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darkliquid started following the question "Questions about API" in Pixelpipe.

darkliquid shared an idea in Protagonize on April 11, 2009 11:39:

Slightly more info on stories when they show up in the list views

I find it incredibly frustrating when I click on a cool story title in the list view only to find out it's an 8 line poem or something else I wasn't expecting.

Since we already have tagging and categorisation, it'd be nice to see them used in a more obvious and useful way as at the moment I find it a little hard to find things I am interested in reading on the site.

Putting the category name next to the 'x branches/chapters' bit on story list items would make identifying them far easier, as would perhaps adding a 'tags' button, much like the info already there, that drops down a listing of the tags. That way it's far easier to immediately identify something you are interested in.

darkliquid replied on March 09, 2009 16:18 to the idea "password -protected embedded presentations" in Issuu:

I need a similar thing in a site I'm working on. On the site in question, documents we want to display using Issuu should only be available to paying members. However, all it takes is for a member to post a direct link to the Issuu document (from the embed HTML code perhaps?) for that document to be available to the public.

What I was thinking of was to do something where the flash embed code would actually refer to an URL on our server, which would check the credentials of the user within our own system and then stream the actual flash file from Issuu (specified on our system in an entry tied to the flash url we provide to the browser) behind the scenes to the object tag request in the browser via this intermediate authentication mechanism running on our own server. This way, we'd be able to authenticate that the user was authorised to access the flash file and at the same time stop them from ever seeing it's proper Issuu URL.

Would something like that work? Would it fall outside of any Terms of Service?

darkliquid shared an idea in Protagonize on January 12, 2009 21:40:

Mobile friendly version

Now I'm the owner of a flashy new G1 google phone I'd quite like it if there was a mobile friendly version of the site that made it a bit easier to view on a phone. The 3 column layout could be simply made into a single column for phones by placing one column on top of another.

At the moment using the site on my phone is a bit of a chore, especially the login process which messes up rather badly because the javascript login box seems to go crazy and keeps jumping away from me when ever I scroll it into view. A non-javascript (or at least minimal javascript) alternative for phones would be nice too.

This isn't really a big deal though it would be nice if I could post while on the bus to work or somewhere I don't have access to a computer when the inspiration bug bites and at the moment it's really just too difficult to do.

If making writing is a little too difficult, making the reading experience on the phone a little easier would be a nice addition, as well as possibly laying the groundwork for adding writing in the future.

darkliquid replied on January 05, 2009 06:41 to the idea "Word counts" in Protagonize:

Well that was the angle I was taking. I don't see word counts as a badge of honour or anything, as you say it's quality, not quantity, but it's a nice statistic to have as an author, or at least I think so.

darkliquid replied on November 02, 2008 08:49 to the idea "Trigger service for Photos?" in Ping.fm:

I'd like to be able to do triggers on photo uploads as well - being able to only post to flickr and not post anywhere else when sending a photo would be fantastic.

darkliquid replied on November 01, 2008 22:47 to the idea "Private messages / Spoiler comments" in Protagonize:

i think allowing them to be accessible to everyone is a good idea but much lile how comments from other branches are collapsed when you are in a different branch, so too shoukd spoiler comments be collapsed (and marked as spoilers) when you haven't contributed to the story yet

darkliquid reported a problem in Protagonize on October 16, 2008 21:36:

Author guidance not encoding extended characters as html entities

When you need to add characters like a "é" in the author guidance section, the character doesn't get turned into a html entity. If you add the html entity in, then when you edit the author guidance later, it gets turned back into the actual character and thus gets saved incorrectly again when you save your update.

darkliquid shared an idea in Protagonize on October 09, 2008 14:11:

Word counts

I'd like to be able to see my total word count (across all stories and branches, but not comments obviously). It would be a nice statistic to have in my profile alongside such others there already like average rating and total number of stories and branches.

darkliquid shared an idea in Protagonize on September 28, 2008 07:47:

Private messages / Spoiler comments

Something that has come up between seldom and I is the issue of how we discuss future events in a story without spoiling it for readers. On his 'The ingenious machine' story, I made a post and wanted to discuss some ideas for the future of it. I opted to post on his profile, rather than on the story to add some misdirection, but still ideally some way of privately speaking to another person would be nice, certainly better than the current idea of just deleting the comment, since then we don't have the ideas documented online so we can both find them anywhere.

Another idea would be to have some kind of way of flagging a comment as a spoiler. Much like the praise/just chatting/etc buttons on the side, you could have a spoiler button which would by default make the comments collapsed (like comments on other chapters than the one you are one currently are). That way people can ruin it for themselves if they like, but it doesn't have to be that way be default and the comments can actually be on the relevant story/chapter. Perhaps colouring the 'spoiler' posts differently as well, just to make a distinction between a spoiler and any other collapsed comment would be an idea as well.

darkliquid replied on September 24, 2008 10:24 to the idea "New ratings notification need to be clearer" in Protagonize:

Perhaps an 'activities on my posts' feed would fill this need nicely, so you can track what people are doing on/to your posts without it getting in the way of the rest of the site.

darkliquid replied on September 24, 2008 03:58 to the idea "New ratings notification need to be clearer" in Protagonize:

Ahh, I see. So when it says 'your posts have been rated for an average of...' it's talking about the average rating across what might be multiple posts/different branches/etc?

That wasn't immediately apparent to me as a user, since there isn't any way to tell if those rating are across multiple different posts or not.

Perhaps instead just changing the wording slightly to something like: '5 of your posts have been rated at an average of 3.74' or something like that?

darkliquid shared an idea in Protagonize on September 23, 2008 18:35:

New ratings notification need to be clearer

New rating notifications are a little vaue, the message box shows: "Your postings have been rated 1 time for an average of 3.50" for example, but I don't know which posting. It'd be nice to know exactly which most had actually been rated. At the moment I have to hunt around my posts to see what has a matching rating value and it's very frustrating!

darkliquid started following the idea "Notice board for promoting new stories/postings?" in Protagonize.

darkliquid shared an idea in Protagonize on September 23, 2008 10:15:

Time localisation

Time localisation. I'd like to see the post times in my local timezone - something we could set in our profiles perhaps.