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I love it! A couple of suggestions... - "Webmaster Tools" to encourage submissions and to increase name recognition. - Remove "v class="left">" from the top left... :) - Don't cave to the temptation to overdo it. Simple is best! - Possibly allow comments to be posted without being previewed- it may seem like a good idea, but that one extra step will discourage users from commenting. - Right-hand column doesn't float properly in Chrome. Chrome's not big yet, but it will be soon. :)
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>Possibly allow comments to
>Possibly allow comments to be posted without being previewed- it may seem like a good idea, but that one extra step will discourage users from commenting.
Required preview is needed since users cannot alter or delete their comments. What do you mean by the "Webmaster tools"?
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Actually, you cleared that up for me. I didn't realize there was an existing api for blogs, etc. I just can't seem to find it... =D
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http://infomate.org/node/233
http://infomate.org/node/233
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Edit....
Ahem... well, apparently #'s 2 and 5 above were freak things. They're working perfectly now.
One other thing... if I click "Add reply" at the bottom of your post, it takes me to submit a new story, not to add a comment (I know, the comment box is already on the page, there's no need to click that, but I tried it, anyway.)
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Agree with you. "Add reply" is confusing
"Add reply" should be renamed to "Reply with a story".
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Done
Done
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Does everyone understand how
Does everyone understand how moderation, friends and tag system work? Should we make a tutorial for each of those?
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tags
more needs to be done with the tags, unless i am missing something.
also, i strongly suggest that the singular and plural of a tag be treated as the same..i.e. cat/cats, and so on.
i think tutorials are a good idea. it will save everyone a lot of work in the long run to point new users to those. i'm still confused as hell, myself. where are the "popular tags" again? i just don't see how to access the tags, sorry for my ignorance.
also, i think you need to find a female to look over the design...it's kind of blocky and hard on the eyes, do the rest of you argee with that? and that green..blech!
oh, and please allow the comment to be posted on the first go, because it could be real easy to forget you are "previewing" and it's not already posted. this has happened to me a few times. people usually know if they want to post it the first time, i do believe. you can always delete it later anyways, eh?
A real pain in the ass, yoda is. haha!
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I mainly agree with you
I mainly agree with you here:
1) Popular tags are being done, hopefully next week we might roll them out.
2) Searching by tags also needs to be done and the single/plural idea should be implemented as well
3) We will create a help/tutorial section with general howto's
4) Comment previewing is unnecessary in my opinion, but this needs to be discussed with the community
5) I think the theme is all right, but perhaps should be unified a bit more. This is not the main thing at the moment though
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I'd say required preview is
I'd say required preview is needed since users cannot alter or delete their comments.
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minor bug
if you click "reply" the new screen still has the option of voting, but if you vote, it takes you to a blank screen with an URL like this:
http://www.infomate.org/vote/comment/233/1/vdff9nd9hsp1lkeenoit0iubd1
a little disconcerting. (i get the feeling, though, that this is a "stub" that hasn't been fully programmed yet, eh?)
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definitely a bug. thanks.
definitely a bug. thanks.
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new windows!! please!
you should have everything that isn't on the site open in a new window (or tab)....when i go to a site like this i tend to stick around awhile and it's much better IMO to keep the Infomate window open when people click on stories or whatever...
don't you think?
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I personally like the idea.
I personally like the idea. Does anyone see any drawbacks?
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nope
nope
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done
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Hi - think its all a great idea but...
the content is already so diverse that you need some method of categorising it.
Something like programming, tech, general news etc.
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Community tags?
Community tags?
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not enough
Tags are fine but an imposed structure would encourage readers who want to signup to just a particular topic
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Won't the favorite tags do
Won't the favorite tags do the trick?
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my experience
As a novice user - but I have used other similar sites - the problem I'm having is filtering the content.
For this site to be a sucess it needs to please its readers not the posters or moderators - as the readers need to outnumber
the other groups by a factor of 1000 plus.
All I can tell you is that as a potential reader I find the material difficult to work with.
Other similar sites have failed because they don't allow the user to find their niche.
Similarly sites that do work are generally better at forming niche communities - see reddit for example.
I'm a programmer and I want software/programmer topics not politics say and I never want to read politics so I want it out of my view forever - i.e.
I want a group not a tag.
Tags are fine after you have a grouping structure to provide the basic divisions.
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previous post by mikej (forgot to sign in!)
previous post by mikej (forgot to sign in!)
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>For this site to be a
>For this site to be a success it needs to please its readers not the posters or moderators
+2 :-)
>I'm a programmer and I want software/programmer topics not politics say and I never want to read politics so I want it out of my view forever
The feature has been discussed but not implemented yet.
If two new features are added (tags to ignore & a block showing the top community tags), what extra functionality will a grouping structure provide?
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a sense of community
Tags with any ammount of clever programming are just ways of categorising data.
You don't belong to a tag but you do belong to a reading group.
This is why reddit has users who think of themselves as being members of reddit programming.
You are never going to identify with the programming tag......
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Offtopic
Are you the one who's been publishing a lot of interesting content under anonymous?
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very minor idea
a nice favor for lazy minded individuals would be instead of the words "ascending/descending" you could say "newest first/oldest first". i don't know, but i have to think about it every time...the concepts of ascending and time i have a hard time mentally with, i guess, ya'know?
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done
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instead of forced preview...
..you might consider allowing deletion in the first few minutes after the post is made.
i could imagine that this might be a little complex to develop at this stage, but it's a thought..
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ok so..
you said i was a moderator, and i wanted to suggest a story to moderate, but i don't see how.
that fake South Park episode at http://www.infomate.org/node/188
that no one seemed to like...
so how do i suggest that for moderation again? i just looked and don't see any way..
thanks
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A story or a comment can
A story or a comment can only be moderated if it has a negative score.
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anonymous??
i have to wonder about the wisdom of allowing anonymous posting and commenting....
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Sometimes anonymous posts
Sometimes anonymous posts might be interesting.
CAPTCHA and the moderation system should be able to take care of spam and meaningless content.
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good point. wouldn't want
good point. wouldn't want to see it turn into YouTube comments section, is all...
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Spam filters needed
You have to install spam filters for comments. Phoenix Vacation Rentals
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