Paul Stamatiou's dashboard

Paul Stamatiou replied on October 24, 2009 21:40 to the question "Researching for implementation" in Skribit:

Kevin - you are definitely right about customized branding and that is something we also have set for the near future, however that might be something more along the lines of an Enterprise account than just a Pro account meant for individual bloggers. We're still thinking about how to structure it all.

You are rigth that you can hide that section via CSS - but the blog profile (ex: http://skribit.com/blogs/paulstamatio... ) is still currently public, so it'll require some changes on our end.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns! We're still early stage around here and always open to new and radical ideas/features. :-D

Paul Stamatiou replied on October 23, 2009 19:26 to the question "Researching for implementation" in Skribit:

Hi Kevin - sorry for the delay.. caught the flu this week.

So there are two forms of integrations - a sidebar widget and the floating tab. The sidebar widget is 100% customizable in terms of colors/etc - even more so if you are comfortable writing your own CSS: http://skribit.com/widgets/css/

The suggestions tab itself can be customized to any color you would like and where you would like it to be (top/left/bottom/right) on your page. As for the page it loads once clicked, that is customizeable as well - but for Pro accounts (let me know if you want an extended trial).

As for private options - that is definitely on our roadmap for the near future as we can see cases where people would like to have that, especially companies.

If you have any more detailed questions, feel free to email me at paul at skribit dot com.

Best,
Paul

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Paul Stamatiou replied on September 29, 2009 02:06 to the problem "Send button won't show!?" in Skribit:

Your CSS (input{} in mainCSS.css) was making the submit button a width of 500px. I just added some stuff on our end that should specify a width for our button and fix that. I'm in the process of deploying it so should be fixed by the end of the night (leaving room for random issues that always seem to spring up with deploys!)

Thanks for using Skribit! I went ahead and gave you a few months of Skribit Pro to try it out. :-)

Paul Stamatiou replied on September 29, 2009 01:49 to the problem "Send button won't show!?" in Skribit:

Hey espiblog - it looks to be a CSS issue. I'll poke around a bit and check back here soon.

Paul Stamatiou replied on September 21, 2009 06:40 to the problem "users complaining about 100 char limit" in Skribit:

Thanks for the comment chandimac, we're gonna be visiting this issue soon. We're focusing on a little homepage redesign first.

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Paul Stamatiou replied on August 31, 2009 17:19 to the praise "How To Talk to your Visitors" in Skribit:

Thanks Marshal!

Paul Stamatiou replied on August 26, 2009 00:23 to the question "Merge Suggestions" in Skribit:

Thanks for the feedback Patrix. We have been aware of this issue but building this out has not yet been a priority. I'll make sure we give it some attention soon!

Best,
Paul

Paul Stamatiou replied on August 20, 2009 15:02 to the idea "Sorting suggestions by popularity" in Skribit:

Doug - ohh, do you mean the list view on the widget itself? I was thinking you meant the blog profile ex: http://skribit.com/blogs/paulstamatio... but I guess having that ability for both would be handy.

Currently the widget uses a 2+3 layout. The first 2 have the most "hotness" and the last 3 are random, if I recall correctly. Hotness being calculated by something along these lines: http://uggedal.com/reddit.cf.algorith...

Paul Stamatiou replied on August 20, 2009 14:41 to the idea "Sorting suggestions by popularity" in Skribit:

Doug - yeah we personally feel that form is kinda odd itself. We originally had them as separate things, then put them in one form and need to make it one action now.

As for the admin page itself, I just coded up the ability to sort by # of suggestion followers, alphabetical, recent suggestions, status, and author (wont make it up to the server for a few days tho). As for the view that users see, that's a good idea. Do you mean that you get to pick the default view for the users page? Or just that the users have a link to sort that page however they like as well?

Paul Stamatiou replied on August 20, 2009 13:57 to the idea "Sorting suggestions by popularity" in Skribit:

Thanks for the suggestion Doug, we'll keep this in mind. Are there any other admin tweaks that would make using it simpler? We have a few other things in the pipeline that should help with administrative tasks.

Thanks,
Paul

Paul Stamatiou replied on August 15, 2009 16:27 to the problem "users complaining about 100 char limit" in Skribit:

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Calvin and I were actually talking about something related to this. What are your thoughts Alison, do we need to make the fields longer? Or bring back a description field? Or urge people to make a comment to clarify?

Paul Stamatiou replied on August 03, 2009 03:48 to the question "What are the green bar things?" in Skribit:

Sheesh you're quick :-) I was planning on a blog post soon after we did some more fixes and such tomorrow.

Posted means completed/blogged. Just a finished suggestion. Posted links to the blog post.

We don't have the notion of votes anymore.. too much like a popularity contest. Instead you can follow a suggestion.. the idea is that you follow the life of the suggestion including status updates, new comments, and blog posts. So you get notified of it.

The bar changes color from green to red based on popularity/follows of suggestion and is only shown on non-suggestion pages. just a cool info vis way of seeing how popular something is when browsing. less clutter than having numbers all over the place. we're not digg and we want to separate ourselves from that so people don't get confused.

You can also follow users on the site. The network is more delicious inspired, but followers are like twitter, yes. ;-) At the moment following just means you're following them.. but that's it. In our next big release when you login you'll see an activity stream of what all the people you're following are up to. Stay tuned!

Thanks for using Skribit, as usual. ;-)

Paul Stamatiou replied on July 28, 2009 05:47 to the question "Filter profanities" in Skribit:

We also ran into a similar situation last week and have fast-tracked several features to help with this, including user ignore(ban) and unsafe word filtering. We hope to get this out soon (end of week is the aim).

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Paul Stamatiou replied on July 21, 2009 19:25 to the problem "Widget won't display on main index" in Skribit:

No problem. Let me know if you have any other issues. While our plugin doesn't have this functionality built-in, you can customize the look and feel of your widget on our website (after logging in of course).

We also have a suggestions tab widget that you might want to experiment with depending on what your readers prefer.

Thanks for giving Skribit a whirl!

Paul Stamatiou replied on July 21, 2009 19:15 to the problem "Widget won't display on main index" in Skribit:

so i'm currently seeing it on your homepage:

http://pstam.com/i/2706ec1d79623bc406...

My guess is that since you use WP Super Cache it took a while for it to expire the cache (usually 3600 seconds) and load the updated code. Is it working for you?

Paul Stamatiou replied on July 21, 2009 18:55 to the problem "Widget won't display on main index" in Skribit:

Hi - do you have the URL of the blog you're setting it up on? I'd like to take a look and see what the issue is.