(Temporary) separate new recipe entries...?

[Axlrose]

Hello again.

I have a small request that may or may not be currently implemented but I miss it. Would it be possible that discovered (new) recipes have a separate page for a spell? One small aspect I like to attempt with my avatars is to create each recipe, if possible. Thus I created massive lists of all the known recipes and remove recipes as I create one. When new recipes are discovered, I have noticed that sometimes they are separated, like the pumpkin varieties for baking; but other times are added to the master list like the recent pottery discoveries (though simple to note).

Again, this may be in effect but I just never noticed.

Thanks for reading.

[Verdandi]

At one point in time I was doing the same thing, trying to learn all learnable recipes, so I know where you're coming from on this. If memory serves, at one point someone asked for a feature like this, that would let you see all the items added or updated in the last, say, 24 hours. I believe Ngreth's response was that it would require considerable changes to the database.

To do what you're more specifically suggesting here, maintaining a separate list for new stuff, could be done without considerable changes but would instead require considerably more manual effort. I'm not sure I'd want to get into that, although I can of course be overruled by Niami and Ngreth.

The way stuff is organized now is when we know new stuff is available, we look to see if it could logically go in an existing category or if it deserves a new one. Each recipe is then assigned a category as it is created. We can change those, but it requires a manual change to each individual recipe again. Sometimes things that need to be added urgently, like the pumpkin recipes, get stuck somewhere prominent in the meantime just so they're visible until we figure out what to do with them. Given how hard it already is to stay caught up as it is, I'm not terribly keen on doubling the work. It'd end up erratic at best if we did try it. And it'd make processing of everything else that much slower, including a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to clean stuff up. (Stats will be slowly appearing on those obscure OoW augs, for example.)

I do try to use front page updates to help people keep track of what's where and the status of big projects. Almost all of our updates get moved to Updates Completed once they're done, so that's probably the best record of what's been done. We may individually happen to confirm some things on our own and just add them to the database ourselves (like the Spell: Daluda's Mending that I had someone make, so I went ahead and added it) but probably 99% of what gets added comes from the Database Updates forum and is recorded in Updates Completed.

So...that's the long, roundabout answer. The short answer is yes, it could be done, but would be a whole lot more work for information that is mostly already available with only a little more inconvenience.