Ways and Ideas To Improve Comicvine 2.0

@ultimate_knight: ya if things didn't improve, nothings definite though.

What do you mean?

@ultimate_knight: things might improve, if they do I won't be as inclined to leave.

Okay. That is good again. Thank you again for your contributions to this site.

I was wondering if "things" and "locations" should add publishers to the info box?

I suggest that we not allow them to change fonts ever again.

TBH.. I don't know if this was suggested. But a Reading Order section for Comic book characters would be nice.

@renchamp I thought of this when I was sorting out my Doctor Who DVD collection.. Since the Doctor's chronology is complicated, I'd like the task of creating the Reading Order for him (should this feature be implanted).

Next to Team, Friends, Enemies. Maybe have a tab for alternate versions.

So say I am on Batman's wiki page. I go to this tab and I can find the wiki page for Batman of Earth-22 or Batman of Earth-17. It would make finding alternate versions easier.

@_gaff_: alts generally do not get their own pages.

But some do. Should they be deleted?

@_gaff_: the ones that exist are for a reason and there are not nearly enough of them to warrant adding a feature like you suggested.

Oh ok.

Why doe some alts get pages and others do not?

@_gaff_: Some meet certain criteria that we have defined, mainly it is based on how different they are followed by number of appearances and in other instances they are added by staff who can do whatever they want.

Looking for a specific post of mine earlier I knew the date I posted it on, but I had to wage like 10 pages to narrow down the time correctly.

When viewing post history, it might be useful to be able to restrict by date.

To have a mobile version or an app so that way pictures can be added to the battle form access your account etc honestly this imo in the main thing that needs to be done

Possibly a video-game section for the wiki as there are many comic-related video games which could be added

@riddlersriddle: our sister site is a video game site.

@pikahyper@renchamp Should this be updated to 3.0?

@cloudguy: eh maybe, the version number was for the thread not the site, the site is probably almost double digits. I doubt anything was implemented in these ten pages so might as well leave it be.

Other for a creator's gender choices

BB

EDIT - nevermind, this was said a few posts up

Any chance we're gonna be getting this back? I really miss it.

For those who create their own pages, can they have the ability to lock them if they get out of hand?

It would be helpful if you had a way to search by a term based on most recently used.

I'm back again. Bring back the dark theme.

In the volume wiki page, which does not contain any image, you could use the volume logo which is often graphically interesting.

For example:

I really appreciate the openness of Comic Vine to non-American comics, but in this perspective the language problem has not really been taken into account.

I think it would be interesting, at the level of the detail of the volumes, to create a specific field for the language of the volume, possibly a field for the original language and one for the translation language.

It would also be interesting to propose a field to indicate the geographical origin of the volume, either the country or the subcontinent.

@jacdec said:

There should be themes/categories for that.

Just like there are existing themes for "Foreign", "Translated", "Manga" and "Golden/Silver/Bronze/Modern Age" (US) comics. The "Foreign" theme just hasn't always been used in the past. However, it'd be great to define volumes as "French", "Italian", "German" publications.

I'd also love to add foreign solicitations but IIRC I was once told there is some policy that doesn't allow it.

Hopefully this is the place to do this. Since Comic Book Database went down however many years ago, I've been searching for a site where I can check a creator's bibliography in order to figure out which comics I have/need. Grand Comic Database is a great site, but it's a pain to navigate when searching creators. I've been drawn to Comicvine, and it works WONDERFULLY...but I have one suggestion to make it work better.

When I pull up a creator's wiki and view all of the issues they've "appeared" in, I think it would be helpful to sort those issues by alphabetical order rather than having to view the list number of issues per title from greatest to least.

@borateen0: Technically the site has that functionality, it's just been broken for a few years.

@themememan2 said:

Any chance we're gonna be getting this back? I really miss it.

Still wondering about this.

The addition of a 'non-binary' or 'other' option to the gender section on creator profiles, rather than using 'unknown', would be very helpful

Who do we have to pester to get that fixed?

@borateen0: Do you mean like this? A bit more steps but it can be done now under Volumes.

Is this another one of your riddles?

Made it a thread to gauge reaction but it bears repeating:

Can there be a filter system when looking at the general catalog?

(This is also literally me asking if that's able to be programmed in. Either answer I get will make me angry for different reasons.)

In a similar vein, can there be a filter system for issues so that I don't have to scroll through Spanish versions of comics, omnibuses, special encyclopedia books, etc and can actually just look for individual issues that a character, item, writer/artist is relevant?

In addition, a searchbar in the "issues" page would also help.

CSRF token seems to be broken if you try to make a large list all at once (barely <100.) If you try to refresh the page, you'll, of course, lose all the additions. I guess I should I have seen this coming but still, very, very, very, very, very, etc, etc annoying.

EDIT: Still wouldn't post after I cut it down to 41. Maybe it's because my Internet cut out during the making of it? I don't know how this stuff works. I'll just make a new list and copy from the old one at this point and let the webpage go to digital Hell where I guess half of Comicvine's spaghetti coding lies like some ethereal rooting.

EDIT 2: Now I'm remembering how the generally terrible search feature doesn't have a category function so I have to rely on keywords that it doesn't recognize in order to get what I want (I'm not.) I've had to go "screw it, I don't mean the first issue ever, I mean the series or the team or the character just pretend i linked to that" in the original list half a dozen times because I got sick of scrolling through tiny lists of like 6 things. Somehow I found the Fantastic Four (TEAM) the first time, this time, I guess I'm not so lucky! Oh, speak of the Devil. Right as I was complaining about it, I find it.

HINT: if you ever want to make a list involving the TEAM called the Fantastic Four, type "fantastic four" (it being in all lowercase is important, for some reason, I guess) and go to the fourth or fifth page and you'll find it.

Am I playing an old adventure game on this site or something?

EDIT 3: Just noticed that you can add a duplicate character to an unranked list multiple times which is dumb and pointless. Accidentally doing that might have actually broken my list but again, who knows what we're dealing with.

EDIT 4: Realized that I should have made a post on the dedicated bug reporting board. Oops. Sorry. I forget this place has one and go straight to whining here. I have given up on finishing my list tonight because it's given me a headache.

To make up for that last post which is ostensibly about a bug of some kind and not a way to improve Comicvine, let me make up for it with an actual suggestion.

We here, as Comicvine contributors, face a Sisyphean task in being up-to-date in archiving and cataloging one of the mass-produced form of media known to man (along everything else under the sun) on a site made, God who knows how long ago, 20 years?

I think to maintain a userbase full of people who actively want to help maintain the Wiki, you should start handing handing out Wiki points more like Skittles and less like Purple Hearts.

If you make a suggestion to edit a page only a mod can do and they do it, you get a variable amount of points (based on what it is; like editing a page.) If you make a suggestion to change the site in some way and the site staff does it, you get a select amount of points. If you slap a clearly under-written page with a "Page needs help" and somebody adds a bunch of stuff to it, you get a variable amount of points.

I feel like you have two fistfuls of sterling boys out there dedicated to obsessively cataloguing their niches (two fists per niche, meaning) and a lot of people coming-and-going after they develop a chronic migraine disorder. This might keep more people around for longer until they get to the coveted 5,000 & 10,000 point benchmarks. I'm fine with keeping those benchmarks so absurdly high as long as there are more ways to obtain them from helping the site.