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Rank-My-Favs - An open-source Android app to help rank your favorite things. (github.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Do you keep lists of your favorite things, such as movies, books, recipes, or music albums? You might keep list(s) that looks like this:

  • Network (1976)
  • Lone Star (1996)
  • Devils (1971)
  • The Seventh Seal (1957)
  • ... Many more films

But how do you rank these?

You might be tempted to order them by preference, but this could quickly get overwhelming for long lists.

A much easier method is to use pairwise comparisons, which shows you single head-to-head pairs, and has you choose which one you like best.

After doing a small number of these matchups, Rank-My-Favs can confidently create a ranked list for you.

Under the hood, Rank-My-Favs uses the advanced Glicko rating system, to determine how many matches are necessary, and for ranking.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's fun! It's silly, but I do enjoy thinking about what my favorite thing in xyz category is and jotting them down, from time to time.

Would be cool if this included some pre-populated sample lists out of the box. Love that the import option is readily available though.

Also, mild inconcevenice - after I view a list, rank some things, maybe repeat a few times, pressing back takes me from list, to rank, etc, when I want it to go back to all lists page. If that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hrmm, I'll try to see what's going on there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Same issue

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Another would-be-nice - a button to sort the list alphabetically, so I can see what's already on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a search button that would probably serve that purpose, but you could open up an issue on the github for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is there? I might be blind, or the F-droid version might be behind. Either way, not a big deal, but I don't see it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The current version is 0.3.1, I think f-droid is behind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for updating it! Newer version is all around much better.

Only nitpicky wishlist item I have left is for an undo button on the match screen. (Though it's not really needed since you can reset an item's stats.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Another thing you can do now (probably even better than clearing stats), is go to that item, and force-train it a bunch more. The rating algorithm in use is the same one they use for chess matches, so it can handle a "loss" or a "misclick" by doing more matches eventually beating the old one.