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Feedback · Filter Interests in Profile Editing & Creation (in review)

The interest picking process is currently:

  • Huge list of every interest
  • Text entry to filter down the list

This isn’t a terrible idea for traits because they’re somewhat more limited but for interests it’s completely overwhelming to see them all at once.

For this feedback we’ll use the term “pick list” to refer to interests presented to you which you haven’t yet added.

Instead of this, we propose a new system that comes in a few parts.

Search Bar

Click this button to toggle the search view. No interests are displayed by default.

The search bar does a full search of our database of interests. It compares the text you enter to each interest’s name, description, and search aliases. All matches are returned and you can pick from them to add them to your interest list. The search sticks around until you clear it, so you can add multiple matches.

Pick List

Click this button to discover interests by automatically adding more interests to the view when you click one.

The pick list starts with only a small number of interests (two dozen-ish) which represent some core important set.

The user starts by taking interests from that pick list.

Behind the scenes, every interest is connected to a number of other interests. Story is connected to stuff like Adventure, Travel, Drama, for example. Once you pick an interest, it’s connected interests are added to the pick list. (The exception is if you put that interest into your NO list, in which case it disappears from the pick list without being replaced by anything. If you don’t want story.) In this fashion you drill down bit by bit.

That core list might be composed of the two dozen interests we consider most appropriate for beginning to “drill down” into specifics.

Managing the hydra factor

This is a list that will grow and grow and clicking anything in it might make it grow even more. We should consider how we can deal with that. Interest shouldn’t just suddenly appear in the pick list without a transition.

The user should be able to click 'X' on an interest to remove it from the pick list if they just don’t care to see that right now. It might show up again later due to another interest they choose adding it to the pick list, or they can search it up, and they might want to do that after seeing it on another's profile and deciding they want it listed on their own.

Somehow when new interests show up it should be clear why they showed up. Maybe they show up at the bottom in a line saying “Interests related to 'Story': 'Adventure' 'Travel'” etc. You can hit 'OK' to add them to the pick list, 'NO THANKS' to dismiss the whole lot of them. If X such lines are showing up (maybe 3) and another would be added, the oldest one gets shifted into the pick list automatically as if you pressed 'OK'.

"Show All" Toggle

A button which switches from the filtered view to the classic "everything at once" view.

meta info

endorsement points: 15

created: 10 June 16 at 04:09 AM (build: 6/4/2016 1:40 AM beta)

Astarte

What's the intended benefit of this system?

Pinkie Pie

The benefit is that it makes character creation and editing more manageable. As it is now, it's really intimidating to see all the interests thrown at you at once. I've spoken to several would-be members who didn't stick around because they thought the profile creation process was throwing too much data at them at once. Filtering interests by default will cut out the initial shock of "I have to fill out ALL THAT!?"

Korra

I'd like this. (I wrote part of it, so that's kind of a given.) The sheer amount of stuff we dump people into in the beginning is nuts, and I think this is a pretty good way to just present people with a bit at a time based on what they seem to actually care about.

Desdemona Fireheart

If I have to read the whole list more than once (one time for mandatory, one time for yes...) then it's a good idea to click the "junk" away to make the list shorter. But it would be better to just have to read the list once, so the fact I've read but not clicked the trait means: Not interested. For that the five buttons (mandatory, yes,...) would have to be always visible.

The "drill down" method sounds like F-List where the kink-list is divided into parts. That's a good idea since I can skip uninteresting parts of the list.

Astarte

So long as there is the show all toggle I'm uncaring about this change. From how it sounds I don't really see a benefit, but sounds like others would get use out of it. I'll stick with the colossal tag list myself.

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