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QOTD: Thought of some more

by paradoxcontrol

Ok, so I would love alerts about EVERYTHING. Like, If some one makes a comment on my page or even a comment on another person page, I should have an email sent to me, and a message sent to my inbox on the site. Obviously comments on my page should have the email attached to it, while comments on other peoples page's shouldn't. But i've been conditioned by Facebook in a way that allows me to exc...

Ok, so I would love alerts about EVERYTHING. Like, If some one makes a comment on my page or even a comment on another person page, I should have an email sent to me, and a message sent to my inbox on the site. Obviously comments on my page should have the email attached to it, while comments on other peoples page's shouldn't. But i've been conditioned by Facebook in a way that allows me to except the idea that a website is going to literally stalk me as I use it, and allow me to see what everyone else i know is doing on the site as soon as they do it.

Also, showing what my friends are doing when I'm viewing my profile page instead of all the things I did should be the way it works. There are a lot of similarity's between the way the Feed works here, and the way the feed works at FaceBook. I think this is a great idea, its a good place to draw inspiration from. Putting what my friends are doing right in my face when I'm at my profile is a good way of making me check out that content.

also I think it would be cool to have a "Favorite Game" option. It could be named something else like "Game of the Moment" but it could be used as a feature that would show people what I'm currently really in to. Like, right now I am balls deep in to RA3. Just got a beta invite, super hyped for this game to come out, I would set that as my Favorite game for right now, and on my main profile page it would show that some where. It would also show it in my mini profile as I post on the forums (under the avatar and such). This would let others see what I'm in to, and maybe check it out by fallowing it back to its page on the site.

While we already have Favorite Forms, this Favorite Game feature could be tied in to the Forums section, placing a link some where in the Forums menu that would link you right to your favorite game's forum.

I also think there should be a better way of displaying some of the things I do on the site in my profile, with out having to navigate the menu to see it. Maybe have a list that shows up some where, maybe its just icons next to my Name on the profile's main page, that show the top 5 things I have gotten points from. Or the last thing I have edited.

Some small additions would be nice as well. Some times I want to just upload some new images to my profile with out having to jump through the hoops of going to my profile page, click the "images" link, and then clicking on "add images". Having short cuts to just adding images on the main profile would be great.

Also, some basic functionality for image organization would be great. I should be able to mass edit images I have uploaded, and easily add and remove images from my gallery's. Right now I have to go to an image, click edit, change its Gallery, go to the next image, and do that all over again. Having the ability to check off a list of images while in thumbnail mode and then telling all of them to go to a gallery would be great.