User:Lobloblob

Hello. We have some suggestions for how to improve lists of bests. These suggestions fall into two primary categories. The first category is critical improvements that need to be made to the site for it to be useable. The second category covers new ideas that we have come up with that could improve the site in the future.

Things that need fixing

 * 1) When you search for an item, you have to search a minimum of twice before it finds anything. Sometimes many more times.


 * 1) Rails application error appears increasingly often


 * 1) If you tick an item, the website insists that you have seen other items with the same name. For instance, having ticked Giant Steps by John Coltrane, the website insists I have heard the Boo Radleys album of the same name, and will NOT let me untick it.


 * 1) Conversely, multiple editions of the same item are usually not ticked automatically, and thus users are forced to manually tick every edition of an item to ensure it is ticked on all relevant lists.


 * 1) It's now not possible to untick an item on listsofbests. To untick an item you have to find its relevant page on allconsuming and do it there

Suggestions to improve the site

 * 1) When you look at an item's page, it only shows you the first 5 lists that the item is on. There's no way to see what else it's on. There is however an (in our opinion far less necessary) option to see every single registered user that has consumed the item. (It should be noted this option doesn't work either).


 * 1) An algorithmic list for each category (books, films, music) that shows you all items in order of "tickweight", or how many lists of bests the item appears on. This would work in the same way that websites such as Metacritic do.


 * 1) A way to rank users on who has consumed the most of a given list.


 * 1) Comparing users - ie. who has consumed both the Bible and High School Musical 2