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| Blogs Feature Request List and Known Bugs ListPosted Jul-04-06 20:33:39 PDT Updated Sep-15-06 16:03:58 PDT 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>
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<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>
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<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&type=e&id=2583010" class="reportlink">Report this post</a></div></div></div></div><div class="BE-CommentTitle"><a name="comments">Comments</a></div><div class="insideFrame"><div class="frameContent"><table class="commentstable"><tr><td class="commentsimg"><div class="commentimage"><a href="http://myworld.ebay.com/shipscript" title="shipscript"><img class="image" alt="shipscript" src="http://i10.ebayimg.com/01/u/000/77/52/2649_0.JPG" border="0"></a></div></td><td class="commentstab"><div><div class="BE-backtoplink"><a href="#bkTop">Back to top</a></div><div class="membercontent"><div class="mbg"><a href="http://myworld.ebay.com/shipscript">shipscript</a> ( <a href="http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=shipscript">20</a><img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/icon/iconYellowStar_25x25.gif" height="25" width="25" class="mbg-star" title="Feedback score is 10 to 49">) <a href="http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/shipscript"><img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/aboutme-small.gif" height="8" width="23" title="About shipscript" border="0"></a></div><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZshipscript" class="ml5">View seller's items</a> | <a href="http://blogs.ebay.com/shipscript">View Blog</a></div></div><div class="BE-CommentText BE_CommentText">Thanks for making this handy summary. :-)</div><div class="BE-CommentSlug BE_CommentSlug">Jul-05-06 00:03:49 PDT <a href="http://blogs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ReportBlogAbuse&user=rrragan&id=2590010&type=c" class="ml5">Report this comment</a></div></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="insideFrameAlt"><div class="frameContent"><table class="commentstable"><tr><td class="commentsimg"><div class="commentimage"><a href="http://myworld.ebay.com/chopsueysisters" title="chopsueysisters"><img class="image" alt="chopsueysisters" src="http://i9.ebayimg.com/04/u/000/77/60/6a9e_0.JPG" border="0"></a></div></td><td class="commentstab"><div><div class="membercontent"><div class="mbg"><a href="http://myworld.ebay.com/chopsueysisters">chopsueysisters</a> ( <a href="http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=chopsueysisters">2782</a><img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/icon/iconRedStar_25x25.gif" height="25" width="25" class="mbg-star" title="Feedback score is 1,000 to 4,999">) <a href="http://pages.ebay.com/services/buyandsell/powersellers.html"><img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/icon/psIcon_50x25.gif" height="25" width="50" alt="Member is a PowerSeller" title="Member is a PowerSeller" border="0"></a><a href="http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/chopsueysisters"><img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/aboutme-small.gif" height="8" width="23" title="About chopsueysisters" border="0"></a><a href="http://stores.ebay.com/ChopSueySisters"><img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/icon/iconStoresNW_20x20.gif" height="20" width="20" border="0"></a></div><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZchopsueysisters" class="ml5">View seller's items</a> | <a href="http://blogs.ebay.com/chopsueysisters">View Blog</a></div></div><div class="BE-CommentText BE_CommentText">Dude! I want a ban feature, friends list for my crew and I want the ability to have some blog entries private for my entourage. They never took care of the nut y'know. T&S said they don't get involved on the blogs. What 'up with that? I need a ban feature OK? I need something else I'm sure. Let me know what you want? I'm on an island I'm sure I can find something.</div><div class="BE-CommentSlug BE_CommentSlug">Jul-30-06 01:26:36 PDT <a href="http://blogs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ReportBlogAbuse&user=rrragan&id=6087010&type=c" class="ml5">Report this comment</a></div></td></tr></table></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="SupportiveNavigation"><!-- SupportiveNav --><!--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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