Posted: 5/13/2012 2:16 PM
Post subject: Suggestion: line break in GameResources list
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Here is a small suggestion. In the current subpage module, the page delimiter is a comma followed by a space. You can see how this looks currently at the GameResources page: http://tasvideos.org/GameResources.html In my opinion, it is pretty cluttered and hard to find what you want. My suggestion is to change the page delimiter to a line break instead. Ilari was kind enough to make a test of what it would look like if that was implemented. Link to huge screenshot: http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/9872/gameresourceslinebreaks.png What do you think, is this better?
Posted: 5/13/2012 2:23 PM
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This suggested view is awesome, I always had problems with the current one.
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Posted: 5/13/2012 3:36 PM
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It looks better, though it may be a problem for some people once more game pages are added.
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Posted: 5/13/2012 4:04 PM
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I think the line breaks version looks better as well. Sort of off topic but currently all of the runs I have submitted do not have game resources pages. Should I post my information I have about the games I have done on there even if for most it will just be the RAM addresses and one or so tricks?
Posted: 5/14/2012 5:20 AM
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goofydylan8 wrote:
Should I post my information I have about the games I have done on there even if for most it will just be the RAM addresses and one or so tricks?
Yes, create pages for those (you should be able to edit GameResources). See: Wiki: EditorGuidelines Wiki: TextFormattingRules
Posted: 5/14/2012 5:23 AM
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That looks great! I agree that this should replace the current Game Resources section.
Posted: 5/14/2012 5:26 AM
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…I don’t see the point the line break just makes the page unnecessarily long, and it can only get worse as more games are added
Posted: 5/14/2012 6:30 AM
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ALAKTORN wrote:
…I don’t see the point the line break just makes the page unnecessarily long, and it can only get worse as more games are added
We could perhaps add something even more fancy, such as collapsible menus. It's the same issue that we also have on the movie page, come to think of it: The more entries we get, the longer it takes to find an individual one. We could potentially apply the site's movie-serving algorithm to the Game Resources page as well, if that is not too much effort. A simple filtering mechanism would also go a long way in finding the game resources page you need.
Posted: 5/14/2012 1:13 PM
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I don't really mind how it is now, but if it were changed, i'd rather see tabs then just listing them out one after the other.
Posted: 5/14/2012 5:05 PM
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ALAKTORN wrote:
…I don’t see the point the line break just makes the page unnecessarily long, and it can only get worse as more games are added
The point is readability, as I wrote. I'd rather have a long easily read page than a short cramped page. I can understand that other people have different opinions on this, which is why I posted the topic.
Posted: 5/14/2012 5:37 PM
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I'm inclined to agree with Truncated. One line per game is easier to read than mashing everything together. Of course, functionally people are most likely to be using their browsers' search functionality to find a specific game on the page. Even then though I think that it'll be easier to find and click on the search result when there's one game per line.
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Posted: 5/14/2012 8:38 PM
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Derakon wrote:
Of course, functionally people are most likely to be using their browsers' search functionality to find a specific game on the page.
I never even considered something outside of that. if you know what you’re looking for, why would you not just type it out? I thought this was for readability when you don’t know whether a game is present or not and are unsure of spelling, but alphabetical ordering makes it easy to find no matter the format of listing, be it CSV or with a line break… I really don’t see the point