• Feature Request

  • Suggestion: split up Favorites and Likes, or add icon for Watch Later

I find the current system of just having hearts indicating that you like a video vs keeping track of videos restrictive. I want to keep tabs on videos to download, and since hearts are the only way to add videos to the collection, I heart videos for later, and when I download them, I un-heart them. This is unfair to the video creators when I do actually want to indicate my support, but I can't do so without clogging up my collection pages. And on the flip side, if I do keep a heart on videos I've downloaded, now I have to keep remembering whether I hearted that video because I liked it and/or because I haven't downloaded it yet.

I know there's the option to add videos to the watch later list or make a private playlist, too, but while that could function as a download list, it's not nearly as convenient, because it's not immediately visible when browsing when you've added a video to a playlist, so you have to click on each video's submenu to check whether it's on the list or not when browsing the general collection.

I'd suggest implementing a system like VirtualTaboo does, which I find more usable: have two separate markers, one for likes (hearts) and one for favorites (stars), both of which are visible and clickable while browsing. Favorite videos are added to your collection, while likes are purely for supporting the video. Separating out the functionality between the two allows us to indicate support while letting us manage our favorites however we wish. It wouldn't be too destructive to migrate the current SLR collection to this system either; treat the current hearts as both a like and a favorite to start when implementing the split, and it will behave the same as before.

Alternately, you could tweak the video browsing interface so that it has clickable "watch later" icon on the video similar to the heart that you can see directly from browsing and not have to go into a submenu to see/modify. Personally I think the idea of splitting up the collection and like functionality is more understandable, but adding such an icon would essentially allow similar functionality.

    anordr changed the title to Suggestion: split up Favorites and Likes, or add icon for Watch Later .

    Great suggestion anordr

    I completely agree having a differentiation between favorite and like would be ideal. I don’t favorite anything unless I really like it because I don’t want an over crowded queue of “favorite videos” there are videos I like and would give props to but they are not favorites so currently the get no love from me.

    Ultimately I think anordr has the right idea for a simple migration if that’s necessary, but I think this could also work for “liked videos” that’s empty. I would also use a thumbs up for like because it’s a well known icon representation then keep favorites as a heart because existing users already have memory of that icon’s representation, and users generally don’t like breaking change.

    One final note since we are talking icons. I would add one for script request. It could be the script icon with a plus overlay in a different color. know I know, unusable forum post with hundreds of links that I need to page through and search for duplicates, bounty, discord, etc etc. but think about it, how much of your entire user base is active and vocal in the forums and discord? My guess is 2% or less in forum and 1% or less on discord. This gives you a way to track and aggregate what people want scripted from your silent majority, you may find out aggregated requests are really high for a video not listed in either forum or discord by your vocal minority. Then in those cases you (SLR) could pay the bounty and balance forward it to the script price by adding an extra .25 cents.

        Agree with this totally. Using the like function is the only way I have of keeping track of videos that I want to download. Therefore, once I have downloaded them, I have to remove the like so that it comes off the list. I’d much prefer to be able to just like the videos I like and have a separate favourites option for videos on the download list.

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        • Post #6

        Hey guys, thank for feedback.
        I think having separate likes might be confusing, but we could include a watch later icon on thumbnails, kinda like youtube used to have. What do you think about that?

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          • Post #7

          Also requests for scripts is on a to-do, as well as coming soon section for scripts 🙂

          [deleted] My original suggestion is more about making a separation between "I approve of this video" and "I want this in my collection", which SLR currently conflates. It's not supposed to be "like" and "also like". 🙂 On VT you don't have a real way to look at what you've thumbs-upped, just what you've favorited for your collection. Right now, for SLR thumbs-upping is adding to your collection, so you have to keep what you approve, and vice versa.

          Having a Watch Later icon would help and basically work the same way as "like" and "collect", but ideally it'd be something that you can click/unclick while browsing, like the current heart; I'd want it to be as convenient to use as hearting is now. Having it purely be visual and still needing to go into the menu dropdown to add things to Watch Later would be less usable.

            [deleted] Youtube still has this 🙂

            Likes
            Favorites
            Watch later
            Watch History
            Playlists
            'Subscriptions' (would be 'following' a studio/model on SLR)

            🙂

            A distinction between Likes and Favorites is what the OP is asking I think.

                Rakly3 yes I think that’s what he’s asking. Most sites have an option to like/thumbs up a video but then a separate “add to favourites” option. I suppose watch later would be similar though.

                  12 days later

                  Just chiming in to say the watch later option works well for me. I can put all scenes I intend downloading in there and remove as and when I’ve done that. This means I can leave all the likes on scenes even after downloading as I’m no longer using that as a tool to save videos for download.

                    petermc I think it's doable, but it's not nearly as convenient to manage the Watch Later list as it is the hearts, because you have to click on the submenu for every video when browsing to check whether it's on the list or not, and your focus has to switch from the submenu button to the Watch Later status in the menu every time, which is awkward. When using hearts, you don't ever have to context switch; whether something is in your collection or not is shown right with the video listing.

                    Having a visible icon for videos marked as Watch Later would help save on the video-by-video checking, and even better if it's clickable so you don't have to go to the submenu at all. Frankly I think if it's not as easy to use as the hearts, then most people will still gravitate towards using those to track their collection first.

                      had hard time finding hearted videos...when you reach hundreds and most are asian? WELL..you know what the saying is🙂 always been good with color tones and clothes that might help me find it...just gets tougher when the numbers are high or haven't been on in a while (few days 🙂

                      started taking snapshots....that will show the title

                      NOW? I un-heart it and heart it again...that way it keeps it on the first page of FAVs

                      i'm for enabling tipping and looking at a record of tips to help find them...that's what i do with cam girls

                      Todays Melody Marks scene is the perfect reason to do this. I badly want to show my love to Melody — she’s every bit the beautiful star mere mortals like me die to have face to face.

                      But the scene is so poorly conceived and directed, I had to undo the heart I had clicked before even opening the scene. Definitely not one for my favorites.

                        7 days later

                        argyle43 that’s good though in a way as you’re not falsely giving a like to a scene you didn’t like.

                            petermc well perhaps another much more useful way to approach this is to setup feedback ratings broken down into categories. Casting. Performance. Technicals. Premise/Setting, etc. The overall scene rating would be the average of the individual ratings, and all of this is separated from the add to favorites heart button. This way it’s possible to utilize favorites for the various purposes people do, and also provide specific measurable scene feedback to SLR itself. This way decision makers can see that a scene or series of scenes may get lambasted for technical problems, or what some see as poor directing choices, without that reflecting badly on a popular star who still gave a great performance.

                                argyle43 Casting. Performance. Technicals. Premise/Setting

                                Also pixel size, bitstream size, makeup quality, angle positions etc

                                    If I may please make an additional suggestion-- PLEASE stop using what I assume is red/green and use colors that folks like me with colorblindness can actually tell apart. I have to open every damn scene and check whether the background is pink or whatever on the actual scene page. The icons on the browse pages are useless 🙁

                                      sixfgrs They're using pink and gray. That's interesting that it's so hard to tell apart for you; I wonder if it's because they're similarly bright. This could be also solved if the hearts in the browsing section were changed to be an outline when not selected, rather than just being color swapped, so you could tell by the shape that it's different.