Yes, I find editing the options for my account or blog quite confusing to navigate.  It would really help if the interface for that could be cleaned up.

I would like to change me email address but I can't see the option for that.
I have also try to change my favorite but found myself unable to erase the main headline or to create a new headline. I you have an idea

I think there needs to be som averaging built into the point system. Right now I could write 2 worthless articles every day, and just by virtue of people "clicking around" the site, I would have so many articles building points that I'd be more well ranked than someone who actually writes something good.

Also somehow stop people from voting every single article aperson writes as "Insightful". I have suspicians of people who just get their friends to log on and rate all of their articles high so that they rack up the points.

Also some sort of averaging to lessen the amount of weight being a featured-article has. When an article of mine gets 5x-6x as many points because it was on the front page, I think it's an issue. Additionally if I happen to get featured on day 1...and day 2 & 3 pass without any new featured articles, mine would stay on the top of the front page and get SEVERAL thousand points.

Yes a nice round over-all averaging system.

Reply #2 By: JEPEL - 2/19/2004 5:14:47 PM I would like to change me email address but I can't see the option for that. I have also try to change my favorite but found myself unable to erase the main headline or to create a new headline. I you have an idea

Wondering why your last sentance was cut off.....

We are working on new tools for editing your account information.  Being able to edit your email will be added.

Change your favorite??? I do not understand.

Feature Request: Add Special HTML Editor to ArticleComments when adding a reply to an article.

Also I just thought of a few ideas:

1. Customizable Front Page: This way JoeUser visitors dont all see the same featured articles, but rather the ones in subjects they have interest in.

2. A "summary" page as the joe user front page, rather than an editorial-type. So each of the major categories would be represented in a two-column layout. Under each would have the last 5 titles of featured articles for that category. Perhaps the most recent would also have a 5-line preview of the post-text. That sort of thing. It would give more users the ability to be "seen" but the casual visitor. This would also make room for suggestion #1, where registered users could arrange the categories in their order of preference.

3. I had a #3 but i forgot it.

Jeremy,

I think you're a little obsessed with points. It's just a blog, no need to get worked up about rank. Smile!

Trinitie

Sorry Patrick,

I was talking about customized links. I can't modify them the way I want or clear them totally.
Sometime I can't use smiley in message.
I quiet agree with JeremyG for the customize front page. I always log on the newest article page to find the one I like, I don't like the home page.

From the little experience I have using it I really dig it. I'm not sure exactly how the ranking system works, but I think that I could easily figure it out. Otherwise as far as providing me with a free blog page I've been really pleased. Some features allowing us to make our blog pages a little bit more personal would be cool. Borders, backgrounds, pictures, etc.

Thanks,
Suspeckted

Thinking about Jeremy's suggestion for a customizable front page.  What I am thinking is taking the main channels and making a page for each of them.  ie: Take the Politics channel and make politics.joeuser.com and its main index page would show top articles from the politics discussions.  And then on that page we could then maybe look into incorporating a quick view of the 5 newest political articles.

Patrick, That actually already exists sort of. Just click the channels tab at the top of a page. If you're on a user's page it breaks down their posts by category. If you're on the main JU page it shoes all posts for catagories.

The problem is that no one wants to look in 5 differnet places every time they log on. What i had invisioned would look more like this: Stratics. This is for an online game. But take the look of it and imagine if each of the news sectionss were categories....just titles of the latest blog posts.

A big all-you-can-eat blog buffet!!!!!

I think one of the things that people use MOST often on JoeUser is the side bar to read "recent posts" and "recent forum posts". Sometimes I watch my posts very carefully and I can say for a fact that my articles get, by far, the most reads when it is listed in one of those two places. If it falls of those lists the points dont come.

So to me, changing the front page in that matter would be taking the feature that most users enjoy, and making it better.

I agree with you JeremyG. When it comes to having your article listed on the right bar when it's first posted seems to be an articles only chance of survival. Once it's off the lists, the points stop coming and the article is dead. What would be nice actually would be to at least extend the recent articles to at least 10.

For me, if I had the option too set this in my preferences, I would only show a few items on the right bar. I don't need to know what were the latest domains created or the top referrals. Instead, I would focus on the articles being posted and possibly the topic of those articles / the user who posted those articles as well.

So for the most part, I would love to see at least the two postings that you mentioned that appear on the right bar to at least show more articles listed. Possibly double there size. For the most part, on the recent articles posted, I think an article has only about 5 minutes of exposure (and this time will decrease as JU becomes more popular) before it is tossed to the way-side by newer articles.

Dark-star - some of the amazon features that track where you've been and customize your page content are really cool (and probably patented) - you should check it out if you haven't .

So - the site tracks a) whose blogs you visit often, which forums you visit often, c) which discussions you've commented on.

So then you get a new banner which says "Blogs I visit often", and "My recent discussions"

It gets tricky to track all this and not have a data-explosion problem so maybe you only keep the last 30 days or something.

Similar to putting an email watch on a discussion - I would like to put a watch on someone else's blog site - so when they post a new article, I get an email that has a link to the new article and the subject and bloggers name. Well... you could do that with forums too.

There should be something "in between" a individual blog - which can only have a SINGLE person posting, and a forum, which is just a topic category that everyone can post to. A concept like yahoo groups maybe. So... you have a user defined "community", which has an owner, and has a number of contributors that can post articles, but it's not completely open. There would have to be a way to request from the owner permission to post articles to the community - but everyone can read and comment. And of course when you visit a community it tracks that you've been there and puts it in your "My Favorite Communities", and of course you can subscribe to a community for emails when there are new posts.

hope you have some time on your hands.

Wow, sounds really good. I'll pass this info on PoetPhilosopher. Thank you again for the input. Sounds good to me. It would be exciting to see these feature added to the site.

Here's another suggestion. Rather than getting emails when subscribed....

1. Change the icon of the "Tracked watch list" if any of my watched threads have new posts.
2. On the detail page show each thread that has unread comments.

I dont subscribe to as many threads as I would like because i dont want to get 100 emails.