Search Ideas

Search page is getting slower the more ideas there are in the db.

Done for the search input as of 765ba05. It makes sense for that input because the user expects to be able to keep typing after submitting the form. For other inputs, the user will expect whatever default their browser implements.

Done as of 7a31a68.

Autofocus should put the cursor at the end of an input, not the beginning.

Feature idea: private discussions only the creator and invited people can see. This could be a paid feature; $2 per discussion, say.

Top-level ideas can be structured any way you as author want them to be. (Any idea at any level can, but top-level ideas are presumably where articles could live.) The structure of any particular idea can be different from the structure of the discussion as a whole.

#2725 and #2711 are implemented as of 34fc694.

Proposed solution: ideas with pending criticisms could be archived automatically if they haven’t had any activity in the past 30 days, say.

Sanctimonious/preachy

I implemented #2659 and it’s much better now. In addition, there is now automated archiving (#2704) and manual archiving (#2711). Archived ideas live on a separate page, so the main page is faster.

I went ahead and implemented this feature since it was a good suggestion.

You can edit your discussion here.

I started a discussion earlier, and what I wrote in the “about” section of the discussion was not written well. I would like to revise it. Is this possible? If not, is there an intention to make this possible eventually?

Feature to collapse all criticized ideas of a discussion? Useful for todo lists.

This is not applicable anymore.

Need email notifications.

If it’s mostly done, what’s missing?

Now that diffs are formatted, they don’t omit unchanged lines anymore.

Proposed solution: allow people to archive ideas. Maybe only their own.

That could just annoy people and cause them to unsubscribe from emails.

Could do it only for ideas with pending criticisms. If they have pending criticisms, how important can they be? This has the added benefit of creating an incentive for proponents of ideas to address criticisms.

There could be periodic reminders and a review board to make it easier.

People might just forget to do this.

This could inadvertently hide dormant but important ideas.

This requires manual action. Could mean a lot of work depending on the discussion.

Proposed solution: ideas could be archived automatically if they haven’t been revised or criticized in 90 days, say.