Upcoming.org Suggestion Board
Have a suggestion to make Upcoming better? Use our new
Suggestion Board to pitch ideas, vote and comment on others, and get notified when
we do your bidding.
The Yahoo! Autos team recently
announced their Tango Suggestion Boards, a way for community members to collaborate with developers on improving the sites they use. Inspired by
Digg, anyone could suggest new features and vote on them. A quick glance at the most popular
Autos suggestions show some great ideas surfacing, along with a couple frustrating bugs. We asked the Autos team if we could get in on this, and within minutes, they were done.
So, welcome to the new
Upcoming Suggestion Board! We'll be reviewing and answering every suggestion
every day, so make yourself heard.
You might have noticed that we've also removed the wiki, which we previously used for suggestions and bug reports. While wikis are great for documentation, we quickly learned they're far from ideal for bug reporting, suggestions, or discussion. Reviewing and responding to your comments was nearly impossible as the site grew. Plus, we were tired of dealing with wiki spam, so we decided to take a snapshot for historical reference and shut it down. We've moved some of the most important pages into the Help and Services section, but if there's anything you miss, let us know. (For reference, here are the outdated
suggestion box,
bug reports, and
gripes pages.)
Finally, in the new-feature-that-nobody-ever-requested section, we've also pulled together a page
about the team, giving you a glimpse into the sordid lives of the Upcoming crew. (Stalkers, apply here!)
It was funny to see all the geeks on digg up in arms about the Yahoo! Autos suggestion tool. "tehy r rippin off digg!!1!"
I'm gonna bookmarks the upcoming suggestion box and use it as I see fit... :P
Could you at least take some of the more sensible suggestsions from the Wiki and put them in the new suggestions system, to see which ones attract more votes?