Wylin Posted:

Most auction sites have category’s to view. You could use this method to break things down first into moar files and non moar files, then locations, then actual files/items, then individual parts. Doesn’t a “filetree” structure seem easy to use?

Kyoubai
Items for Sale¬
      .moar files¬
          Music Files¬
            pink floyd - darkside full album (ttly syncs w/ wzrd of oz at 2:43 awesome!!!).hear¬
 (bid now)      Part 1  (current bid $$4,000) (buyout price $$20,000) (auction ends in 2 minutes)
 (bid now)      part 3  (current bid $$4,000) (auction ends in 10 minutes)
 (bid now)      part 6  (current bid $$0) (auction ends in 1000 minutes)
                  etc.

Actually yes. I should give more detail about the problem perhaps — searching for a piece is pretty easy. You could filter by name, then by piece. Or a filetree as you say.

The hard part is actually the selling interface.

Let’s say you have a bunch of extra moar files. Typically you have dozens of pieces you don’t want. So you go to the auction house. How do you unload them all?

Remember an auction has 4 fields -> minimum bid, reserve price, buy out price, length

So you’d have to fill out those fields for EACH piece you want to sell. And this is by file!

We came up with two ideas, neither of them popular. One was a tabular list, where it would list all your files, one piece per row, and all four fields to the side. Still, that’s tedious to use if you want to unload all your pieces.

The other was grouping pieces into auctions. But that means you end up buying all sorts of pieces you don’t want.