Suggestion Box, January 2014 Edition! in Suggestion Box

Awesome!

Excellent! I like the way you're implementing it on top of listening to the masses who objected to it being a pay feature. :)

Me and hubs ended watching season three of Dexter last night. Kick ass show so far oh and thanks for kicking ass on PB as always big big thanks for all that you do for PB. Carry on :)

I agree that to block someone, their COMPUTER should be blocked. It's easy to create additional accounts to bug someone from. It's been done to me before on other sites.

I'm also hoping you'll allow for customized backgrounds on free accounts as well as premium. Maybe you can allow others to turn off backgrounds on free accounts, but disallow them from doing so on paid accounts???

Thank you for everything that you're doing! Do you plan to change members only / favorites only features specifically for single entries, not just entire books like we currently have?

Hopefully simple.... Rather than clicking "Next" or "Previous" and landing on the same page you were on with a nasty note at the top that's easy to glance past, could you just gray out or hide the Next/Previous button if there is no next/previous entry?

Regardless of what you do, as long as there aren't drastic changes or tons of bugs, I appreciate anything you do here! I understand the need to make some money in order to keep the site up and running.

But who is Simple Mind, I wonder, and where is he? Just curious. :) I get the feeling you're in Europe.

Oh, note editing would be handy, but not essential. Might make a nice paid feature...?

I'm not sure the icon-scaling on comment replies is working properly.... By the third layer, my icon is just a dot. I don't know that the scaling is needed, since you're already indenting, but if you like the scaling maybe make it less... aggressive?

Will there be a search feature where we can search our books? If so, will that be a free or a paid feature?

Hi, I am having a problem with my entries not showing up in other people's bookmarks, is there anyone I can email or speak to about it?

Oh, ignore my previous comment - it was something being set to private! Thanks!

I'll be honest in that I don't know if this has been asked at all yet, but maybe an option to delete our own notes that we leave for someone would be helpful. :)

When I have saved something draft, reviewed it and found it as I wish it to be, it would be most convenient to Publish without going back through edit -- or did I miss something?

HOORAAAAYYYYYYY

Thank you :D

Something that I've just realized would be very helpful is a way to easily search comments. Even a way to sort comments by diarist name would be nice. I was just starting to note someone I don't think I've noted before, involving specifics about a town I grew up in that they'd mentioned in their entry, and then I started thinking, "wait... have I already said this practically same thing to them awhile back? And am I going to sound crazy/stalkerish if I leave a similar note again??" SO then I ended up going through all my "comments left" to see if I had done that, which took quite awhile.

It would be a very nice feature for the more air-headed among us-

Maybe you could get a little extra support for the site by collecting a referral fee from Amazon when people click-through book images on book reviews, and buy the book? I'm sure you wouldn't make much that way but I'll bet it would be worth doing.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/getstarted

The draft book review template in the FAQ is being used, and it could be altered to encourage click-throughs.

An ipad app would be awesome!

I hope when you have a paid ad-less version the ad boxes disappear too. I'm sure you intend to do that.

Also have you thought of accepting donations - through PayPal or otherwise?

Can you please, please put an edit entry button at the top of the entry? Every day I wish for this when I go through and catch my million grammar errors after I've posted and have to scroll allllll the way down through my entry to edit :) Thank you in advance!

Also , A way to respond to notes on the note page?

I support having paid features. You need to earn a reasonable income from your work on this site and I think reasonable people understand that and are willing to pay for features that provide added value to the basic diary.

I've not read through the other notes so sorry if this has been said but how about the ability to change books around, 2013 seems to be my default but is a bit annoying as I now have a 2014. Hopefully that makes sense as I am about to go to bed.

Thank you for all the hard work you have put it. x

There was talk of being able to import our OD entries. Will that ever be the case, I wonder? Thanks for all your work!

Sorry if this already exists - is there a way to add a some html as a footer (ie a counter) on every entry?

when I deleted a comment the confirmation box that popped up was waaaaay over on the right side, I had to actually scroll over to click the button to confirm delete. Not a big deal, but I assume you didn't intend for it to show up way off to the side like that.

Couple of things for me , not sure if they're already there and I'm being daft. Exporting the books would be fab .... Also being able to change the individual post access ... So my diary is members only, but some entries I might like to be friends or private.

In my view the biggies remaining are 1) some means of note previewing 2) Means of searching received notes, sent notes, and entries 3) Means of exporting an entire book to a local file (txt or html). 4) It would be nice to have a hit and/or visitor counter for each entry to estimate amount of interest in different subjects.

I'd gladly pay a subscription fee, say via paypal, for an enhanced feature set of this sort

One that I think I am really missing from all the sites I've used in the past is backdating. Say you start an entry at 11:30pm... but you get distracted by other things, and don't actually hit Submit till midnight? That entry which was for the day before is now posted on the current date. Is there any work around in progress for that? Or a similar feature? Just wondering.

Sweet. I'm loving this more and more each day. Don't even miss open diary at all. Thanks for the great site.

Awesome!! Thanks. :)

When will I be able to import my diary from Open Diary?

Hi, I have a small layout suggestion here: https://www.prosebox.net/entry/50143/

Great idea with the user blocking feature! I was wondering if perhaps there could be an 'interest matcher' or something of the sort, so we can find people that way? Not sure if that's been suggested already, I'm still figuring the site out. :)

I'd like to be able to set a default book. I rarely want to write in the 1st book alphabetically and forget to change that drop down nearly every time.

weird bug: This bit me when posting a URL, but I have simplified it: If I leave a comment consisting of the 7-character string

(letter x)(underscore)(letter x)(space)(numeral 8)(underscore)(letter x)

the underscores get eaten and do not appear in the posted comment. Simply

(letter x)(underscore)(letter x)

or

(numeral 8)(underscore)(letter x)

by themselves are fine. What could it be?

i would like to be able to bookmark someone's book.... not all of their books! sometimes i JUST want to read someones recipes... but don't follow their day-to-day entries. sometimes i look at my bookmarks and think "why the heck did i bookmark this person" only to got to their account and realize only a single one of there several books is what i am interested in...
has anything like this been considered?
xx,

• I saw an entry complaining about the "blind" navigation buttons. I know that you have to do a database query for each link, and that's computationally intensive. So it's done the way it is to make pages load faster and to lessen the burden on the server.
  
  However, might it might be possible to do the database query in an AJAX-y way, when a user hovers the button?
• Another possible way to save real estate: move the breadcrumb line just above the title in the title panel, with the repetition of the title removed.
• Maybe the next/previous author buttons could moved into the title block, too. I think we could do without navigation with "current book" and "my bookmarks". I never use them. If I want to navigate through the book or my bookmarks I'll use the book page or the bookmarks page because I rarely want want to navigate linearly through those; I pick and choose instead. However, I do use the current author next and previous buttons a lot, especially when I find a new author.

is there a mobile site, I have a dumb phone and sometimes update from my phone.

I'm sure this has been discussed many times, and you'll probably get an influx of this same question as OD is now officially going to be shutting down, but can we pretty please have a way to import our Open Diary history here? Or at least the possibility in the future? I'm assuming an XML format would be the way to go, so I'm downloading both XML and Text now just in case. (Although currently it keeps timing out when I try to download the XML.. go figure)

Also... Entry Calendar please :) So useful for those of us who like to 'look stuff up'!

I was wondering if there was a way to talk directly to someone without comments on their specific entry?
Or if there is a area for technical support? I've looked for a link to anything but found nothing other than "comments" to get in contact with anyone. I could totally be blind though. XD

Specifically looking for technical help more than anything, and nothing like "How do I use markdown" more like, my stuff is broken on this site and needs devine help from the prosebox hands. :3

TAKE MY MONEY!

;D

First of all, thank you for this site. I am relieved that if I can ever get my ass in gear to write again, I'll have somewhere nice to do it. You rule. :)

And please forgive me if someone has already asked and had this question answered, but for the life of me if it has been, I can't find it at all, so here goes... I notice when I'm reading around in any one user's book, to get to the "next" entry, I have to either click "back" and manually pick it or (what I found much much later) is the "More Entries" box over there on the left... I guess the reason I didn't see it is that (at least on my PC? Maybe it is a setting or something?) it is waaaaaaaaaaaaay at the bottom, and not easily found without scrolling forever... is this something that is just my issue and not a problem for anyone else?

Not thrilled with the location of the "more entries" box. Putting those boxy ads and only using up a fraction of the vertical space they take bothers the artistic and business sides of me. Heck, put two ads there if they'll allow it. At least it's not wasted space.

A "bookedmarked by" or "followed by" button and list.

a front page/intro sort of thing would be nice..... =)

Is there a way to see someone's previous and next entry names? I am hitting previous to see if I have read their last entry which is time consuming when you are a mad lurker..am I an idiot missing some obvious solution to this problem? I could be..its happened before..many many times. ty!!!!!!

Could we have a search function where we could search by location or interests? At the moment we can only search if we know a username and only see people if they are recent entries/signups. Would be a good way to find more and develop the community!

Hey, SM. Not sure if there's a limit to how many times we can comment on suggestion box entries, but I just had another thought. Any plans for a notification system (email notifs on comments received on specific entries...things like that?)

Is there any chance that paragraphs can be used? I hate seeing my post all in one block, when I know I wrote it in separate paragraphs.

I am not able to insert photos using the WYSIWYG or using old html code. Are others having this problem? I don't know if it matters that I use a Mac, host my photos on flickr!, and use Safari as my browser, but since you changed to the WYSIWYG window, I am unable to post photos.

P.S. when I try to post a photo all that shows up is a little blue box with a question mark in it.

I noticed quite a few people have had the same thoughts as I when it comes to bookmarks. Is it possible to get the bookmarks in more of a uniform list that we can scroll down to see date of last visit and date last read? it's just becoming too confusing and time consuming to scroll through 8 pages of "bookmarks" to read each and everyones entries since the last visit and hopes I am staying up to date on their recent happenings... Then having to arrow up in the "book" etc etc.... Where as if we had a list (to scroll down) like OD had instead of entries of each bookmark to scroll through. It just seems unorganized and cluttered now that we are getting more & more bookmarks added to our "lists" now that more OD refugees have made their way over here and reconnected with each other.... Having the unread feature does help but it still seems like a mumble jumble mess when your trying to find your "list" because well....there isn't one. ;)

I'd love to be able to look diaries up by location. :)

Hi, for premium features.

1. Notifications by emails when : A. friends and bookmarks update their diaries; B. Receiving notes; C. Being added as friends; D. Being Followed (you can charge ultra premium rate above the basic premium rate); E. Friends groups (ultra premium rate)

LinkedIn has various degrees of premium rates which include letting members know who visit their pages. In addition to this function, xing.com lets premium members know how many times that those visitors visit them, dates, hours and from typing what (eg: members from same industry, friends of etc etc,)

Would be cool to have all these.

Cont'd:

The bi-blocking should not apply to the ultra premium subscribers. Meaning, they can still view and read all members - only entries by their blockers, or their blockees (ie if it is them who initiate the blocking first);

a guestbook. Ie for random visitors and friends who just wish to write without having to scroll/browse entries to do so; followed by notification by email for every guestbook entry received;

Ability to set privacy setting so that only members, or public, or faves only can write in those guestbook;

Internal mails ;

I think some sort of interests section would be cool. As much as I like using this for my personal use and writing, I really enjoy finding other people who have similar interests as I do and connecting with them, reading some of their entries I can relate to as well. You can't necessarily just look up random screen names. I enjoyed that aspect in previous diary sites I've used, and I'm hoping to only stick with PB now. But that would be a great way to find others who we can connect with and read their entries too. Not sure if this has been brought up yet or not. I'm just getting started on here.

Contd:

Label depicting the diarist's membership status, such as premium member or super premium, therefore wont dare to lurk in their diaries knowing that they are able to know who/when/how long/ how, with regards to visitations.

I know of several people who (similarly like me) would be willing to pay for these features.

I has a request! Is there anything you can do to add a scroll bar within the field for typing entry text? If I update on my mobile I can only write freeform and can't go backwards to edit because all that is visible to me is the dimension of the text field. Thankyouplease! xXx

It would be nice to see the title of the post. Right now there is just their icon and name. The title of their post would help me determine if I want to read it and make new friends. Thanks

would like to be able to easily nav to the next (or prior) entry in a book without having to return to the entry list for that book.

oh...I see where that is now. N/M

Would love to see something like the od "circles". I found so many of my favs that way! Maybe hashtags could work?

Hello, the ability to limit some entries to your friends list would be awesome. Thanks.

I added a "like" type designation to suggestions I liked. Didn't go thru whole list, just a few things that stood out as a good start. Rome wasn't built in a day, after all. :) Site looks nice though, for the limited time it's been up. Good luck!

My suggestion would be an option to include public, private, and friends only entries in a seamless chronological order for example, with the option to keep as separate books too. Just be easier to pay attention to where and when things came about, and clicking on separate books is redundant for those who are both friends and members, which I just realized have separate books depending on whether they're added or not.

Also, at some point being able to change the colours of your Prosebox front page, and incorporate pictures and/or video, a description, etc, would be nice

I know you are busy, and what I have to say really isn't an issue and might have even been asked already, but I was wondering if it is possible to be able to reply to comments from the actual comment inbox rather than going to the entry where the comment was left, finding the comment and replying from there? Thanks for the opportunity to leave suggestions. I appreciate that a lot

A friend is afraid to come to prosebox because she says that her Webroot anti-virus says "This site might contain links to viruses or other software programs that can reveal personal information stored or typed on your computer to malicious persons." Do you have any idea what it could be on about?

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but Prosebox needs better color schemes. I am visually impaired, and many of these colors hurt my eyes as well as the fonts being so small.

Hi, Checking out this place having been made a refugee from OD land. I write type my entries in Word then paste the text onto a .jpg along with some photos posted in to boot. I've just post my first entry here and noticed that once I hit save the image link doesn't resize to it's correct dimensions? If anyone wants to read the text they have to fath about with right clicking, viewing image, then zooming in. Any plans to offer up something to address this? Cheers.

Will we ever be able to edit our notes that we leave others? That would be a great help.

I'll just put in another request for an option to download books. As a new refugee just washed up on the beach from Open Diary - and a veteran of crashes during my time there, that lost some updates - it's kind of on my mind.

in the flesh, thanks I have had it zoomed in for awhile, unfortunately it still doesn't help with the color schemes. Lol

Hi, I'm new here so apologies if this has been asked or already exists but is there a way to browse other members books/entry's besides the newest ones listed on the home page? One of the things I loved about OD was the ability to meet and connect with people who shared the same interests or experiences that I do. I am hoping for a similar experience here. :)

I'd like to be able to find out who has bookmarked me, kind of like how I can see who friended me.

Thank you for everything.

I am having an issue when I go to read a new person. If I go to their page, I see a list of boxes, presumably the ones I am allowed to read, but I have no way of knowing which is their "default" box. Perhaps a "Latest entry" link would be helpful? Or a "last updated" date beside each box?

Also, a "February Suggestion Box!" ;)

Thanks for all you do.

Suggestion from a new user.
Could you make it so there is a better what do i want to call it 'text tool bar' I know that's not right but hopefully you know what I mean. I don't like this 'mark down' thing and I really hate when i have to put in all my own html so if you could just make the text tool bar above the entries easier to understand and the ability to include more. that would be wonderful simple things like alignment left (normal) right, center would be wonderful. I noticed that my last entry didn't italicize when i highlighted and chose for it to be so. Not saying you need to make user typed code work but it may be easier in the long run if everything was a bit more.... user friendly I guess is what I want to say. Thanks for concidering.

Greetings. I suggest that when writing an entry there is access to smiley icons. :) They're more expressive, and therefore fun!

Hiya! Happy February. There is no "February issue" so here I am.

There are some suggestions of mine. You might have read them already so am sorry for that. First of all I am a bit of a blog whore. I write many places.

I would like a "tagging system". Not like facebook obviously, but like blogger. like all your "work related" entries in one place go together, etc.

I would love maybe a little emotions bar thingey for the entries. I like "happy faces" :) I also like the silly option to tell how you are feeling. Like on livejournal?

maybe a "download entry to computer" thing? I have been through a crash or two and it's not fun.

Also in futuretown I would love like a ... community area or something. Not necessarily a forum; sometimes drama arises. Like a "support book" or something. I would love to offer some support for people who are going through the things in life we have in common( i.e. single parent, disabilities, etc. )

You are doing a great job with this website. I <3 it.

Take care and be well.

Yay to you and everything you do for us raging masses :)

Is there anyway to fix the infuriating single return double space thing? because it's making me batshit. :) Thanks.

Down the road, it'd be nice to have a way to download a book. Just in case someone wants to leave PB or remove a book for any reason.

hey again!! Still, no February addition. :( I am starting to post some of my old poetry in my "poetry book" and it all posts as a big odd paragraph. The br html code is a tad annoying with the long poems I have. :) Can we do something about that>

Hey, no Feb Suggestion Box entry?! Hope you're doing well and the amount of people coming here isn't making things more difficult. I had to eventually take someone off of my bookmarks because of them doing all of their OD entries right now. Anyway, is there a possibility that there will be a "random entry" button on Prosebox?

Hi, I know you're overloaded, man. But I wonder if you could add a "poem" class to the <pre> tag in the stylesheets. It would make things a lot easier for people who want both indenting and line-breaking in poems, which Markdown doesn't do, does it?

Something like this: pre.poem {font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Serif; overflow:scroll;} or set the font-family to whatever the Prosebox default font du jour is, ahaha. Oh, and set the background color of the <pre> to white?

• I might forget my suggestion if I wait for the February edition, so I shall just put it here, yo!:
  I think it would be nice if users can view each others locations. To see where in the world they are. If they do not want people to know they are from, say, Iceland, or something, they can just not bother with the option?>
  I hope you know what I mean. Think it might be a nifty feature =D

I have a suggestion regarding the note system! Right now, it seems to be limited. Which means if we want to note back and forth more than a couple times on one entry, we have to play this weird - and ugly - game of hopscotch. What's the possibility of:

A) an in-house messaging system or B) collapsible notes that fold down to the original note?

I really like the idea of a collapsible system, because it would mean that the note area would still retain a clean look. On the same hand, you could unfold that note thread and be able to reply more than a few times back and forth.

Thank you for all the hard work you're doing! <3

please for the love of my sanity get this feature to us ASAP! I'm fearful for what my fingers will put up next when dealing with people I cannot stand that will not go away!!!!

Is there any way to improve the quality of the advertisements? I know you're working your way up to paid subscriptions, but right now, the ads I am getting are downright disturbing to look at. One has an illustration of a constipated person on a toilet. The other is some bloody piece of mucous that says "Eat this!"

I understand ads kinda help ay the bills...but the ads I'm seeing are just going to scare people away. They're gross.

A way to delete this diary would be handy

Hmmm, it is the 7th day of Feb and no Feb entry for suggestions. I would like the photo entry place to be like the OD + was so that when I get there I can click on the picture in my iPhotos and be able to enter it into my entry. (that spoiled me a whole lot). That is what I will probably miss the most from OD. That and a better choice of backgrounds, but they aren't that important. I would also like to be able to see who is following me beside those who friended me. Chuckling. I think they were called lurkers on OD. I had one other thing that I will try to remember at a later date.