Apologies for the quietness around here recently - real-life caught up with me…
Thankfully, Jasmine has done a lot research recently on some of the irks of MySpace and sent in a fantastic email full of ideas - I've posted the contents below and we can all hope it inspires the owners of MySpace to improve [...]
I like the use of bulletins to a point - you get a varied selection from friends and people you’ve added - but I would like the ability to be able to choose who I get bulletins from. For example, I have Kevin Smith and the Suicide Girls on my friends list, and don’t [...]
Lauren asked if she could delete all her blog entries in one go - doesn’t seem that you can, so for her it’s going to be a long tedious process of clicking the remove entry link and awaiting the page to load for the next remove.
It would also be nice to be able to move [...]
“I would like to know which friend you lost when you loose a friend. It’s annoying to figure out who deleted you or if they deleted their myspace.”
Kim
I agree with this, when you’re no longer “friends”, it would be nice to know who’s leaving if it’s amicable - if they really don’t want you [...]
One thing that bugs me, is if you add a new friend request, you have to go to a separate process to send them a preliminary message introducing yourself (if needed) - Personally I think this should be part of the request process, where when you click add, there is also a message box to [...]
When I first started on MySpace, the first thing I did like everyone else, was fill in the sections in your profile!
Your Header, About Me, I’d Like to Meet, Interests, etc.
Only problem is, it’s all a bit too similar to everyone else - so the first thing I did was find a workaround so I [...]
Petsey5 sent in a wish asking for the ability to rename your top friends.
I can see his point, there’s nothing worse than seeing a load of HTML symbols with some abstract saying, especially if the picture has changed leaving you going “Who’s that?”
Personally I think a slightly more useable feature would be a Personal Alias [...]
Wish MySpace would disallow opacity from the CSS allowed in profiles - as much as I like to push forward CSS and it’s creative uses, I’ve come across far too many MySpace profiles that abuse these effects, so that you cannot see any of the profile due to the transparent tables and images - the [...]
16 pictures? Pah!
I was suprised to find you can only stick 16 pictures onto MySpace - it’s not like it’s based on file size either (as far as I can tell), so personally, I think it would be nice to have the option for more space - even if it was paid for.
How big is [...]
Wish it was easier to see if your friends have changed their profile in any way - unless they are really good and post a Bulletin, you’ll never know except for visiting every friends profile and reading the whole thing occasionally.
How about adding an “Updated!” icon/title next to a friends icon/name in the Friends Space [...]
Wish it was easier to message someone from your control panel, rather than having to visit their page, wait for it to load, and then get to a message panel.
Tom
[ED: This would link in nice with the recently updated note for friends spaces]
I would like to see the music player have more controls - so that you could set up a playlist of your favourite songs[...]
To get you started the sections in the Profile Edit - Interests & Personality are useful, but they’re not for everyone.
I wish you could choose what sections you want.
i.e. add a new section, give it a name and then type in your details. You could have some default ones already set, that you can rename [...]
HTML coding is not for everyone - I wish for a simple WYSIWYG editor to make my profile look nice without having to pinch code from other sites and not really understand what it is doing anyway…
Also, have it in the options that you can turn it off if it doesn’t work or you’re a [...]
I’d like to see a method of being able to group friends - bit like what you can do in MSN with contacts - so for example; having close friends group, distant friends group, bands friends group, or whatever name you wish to give the group.
Strange how the blog part of MySpace, which is the least used in most peoples profiles, is the part which can be customised the most!
You can change quite a lot from headers, colours, custom headers, changing the link colours and adding your own style sheet entries - without resorting to hacks and squeezing them in [...]
Why does your screen name get repeated 11 times on the same page? If you’ve arrived at the space of the person, then I guess you should know who it is by the time you scroll down a short way - unless we are all goldfish?
I wish it wasn’t repeated so many times - or [...]
Why is this box on every page? The whole point of Myspace is for everyone to be available to each other in the netwok - so it’s really pointless and should be removed to let other more interesting things move closer to the top of the page.
Having correct number of friends viewable would be nice - I have a few that are invisible, probably due to them deleting their accounts, but my friends number is higher than it should be - not always a bad thing I guess
Being able to see who’s online easier in your personal MySPace home page!
Unless you open up your View All My Friends pages, or see who’re your best buddies, you don’t really know who is online that you may want to chat too!