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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1409 |
Description field (at least for tools)
As per Stormfront's remarks on Bitfire V0.5
Quoting St0rmfr0nt
I really hate when people publish their or someone else's tools without mentioning what the tool is for. Even when it is just an update of an existing "other platform tool" the users have to search in the database for the usage? That's not how it should be treated here.
..(eg) "Bitfire is a fixed interleave loadersystem with depacker, a basic framework and an image writing tool"
Must admit, it would be nice to have somewhere other than Production Notes on NuCrunch 0.1 to say it's no more and no less than a crunch/decrunch codec at present, rather than have people click through to full docs just to find out whether it was something they can actually use at present. I also have NFI what Regenerator Booster V1.1 actually does.
So.. perhaps a one or two line description field would be useful? |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3191 |
If people don't give a fuck to describe their productions in the existing production/summary/comment fields, another field would be useless aswell. |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1409 |
Production requires a second click to view, and comment is pushed off the bottom once other people join.
I see that someone's placed a description in the AKA field of Bitfire since I started this topic, mind. Is that a convention that I (among others) have been missing? |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094 |
summary should be used, and ALL type of comments should be displayed on the same page. horrible horrible horrible design decision to click around to read all. |
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Zyron
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2381 |
The Aka field should _never_ be used to describe the release. |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2240 |
If an author or anyone else WANTS to provide info, there's "Summaries". BTW "requires 2nd click" is no argument against existing 5 fields. If a user WANTS more info, he WILL have to look for it and click (or stay stupid and does not deserve any better).
PS: And what Zyron says! AKA is for alternative production title/release name or misspelled variants found on disks |
