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Feedback ยท Organize/Sort Interests in Roleplay Creation form. (in review)

When adding Interests to a new Roleplay, the interests are not alphabetical, and not even half or maybe a third now are displayed at once. When using search, putting in just a letter seems to list all roleplays that have that one letter anywhere in the name of the Interest, yielding many results, which are seemingly sorted by random (probably by key ID or creation date, which might be synonymous). This means that if looking for all items starting with 'S', you might get so many returns, sorted by 'random', that you do not even see all the S* items listed. Also, because of being randomly listed, every new search requires you to look through the whole list because you can never be sure if new items are showing out of order from what you might expect.

Also, permit using a wildcard to define the search as looking for words starting with, i.e. S*

Listing alphabetically would definitely help a lot, but might be a stop-gap measure if the number of interests in-total quadruples from here, e.g. if you search for 'S' interests and not only get words that don't start with 'S', and even if you do, the total number of 'S' words is greater than the number of Interests that can be displayed at once.

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created: 26 February 15 at 08:33 PM (build: 2/26/2015 6:06 PM beta)

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

The intended display of all of these lists is alphabetical (or sorted by category, then alphabetical).

It's important to note though that searching a trait/interest/category list actually searches more than just the name; it'll search basically every field it has. This allows you to find e.g everything related to gender by searching for gender but does make wild cards kind of meaningless? Technically it's already a wild-card search, but it does *s* for s instead of s*.

Cressida Selene

Yes, I realized that on the *s*. I'm not sure how you want to best solve the issue of hundreds of Interests and limited space to show them. Searching is one way, but then you never really know what you are missing. So then just going through a big list can be preferred. Perhaps listing them alphabetically, providing a search, possibly permitting the search by wild card like Multi* or S*, and then having a set of radio buttons or selector for showing 20 items or All Items... kind of covers all the bases. The better you remember the precise interests you want, the easier it will be, with the user never having to hit All Items, but if you want, the option is there, and you can scroll through everything to your heart's content. And even if all you know is it starts with S, you'll be able to find it without having to go back to profile and finding the item. Being fairly new, and with new items being added all the time, I run into cases of knowing what I want from F-List terminology, but not finding it in Litphoria terminology. And when the list is truncated and shows things in seemingly random order, I can't know that it simply isn't worded differently and I'm just not finding it as opposed to the item not yet existing in any form at all.

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

I totally agree it should be sorted in some way, just not sure we're going to see much value add in specifying a starts with or ends with search!

Cressida Selene

Well currently, if you return every item that has S then you will overrun the limit (20 or 30 items?) by several times. Even if you list them alphabetically, you wouldn't even see any items that start with "S". That was my issue. Usually when you do put in a search term, would would probably remember the first part more often than some middle part. So, if you leave it like that, then you also need to show more than the current limit. I actually wanted to just go through the whole list, and my idea was to just type in the "A" then "B" then "C" as a work-around, but that didn't work very well.

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

Hmmm, I don't remember limiting the lists recently. That shouldn't be a thing either.

Cressida Selene

Maybe it is just in the Initial creation form and not the editing form? That it shows a limited number? I just edited an existing RP and it shows a lot more Interests than when creating a new one.

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

The conditions around this suggestion have changed somewhat, I have removed any filters and sorted every list I could find alphabetically.

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