Question

OpenStudy Suggestion Box


Trying to find out what kinda features you guys would like to see in the future. Or perhaps you would like to see some changes in current features. Just fill up the form if you have great idea ;)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gbJyuidaelKd6L9uwX68yWGdF5sSUKGGPSIW1EFH7To/viewform


This is the list of ideas that have been submitted:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aipa7vnafVHHdF9ieTBXMXRYZW9ZdE9CUExtdUpHeEE&usp=sharing

Answer 1

I submitted two suggestions at http://openstudyfeedback.uservoice.com

- http://openstudyfeedback.uservoice.com/forums/95895-customer-feedback/suggestions/5363222-allow-users-to-know-how-many-people-viewed-their-q

- http://openstudyfeedback.uservoice.com/forums/95895-customer-feedback/suggestions/5363278-allow-encourage-pursuade-users-to-precisely-state-

Should I re-submit them at https://docs.google.com/

Answer 2

Not necessary, already noted your ideas :) Didn't know people still used that usevoice page btw :O It's not monitored by the admins anymore.

Answer 3

Ok, I still get the feedback link on left side. So I though it was active :)

Answer 4

My OpenStudy Suggestion is that suggestions are posted in the Feedback group, where they are visible and available for discussion to all users, rather than in a Google Docs sheet that only a couple people can see.

Answer 5

@blues Tried that, didn't work. Somehow every post which involes many people turns into a big fight... This way works so much better. Anyway I just made this form to see what most users would wanna see changed on OS. Since they're working on updates at the moment, perhaps it's a good idea to check on that.

Answer 6

I think OpenStudy should fix the problems it has at hand now before taking any more suggestions, they have promised many new features this past year and there has not been even 1 :/

Answer 7

I wont agree with this ^^
I think keeping record of ideas as they come to you is a good idea even if you don't have time to browse through them.

Answer 8

The development team is currently working on fixing the already existing problems on the site. Many of the ideas and suggestsions that already have been submitted are about how to fix some of the current issues.

An example:
- Chat limit of 10-15 messages per minute to prevent spamming.

These kinda suggestions are valuable for fixing a major problem in the chat: spamming.

Answer 9

but then there's the issue of the really long messages like

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those take a hot little minute to type.

Answer 10

hmm, good point. max 140 characters? like Twitter does.

Answer 11

Ehh... sometimes long replies are needed too... 140 characters isn't much.

Answer 12

for a chat? well then 200.
this obviously doesn't apply to the question area

Answer 13

I know you're talking about the chat :p
maybe we could just filter out a repitition of letters or something

Answer 14

Why can't we have two set of rules - one for defaulters and other for saints ??

Answer 15

What we desperately need is to only be able to type a message every 3 seconds~

Uh, spam guys?

Answer 16

In the chat, I mean.

Answer 17

My only suggestion is to raise the report count needed for a community ban.

Answer 18

Added the response list so the ideas can be discussed.

Answer 19

Awesome, I think community bans are way to abused at the moment.

Answer 20

^ made a suggestion about that.

Answer 21

There should be no max for this! You'd have to be typing explanations over the course of over a million boxes instead of one.

Answer 22

I think you should have a report button when you scroll over someone's name. When you click on it you should have a check box of things that you can choose from that you did

Answer 23

Also I think you should have a category where it is just chatting. That would be awesome!

Answer 24

@thomaster
Please provide a provision to cite other suggestions while making a new one. (Like a lawyer B-)

Answer 25

I agree with you @blues! And hey, welcome back! :D

Answer 26

I suggested some stuff regarding design.

Answer 27

And bug fixes :3

Answer 28

@thomaster UGH!
"*insert random unintelligent joke here*"
A MOD ENCOURAGING SPAM!!!
BAH HUMBUG

Answer 29

@dumbsearch2 At least the spam will be contained :P

Answer 30

Haha

Answer 31

My suggestions:
Revamp of design, being more typography oriented. Possibly looking more like simplistic sites like http://medium.com/ and using fonts like Merriweather for the body of text and Helvetica Neue for the rest, looking like designs like http://dribbble.com/shots/1390237-Sounds/attachments/201003 or http://dribbble.com/shots/1283529-The-Pony-Express-Mail?list=users except in a Q&A design

We need a character limit and (for chat and for questions and answers) an autowarn and autosuspend option for those who use too much profanity, and a better profanity filter which looks for variations like f!!!k

And of course, an app.

Answer 32

Also, whats OpenStudy's hosting? Is it Amazon EC2?

Answer 33

A complete change in design isn't necessary at the moment I think (and it would be a pain for the dev team to rewrite everything).

I already suggested a change in the profany filter which changes words to *#$^%#@ instead of fixed words, that way banned words can't be traced back to the original word.

Character limit is only needed in the chat. Not at all in the question or message area.

Also a chat frequency limit (15-20 messages per minute?) and an automatic warn and suspension feature for users that use too many banned words.

The app is still in development, though they showed us the designs a long time ago, don't know in what stage that project is currently.

Don't know if it's still amazon EC2, they changed the servers a while back which decreased the downtime frequency dramatically (yay).

Answer 34

So what if you already suggested a change in the profanity filter? These are just my suggestions.

Yes, no UI revamp yet. So for now its just for refining the service. These are more bug fixes and UX improvements.

Anyhow, check this out. I know its a bit drastic, but its just an idea. http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/52e6afb7e4b096fa405abcb4

Answer 35

Also, for an app, a design like http://jelly.co/ or http://dribbble.com/shots/1391270-iOS-app-sneakpeek?list=users or http://dribbble.com/shots/1392299-Dog-App-Updates would be awesome. (love those bottom nav bars on the last two)

Answer 36

more site decorations XD
Liven things up a bit ya know?

Answer 37

Is there an App yet or are they still making it?

Answer 38

still making it.

Answer 39

Will the app be for Android phones as well?

Answer 40

There needs to be a way to cut down mass tagging. People should only be able to tag three people in a single post. Is there any way to make this happen?

This is my original post if anybody wants to look at it. Thanks to kag for the idea of putting this here in the suggestion box.
http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/52e96a9ae4b0c5eaaf28e184

Answer 41

Any comments on the subscription program yet?

Answer 42

Please extend the CoC to include a bunch of Q/A protocols like -
-Please close your question once your are satisfied with the answer.
-If you are not satisfied, mention you query at the last post (of your question).

Answer 43

Tell weirdos to stay off, expecially pedo people >.<

Answer 44

That ^^ will require a precise definition of "weirdos" & "pedo" :P

Answer 45

@thomaster
For Ambi recommendations..please allow us to vote for them..instead of posting the same name over and over again..

Answer 46

Community chat....

Answer 47

How about having our smartscores do something besides look pretty among our profile? Like have them allow you to do certain things as you level up your score, ex. When you get to level 30 you can post two questions at once or something, idk. :/

Answer 48

I like that idea. @Objection I hate when I need help with two questions, and it might take me 30 minutes to get help on one. Posting two questions would really help.

Answer 49

what if cows moaned when you milked them

Answer 50

I'm sure they do in the inside.

Answer 51

hmm i am trying to make a suggestion on the music section. and am sent here. BUt this is just a joke thread ful of wise guys it seems :).

OK i'll take the hint i'll stop trying to change things.

Answer 52

must you act like you're 5? Holy crap. You'd think that you'd have enough sense to not give people the impression that you're incapable of rational thought. Come on, timo. You're smarter than this.

Answer 53

Thanks I just filled out the form.

Answer 54

Alot of these issues dont get noticed or fixxed......nevermind, im not getting into this stuff

Answer 55

The suggesstion box is a shame, waste, and like is no way active to help....

Answer 56

Alot of these issues don't get noticed of fixed, because they don't keep a list of things that need to be fixed (at least not a public list). Which is exactly what I'm trying to do here. The many different suggestion posts in the feedback section eventually get lost. So I'm creating a public list of suggestions. They (the tech team) will soon get started with fixing a lot of problems with the site. When something is fixed I'll cross it off the list, so it will kinda be an ongoing changelog.

Answer 57

Interesting thread, I will profile this so I can look at it later, and maybe get some ideas rolling :P

Answer 58

Didn't I already make one of these :P

Answer 59

This is a waste of time, and writing......Well maybe not, idk

Answer 60

Didn't get anywhere when I made it, but who knows....

Answer 61

Like why make this thread and not fix em? U guys just sit around and wait and wait....Then maybe do something to say you did it

Answer 62

You don't know the half of it....

Answer 63

I am going to stage a protest! and U will see that change is needed as it comes, not change is needed when we feel like fixing it

Answer 64

You know that they only have one developer atm, right? o.o

Answer 65

so it's gonna take a long time to fix all of the mentioned issues

Answer 66

@FlvsGirl xD just sit tight while I show you all that I did ;)

Answer 67

@poopsiedoodle Do you not remember my 5 point plan?

Answer 68

it takes no time to fix dumb rules. Just a decree from the all powerful ones you cant dissagreee with.

Answer 69

Nope, JA1. Timo, what are you even talking about? Geez. Just because you don't like the rules doesn't mean you have to bring that up in every post ever, especially when it's incredibly irrelevant.

Answer 70

xD wtf man that was like the biggest OS thread ever

Answer 71

link me

Answer 72

I'm trying to find it D:

I'll find it sooner or later xD

Answer 73

OMG IS IT GONE :O

Answer 74

IMPOSSIBRU!!!

Answer 75

what ever you say Poopsie. Just becareful not to break your arm patting yourself on the back :)

Answer 76

I sense some hostility here

Answer 77

Again with the not making sense. Please, just stop.

Answer 78

Wow, this si better than comedy stand up and i am talking about the past ten, or so responces.....

Answer 79

Here is one that I found:

http://openstudy.com/users/ja1#/updates/5210e719e4b0450ed75d19f4

Answer 80

I love this thread, poeple after people with cruel but funny hostility

Answer 81

Another OS moment:

http://openstudy.com/users/ja1#/updates/51b35b05e4b05b167ed380f1
http://openstudy.com/users/ja1#/updates/51b74f24e4b05b167ed4893b
http://openstudy.com/users/ja1#/updates/51cc84f2e4b011c79f633214

Three part series in which we can see the Hackathon Craze go down in flames....

Answer 82

Lets make a party out of this, who wants to play tell eachother what crap , or how fun their repsonces are and eat popcorn and watch an episode of Openstudy gone bad.....or comdedy

Answer 83

I have some good footage xD

Answer 84

@JA1 , well lets watch it.....I will get the popcorn

Answer 85

I gave up on "Revolutionizing" OS and am simply gonna wait here for change :)

Answer 86

Are you kidding me, it would take me ages to scrape up all those posts that are almost a year old xD

Answer 87

@poopsiedoodle @tester97 Join the party and llets ramble

Answer 88

The problem is OS is being run by Preetha, and only recently have we gotten a developer, but that's it, no more admins are helping.

Answer 89

I think that there should be a setting on tags for what subject. People can select subjects that they want to get tagged too, and when tagging somebody, that person should have to select the subject of the question tat is being asked. I also mean more specifically than math, it needs to be broken down into all sub-subjects of math. I hate being tagged to high level math questions. I hope you understand what I'm saying, I know it was long winded.

Answer 90

I know that the main functions of this site is for learning, but some people also like to have fun. Adding to my list of new subject ideas, I think that there should be a poll subject. People can ask each other all kinds of questions.

Answer 91

Just submitted two more suggestions :3

Answer 92

There needs to be a place for people to suggest subjects for OS.

Subject Ideas:
Law
Sports
General Life
Sub-Subjects for Language
Astronomy
College and Career
Psychology
Photography
Polls
Philosophy was mentioned by shrutipande9

Answer 93

I'll update this list when I see other users asking about a subject that doesn't exist on OS. There shouldn't be any confusion, people should be able to find the right subject for a question quickly and easily.

Answer 94

As we all know, colors and fonts can make a huge difference in tutoring - especially for visual learners like me. I think there should be a font format tool (like the one in Microsoft Word) with options like color, font size, bold, italics, underlined, fonts, etc. Now, I know there is LaTeX, but writing in Latex can be very complicated to do and requires one to really learn all the codes for it. Let's face it - very few are going to take the time to do that. If fonts and colors were more easily available to the users, it could really help in tutoring classes like math and science. And, hey! Who doesn't like fonts and colors?

Answer 95

okay i would suggest to put a geography subject in openstudy

Answer 96

Submitted (: