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I'm a little confused as to the workflow. Here's what i did, assuming I wanted to vote on a place I like: 1. Enter "fernandez & wells" into the name box. Hit

I'm a little confused as to the workflow. Here's what i did, assuming I wanted to vote on a place I like: 1. Enter "fernandez & wells" into the name box. Hit search. 2. Two results are shown. Both have what look like votes already (+4, +5 icons). But my only action is "add this place." Where do I vote? 3. When I click to add the place, I'm presented with a big form, which I don't care about. I click "add place" anyway, and after clicking a couple of times with nothing happening, i realize it's trying to get me to select a category. I select a category (restaurant), click add again, and get an error "invalid username or userid in get_avatar" So... hiccups aside, seems like a good idea. Execution-wise, streamline, streamline, streamline.

pmjoyce 17y ago
OK - this is a product of it being somewhat rushed to get something out the door. The workflow does need to be trimmed, let me explain a little of what went on there. 1) You entered "fernandez & wells" we check our DB, found nothing then went off to check Google 2) The 2 results were from Google. The +4 icon is confusing here, it's a half implemented feature. It's actually there to show how much Karma a user would get by adding it. 3) I should make the error more prominent. As for "invalid username or userid in get_avatar" - basically you shouldn't have got to this screen to be able to add a venue without being logged in. I'll make the user check early and redirect to the login/registration screen. Thanks for the feedback.
- nobody_nowhere 17y ago
  Good luck with this. Suggestion: hire someone to pre-populate/categorize your database with the top 500 or 1000 spots in London you want people to rate. It doesn't have to be perfect. You can use inexpensive labor or even Amazon's mechanical turk. If the goal of your site is to get people voting, you can improve your adoption by lessening the focus on data entry, which will be a turn-off for most of your potential useres.
  - pmjoyce 17y ago
    At the moment I'm steering away from the idea of pre-population. My reason is that if I can streamline, streamline, streamline (as you rightly suggest) the process of adding a site it it hopefully won't be too much of a burden for the user. The very process might help venue submitters feel a greater sense of ownership over the site content which won't be full of the excess clutter of what I deem to be 1000 top spots in London. I don't want to be one person dictating the tone of the site to the users, only they, as a collective, should feel totally free to do that.

pmjoyce 17y ago

OK - this is a product of it being somewhat rushed to get something out the door. The workflow does need to be trimmed, let me explain a little of what went on there. 1) You entered "fernandez & wells" we check our DB, found nothing then went off to check Google 2) The 2 results were from Google. The +4 icon is confusing here, it's a half implemented feature. It's actually there to show how much Karma a user would get by adding it. 3) I should make the error more prominent. As for "invalid username or userid in get_avatar" - basically you shouldn't have got to this screen to be able to add a venue without being logged in. I'll make the user check early and redirect to the login/registration screen. Thanks for the feedback.

nobody_nowhere 17y ago
Good luck with this. Suggestion: hire someone to pre-populate/categorize your database with the top 500 or 1000 spots in London you want people to rate. It doesn't have to be perfect. You can use inexpensive labor or even Amazon's mechanical turk. If the goal of your site is to get people voting, you can improve your adoption by lessening the focus on data entry, which will be a turn-off for most of your potential useres.
- pmjoyce 17y ago
  At the moment I'm steering away from the idea of pre-population. My reason is that if I can streamline, streamline, streamline (as you rightly suggest) the process of adding a site it it hopefully won't be too much of a burden for the user. The very process might help venue submitters feel a greater sense of ownership over the site content which won't be full of the excess clutter of what I deem to be 1000 top spots in London. I don't want to be one person dictating the tone of the site to the users, only they, as a collective, should feel totally free to do that.