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Jan 6, 2025 1 year ago
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I thought it would be really useful if we could sort the items in other people's wishlists by items we already own, if that makes sense.

Jan 6, 2025 1 year ago
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Do you mean we could manually sort the items ourselves when looking at someone else's WL? Or do you mean something the site does automatically? There used to be a feature where when viewing someone's WL that would notify you if you owned an item (under the item on their WL would be text that said "you have this item"). That was discontinued and unfortunately will not be returning per staff. It was super helpful though! Maybe a manual feature could be created, could be very helpful!

The below is quoted from the fourth post on The Giant List of Usability and Random Improvement 2.0.

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NOT HAPPENING</p>
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<li>Bring back the &quot;You Have This Item&quot; when browsing a wishlist <details>
<summary>Explanation</summary>
Sorry, but this feature is gone for good. We have no plans to bring it back. We are not considering it either.</li>
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<p>I know it was a very useful feature and would be really great to have, but it isn&;t feasible. This is not up for debate, sorry. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but people seem hopeful for it so I think it&;s better to just communicate it clearly that it&;s not going to happen. :(</p>
<p>[spoiler=Reasoning and FAQ]The decision is made, but I thought some might appreciate an explanation so I took the time to type this up.</p>
<p>In an ideal world, we would have this feature, but in reality the strain it puts on the servers is impractical. For example, if your friend has 500 items on their wishlist, just visiting their wishlist would cause an account search to be done 500 times! That would take a very long time, and would put a lot of strain on our servers.</p>
<p>Why is it that wishlist search (like in shops and galleries) can still work then?
A wishlist search only checks if the item is on your wishlist. Even if your wishlist is large, our servers only need to search for the item in one place. But an account search has to check multiple places: your inventory, your vault (which can have thousands of different items), your pet treasures, your shops and galleries.... It isn&;t just a single database search, but many searches need to be done to search the whole account. So even account-searching for a single item is expensive (in terms of computing time/power). Account-searching for hundreds of items at a time is just too much.</p>
<p>Can&;t Subeta bring the feature back now that we have better servers?
Nope. The servers have improved and a lot of lag has been eliminated. But the problem with the &quot;you have this item&quot; feature wasn&;t that we had broken servers, it&;s that the feature is inherently inefficient. Think about it this way: a wishlist page that account-searches 500 items should be 500 times laggier than the account-search feature itself (which only searches one item). No matter how efficient we make this, it won&;t change the fact that it&;s still doing a very large amount of work, more than we can dedicate to this page. We do not have unlimited computing resources, so we have to pick and choose which features to have and this one just requires too much of those resources to be feasible.

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Jan 6, 2025 1 year ago
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Yes that's exactly what I'm talking about! Something the site does automatically. The feature was so helpful indeed. Sad to hear it won't be returning. Thank you for the info!

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