Rate recipes

[AlexWerz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
No!

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to be able to rate recipes and sort search results and categories by rating.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Adding a rating to the name of the recipe. But that alters also the alphanumeric sorting and overall looks bad.

[christianlupus]

To get an impression of your wish:

• Should this be only for your personal rating or somehow shared with other users?
• Should the rating system be something like a grade/point system (0 to 10 points or 1 to 5 stars for ex.) or a textual one (think of reviews)?
• Do you have an idea how this could graphically be represented to the user? A sketch might help.

Maybe other questions are to come.

[AlexWerz]

Should this be only for your personal rating or somehow shared with other users?
I am not sharing recipes with other users. So my family would rate a dish and I would add that rating to a recipe. Another possibility would be that all users of the Nextcloud instance can rate a recipe and you can show the average rating.
This should not present all ratings from all users (not like Amazon where you have a rating and a comment).

Should the rating system be something like a grade/point system (0 to 10 points or 1 to 5 stars for ex.) or a textual one (think of reviews)?
I would not use text as it is hard to filter according to text. I would like to use a 1 to 5 stars system with 1 star increments. If you are using a rating for all users you would need an average. Then I would also use 0,5 stars increments.

Do you have an idea how this could graphically be represented to the user? A sketch might help.
I would use Unicode characters. ☆ (Unicode 2606) and ★ (Unicode 2605). Example:
★★★☆☆ would be 3 of 5 stars

If you have more questions feel free to ask.

My thougts
Why not start with a rating system for a single user. Only one rating per recipe. Show 1 to 5 stars, 0 if unrated. Use the stars I mentioned above.

In a second step you could enhance the system and let all users be able to rate. But only show an average rating (with tha approach you will not have to store all ratings seperatly with username).

If needed you can refine the system by allowing every user to rate AND to add a comment to the rating (think of Amazon reviews).

Does that help?

[sam-19]

I have created a system like this for another Nextcloud app. I would sincerely suggest using a 10 point system (or five stars with half star increments). Having only five stars, as I did at first, lead to endless frustration between trying to pick between 3 and 4 stars (the most common grades) and ended with almost all recipes having a three star rating, at least for me. And if someone wants to use full stars, they can also do just that. Assigning the grade is simple: first click on a star either assigns a full or half star, consecutive clicks toggle between full and half.

[christianlupus]

I just found there is a contentRating in https://schema.org/Recipe. This we can use directly.

[sam-19]

I created a pull request for this, so we can work out the details of this implementation.

[GutHib]

+1

Nice idea, and looking forward to it.