weekyOLM #23 (9th June 2022) — community edition
This article was generated without further editing by the following contributors:
- Seán,
- Fred,
- Ya boy Geni xD
- Newman
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Instead of letting 1 person (Seán) write it every week, we decided to make it a joint effort so bear with us, it might be strange, but that’s what we do, we think about something that would be nice, we do it, we test it, we reflect upon it and adapt if necessary.
This week we are going to give it a try and we are curious what you think about it.
If you have a complaint: tell us. If you like it: tell it to other people.
And as always: if you want to be part of it: all you have to do, is join.
Regards: Fred
During previous meetup, the functionality was introduced to make it easier to re-use a so called ‘custom-tag’, (a wish from the community) so last week, we tested that and we can say: ‘very nice, working as a charm!’).
This week we even improved on it. In order to be able to use the search-field for this custom-tag, you needed to keep the complete list with ‘recently used tags’. As a result of that, the list was getting very long. Too long to be able to use it, actually.
So in todays meetup, some nice improvements were made that we are going to use this week. I, as a user that picks a lot of litter (so also have to do a lot of tagging) am very happy with the new features and i can’t wait to use them. Well, actually, i don’t have to, because it is live, i can use it already!
(Fred).
This week’s updates revolve mostly around the tagging mechanism and include:
- We’ve disabled some tags that had a material definition in them, like ‘plastic packaging’, and instead we’ve added new ones that are more universal and make more sense to use. (okay, one small edit, this PR is not merged yet, it still has to be reviewed and there is some disagreement about it)
- We’ve added a simple conversion mechanism to support the old or current mobile apps that will continue to submit the old tags. We’ve written automated unit tests to make sure things works as expected.
- Added translations for the new tags and the Material category tags.
- Allow removing a specific recent tag on the tagging page, it could get pretty long for our power-users and if you have one in the list that you don’t want to press by accident, you can delete it to be sure you don’t.
- Suggested users’ historic custom tags when tagging, they do not appear at the Recent Tags, but when searching for tags. Also available in the Admin verification screen and Bulk Tagging modal. This is helpful to keep tags organized and we intend to suggest tags from all users, not just your own. To be determined how this goes.
- Bulk Tagging: Made the images and the modal bigger; showed 30 images at once instead of 15; you can double click to zoom them, and added the Picked Up option.
- Fastened the map animation player to 5fps, it was a bit slow for large areas of litter
Hopefully, by next week or so, we might:
- Allow users to define their own keyboard shortcuts, so that they can auto-add tags with a few keystrokes
- Show the user’s name or username when they mine a Littercoin, if their privacy allows it.
- Fix the various stats about the new Material category that will identify as a litter tag, when it shouldn’t.
Group’s Free Notes — Newman, and…. (put your name here)
Open Litter Map is 10 years old!
Photo gallery — the ideal is ‘smooth’ , simple not ‘fancy’ animate
Fixing the XP in the mobile — matches the web version
And social links — changing the flag
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Animations? -
Good ux on the photo gallery — showing what’s selected — How is apple doing it? Looking for established pattern — “Reinvent the wheel”
Select many tags — (on the trello board) “Add a new button to …”
UX design at Apple Corp.
People expect the tools to work like other apps
Code for the Web
- Allow remove a recent tag
- Bugfix #494
Fred Shows his OLM web and the recent tags and custom tags. He types in the search and auto populated input field.
The problem of tagging multiple times and making the process as smooth and friction-less
Shortcuts for tagging
Fiver or a service for “Adults with Challenges” — data taggers,
Getting to the AI stage of having a crap ton of the data. AI is coming but still needs human inspection and review. We as a society hasn’t gotten there yet
Litterati changes … alittle bashing , not too much
Fred’s wishlist — images and uploading… the old uploads that need updated tags, for a tag that didn’t exist when uploaded
Needed — “Give me all the ltter tagged “energy’ between these dates”
Can you correct your tags? … not yet
Sean — the way it should / could work — removing some tags and including the material . Pre-selecting the second category
Open question about tagging
Luke defaults to plastic … tagging before upload… and the specialized taggers after? The best data is our goal. Tagged is better than untagged.
Project Catalyst -
A few proposals in Fund9!
Maybe put in the weekly somewhere (some of my own notes (Fred):
- really nice video made by Frank. Still WIP, he says, but we already love it.
- If you have some footage of you picking litter and want to be in the video, let Frank know
- Would be nice to have a versionnumber in the webversion and some history about what happened in which version?
- In app, bugfix on the way: fix xp
- Do we need to review custom-tags? Or have a flag of some kind indicating that these custom-tags can be re-used/selected by all users. (so 1 person creates for intance ‘object:jointtube’, we say that this is a tag that is useful and from that moment on, other people will find it if they type ‘joint’ so they are more likely to re-use that tag instead of typing 20 versions of the same kind of tag
