Now that the new season has a date and it's coming up in

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Here's how the last one turned out if you'd like to discuss that.

At this point I'm not sure if Return of harmony will ever not be #1, but I think the others have a chance of shifting.
Anticipating anything moving much from it's current spot here /mlp/?

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I'll slowly post the other charts too to bump this up.

>>29650393
Hey, look at that, the faggot who takes weeks to finish the list isn't going to miss this one. And I finally have an excuse to rewatch the last two seasons, which is great news.

>>29650393
I feel like All Our Ideas is an awful was to gather meaningful data.

Yeah, the pictures won't load from either of the links I have saved. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77412572/My%20Little%20Pony%20Favorite%20Episodes%20Sorter.html is the newest one, right?

I think parts one and two should be two separate items.

Have you considered making a category (like season or writer) to compare episodes with different numbers of songs in them? I tend to prefer episodes with music, and am wondering if that is a trend.

>>29650760
>the pictures won't load
I take that back. It didn't work when we last spoke some weeks ago.

>>29650730
I find it kinda funny that that guy has enough of a reputation for that in order to be remembered.

>>29650760
>I feel like All Our Ideas is an awful was to gather meaningful data.
How so? It did give a good deal more Anons the chance to participate it seems. If I could figure out a way to make them answer the other questions before sorting then it would be perfect.

The sorter loads images for me, and it seems it eventually did for you too, but they sometimes didn't load and there's the problem of them loading multiple images if you happen to figure out which thing you like more fast enough, I'm hoping some Anon may lend their skill to finding a solution to that.

>Have you considered making a category (like season or writer) to compare episodes with different numbers of songs in them? I tend to prefer episodes with music, and am wondering if that is a trend.
I can make another separate chart to compare the musical episode like I do for the episode ranking by central character, but I'd have to think to see if it'll make it into the main graphic.

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>>29650393
>the gap of season 1 and 2 grows ever larger each time as nostalgiafags flood back to the "dead" fandom
is there even a reason to vote?

>>29650888
To make sure your opinion is counted. If everyone got discouraged that their result was different from what they perceived as the norm then there wouldn't be any chance for something different to come up.
I know the S1/S2 bias is really heavy here, but it's still nice to see the really good stuff from the other seasons float to the top. I don't think it's hopeless for things to change if enough Anons find that they like other episodes more anyway.

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>>29650888
Looking at that chart it seems like 70% of the board has seen every episode at least once too.
That's not too terribly bad considering how loud some of the Anons that don't watch the show can be.

It's not saving cookies for me and the selections are not being randomized. am I using an outdated link?

>>29651002
I think that may have been one of the things lost when the last Anon worked on it.

>>29650993
less than half have seen the movies. is it any wonder theyre so heavily biased against them?

so why do we hate the mysterious mare do well so much?

>>29651023
Nope, but if that's the way the board is then I'd rather it be represented accurately.
In the case of these surveys it could just be that Anons like pony more and even if they like the movies that fact puts them way down their rankings.

>>29651028
Way too harsh a penalty for what Dash was doing, uncharacteristically from the other main 6, is it I think. Same reason 28 Pranks Later got a bad rap.

>>29651028
>we

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>>29651247
>SaYS
>0
erritiem

>>29651365
Every time except the last one post S6 with Breezies and Applejack's Day Off being pushed below it.

Bump for opinions.

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>>29650915
>To make sure your opinion is counted
spending 5 hours to have it buried under a mountain of autists who spend 10 minutes clicking up every episode from season 1 and 2 isnt my idea of being heard.

This will be my first MLP season premiere following the death of my mother.

>>29651765
go to bed rainbow dash

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is the new season srsly actually coming out on april 15? that's my birthday

>>29651664
I understand. I'm not going to try and make anyone participate, it does suck seeing an opinion buried like that, but I'd hate to see that keep Anons from participating. I'm going to try and accurately represent whatever kind of data I get like always, but know that even the outliers have an effect on the way the ranking looks in the end. At very least the favorite episodes at the top of lists usually get a nice boost.

>>29651826
According to zap2it it is.
http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic/episode-guide/EP01330416?aid=zap2it

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I also have this mid season 6 ranking I just found that I did to test the All Our Ideas sorter, but I didn't like the fact that I had to use those inaccurate scores from before I learned how to calculate them myself.

Bump before bed for visibility. I'm hoping some Anons have input about those questions in the OP.

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>>29651664
>people have different tastes than me
>that obviously means that they're wrong
>I'm not wasting my time giving my opinion too
>since my opinion isn't counted because I'm a lazy ass, I'll assume that the poll is rigged and my opinion is the only right one
e b i n

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>>29653172
i guess its just a coincidence when an entire season is listed in numerical order under the rest of the previous seasons.

>>29650393
Wait what? We already voted for episodes after Season 6. This is pointless.

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>>29653215
>I literally can't grasp the concept of people having different opinions
wew

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>>29653350
you cant kid a kidder, friend.

>>29653232
Usually the survey before a season is to see how the previous one ended up settling down now that it's not in recent memory. I find that it can make later episodes in the recent season move around, and it also gives confidence in the positions of the last one if they stay the same.

>>29653950
you barely got enough people to vote for bazzilion episodes last time, now you want them to vote again.
I am not a retard, i judged the episode according and compared to all other episodes in previous seasons. Im not going to change the rates couple of months after.
Unless you want to check if Glimmer shitposting will make people vote less for her episodes. Becasue next vote is only going to be more biased.

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>>29650393
Could I have a look at the sorter? I might try doing something faster. It uses a merge sort, so having 2 rows of 4 episodes each and then have the person click on them in order of preference could easily cut down the time by ~40-60%.

>>29654305
Thanks Anon. Another Anon linked it up here:
>>29650760

>>29650393
>>29650403
>Anticipating anything moving much from it's current spot here /mlp/?

If Amending Fences remains in the no. 3 spot I'll eat my hat.

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>>29654356
Hmm. Not best, but I'll be able to use some parts, I guess.

>>29650393
You'll be doing that until...? I'm rewatching the whole series and I'm already at the half of S4. In a week or two I think I'll have rewatched everything.

>>29654754
A week after the season premieres.

>>29654690
I'm thankful for any kind of help i can get, so thanks for whatever you come up with Anon.
I did notice that if you were quick enough to select multiple choices that it would load more than one image per item, and sometime images wouldn't load at all. Also, the one thing I need it to do is to generate the same kind of list at the end since I take that and copy paste it into Excel and run some macros to add the data.
Otherwise, Anons seemed to like the save feature and the auto-save cookies. I find the concept of ranking 4 at a time intriguing.

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>>29654929
It returned <# of points> <ep. name> if I remember right, so that shouldn't be hard. The way it shows images currently is not optimal, to say the least, as it apparently downloads the wiki page each time, to find out the image link.

Also the sort would be something like
9 6 3 2
8 7 5 4
So way easier to sort than if it were completely random.

>>29655178
It made a ranked list that was like the ones in this thread:
http://arch.b4k.co/mlp/thread/28916848

As long as it follows this format it should be fine. The sorter there made e a table with borders and that info at the end.

I have stuff I need to do for a while, so I won't be around for a bit.

Boop.

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>>29655178
I'm back now. This is what a completed ranking looks like in that sorter if it helps.

>>29655178
Bump while I wait for this Anon to update.

>>29658006
Thanks book pone.

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Bump before bed.

>>29659380
bump before bed from an anon with a much worse sleep schedule

For those of you who participated in this last time, did you think the All Our Ideas part of that survey was an okay thing to add?
A little under 3/4 of the participants came from that one, but, traditional sorter aside of course, I'm not sure if it ended up giving a broader result, or a sparse result over many Anons

>>29660635
I don't like the All Our Ideas because all it takes is one autist clicking for 2 hours to skew the results. The standard episode sorter is more time consuming, yes, but also more telling, and you can shitpost itt about it. The sad truth is that we won't get many answers with it, though, since the replies are already dwindling. I wish there was some way to motivate anons.

>>29660837
100% of this

I'm currently on battle No.2 because I'm awful.

>>29660837
>>29660861
Balancing the need for uniform and accurate representation of opinion through surveys with the fact that they're a barrier to entry due to being so time consuming is why I had tried the All Our Ideas method for last time. It did produce a whole ton of votes, but again there was that loss of data per Anon and the risk of stuffing it with votes by a small group of dedicated autists.
I'd love to just do the sorter if the Anons were willing to do it. I guess I could attempt it without the All Our Ideas sorter just to see what happens, but I'm worried we'll end up with a dead thread if it doesn't catch on. The Anon there >>29655178 working on stuff may pull through with something that'll make it easier and less time consuming at least.

>>29660861
At least you have a lot of time.

Bump again for new sorter whenever it comes. Take your time though.

>>29662376

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>>29659380
Again.

>>29663918
Can't sleep bump.

>>29664756
bump before bed probably

Bump before work.

>>29666190
Surprisingly this doesn't happen as often as I'd think it would for /mlp/ when lists start coming in.

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>>29661395
If it goes well I'll have something working tonight. I've not done anything big in javascript, but that thing seemed pretty pajeet-tier to me, so I'm doing it from ground up and this time the code should hopefully be more readable than a perl script.

Few questions:
Can it be split into multiple files (js, css, ...)?
Can the images be self-hosted? It's little over 8MB total in png or 1.2MB in 60% jpg.

>>29666873
I just have a single HTML file in my public dropbox and that's where I host the survey link from for the current version. It can be split as long as it can work from a Dropbox though. Otherwise I'm open to suggestions on how to use something else to host it if multiple files won't work there.
I'm not sure what the download limit is for files hosted in Dropbox, but when I hosted the comics there I didn't have Anons often saying that they couldn't get to them. I'd still say the smaller images are a better bet to be safe though.

Thanks again for taking the time to do this Anon. I'm looking forward to seeing what you make.

>>29667198
Dropbox doesn't load HTML files directly anymore, just FYI. They stopped doing that a few months back.

>>29667450
Really? The link in >>29650760 still opens for me, so I wonder if that's just for free accounts.

>>29667613
Hm, you're right. It must be for free accounts then, as you say. They cited issues with phishing/spam as the reason, which wouldn't be a problem with paid accounts.

>>29667626
If you need me to test if things work on there then you can just link it and I'll throw it in my Dropbox to test it after I get home tonight.

>>29659748
Should've saved that for today since it's Pi day now.

>>29667613
I definitely don't pay for dropbox and have no issues

>>29666507
That's probably because Anons in this thread are smarter than average.

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>>29669110
>and have no issues
Issues with hosting HTML content? Because a free account would have no bearing on whether you can access it, just whether you can host it.

>>29667707
Looking into it more, it seems that business and pro users have a longer grace period: September 2017 is the deadline for them.

>>29669244
>Issues with hosting HTML content?
I misunderstood. carry on.

So soon my link will no longer work? bugger.

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Here's a prototype thing on a shitty filehosting. There's some polishing and enhancing to do but it should mostly work.
filehosting . org/file/details/649201/srt.7z
7zip pass: MWQzNDkyYzc3
(filehosting wants email to request download link you can just use guerrillamail dot com with non-scrambled address or something)

>>29669309
Worst case scenario, people will have to download the web page and access it locally. Shouldn't be too hard. Though all our ideas won't work with it...

>>29669434
Honestly, I like doing it one comparison at a time for the novelty. If you want to do more comparisons at a time, do all ~145! and just click and drag a list to sort.

But for serious if people are comparing more than two I think there should be a dragging list type of sorter and and enter button.

>>29669485
In reality it's really just one comparison at a time too (the two leftmost ones), you just see what's comping up next (=> faster reaction times and less mistakes). Plus you can fix your mistakes by selecting stuff that's wrongly not on the left. There definitely should be some visual indication.

>>29669434
I just got out of work now, so give me an hour or so to get home and I'll see how it works. Again, thanks for helping. I really appreciate it.

>>29669434
Okay, I'm home and uploaded it if you want to try it there:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77412572/sorter/sorter.html

Seems to work from the public link, and I know you said it needs polish and enhancing, but here's what I found testing it on Chrome and Firefox in case I found something you didn't.
Is it only supposed to do season 1 at the moment? If so, then Green Isn't Your Color's and Owl's Well's images are both broken it seems, and the rows tend to extend past the edge of the screen. I'm guessing you pick what you like most out of what you see, but some instruction at the top just in case may be nice.
List at the end and the concept seem okay though. Certainly an interesting way to do it, but I'd like to test it some more once you update it.

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>>29650403

If CotLM is still that high after s7 I leave this site

>>29669569
but what happens if you click one that isn't on the far left? Because I just kept clicking the one in the top left and it gave me them in order ep 1-26 but I clicked once one to the right of that and it flipped 5 and 6

>>29670156
but it's perfect Anon. Were you not also screaming out of happiness?

>>29670074
Yeah, that's just for testing. There's actually full list in one of the files but seasons 2-6 are commented out to make testing faster. The batch download failed to get couple images, I'm aware of that. I'm thinking maybe having it in columns might be better than rows too.

I'll probably put simple explanation about merge sort and that on top, maybe also make the two "first" episodes stand out visually.

>>29670188
You can click whatever you want and it gets sorted in that exact order. But since it's merge sort, the upper and the bottom sequences are already sorted by themselves, so usually, you'll either pick top left or bottom left.

>>29670191

I do not scream in happiness when DT dies

>>29670258
As much as I really liked that episode for what it did for the CMC, it did effectively kill of Diamond.
Which sucks cause I'd have liked to see what her and Silver were like after being reformed.

>>29670255
Columns sound like a good idea since it's natural for it to be best to worst from top to bottom. I'm not sure you really need to go into it with explaining the merge sort as much as explaining what to do though.

>>29670871
Also that was my bump before bed. Hit submit too fast and forgot what I was primarily doing.

>>29670602
>it did effectively kill of Diamond.
>Which sucks cause I'd have liked to see what her and Silver were like after being reformed.
Was it not the episode that reformed her? Is there not inevitably an inbound episode starring her?

Wow I need to sleep more what is wrong with me

No. 7

Middle of the night "What is a sleep schedule?" bump.

>>29669434
Just a quick observation here, there are other file sharing services slightly less obnoxious than the one you used, like pomf.cat or mixtape.moe, where you can upload the file and get a direct download link. No registration, no email, much simpler.

Here's a full list.
https://github.com/tsudoko/long-live-pomf/blob/master/long-live-pomf.md

>>29672247
I haven't started looking yet since it won't matter till September, but would you happen to know of a nice alternative to Dropbox as far as freely hosting web files goes?

>>29672485
I always used Google Drive for this kind of stuff, but ever since they removed the web hosting thing, I've been using firebase.google.com, which was the alternative that Google suggested for us.

It's not exactly newbie-friendly, it has millions of features you don't need which make it look complicated, you need to install some command line tools to set it up, and when you want to update any file you can't do it from the web, you have to use the command line again. But it was good enough for me, so when I started using it, I stopped looking for more alternatives.

If no one else has a better alternative and using the command line doesn't scare you too much, you could give it a try, and I could try to help if you have any problem setting it up.

>>29672535
Alright, I'll play with it when I get home. Thanks for the suggestion.

Bump before work.

>>29672535
>>29672551
This seems okay mylittlesorter.000webhostapp.com
You can do srtr.autosave() and srtr.loadAutosave() in web console to save/load the state. I'll add some buttons or something later.

>>29673364
A button to undo, make a manual save, and maybe the ability to scroll through the choices when it's more than 4 rows would be nice. I don't want someone to pick one episode over another when they would've picked something else that was concealed.

Bump while I wait for updates.

Bumping before I play rocket league/the witch idk

>>29673737
I can certainly put a higher limit in there.
>I don't want someone to pick one episode over another when they would've picked something else that was concealed.
Again, this is mergesort, so if the person has been responding somewhat truthfully, the best episode should be somewhere around the top. Even if there are some mistakes made and inaccuracies inherent to sorting something, that doesn't have strict ordering, by feeling. But I can certainly make that a user setting and raise it to ~10 by default.

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>>29650393
>Lastly if the Anon that helped with the traditional episode sorter wit hthe pictures is around then I need to ask you some things if it's not too much trouble.
Reporting in!

page 9

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>>29675692
Good to see you around! I was wondering if you could perhaps see about a way to make the sorter not load multiple images at once, see pic related, if you quickly go through a few options before images are able to load?
Otherwise that sorter is A-Okay from what I can tell. It's just that the server handling those images is loading a bit slowly nowadays and that's making it more likely to break in that way.

>>29675482
That would be great. I know that logically it should be up top given truthful answers, but I'd rather have a fail-safe in there just in case.

Minor update on the new sorter.

>>29676673
Caching the image links would fix that for all but the initial 70 decisions.
+ var epImageLinks = {};
function downloadEpImage(wikiLink, elem) {
+ if (wikiLink in epImageLinks) {
+ insertEpImage(epImageLinks[wikiLink], elem);
+ return;
+ }
var xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4 && xmlHttp.status == 200) {
var imgLink = getLinkFromWikiResponse(xmlHttp.responseText);
insertEpImage(imgLink, elem);
+ epImageLinks[wikiLink] = imgLink;
}
}
xmlHttp.open("GET", "https://crossorigin.me/"+wikiLink, true);
xmlHttp.send(null);
}

>>29676855
(this second part is meant to be answer to >>29676669)

>>29676855
>>29676861
Sorry, but where would I put that in the code?
Something tells me I wouldn't just paste this in as is.

>>29676974
The lines with + is what's new (though now I've realized that there's other stuff that needs changing). It's more of an idea if >>29675692 wants to incorporate it, I guess.

Unrelated, I've added (auto)save, load, import, export, reset, undo at mylittlesorter.000webhostapp.com, it's pretty much ready, I only need to uncomment seasons 2-6.

>>29677555
Awesome. Thanks again to the two of you for helping.
I'm doing stuff with my brother right now, but I'll test it when I get the time.

>>29677681
I'm going to test copying and pasting this into excel to be sure it goes in correctly.

1 1x23 The Cutie Mark Chronicles
2 1x11 Winter Wrap Up
3 1x14 Suited for Success
4 1x26 The Best Night Ever
5 1x25 Party of One
6 1x08 Look Before You Sleep
7 1x07 Dragonshy
8 1x09 Bridle Gossip
9 1x17 Stare Master
10 1x20 Green Isn't Your Colour
11 1x16 Sonic Rainboom
12 1x15 Feeling Pinkie Keen
13 1x10 Swarm of the Century
14 1x06 Boast Busters
15 1x22 A Bird in the Hoof
16 1x19 A Dog and Pony Show
17 1x05 Griffon the Brush-Off
18 1x02 Friendship is Magic - Part 2
19 1x01 Friendship is Magic - Part 1
20 1x13 Fall Weather Friends
21 1x03 The Ticket Master
22 1x04 Applebuck Season
23 1x18 The Show Stoppers
24 1x21 Over a Barrel
25 1x12 Call of the Cutie
26 1x24 Owl's Well That Ends Well

>>29677555
Changes are working fine and >>29677762 pasted in okay as well, so all that's left to test now is to see how it works altogether with all 6 seasons plus the 4 EqG movies.

Bump before bed.

>>29671029
you'd think

wake up bump. that's a new one

Anyone else try the sorter in >>29673364?

I'd like to hear what you Anons have to say about it so things can perhaps be changed before the weekend comes up.

>>29679586
I can't copy the export text because it comes in one of those Chrome popups

>>29679586
>>29679603
Just to be clear, this is sorting the same way, but if I want to I can bump something to the top from below if I see it on the line?

>>29679606
I think that's the way it works. I'm just asking so the guy making it can take the suggestions.

>>29679606
Yeah.

>>29679603
Windows, isn't it? Almost forgot how terrible that DE is. I moved it to textfield.

Bump before work.

Welp, the sorter should be about ready now. I added boxes with information ripped from wikipedia for the two top episodes and some other changes.

>>29680406
Looking good. I'll test it when I get home.

>>29680578
Boop.

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>>29681195

>>29680406
It's beautiful anon. Please add a battle number indicator, though, I like that feature.

>>29683000
Also, the movies are numbered 00, 01, 02, and 03, rather than 01, 02, 03, and 04.

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I'm testing out the full sorter now, and I've ran through sorters a bunch of times now since S5, but it's always hard to pick which I like more out of these two since I love them both.

>>29683317
You're literally me. This also happens to me every time I do the sorting thing.

>>29683347
I was sitting there weighing the options a full 10 minutes before I finally picked.
Amazing how those two are the only ones to make me think that hard.

>>29683443
>those two are the only ones to make me think that hard.
envy. But choice between the two is easy. 5x18

>>29683494
Yeah, that's the one that ended up winning out for me too.

>>29683443
I haven't tested this new code yet, though I've always picked the "I like both" option in the older version, which seemed to fix this impasse by battling other episodes.

>>29683517
actually, they end up tied at the end, which may or may not just put them alphabetically/randomly in order for the list.

>>29683548
As long as the rank is tied at the end the macro I run will assign equal points for the tied episodes, so alphabetical order or not doesn't matter.

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>>29680406
Everything seems to work just fine in the sorter and macro. I felt like it took less time given the way things flowed as I sorted, but I didn't clock myself so I can't be sure.

These are the impressions I had:

Some things I'd like to have looked at:
Perhaps autosave on close, and autoload when opening.
EqG wikipedia descriptions aren't loading.
Instructions like, "Click whichever episode you like more." up top would be helpful since some Anons get stuck on whether I want what they think is better or what criteria I'm wanting them to use to compare.
If possible, a "I like both"-esque option for ties like >>29683317 that can get Anons stuck on. I'm not sure how exactly that could be coded in, but an idea I had would be to tie the two together in one of the two episodes and display that one until the sort is done. Using the linked pair as an example, you'd perhaps show Amending Fences and not CotLM in future sort sequences and then have them have the same number (the rank below minus 2) when the list is generated at the end.

On the positive side:
Pictures load fast and with no errors.
It's easy to fix a mistake in a previous sequence of sorting.
Buttons up top and descriptions on the side are a good touch.
It helps to know when you pick an episode what episodes on the other side you're putting it above.
The interface is really slick.

When I get the chance I'm going to run through the other sorter and see how the two lists compare. I don't know if it's just the way I picked, but the seasons ended up in chunks on my list as you can see in pic related.
Feel free to ree at my onions pictured there.

>>29654754
Already at the half of S5. Boy, I've forgotten how good S5 was.

Bump before bed.

>>29683605
>equestria girls 1 above 4
Why anon

It's bed time.

>>29684747
And for me.

>>29684124
And now I'm awake. I'm gonna test with the other sorter now, and maybe try and figure out how >>29676855 fits into it.

>>29684236
I'd make them tied if I could since I didn't care much for either. SayS is only lower because I despise what it does to Spike's character.

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>it's coming up in a little over a month on April 15th
>mfw I have to serve in army for 1 year, starting on April 3rd.
Fuck mandatory military service.

>>29685991
Sorry Anon. At least you'll have a ton of pony waiting for you when you get back.

>>29685933
>and maybe try and figure out how >>29676855 fits into it
Apart from adding the lines with +, you also need to break up "insertEpImage" into "insertEpImage" and "getLinkFromWikiResponse" and I that should work, I think.


>>29683605
>Perhaps autosave on close, and autoload when opening.
That's shouldn't be a problem.
>EqG wikipedia descriptions aren't loading.
Because I haven't added them.
>Instructions like, "Click whichever episode you like more." up top would be helpful since some Anons get stuck on whether I want what they think is better or what criteria I'm wanting them to use to compare.
I'm not sure how that would fit in with the design. I could have a popup box for new visitors on top, I guess.
>If possible, a "I like both"-esque option for ties like >>29683317 that can get Anons stuck on. I'm not sure how exactly that could be coded in, but an idea I had would be to tie the two together in one of the two episodes and display that one until the sort is done. Using the linked pair as an example, you'd perhaps show Amending Fences and not CotLM in future sort sequences and then have them have the same number (the rank below minus 2) when the list is generated at the end.
I'll see what I can do about that. I thought it would be complicated, but it might actually be relatively easy. Only I'm not sure how to display such groups and what to do with the info box.

>>29686009
>Only I'm not sure how to display such groups and what to do with the info box.
You don't need to display the group, just one of the two episodes from that group. Same goes for the wiki description.
If they're both tied then either should be good for comparing the group to other episodes.

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>>29685933
I didn't make the code changes correctly it seems, no images loaded at all, but using that other one gave me pic related. Seemed to turn out about as clumpy as the other one there >>29683605, so I guess that's just how my tenancies are for episode ranking. Looks like this one took about an hour, but it did feel less smooth. 867 battles in all.

>>29686024
Also not sure what to do with "I like both the same" box/button too. I could but it next to the other buttons, but it doesn't fit there very well.

>>29686123
I'd say above the middle of the two top episodes. Another thing I just thought up was whether there would be any confusion about what two things you'd be saying you like the same, but I think putting it up top and in the middle above the top two would strongly imply those two episodes.

>>29686177
If people are confused, they can just read 'help'.

>>29686197
I'd have the help prompt pop up on the first visit. That's some good stuff there. Especially if they have to hit load to restore their progress if they close and come back.

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Tomorrow night is when I'm thinking I'll start this pre season 7 episode ranking thread series off.
Does pic related look okay for the OP?

>>29686510
Looks good to me

>>29686009
>you also need to break up "insertEpImage" into "insertEpImage" and "getLinkFromWikiResponse" and I that should work, I think.
What exactly do you mean by that? I'm sorry, but my experience on this part if woefully small.

>>29686899
This is what it looks like on my side:

function getLinkFromWikiResponse(responseText) {
var link = responseText.substring(responseText.search('class="image image-thumbnail"'));
link = link.substring(link.search("<img src=")+10);
link = link.substring(0, link.search('"'));
return link;
}

function insertEpImage(link, elem) {
elem.innerHTML = '<img style="max-width:300px; max-height:200px;" src="'+link+'"/>' + elem.innerHTML;
}

// Download episode pics then insert them asynchronously
var epImageLinks = {};
function downloadEpImage(wikiLink, elem) {
if (wikiLink in epImageLinks) {
insertEpImage(epImageLinks[wikiLink], elem);
return;
}
var xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4 && xmlHttp.status == 200) {
var imgLink = getLinkFromWikiResponse(xmlHttp.responseText);
insertEpImage(imgLink, elem);
epImageLinks[wikiLink] = imgLink;
}
}
xmlHttp.open("GET", "https://crossorigin.me/"+wikiLink, true);
xmlHttp.send(null);
}

I was toying with it a bit before deciding to do my own thing, but I don't think I changed much else than this.

>>29686510
do you mean as the actual post or as the image?The regular op looks more striking and would be a lot easier to catch one's attention if they're just casually browsing through the catalog.

>>29687229
I guess that that was supposed to be the post, but speaking of the image, I've just remembered that in a previous thread it was suggested to use a more striking pic with BIG LETTERS instead of the chart for the next thread.
http://arch.b4k.co/mlp/thread/28812874/#28866332
The idea was quickly forgotten, but maybe it should be considered again. Although I admit that no image can change the fact that it takes a ton of time to do the whole sorting thing, and that's probably the reason why not many people participate.

>>29687332
The reason I posted the chart as the OP picture was because in a board full of ponies I thought a big block of data would stand out.
Have any ind of suggestions on what to pick that would fit and accomplish grabbing attention? I know that the time barrier to entry is still severe, but anything helps.

>>29687229
>>29687332
Also, that was meant to be the post since i didn;t say so. Is that wording all okay in there?

>>29687781
oh yeah nothing to worry about

Bump before I have to do other stuff for a while.

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>>29683605
>The interface is really slick.
It got round corners. That's how you know it's modern™ ^:)

I added the option for "I like both", autoloading of autosaves and I moved the buttons, because they don't fit in and thus are ugly as fuck. Also 000webhost being free hosting, it has some quotas. 10GB/month I'm not that worried about, but it has max 500 req/min and it went a bit above 100 one time even now. I assume it was just furious testing, but still. There's the whole thing available for download just in case: mylittlesorter.000webhostapp.com/sorter.tar.gz

>>29688872
>Dropbox Plus and Dropbox Business accounts:
>The total amount of traffic that all of your links and file requests together can generate without getting banned is about 200 GB per day.
>There's no daily limit to the number of downloads that your links can generate.
>100,000 requests cited as an example
>per day
>1.2MB total in that file
I could probably put this on Dropbox with no issue then. Thanks again for all the help with the sorter you've made. I appreciate the improvements. I keked at the "I'm an indecisive beta cuck".

I think I have everything pretty much set for tomorrow now, so unless anyone has any comments or suggestions on the OP for the thread >>29686510, the sorter >>29673364, or how the the finished product will look >>29650393 then I think this thread can die safely now.

>>29650393

>>29690714
>>29689812

>>29689812
Bump before bed in case any Anons have input on any of those.

Free bump

Actually I do have one more question before this thread falls off and I make the thread tonight.

Is >>29650403 okay to use as the OP picture? Or would it be better to use something more standout?
What kind of picture would even work as more standout while keeping the theme?

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>>29693320
Honestly, I always thought that a graph stands out from a wall of ponies on the catalog. According to somebody, though it can't be seen well with certain themes. it's a good thing my 4chan looks like this, then.

>>29693320
I'm personally able to see it quite well in the catalog, but if you find some other picture you think would work well that's up to you. I wouldn't delay the thread for it though.

>>29693320
I think it's fine. Also people already associate that picture with these threads, so they already have an idea what it's about before reading the title.

>>29693944
>>29694546
>>29694582
Alright, that's what I thought, but I wanted to be sure.
I'm trying to sleep and kill whatever sickness I have, but I'll make a thread tonight when I wake up.

Thanks again for all the suggestions and help Anons. I've got the thread for the ranking made now over here:

>>29696860

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>>29683823
Sage because this needs to die

Just got on CotLM. Never fails to water my eyes with joy. Hello again stupid grin.