The box doth overfloweth in Suggestion Box

I'll just say those are all great and imma just going to write.

First of all, massive massive squidgy thank you for the sensible comment formation and for a bookmark list that doesn't just show the most recent entry per person only - it's nice to be able to see a history to catch up on! The only way I can think to improve upon these luxuries is to allow you to click "reply" to the comment from the comments page instead of clicking through to thr entry, and for the bookmarks to perhaps allow the option of viewing a collation of recent updates per person as well as a timeline. So if you clicked to a "by person" view, entries you hadn't read would be tallied by a number of unread, then a click to reveal the titles in a dropdown menu perhaps? Similar to the way Bloglovin works.

My main suggestion is perhaps controversially a "please DON'T do this" rather than please do. Can you leave the site as being completely restricted to the format that you eventually choose rather than allow people to change the colours and backgrounds and suchlike? It might sound strange because I changed almost everything about my OD, but I know that people find it annoying that I write in white on a black background, just as I find it annoying that they type on a patterned background or have ridiculously large comic sans text etc... I think it would give you a better brand identity to have a consistent format, but it will also be a better user experience for everyone too xXx

No suggestions from me now. Just saying I'm glad the site is doing well and is looking to improve. No need to reply personally to this comment; you have enough to do. Rock on! :)

First, I just want to deposit a yooooge THANK YOU! Second, I'm lovin' the third bullet as the current bookmarks are throwing everything out there and I can see that getting out of control in a hurry. The only other thing that's coming to mind immediately is a standard text editing section at the top of the box when making entries (I'm sure there's a proper names for that and I'm failing at remembering it. WYSIWYG?) as opposed to code. I'm an artist. Code makes me weepy. And finally, back to first: THANK YOU!!

I suggest that we bestow upon you a name. That other guy on the other site was the Diary Master. I think that we should call you The Prose Pimp.

It's probably been suggested, or is even on your ever-growing checklist, but a way to move entries between proseboxes would be awesome sauce! I mean, I know I could just copy, paste, and delete, but I now have comments on an entry I'd love to move into a different box and I haven't found an option to do so.

Thanks so much for all of your hard work and open communication!

I just have a HELP question: I actually don't understand how to read through my Bookmarks. Eg, back at the old place, you could simply see a list of your bookmarks and view title of latest entry in date order. But here, when I click on "Current Author", "Current Book", "Current Bookmark"... this just confuses me. I don't know whose entry I'm looking at in any of those tabs. I think I only have 1 active bookmark atm ~ is it just a matter of having more active bookmarks, for it to make sense? TIA.

Being able to add some colour (personality) to our Proseboxes would be good in the sense that this gives us the ability to create a picture in our heads about the person we are reading and getting to know. I find that when someone chooses a blue & flowery colour theme, it adds to their personality and when I'm halfway through reading their long entries, I can never forget who I'm reading ~ because their colours and their personality is right there. When someone uses difficult colours, I just highlight and read. I assumed most people would do that too? Anyhow tangent. The fact is: A little personality to splash on our pages would be cool.

On my laptop the written posts and comments only cover the left side of my screen. All nice and neat, but just half. I'm using FF. Is it this way for everyone? THANK YOU!!!

I'm glad the bookmarks one is there! Thank you! :)

Would be nice to have navigation buttons at the bottom of the page (after comments). Either a "back to top" or the same as the top navigation. :) Keep up the great work.

I would prefer the members only privacy setting to allow our entries to be displayed on the main page. I want the community to see what I post but I don't want the whole internet to see it. I seem to be in the minority with this though, so maybe there could be an opt in to appear on the main page? Just feels wrong that to hide myself from the rest of the internet I also have to hide myself from our own community as well.

Also, the lack of some sort of 'what you see is what you get' editor is what's stopping me writing here more often. I don't want to spend ages trying to format my entries the way I want them cause I don't have a good grasp of html. And that's coming from someone who has at least some grasp on html. It's just too faffy.

I suggest that the front page show authors who have recently updated rather than entries, to prevent a single author from flooding the front page with 20 entries.

Thanks for making a nice, clean looking site - works fab and is very readable on a mobile - I could get used to this :-) Consider this another vote for some colours etc but not loads so it makes your head hurt.

What about some circles that people can join or groups like UK or Canada etc or 20's and so on? Tags? I quite like tags :-) although I guess that's sort of like the books but even so you could have different tags for entries. Thanks very much for making this site - it works great from a mobile so I might try to update here more (as that is mainly what I use and it's not great to update/note etc on OD from a mobile - even on the mobile site!)

Oh and it might be helpful if in an entry such as this - lots of notes and replies that the green lines -.maybe the author one could be in an another colour instead of 2 double lines or different reply feeds i.e replying to 1 person and then another in 2 different colours...not explained very well but hope you know what I mean!?

Gah...I am so happy for you and the Prosebox community! It's like...warm fuzzies and unicorn bacon!

• HEEEY! I have a suggestion! =D
  You know when you click "open your prose book" and it takes you to all your books. I was thinking it would be pretty nifty to have a way of putting in an introduction under "this prose book contains number books", so that users can get a little read on the diarist behind those books. Just an idea. =D

ability to click on the users name and be taken to their main page from the bookmarks page

would love to see who bookmarks me....

Dan... err excuse me M'lord Prosepimp, Is there a way to change the email address attached to my Prosebox without having to make a totally new Prosebox? I created a new gmail account that I would like to use instead of the addy I used to open it. ...Or am I screwed and I should just deal with it? lol

LOL Ok, so I knooooow it's not facebook... but why not a 'thumbs up' so people dont just leave the 'i was here' blank notes all over the page?

To amuse me, I've always thought a "WTF" button is needed, somewhere. :)

My reply buttons aren't working today. Glitch?

This place is great.....THANK YOU!!!!!!

Nitpicking here....but what about a "random entry" link that would bring you to a random entry from a random diarist, to help find new people to read?

Or a way to find users with similar interests?

One suggestion I have just thought of although I'm not sure if you have already heard this or thinking of it. But I think it would be great if you could bookmark specific books rather than authors. So say for example, if I want to follow someone's fitness book but not their poetry I can do, or vice versa. Certainly not a priority but I e noticed a few users post multiple times in multiple books and take over my bookmarks list.

Thank you for all the effort you're putting in, I love this site.

Great work so far! Maybe I am missing it (might have happened a time or two!) but is there a friends list? I love the friends only books but I am not sure who exactly I have friended.

How about a date on BOOKMARKED entries or being able to sort by entry date?

Hi Diarylord. Are there rules here? Do you allow pornographic content? Do you require it to be friends only? Will you intervene in fights between members? If there are rules, are they available somewhere on the site? I haven't been able to find any.

How about TLS support? We're writing personal stuff here, and it's flowing unencrypted over the wild, ugly Internet.

Something i noticed that's not really a huge deal, but... when I come to the main page on my phone, and I want to see recent entries, I have to scroll down down down past the new users and new books created. I think I would rather see recent entries first and then new users and books. It's not a deal breaker for me, but when I only have a few minutes to read a new entry or two on my phone, I'd rather not spend all my time scrolling. Just a thought.

maybe a counter so i'll know how much i've written? i'm a bit obsessive like that. so far this is a pretty good site. i'm impressed with the almost daily improvements. take care,

not sure if it's on the list, but we need a random button. what it needs to do is display a random entry from X number of hours or days. oh, what would be awesome is if one could choose such X number, such as give the users a setting to allow the random button to randomize entries within X number of hours, allowing them to choose between days or hours.

though, i suppose the randomizing factor, and landing on "already visited" entries, would be a little more complicated, but perhaps in time?

I'll be lazy and not check your notes. I would LOVE an email function (if that's not too heavy on servers), where I get emails when people note.

Maybe I'm just missing it, but I don't see a place to change the password of an account once the account is created.

This is a small, low-priority request: please enable the <caption>, <cite>, <abbr>, and <address> tags. I was thinking about writing some science-y stuff and some reviews here, and they're helpful at times.

I know a lot of people seem to disagree but I love love love to "decorate" that old site for different seasons and holidays etc its one of the reasons I stay there.

I would like an easy way to post pictures, since I am no good at HTML.

Also, some color & font choices?

Hello ...was thinking about how I'm the queen of typo's, so if some time you could make it possible to edit comments would be fantastic! Thank you and have a great day! :-)

Something that indicates I've read an entry already. Been trying to remember titles, but I'm old now. Throw me a bone.

I have one suggestion: I like how on the main page, it allows you to click on each box under "Write an entry" and that pops up... but it keeps confusing me because I click on that link and expect it to take me to the that book instead of writing an entry. Is there a way you could maybe use the same idea for the "Open my prosebox" deal??? Just an idea!

P.S. Thank you for this site. I am thoroughly enjoying it!

First, awesome job here. This place is more polished than I would ever have imagined after so short a time. Next, a couple of suggestions, and I have no idea if these have been suggested yet so ignore if that is the case.

1. How about a random button, like OD? I know I used to surf that way all the time and in fact have a couple of real life friends now that I originally stumbled on surfing random.

2. An additional comment box at the bottom of all the comments. Not at all a deal breaker but it would be nice to not have to scroll all the way to the top after having read all the comments.

3. Keep up the good work!

Is there a way to transfer our entries from OD to here? Many of us have been on OD for YEARS and don't want to lose that history. If there isn't currently a way, can there be lol :-)?

Could we have the actual date (and maybe time) of the entry instead of "one day ago" and so forth? If I'm going back to look at an older entry, I don't want to have to open a calendar and look to see, "Ohhhh, I wrote that on August 16, 2012," trying to figure out what date "written 370 days ago" was. I frequently go back to older entries and having a concrete date in front of me is much more useful than "x days ago" is for piecing together events on days that my old brain has trouble remembering.

Apologies if this has shown up in other suggestions - I got lazy and didn't read all the way to the bottom.

Might have been suggested already but bolded/highlighted links for unread bookmark entries would be really useful. Maybe with notifications like the comments would be useful too :)

I am new and just getting the feel of this, but it looks promising. It would be great if there were some more organized (even indexed) help system telling how the different features work-- e.g.If I reply to a comment, is the author of the original comment notifed / copied on the reply? -- stuff like that. But I guess I'll eventuallyy pick things like that up. And what's the word limit on comments?

It would be nice to see the number of page hits we get on an entry to see how many silent readers we had.

I do see that this version is still a beta, so maybe it's a little early to expect that much organization, and, I suppose things are still in flux.

Otherwise, looks good!

At some point in the very far away future, it would be cool to have a chat feature like on [cringe] FaceStaker. It would just make conversations easier to have than through notes/comments.

Oh! Sorry..."Just one more thing" as Colombo would say, It would also be cool to get email notifications of new comments or posts.

How about a views counter on each book.

Found out that public entries are searchable via google - might this be worth a warning so people know to make entries friends only/private? OD never had that problem....

Can you bold the bookmarks that haven't been read (i can't remember who i read and who i don't read)

I think a "Random" button would be nice. I come across a lot of people on OD by using the random button. I'm sitting here bored and would like to just random through some entries. I realize that this site still isn't huge, but I like random!

Right now, it's hard to find users with similar interests. If the user could enter a list of interests describing him/herself (or, better, keywords describing each book) and we could search on those, it would help a lot. Barring that, a longer list of recent entries would help.

Is there any way to export entries/books? Or is this going to be added at some point? I want to use Prosebox for a writing project (among other things) but if the only way to get at my entries externally is to copy and paste them I probably won't bother.

Here's a suggestion: As an aid to browsing / finding interesting entries, expand the number of "Latest Entry" items to 100 or more. I myself would prefer a smaller font for these to reduce scrolling. Put the latest books/boxes on another page and stretch the "Latest Entries" horizontally for the same reason. The latter stuff is just a matter of formatting taste, but I do think it is important to increase the size of the list, especially since it's sometimes dominated by a few prolific writers. It would not, presumably, be a hard change and would facilitate interaction.

Maybe some sort of marker saying what entries you've read from a bookmark? Sometimes its hard to remember when you left off if they update frequently, and you're staring down a long list from a person in the bookmarks page.

Maybe some sort of marker saying what entries you've read from a bookmark? Sometimes its hard to remember when you left off if they update frequently, and you're staring down a long list from a person in the bookmarks page.

Maybe some sort of marker saying what entries you've read from a bookmark? Sometimes its hard to remember when you left off if they update frequently, and you're staring down a long list from a person in the bookmarks page.

Hi, just wondering when Downloading our entries will become available? Just a rough guide - are we looking at another few months, or another 6 months, for example? I'm asking because until I know that my entries are downloadable on Prosebox, then I can't do away with OD from where I CAN download my entries. Thank you :)

The ability to block a user.

A better entry editor/ability to customize entries without having to use HTML codes.

Your friends list show when someone has updated instead of having to go through each one to see if they updated or not!

Autosave feature would be lovely please. Just lost a long entry I'd typed out because of a power outage. :(

Thank you! I do like what you've done with the place.

One thing I noticed reading through my bookmarks; after I leave a comment the page goes back to the current book tab rather than the "my bookmarks" tab. It is not a huge deal, but a little annoying.

Here is a tiny thing, probably easy to fix, but when I use something like *italicize this* or <em>italicize that</em>, there's always a space after the italicized word, which looks weird on the end of a sentence. I'd like no space, please.

I would also like some way to style a margin around an image, so if I pull-left or pull-right it isn't right up against the text.

I'm sure this is already on your list, but I'd love an easy way to back up my prosebox. My other most desired suggestion is the ability to search my own writing and also the ability to search the writing of others.

An auto log off after so many minutes would be fabulous for those of us who like our privacy. And change the log in so that it doesn't default to remember me.

I love reading PB on my Kindle tablet. However I have to log in whenever I want to navigate. For example I log into PB and I see I have comments. I click to read my comments and it takes me to the login where I have to log in, again. Then my comments come up. After I read them I click to go to my bookmarks. It sends me to log on, again. Even when I click on the Remember Me square it still makes me log in repeatedly. Since this is on my tablet I have to use the tablet keyboard to log in. I am usually at work on my break and because of the manor log ins and the slow WiFi here I don't get to do much here before my time is up. Any help on this , would be appreciated.