of publishing it, and there is nothing to remind you to do so.

    Edited 2 times by jacksonmj. Last: 8th Apr 2016