BROUGHT FORWARD with slight modifications
OVER TWENTY IMPROVEMENTS needed to make the site much more pleasant to use.
In no special Order of importance then -
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1 Improve Track Changes
- REMOVE our own entries from CHANGES TRACKER, which are duplicated in ACTIVITY TRACKER. Only display the last change to the same Observation (if there are several)
1a. Retain Yellow marker
until the specific post has been visited
2 Allow Edit of Comments
- until locked by Reply
3 Refresh the Home Page
- Add a running Welcome banner which changes when ‘things’ are not right. Add strong links to RECENT OBS and START HERE (New Pages?). Tidy up and remove stale notices. Add a large Picture of the Month (NOT competitive?).
4 Update all Help Pages
- create an Index
5 Rationalise Global
- currently, it means two things in iSpot, ALL Communities or those not UK.
EXCLUDE Other named Communities from GLOBAL or include them all - make it plain which.
6 Retain Locations somehow
- allow users to creature their own Index (Home, Mill, Foxton Wood, etc) thus saving the laborious need to enter location details every single time.
7 Allow HTML Text
to be retained in descriptions (projects mostly) through Edits. Allow restricted HTML text in comments and Ob. descriptions, but particularly <a ref and so avoid terribly, sometimes over-spillingly long, URLs
8 Improve Search
- allow a specific search for Observations (find all Obs (only) of Phytolacca acinosa for example) And for precise occurrences like “gooseneck”
9 Update dictionaries
- this is imperative as we observe more and more rare varieties and the Dictionaries get more and more OUT-DATED
10 Bring back Social Points
shows those who engage with users or the system or add agreements to be seen as ‘valuable’ as those with high Score Icons
11 Sort Enlarge Picture
remove Zoom? Allow Cycling through Observation pictures when enlarged
12 Next & Previous buttons
- bring back Next and Previous clicks when browsing Carousels or Filters
13 Fix the Reputations algorithm.
Where sometimes the score rating is not balanced - may apply mostly to Experts and Knowledgeables
14 Modify quizzes,
REMOVE, test, revise and replace the Quizzes
15 Allow Pages search
in Project Gallery view - ;‘Go to Page 9’, say. Some Project galleries have over 40 pages. The same applies to the map, we have to click Show More Observations as many times as there are ‘thousands’ to get the final number of Obs.
16 Allow us to Follow
(and UNfollow, a user
17 Allow PREVIEW
of Observation detail before ‘publishing’
18 Devise ways to capture & nurture newcomers
- linked to Items 3 and 16 (above)
19 Review the way Changes links take us to Comments,
so that the link takes us TO the comment.
Perhaps Colour the relevant Panel in the old way.
20 Add a more powerful banner
to the Home & Uload Page PLEASE CHECK YOUR CHANGES TRACKER FRQUENTLY : also HERE https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/article/566/ispot-help-and-support
21 Disallow Refresh
(or modify to return to open page) after an agreement is added specially during next and previous process. SPEED UP refresh anyway
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Anyone can add to this list with a note below (please)