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Matriarch
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I like to ask this question once in a while to see if there are any good ideas for site improvements we can incorporate.

Does anyone have any suggestions / ideas?



EDIT: this thread is read regularly, and the best ideas incorporated, on an ongoing basis.
Active Ink Slinger
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Are the forums up for grabs or does Gav not want to work on them?
If they are...
-multiquote
-thanks buttons would be very cool


For chat:
-the ability to save a chat log to our own hard drive. I know we can copy and paste, but a nice save button that would put it all in a nice text file for us would be pretty sweet.

Being logged on:
-invisible status



I'm sure I'll think of a few more things you can say no to.
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Matriarch
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Thanks Jill.

I don't think Gav wants to wade in the forum code, but we can throw these things out there.

We're already looking at the invisible status. IM popup chat would be off and your name wouldn't appear in the forum list of active members, nor on the front of site active members list. I'm waiting to hear back on how feasible it will be to put into practice.

Is there a reason you'd like to keep chat logs?
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Is there a reason you'd like to keep chat logs?

They are useful to remember what you talked to someone about. That is all really.
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1> add stories sections:

a>seduction
b>unexpected sex
c>stranger sex

many of the current sections are fetish-oriented -- rather than situation-oriented


2> allow each user to decide which friends are to be featured in their profile page

now: each added friend pushes an older friend off the front profile page

the order of friends should be at the discretion of each user: not just
chronological (as in the profile page; or alphabetical in the settings page)


3> people keep getting dumped offline, frequently; or their chat windows
freeze; maybe this is a server problem from more and website hits


thank you
Matriarch
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Hi Lacy,

1. I quite like the idea of a Stranger / Unexpected category. Seduction would fall into the Love Stories category.

2. You want to be able to sort your friend's list in a variety of ways? Date added, alphabetical, freeform?

3. Unlikely to be a server issue, we now have unlimited bandwidth and a 100mbit connection. A website won't dump you offline anyway, you might get a browser freeze, but viewing a site has nothing to do with your internet connection. Does it happen to you a lot? Where, in chat only? How old is your pc? You might want to upgrade java and run a virus checker over it.

Thanks for the feedback.

Nicola
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hi nicola,

thanks for your prompt and detailed response smile

thanks for adding an 'strangers/unexpected sex' category

i find a lot of people interested in that subject when i bring it up

i understand that you consider 'seduction' as part of 'love stories'; but, i think seduction -- as a literary theme: in classic literature, as well as erotic literature; is a major theme;; and most times, the
seducer, and seducee (sounds rather biblical, eh?) <haha> -- are *not* in love; but, i'll leave
it to you

regarding the 'friends' issue: each user should be able to move and present their friends *in any order*
on the first profile page

alphabetical, and chronological, or other tags based on their details, or stories, etc.
would be nice, also; but, my main concern is that newer friends end up pushing older friends off the
front page, since it's now chronological in the main profile page

anyway, youre doing a great job, and thanks!
Matriarch
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Well, I haven't decided to add that Category just yet, but I'll think it over.

We were thinking of making the friend's section more customisable, and having smaller icons so you can fit more people on your profile page itself (possibly without their name) - similar to how Twitter have it. I think it would be difficult to code it so you can move each person's icon around to be in any order you wish, I'll check with Gav what's possible. He has this thread bookmarked.
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Something else that would be handy is a little box beside each published story in the "my stories" section where authors can place a number to organise the order of their stories. That way if they write a chapter months after the last one, they can be kept together, or a writer can present what they feel is their best work (or the stories they'd like the most feedback on) at the top of their stories list.
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I suppose a mini-bar is asking too much...?
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nic,

why not just have the user click a toggle for the friends they want featured. on the first profile page?

even if it's limited; it's better to have your best friends featured; then some that you just added in the last few days or hours and dont know much about them

for the 'friends' list: it's better to keep the icons *big*, like they are; even if the space on the first page is limited; smaller icons gets too busy, and too hard to read

thanx
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I was thinking that maybe the poetry and stories should be separated in some way. I've noticed some authors use mass influxes of poems to keep themselves on the top author list, relying on a few dedicated followers to give them top marks. A one-page poem really shouldn't be placed in the same category as a long, well developed story. Not that I care about "top" scores but it creates a bit of a skewed image of the best authors on the site.
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Perhaps take out Poems from those rankings entirely.
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Quote by nicola
Perhaps take out Poems from those rankings entirely.


I agree. I think that's a great idea. I also notice that poems are often over-represented in the "Top Story Picks" each month as well.
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I would like to be able to categorize, rank and display my friends based upon criteria such as:

Super Hawties - unattainable/different continent
Super Hawties - unattainable/same continent
Super Hawties - attainable if sufficiently bribed
Super Hawties - cyber worthy: Chattergasmic
Super Hawties - wank worthy: Posers

Swords of Swagger - Faux Alpha males
Swords of Apathy - Beta males
Swords of BS - The fun guys

Repeated rejections received from:
Repeated rejections presented to:

& of course...

Friendly fucking friend fabricating friending friends
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Consider it done Wmm and MNP.
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I realize I'm new to the site, thus have a tiny voice if any at all, but it strikes me as odd that you can't remove someone from your friend list only block them. I'd like to parse down my friend list to only those people who I interact with and still have the option of once again adding the others once I get to know them better.
Matriarch
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Good thinking Colton76, thanks for your input.
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Quote by Colton76
I realize I'm new to the site, thus have a tiny voice if any at all, but it strikes me as odd that you can't remove someone from your friend list only block them. I'd like to parse down my friend list to only those people who I interact with and still have the option of once again adding the others once I get to know them better.


Hi Colton...

Try going to "Account", and then "Settings" and then "Friends". If you hover over the friend you want to delete, you'll see a drop down menu that will appear with the option to delete them.

It's a bit of a process though if you're deleting a lot of people at the same time. I agree it would be great to just have a box that we can check off for multiple friends and then delete all at once (similar to selecting/deleting emails). Or to make the process for deleting more user friendly. It took me a while to figure out how to do this myself... lol

Welcome to the site!
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I would like to be able to categorize, rank and display my friends based upon criteria such as:

Super Hawties - unattainable/different continent
Super Hawties - unattainable/same continent
Super Hawties - attainable if sufficiently bribed
Super Hawties - cyber worthy: Chattergasmic
Super Hawties - wank worthy: Posers

Swords of Swagger - Faux Alpha males
Swords of Apathy - Beta males
Swords of BS - The fun guys

Repeated rejections received from:
Repeated rejections presented to:

& of course...

Friendly fucking friend fabricating friending friends







How about true friends, friends you can borrow money from and, of course, imaginary friends...I want to add my imaginary friends to my friends list...

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If I may suggest, I wouldn't mind seeing a version of the site optimized say for mobile devices. I'd only suggest the stories section be optimized, if you want to hit the forums or chat rooms then you can use a laptop or desktop. Just a thought, from someone who's recently got a mobile device.
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Is there a reason you'd like to keep chat logs?

They are useful to remember what you talked to someone about. That is all really.

They can also be useful if you want to work on a story or poem with another member...also, if you think someone is acting in an inappropriate manor...it gives the site proof...
I know that the latter was mentioned in another thread, and a screen capture program was suggested, but I don't think that would get the whole conversation.

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Perhaps take out Poems from those rankings entirely.

Well maybe since half the stories at the top of your most popular stories list are poems and from a variety of authors your membership disagrees with you because I know I don't have that many friends on here to get all those votes I'm just in Bunnyland doing my own thing! LOL Maybe a separate system for poems and very short stories would be good but poor Gav more work for you buddy! Always thought the voting system was screwy so do whatever you like I'll still be lost in in my own world Bunnyland Anybody wanna come along on the ride it's a little bit hoppy!
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I was thinking that maybe the poetry and stories should be separated in some way. I've noticed some authors use mass influxes of poems to keep themselves on the top author list, relying on a few dedicated followers to give them top marks. A one-page poem really shouldn't be placed in the same category as a long, well developed story. Not that I care about "top" scores but it creates a bit of a skewed image of the best authors on the site.



Just curious Damon...are you implying that the only reason anyone expresses themselves through poems is to keep themselves on the Top Author list...merely a cheap publicity stunt, on the same level as, say for instance, overloading the forums on an adult story site with controversial questions designed to create arguments amongst the members of the site???
You know, a site where people go to generally escape that sort of thing...
As for poems having "a few dedicated followers"...I can tell you for a fact, that I have several poems with far more views/votes than any of my "straight sex" stories except "Your Eyes" which is an Editor Pick...
Perhaps we should remove "straight sex" and "supernatural" from being considered in the Top Author/Top Story lists...
I know your comments were directed at a couple of people on this site, of which I happen to be one of them. Yes, I have been on the TA list every month since I joined Lush, and I have been mostly posting poems in the last few months while I am working on a novel.
I know for a fact you have been around on other sites for some time, and even you can muster up enough brain cells to realize that if all I was concerned was making some list, I would not have 89 stories here on Lush. People who are primarily concerned with making the lists, tend to only submit their highest rated stories from other sites...any of the mods will tell you that I have tried to submit the vast majority of my 106 stories here on Lush...the fact is, and you can confirm this with Nicola, that I have more rejection notices here than most people have stories.
Your implication that somehow a one page poem is less worthy than a multi-page story is interesting. For the record, prior to my most recent story, the longest time I've ever spent working on a story or poem happened to be on a poem. Maybe you should try writing a poem sometime, and see how it goes...
I think that old adage applies here...
"If you can't, teach
If you can't teach, criticize."
Have a good day...
Cheers,
Alan.

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Hi Nicola,

When I get an email telling me that I have a "new message from xxxx," it would be nice if I could read the message in my email. Sometimes, I am at work and I can't log into Lush, but I would love to be able to read my messages.
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Quote by SweetPenny
Hi Nicola,

When I get an email telling me that I have a "new message from xxxx," it would be nice if I could read the message in my email. Sometimes, I am at work and I can't log into Lush, but I would love to be able to read my messages.





That's actually not a bad idea. I belong to several forums and they pretty much give you a copy of what the email is about in the alert
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Quote by SweetPenny
Hi Nicola,

When I get an email telling me that I have a "new message from xxxx," it would be nice if I could read the message in my email. Sometimes, I am at work and I can't log into Lush, but I would love to be able to read my messages.





That's actually not a bad idea. I belong to several forums and they pretty much give you a copy of what the email is about in the alert


Agree with this also... have been wishing for this for some time.

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Quote by DamonX
I was thinking that maybe the poetry and stories should be separated in some way. I've noticed some authors use mass influxes of poems to keep themselves on the top author list, relying on a few dedicated followers to give them top marks. A one-page poem really shouldn't be placed in the same category as a long, well developed story. Not that I care about "top" scores but it creates a bit of a skewed image of the best authors on the site.


Just curious Damon...are you implying that the only reason anyone expresses themselves through poems is to keep themselves on the Top Author list...merely a cheap publicity stunt, on the same level as, say for instance, overloading the forums on an adult story site with controversial questions designed to create arguments amongst the members of the site???
You know, a site where people go to generally escape that sort of thing...
As for poems having "a few dedicated followers"...I can tell you for a fact, that I have several poems with far more views/votes than any of my "straight sex" stories except "Your Eyes" which is an Editor Pick...
Perhaps we should remove "straight sex" and "supernatural" from being considered in the Top Author/Top Story lists...
I know your comments were directed at a couple of people on this site, of which I happen to be one of them. Yes, I have been on the TA list every month since I joined Lush, and I have been mostly posting poems in the last few months while I am working on a novel.
I know for a fact you have been around on other sites for some time, and even you can muster up enough brain cells to realize that if all I was concerned was making some list, I would not have 89 stories here on Lush. People who are primarily concerned with making the lists, tend to only submit their highest rated stories from other sites...any of the mods will tell you that I have tried to submit the vast majority of my 106 stories here on Lush...the fact is, and you can confirm this with Nicola, that I have more rejection notices here than most people have stories.
Your implication that somehow a one page poem is less worthy than a multi-page story is interesting. For the record, prior to my most recent story, the longest time I've ever spent working on a story or poem happened to be on a poem. Maybe you should try writing a poem sometime, and see how it goes...
I think that old adage applies here...
"If you can't, teach
If you can't teach, criticize."
Have a good day...
Cheers,
Alan.


Whilst Bunny and Exakta are making justified arguments about their poetry, I am sorry to say, that I strongly agree with DamonX. It is something I, myself having been thinking for a long time.

Now I have written a poem and it happens to be my most highest scoring "story" so far. Am I happy about this? No. I have put much more hours/days/weeks, plotting, thinking, and editing into my 'actual' stories compared to the half hour I put into my poem.

I also have to say that because poetry does not have to contain any form of an sexual act, whereas a story does... it might turn visitors off if they browse the top author list to see what this site is about... and after all, it is an erotic/sex STORY site not a poetry site.

I really don't think you will miss out on any attention Exakta... as every post you post in the forums ~ no matter what the subject is ~ mentions how many stories you have written and you never miss out mentioning one or two titles, as well as all the other sites you are a member of. The topic could be about the weather...and you will post "as with my story..." I think it was unfair on your attack on DamonX about 'overloading the forums'... He makes the forums interesting with his 'arguments' and 'questions'... and at least he doesn't use the forums to promote himself and his stories.
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Hey Harmony's post gave me an idea how about two poem categories Erotic and Deep. I write both and super surprising to me one of my filthy little numbers is the most popular story WTF? Maybe it's the slutty audio that goes with it Hey any bonus points with you non poem people for slutty audio poems? LOL
Bunny12


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Quote by Exakta66
Quote by DamonX
I was thinking that maybe the poetry and stories should be separated in some way. I've noticed some authors use mass influxes of poems to keep themselves on the top author list, relying on a few dedicated followers to give them top marks. A one-page poem really shouldn't be placed in the same category as a long, well developed story. Not that I care about "top" scores but it creates a bit of a skewed image of the best authors on the site.



Just curious Damon...are you implying that the only reason anyone expresses themselves through poems is to keep themselves on the Top Author list...merely a cheap publicity stunt, on the same level as, say for instance, overloading the forums on an adult story site with controversial questions designed to create arguments amongst the members of the site???
You know, a site where people go to generally escape that sort of thing...
As for poems having "a few dedicated followers"...I can tell you for a fact, that I have several poems with far more views/votes than any of my "straight sex" stories except "Your Eyes" which is an Editor Pick...
Perhaps we should remove "straight sex" and "supernatural" from being considered in the Top Author/Top Story lists...
I know your comments were directed at a couple of people on this site, of which I happen to be one of them. Yes, I have been on the TA list every month since I joined Lush, and I have been mostly posting poems in the last few months while I am working on a novel.
I know for a fact you have been around on other sites for some time, and even you can muster up enough brain cells to realize that if all I was concerned was making some list, I would not have 89 stories here on Lush. People who are primarily concerned with making the lists, tend to only submit their highest rated stories from other sites...any of the mods will tell you that I have tried to submit the vast majority of my 106 stories here on Lush...the fact is, and you can confirm this with Nicola, that I have more rejection notices here than most people have stories.
Your implication that somehow a one page poem is less worthy than a multi-page story is interesting. For the record, prior to my most recent story, the longest time I've ever spent working on a story or poem happened to be on a poem. Maybe you should try writing a poem sometime, and see how it goes...
I think that old adage applies here...
"If you can't, teach
If you can't teach, criticize."
Have a good day...
Cheers,
Alan.


I have to agree with Alan here...There are many people who sweat blood to get out poems(myself included) and why should they not be able to be scored because of people who submit quite a a few poems here? Literature isn't just about stories and scoring. I'm sure when you write your stories all your friends read them and vote on them...I love the love poem section myself and they deserve to be scored with the prose section.
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suggestion: boss-proof lush screens

when reading any story, there are sex videos down the top of the right column of the screen; and the list of story-categories down the left column, e.g., anal, cross-dressing, exhibitionism, etc.

many times, lush users are in public, or semi-public environments, i.e.: offices, cafes, universities, libraries, etc. -- and it's indiscrete for outsiders to view these items

for cosmetic purposes: is it possible to move the most visually-glaring: and the large-font sexual words -- to the bottom of the screens, or someplace that the boss can't glimpse so easily, when wandering over a lush-user's shoulder

any thoughts?