"UI" redesign...

[Adam Blinkinsop]

I'm looking for some "common tasks" that people do with a Magic card
search. I've already got Nash's "sort by ascending converted mana
cost" and James's "give me the Oracle text of *everything*", but the
way I use the site is very different from the way other people do.

If you think of anything, feel free to send ideas: I need the task ("I
should be able to do [blah].") and the model (what you should do to
get those results). Thanks!

[Counsellour]

This is not common, but I wonder if an artist search would be too much
work? I just happened to have to look up an artist and the cards he
has done and thought of this.

Another possible addition might be to allow for searching reprints. In
other words, it would be nifty to be able to search for cards in M10
which also appeared in Tenth Edition. Or to search for cards in
Standard now that were not in the last rotation. Or to search for
which cards are now out of Extended since the last rotation. Etc.

[Adam Blinkinsop]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Counsellour <couns...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is not common, but I wonder if an artist search would be too much
work? I just happened to have to look up an artist and the cards he
has done and thought of this.

How do you think this should work?  Not behind the scenes, but what should you type to find an artist?

 

Another possible addition might be to allow for searching reprints. In
other words, it would be nifty to be able to search for cards in M10
which also appeared in Tenth Edition. Or to search for cards in
Standard now that were not in the last rotation. Or to search for
which cards are now out of Extended since the last rotation. Etc.

Awesome.  How do you think this should work?

 

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Adam Blinkinsop <bli...@acm.org>

[James Lee]

Artist search: I think a name search on either or both of first and last name would be fine. It is mostly to help people track down which cards an artist has done so that they can collect them for signings and such.

 

Format changes: This is much harder. Since the rotation dates have been all over the place throughout the years, programming in specific times when any given format rotated would be an amazing amount of manual data entry work on the front end. I'd be happy if the user did most of the work by entering the sets they want to check. For instance:

 

+Time Spiral +Planar Chaos +Future Sight -Champions -Betrayers -Saviors

would mean, cards in the first three sets but not in the last three.

 

+/-Tenth +/-M10

would mean, cards in both sets.

 

This is not ideal in my mind, but it is something akin to what I'm thinking about.

[Adam Blinkinsop]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:32 AM, James Lee <couns...@gmail.com> wrote:

Artist search: I think a name search on either or both of first and last name would be fine. It is mostly to help people track down which cards an artist has done so that they can collect them for signings and such.

So, just [rk post] would find him?  (Generally, surrounding something in square brackets makes it easy to tell exactly what the query is.)  This should actually work great, since artist names don't generally appear in text!  Right now, you have to do [artist:(rk post)], which is less than discoverable.

 

Format changes: This is much harder. Since the rotation dates have been all over the place throughout the years, programming in specific times when any given format rotated would be an amazing amount of manual data entry work on the front end. I'd be happy if the user did most of the work by entering the sets they want to check. For instance:

Totally.  Also, I don't know how easy it would be to think about [standard ten years ago] or something.  I think the idea below is better.

  

+Time Spiral +Planar Chaos +Future Sight -Champions -Betrayers -Saviors

would mean, cards in the first three sets but not in the last three.

Sure!  Since I've got block information, would you consider searching [Time Spiral -Kamigawa]?  Right now, you have to type [in:(Time Spiral ~Kamigawa)] (the tilde is my version of your minus), but again, block and set names only rarely happen in cards.

 

+/-Tenth +/-M10

would mean, cards in both sets.

 

This is not ideal in my mind, but it is something akin to what I'm thinking about.

That's what I'm looking for!

 

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Adam Blinkinsop <bli...@acm.org>