Re: what does the forum need?
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:20 am
there is not currently. good idea, but I'm not really sure how to do this...Pyper wrote:Is there a way to search the forum for posts with attachments?
A community for video game crafters.
http://spritestitch.com/forum/
there is not currently. good idea, but I'm not really sure how to do this...Pyper wrote:Is there a way to search the forum for posts with attachments?
there is likely no easy way to do this. I know a bit about how search functions work and while it is possible I don't think it would be worth it. Turning on Boolean search and editing the stop words list are easy to do and would help a lot but I don't know how much control you have over it. it depends a lot on the software....johloh wrote:there is not currently. good idea, but I'm not really sure how to do this...Pyper wrote:Is there a way to search the forum for posts with attachments?
I had recently looked into this actually. I think the pattern wiki might not be the best way of doing patterns. Does anyone know of any free database makers out there we could try?kuja.girl wrote:there is likely no easy way to do this. I know a bit about how search functions work and while it is possible I don't think it would be worth it. Turning on Boolean search and editing the stop words list are easy to do and would help a lot but I don't know how much control you have over it. it depends a lot on the software....johloh wrote:there is not currently. good idea, but I'm not really sure how to do this...Pyper wrote:Is there a way to search the forum for posts with attachments?
Trust me, you do not want to set up a database for this. Getting a database set up is time consuming and complicated. You would also have to have some way for the database to communicate with a website - also time consuming and complicated. I'm not saying it can't be done - I've helped build and edit similar projects - I just don't think it's a good solution given that we only have what, a few hundred patterns at most?Lord Libidan wrote:I had recently looked into this actually. I think the pattern wiki might not be the best way of doing patterns. Does anyone know of any free database makers out there we could try?
I dunno, I'm quite interested in our ideas... What were you thinking?kuja.girl wrote:Trust me, you do not want to set up a database for this. Getting a database set up is time consuming and complicated. You would also have to have some way for the database to communicate with a website - also time consuming and complicated. I'm not saying it can't be done - I've helped build and edit similar projects - I just don't think it's a good solution given that we only have what, a few hundred patterns at most?Lord Libidan wrote:I had recently looked into this actually. I think the pattern wiki might not be the best way of doing patterns. Does anyone know of any free database makers out there we could try?
Frankly something like delicious.com might be better since it lets you both organize and tag each bookmark. It's not perfect but I think it would be a more "complete" way to organize the patterns. Let me know if you have any other questions about this - I have a couple of other ideas but I didn't want to bore everyone
(I found out that getting a degree in library and info science means you like organizing information but it also tends to be confusing or boring to a lot of people lol)
We have a Pintrest board -just one at the moment - where you referring to that? If you have ideas about it, or want to help me currate it please use the thread here.Aridesh wrote:With Pinterest, there's nothing preventing a person from putting the same pin in two different boards. So, for items that fall under multiple categories, the pin could just be repined into another board. Not saying that we should or shouldn't use Pinterest, just suggesting a way that it could work. :nod