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Tell us what we should develop next on Nature Network
Corie Lok
Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:06 UTC
What new features do you want us to create for you on Nature Network? Post any ideas here. This is meant to be your site!
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This is a great topic and reveals weaknesses of this software at the same time. The thread becomes almost unreadable very quickly. Who is referring to who, what lines of thought are being followed?
I mentioned the Dawkins forum software and Jennifer Rohn’s project has a much better one than this one too.If I would have to moderate such a thread I would go nuts and I thus would never do it! A good forum software allows threads to be split, it allows users to edit etc.
The contributions of many people in such a thread are wasted, because noone will find them. So please upgrade the forum software.
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Hi all
We are aware of the flaws in this software.We have on the list to fix,
Ability to edit for short time period after posting
Ability to reference replies / quote
Making the width of the replies widerWe are probably not going to support threading, but a means to reference a new conversation is something we are looking at – conversation splitting.
thanks
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I would like to be able to get an RSS feed of my activities only on Nature Network, so that I could use this “activity feed” in e.g. FriendFeed.
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Hi Richard,
We’ve had quite a few people ask for personal activity feeds. We will develop and release them, probably by this autumn. Thanks for your feedback. -
@Martin
Here is a link to an article from the Guardian about Facebook.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
It mentions features of Facebook that may be missed or ignored by its users. It is probably the case that the warning given by the author has been overtaken by events.
As for anything touched by Rupert Murdoch, I will never forgive him for destroying what may well have been the best newspaper in the world, The Sunday Times under the editorship of Harold Evans.
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I would like to see Nature Network broaden its scientific remit to include some of the so-called “softer” sciences more regularly.
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Here’s an unlikely specialty request.
I’d like to feed the contents of the Morpholino oligos forum to the Antisense technology group on Scitable. http://www.nature.com/scitable/view-group-profile/Antisense-technology-444619
Given that the Scitable group should see a fair amount of undergrad student traffic, I am hesitant to point them toward Nature Network to visit the Morpholino oligo forum on Nature Networks. Is there a way that I can feed the content posted on Nature Network:(Morpholino oligos) into Scitable:(Antisense technology)?
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I’d like to set up to get an email or perhaps a notice on my home page when a topic I’m interested in (a tag?) is being discussed. Searching around is inefficient and not always very timely.
The ability to send a strong electric shock through another users keyboard would also be handy from time to time.
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Jon,
That’s an interesting idea. You should suggest it to the Scitable folks, if you haven’t already. You should definitely encourage undergrads to visit your forum on NN. We welcome keen science undergraduates!James, RSS feeds from the individual tags pages is on our list of to do’s for next year. If you were to subscribe to an RSS feed from the page for a tag you’re interested in, you’d be notified of any content newly tagged with that tag.
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That RSS might solve my problem — I’d just need to get Scitable to provide a link to display the RSS.
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