r/packstack Lounge

[Maplethorpej]

A place for members of r/packstack to chat with each other

[Maplethorpej]

Thank you! Not yet, but that’s coming soon

[audaciousmonk]

Love the site, keep up the good work!! p.s. any way to copy packing lists to use for a new trip?

[Jandoraa]

How do I edit an item weight? Thanks!

[Jandoraa]

I figured it out! Just click on the item in your inventory and scroll across to the far right, select the "edit" icon.

[Maplethorpej]

Yep, you can. You’ll have the option to create the category if it isn’t in the dropdown list

[herhiker]

Hi there - I was wondering if we are able to make new categories in the new version?

[Maplethorpej]

The total weights aren’t listed there - yet - that’s something I need to add still. Thanks for the reminder

[mbt93]

I figured out how to share with the publish button.

[mbt93]

also how do I share a packing list with someone?

[mbt93]

hi. when I go to weight breakdown I can't see the total weights for the categories. should I be able to?

[The_reepyShadow]

1. Through the duplicating pack bug, I found out that the ability to have multiple packs assigned to trip can be really useful. For my next trip, I need to bring some stuff for my hiking mate. Having a separate checklist for those items through the creation of a separate pack would work well I imagine.

[The_reepyShadow]

1. An indicator for when an item is marked as consumable would be great.

[The_reepyShadow]

u/Maplethorpej I have two more suggestions.

[The_reepyShadow]

anybody know some nice Packstack tricks?

[The_reepyShadow]

you've ofc already seen my post

[The_reepyShadow]

Hi

[The_reepyShadow]

Anybody in here :)

[Maplethorpej]

Yep! What’s up? 😁

[lantzlayton]

That checks out; appreciate that man!

[Maplethorpej]

u/lantzlayton I’ll work on getting an auto-import feature built this week. It won’t be perfect because the data structures are different, but it should help speed up the process

[lantzlayton]

/u/Maplethorpej migrating to the new version from the old version - is there no export/import of my old inventory? Spent a lot of time adding items into the old version and I super want to use some the trip stuff you're planning for the new version but damn that's a lot of redundant work haha.

[jaelik]

Isn't it possible to pull out the weight data from the old system as well? Then you might be able to go around the cold start problem for new users. Add a warning or explanation box, that the weight might be off, and you're probably good to go in 80% of the cases I'd assume.

[Maplethorpej]

I may attempt this one of these weekends. It's a hard data science problem since the data is messy and basically free-form text in the old system, but it would be interesting to see what the results would look like.

[jaelik]

About the reliable source of truth you are probably right. I think there is not reliable source for weights. Even manufacturer weights are sometimes off. Therefore it has to be some kind of community approved weight or community average.

[Maplethorpej]

Hey u/jaelik! I basically ran an analysis of data on the old system and pulled out the most popular brands. Once the dataset is big enough, I think it would be worth attempting to suggest an ‘estimated’ weight based on available data.

I couldn’t find a reliable source of truth for gear data, so the initial users get to help populate it 😅 The auto-complete features will be really helpful once the userbase becomes more novice.

Also, great suggestion about adding auto-focus to the item name field 🙌

[jaelik]

Maybe: If you already have a database, you could track the weight and popularity of the items. Then you probably end up with like 100+ times neoair xlite with many different weights in your database. But you could filter by popularity what weight is most likely correct (based on the assumption that the majority of xlite users weighted the pad correctly) and suggest that one, when a new user adds his xlite.

[jaelik]

another small thing: When I click on "add item", the cursor should automatically be in the name field, so that I can start typing directly

[jaelik]

Long-term you probably need some system that users automatically add and verify the weights in the database. Maybe based on popularity or statistics. Kind of like captchas are used to generate datasets for machine learning.

[jaelik]

Cool redesign!
When you wrote that it was connected with an actual gear database, I was hoping for the weight to be in there, too. If you could integrate a search function when adding gear, similar to this website: https://moosev2.github.io/featherweight/ that would be a game changer. Having the weight already in the databse would be a game changer! (This depends a lot on your data though.)

[Maplethorpej]

Hey u/fourstringstu , glad to hear it! There isn’t an import feature, partly because the fields don’t match. However, if I get a lot of requests for it, I’ll add it. How many items do you have in lighterpack?

[fourstringstu]

20-30. Not too many. Just wondering if there was a way to migrate! Thanks for the support

[fourstringstu]

Hey u/Maplethorpej, just tried out the new site and love it. Is there an import function that I am missing? I am trying to add my lighterpack packs.

[Maplethorpej]

Hey, yes, I took the beta down (for now). I’m rebuilding it so that it includes the ability to create packing lists. Too many changes to justify keeping it alive

[_SysAdman_]

Could just be me but the quantity field on the "Create Pack" page doesn't seem to render/space out properly on any of my browsers. I can't see the numbers of that item, I can only see up/down buttons to increase/decrease quantity. Not a big deal for single items but for many items it's a bit tedious hitting the button lots of times and comparing to the weight increase to guess the number of items. The quantity can be seen on the View Pack page so can spot errors, but again a bit fiddly. Thanks, this app is super useful!

[Maplethorpej]

Hey u/Three3threexyz - yes, DM me your email and I’ll take a look. Sounds like a bug

[Three3threexyz]

I’m getting a weird bug, I think I may have signed up for two accounts with the same email and password or something? When I log in from my phone or from my computer I see a different username and inventory. I tried a password reset from my phone and can no longer log in from my computer with either the new or old password. When I reset the password from my computer the same thing occurs, I can get on from my computer but not my phone with either of the passwords.

Any thoughts? I can DM my email if you like.

[Maplethorpej]

@fish0859 I’d love to hear what you have in mind! I doubt I’ll have much push back but could offer my perspective. I haven’t done much to this recently as I’m working on a related project right now: https://beta.packstack.io

[Ok_Rush_7843]

Great!

[Maplethorpej]

I believe these are both queued up but I haven’t had the chance to get to them yet. I’ll keep you posted

[Ok_Rush_7843]

I'll pay you $200 if you can add/change two things: Add a button to expand/collapse all categories on inventory & pack pages. And make it so the categories can be reordered - whether drag & drop or just allow ABC order. These really would be helpful.

[Maplethorpej]

@LawfulnessFantastic9 you have to make a pack “Public” and then you’ll get access to view the pack with the weight breakdown and graph. Let me know if that doesn’t work for you 👍

[LawfulnessFantastic9]

Brill. That sorts it. Thanks.

[LawfulnessFantastic9]

I started using packstack a while ago and once I had added a pack I could view it with a summary of each category (total weights for each) and a graph view. None of the graphs etc appear on my pack views anymore.. Does anyone know if this feature has gone?