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JoeUser: What's Your Most-Wanted Feature

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JoeUser: What's Your Most-Wanted Feature

One Feature Only!

from JoeUser Forums

Dear JU Faithful,

At the moment we are looking into what would be involved in an update to this site.  There's no question that it's been a while since it got some tender, loving care from development, and we're thinking we *might* have some time in the coming months to address this problem.

As we do these updates, we also might be able to sneak in one or two new features, if time permits.  So, we'd like to hear from you on what you would like to see added to the site in an update.  Here's how this is going to work:

  1. You get to make ONE feature request.  Only one.  Be specific
  2. It should be something you feel is a must-have function for the site
  3. It should not be "fix this feature that's been broken forever"  We're going to be fixing the glitches.  Think of new stuff.
  4. Keep it semi-reasonable.  Asking us to make the site 100% customizable isn't going to happen. 

There is absolutely no guarantee that all of the requests here will be added to the site.  We're going to go through the list of suggestions and see what we can actually accomplish when we set aside time for the project. 

Once the project is underway, expect updates on what will and won't be in the site.  For now, consider this the exploratory phase before we firmly declare anything  :)  You folks have stuck around the site through thick and thin, so we want to give you a chance to throw in your two cents before we get started.

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
They already have this, LH. Click on 'my replies' from the main forum page. It's right there under the welcome bar, next to 'my account, watchlist, and my posts.'


If you haven't posted though it won't come up there. Occasionally there's articles I'd like to comment on but not right now; usually I never find them again when I come back to write something.

I'd like to see this feature as well, although I can't think of a practical way to implement it. Chances are the watchlist is as close as we're going to get, although I agree with LH that the emailed updates are annoying.

My feature of choice would be better cross-platform compatibility. Firefox on the Mac doesn't post articles properly (it can't interpret carriage line breaks) and Safari can't even show the post comment box.

It makes using JU a bit of a pain sometimes, although as I don't post a lot of articles I get by fairly well with Firefox.

But if you're going to be introducing new features it'd be great if they could be tested to make sure they can be used by non-PC users.
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top

Thank you to everyone for the feedback and ideas, it's helping us a lot as we hammer out the site requirements. 

Hopefully we'll have something cool to show you "soon"

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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top

Hopefully we'll have something cool to show you "soon"

With you on the job, we expect no less.

Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
Something you might consider for yourselves is taking a little time to build in application level exception handling + logging. In the short time I've been here I've been exposed to your stack dumps at least 15 times times typically due to connection pooling issues.

Theres no reason why any visitor should be receiving these notices especially given the platform you're using....it couldn't be any easier to *at least hide*.

It just happened again now hence my post.
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
Did anyone mention a preview feature? When you type a new article, you want to see what it will look like and have the chances to edit it before submitting.