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High-priority things to fix/add
Here's a quick list of things that I'm working on getting ready in the very near future. Please let me know if you have particular thoughts on any of these.
- Fixing the site icons for link topics (currently just shows the blue dashed square).
- Putting some information in topic sidebars - any thoughts on what would be good to have here? I think I'd like to have some of the more-detailed metadata about the topic once there's more of that being generated (for example for videos, this could show which channel it's from, how long it is, etc.), but that still won't be very much and there's a lot of space. Commenting rules? Something else?
- Inbox/notifications for replies to your comments and topics, as well as username mentions. Any opinions about how it would be good to do this in a way that's convenient and not too annoying?
- Collapse buttons for comment threads (possibly by being able to click the line as well, similar to the reddit redesign)
Reddit's reply/notification/post-management system is pretty decent in that regard:
And I know this wasn't really what you were asking for but some additional features I have been thinking of that would be really nice are:
p.s. I think for topic sidebars just go with the basics (important meta-data) for now... as communities form and develop you can start thinking about and soliciting for ideas about "rules" people would like to see included there.
p.p.s. if you can give us a setting to open links using target="_blank" by default I would appreciate it. I know I can just hold down control and left-click to get that but relying on a setting and simply left-clicking is habit at this point for me. :)
I would expand this by adding web notifications as well
Collapsing comment threads is the only way to fly. That would be my #1 concern.