Future Development of Program

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Future Development of Program

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A couple of people have asked recently about what new directions the development of the program might take in the near future. I haven't had much time to spend on the program in recent months, and I had planned to spend the summer months working on a better way to update the foreign language versions of the program, which would have been the first new development on the program in a while.

I still plan to do this, but something else has arisen which I think takes priority. This is that I now have the opportunity to get the Deck Exchange onto the same server as the website. This would make it much easier to maintain the two things and it would be ** to run, so it makes sense to do that first.

At the same time I am planning to build some new features into the DE. The main new feature would be to allow people to add comments to the decks they share and exchange. The sharer's comments would always be at the top of the list, followed by any comments added by other users. I think this would be helpful to everyone, it certainly seemed to be a popular feature when the DE was purely server based rather than following a P2P model. Users could also comment on the decks they download, pointing out where the decks are missing cards, for example. This has been happening on the forum to some extent, but making that sort of information available at download time is obviously much more useful.

As always, any comments or further suggestions will be appreciated, just post on this thread. :-)
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Sounds great to me! Whatever you decide to do, I know I'll be happy <:o)
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Re: Future Development of Program

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I'd really like to see "date added" with the decks, so I could search and see only the new additions
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Hi Zen,

Yes, that sounds like a good idea. I think any changes that the sharer makes such as adding pop-up notes, a background etc would also be of interested to other users of the program, so I will make it a date updated/added field rather than just a date added one. Then you can sort on that column and find the ones that interest you. I don't want to make the search any more complicated at the moment, but I am upgrading to SQL 2005 and changing the stored procedure that gets the search results to make it more efficient.

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