Suggestion Box, November edition in Suggestion Box

Yes--personalization of our Proseboxes please! :)

And how far off is the possibility of us OD refugees and our 2000+ entries being able to be migrated over here? I've got my XML file all ready. And I always found the OD "entry calendar" to be really handy when searching for things from years back, will we have anything like that here?

I would like some kind of atm feature that I can punch in my PIN and get out Prosebux.

Also, I think a button that I can press and it will write an entry for me would be helpful. Thx.

Thank you!!! My block finger is itchyyyyy!

I'm gonna go out on a limb here ... I too am looking forward to the block feature ... with that being said, I'm kinda liking/enjoying the simplicity of PB. It seems to me that OD had so many gadgets/bells and whistles/doo-dads that maybe that is why that site finally went down the tubes. There is just too much going on with OD that it's hard to keep a handle on it all if that makes any sense? As much as I love all of the features that OD had to offer at one point in time, I'd rather stick to here, and it's basic basics if that means I can write without frustrations.

Regardless of where PB is headed in the future, thank you for all you do for us. I'm sure it is time consuming and your self-sacrificing means a lot to me. You, kind Sir, ROCK!

Awww I definitely vote for no personalisation. xXx

I have to side with LeeMee and vote for no personalisation.

Me too. I like how simple it is. Though you've already said you wont let personalistion on crazy OD levels woop

I like the idea of toolbars because I am no good with HTML. It would also be nice if I could important my pictures easier (drag & drop perhaps)? Or if we could have photo storage on PB for a cost? I'd pay for that.

I have to kind of agree, one of the things I like here is the simplicity. Even though I know the friends only thing will come in handy at some point I am sure, I like that a lot of people have come over here with a clean slate and not blocked anybody or gone public where they were FO before. It feels good to start over and think having simple books with no personalisation is part of that.

I dig the simplicity of PB.

I didn't read all of these suggestions (yet) so this may have already been mentioned, but it would be great if we had an option to request to be someone's friend. I have an OD refugee friend come aboard this week, and there were a few people who were writing for friends only so there was no way for her to let this other refugee she was here and wanted to read. Is it possible to add a little "hey, I'd like to be your friend!" for the person to either accept or deny?

OH AND ALSO!

Thanks for all of your hard work. I know you don't get paid for this, and I very much appreciate your time and effort to give us a space to connect with our friends and to write out all of our feels. I am really thankful for this space.

This is going to sound so horribly lazy but can we have a "publish" button under the preview text?

I do most/all of my writing from mobile. Even short entries tend to be long on the preview. Then I go to scroll up and I am like that overly enthusiastic Price is Right contstent spinning the wheel....end up back at the top of the page or hit "preview" again by accident.....I'm a mess....ignore me weeps

Speaking from a mobile user POV, thank you SO much for the simplicity. The biggest problem I have with a lot of sites (OD being a huge one) is links being all together.....you keep clicking one and it takes you to a different section. Or you have to scroll left/right constantly and then you'll hit a link and navigate from the page on accident. I don't have those problems with Prosebox! Thank you :)

I quite enjoy the simplicity of PB! Although I know many would love a customization option. My biggest want I guess would be for Bookmarks - when someone edits their entry, if the Bookmarks could be updated. Otherwise, I find I am missing out on some updates because the title does not get highlighted. & in saying that, some people update a few books in a day. So maybe a Bookmark Read feature? Also, an overall private notes option. I know myself & some others utilized this feature on the other site. But, I am liking the ability to see all of my common friends throughout diaries, so that is nice for now.

Thanks for all of your hard work! As you can see, it is greatly appreciated by many!

This is far from important or a priority, but when I'm on the Twitter Machine, it gives an option of embedding a tweet. As one who is trying to stop being such a Luddite and embrace the power of whatever this thing is here, I've been clicking on the little Embed Tweet link on the Twitter Machine and then copying the code, then coming over here to The Prosebox Machine and pasting that code in my entries. Then I click on the Preview here on the Prosebox Machine and there are issues.

1. The final line of (code?) that I copy doesn't embed at all--it just shows up as what I originally copied. I've gotten past this by just deleting this line and the rest seems to work okay. However...

2. The embedded tweet doesn't look like what the Twitter Machine shows me it's going to look like--all graphicy with bells and whistles. It kind of shows up as a text version of the tweet.

So. The tweet does embed in an entry, it's clearly something different from the rest of the entry, but it still doesn't embed like it's supposed to according to what Twitter shows me. Then again, I don't understand what it is I'm copying and then pasting--I'm just doing it. So, it may just be be pilot error. Anyway, the Twitter Machine is pretty popular with these crazy kids these days and I thought I'd mention the issue I was having showing my tweets (that sounds dirty) in an entry here.

On the other hand, Goodreads embeds work out really well. So, that's good! Anyway, there it is, thank you!

I noticed that if I clicked to "friend" someone, I could automatically see their friend-only entries. would there be a way to program it that someone can only see friend-only entries if the writer adds the person as a friend? I don't like the idea of making a friend-only entry that anyone could see just by clicking to add me as a friend. I'd like to make friend-only entries accessible only to those who I decide are friends.

Not sure if I already said so or not, but I would love to be able to customize my background. Will that be an option anytime soon?

Also, a keyword search function to search our books would be nice, too. :)

Sorry, I think I'm pretty tech-friendly and a quick learner, but I cannot get the hang of Markdown at ALL. Anything you can do to make that less necessary (it's already fine, but I'd always appreciate mo' options) would be super.

Any plans for a future app (like an iPhone app) for Prosebox? I always wanted that for OD.

Something that would make life easier for reading other people's diaries - if you go to somebody's entry from the front page, the only way to get to their own personal page to see what else they've written is using the little menu at the top. It took me FOREVER to figure out where the links were, because common sense says that they should be the ones in the black box... could we possibly make those links as well?

Being able to label entries would be great, and to be able to search easily by those labels. And also batch editing of entries would be great. Because, ya know, that other place has always been pretty CRAP at that batch editing thing.

And I definitely agree with the need for customisation options - even if it was just enabling us to add a background image, while keeping the simpler white bg and black text for the main box of writing.

I'd also like to be able to rearrange my books, that is in the order they appear on my "profile" page.

How does one 'un' bookmark someone? I did it by mistake and cannot figure out how to undo it.

The only thing I would like would be to be able to centre images if there is not a way to already do this

I'm seeing a little glitch with the "Latest Entry" link. I just posted an entry (Members Only) and yesterday's entry shows up there, not today. When I use "Current Author" the newer entry doesn't show up in the chain of entries, either. It does show up as the latest entry when I "Open My Prosebox".

What about the option to edit our entry's synopsis/summary blurb, as it appears on the front page?

There would be an additional box for that on the Edit Entry page. If a writer left it blank, the default summary would be the first lines of the entry (as it is now).

If the user edited the synopsis, it would also appear at the top of the page, under the entry's title when the entry was viewed (there's a little space for it there, already).

I'm really, really missing the ability to accept only private notes. I feel so exposed! :)

If you can have a delete account feature in case for those who just no longer need an account here and a block feature as well. A feature button where you can upload photo's from your computer without having to use HTML codes as well.

OK, update on the Latest Entry / Current Author link chaining glitch. Today's entry shows up as the Latest Entry, but yesterday's doesn't appear in the Current Author chain of links. If I go to my "Starfish" book and click on yesterday's entry ("seven souls") it looks like it has been inserted into the link chain before an entry posted 10/17.

Is the Current Author link chain supposed to be chronological?

I'm not really bothered by this, no worries, I'm just wondering if this will cause others to think they've got "missing" entries. I originally thought that entry hadn't posted correctly until I started getting notes on it.

can we please, please have an option to change our email address? if there is one already, can it be easier to find? this is probably THE most basic thing..

Sorry if I have missed this suggestion or comment by you, but when I click on Leave a comment it would be nice for the cursor to be in the comment box. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I always have to click in the box to begin writing. Just an annoyance.

How about a simple counter on how many times people view your posts and stuff.

I would like to be able to respond to comments on the Comments page instead of going back to the entry, scrolling down finding the comment and then responding. Or is there a way already and I'm just not seeing it? :)

To be able to delete or edit comments would be great! I have accidentally posted the same comment a couple of times and I feel bad cause I can't delete the extras! Lol.

Entries scroll off the front page really fast, now that Prosebox is catching on (and that nojoblomo thing is going on...) I think few people click on the "More entries" link at the bottom of the page (I know that I don't, very often) so lots of entries I might be interested in reading get lost in the noise.

So what about this: when you scroll down on a tumblr or instagram feed, more entries load automatically at the bottom of the page. Could we have that kind of behavior here?

Can you make comments you leave able to delete, and also able to delete coments on your book. SO if you put a comment you wanted private and it goes up seeable you can delete it and we write to make it private!

I would like to change the entry setting within a book. If my book is public and I want to write a members only within that book I can change it. Or a FO inside a members only book etc.

Do you see making a button/link thing at the bottom of entries to go to the next entry on the list of might do things? Sometimes when you just back read entries to catch up and don't comment I have to scroll back up but a next button by the comment box would be nice for things like this

I miss users having ages. Nothing against the youngun's, I just choose to read more mature writers.

Same for geographic areas. Optional of course. But sometimes you want to connect with locals.

The textedit box styling does not allow for resizing. In fact, it has an inline style for "resize: none;". Not sure why that is, because I like seeing more text when I write.

Lastly, and I know this one is a simple request, but you should give people the opportunity to have "AKA" listings. A lot of people changed their names coming over from OD. It would be nice to allow them to be found by name...if they want to be, of course.

I'm sure I'll have more. But overall, nice job.

OK, I'm back. The color on the dark scheme for the "bookmark" and "friend" buttons is all wrong. I clicked those damn things like half a dozen times back and forth because the color wasn't indicative of "success".

The colors on the dark scheme in general...um...how do I say this while still being polite...the colors were clearly chosen by a developer.

Hiya! I've noticed that when you're on an entry, ready to leave a comment, if you click on the "leave comment" button, it doesn't give you an active cursor in the comment box & you have to manually click in before you can start leaving ALL THE WORDS. Any way to fix that?

Have a magnificent day!

I wanted to use sup and sub tags in an entry and found that they don't work. I realize that this is prosebox and not mathbox, and probably no one else was affected by this, but they are widely supported, don't seem dangerous, and I did want to use them. Is there some list of allowed / prohibited tags? can I get these onto the former and/or off the latter?

(If these lists exist, may we see them?)

Great! Thanks for the super-quick response!

A search box for searching key words or titles within our prosebooks?

Not sure if mentioned already but note history between users would be super useful.

This is a really basic question and no doubt I'm suffering from extreme domestic blindness, but ... how do I change my password??

Could there be an option to bookmark only certain prosebooks for one author? For example, if one author has 3 prosebooks; two which I really like reading but one not-so-much... is there a way to block that particular prosebook from showing up in my bookmark updates?

Sorry if this is something that already exists and I'm totally missing it!

1. Ad placement. Right now, when I am looking at a page, the ad is right at the beginning of the main content section, before I even see the writer profile or the book information and you have to scroll down a good little bit before getting to the actual entry. It would be nice to see the ads off to one side or another rather than right at the top dominating the main content.

2. Sometimes my entries can get rather long and I like to go back and read through a paragraph or two. It would be nice if the writing pane was substantially bigger than it is, or if it had the ability to be manually expanded by dragging the bottom left corner of it (Hey! Like this comment box! :D)

Otherwise, it's looking pretty darned awesome for being a new site! It would be nice to see more customization options in the future, but I'm sure that's already been commented on.

Is there any way to download our diaries? OD had the option for PDF downloads if upgraded. Just wondering so that I could have it neatly in a file or not.

If my friends list could be sorted by last updated, that'd be awesome!

Really not liking how riddled with ads the pages have become, especially when they're on top and the first thing you see. Can't they be kept at the sides and the bottom? :) Would still like to customize backgrounds, too. :)

More of a question: Will it be possible in the future to amalgamate books together? Eg: If I had a poetry book, and then a lyrics book. But then suddenly thought it would best to have all of these writings together in one book.

Hi. I would like be able to reply to comments on the comments list.

I don't always go back to my entries.

I didn't read through all of the comments, so I'm sorry if someone's already mentioned this, but I would GLADLY pay for a non-ad version of the site. I pay for OD even though it doesn't work, just because I don't want ads when I log in. I realize that you need ads for revenue, but they're very, extremely annoying to me. I still come here because I love the atmosphere of blogging and PB is starting to be more active like OD was... but I really hate ads. :) Just my two cents!

Hi, I was wondering, if you could create a shortcut to drafts? I took me a really long time to find them (computer version) and twice I thought they had not been saved. I only found them by accident.