Feature: FileType Categories in 'Explore' tab. #1878

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opened 2018-08-14 23:41:47 +02:00 by ghost · 6 comments

ghost commented

2018-08-14 23:41:47 +02:00

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Excuse this design and tagline, but wouldn't it be nice to give the user an option about which file-type they want to look for BEFORE they see the files?
So many people think LBRY is a video platform, this may combat that perception.
I put two buttons to separate 'Search' and 'Enter URL', because I think the current search bar is confusing. :)

Please... We need more E-books on LBRY 🤓 I want to read some good books.
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<img width="1273" alt="screen shot 2018-08-14 at 23 40 11" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/30915240/44120063-6cfd6efe-a01b-11e8-913c-0c123e5d2a96.png"> 1. Excuse this design and tagline, but wouldn't it be nice to give the user an option about which file-type they want to look for BEFORE they see the files? 2. So many people think LBRY is a video platform, this may combat that perception. 3. I put two buttons to separate 'Search' and 'Enter URL', because I think the current search bar is confusing. :) Please... We need more E-books on LBRY 🤓 I want to read some good books. 📖 📚

ghost commented

2018-08-14 23:45:53 +02:00

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One more category could be "Archives" which could be .zip and .7zip, .tar etc...

ghost commented

2018-08-14 23:47:45 +02:00

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And also one for "Applications" which could be .dmg, .exe, .pkg, .deb .... etc.

ghost commented

2018-08-14 23:48:07 +02:00

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and one for torrents as well 🤷‍♂️

neb-b commented

2018-08-20 17:46:53 +02:00

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I think the largest issue with a feature like this is that we can't search by file type atm. We would just need to return a large number of results and then filter it out app-side. But the breakdown wouldn't be even.

kauffj commented

2018-08-20 19:02:03 +02:00

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https://github.com/lbryio/lighthouse/issues/49

tzarebczan commented

2019-09-04 03:59:49 +02:00

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This will be replaced by: https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/issues/2801