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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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I took the easy way out, posting a link to Nature Network: Morpholinos in the Antisense technology group on Scitable. Brace yourselves, they’ll be comin’ over the hill waving lattes and ScanTrons…
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James, following up on my earlier comment—it looks like we already have RSS feeds for each tag page. See this page as an example. So if you subscribe to an RSS feed for a tag, you’ll see the latest posts that have been tagged with that tag.
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When a user or comment is removed (for spammy reasons, I assume) there often remains a message in a forum thread from “User Removed” with the text “This content has been removed by the forum administrators”
Is that really necessary? Can’t it just be entirely gone from view?Also, I had a hard time finding this thread to post this very comment. In fact, I’m finding groups in general hard to find since the change. Is that page still around where you can see a list of all the forums you’re a member of, with the ones of which you are a moderator listed at the top and the number of new posts in brackets behind it?
And finally a frilly Web 2.0 request: there are lists of active blogs, most commented on blogs, active people, etc – but could there also be a “hot topics” list, based on frequently used tags? I can imagine that certain events and news items would peak at certain times, and it would be interesting to see what’s going on.
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Eva, thanks for you feedback. The groups page you’re referring to can be found by clicking on the “You” tab, and then “Groups” in the submenu.
As for ‘hot topics’, go to the homepage and scroll down to the bottom where you’ll see “popular tags”. Click on ‘view all tags’ and you’ll see a list of the most popular tags. The algorithms that select which tags are displayed need to be optimized though…we’ll be working on that over the next couple of months.
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Ah, thanks for pointing me to my lost list of groups.
I also just found something else. Not a bug, and not quite a feature request, but a Thing I Noticed And Wondered About:
The page of people that are two degrees removed… — not “one degree”, by the way. Zero degrees is oneself, and one degree away is one’s friend, so the next step is two degrees. Unless the title refers to “people one degree away from your friends who are not themselves your friends or yourself” it should probably be called “two degrees” — but I digress, let me start over:
On the page that I call “people that are two degrees removed” it differentiates between friends and contacts. Yay, finally that feature is being used! BUT, because it wasn’t really used, I never bothered to make the distinction, and all but four of my contacts are “contacts” and not “friends”. However, when I go to the “two degrees” page, I see several people listed as “Your friend [Name]”, which probably means that THEY have set ME as their friend, but I know I’ve only set them to “contact”, so to me they should read “Your contact [name]”.
I see potential for social awkwardness. But then again, I see that everywhere. (I guess Flickr has the same system. If it’s possible to quietly – without notification – change a contact from contact to friend, that would be fine.)
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but would it be possible to get a permalink for a forum post, by clicking either on the title or on a “permalink” style link in the footer? I often link to forum discussions, but because I have just replied or have come into the discussion by clicking on a link to someone else’s reply (eg via an email notification or via RSS reader), in order to link to the actual post I have to go back to the forum contents listing, then find the right post, then click on that.
Just a small point but cumulatively it would save a lot of time.
(Two examples of how I use these links: in blog posts or emails to alert others to a discussion; and in crossreferencing similar/parallel discussions on different bits of NN).
Another, unrelated question – it seems quite a few clicks to invite someone to join a forum via email. You have to go into their profile, see if they’ve listed an email address, then copy and paste it into the invite form. Would it be hard to develop a feature whereby if someone is in your network, you can automatically invite them to join forums by the system recognising their email address, or other way of more automatically being able to invite people to join forums? (In my most recent forum, almost everyone I invited is a colleague at Nature because I don’t have to look up their email addresses! So the forum is now hopelessly skewed towards NPG staff!)
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