Wishlist Features: New Line Characters & `dimnotes` entries

Two Features

1. New line character, \n works or whatever you’d like. This would allow the user to utilize some basic formatting in the notes section of wishlists.

2. A dimnotes:item entry that just applies notes to a roll without a thumbs up or thumbs down. This would allow users to create pre-assigned notes to rolls without impacting the recommended weapons and trashlist weapons.

How would this be used:

These 2 features would allow me to take community curated information and compile it into a wishlist repo that applies the information to the relevant items. Here is a sample:

By clicking on a gun you could pull up the notes and know everything about it like the DPS, Burst DPS, Sustained DPS, PvP damage per bullet values, TTK with optimal shots, the effective range in meters, the list goes on. There are a lot of community members who source this data and it’s all spread out across individual spreadsheets and I’d like to bring it all to one place expanding the “one stop shop” capabilities of DIM.

“But you couldn’t use compare for these values”

Having this information at easily accessible just makes it more likely that the user will begin to memorize this information which will just elevate the conversation surrounding items on Destiny 2. If the user wants want to compare values, the source spreadsheets all have great formatting and it’s what the community has been using anyways. If comparison within DIM is a huge thing, then have fun with pandora’s box.

[48klocs]

Reiterating what nev said, this additional list would be at odds with how wish lists get processed - the first wish list roll that matches is picked as the winning entry. If you were to publish a list and a user were to pick it in addition to a voltron or whatever, then that means we’d show either the wish list roll with all the DPS information, or the wish list roll from a gear knower.

D2AI seems like a saner place to put this (maybe?) but expect to answer the “who will maintain this collection of data when it invariably changes and answer questions from people who ask if it’s right” questions, not to mention figuring out how to surface it.

[TMMania]