Well, some of you may have noticed that sometime yesterday, the
MoFo Lists area was down for maintenance. Why? So glad you asked.
Earlier in the thread Holden pointed out that when you checked a movie off of one list, it wasn't automatically checked off of the others. This was due to the rather simplistic nature of the system as it was first constructed. It was done relatively quickly, and though I think I'm generally pretty good about thinking ahead in these sorts of matters, in this case the system I'd built really wasn't very expandable/flexible.
So, I spent a fair number of hours last week, and several more yesterday and today, fundamentally revamping large portions of it. Now, movies are stored in one place, with no duplicates, meaning that a movie checked off one list is automatically checked off any others it might be on.
This probably seems like a lot of time and effort to devote to such a relatively small feature. It is. However, the changes needed to add this small feature (properly, at least) also allowed for some other new features, and greater expansion down the line.
As a result, list updates are now tracked. That means that people can see who added what, and when. At the moment, all you'll see is the most recent updates on the bottom of the
MoFo Lists page, but before long you'll be able to...
- Browse all updates chronologically
- Browse updates on a per-user basis
- Subscribe to receive notifications when a user updates a list
The first two should be available sometime this week (I'll post here when they are, of course).
New lists coming soon, too. The BFI will be next.
Hope you all dig the changes. They look minor on the outside right now, but will make a lot of new features possible moving forward.