2024‐12‐18 Questy 2.0 brainstorming

In attendance

Byron, Ashley, Tim

Projects

• might be first draft, 2nd draft, ...
• related projects might be part of a collection (novel)
• challenging to know how people might use the system
• flexible enough structure for users to do what they do with it

Goals

• if two goals, each is worth 50%?
• Weight the goals? Doable but what would the UI look like for that? Could just type in a weight.
• Creating goals (goal, unit, a number field has to sum up to 1)?
• Standard unit (one standard unit of progress = 1 word written)
  • then we can convert other units to words
  • e.g., 1 hour of editing = 1000 words written (let people deal with advanced options)
  • or time? How long does it take you to write 1000 words? Or write one blog post?
  • ultimately, everything comes down to time spent (efficient time spent)
  • but people don't track time
  • everything could be related to decimal hours (e.g., words to hours, blog posts to hours)

Privacy

• people might be concerned with the privacy of title, genre
  • hide some things? share some things?
  • stats only privacy

Groups

• a way for people to find each other (for buddies)
• a way to receive group communications
• geographical tags
  • coordinates (would be easier to be searchable)
  • coordinate + radius (is there an API to find the city where the coordinate is)
  • map + pin?
  • cities
  • countries
  • doesn't have to be exact
  • free form tags?
  • there are enclaves within LA that are different cities (e.g., Beverly Hills != LA)
• Making a group for LA vs. a neighborhood or region in LA
• Searching for a group
  • search by text
  • option to narrow down by geographical region
  • there are people who are entirely digital
  • locationality of groups is an optional parameter
  • search by timezone

Next meeting

• January 7, 2025, 5-6 PM CST

Mindmap

• Questy 2.0

  • Quest

    • collaborative graphs

      • table of participants, overall progress, name of

        selected projects, message?

      • word count, hours edited, % completion graphs

      • daily totals for participants

      • badges view of achievements

    • goal(s)

    • Project(s)

      • selected by the user for inclusion in the Quest

      • sum up the project stats to get the overall progress for

        the user for the Quest

    • Quest guide(s)

      • user who created the Quest + other users who the Quest

        creator elevated to Quest Guide

      • only the Quest owner can elevate or demote a participant

        to Quest Guide

      • Quest Guides can remove participants

    • a collaborative writing tracking event (people aren't

      posting on it). Users can find other Quest participants (and their stats) and can receive broadcast messages from the Quest Guides

    • Page/tab of past broadcasts (an info page with the

      description of the Quest). Like a Facebook wall, but only Guides can post to that wall. Guides update the corkboard (users can react to the posts with emojis, all of which are pleasant).

  • Communication

    • DM from one user to another

      • for buddies (mutual)

    • Broadcast message from a User to Buddies

    • Broadcast message from Quest Guide to participants

    • Direct message from participants of a Quest to Quest Guides

      • can be started as a reply to a broadcast message

    • Broadcast message from a Group Guide to participants

    • Direct message from a participant to their Group Guide

      • can be started as a reply to a broadcast message

    • no forums

    • E-mail notification to users from both broadcast and direct

      messages

    • start with simple plain text for both DM and broadcast

      messages

      • https://gist.github.com/matthewzring/9f7bbfd102003963f9be7dbcf7d40e51 -

        what discord does (simple markdown features)

  • Group

    • group name

    • group description

      • with simple markdown for adding links to external

        resources for the group

    • geographical tags (an optional parameter for searches)

      • geocoding can be pricey

      • worldwide, there aren't good sources of data

      • search by timezone

      • coordinate + radius (US maps zip codes to coordinates

        around neighborhood names within that radius) (simple to search by coordinate + radius)

      • free text tagging

    • group guide(s)

      • user who created the Group + other users who the Group

        creator elevated to Group Guide

    • (not a setting, just a definition) visibility of members in

      a group to other members in that group

      • group members can see the public projects of other group

        member users

    • discoverability

      • group admin can elect to make the group unsearchable

        (non-discoverable) - a private group (invitation only)

    • joinable?

      • group admin approval required to join

    • Page/tab of past broadcasts (an info page with the

      description of the Quest). Like a Facebook wall, but only Guides can post to that wall. Guides update the corkboard (users can react to the posts with emojis, all of which are pleasant).

  • Privacy

    • private

    • visible to mutually 1:1 buddies

    • public stats-only (no genre/title)

      • nice to have

    • public only within a group

    • public

  • User

    • Collection

      • Collection

        • Project

          • projects can be archived (kept around for

            nostalgia sake but deemphasized (e.g., earlier drafts no longer relevant))

        • flexibility to name a collection: a novel, an

          anthology, chapter, ...

      • Project

    • Project

      • Project goal(s)

        • # words written

        • # hours edited

        • % complete

        • other (e.g., # blogposts written)

      • Project progress

        • # words written

        • # hours edited

        • % complete

        • other (e.g., # blogposts written)

        • convert everything to hours (in the backend) and

          come up with a good UI/UX

        • Let people reverse the units as needed to deal with

          orders of magnitude problems

    • Role(s)

      • user

      • quarantined user

      • verified user

      • guide user

        • people sign an agreement and perhaps get training to

          be enabled to become a guide

          • reference material + quiz requiring 100% correct

            answers (but you can do it as many times as you want)

        • quest guide

          • for specific quests

        • group guide

          • for specific groups

      • admin

      • superadmin

    • Buddies

      • people who follow the User and whom the User follows

        (mutual following)

      • buddies can view each others publicly visible projects,

        project stats, participating quests