suggestions

gangerh Thank you. Jul 25, 2012

gangerh Can someone please flush the user word_turd down the toilet. Jul 24, 2012

chained_bear I noticed this too. I can put the cursor in the box and use the arrow keys to get where I want to go, but this is rather cumbersome compared to using my little scroll wheel that I love so much. Apr 29, 2010

madmouth The "edit comment" feature seems to cut off all but the 2-3 visible lines of text; I can't scroll down to the bottom of a long comment to fix it up :{ Apr 28, 2010

bilby I'm against monarchies, on the whole. At night, when I take coins out of my pockets and put them on the bed-side table, I turn them so the side with the queen is face-down. Nov 16, 2009

mollusque I think a royal blue might be easier to read than the cornflower blue. Nov 16, 2009

pterodactyl Hip hip hooray! John, thank you for all the blood, sweat, and tears you're putting into this. We really appreciate it. :-) Nov 16, 2009

Prolagus It is indeed. The blueness of the giant word bothers me a little, but it matches my curtains so it's acceptable. Nov 16, 2009

dontcry The place is shaping up nicely! Feels a bit more like home. *thinks about opening up a porch* Nov 16, 2009

Prolagus awesome. awesome! Nov 15, 2009

john pterodactyl, hello!

Active threads will return soon, but first comes getting list and profile comments into the comment stream, then a chronological past-comments section that we can page through, both early this week.

I like the idea of deputizing editors, there are some issues, the most obvious being that I'd have to build the tools. But maybe eventually. We have internal bug tracking, and I have my own mixed-up-files style tracking. But a user-editable bug wiki, separate from the site itself, might be a good idea.

Later today I'll be adding a shortcut for linking directly to comments pages from within comments.

Edit: done. see text above comment box. Nov 15, 2009

pterodactyl I agree with Prolagus -- I miss the one-entry-per-thread layout of the "active threads" page, and I'd love to see the Zeitgeist page adopt the same layout.

(Incidentally, this is my first comment on Wordnik. Hi everyone!) Nov 15, 2009

mollusque John, how about delegating some of the clean-up to longtime users? If you gave them superuser powers, they could search out (given appropriate tools) the remaining problems with character conversions and fix them. This would mean allowing the superusers to edit other users comments.

You could harness that fijiti ocsjts energy for something beyond meta! Nov 15, 2009

Telofy I suspect that it might me somewhat hard for John to track all the different bug reports and suggestions (and multiples thereof), as they are legion and scattered. Perhaps someone from the Wordie–Wordnik team (John himself?) could set up a launchpad or a trac to alleviate this problem, if indeed it is one. Nov 15, 2009

Prolagus I think the Zeitgeist page could be changed to look more like the "active threads" on Ye Olde Wordie, i.e. one entry per thread. That could make it easier to read. Nov 15, 2009

whichbe Mollusque hit on a great point: We should have a strategy for when/if there's a massive conversation flood happening, which can be very possible if there's indeed hundreds of regulars posting. We can set-up something to facilitate and encourage growth this way--I believe the Wordie method would put a lid on this by making conversation threads difficult to track. Because the nature of the site is a scrolly-comments form (which I like) rather than posts-on-forums, the little quips seem kind of...disjointed. Now, I'm sure there's plenty of people that like this quality so maybe it's best to keep.

I guess the potential problem is that when there's a STORM of comments, it's really easy for conversation threads to fall through the cracks, ya know? This means that the site's very design itself would become the conversation killer.

Not sure how to do it. One idea might be to have a "Follow This Thread" feature (editable from our Profiles? and perhaps addable from a Word's dropdown menu near the top) where we can track the conversation of select words (or lists?). ThreadTrack or something. What do you think? Nov 15, 2009

Prolagus I think it could be useful to have a way to link specifically to the comment or etymology (or whatever) section of a word page.
(See my comment on OK and you'll see an example of what I mean). I think it could be done easily by allowing us to insert / in our brackets: since this links to http://www.wordnik.com/words/this , I think this/comments could link to http://www.wordnik.com/words/this/comments .
This is the closest I can get to write it in English. Nov 14, 2009

Prolagus See also wordnikie suggestion box for more suggestions. Nov 14, 2009

Prolagus "Favorite figure of speech". Nov 12, 2009

whichbe I like the idea of more Profile/user features, all small things. Like choosing which of one's own lists to display on our profile page, we could also have a configurable selection for the Favorites listing, thus pimping the best of the best in general, not just more-recent.

Also, frindley points to the idea of more user-to-user interaction. We've discussed and (mostly) dismissed the idea of personal messaging on Wordie, however a "search" feature might be good. In general, the Profile questions need to be re-thought with the change, too... Location seems like a good field. The I AM A/SEEKING A___ question was a ha-ha funny but I feel that a more fill-in-the-blank approach would be better (ever-mocking the notion of 'Profiles'-as-personal-ads gets old)... I'll brainstorm up some possible new profile questions later today. Nov 12, 2009

arby Over on comments john already said the function of "Add to list" will be provided again. I'm assuming it will be in the "Take this word and.." drop-down. Nov 12, 2009

Telofy On the right, there is this “Be the first!” link to create a new list... What are the chances that some word inspires someone to create a complete new list for it (not too low, I own, but wait for the second part of this sentence) in comparison to the probability that someone just wants to add it to an existing list? A little AJAXy interface, summonable with a single click, as on Wordie emeritus, would be more called for I think.
And I like frindley’s novel idea of moving the comment textarea to the top. :-) Nov 12, 2009

frindley Oh yes, whichbe, I think that was me (re user preference for going straight to "comments" when you click on a word).

I've since noticed that if a word has comments you can click on the comments link and thus go straight to the bit you want, so that's a useful thing to know, but if it's a virgin word you still have to go via the definitions/reference area first. Nov 12, 2009

arby Sorry, not trying to be negative. Change is good! Many improvements are materializing. I just need to remember to click a different link for the real Wordie-style "home". Nov 12, 2009

arby PS I don't like the new home page, the Zeitgeist is so much more entertaining! I guess the home page is Wordnik for Dummies, eh? Nov 12, 2009

arby yes, this! I miss going straight to the good stuff Nov 12, 2009

whichbe Someone made the suggestion that a user-configurable preference to set the "COMMENTS" section be the default (if so desired, rather than 'Definitions') would be good for some of the conversation-heavy Wordie users. Seems like a good idea. Nov 12, 2009

whichbe Probably a bad time to make a suggestion with today being a Wordie-to-Wordnik transfer day, but: I like the "Lists" list at the top right of our profile. It would be even cooler if there were some way to select which 8 lists appear on that column, as to point profile-perusers to Prominent lists of ours. It would also give our profiles us that personalized, representative sparkly touch. Nov 12, 2009

bibliobabe how about chic? Jul 23, 2008