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Archive - July 2006

Blogs Feature Request List and Known Bugs List

This is an attempt to gather all the feature requests for Blogs that I can find on the Blogs board into one place. Feel free to leave other suggestions as comments to this thread. I've also tried to list known bugs in Blogs along with workarounds at the end of this posting.

General

  • Way to link your blog to your store
  • Link to My Blog from My eBay
  • An anchored Visit counter so it's easy to see
  • Make tag more descriptive so bookmarking a member's blog leaves a readable name</font></li> <li><font size="2">Link from feedback page to a member's blog</font></li> <li><font size="2">Link to blogs relevant to a category on the relevant categories page</font></li> <li><font size="2">Most popular blogs (ala Pulse) list</font></li> <li><font size="2">Add icon to those after member's feedback info, about me, power seller etc. to link to member's blog<br></font></li> <li><font size="2">Option to send  a copy of a comment to your My Messages area with link back to the blog</font></li> <li><font size="2">Easy way to find comments you have made on other's blogs</font></li> <li><font size="2">Add "My Favorite Blogs" to My eBay area</font></li> <li><font size="2">Ability to preview Custom Css effects when creating it.</font></li> <li><font size="2">More links to blogs from more places (e.g. eBay Home Page)</font></li> <li><font size="2">GoTo field on pagination control to go directly to a page</font></li><li><font size="2">Blog owner's own menu area in the left nav where they control the content.</font></li><li><font size="2">Ability to put Skype button in anchored place on the blog (maybe after Member Icons?)</font></li><li><font size="2">Option to receive email when someone comments on your blog</font></li><li><font size="2">Link for "Send this post to a friend:<br></font></li></font></ul><font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;" size="2">Rich Text Editor/Entry & Edit Page<br></font> <ul style="font-family: Arial;"> <li><font style="font-family: Arial;" size="2">Link creator tool similar to that in Guide editor</font></li> <li><font style="font-family: Arial;" size="2">Photo insertion tool similar to that in Guide editor</font></li> <li><font style="font-family: Arial;" size="2">Allow owner theme color to be used here</font></li> <li><font style="font-family: Arial;" size="2">Spell checker</font></li></ul><font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;" size="2">Comments to entry</font> <ul style="font-family: Arial;"><font style="font-family: Arial;" size="2"> <li>Preserve linebreaks in responses</li> <li>Simple HTML should be allowed , :-) icons</li> <li>Links in responses</li> <li>Allow comments to a comment to be threaded/connected to that comment</li> <li>Ability to block posts on an entry rather than the whole blog</li><li>Per entry ability to block a list of users</li><li>Per entry ability to allow only a select list of users to view the entry<br></li></font></ul><font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;" size="2"><b>Blog Home Page<br></b></font> <ul style="font-family: Arial;"> <li><font style="font-family: Arial;" size="2">Link at bottom when there are more posts than are being shown</font></li></ul><font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;" size="2"><b>Undesired features<br></b></font> <ul style="font-family: Arial;"> <li><font style="font-family: Arial;" size="2">No rating of blogs</font></li></ul><font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;" size="2"><b><br>Known problems with Blogs and workarounds</b></font><font style="font-family: Arial;"><br><ul><li><font size="2">When Viewing HTML, don't apply the font selection to text typed. Cosmetic issue. Final results are not affected.</font></li> </ul><pre><font size="-0"><font color="#a8a8a8" size="1">"I am an eBay employee. The opinions expressed in my blog are my own, and not eBay's."</font></font></pre></font></div><div class="BE-CommentLinks BE_CommentLinks"><a href="http://blogs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BlogAddComment&user=rrragan&id=2583010#lastcomment" class="mr10">Comment</a>|<a href="http://blogs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ReportBlogAbuse&user=rrragan&id=2583010&type=e" style="margin:0 8px 0 10px">Report this post</a></div></div><div class="custumhr"></div><div class="BE-numComments"><a href="http://blogs.ebay.com/rrragan/entry/Blog-not-really-gone-eBay-Blogs-bug/_W0QQidZ2337010#comments">2 comments</a></div><h2 class="BlogEntryTitle"><a href="http://blogs.ebay.com/rrragan/entry/Blog-not-really-gone-eBay-Blogs-bug/_W0QQidZ2337010"><b>Blog not really gone. eBay Blogs bug.</b></a></h2><div class="BlogEntryContent"><div class="BE-PostDate BE_PostDate">Posted Jul-01-06 10:55:13 PDT</div><div class="BlogEntry"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Posting on the first of July in hopes that this gets around the bug in Blogs which makes it think my <span style="font-family: Arial;">b</span>log is new since a new month has started. Presumably a test for the number of posts<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> is coming up zero<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">(<span style="font-family: Arial;">i<span style="font-family: Arial;">m<span style="font-family: Arial;">p<span style="font-family: Arial;">r<span style="font-family: Arial;">o<span style="font-family: Arial;">p<span style="font-family: Arial;">e<span style="font-family: Arial;">r<span style="font-family: Arial;">l<span style="font-family: Arial;">y<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">b<span style="font-family: Arial;">a<span style="font-family: Arial;">s<span style="font-family: Arial;">e<span style="font-family: Arial;">d<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">o<span style="font-family: Arial;">n<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">p<span style="font-family: Arial;">o<span style="font-family: Arial;">s<span style="font-family: Arial;">t<span style="font-family: Arial;">s<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">i<span style="font-family: Arial;">n<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">t<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">h<span style="font-family: Arial;">e<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">m<span style="font-family: Arial;">o<span style="font-family: Arial;">n<span style="font-family: Arial;">t<span style="font-family: Arial;">h<span style="font-family: Arial;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> and making it look like I'm a new blogger. Here goes nothing.<br><br>"I am an eBay employee. The opinions expressed in my blog are my own, and not eBay's."</span></font></div><div class="BE-CommentLinks BE_CommentLinks"><a href="http://blogs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BlogAddComment&user=rrragan&id=2337010#lastcomment" class="mr10">Comment</a>|<a href="http://blogs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ReportBlogAbuse&user=rrragan&id=2337010&type=e" style="margin:0 8px 0 10px">Report this post</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </td></tr></table> <div id="SupportiveNavigation"><!--cacheStatus: false--><span class="ebay"><div id="glbfooter"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td class="g-pipe"><img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="10" width="1"><br><a href="http://pages.ebay.com/aboutebay.html">About eBay</a> | <a href="http://www2.ebay.com/aw/marketing.shtml">Announcements</a> | <a href="http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/index.html">Security Center</a> | <a href="http://sofe.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SojRedirect&cid=1285&ebayredir=http://pages.ebay.com/ebay_toolbar/index.html">eBay Toolbar</a> | <a href="http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/index.html" rel="nofollow">Policies</a> | <a href="http://www.ebaymainstreet.com">Government Relations</a> | <a href="http://pages.ebay.com/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> | <a href="http://pages.ebay.com/help/index.html">Help</a></td></tr><tr><td height="4"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" colspan="2"></td></tr><tr><td height="4"></td></tr><tr class="g-hlp" valign="top"><td class="g-nav coreFooterLegalNotice">Copyright © 1995-2008 eBay Inc. 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