Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-5270921-20140406225544/@comment-122657-20140425215244

Ha!

Well at least multiple people remember the discussion.

I like the idea of a hub rather than a disambiguation, but it doesn't change the layout/style problems.

The main issue is listing hundreds of comic alternates in a way that people can find which one they're thinking of. Pictures are typically ideal, but even a gallery with hundreds of pictures is going to be load-time-intensive. I like the idea of using text-based lists, but without using a category, those can become quite cumbersome to maintain. Then you have to decide what details are important enough to be included, but not important enough to constantly keep them updated.

While the sortability of categories is limited, it has three more than we have in current disambigs, which are all manual. The bigger problem with categories is the inability to provide more detail than the main image or the page name.

DPL is typically how people make category-style lists automatically, some that can be sorted even, but our problem is DPL calling hundreds of pages. Every time the page loads, the DPL engine re-builds the list. So even if ten people all get to the page at the same time, the DPL engine builds the page 10 times. If we could save a DPL list without having it re-build it on every view, that might work...