Ginjaninja Tools - RecommendMe - intra user recommendation ecosystem with user notifications

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Purpose and Function

• Reccomend media to 1 or more recipients (recipients the admin has given you access to). Recommendations are checked for unwatched then added to a user dedicated 'recommendation collection'
• Admin send Recommendation access model - Everyone, No One (default), Named Users, Group Membership.
• Configurable default New User behaviour (send policy, group membership). Configurable collection naming.
• Admin server wide media type control.
• User (and optionally admin) controlled recommendation receive preferences.
• Toast notification of reccomendations. Historical event view of reccomendations.
• Watched Medias are removed from a user's reccomendation collection on event and scheduled task.

Getting Started

• Establish your preferred collection naming syntax.
• Give users access to make recomendations to other users.
• Use the user facing UI under the profile picture (only available on a web client) to make a reccomendation.
• Review the "Collection" library for users' recomendation collections.

Disclaimers

• Vibe coded with Claude, backup database before 1st use, until tested. (Collections are individually targetted for adding individual members)

Download

https://github.com/ginjaninja1/RecommendMe

Assume version changes require deletion of \data\RecommendMe ie a hard reset during early builds at least.

• 0.1.0.0RecommendMe.dll

Changes

 

Known issues

Issues and Suggestions Welcome.

Roadmap [potential]

• if Collections ever got an access model, implement that.
• Import exisitng recomendations collections.
• Implement most recent N mediaitems/images on collection collages agressively on change,
• Store realtime notification for delivery when target user is playing something (improve chance of them seeing notification)

Other Info

• Plugin stores data in \programdata\data\recommendme(good to know if you want to reset/uninstall)

Edited 7 minutes ago by ginjaninja