[One Line Suggestions]

[eradicator]

Preface:
I only have a small suggestion, so making a whole new thread for it seems overkill. With more active work being done on the portal (yay!) wouldn't it be prudent to introduce an active/implemented/rejected system like in the API requests forum? Readability of this forum is slowly decreasing as it becomes a mix of bug reports, feature requests, implemented suggestions and general discussion. For the moment i'll put anything i notice here and hopefully remember to [ strike ] out things that are implemented (other people are welcome to join, and i don't mind if the implementing dev does the [ strike ]'ing).

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One Line Suggestions (mine):

• Ability to change the internal mod name (time limited? license-like requests?) / Set a forward to a successor mod.
• Remove gravatar as nobody uses it. Allow uploading custom avatar instead, or use forum avatar.

Link Collection (in no particular order, first thread i found):

• Mod pack support (Planned for 0.17)
• Better search function / Tag based in-/exclusion filtering.
• Option to hide deprecated mods completely
• Support for multiple tags per mod.
• New tag: "library"
• New tag: "scenario"
• Show latest mod version in quick-info panel.
• Multi-language support.
• Uploading images via URL link
• Subscribing to mods / mod authors / "Favourites".
• Stable/Experimental/Private release channel support.
• More relevant download statistics. / (Per Version) Rating system. / Steam-like "recent" rating system.
• User reviews like on steam.
• Grouping similar / dependant mods on search page.
• Hide images used in the information page text from the image bar.
• Remove differences between portal and github markdown.
• Make full mod-portal description available in-game.
• Search result "Download" button should respect game version filter
• Mod author biography / self introduction.
• "My collaboration" or mark collaborations in "My mods"
• More granular "deprecated" support (per mod/base version)
• Support for referencing transparent images / removing the white border
• Custom sort order for "my mods" page (i.e. "by name")
• Seperate pages for deprecated mods and active mods under "my mods"
• Allow non-github source code locations
• An official API for automating mod *up*loading/updating.
• Add information.md and faq.md auto-update from uploaded mod.zip.

Partially implemented

• None Partial ☆
  

Already implemented

• Filter by game version Done★
• Allow deprecating old mods.Done★
• Allow changing ownership, and adding collaborators.Done★
• Add an FAQ tab. Done★
• Show mod dependencies with direct links to each mod. Done★
• Moderating (delete/rename) of discussions. Done★
• Seperate the "thumbnail" from the images bar.Done★
• Automatic dependency download Done★
• On-Portal and Email notifications for discussions Done★
• Automatically show the changelog from the most recent mod.zip in a seperate tab. Done★
• Trending mods search Done★

Stars collected: ★★★★★★★★★★★

[Bilka]

Sort by game version, current experimental by default.

[darkfrei]

Change color by the General

[Sanqui]

Done:

• The gallery now only shows up if two or more pictures are present. I might separate the thumbnail completely in the future.
• Threads can now be locked or trashed.
• Searches can now be filtered by version.
• Dependency names now show up in full.

[dgw]

Done:

• The gallery now only shows up if two or more pictures are present. I might separate the thumbnail completely in the future.
• Threads can now be locked or trashed.
• Searches can now be filtered by version.
• Dependency names now show up in full.

I am unreasonably excited that this happened so quickly. Thanks!

[Bilka]

Searches can now be filtered by version.

No 0.17 category tag? There's already a mod that would need that :P

[dgw]

Searches can now be filtered by version.

No 0.17 category tag? There's already a mod that would need that

On this topic, I'm not sure the version filter is working correctly. No results are returned for https://mods.factorio.com/query/warehou ... rsion=0.16, though there are multiple versions of Warehousing available for 0.16.

[eradicator]

Testing...

• ×　Version tags return zero results if combined with any other /query.
• ✔　Dependency
• ✔　Gallery
• ✔　Lock/Trashing (Renaming to add a [Solved] tag might still be nice. Makes the discussions/mod look active as opposed to deleting them all and leaving an empty page. ;)

OP updated accordingly.

[eradicator]

Saw the Trending feature. But as it doesn't communicate why something is trending (downloads during last day/week? including users just updating from old version?) i don't really know what to call it in the list :p.

Also pressing "View trashed threads" if i'm not logged in gives a standard white "403 Forbidden You don't have the permission to access the requested resource. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server" page. I guess the button was supposed to be hidden for people other than the mod author?

[Sanqui]

An update for you:

• Searching while providing a version tag has been fixed
• Editing thread titles is now possible
• There is a tab with trending mods

The "trending" algorithm is secret sauce, of course ;)
Nah, the way it works is it simply considers the past month of mod downloads in account and if there was a spike in the recent days, the mod is considered trending. This prevents simply popular mods that get downloaded all the time from showing up. It's just another way to browse for fresh mods :)

Also pressing "View trashed threads" if i'm not logged in gives a standard white "403 Forbidden You don't have the permission to access the requested resource. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server" page. I guess the button was supposed to be hidden for people other than the mod author?

Thanks for reporting that, yes, it's only for mod managers.

Anyway, the next thing I'll be working on is notifications.

[eradicator]

An update for you:

• Searching while providing a version tag has been fixed
• Editing thread titles is now possible

1) Was already moved to completed a few days ago
2) Yay! Moved to completed. (Though now i want to edit the category too, most people post bug reports as "General".)

The "trending" algorithm is secret sauce, of course
Nah, the way it works is it simply considers the past month of mod downloads in account and if there was a spike in the recent days, the mod is considered trending.

What i meant is: It doesn't communicate this to the user anywhere. There's no "50 downloads in the last 24 hours! (⬆12%)" or "2000 downloads last month! (⬇20%)" (i.e.: "More relevant download statistics." in the OP). I.e. no way for the user to see *why* something is considerd trending, or how much more trending it is than the next trending thing. The other two (most downloaded all time / recently updated) clearly show the information why they're ordered like they are.

This prevents simply popular mods that get downloaded all the time from showing up. It's just another way to browse for fresh mods

Place two in trending is currently RSO, which is the mod with the highest download count on the portal. So i'd say the secret sauce needs more spices .

Having a good way to find new mods is a really good idea though generally. I used to do it via "recently updated", but that heavily favours mods that get (sometimes suspiciously) frequent updates.

[Sanqui]

I lied, I implemented changelogs instead :)

I also made it possible to edit thread categories.

I am quite satisfied with the trending algorithm, but I may add some information to each mod like eradicator suggested.

[Deadlock989]

I lied, I implemented changelogs instead

Most excellent.

[Oktokolo]

Please support the same BBCode in the mod portal discussions as in the Forum.

[KnoT]

0.17 version tag

[Coppermine]

It would be helpful if the fact that a mod is deprecated were visible in the in-game mod list. That way I could know for example that I should not expect it to be updated to 0.17 and I can delete it rather than waiting.

[mrudat]

Pull description from README.md if present.

[DaveMcW]

Pull description from README.md if present.

The mod portal markdown implementation is rather quirky, so the description usually requires some editing to look nice.

[mrudat]

Pull description from README.md if present.

The mod portal markdown implementation is rather quirky, so the description usually requires some editing to look nice.

GitHub markdown != mod portal markdown sufficiently so that what looks right on GitHub may need to be edited so it looks right on the mod portal sufficiently such that it no longer looks right on GitHub? Well, that's a little disappointing.

[darkfrei]

Please add markdown to changelog:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/DoubleSpe ... /changelog