martymcguire / epluribus

Crowd-sourced 3D printing for big projects

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epluribus's Issues

add sections / phases for during and post-build

During project add a Phase 2 and Phase 3 update.

• Phase 2 = "build day" updates: live streaming or timelapse, pics (embed from WTB social media account or a project-specific walls.io page)
• Phase 3 = A proper project archive - "We did it! Here it is!" collection of coverage of the project.

"stagnating parts" view and tools

i've been doing spreadsheets for this and it really should be an admin view.

show parts that were last updated longer ago than X time, in some kind of in-progress state (maybe selectable). sort by last update to see the oldest at the top.

teams: display membership

Can we see how many contributors printed from one team? (ie. makerspaces that printed 100+ parts - how many actual contributors were there?)

surface builder-submitted photos

They're lovely and we should show them off on the project page somewhere!

• moderation options needed if "things go wrong".

team admin features to manage team members' prints

1. mark parts as printed
2. submit pics
3. batch shipping option(s)

parts admin page timing out on heroku

Todd was seeing it timing out a lot. It shouldn't do that.

Options:

• tabbed view for various states
• dynamic loading
• show less info
• add an index somewhere
• 😕

allow a part to be "reclaimed"

if we release a part back to the pool, it should still be possible for the builder who checked it out initially to finish up and ship it.

• don't remove it from their list
• figure out what to show / email to a second builder if the part gets claimed again but the original builder finishes shipping it.

was:

Way to have multiple part owners - ie. when a part is re-released, keep it on the original owners dashboard. If part sent twice, both contributors get credit. Keep multiple print jobs active until that part comes in?

Eval jsstl for better previews

Uses three.js. Pretty well documented. https://github.com/tonylukasavage/jsstl

eval issues with image uploads on heroku

lots of folks complained that they weren't able to upload. i have not been able to reproduce. check it out???

allow normal builders to edit projects they are invited to

it should be possible to invite folks to become editors of a project, where they'll be able to edit the project descriptions, verify parts, etc.

site admins and project editors should be able to add folks by email address. they should also be able to see who the editors are, and remove them from the project.

allow builders to set a second email address for notifications

We don't want to manage a full accounts system (thanks, Google, for doing that for us).

However, some builders sign up with Google accounts that they don't check very often. The means they miss communications about their parts!

We could:

• allow builders to set a second email address where notifications will go
• require a confirmation email step before it gets used
• allow a flag to send emails to both addresses?

part search

parts broken up into layers are helpful in some ways, but makes it take more clicks to find specific parts.

there is a magic URL for /projects/X/parts/by_label/YYY but an interface would help.

Auto-accept prints submitted with measurements and photo

Originally we thought folks might print parts at the wrong scale and the measure and photograph step would catch them.

Turns out, everybody seems to print at the right scale, and photos don't catch problems!

Photos are still cool, though.

Anyway, skip the "verification" step when a builder submits that they have finished a print along with their measurements and photo and go straight to giving them the shipping address!

[SEVERE] Migrate to Google Sign-In

Google+ APIs are going away.

Migrate our sign-in stuff to use Google Sign-In.

[admin] allow admins to jump parts to accepted

sometimes people ship or otherwise get parts in without clicking through the site workflow. project admins should be able to just say "i have this"

parts admin actions should keep you on page

From Todd

When I am on any layer's page and click unclaim, the system accepts my unclaim, and then reloads the page and sends me back to the page for layer 1. It should either not reload, or stay on the same page

show some social media engagement

A Twitter hashtag could be good.

• Moderation tho'

We have an FB fan group. If we syndicate those posts to/from wethebuilders.com we could use brid.gy to backfeed discussion.

Need a Twitter account (@wethebuilders?)

Homepage webmentions would be a good and quick hack for this, tbh!

• relmeauth for wethebuilders.com <=> our Twitter
• webmention.io setup
• JS widget to pull comments for wethebuilders.com homepage mentions

Add options and releases to the sign up page

we want to be able to spotlight our builders and their work but only if they opt-in!

1. name release
2. photo release
3. mailing list sign up (only important project updates and new project)
4. location (state or country - for future mapping purposes)

Account settings page should allow opt out for any of these even after they've been filled in / accepted.

allow bailing on a part after 24 hrs

Sometimes people can't print a part! Let them release a part by showing a button after 24 hours.

The delay should keep folks from trying to cycle through for "good" parts.

allow print job image upload after printing step

many folks have oops'd this in the past and there's no reason not to allow a (re-)upload of an image for a given print job.

we want to move towards making these public, anyway, so we should encourage people to make them the best they can be and give them every opportunity to add a photo!

[admin] allow admins to assign parts to people

especially important for lost parts as we near the end of a project!

make builder TODO list persistent on project page

... and maybe the whole site!

users should not have to scroll way past a bunch of text to click on the next step for their print. or even have to know about the rest of the page, necessarily! this needs some UX.

add lovely "How It Works" page

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