Introducing MyFlyVise.com - BETA Phase

Evan B

Evan B

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Something we've been excited to bring to you guys for a long time! Introducing MyFlyVise! I don't think many will argue that one of the greatest ongoing things on this entire forum is our What's in Your Vise? thread - yet one thing that's always bothered me about it is how many incredible flies are in there, buried under hundreds of pages, that most users will never see or find again.


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This is the solution we came up with. A site where everyone can submit their flies in an easy-to-navigate layout where every fly is easily re-discovered over and over.

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You have a chronological feed where you can follow by the type of content you want to see: favorite tyers, favorite fly types, fish species, etc. Upvote and comment on flies you find interesting, and plenty more features to come.

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How does this help this site here? Well, we're integrating tools to do just that like this easy way to share between sites:



Every fly you tie has a clickable button that gives you a code to copy into your forum post to easily share here.

So I can keep droning on about it, but we'd rather our fly tying subforum here be the official BETA testing group. What's that mean? Basically, you are the first real group we're onboarding to help us iron out the last few bugs, see where there's flaws in the design,etc. Let us know here how your experience is going and what we can do to improve.




HOW TO JOIN:

https://myflyvise.com/

Sign in with your forum account.



Our goal right now: Get you guys submitting as many flies as possible and getting this site good and primed for launch. Any and all feedback, good and bad, is useful to us at this stage.
 
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An excerpt from the "About MyFlyVise" -

Why we built it​

A lot of extraordinary fly tying happens on forums like ours. It gets a few comments from the folks who happen to be online that night, and then it drops down the page. A month later it's buried under hundreds of additional ties. A year later it's essentially gone.
MyFlyVise is a place where that work stays accessible. A gathering place where a well-tied fly doesn't disappear — where materials, techniques, and the story behind a pattern can be found by someone who's still learning, years after it was first shared.

How we're trying to be different​

We've watched social platforms get optimized to the point where they stopped being fun. Algorithms deciding what you see. Feeds stuffed with things you didn't ask for. Ads that track you across the open web. Engagement metrics that reward outrage over substance.
We're not interested in any of that. MyFlyVise shows you what you follow, in the order it was posted. No promoted content. No "suggested for you." No tracking pixels feeding data to advertisers. When you're here, you're here to look at flies.
We believe there's still a version of the internet worth defending — one built around communities of people who care about the same thing, with tools that respect the time they spend there. We're choosing a less lucrative path to build it, but we think it's the right one.

​

 
Hey of course I find a bug right before bed. Let's see if anyone else notices before I fix it tomorrow. We'll see if you guys have it in you ;)
 
Nice site! Out looking for bugs...
 
Great work, Evan and All! I played around on the new site and it is fun and seems to work fine.

My only suggestion is that the new site be closely intergrated with this site. Honestly, I spend a lot of time on this site and am unlikely to spend much time on the new site, because time is a scarce commodity. Would it be possible to have a button in the What's in your Vise thread that exports your post to a new entry on the new site?
 
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Zak said:
Great work, Evan and All! I played around on the new site and it is fun and seems to work fine.

My only suggestion is that the new site be closely intergrated with this site. Honestly, I spend a lot of time on this site and am unlikely to spend much time on the new site, because time is a scarce commodity. Would it be possible to have a button in the What's in your Vise thread that exports your post to a new entry on the new site?
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What you're asking for is one of the first real integration features I tested. There's a lot of ways to potentially go about it, but they're all very, very big tasks and not at all simple. So I started with the ability to share from that site to this one because it involved a lot less, but I absolutely plan to do what you're asking. Just need to dial in the best way to go about it. - current one I could see breaking through to win the race is a plug-in that works right here in the forum post submission. Input fly info, posts both places automatically. But to have the other site pull previously posted flies automatically would require like, a full time AI agent scanning posts and doing it. I'm not about to do that 😆 Ideally, though, someone could go back, edit a fly post and use that feature to get that previously posted one up.

I DO have a somewhat working version of this that's not ready for BETA testing.... but I could shift focus and tinker with it so long as you guys get on there and submit a bunch of flies and test everything else out for me while I do ;)

But - for this whole thing to work it does need to be a separate site. It needs to literally run on a separate server even. That said, it's absolutely going to work alongside this site and that will only increase as testing and development continue. Discussion will always happen here, but another place to catalog the work has been something we've wanted for a long time.
 
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Really just doing this so @Billy gets to tying piles of Billy poppers and spamming the site with them
 
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cool, it works!
 
Zak said:
Great work, Evan and All! I played around on the new site and it is fun and seems to work fine.

My only suggestion is that the new site be closely intergrated with this site. Honestly, I spend a lot of time on this site and am unlikely to spend much time on the new site, because time is a scarce commodity. Would it be possible to have a button in the What's in your Vise thread that exports your post to a new entry on the new site?
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Update on this: I just tinkered a bit and ran a few tests. I might actually be closer than I thought. Might have this testable today at some point.
 
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I was going to post a second fly in the new site (Culton's Drowned Ant). But while I tied the fly in the picture, the fly was created and named by a different, living fly tier, Steve Culton at currentseams.com.

I got worried about whether he'd want his fly cataloged by me on a site other than his and whether I should get his permission first. I ended up just deleting the draft post.

I'm curious what people think about that.
 
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I was going to post a second fly in the new site (Culton's Drowned Ant). But while I tied the fly in the picture, the fly was created and named by a different, living fly tier, Steve Culton at currentseams.com.

I got worried about whether he'd want his fly cataloged by me on a site other than his and whether I should get his permission first. I ended up just deleting the draft post.

I'm curious what people think about that.
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It's why we put an attribution section on there - you can attribute the fly to him. Flies aren't patented, but as long as you're not selling it, and give him the respect of attributing the design to him, that's typically more than kosher for just about all cases.
 
"Target Species" does not appear to include "Trout" generally. Maybe add that to the list?

Maybe also allow for listing multiple alternatives under "Hook?"
 
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Maybe also allow for listing multiple alternatives under "Hook?"
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I could add that. My thoughts originally were that if there wasn't a specific hook or whatever, could just put in a generic like "3x Streamer" or something.
 
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That works.
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but up to you - if you think it'd be better to have multiple hook options, that's something I can add. Part of why we do this phase: see what works best for people.

Now we need people to go start adding flies :D
 
Very cool. I poked around a bit and will add a fly or 2 tomorrow. One filter that might be interesting is the type of food source being imitated - a subcatagory of fly type. Saltwater/crab or coldwater/egg instead of mixing water types and food categories in the fly type filter.
 
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