Comment on Latest Episode Discussion Threads Index

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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”

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      • wjs018@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        just copy over the Japanese name to the English column

        This is something I should be able to figure out easy enough and had thought the same. Look for this update in the next couple days.

        Ignore articles in the beginning of a title

        I was absolutely positive that there was going to be a python library that had this implemented already that I could just plug in and make use of. However, after some searching, I came up empty. I have an idea of how to do this myself, but the implementation is going to be nontrivial, so it will take a bit more time.

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    • 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.

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      • wjs018@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hmm, I will look at this. It will probably mean changing some database management under the hood. Also, the list of media items that rikka keeps track of is pretty long since it also includes long-running but non-seasonal shows (One Piece, Pokemon, Crayon Shin-chan, etc.). It’s long enough that this might work better as a wiki page rather than a list in the lemmy post…or maybe a top level comment? I will think about it.

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      • glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Building on this, dropped shows could alternatively be put in their own table hidden in a spoiler tag, so that they’d be there for those looking for them, but the post stays looking a bit more tidy.

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    • 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!

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