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Scott Bowler reported a problem in Feedly on November 20, 2009 09:03:

Where has manage sources gone?!

It seems that the link to manage the sources has disappeared which makes it a bit difficult to delete and categorise the feeds

Scott Bowler replied on November 19, 2009 00:03 to the problem "Poor purchase page" in Setster:

Great :) A/B testing is a really good way to check what will perform the best. I'm sure you've heard of it, but Google Website Optimizer is a powerful (and free) tool to do the testing: https://www.google.com/analytics/site...

Scott Bowler replied on November 18, 2009 23:55 to the problem "Poor purchase page" in Setster:

Also, you say the difference is only the number of users, but that's not true. Another area that differs is the number of appointments each account can have.

You're making it difficult for the user to understand why they should pay more and how it benefits them, which is only going to turn people away. People shouldn't have to dig to find out why they should pay more.

By splitting the page into a table and a description, you're using two conflicting methods of sharing information. The design follows that of comparison tables on other sites and when a user sees this they will expect to see a full comparison.

People know how navigations work because they've used them before, and the same applies to other areas of a website. People have expectations for purchasing a product on a website and on your key page doesn't follow these expectations.

Why not do an A/B test to see which converts better?

Scott Bowler replied on November 18, 2009 23:47 to the problem "Poor purchase page" in Setster:

But it isn't clear - you're doing a comparison on the page at the moment but in a non userfriendly way which makes it confusing for people wanting to buy. You're forcing people to have to compare the differences by reading paragraphs of text when a simple comparison chart would demonstrate this in seconds.

I'm just trying to help you increase conversions (I'm Head of Online Marketing at a leading agency in the UK and have a lot of experience with improving the user experience with the goal of increasing conversion rates).

Scott Bowler replied on November 15, 2009 09:49 to the problem "Integration with Flickr" in Wibiya:

Great - looking forward to seeing it implemented :)

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Scott Bowler reported a problem in Wibiya on November 13, 2009 16:27:

Integration with Flickr

Which URL should you paste in to get the Flickr album working? There are loads of different things on flickr - photostreams, sets, galleries etc but Wibiya doesn't make it clear what I should be adding (or whether what I've added is going to work).

Do we add RSS feeds, account names, gallery ids, URLs to sets?

Scott Bowler reported a problem in Setster on November 12, 2009 16:53:

Poor purchase page

On the sign up page you have 3 different plans but you don't explain what's different in a clear way

Scott Bowler gave praise in Feedly on November 12, 2009 11:20:

Feedly brings order to madness!

Feedly has made me a lot more organised - here's a recent blog post I wrote which mentions how I use it to make my life easier: The Secret to being organised in a social world

Scott Bowler reported a problem in PitchEngine on November 06, 2009 16:51:

Writer Sign-up 404 error and security issues

Signing up from http://www.pitchengine.com/pitchfeed.php as a Writer results in a 404 error.

Also - the password field is a text field instead of a password field which is very bad practice

scott.bowler83 shared an idea in PitchEngine on November 06, 2009 16:44:

Automatic URL shortening for Twitter Sales Pitch

With the Twitter section of the SMR it would be useful to include automatic URL shortening (or allow us to choose our own from an integrated system) so that we can speed up the process

scott.bowler83 started following the idea "Add Google translate integration" in Feedly.

scott.bowler83 started following the idea "Add the possibility to set filter for each feed." in Feedly.

scott.bowler83 replied on November 01, 2009 16:56 to the idea "Let Us Put Google Gears (Offline Mode) Into This Thing =)" in Feedly:

If this could be integrated so that I can look at the items in the preview panel while offline then we'd be onto a winner!

scott.bowler83 started following the idea "Let Us Put Google Gears (Offline Mode) Into This Thing =)" in Feedly.

scott.bowler83 replied on November 01, 2009 16:54 to the idea "Automatic Refresh" in Feedly:

What about things like the cover page - when I delete the 4 main items I'm left with a blank space - it would make the user experience a whole let better if it automatically loaded new content in place of content that's been deleted

scott.bowler83 asked a question in Feedly on November 01, 2009 16:26:

Automatically "mark as read and hide" content based on keyword

I subscribe to a lot of technology feeds, but I don't give two monkeys about iPhone's and Macs. It would be great if you could add a feature allowing me to define key phrases/tags for things that don't get shown. For example, I would choose to "auto mark as read and hide" for the keywords "iphone, apple, mac".

This would go a long way to making finding content I am interested in much easier and enjoyable.

scott.bowler83 asked a question in Feedly on October 30, 2009 20:41:

Discussions on Feedly

I've left Reddit because it's become overrun by meme's and silly topics - the one thing I miss is the discussions around a topic. Is there any way to see comments on articles in a threaded way similar to Reddit?