feature requests, anybody ? ;)
Well thank you all for the positive welcome.
Its clear that the success of the site depends for a big part
on how much YOU like the site.
So… if you have any feature request Send them In!
you can reply or if its a lot of text you can send your
ideas/comment to info@journalspace.com as well.
Thank you for your time as well for the feedback
we received already!
The Journalspace.com team.
westy said:
we are all very curious how this will develope. We were all VERY attached to our old “home”.
first request: comment moderation…. I don’t need all those notifications and the “discussion” section seems missing. Or I’m blind LOL
January 12th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
morphinekisses said:
I’ve not truly looked around too much yet, so I can’t say as I know if it IS possible or not. But editing or publishing your own HTML on your blog is a big thing most of us use. I saw that there are other templates coming, but can we make our own?
January 12th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
captainmando said:
Oh lordy. I think you fellas may have just opened a can of worms. :oP
One of my favorite features from the Old JS was a section on the homepage called “Recent Comments”. It showed 5 random recent comments (usually one- or two-liners), the name of who made the comment, and whose journal it was made in.
Also, we had a list of our “favorites” or “friends” and it listed them in order of who had updated most recently, along with the title of their most recent entry.
I would really like to have these features back if at all possible. :o)
January 12th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
captainmando said:
Westy:
You should be able to just follow this link: http://westy.journalspace.com/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
January 12th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
westy said:
thanks Mando… for some reason, it wasn’t showing for me before and I looked and looked grrrrr
ignore my request above! lol
January 12th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
greeneyes67 said:
They also had a top ten most read blogs on the home page. That was fun. And I liked the most recent comments too. That was way entertaining.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
greeneyes67 said:
Oh and yes, the most recently updated blogs from your friends and favorites. Please. That was really a good feature.
And hopefully we will be able to configure our journals with HTML and make them our own. I miss that.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
karada said:
I’d like the option to be private like we had Friends & Favorites
January 12th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
fin said:
The more features that you are able to duplicate from the former iteration, the more people from that source are going to like this site.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
samanthabaker said:
I would like to have the favorites-only entries and/or blogs (it would be friends-only here). When we chose to write personal things or post photos of our family, it was really nice to be able to limit who has access to those posts, or entire journals.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
goldiron said:
I want the homepage and all the features of the latest WordPress Version.
Along with the ability to use the themes available for WordPress.
Thanks
January 12th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
nccutie said:
I agree with the two suggestions Mando made!!
January 13th, 2009 at 12:26 am
nccutie said:
Why did it just show my real name?
January 13th, 2009 at 12:26 am
dougal said:
Updated blog titles that run to several pages, and the random comments is about all I require.
January 13th, 2009 at 12:50 am
likeisaid said:
Thank you for opening journalspace again! As you can see we were so attached to it and miss it terribly. I agree with the others, I miss the homepage and the random comments and the friends/favorites pages. It was so easy to see what was going on there. We love the feel of belonging to a community. Good luck.
January 13th, 2009 at 2:29 am
westy said:
here’s possibly a bug notice: the journal scamp-d has been at the top all day instead of the latest up-dated. Maybe you already noticed it, but then again, you’re so busy, maybe you didn’t…
January 13th, 2009 at 3:01 am
finn said:
And my comment here from earlier is not here now.
January 13th, 2009 at 3:13 am
lifelived said:
The community /village feel of this place was the benefit and what kept us here. Visibility of comments, possibility of listing friends and favourites, friends only comments, to be able to change and amend our style ……
January 13th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
jadedj said:
This comment has nothing to do with featured requests. I signed up for an account with you without creating a blog. I wanted to see how things go over here. Imagine my shock when I went to a discussion group and saw my real name on the screen…not my screen name…my real name. If this is an example of your programming expertise…count me out. I deleted my account. Oh, and btw I could find no where to address this issue other than here. You really do not have it together guys.
January 13th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
SouthernCharm said:
One thing that a number of people who were affiliated with the original site appreciated was the ability to set the audiences for their entire blog(s) and for individual entries. The original site allowed members to make their blogs readable to only other JournalSpace members, the the whole world, or to friends only, or friends and favorites. Friends and favorites were separate designations that a person could attach to another JS blogger that would allow them to follow the other person’s blog more easily by showing when that person had updated and their latest entry. It also gave the person who had been designated a friend or a favorite rights/privileges to read certain protected entries. While one could designate someone as a “favorite” independently, designating someone as a “friend” required mutual approval.
For individual entries, a person had the option of setting an entry to private, where it was only visible to the author, or to favorites only, or it was visible to anyone within their overall blog audience designation (JS members only, the world, friends only, friends & favorites). Despite appreciating the ability to make these readership designations, there were some who would have liked the ability to add one or more additional layers to the readership privileges for their blogs so that they could designate individual entries as readable for friends only without closing up their whole blog to “friends,” or the ability to create custom friend groups, similar to the feature offered by the livejournal blogging site, would have been desirable. I think these are things that people would appreciate to see implemented at the new JournalSpace site, if possible.
January 13th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
sparkles77 said:
Whoa - jadedj. The site has been up for 24 hours. Give them a chance!
SouthernCharm - there is currently the option to set an entry to “private” for the author’s view only. I would absolutely echo the request for friends & faves only.
January 13th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
susananne said:
I am just grateful that its back and look forward to seeing how it goes in the future. Will be patient. Thanks guys whoever you are.
January 13th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
samanthabaker said:
Here’s something that I *DO* like about the new JS: I absolutely love that I can see how a template will look on my blog before going through the hassle of actually changing it. The preview feature with MY ACTUAL BLOG showing up is just out of this world - thanks for that!
(I’m also putting in another vote for friends/favorites entries & blogs…)
January 13th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
captainmando said:
Guys, I could be wrong, but I think there already might be a way to make a journal friends/faves only.
Go here:
http://YOURNAMEGOESHERE.journalspace.com/wp-admin/users.php
At the bottom of the page, it will give you a spot to enter someone’s email address and you can make them a “subscriber”. I haven’t tried it myself, so I’m not sure how it works, but it at least seems to work that way. Somebody try it out!
January 13th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
marshwiggle23 said:
i want a new feature to replace the old im system in the old js and that’s chat -text, audio and video from inside the blog page with friends and faves only
January 13th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
NCCutie said:
I ditto the friends and favs only. To be able to edit your posts. (even after it has been posted) Lots of times we went back to edit something we wrote earlier with an UPDATE! If you knew about the old JS, that is what we want. A better question would be. What would we change about the old JS? My only request would be to use premade layouts from the web. Not all of us know how to use html. We would have to depend on others to do our layouts if we want something different. Basicially, bring the old back with a little new tweaks.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:03 am
captainmando said:
Cutie: You CAN already go back and edit a post that you’ve already published.
Go to “My Blogs” then hover over your blog name, then click “Manage Posts” from the menu.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:08 am
starsarefalling said:
I would like a way to translate my .jst files? (The old, journalspace-only files that templates were saved as?) Even just managing to turn them into notepad files will all the coding would make me happy, I don’t need them to work on MU.
January 14th, 2009 at 4:59 am
prufrock said:
I am with almost all of the above– the big, operative word here is “community.” It was an incredible, global yet cozy world that we all shared– and we likely didn’t know how much we really were involved with each other until we lost it. But the home page, yes! I loved seeing what was happening, as well as, if not more importantly, the updating list of my friends and my faves. Loved the recent comments feature on the home page, too.
I loved being able to post my faves on my page, and I loved having the ability to list my favorite entries. And posting photos with my entries is absolutely essential!! And having a gallery!!
OK. Enough for now— Thanks for bringing ol’ Lazarus up, fellas!
January 14th, 2009 at 8:07 am
simon said:
Cap’n, I may be wrong, but I believe the subscriber invitation means that such a person would be given access to your Dashboard and Profile. It’s not the same sort of thing as closing your journal to all but invited persons such as is available in Blogger.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
linda said:
Can you make it so the front page features more than just seven recent postings? I’d like to see about thirty!
January 14th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
westy said:
Dear Mr. NEW Journalspace,
I would like to know, did YOU know journalspace from BEFORE the crash? If not, you will have in some cases no idea of what we are talking about.
I once had a “JS for Dummies” journal and for it I made some screen shots… I think I may start posting them in my own journal here or perhaps start a new one to demonstrate what we all loved and missed.
Oh, dear… I’m getting myself (too) involved again *sigh* … but I WAS the #1 JS fan after all…
January 14th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
doanli64 said:
I’d like to know when my friends update their journals, please?
January 14th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
skobru said:
The Counter thing was Amusing on the old JS. To log on and see if anyone or how many anyone’s had looked at what a person wrote. Or maybe that IS here and being REnewbie to JS Reincarnated have not found it. Ummmm simplify the layout as well… this new thing is like a mac user trying to use Winders ….
January 14th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
countrygirl said:
I already sent an email, but there are a few more things that I have thought of/noticed after spending some time here.
For me, I don’t like that it shows everyone what you have done on the site, the comments you have left for others, what blogs you have visited, posting on other’s wires and such. I do miss the feature of editing your page with HTML. When it lists your friends, I miss that it shows the name of their newest post, and lists them with the most recently updated journal first.
I really like the wire idea and the Private Messages. I also like the news tab, and the discussion sections like this one. Having great communication is key, in my book.
I am excited to see how this site grows and changes. I know it is a lot of work, and I thank you for taking the time to find out what we want. I know that it won’t be a mirror image of old JS, but if some of the same features are on here, I think most people will be really happy.
On a side note, does anyone know why my posts can’t be read and it says that I haven’t made any public posts? I have checked all the settings and it shows that they are public posts, but for some reason, nobody can read them. *sigh* Thanks for any help!
January 15th, 2009 at 3:58 am
lonewolf said:
If JadedJ is still around or anyone else is having that problem about your real name showing up, that can be edited in your profile editor or when you first register a new account whatever you put in the line that says “Your Full Name” is what you’ll be referred to all over the site. So if you don’t want your real name posted all over the site then put your SN in there instead.
January 15th, 2009 at 7:39 am
halcyongrace said:
I would LOVE to have the CSS/HTML edit capability on layouts again. And not the kind WordPress uses that requires you FTP the really cool themes. But the Blogger kind that lets you simply upload XML files from your computer.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
interested said:
Hi New Owner(s) of JS
Maybe I missed it (if I have someone please tell me) but two things:
1) I do not see where after you post an entry your list of friends know that you actually posted something.
2) At the old JS we were able to see who has visited our journal.
January 16th, 2009 at 12:48 am
wizardress said:
One thing I would absolutely love to see (not sure if it has been addressed yet or not) is an option to add filters (similar to those on live journal) for particular friends or members. That way if I wanted to write about my cat, but I knew that only certain people were interested in reading about my cat, I could create a filter called Mister M. and then add people to that filter who I knew were interesed, so that when I wrote the entry, I could use the filter and ONLY those people on the filter would be allowed to read that particular entry.
Just my two cents
Thanks for all the hard work ya’ll are doing. It’s appreciated.
Lori aka Wizardress
January 16th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
captron52 said:
I cant seem to retreive all of my private messages. When I go to the inbox it is only showing about a thrid of the message and i cant open it or do anything at all with it. Maybe its just me I dont know.
January 17th, 2009 at 4:47 am
citrinex said:
FULL CSS & HTML customization of our journal! Seriously… that’s really why I chose Journalspace over ANY other blog hosting site.
January 19th, 2009 at 6:42 am
writeranon said:
1) More layout customization
2) Names of those individuals who have viewed your blog
3) Privacy levels for the blog AND individual entries. I only want JS members to access my blog and I want some entries to be accessed by only my friends/favorites without having to create a password for it
There were a LOT of features that were unique to JS that I thought were neat but not vital. I thought things like the Pronoun report were cool. There were tons of cool widgets and the profiles also had more options.
This interface is just like wordpress’s. Wordpress was one of the blog sites I ruled out after the JS crash because I didn’t like it.
I don’t think we’ll ever find a site that had the features that JS had.
I do like the category and tagging options though. And the wire is cool. It’s kind of like having a Facebook wall.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:16 am
samanthabaker said:
THANK you for bringing back Friends-Only entry capability without a password! It’s VERY much appreciated!
Some of us would love to be able to post YouTube videos…
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
altpambirmo said:
I’d like if you could set the journal so only your screen name comes up. Also, My buddy Tygertim friends can’t seem to find his blog? He says he doesn’t have the Private thingie on, so he doesn’t understand why none of his JSpace buddies from the old JS can find him…
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:28 pm
westy said:
being able to add smilies or other photos/images in the comment box
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:29 pm
farway4far2long said:
I miss the Mood/Music thing. It would be nice to have that feature back. And the feature that you can make your own layouts. I miss the old Js.
January 24th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
westy said:
bug notice: since today, when I leave a comment and click “send” or “save” or “submit” or whatever it is here, I end up on a blank page! If I click the back button, then the page appears, with my comment.
just thought you might want to know….. how about a “bug announcement” journal?
January 26th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
countrygirl said:
Spam blocker.
January 28th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Alexis Tangent said:
My favorite feature on the old JS server. The “Favorites”.
August 13th, 2009 at 3:32 pm