Filtering "My Con"

[adavies42]

It would be great to be able to filter the "My Con" view the same way I can "Programme". Right now, if I mark something in every slot at Worldcon, by the fourth day, it's impossible to find the current time. My current solution is to unmark stuff from "My Con" as the con progresses, but this is a suboptimal solution.

[eemeli]

I agree. I'm working on an update to how items are filtered by date and time, which should fix this. Effectively, the new default will be to hide all events that have already ended, and include a link at the top for "Show past events" when applicable.

[adavies42]

That’s nice, and it’ll be an improvement, but it would also be useful to have the full filters available for My Con—day, location, tag, etc. Do you plan to do that?

[eemeli]

Effectively, you're asking for "My con" to be an additional filter choice alongside tags etc, thugh placed separately in the menu structure. I'm not convinced of the usefulness of such an approach in the general case, as having it separate allows for the export options to show up as they do now. It would also reduce the discoverability of "My con", hiding some of the guide's abilities from people.

I'll have a look at the usage data I got from Loncon to get a feel for how common it was for users to accumulate an extensive list of selected items. If it's a sizable fraction, I may rethink my position on this. My gut feeling (and prior experience) would suggest that most people selected few enough items that filtering them past "show previous events" would be unnecessary.