I am always on the look for new or potential series that i might like to read, Since most groups take on projects that are similar to the ones they are already doing(genre wise), most of the time i check the other projects of groups whose series i already follow. There is the option to "Hide" releases made by certain groups, could an option be made to "highlight" all the releases made by a group too? or instead of highlight, add a stand-outish icon by the name of the group like how a series on a person's reading list has an icon by it in the releases page.

My other suggestion is to add more list-types or icon options for lists. I use the system to the max right now. I at any one point am usually reading about 100 diffrent manga. So these as well as other titles end up in various lists and 4 icons is not enough
My lists:
Reading - the 100 or so series i am currently following.
Wish - Series that have not been scan'd that i want scan'd
Completed - Completed series that i read
Bookmark - Series or Oneshots that look interesting and might want to read later
Trial - Series i am reading but might want to drop them.
Unfinished - Dead or on hold series (series i read with no release in 90+ days)
Bored with - Series i am bored with, but keep track of just in case i might ever feel like reading them again.

but because there are only 4 icons, these lists kind of get grouped together.
Page: Reading
blue dot: Bookmark, Trial
clock: Unfinished, Bored with
check: Completed, Wish

The standard reading list icon in diffrent colors would be fine. I made these up real quick:
v1
v2 Favorites List - (for me) would be my top 10, which would be something i would link to.
Trial list
Dead Series (unfinished)
i like pink maybe bookmark list
GOLD!
v2 Better Gold
Feel free to use these icons Adding all my lists together and that is ALOT of diffrent manga lol. When i check the release page i read the names of all the series with the read list symbol and then decided which to go grab first, so it would be nice to beable to just scroll down the list and spot my favorite or wishlist series right away

EDIT* I just thought of this, and i dont even know if it is possible, its just an idea. But maybe anything in your "reading list" that you give a rating of "10" will show up on the release page with the gold icon

Last edited by Uz3r667 at 7:11 pm, Aug 3 2011

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highlighting releases by group: I think this sounds like a good idea; it'd be a nice complement to the hide by group feature. The problem is how to do it: Highlighting would be problematic because there is already highlighting by genre, so there might be conflicting colors (an issue which has not been worked out yet). Icons will be problematic too because there are already list icons beside the releases. For a second I thought changing the text color might be good, but that would conflict with genre highlighting too, because there are so many highlight colors that no matter what color the text is changed to, there'll be problems with text readability. I can't think of a good alternative right now...

more lists/icons: Resolving the confusion would be great for all the users have run into this problem. I think making different colors for icons is the best solution (by which I mean the easiest solution to implement that still solves the problem). Actually, I had that exact same idea and suggested it earlier this year (not in the forum, though). Extra explanation is in the box--skip if you don't care:

marking rated-10 series: Hmmm, probably not. I don't think it would hurt and it would look cool, but it doesn't seem important and sounds difficult to implement.

Last edited by lynira at 8:49 pm, Aug 6 2011

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umm,yeah I suggested this a while back as well, and my way of simply bolding the released series and/or the group name is the best way to go for highlighting groups, and yeah there's a lot of people that have favorite groups so it'd be cool....not to mention the more icons, though it's not really hard to make small simple icons for user created lists, and much better then having to remember the colors for which list is which

I did not know there was a highlight option already. and i cant seem to find it. where would i go to set that up and try it?

since i dont know what the highlight by genre thing looks like yet, i cant really give any suggestions for it, but what about having an icon for watched group releases that appears in the "group" column of the releases page.

You have Title, release, and groups columns on the releases page, and list icons appear in the title column, could "watched" groups get an icon in the "groups" column?

and as for icons, I do think it would be much simpler if you could pick an icon to assign your list(s) instead of picking a list type. I thought abot it more, and the whole reason i did not want to throw away the "list-type" this is because each type actually does something. But when i think about it, it may just be easier to make a generic list with multiple icons available to assign it.

This is how each lists looks on a series page:

This series is in your Reading List list.
You are reading this. ( up to v.1 c.74 +10 -5 ) Remove or Move to

This series is in your BlueSpot list.
You decided not to finish this series. Or maybe I will...

This series is on hold. Move to reading list or move to:

This series is in your GreenCheck list.
You have completed this series Or maybe not... Move to:

Generic option:
This series is in your <name> list.
(Read up to v.1 c.74 +10 -5 ) "Completed" or Remove or Move to [-----]

Instead of "you are reading this... up to v.1 c.1" i would changed it to "Read up to" because it still tells you what you have read up to, and even if that series is on a "on hold" list it would still be good to know what chapter you were on if you ever continue it. I would also add a Completed option to the chapters part. That way you have the option to put it in a completed list, or just leave it in 1 list if you dont feel like having multiple lists. then when its checked for completed, it shows: (You have completed this series Or maybe not...) and "Or maybe not" resets it back to (Read up to v.1 c.1 +10 -5)


"marking rated-10 series: Hmmm, probably not. I don't think it would hurt and it would look cool, but it doesn't seem important and sounds difficult to implement."

That is what i was thinking, i was just tossing the idea out there because i thot it sounded cool

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Anybody want to code it?

No?

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It's in the user CP, you just click on the one that says "Release Filtering." You can filter and highlight releases by genre with it.
Ah, that's a good idea.
You can see the status (vol # and ch # you have read) in reading, unfinished, and on hold type lists--but for the last two, you have to go to the my lists section and look at status there to find it.
Yes, I do! Except right now I don't know how (I plan to learn sometime in the near future), so... for now this is just a dream.

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Funny how that works, actually. Me and monkey have been planning on working on individualized RSS feeds for a while, but we've both been too busy to get to it.

I was just making a compilation list header, merging all the lists into a single type i mean.

anyway, thx or the tip. i found the highlight option and its pretty cool and useful. I can at least use it to pop out the genres most in common with most the series i read. and filter out the stuff i dont. *cough*yaoi*cough*

I dont expect this to actually get made, i just thought it was a cool idea i would toss out there. its more of an expansion on my idea of any series you rate a 10 gets a gold icon instead of regular. but now that i am typing it out and trying to think of how to word it, i am liking it less and less lol.

anyway... Its pretty redundant...actually now that i really think about it, i think its impossible, or just really really hard and would be to annoying to do. I was thinking of a Top10 list that can only have 10 series in it at any given time. and have a ranking system or showing what the most common series in everyone's top 10 is.

but like i said, thinking about it, i guess its kind of redudant since there is a number ranking system and a list compilation system that shows how many people have whatever series in their "reading list" not to mention trying to figuring out some kind of scoring system for a top10 list.

i probablly should just not have made this post, but since i took the time to type it... i am submitting it anyway

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i realize no one is probably going to look at this topic, but how do I add more lists to my, "My Lists"? I don't remember.

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My lists -> Edit Lists (next to lists choices) -> presto