Developer's Resources: Separating Projects and Articles in Feature Requests

ID:107075
 
Jan 15 2011, 4:27 pm
Applies to:Website
Status: Open
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It'd be really nice if we could separate articles/posts from libraries/demos/executables. Right now, even though the system is a lot better than before, it seems a little cluttered. Also, another nice feature would be if we could separate featured things from non featured things; it would give them a lot more exposure (it looks like some of the featured libraries/demos are all the way back on the 60th page!).

Also, if this is possible now, then it should be easier to find :P. Right now, the tag system is good, but it still can't separate all articles from all non-articles.
#1 Jan 15 2011, 5:50 pm
I had actually requested the featured/non-featured functionality you see. The rationale is as such:

If you want to find something, you'll search for it. The number of results this yields is often small, small enough in fact I find it's 5 - 8. In that list of 5 - 8, featured resources appear very prominently.

If you are however looking at the default view, you're browsing. If you're browsing like that, you're obviously not looking for something specific, just something new or interesting. As a library update bumps it's date, the view gives you the most recently updated stuff, new things for you to try / critique etc.
#2 Jan 16 2011, 8:24 pm
Are you sure updates bump up their dates? I just updated my Skinput library (I figured that I may as well add some more features/examples since its featured now), but it remains in the same spot on the list.
#3 Jan 17 2011, 4:50 am
Did you bump the hub version? For example, Wiznet did this recently, and got bumped for it.
#4 Jan 17 2011, 8:34 am
I didn't notice this was already a feature request, but I did have a short (inconclusive) talk about this with Stephen just a short while ago. My position is that "articles", "demos", "libraries" and "reference" are not inherently different than any other tag, and including them is important for the immediacy and relevance of search results (if I am interested in a pixel movement demo, there is no reason I need to have my search results cluttered with articles and libraries -- preventing such clutter is exactly the rationale behind the tagging system!).
#5 Jan 17 2011, 5:30 pm
Yeah, I updated both the hub and display versions, and I just did it again to be sure. It doesn't seem to bump up.