I'm not sure if this is how you conceptualize variants, but it seems like maybe they're forks of patterns? What about being able to see all the various iterations of a pattern created by a single author? It would be awesome to be able to explicitly fork a pattern and also to just save new iterations. Perhaps you have to fork before you can edit another user's pattern? This is kinda what Glitch does if I remember correctly.
Basically, I think the variants view is cool (although I'm a bit unclear what qualifies as a variant... is it like a fork?) and would like to see it extended to cover minor revisions / changes to a pattern.
I'm not sure if this is how you conceptualize variants, but it seems like maybe they're forks of patterns? What about being able to see all the various iterations of a pattern created by a single author? It would be awesome to be able to explicitly fork a pattern and also to just save new iterations. Perhaps you have to fork before you can edit another user's pattern? This is kinda what Glitch does if I remember correctly.
Basically, I think the variants view is cool (although I'm a bit unclear what qualifies as a variant... is it like a fork?) and would like to see it extended to cover minor revisions / changes to a pattern.