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Suggestions & Feedback Posting Guidelines
The purpose of this board is to allow community members to suggest new features or changes to be added to Smack Jeeves. Even if you aren't sure of a specific solution, but you recognize the need for an improvement, point it out!
Before Posting
Please browse/search the forum to make sure your suggestion hasn't already been made by someone else. If you find an idea similar to yours, post your contributing thoughts to that thread. Don't start a new thread unless your idea is significantly different from existing suggestions.
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- 1) Use a descriptive title when making a suggestion or pointing out the need for improvement.
2) Describe the problem / solution in detail. First, explain why there is a problem or a need for a new feature to begin with. Then, describe your proposed solution (if you have one) clearly and effectively.
3) Respect others' ideas. If you disagree with someone else's ideas or suggestions, respectfully and factually state why. While debate over different solutions is fine, insults or personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Sticky System
Suggestions that have been approved and chosen for implementation by the development team will be stickied. When development begins on an idea, that topic will be moved to the New Features & Changes in Progress board.
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Search Engine
by oman96 » August 18th, 2010, 6:19 am
Maybe there could be an option that allows your site to have a search engine. also on the comic page while uploading you could tag your comics so all you would have to do to find it in the future would type in key words and it comes up. simples! so what do you all think and be nice I'm mentally unstabble...
- oman96
Re: Search Engine
by eishiya » August 18th, 2010, 8:56 am
I don't think SJ is really geared for that. Strangely enough, despite using terminology for comic strips and making a big deal of the upload date and such, as if for strips, SJ really seems better for long-form comics, where individual page tags aren't important in most cases.
But if you really want your comic to be searchable, try Oh No Robot, which is a webcomic search engine that lets you enter the script for each page and let users search by that. Obviously it only works but comics that are in their database, but it works as a nice opt-in version of a tag-based search engine for individual pages. Face it, most people are going to ignore the tag section if we get one, so it's opt-in anyway. Why not unify it with a larger database anyway? Those who care can do their searching, Dan/Admin doesn't have to do anything, and those who don't care can just keep on doing what they're doing.
But if you really want your comic to be searchable, try Oh No Robot, which is a webcomic search engine that lets you enter the script for each page and let users search by that. Obviously it only works but comics that are in their database, but it works as a nice opt-in version of a tag-based search engine for individual pages. Face it, most people are going to ignore the tag section if we get one, so it's opt-in anyway. Why not unify it with a larger database anyway? Those who care can do their searching, Dan/Admin doesn't have to do anything, and those who don't care can just keep on doing what they're doing.
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