Future Development of Program
Posted: Mon 23 Jun, 2008 7:02 pm
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.
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.
