LFGSS weekly photography challenge

I can do it

Five spelling mistakes in one post, not sure I'd vote for you

:-P

:) hey i'm a foreigner!!

Five spelling mistakes in one post, not sure I'd vote for you

Actually, there are nine. :)

Me too!

Ps: Sorry, I'm watching Juventus vs Bayern, little tense right now!

Your suggestion is silly.

Sorry if I come out rude, your suggestion is silly.

I hate flamini. 2-2 for bayern? You will go through dont worry. As for us, lets concentrate on the league

Football thread >>>

Yeah i guess you are right. lets continue with going back and forth to view the photos and the endless lists to vote.

Its silly to view and compare the photos in one thread

Its not silly to have it all in one thread. It seems a bit spammy and overkill to create two new threads every week.

So far the hashtags seem to be a promising system. The idea about hashtaging the votes (suggested by @mashton ) is very good IMO. The thing about viewing the attachments when searching for a hashtag is also the way to go IMO but not quite here yet. For the time being though, what was done last really isn't that bad (the list of the photos and their respective posters).
Obviously what @Velocio has mentioned about the Q and A feature would be the ultimate method but seems a lot to ask considering what he has already done and the fact that he really doesn't have to do any of it (BTW one thousand #reps to you).

I guess what I think would be ideal is:

• being able to view the attachments (for a given selected setting ect.)
  
• The Q and A thing - or even the "hashtag"vote business.
  
  

But for now, till (not expecting you to) the boss graces us with more computer magic (I can't help in that department) the "hashtag"vote system alongside the current listing system really works fine.

I've already written most of the foundations of Q&A types.

https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microcosm/commit/ac516d524857dea91af5e8d430c4ac264a0043ec

2,000+ lines of code this evening.

I'd appreciate some help from a web designer though. I'm going to slow down dramatically once I move to the front-end code.

Remaining on the back-end:

• The voting interface to the YMG table.
  
• The PATCH interface for a moderator or the question askee to select the "accepted answer" which will be the winner in the case of the photo competition.
  
• The ability to sort the answers not by date order, but by vote score.
  
• Search to find answered, and unanswered, questions
  
  

All of the back-end stuff remains trivial.

To do on the front-end:

• Django integration of questions
  
• Django API calls for voting
  
• Django API call for accepting an answer
  
• Interface design for "up, neutral, down" votes
  
• Interface design for showing the vote results
  
• Interface design for showing the difference between answered and unanswered questions
  
• An icon for the "Q&A" items in a forum
  
  

I'm hoping one of you step forward, otherwise I'm going to have to try turn my hand towards design and that never works out well.

What kind of assets do you need for the design stuff? I'd really like to contribute although I'm more print based but it's all the same really if all you need is pretty pictures of buttons and graphs.

If it even involves looking at code I'm probably not your man.

I'll chip and help you. Used to work in publishing but do UX (and some UI) stuff now, daresay we've got it between us.

In essence... the Q&A thing I'm building will allow each comment on a thread to be voteable.

The first comment is effectively the "question", and the comments below are effectively the "answers".

The answers are voteable... i.e. look here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30103938/xcode-6-1-3-cant-change-simulated-screen-size

On that screen you can see that the question itself was voteable (but ignore that, because I'm only focusing on answers being voteable right now)... and each answer is voteable.

Specifically this section: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30103938/xcode-6-1-3-cant-change-simulated-screen-size#answers-header

You see on the left it has an up arrow, total votes, down arrow, and in the case of the first answer it has a green tick... meaning it is the accepted answer.

So I need to know how to best represent that kind of voting system within this system. The tech is all good, no need to worry about that... but I want to put the voting interface on here in a way that looks really nice and is intuitive.

Maybe we copy what Stack Overflow is doing, and put those buttons under the avatar on the left of the comment. Maybe we deviate a little. Maybe we care about showing the split of up votes vs downvotes, maybe we don't care about that... just the overall score.

Then there is the issue of how questions appear within a forum or search results. Right now you have these speech bubbles for conversations, and calendars for events. What's the icon for a question? And how do we show which questions have answers? I'm thinking that where we show "NEW" we could show a tick in a green box if it's been answered (or "won" in the case of the photo comp.

So primarily what I lack is the ability to draw pretty pictures, for how the interface looks... and then produce the few assets needed to actually build the interface.

Given that this will potentially introduce comment reordering, I am concerned that the exisitng "in reply to" UI will not be up to the job.

It is already a source of complaint for quite a few users, with the UX "jolt / context switch" of having to click and do a page reload to see the replied-to comment.

In a thread that is dynamically reordering over time, this will become more of an issue, IMO.

Would it be a good time to revisit this user experience?

Also, shall we move this discussion out of this thread and into a specific one?

Yeah, love this thread but can't keep up with it now.
Wouldn't it be great to have a slide show module which people could just add their entires to? Or maybe a grid of small photos which enlarge on click/over. Saves hunting out posts.
Sorry.

For the Q&A threads, the "reply" button will initially disappear.

Later on, it will return and result in the replies being nested below the comment.

Initially, each "answer" should be a stand-alone comment. For the photo competition this works fine.

So what I need to know is does this mean I start a new thread for each weeks photo challenge @Velocio?

If that is the case people will need to subscribe to the new thread each week which I guess is fine but we might loose people as we switch each week.

Photography is a forum now, people can subscribe to the forum to be notified about every new topic in here.

Ok, that's perfect.

could we create an imgur account that we share - lfgssphotochallenge and upload it to there. you could create albums for each topic. Or is there a good reason to keep it all on this site's server?

The good reason is identity for voting.

Let's get this "how to run the competition chat" into its own thread.

That I created.

Here

Has this been resolved yet?

It's being dealt with ;)

Can we submit photos yet?

Go ahead, keanulooser has already.

If some magical picture viewing system appears you can always repost