I didn’t anticipate this warm of a reception to my project. Thank you to each of you who tried it out and gave feedback. Here’s are the improvements I’ve been able to make as a result:
Changes Made:
- Added a score board so that you can compare your score with others (@squiresk)
- Moved the prompt above the images (thanks @tiwane @kaipatiki_naturewatc @ourmikegeorge )
- Added Scientific names (@Ajott, @alexis_orion @PdFuenteB @robotpie )
- Spread taxa more evenly (no more moth-only Quizzes @marina_gorbunova @huronia )
- Only showing research-grade and native taxa (@marina_gorbunova)
- Made questions more difficult by grouping related taxa more often
- A few bug fixes
Still to come:
- The ability to quiz yourself on more specific kinds of taxa (e.g. fish, flowers, mushrooms etc.)
- The ability to cycle through multiple images of taxa instead to having the rely on just the default photo
- Further improvements to the taxa sorting (for better quality questions)
- The ability to repeat a quiz without seeing mostly the same taxa
- Different question formats (e.g. one image and 4 names)
- The choice to see scientific names, common names, or both
A couple of notes:
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It seems like there’s not much I can do about the username case sensitivity. I can force the input to be lowercase, but then if someone has a username with capitals, then they won’t be found. What I’ve done instead is make is that whenever a user name isn’t found, a message appears asking them to double check the casing
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The scoreboard just went live, so there are no scores in it yet, feel free to help fill it up so people can see how they compare.
Thanks again everyone. Hopefully this can help someone learn about wildlife while staying indoors. This thread and my PMs are open for additional feedback and suggestions.