Suggestion:20071120 Cycle Through Profiles

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20071120 Cycle Through Profiles

Jon Pyre 15:08, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion type
Improvement

Suggestion scope
Looking at people

Suggestion description
If you want to look at everyone in a building you have to click on a profile then click "return to city" or backspace. Why not just add two tiny unobtrusive links (like font size 8) on the top left hand corner of each profile page "Last" and "Next". These would just take you to the profile of the last or next person in the building. It wouldn't loop around so people don't get confused and look at profiles a second time. If you're on the last person and click Next (or first and click back) it takes you back to the city. If you look at someone's profile when you're not in the room with them both links also take you back to the city.

This would reduce the clicks it takes to go from one profile to another from 2 to 1. And if you prefer going back to the city and clicking profiles directly, you could still do that.

Voting Section

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The only valid votes are Keep, Kill, Spam or Dupe. If you wish to abstain from voting, do not vote.

Keep Votes

1. Example Last Next --Jon Pyre 15:13, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
2. Keep- Coz it's useful. And I don't feel like opening multiple windows/tabs. --Darth Lumis^{T! A! E! FU!} 15:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
3. Keep - Because it's a nice idea.Studoku 18:52, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
4. Keep- Because this is an excellent idea. -- BKM 21:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
5. Keep- Becuase nitpicking isn't cool. BoboTalkClown 21:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
6. Keep- Tabbed browseing sucks on dial up, and limits how many can be open/load time anyway's, this is possibly "faster" on my connection.--Zach016 21:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
7. Keep - Yet another good side project for Kevan to work on, if he's not implementing anything "game-changing" at that particuliar moment. Having just gone through two sets of survivor profiles from my local hospital and PD (and having found two zombie spies, one of which I promptly tried to kill), I know how annoying it is to have to go through each individual profile the old way. This would alleviate some frustration. --Private Mark 23:57, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
8. Keep - Pointless, but I don't hate the suggestion enough to kill or spam it... ----> Quentin Tarantino 01:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
9. Keep Scanning... No Targets Found... ~A`Blue`Jelly^TME*V*I*L*_? 02:17, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
10. Keep - Interface improvement that leads to fewer precious server hits. --Pgunn 07:29, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
11. Keep - Using new tabs/windows are great, but in a crowded Mall, I like this idea better. --Shazzelim 12:52, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Kill Votes

1. Kill - Or you could open up the profiles you want to examine in a new window (or tab if you have tabbed browsing) for a single click. --The Grimch ^{U! E! WAT!} 15:13, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
   • Re Yes. Two windows work just fine too if people prefer it. This gives the option of a single window. --Jon Pyre 15:15, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
     • Handily ignoring tabs i see. This already exists as part of the browsers we use to play, i see no need to ask that kevan do it for us. --The Grimch ^{U! E! WAT!} 15:18, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
2. Kill - I agree with Grim - it's built right into all internet browsers - even free ones you can download off the internets... --Ryiis 15:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
   • Re Tabs or multiple windows are functions of all web browsers. However this is a convenient link (which browsers cannot add to webpages). Necessary? No. Good web design, yes. If this wouldn't take a lot of effort it would be a nice addition. If it'd sap too much of Kevan's time, oh well. --Jon Pyre 15:32, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
     • Re - Jon... it's not needed, nor is it wanted by myself. No. --Ryiis 15:36, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
3. Kill - Pointless. As per Grim, pretty much. Open a new window or tab to view them, sheeeesh. And it would be especially useless in a building with 200 people inside. I will NEVER scroll through 200 profiles individually, one by one... as if. In fact, I consider this to be borderline SPAM, but I am erring on the side of non-immediate removal. --WanYao 15:43, 20 November 2007 (UTC) Oh and actually it is crappy web design, btw. Good web design allows you see and access the information you want in an organised and empowered way. This is just scrolls rigidly through a sequence of profiles... meh. --WanYao 15:46, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
4. Kill - you'd need to improve the interface description to make this useful, and counter WanYao's 200 people example. If you had the text (for example) 30 of 33, then at least you'd have a clue of where you were in the pecking order. And, as for your not cycling business - if the next button doesn't take you to the next person (because there isn't one) then (good web design) there should not be a next button. Or, if you change the functionality of said button, the page should indicate the change. Still not sure if I'd vote Keep, though, because, as has been said, users can use tabs in their browsers - which still leaves you the original list of who's in the building - which is more helpful as info. goes thatn "30 of 33" - which is just a blind search through data without a target.) Hrmn - did you take this to talk:suggestions before coming here with it? --Funt Solo ^QT 16:40, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
   • Re This would be most useful in groups of small people. You could scan through five people with five clicks. Tabbed browsing would probably be best for massive crowds. --Jon Pyre 17:28, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

   • Re - you'd still need to fix your interface a bit. At least you should admit that much. --Funt Solo ^QT 18:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

5. Kill - in my experience, opening a profile in a new tab or window doesn't count toward the IP hit limit, whilst simply clicking the profile does. --Pavluk ^{A! E!} 17:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
6. Kill - Hurrr, it's fine. Leave it be. --_Ducis ^Dux_Sloth^Talk 19:14, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
7. Kill - not needed --~~~~ [talk] 20:16, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
8. Kill - As above. Omega 20:18, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
9. Kill - I'd preferably have all the profiles out at once without clicking anything. Much easier for PKing and healing.--  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 20:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
10. Kill - Unnecessary, as stated above. --Pestilent Bob 01:24, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
11. Above. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 10:51, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
12. Kill - What if the order or number of people changes in the middle of cycling? What if the person whose profile you're looking moves away from the building? The population is too dynamic for this kind of thing to work properly. --Midianian|T|T:S|C:RCS| 11:08, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
13. Kill - Graaagh. Enough with the suggestions spam. --Cyberbob ^{DORIS CGR U!} 20:38, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
14. Kill - -- dǝǝɥs oʇ ɯɐds: sʎɐʍ1ɐ! 00:34, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
15. Kill - Why would this even be needed, are you to lazy to click twice not once, thats just sad Anti Gorefest5 --anti gorefest5 00:40, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
16. Kill - Unneeded as per Grim. --Karlsbad 19:45, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Spam/Dupe Votes

1. Spam - Overpowered, scrolling through suggestions to find who matters and who doesn't is a game mechanic for both sides, speed that up and everything that involves direct interaction gets massive a boost.--Karek^maps?! 01:57, 27 November 2007 (UTC)