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ADMINS...Please clean up abandonded Campaigns.
Wow..
Been using the site for about a month, keeping track of my own game but decided to try and look for a Remote game.
HOLY CRAP!.. there are so many abandoned games that are years.. yes! Years old.
Is there any plan to clean these up? This honestly makes looking for active games simply a pain in the ass with absolutely no way to filter out campaigns by age.
Been using the site for about a month, keeping track of my own game but decided to try and look for a Remote game.
HOLY CRAP!.. there are so many abandoned games that are years.. yes! Years old.
Is there any plan to clean these up? This honestly makes looking for active games simply a pain in the ass with absolutely no way to filter out campaigns by age.
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closest was one asking to make camapigns searchable by number of fans without the 'most recently updated filter' kicking in
http://help.obsidianportal.com/discussions/suggestions/799-campaigns-page - and the reply to that was "This is a low priority issue, but it's on our list. Thanks!"
I guess the same mechanism applies to your request... but dont let that stop you from making a new action request!
http://help.obsidianportal.com/home
That thread can be found "here.":http://forums.obsidianportal.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3617&page=1#Item_0
There is also a help ticket on searching for campaigns "here.":http://help.obsidianportal.com/discussions/problems/12375-search-for-a-campaign-functionality-post-reforge
To sum up: how campaigns are currently sorted is that if a campaign has 20 or more fans, it is then sorted by the last updated appearing first. What this means is that as of 8 months ago, all the campaigns in pages 6-15 hadn't been updated in over a month.
After all the campaigns that have 20 or more fans, _then_ we get campaigns grouped in two's by number of fans. So campaigns with 18-19 fans are before campaigns with 16-17 fans, etc. Within these groups, they are sorted by most recently updated.
This sorting can make it very difficult to find relatively new campaigns, or campaigns that don't advertise themselves but might be very good. Meagoinc started a thread a while ago for "Overlooked Campaigns":http://forums.obsidianportal.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3618&page=1#Item_0 to help sort out that issue. It might be good to bring back that thread for a bit.
So, yup! I am completely with you, and it would be really nice if we could have some way to organize and sort campaigns at _all._
-Thorvaldr
DM of "Tyellador:":https://tyellador.obsidianportal.com/ "CotM April '14":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/tyellador-april-cotm-14/
Carl
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My newest campaign happens to also be my best (in large part because the players are so cool) , itis "Gotham on the Brink" (https://gotham-on-the-brink.obsidianportal.com/) but it never shows up on the list of recently updated campaigns because the word does not naturally get out and I feel that it is getting unnecessarily buried. Is Obsidian Portal trying to drive the GM's to compete (or more accurately) market themselves? That's what it feels like and I don't like it.