Summary of Suggestions

Check this topic for confirmed new features and enhancements

These are all the suggestions that have been made on this forum since October 1. By combining them all in one, easy to look-up place, you can see all of the great ideas NaNoWriMo participants have had to improve this site, its performance, and the overall experience of those who love NaNo. Suggestions that were implemented before the creation of this topic were not included.

Not all of these will or can be implemented, but they are all collected here for your perusal. Check here before making a suggestion of your own, after all, great minds think alike! If your suggestion does not appear on this list, then create a new topic to suggest it. Please do not reply to add suggestions to this topic.

Please note that genre/forum requests will be mostly likely made in a single thread, for general discussion, so there is no need to create additional threads for this. Existing threads are reported here for convenience.

Note: Some threads may appear multiple times on the list if there are multiple suggestions with in the topic. :)

Accounts/Logins

• Ban "novel" from usernames
• Change usernames
• OpenID module

Buddy List

• New Excerpt notifications/icon to flag profiles that have posted excerpts
• Privacy controls
• Buddy comments
• Invite a friend
• Ignore list
• Direct buddy add box - for if you know the username or ID (in tech help)

Chat

• None

Forum/genre requests

• Genres
• Western
• Paranormal/Supernatural
• GLBTQ
• Crime
• Lounges
• Shout outs
• Oldbies
• GLBTQ
• Writing buddies
• College students
• Alumni
• Parents
• Big, Scary, fun things: Will be back.

Forums: Regional & Regional settings

• Rural novelists
• Add region: Regions added as MLs volunteer to lead them
• Read/unread icons
• Add non-regional groups/clubs that behave like regions
• Option to specifically opt-out of ML emails

Forums: Topics/Threads

• C&P Realism
  • Sticky urging use of search engine
  • Experts program tweaks
• Comments in Threads
• Different timestamp for edits
• Redirect to last page after posting new comment
• Complete thread summary when replying
• Limit number of nested "re"
• Mark all read
• Add additional html tags
• Change strong and em to b and i
• Bring back BB code/Easy formatting buttons
• New posts since last visit
• Word count at time of post
• Pager at top of threads
• End of thread links from index page
• Topic editing/deletion: Deletion will not be implemented
• Polls in Polling Booth
• Quick Reply
• Off-season forum post word count
• Print Button
• Clearer identification of all-ages
• Confusing/inconsistent new topic icons in forums
• Move "report" button
• Forum navigation tweaks
• Smilies (forum subscriptions already implemented)
• Quick navigation/forum jump
• Differentiate threads that have been posted to

General Site/Front Page

• Statistics
• Average novel length
• Donor completion rate
• Pep Talks
• Bring back Chris's emailed pep talks
• Lost novel recovery help line
• Front Page
• Add total participants to word count/countdown
• Personal countdown meter on front page
• Countdown to NaNoWriMo
• Live signup count
• Logo: More inclusive/neutral logo
• Move NaNo to a different month
• Return "My Novel" to "My NaNoWriMo"
• Add cancel buttons
• Dump Drupal
• Redesign site: Dependent on fundraising
• Slogan for NaNoWriMo
• Past years' archives: Exists, currently disabled
• Contact added to bottom links on every page
• International translation for articles
• NaNoWriMo Extreme
• Add "me" aliases for user-blind links
• Add instructions for rendering an account inactive to the FAQs

Merchandise/Store

• T-shirt: Running man and typewriter
• Bring back tattoos: Not store, ML swag
• Silicon wristbands
• Assorted goodies for merchandise or ML swag: Private forum
• Reorder past year's ML swag: Private forum

NaNoMail

• Send Nanomails to multiple people
• Replied to flag
• Contrasting font colors

Novel Info/Excerpts

• Excerpt warning
• Excerpt reviews feature
• Novel keywords
• Allow multiple genres
• Paragraph Formatting in Novel Excerpts: (in tech help)

Podcasts

• Podcast transcripts

Profiles/Editing Profiles

• NaNoStats
• No flash, no genre, add number of participants for region
• Additional stats
• Add benchmark
• Posts by this user: Existing, currently disabled
• Published or Not: Flag in profile
• Profile hit counter
• Author blogs
• Move regional/genre counts to regional/genre forums and/or enable toggling in profile
• Return flash book
• Book covers in profile
• List multiple websites
• Past novels' titles/years/genre, past excerpts
• Email options need to be more granular: (in tech help)

Search

• Author Search
• Sort by word count
• Sort by forum post count
• Forum Search: Existing, currently disabled
• Multiple improvements/tweaks

Signatures

• Option to disable signature display
• Disable signature quote
• Banner sizes in signatures

Subscriptions

• New message indicators in subscription list
• Daily digest for subscription notification
• Subscription notifications to NaNoMail

Widgets

• WC Scoreboard: Add number of novelists (preferably active, non-0 word count)
• Line Diagram
• Color coded widgets
• Wordpress Widget
• Make NewMexicoKid's unofficial widgets official

Word Count/Validation Process

• Enable ascii unicode text uploads
• Time Window for last minute verifiers
• Redirect to word count entry on login
• Retroactive word count entry
• >50k bars, configurable goals
• Update count via email

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Heather
Forums Moderator