Post-crash metawishlist

The two biggest issues seem to be about extended comments and private messaging. If you've been tracking people's comments you'll know that already, so maybe I'm just committing what you already know to 'paper' for others to see.

At least four people have been caught out (me included) when comments start getting bumped from the first page. There's nothing that clearly indicates a second, ...nth page. And the existing link is below the comment box, which I took as an indication that it linked to site-wide comments. What I would prefer is a series of numbers and arrows top and bottom of the comments list. I would also ask that the subsequent pages be ordered in the same manner as the front page. Currently front page is oldest on top, but the subsequent pages have newest on top.

Private messaging seems to have come up about five times. People wanting to swap emails or phone numbers privately and securely are looking for a way to do that within the site.

I'd also like to see a way of adding karma when I like someone's wish. Does favouriting add karma? When someone makes a wish I relate to, I want to boost that wish and/or that person. Currently I can add karma in a comment, but what about a wish itself?

I have had some difficulties with embedding video, and I'd like to know if maps can be embedded in both wishes and comments. They generally want an iframe, but perhaps there's a better way.

It's pretty clear that people aren't intuitively finding their way here. I'm not sure whether that's a fixable problem. The link is there on every page....

It's also pretty clear that tags aren't being used much. Damn! Can tags be embedded in the RSS feed? That way they might get into peoples consciousness.

Last but not least I hope you are taking 'appropriate' time off. I bet this is a really exciting project, and hard to let go of, but for one person to deal with all the coding etc, and an expectant parent as well .... sheesh!