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Suggestions for Canvas and future events! (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/canvas@toast.ooo

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Hey everyone! Thanks for participating in Canvas. I wanted to make a thread to collect together suggestions people have that can be worked on before the next Canvas.

Feel free to also throw in suggestions for future Events we can build and run for the fediverse.

Ill be collecting suggestions together and making issues for them in the repository for myself or some other contributors to work on (the projects open source so anyones free to contribute! https://git.sc07.company/sc07/canvas Feel free to reach out to me and I can help get you set up with the codebase)

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Suggestions:

When getting rid of bots, undo their changes.
Assign the pixel timer based also on IP, not just account. That should discourage people who used multiple accounts just to have more pixels.
Don't let freshly created accounts to place pixels. They compound with both issues above.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you undo the changes done by a bot it could cause chaos. It is better to let users know it needs to be fixed.

Also you could do some sort of proof of work to make it unfeasible to have a bunch of alts.

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[-] grant@toast.ooo 2 points 4 months ago

there's an issue to add support for undoing pixels with bans, but that would mainly get used in very bad circumstances and wouldn't be the default

as others have mentioned, there's not going to be anything that automatically does actions against IPs, instead opting for a flag that moderations can look into further

i've also mentioned somewhere else in the thread, but i wouldn't want to punish new accounts as, especially this year, it brings new people to the Fediverse and i don't want to hamper the growth of that :) (it also isn't very possible to get a reliable creation date of new accounts because of how the fediverse is designed)

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

OK! At least the other batch of suggestions was more useful :) Those are fair points.

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[-] jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Not suggesting any big things here... All I propose is to have the options for toggling the canvas overlays (empty canvas, heat, template) directly within the canvas editing screen instead of putting it in the sidebar, kinda like Google Maps. I think the sidebar version would be preferred in mobiles, so you could make this desktop only.

Alternatively, you could allow the user to place pixels on the canvas even while the sidebar is opened, like the way it was for the first 48 hours of the event. Also ensure the right side of the color palette is not hidden by the sidebar.

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[-] BluePower@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I would suggest a small countdown to the end of the event on the place where the pixels count and coordinates belong (circled below), only displaying during the event.

[-] grant@toast.ooo 2 points 4 months ago

i didn't end up getting to this before the event ended, but this should be added for next year

here's the issue in the tracker for it :)

[-] carbon_based@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

An extended undo functionality would have been handy sometimes. Like, having an eraser that would revert any pixel I have placed myself (and that is still visible) to what it was before while adding one to my pixel store until that is filled. That way I would be able to move or correct things without having to wait (possibly twice as long) for the counter.