Comment on Latest Episode Discussion Threads Index
zabadoh@ani.social 5 months ago
This post has been surprisingly useful, given how fast the discussion threads are scrolling off the first page, thanks to automation…
Right now it is reverse chronological based on the time that the thread was created and limited to the most recent thread for any show within the past eight days.
Open to suggestions if something else makes more sense. I have been surprised at how many shows have stuck around with 1-2 comments and hadn’t expected this list to be so long. This might be something I adjust through changing the comment threshold for rikka.
I’d expect that many shows to survive at the start of the season when everyone is curious as to what the new shows are about.
I would expect the worst or least interesting to drop this week, with some mediocre and less interesting shows dropping before and around episode 6.
wjs018@ani.social 5 months ago
Giving this some more thought, perhaps if I broke the giant table up by day? Each day could be a heading with a table under it with the episodes posted that day. I will play around with it when I get a chance.
zabadoh@ani.social 5 months ago
I don’t know about others, but an alphabetic title sort would help me most.
I use this list when something’s scrolled off the front page, so by date wouldn’t help me much.
Also, some thought is going to be needed about what happens when rikka drops a show.
wjs018@ani.social 5 months ago
I have done some fiddling and figured out how to do an alphabetical sort. I have it A->Z based on the English name and then A->Z based on the romaji for shows that don’t have a separately listed English name (usually because the JP name is already in English).
As for shows that rikka isn’t posting anymore, they should automatically get dropped from the table after the linked post is >8 days old. This post originally had the final episodes of each of the winter shows listed, but those have since been pruned away because they were more than 8 days old.
I have been updating the wiki pages with all the created discussion threads (even the dropped shows) if people want to reference them for any reason. As of right now, these wiki updates are manually done by me, so there is some lag between a thread being created and the wiki being updated.
zabadoh@ani.social 5 months ago
Also, where the Japanese name is also the English name, such as “Astro Note”, or “The Fable”, or “Highspeed Etoile” I think you can just copy over the Japanese name to the English column.
If you have time to work on it, an exception for English sorting, sorting titles like “The Fable” under “F”, e.g. like “Fable, The”, instead of under “T”, or “A Certain Scientific Railgun” under “C” instead of “A”, or “An I couldn’t come up with a real title” under “I” instead of “A”
zabadoh@ani.social 5 months ago
After giving it some thought, what I’d suggest is that dropped 0 comment shows get dropped to the bottom of the list, and have an italicized “dropped due to lack of comments” or some such verbiage.
Or maybe under a subheading of “Weekly episode threads dropped due to low interest - Request a discussion thread if desired” or something of that nature, with a link to the appropriate wiki section for rikka requests.
Keeping even a deprecated row for each show, to acknowledge that rikka “knows” about the show, but articulate why she isn’t posting episode discussion threads.
zabadoh@ani.social 5 months ago
There aren’t any perfect choices are there?
It looks a little easier to search as long as I can keep the sort rules in mind.
Thanks!