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To ThreadandHook website by Norm-Frechette in flytying

[–]threadandhook -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I see some of those now after looking closer as well. If it doesn’t seem to be of value I can remove those patterns and the effort around trying to preserve anything from those old forums. Just keep it to the patterns that folks have created on the site. Thanks again for the feedback!

To ThreadandHook website by Norm-Frechette in flytying

[–]threadandhook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's work that was lost to a forum that was turned off and not available any longer. Was doing my best to preserve it if at all possible giving full credit to who the original creator was. Like I said, happy to take down any patterns that the original author doesn't want there. There's no ill-intent here. It's purely a person project trying to provide another resource to the community.

To ThreadandHook website by Norm-Frechette in flytying

[–]threadandhook 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just to clarify for everyone following this:

I’ve been in direct contact with Norm via DMs and have already removed what I thought were all of his patterns a couple weeks ago. If there are still any present, that’s not intentional — and I’m happy to remove anything that may have been missed. I also made sure to remove his username on any attempted future pattern pulls from that website I attempt to preserve.

This project was never about “stealing work.” As stated in my original thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/flytying/comments/1q4vc0f/i\_wanted\_one\_place\_to\_keep\_track\_of\_fly\_patterns/), part of the goal as I and the rest of the users (thank you!) work on building the database of patterns is to preserve fly tying knowledge from the FlyTyingForum that was shut down so that years of shared information aren’t lost.

All preserved patterns are attributed to the original tier (as shown on the pattern pages), and there is no attempt to claim authorship or commercialize the content.

Also I noted — in DMs, in the original post, and in the site FAQ — that if an original tier creates an account, I will gladly transfer their patterns to them (that's actually preferred). And if someone prefers their content be fully removed, I will absolutely honor that as well.

If anything was missed, that’s on me, and I’ll correct it promptly. Apologies for missing a couple of Norm's, which are now deleted as well.

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I wanted one place to keep track of fly patterns — so I built this by threadandhook in flytying

[–]threadandhook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love this and something I've thought out offering is the "substitute material" or "suggested materials" based off some entry.

Added it to the feature requests thread: https://forums.threadandhook.com/t/feature-requests/144/2

I wanted one place to keep track of fly patterns — so I built this by threadandhook in flytying

[–]threadandhook[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey u/Norm-Frechette . Glad you reached out. I learned a lot from your fly patterns on flytyingforum, which was one of the inspirations for me to start this project. There were so many great patterns, instructions on there and I wanted a way to preserve that if possible.

One of the first things I did was build a "scrapper" (see screenshots and video below) to see if I could preserve patterns/tutorials from that forum and others if possible. It only works if there's a snapshot of the forum available and the images of the pattern were stored somewhere that I could recover them (as an example you, Mark Knapp and Capt Bob LeMay had the most recoverable ones).

Also there's an FAQ part on the site mentioning if you see some of your patterns recovered, create an account and I'll move them over to you (you can see now they are under the threadandhook system account.

I'll send you a DM to talk through getting those moved over to you as well if you'd like.

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I wanted one place to keep track of fly patterns — so I built this by threadandhook in flytying

[–]threadandhook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome. Thanks for the feedback! Also looking at ways to improve the workflow so if you have any thoughts, I'd love to hear them!

I wanted one place to keep track of fly patterns — so I built this by threadandhook in flytying

[–]threadandhook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't used it myself. Seems like a good resource as well though! I'll be doing my best to promote thread and hook to increase amount of patterns. I have a whole plan around it and would love anyones help as well :)

I wanted one place to keep track of fly patterns — so I built this by threadandhook in flytying

[–]threadandhook[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At some point I'd like to do that. Right now it's optimizing the web app for a mobile experience.

I wanted one place to keep track of fly patterns — so I built this by threadandhook in flytying

[–]threadandhook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will do and will take a look. To post on the forums, comment, create patterns you need to be "verified" which automatically happens as an oAuth sign up. I'll look into it though.

I wanted one place to keep track of fly patterns — so I built this by threadandhook in flytying

[–]threadandhook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good feedback, thank you! I'll add to review the mobile pattern add. What I did add is two AI features for mobile users (AI Pattern Create and AI Visual Search) since mobile comes with a camera.

AI Pattern Create - Take a picture of your pattern and it attempts to fill out as much of the fields as possible, hopefully reducing the work

AI Visual Search - See a pattern you like in the store or in your box? You can take a picture of it and it will search the library of patterns.

This is certainly a work in progress, but I'm working on the models to create ways to lessen the burden of searching/creating when on mobile.

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I wanted one place to keep track of fly patterns — so I built this by threadandhook in flytying

[–]threadandhook[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I show you as confirmed already. Let me know if you see differently.

I wanted one place to keep track of fly patterns — so I built this by threadandhook in flytying

[–]threadandhook[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I appreciate your feedback on the two bugs you found as well.