FemmeAppeal's posts

bungle wrote:
try this: https://www.tvmaze.com/users/46192/femmeappeal/posts

Well that does function as a workaround. Thx.

But if it's a sub-page off of my profile, as the URL would suggest, then it should be a fairly simple think to make it accessible via our profile?

I've tried to search for any indication this had already been fully discussed or suggested, but the pieces of the thread below are all I could find.

Cadence wrote 3 years ago:

2. Is there anyway to find forum posts I previously made? Or a list of followed forum threads? I can see article comments on profiles, but it only has a number related to 'social' for forum posts. I went back and found my posts manually, followed the threads, but cannot seem to find that info in my profile either.

Thomas wrote 3 years ago:

You could write your own name in the forum search to find your own posts or use terms about previous topics if you remember what you were talking about .

The problem is, Thomas' suggestion doesn't work. I tried searching for my own username in the forum and got zero results.

Is it possible to tie our forum activity to our site profile - actual thread links, not just that we posted or replied x # of times - so we can easily find our old conversations? I'd personally even like mine to be on my public profile, but I realize that not everyone would prefer that, which means adding opt-in/opt-out functionality as well. But I think it's worth exploring regardless.

Cecile wrote:
I don't see the point. The website is already PWA, so why would you need an app ? It's useless

Well for those who still watch TV on any kind of schedule, and/or if the forum will be tied to the app; more comprehensive push notification settings. PWAs have push notifications, but their fairly limited by the notification settings available in the menu on the OS version you have.

And there are other features of a phone that a PWA really can't get to at all. Meanwhile, integrating new Android or iOS functions is generally a lot more work with a PWA than a regular app. Even if a site is built with app functionality, the actual interactions with your phone are limited if it's not either an OS-specific app or the website itself is designed to have ties to the OS that are as intricate and complicated as something like Facebook or Twitter. Plus, PWAs don't always work as well with legacy devices/browsers as they do with newer devices/browsers that are still under active support. And as someone who affords the phone/tablet she needs by buying devices a few years old, which may or may not be getting the latest OS updates (still crossing fingers on my Lenovo Tab 4 and Android 10), that legacy issue can be a real PITA. :)

And for the site admins, they can get better traffic data off of an app, which can help with website ad revenue.

In the OS-specific app vs. PWA-only debate there are pros and cons for both sides. But a PWA doesn't come close to entirely replacing an actual app, and I don't imagine it will do so in the near future.

I tried to add a Crew Appearance to the most recent season finale of Adam Ruins Everything, "Adam Ruins Himself," but I'm guessing I don't have the site clout necessary for making an addition on those pages.

https://www.tvmaze.com/crewappearance/manage?episode_id=1679602

The last scene of the episode is them wrapping the show for the season, and Adam is having an in-episode-narrative conversation with the Executive Producer, Jon Wolf. There are probably at least a few more legit crew members in that scene, but Wolf is the only one I was able to easily identify and confirm the identity of.

Edit: Oops, forgot to paste in the URL.

Gadfly wrote:
The problem isn't the TOS: People who are willing to "play nice" will do so whether there is a TOS or not. The vast majority of those who aren't, aren't going to be stopped by a TOS. A TOS usually serves more as a legal defense: "Here's where we say what you can't do what you know you shouldn't be doing." And there's no way to create a TOS that's broad enough to cover every potential infraction. And if there was, it'd be so long that almost no one would read it. :(
Some reporting/moderation system would need to be in place. But at the end of the day, all you can really say is "Play nice, stay on topic, dont' advertise, and keep it workplace-safe."

Actually I was making a joke about the fact that TVMaze's current ToS is only 3 sentences long, so just adding 1-2 small paragraphs about comment rules would more than double its size. I wasn't trying to suggest that a ToS is somehow an adequate deterrent to trolling, bashing or other bad behavior. That would be rather silly and naive - especially in this context, since the IMDB's ToS is HUGE.

But obviously if you have to explain a joke, you didn't tell it properly to begin with. :)

Hi, I'm fairly new to TVM, but I had gotten the hang of most of the controls and decided to dip into the forums. And what do I find? The IMDB boards are to be no more? Holy crap! I had to Google it, because I hadn't heard about it yet. It absolutely floors me.

I have 17 years at the IMDB, The little anniversary marker they give you reminds me of 12-step chip. I find that amusing. But I've been there since before there were boards, since we didn't think to take note that they were owned by Amazon because most of us didn't know who in the hell Amazon was. I have seen the boards go from a place for film-lovers to geek out together to a bad-egg Twitter feed.

So if you even consider adding a show-level comments section, please have a moderation plan in place. Whether it's user-driven or you have a team approving comments, without proper moderation it will go the way of IMDB. Guidelines need to be set from the start, and they must be enforced with as little prejudice as possible. Off-topic, adult language, sexual subjects, political ties to the material - that's just a brief sample of subjects that need to be defined.

Too many forums have failed by adopting the approach of "People are adults, just agree not to attack or harass each other and it'll be fine." Sadly that rarely works out. Your ToS is going to need some seriously beefing up if you go this route, or eventually chaos will ensue.