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2012-03-27 00:02:25: Alex edited Sort/show by Rarity buttons in Spoiler:

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2012-03-27 00:02:09: Alex commented on Sort/show by Rarity buttons in Spoiler

Makes a lot of sense. I think this is basically the same issue as Filter when viewing Visual spoiler/Cardlist, but nonetheless thanks for the prompt; I could probably add this pretty quickly without having to finish the whole big refactoring skeleton/cardlist/VS integration that I've got planned.

2012-03-26 19:50:53: M_Houlding created the card Sort/show by Rarity buttons in Spoiler

2012-03-25 21:22:32: Alex edited Can't generate a skeleton:

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2012-03-25 21:14:24: Alex commented on Bad card url encoding

I edited the details page to use proper Markdown for you.

2012-03-25 21:13:30: Alex edited Bad card url encoding:

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2012-03-19 19:21:25: Jack V commented on New site name

I also like how Blind Eternities sounds, and I think it's fine that it's referring to the space rather than the planes. But on the downside, it sounds a bit clunky as a domain name, and it's even more so wizards' intellectual property (since multiverse is just an internal database, and is also a common word), and I don't know if it'd be meaningful to people not already steeped in magic creative.

(I'd never heard of it before now, or forgotten -- I love a lot of the flavour wizards invents for planes, but never got into the flavour of the universe or the famous stories.)

2012-03-19 19:03:35: Vitenka commented on Allow unspecified rarity

It'd be nice if you could specify the default you prefer somehow (defaulting to common is kinda useful when you're creating a lot of commons)

But yeah, just leaving the rarity off if they forget to specify one is probably saner.

2012-03-09 20:59:55: Link commented on New site name

The Blind Eternities sounds fancy. If you're worried about Wizards disliking that, you could go with some obvious riff off of that, like the Seeing Infinities. Or the Infinite Visions. Or... something better.

2012-03-09 17:09:20: cmeister2 commented on New site name

I was also thinking about Blind Eternities, but I was put off flavourfully because it's the chaotic space between planes and not the place in which they reside. But that's not a great reason.

If you can get multiverse.net somehow that'd be awesome :)

2012-03-09 11:06:03: jmgariepy commented on Completed sets are invisible

I don't know how many sets would ever be considered done, then. All my slots are filled for Magic 20XD6. I still have occasional flavor text, testing and maybe images to put in. I don't ever think I'll be 'done'. I would assume that applies to many people.

2012-03-09 09:28:17: Vitenka commented on Completed sets are invisible

Well, you could just have a way for the owner to flag a set as done?

2012-03-09 09:00:26: Alex commented on Completed sets are invisible

Ooh, interesting. Particularly given the somewhat unclear definition of "completed". I do see the problem, but I'm not quite sure what to do about it. Perhaps on the front page I could list the number of cardsets, but also say "of which [29] have more than 150 cards", or "have their target number of cards" (deduced from the skeleton).

2012-03-09 07:59:32: jmgariepy commented on Completed sets are invisible

Does the front page show 5 random cards in Multiverse, or 5 cards at random from 5 random sets? If it's the former, then people who put in the work and make a lot of cards would get the bump. If it's the latter, however, the focus gets shifted to the large number of people who made 10 or less cards, then flew away. Kind of reminds me of the big state vs. little state problem we had/have when writing the U.S. Constitution. Except, in this situation, I'd think that we'd prefer to favor those who did the work...

2012-03-09 07:17:26: Vitenka created the card Completed sets are invisible

2012-03-09 05:07:27: jmgariepy commented on New site name

I like the word 'forge', but I've noted that so don't a lot of other people. Too many other non-Multiverse projects have tacked that word into their working title.

How about "The Blind Eternities"? The name sounds cool, anyone with a working knowledge of Magic flavor gets the reference that The Blind Eternities is a neutral zone between all planes, and, while I'd be a bit concerned about copyright infringement... well... you know... this is a site dedicated to designing your own Magic cards. I'm pretty sure that if Wizards felt threatened by us, they could take this whole operation down in nigh half a fortnight. As long as we're adding to the community, I wouldn't think they'd mind.

2012-03-08 17:56:48: dude1818 commented on New site name

I like Multiverse Cardset Database. BTW, www.multiverse.net will be available soon, since the company went out of business.

2012-03-08 17:17:01: Jack V commented on New site name

Better than the cost for ".verse" :) Although someone should eventually buy that :)

Open Multiverse has good connotations.

Cardsetorama? Tcgverse?

2012-03-08 17:09:24: cmeister2 commented on New site name

mu.ltiver.se :)

EDIT: ouch, ok. not at €79 a pop.

2012-03-08 16:27:49: Vitenka commented on New site name

Well, arbitrary top level domains are now available - multi.verse ?

2012-03-08 14:39:04: Alex edited New site name

2012-03-08 14:38:17: Alex commented on New site name

(Jack is referring to the potential new site names referred to in the Multiverse user survey.)

Yeah, currently people are mostly in favour of keeping the name "Multiverse". I am factoring in a significant element of "That's what I'm used to", but there's also reasonable amounts of "none of the others are very good".

Part of the problem is that there isn't much clear concept for what a cardset is. An MTG expansion. A new world (hence "plane").

Further ideas, mostly bad:

Magic Set Designer (sounds too much like MSE)
Cardset DB (boring-a-rama)
MyCardset (sounds like it's aimed at 12 year olds)
Multiverse Expansion or other variants on Multiverse Something
Open Multiverse (similar to Jack's "Parallel Multiverse", which I also quite like)

2012-03-08 14:23:40: Jack V commented on New site name

I wanted to comment on the possible domain names (Multimultiverse, Plane Maker, Planar Forge), and expected other people might too.

I'm really not sure. I didn't really like any of the suggested ones, but I'm not sure how much that's because I'm used to "Multiverse" -- maybe you should ask some people who are NOT current users of multiverse what they think? :)

Multimultiverse sounds relevant but clunky. The two "planar" suggestions sound fine, but I'm not sure how much people will associate them with magic.

I tried to think of other suggestions, and nothing came to mind, sorry!

I agree "Multiverse" is most apt, but has the somewhat downside that it's a bit generic, and the big downside that it may infringe wizards (I mean, they probably haven't copyrighted it because it's only used internally, but it might be impolite. OTOH, they might not care, I don't know.)

I wonder if there may be some variant of "Multiverse" that has the right connotations? "Public multiverse"? "Parallel multiverse"? "Clockwork Multiverse"? "Hyperverse"?

2012-03-08 14:17:18: Jack V edited New site name

2012-03-08 14:17:09: Jack V created the card New site name

2012-03-08 13:56:32: Alex commented on Cockatrice integration

This was a suggestion in the feedback survey, and it seems like it'd actually be pretty easy.

Notes to self:

Instructions on how to import from web. Example XML cardset list. It appears to need card spoilers formatted like this, but I can probably arrange for that.

2012-03-08 13:54:32: Alex created the card Cockatrice integration

2012-03-08 09:17:16: Jack V commented on the cardset Multiverse Feedback

:)

Thanks!

2012-03-08 09:08:02: Alex commented on the cardset Multiverse Feedback

Yep, sorry about that. When trying to tighten up security, I managed to, ah, tighten it up a bit too much. Should be fixed now.

2012-03-08 08:58:15: Jack V commented on the cardset Multiverse Feedback

Me too. Alex says he's working on it :)