Sadly, given the character cap each post is limited to, alphabetizing is NOT an option as I would need to re-organize it over and over again as more submissions are added.
If the option something else is selected, please reply with an alternative.
EDIT: Suggestions on how to make the current compendium less cluttered while maintaining the current ctrl-f friendliness are also very welcomed.
DISCLAIMER: I’m doing this poll based entirely on curiosity. Changes may or may not be implemented.
Class, anything else would be a convoluted nightmare
Current compendium is good as is. I think any attempt to sort the compendium will break its integrity.
There’s a possibility to improve the navigation by putting each class into a separate post and add hyperlinks to OP, so if I look for Reaper - i click on Reaper and watch the list instead of rollin-rollin or Ctrl+F.
Class, plus main skill used in the build at the beginning of the post, and wether it is ranged or melee.
Primal Strike Warder (melee)
Like this maybe. So we can use the search function and get the right hits.
@Veretragna: That’s a good suggestion. I was thinking starting a whole new compendium when FG comes about because not enough reserved posts.
@Tsuelue: Maybe…just MAYBE I’ll reorganize the tags then. It’s a good idea which is unfortunately limited by my laziness.
What does the moderator say about adding extra posts to thread? I saw medea’s thoughts about asking eizprinzessin, but I didn’t saw the final of that conversation
It complicates things and introduces some weird funky mechanic which might actually be detrimental to the compendium.
One option is for the moderators to mass delete all comments/replies to the compendium, so I can add more reserved posts. However, I don’t know how viable this is, or how many reserved posts I should leave for each class combination.
Regardless, this discussion is currently moot because I don’t have the time to make such drastic changes to the compendium. :rolleyes:
Keep the ideas coming though.
Moderator can move posts to other temporary thread; you add reserved posts; moderator moves posts back to compendium.
Number of class combos is strict until FG arrives, so you just have to copypaste the existing code into separate post, and that’s it. Not complicated
Edit: first post with builds contains 7 class combos 
Should be enough to fit any single combo
Edit2: I’m just showing the way this can be performed. Not forcing you to actually do that.
Maybe I’m a techno-idiot, but I won’t be surprised if it’s a little time consuming (especially because I’m not willing to let it eat into my ‘do nothing with my life’ time). 
I would definitely do it if I could save the compendium on an ‘unposted thread’ and work on it in small, bite size pieces though. Is that even possible?
Looks pretty simple and not time consuming
You don’t need to rearrange the classes, just copy single class from the thread and put it into separate post without changes. It don’t even need the adjustments of code, with separate post top-level indentation becomes obsolete.
Well enough, you have my words and act as you think is right 
Damn you and your reasonable, logical points. 
If starting afresh with FG then maybe borrow/adapt from the old/current TQ forum idea.
For this we have Masteries as a separate section same as Classes/Builds here but then builds go into whichever mastery they fit. It doesn’t work that well because it’s based on masteries rather than classes, but that’s easily changed. So you could have a section for Spellbreakers, Druids, Warders, etc, so they’re all still together. People just have to go to that sub forum under Classes/Builds to find a particular class. Posters would still be required to post their builds as separate links - that could go into a Classes, Skills and Builds General Discussion sub forum where they can be linked to the Classes sub forums as needed.
You’d need to talk the idea over with the other mods and Zantai since it would make the forum even longer than it is now. But that would give you pretty much infinite expansion space since you could put as many builds as you can fit into one post and then simply make a new one as needed. It would be kept only for the builds themselves; any other discussions/comments would go into the Classes, Skills and Builds General Discussion sub forum.
Otherwise, keep the current forum based on Classes. I think trying to do it by damage type will only confuse things even more especially for new players.
Pet builds, hybrid builds, mixed damage builds like cold+lightning make it very hard to sort them by damage type.
Btw @medea, how do you think, is it technically possible?
The current compendium should stay as it is. It’s gonna be a mess to reorganize and it’s not worth it considering we get FG later this year.
The current compendium is really well designed, imo. I mean unless the build poster messed up on his/her submission, then one entry in the compendium can pretty much tell you everything about the build before you even open the build thread. We’ll just probably need to add a tip at the top part to Ctrl-F things that people need to search for in order to make searching easier.
I don’t think that would work though because posts are time based so the new reserved slots wouldn’t appear at the front of the compendium if you put all the other comments back again.
I’d say, just move all posts that aren’t builds into a separate thread which should make it easy for sir spankalot to add new posts in the compendium as needed, i.e, don’t put non-builds back. The thread’s not too long (10 pages), but I don’t know how easy it would be to move them nonetheless. Might have to be done in stages. :undecided:
In that case it’s too complicated
Thank you for clarifying this!
Let’s not get carried away. Do people even WANT these changes to be made?
If the vast majority of us are even impartial to these suggestions, then anything we do would be an exercise in futility.
I’m curious about what can be done to correct my future suggestions.
Again, I’m not forcing you to do something, I provide ideas to think about.
Come on, it’s a friendly thread
Of course! I meant no offense (though I am naturally an offensive person).
I also think keeping it sorted by class is by far the most intuitive.
I also like the suggestion from tsuelue and veretragna. Keeping it as compact as possible would be good, so it is more readable and you would have less problem with character limitation.
I would say the most important information are the version for which it was develop, the main skills used (you don’t need to know in the title which one-point wonder you use), the main item/set if the build is made around it and maybe the damage type if not obvious. It can be on a single line. And the author of course, it also helps to differentiate duplicate.
A format like the threads title we usually use in the forum would be good IMHO (so e.g. 1.0.6.1 2H Tremor Forcewave Tactician (Melee)). In fact, the current format is good, if you keep only the first line
