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Votebox seems to be an innovative concept, seems to be much better than systems used by for example Google communicating with users/developers. I'm speaking fro

by n-named 17y ago

Votebox seems to be an innovative concept, seems to be much better than systems used by for example Google communicating with users/developers. I'm speaking from experience as a developer, it would be nice to see this concept applied to API development/feature requests. Also, nice use of the word janky.

Mongoose 17y ago
It's sort of a sparse, more formal takeoff on meta.stackoverflow.com.
- blasdel 17y ago
  For that analogy to work at all, votebox's UI would have to be a set of shared files that are automatically synced to your filesystem, with a primitive online file browser UI, but only local editing. It would also have to be a completely independent site, with different user accounts and separate quota.
  - Mongoose 17y ago
    You clearly took my analogy too far. I was referring to the concept of a closely-knit system of user feedback and voting, not a clone of the site directed toward the purpose of meta-discussion.
sachinag 17y ago
Hey, it's been done since IdeaStorm (and it's the whole point of uservoice), but it's always a nice idea. The problem with Votebox is that the search is terrible. I'm sure the things I want (propogate folder renames across all users/machines and the ability to change permissions on nested subfolders to make them private/restricted to only certain users) are in there, somewhere, but I couldn't find them no matter what combination of phrases I could think of.
jackowayed 17y ago
Um, if by "innovative concept" you mean "almost exact ripoff of uservoice", then yes, I totally agree. It is a little cleaner and much closer to the rest of dropbox's site than they could get uservoice. I'll be interested to see if they regret reinventing the wheel and thus having to spend time solving problems uservoice has already solved. There are obviously some benefits (same login as the main site, they can implement any feature they want, looks more like the rest of dropbox)
- buugs 17y ago
  It isn't reinventing the wheel if you do it better. This is more like refining an octagon into a wheel without having to pay rights usage.
  - jackowayed 17y ago
    Well yeah, but they're still doing the same thing, which means that there are problems that uservoice has already solved that dropbox will have to deal with on its own. For example, someone said that the search is really bad. Uservoice probably has invested a fair amount of time into searching liberally enough that it doesn't throw out tickets that do match what the user is asking for.
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- lt 17y ago
  I don't know if it's been there before uservoice (I think so), but Dreamhost has this same thing on it's feature request area. You have a number of votes, can see all the requests, vote, and get them back once/when the feature you asked for is implemented.

by n-named 17y ago

Mongoose 17y ago

It's sort of a sparse, more formal takeoff on meta.stackoverflow.com.

blasdel 17y ago
For that analogy to work at all, votebox's UI would have to be a set of shared files that are automatically synced to your filesystem, with a primitive online file browser UI, but only local editing. It would also have to be a completely independent site, with different user accounts and separate quota.
- Mongoose 17y ago
  You clearly took my analogy too far. I was referring to the concept of a closely-knit system of user feedback and voting, not a clone of the site directed toward the purpose of meta-discussion.

sachinag 17y ago

Hey, it's been done since IdeaStorm (and it's the whole point of uservoice), but it's always a nice idea. The problem with Votebox is that the search is terrible. I'm sure the things I want (propogate folder renames across all users/machines and the ability to change permissions on nested subfolders to make them private/restricted to only certain users) are in there, somewhere, but I couldn't find them no matter what combination of phrases I could think of.

jackowayed 17y ago

Um, if by "innovative concept" you mean "almost exact ripoff of uservoice", then yes, I totally agree. It is a little cleaner and much closer to the rest of dropbox's site than they could get uservoice. I'll be interested to see if they regret reinventing the wheel and thus having to spend time solving problems uservoice has already solved. There are obviously some benefits (same login as the main site, they can implement any feature they want, looks more like the rest of dropbox)

buugs 17y ago
It isn't reinventing the wheel if you do it better. This is more like refining an octagon into a wheel without having to pay rights usage.
- jackowayed 17y ago
  Well yeah, but they're still doing the same thing, which means that there are problems that uservoice has already solved that dropbox will have to deal with on its own. For example, someone said that the search is really bad. Uservoice probably has invested a fair amount of time into searching liberally enough that it doesn't throw out tickets that do match what the user is asking for.
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lt 17y ago
I don't know if it's been there before uservoice (I think so), but Dreamhost has this same thing on it's feature request area. You have a number of votes, can see all the requests, vote, and get them back once/when the feature you asked for is implemented.