Lists: various suggestions

[bibliothecary]

Description of your request or bug report:

Suggestions, observations, possible bugs etc. taken from Lists discussion regarding the lists feature that don’t warrant their own PR thread (or I’m unsure of how useful they’d be).

@bibliothecary

• More filters could be useful, such as Book/Video Type (and maybe include something similar to the level tags box in the list editor for types?) - perhaps a ‘mixed media’ option, too.
• It would be useful if users could sort list items by star rating (average or creator’s), level, popularity, etc. Although the creator/collabs may have items ordered a certain way, it would be nice to be able to sort them in a way the viewer would find most helpful.
• It might be useful to allow adding new items using the Natively URL - maybe I’m just used to linking on the forums or adding new items, but I did accidentally try to do that a few times… (although maybe it’s not necessary since you can add from the page now)

@bibliothecary

• Would it be possible to implement a “read more” cut off for the list description?
• Is there a character limit for the list description?

@bibliothecary

It would be nice if there were options to easily see the following on the lists page :

• my lists (creator or collaborator)
• my created lists (public & private)
• my public lists
• my private lists
• my saved lists

@bibliothecary

I notice that using markdown messes up spacing in the list description:

Further to this, the method of bolding produces different looks depending on whether you use asterisks (Viz Media in the example below) or <b> (the word ‘bold’)…

Trello link:

[eefara]

Apologies for any duplicate suggetions.

@eefara

Looking at the Japanese lists, we’re up to 47 with no signs of slowing down. I was thinking more ways to filter lists would be appreciated; an easy one could be filtering lists by the type of media in them; i.e. you select the non-fiction checkbox to only see lists that contain non-fiction books (or click the box again to prevent any lists with non-fiction from showing):

Might also be nice to be able to designate a list a “book club” list (i.e., one that only lists either book club candidates or winners) so that users can filter to see only book club lists or none at all.

Being able to filter by which lists contain at least one Free book could be nice, especially if you wanted to sample from a couple of different ones but were on a budget.

Dunno how useful it would be, but being able to sort alphabetically by list title and number of list items (ascending and descending, of course) also feel like solid options.

[暁のルナ]

@bibliothecary

I notice that using markdown messes up spacing in the list description:

Side note: That’s HTML btw, not markdown. Markdown would use asterisks and underlines (and oddly doesn’t seem to do bold + underline at once, tho bold + italic is possible).

@bibliothecary

Further to this, the method of bolding produces different looks depending on whether you use asterisks (Viz Media in the example below) or <b> (the word ‘bold’)…

Might be a result of being in list description vs item description

[Jyinra]

I think it’ll be cool to have a feature to follow the list or bookmarking a list so you can have to go searching for it every time.

[eefara]

You can a list; could make that another filter if it hasn’t been suggested already.

[bibliothecary]

Further to eefara’s point, you can view your created and saved lists by going to the list tab on your profile: https://learnnatively.com/user/Jyinra/kor/lists/

It would be handy to be able to see them from the lists page, though.

[Jyinra]

Oh, I never knew that. Thanks for telling me.