Suggestion Box, Autumn 2014 Edition in Suggestion Box

not so sure i would pay to write here. i paid for a lifetime subscription at open diary and it only lasted the lifetime of open diary not mine. nope, don't want to pay again. however, i am thankful for this place to write. this time i wanted a simple understated place to put my words even though they aren't worth reading 99% of the time. take car,e

Ugh, the thought of gamification makes me ill.

Here's a suggestion: fix where in your bookmark-stream reading a Revised entry puts you. That is, a Revised entry pops up on my list of unread bookmarks. Maybe something from last week. If I click it, read it, then click "Next bookmark", I'm taken to the followup entry in the stream from last week -- something I've already read -- instead of my next unread bookmark. That means the only way back to where I want to be is to click back to the main page, back to the bookmark list, and manually select the first unread bookmark. And that kind of sucks.

How about a way to back our entries up like allowing us to download them for personal safe keeping. Is that ever going to be on the list? Computer disasters happen all the time and i have lost many entries on that other site due to mischievous hackers trying to play games.

Paying depends on how much and what extras one would get. After paying for OD um I am on the fence big time on paying up money. Digging all that you have done here thus far....party on Wayne.

I'm not sure about the badges/gamification. Seems a bit gimmicky, and I like the lack of gimmicks here.

I'd love to see Interests, though, the way they were on OD.

The feature I'd most like to see is the ability to search your own diary. I also agree with previous notes about missing note replies due to lack of notification - that would be a welcome update. I do miss OD-style interests, but that's a perk and not really a necessity. Otherwise, thank you for the great work you're doing here!

I would like the option to have my bookmarks in reverse order, ie Oldest first. I have a tendency to forget that it's newest first and then I have to read entries in the wrong order and feel lost. Geez, typing that out makes me feel so ditzy. But, there it is.

Oh no, not a fan of the badges / gamification idea for this site. LOVE it on Steam, but I much prefer the clean, non-gimmicky feel of PB.

I have to agree with the many suggestions about getting notified of comments within comments.

Oy, no badges... what's the point? No, seriously, is there some point to them? In some games, they're nice because they earn you extra points/ coins... but what would be the purpose here?

The ability to search your own Prose box would be FAB.

Thanks again for all you do!

I see that you have customizable security levels on entries now, which is nice, but I don't see a drafts tab yet. I hope that is still to come soon. I'd also like a search feature and a way to customize backgrounds. Then it would be PERFECT!

I'm pretty chill with everything, but would love tags.

You are wonderful! I love everything about Prosebox.

Don't know why you are waiting so long to implement paid subscriptions?

I really would like to import my OD to my PB. I used my OD in several ways, one being my families memory, for lack of a better term. If I needed to know when my husband's heart surgery was (or what his condition was called!)-I'd search my OD. If I needed a series of funny quotes from my kids-I'd search my OD. My son just graduated high school and started college and I wanted more than anything to be able to peruse my years of OD entries (since he was 3 years old!) so I could include stories throughout the years in a "you're going to college" letter. But, trying to decipher my 15 years of OD entries as saved is next to impossible. I really miss being able to access that memory bank.

This site far outweighs that of OD when it comes to features and overall look. You've done a great job. One of the things I liked about OD is that we could see how old people were and where they lived, even if someone left this information blank. Also, we were able to receive email when friends updated their diary. You might want to consider these options. And, yes, I would chip in a few bucks a month for special privileges.

I think everything works really nicely as it is. I'd also love to be notified when people note each other within my notes, that would be great.

Complaint: I'm still not sold on the new look for books. Especially when having to click a different tab for the description. Maybe I'm just lazy but I'm less likely to read it now, whereas before I enjoyed being able to click on a book and have the description right in front of me.

• Search feature based on tagged words would be great, I want to read people who share the same interests and have a way to find new people to read.

• Anonymous notes? Pretty sure we had this feature on OD. Granted it has its drawbacks, just a thought.

• A "featured" entry or something along the lines of "readers choice". I know people whine about it not being fair and what not, but it's a great way to spotlight wonderful entries, share exciting news, etc.

Meh, the ads aren't that annoying. At least they aren't pop-up ads, or ads with video.

II would be happy to pay extra for no ads! And thank you for all you have done so far!

Hello there - I would still love to give you money to get rid of advertising, and I would love a more inclusive Bookmarks page similar to what OD had - it was so much easier to keep up with people if I could see a list of them all at once and know who had updated.

Thanks!

Oh, I'd like to amend my request - you can have advertising, but it can only be Punch The Monkey.

I would love to see tierd entries where we can share something really personal and private with just a couple of people that we trust.

Didn't mean to leave two notes. I would also like to see the ability to search for notes from one person instead of going through pages of notes to find the one note that I'm looking for.

I really like prosebox.

I am on an ipad and have issues posting pics within my entries. Ideas?

A way to see how many of your entries are FO, MO, public or private in one book. There's a full tally of all the entries in each book but I'd like to see how many are in each privacy category if that's possible. :)

No additional suggestions from me, but I also wanted to say I am not a fan of the gamification idea.

Seeing as a lot users here are from OD is there a way to find these people? Maybe having something on the front page? I don't recall anyone's usernames. We need to have a roll call of some sort because damnit, I miss the people I use to read. pouts

I really think you should add something to this site similar to the Circles from OD. I found no one on this site about my age.

I'd also like to be able to edit comments after I've already posted them.

Analytics!

More cowbell!

I like how the site is streamlined and intuitive, the only thing that keeps bugging me is that I have to scroll a lot on the site. So, perhaps placing the edit button at the top and bottom of entry? or maybe moving it to the floating bar with more entries? It just seems I often have a long way to go to fix a typo.

I'm willing to pay just to get rid of the ads, never mind the snazz.

What about having those guitars that are, like, double guitars? You know?

On a serious note, I would like tiers of privacy. I have a lot of friends on here, but would like the option to share certain things with only a smaller circle of people.

More visual indications of entry privacy settings, such as list of entries on My Profile page and list of entries for books. Back and forward navigation for reading entries of book in chronological order.

Posting queue. Also I will totally ignore any gamification.

I may be wrong, but it seems to me there's an opportunity with comments. For example, if someone leaves a note on an entry of mine, and user "A" leaves a comment, I get a notification of the new comment. But then if another user, say user "B" happens by and comments on "A's" comment, then "A" gets a notification, but I--the "owner" of the entry don't get another notification. Shouldn't the original author get notified of these goings on? I think that might be a good update, if possible.

I just thought of something that would be nice! Could we, at some point, maybe add a feature to the bookmarks page where you can unfavorite/unfriend people from there? Rather than having to go into their journal to do it. I hope that makes sense.

How about the automated note to be added to someone's friends list if they have no public entries?

How do I add words around my profile pic like you have?

Thank you.

• An app in the future, maybe? :) I find the mobile version unusable for me.
• No to the gamification and yes to the circles.
• Would love the image storage (and maybe an expansion of other forms of media, i.e. audio and video).

There seem to be so many people wanting to throw money in your direction to get rid of the ads that I am lobbying to have this to go to the top of your to-do list!

Does changing the password not log out the other sessions?

1. An app for the ipad would be very handy.

2. Something for when you read an entry but you have no comment but says you were there and read it, instead of just hitting the space bar and enter leaving just your name. Maybe a choice of things that are a little more personal?

Why did people hate the "like" button so much? I don't respond to comments or entries I like when I don't feel I have anything to add, but I wish there was a way to signal that I appreciated and enjoyed the content even though I don't know what to say about it.

You've done such a service for us all, I hate to complain about anything on this site. However, just recently I've been redirected to advertisers' websites without clicking any ads or links. They are not pop ups, and all I've done is click on new entries on my bookmarks list. Needless to say, I'm not thrilled about this.

Okay, now simply going to my bookmarks page redirects me to something called "Brain Secrets." Happened twice in a row.
:-(

A random thought I had just now. I don't know if it has been asked already, but I am curious: Is there possibility for consideration of something like an 'Explore' button for visiting random users?