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Sparked by long.zheng's gravatar long.zheng on 13 December 2009 6:16 AM

Feedback (46 comments)

  1. Rep: +3

    Garion's gravatar Garion wrote on 13 December 2009 12:19 PM

    How about a favicon? I think that green circle with the line running through it would be clear enough. Just something to distinguish it from the rest of my sites in the awesome bar (its amazing how different it makes things)

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    brentfriedman's gravatar brentfriedman wrote on 13 December 2009 8:14 PM

    How about a logo with a light bulb?

  4. Rep: +2

    long.zheng's gravatar long.zheng wrote on 13 December 2009 11:22 PM

    Working on a new logo, although lightbulb might be too cliche :P

  5. Rep: +2

    Chris362's gravatar Chris362 wrote on 10 January 2010 8:41 PM

    How about some new presets:

    -Already available (blue)
    - This is a decent idea (purple)

    The idea may already be out there, and some ideas are alright, but not "great"

  6. Rep: 0

    One Down's gravatar One Down wrote on 23 April 2010 11:39 AM

    I like the current logo..

  7. Rep: +1

    daniel's gravatar daniel wrote on 13 December 2009 8:42 PM

    How about letting us put links in these comments?

    Comment last edited on 13 December 2009 8:43 PM

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    long.zheng's gravatar long.zheng wrote on 13 December 2009 11:22 PM

    You can already :)

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  10. Rep: 0

    Lloyd's gravatar Lloyd wrote on 14 December 2009 1:04 AM

    Hate to burst your bubble, but the clock is out by 12 hours. Or just maybe the AM and PM are swapped... [edit: have noticed user settings but now the time seems out by 20 mins?]

    Also, How about making a large "Add comment" button at the bottom of the idea which bounces the user down here to where I'm writing right now. (Original feedback, not a reply to other feedback).

    I think this is a great idea, though. The site I mean... :¬)

    Comment last edited on 14 December 2009 1:12 AM

  11. Rep: +2

    long.zheng's gravatar long.zheng wrote on 14 December 2009 4:02 AM

    *Corrected problem with time.

    I want to avoid making it too easy for people to blindly add comments since if they skip past reading the existing comments, they're more likely to repeat something that might have been said already.

    Comment last edited on 14 December 2009 4:20 AM

  12. Rep: 0

    Rafael Rivera's gravatar Rafael Rivera wrote on 14 December 2009 6:08 AM

    How about making the favicon reflect the actual status of the post you're viewing?

  13. Rep: -2

    Rafael Rivera's gravatar Rafael Rivera wrote on 14 December 2009 6:11 AM

    [deleted]

    Comment last edited on 14 December 2009 6:44 AM

  14. Rep: 0

    long.zheng's gravatar long.zheng wrote on 14 December 2009 2:01 PM

    That might be cool, but I don't think the browser refresh the favicon every page reload.

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    Chris362's gravatar Chris362 wrote on 15 December 2009 6:49 AM

    How about the little icon that shows the progress of this "idea" (red, green orange etc) next to the idea title?

    How about gus being able to change the sign in? (like facebook to windows live.) Not that I want to, but for feature use

  16. Rep: +1

    long.zheng's gravatar long.zheng wrote on 15 December 2009 7:12 AM

    Login ID management is on the "to-do" list, but is not very high priority since it's most applicable to most users.

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    long.zheng's gravatar long.zheng wrote on 15 December 2009 7:10 AM

    As suggested by dkitchen, timed deletion of comments

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    Garion's gravatar Garion wrote on 18 December 2009 12:53 AM

    How about showing how users have commented in their profiles.

    For instance, I was reading one particular idea in my idea that didn't really make any sense, and after viewing their comments profile, I realised that they thought that many other ideas weren't good and provided no specific reason.

    By having a graph showing how they have voted in the comments, we get a better understanding at what sort of person they are

  19. Rep: +1

    Chris362's gravatar Chris362 wrote on 20 December 2009 4:39 AM

    I think this is a great idea

  20. Rep: +1

    nyp's gravatar nyp wrote on 23 December 2009 1:04 AM

    Reputation, anyone?

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    Chris362's gravatar Chris362 wrote on 2 January 2010 10:32 PM

    How about work like engadget does and the lower the rep, the comment will be hidden or grayed out, and a user can have the option to view it or ignore it?

  23. Rep: +2

    Indrek's gravatar Indrek wrote on 3 January 2010 12:53 AM

    Yeah, that'd be great. -5 should be a good threshold for automatically hiding comments.

  24. Rep: 0

    Chris362's gravatar Chris362 wrote on 3 January 2010 1:09 AM

    Those who abuse it can also get their rep score lowered

  25. Rep: +2

    nyp's gravatar nyp wrote on 3 January 2010 1:43 AM

    Hey, how do you get access to my to-do list?!

  26. Rep: +3

    long.zheng's gravatar long.zheng wrote on 3 January 2010 2:04 AM

    Yep. It already does that, at -10 I believe :)

  27. Rep: -8

    Indrek_test's gravatar Indrek_test wrote on 7 January 2010 1:23 AM

    Well, let's check it out then. If you're reading this, please demote this comment. Let's get it to -10 and see what happens. Go on, you know you want to.

    Long: hope you don't mind this bit of harmless testing :)

    Comment last edited on 7 January 2010 1:24 AM

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    Indrek's gravatar Indrek wrote on 7 January 2010 10:15 AM

    Trés cool, thanks!

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    Chris362's gravatar Chris362 wrote on 4 January 2010 4:40 AM

    What about a "Already available" preset? Perhaps make it blue.

  31. Rep: +2

    Indrek's gravatar Indrek wrote on 7 January 2010 1:39 AM

    How about a private messaging system, to converse with other users without involving the whole community?

    Alternatively, a way to send email to a user (without exposing said user's email address if they've chosen to hide it).

  32. Rep: -1

    Chris362's gravatar Chris362 wrote on 7 January 2010 7:33 AM

    I think this is a great idea. How about an option to disable the personal message

  33. Rep: 0

    Will's gravatar Will wrote on 14 March 2010 12:08 AM

    I think this is a great idea

  34. Rep: +2

    Indrek's gravatar Indrek wrote on 10 January 2010 7:20 PM

    How about an ignore list? Posts and comments from users you add to it would be hidden, just like low-rep comments.

    (Gotta give credit where credit is due - I never would've thought of this if it weren't for Chris362.)

  35. Rep: -2

    Chris362's gravatar Chris362 wrote on 10 January 2010 7:30 PM

    <delete>

    Comment last edited on 10 January 2010 10:38 PM

  36. Rep: +1

    Chris362's gravatar Chris362 wrote on 10 January 2010 8:45 PM

    How about some new presets:

    -Already available (blue)
    - This is a decent idea (purple)

    The idea may already be out there, and some ideas are alright, but not "great"

  37. Rep: 0

    trippymitch's gravatar trippymitch wrote on 11 January 2010 4:04 AM

    you make the "Here an idea," image at the top link to the Publish page, or make Publish Idea button larger, like build the homepage around the button or something.How about

  38. Rep: 0

    MarkKB's gravatar MarkKB wrote on 16 January 2010 3:47 AM

    How about text/tag filters, so we can exclude stuff from the front page that we don't want to see? For example, if I'm working on a project and want to do it "clean room", so to speak.

    Still, I think this is a great idea (the website, that is!)

    Comment last edited on 16 January 2010 3:54 AM

  39. Rep: 0

    Guest Attendant's gravatar Guest Attendant wrote on 16 January 2010 4:28 AM

    I'm not sure this will work. Because how would you know what to block and what not to block? You might block something that will be posted in a few weeks and it may be a very good one

  40. Rep: 0

    MarkKB's gravatar MarkKB wrote on 11 May 2010 10:51 PM

    Text filters. I can say I don't want to see anything with, say, "Twitter client" in it.

    (I meant personal view filters, not global post filters.)

  41. Rep: 0

    thomas.brownback's gravatar thomas.brownback wrote on 19 January 2010 1:49 AM

    Is there a way to make customized subsections of this page, like you did with Windows Taskforce?

    What's the best way to group similar ideas or discussions...

  42. Rep: +1

    nyp's gravatar nyp wrote on 19 January 2010 10:21 AM

    What do you mean? The taskforce never had any customization on the submission page before.

    If you're asking for is how to group similar ideas, then it's tags.

  43. Rep: 0

    Kitpup's gravatar Kitpup wrote on 15 March 2010 3:43 PM

    How about deleting the rep points (positive or negative) given out on a thread/comment that's deleted.

  44. Rep: +2

    Will's gravatar Will wrote on 3 April 2010 12:05 AM

    How about the ability to track an idea as it's developed. So you'd have the number of revisions at the top, and be able to click through them (1: Idea when it was a baby, 2: idea once it's been discussed, 3: etc 4: etc)

  45. Rep: 0

    One Down's gravatar One Down wrote on 23 April 2010 11:39 AM

    How about having the ability to delete accounts.

  46. Rep: 0

    nyp's gravatar nyp wrote on 23 April 2010 11:44 AM

    Err... why?

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