Roadmap


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Profile: add sort criteria

It's nice to see the latest answers / questions / votes in the profile - right now, it's hard coded to number of votes.

Submitted 10 years ago by Jim Galley  |  3 comments

STAGE: Planned


3
Ability to see that others are also answering a question when you're doing so as well.

There has been more than once where I've posted an answer and had the page reload, only to see that somebody else already answered the question, sometimes better than I...

Submitted 10 years ago by rbwhitaker  |  2 comments

STAGE: Discussing


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Badges and other game dynamics

Badges is one of the big items that needs to be built and going on top of the development priority list.Another suggested dynamic we can explore:The top 5 experts for the...

Submitted 11 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  11 comments

STAGE: Discussing


2
Are questions going to be closeable? What criteria would be used?

One of the key features of Stack Exchange and answers.onstartups.com was that off-topic or poor questions could be closed by voting. I'll refrain from saying my personal...

Submitted 11 years ago by rbwhitaker  |  13 comments

STAGE: Discussing


1
Sorting on topics pages

I think the sorting was missed on the individual topic pages. Like the questions page has "active, new, top, unanswered".

Submitted 11 years ago by Joel J.  |  1 comments

STAGE: Discussing


1
Subscribe to questions to get updated by email

This was suggested by Chris-at on HN.Ability to subscribe to a question and get updates to it via email.

Submitted 11 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  0 comments

STAGE: Discussing


3
What things other than just Q&A should Bright Journey have?

Here are some off the top of my head: Polls "Review my startup" (where people can ask for suggestions on their site) Links (similar to Hacker news) We'll be creating a...

Submitted 11 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  7 comments

STAGE: Discussing


1
Collapse comments if there are more than 5

Some questions or answers will always have a ton of comments and it requires a lot of scrolling to get to the next answer.Show at most 5 comments and collapse the rest with...

Submitted 11 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  0 comments

STAGE: Planned


1
Replace Google search with an in-house built search

In order to launch quickly, we ended up using Google Custom Search for v1.This is going to be changed to an in-house search. Google's contextual matching is obviously...

Submitted 11 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  0 comments

STAGE: Planned


3
Accepted Answers: the case for it and against it

Setting an accepted answer didn't make it into the launch release because we need the community's opinion. Here are the pros and cons:Pros: Signals that the asker got a...

Submitted 11 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  5 comments

STAGE: Planned


1
The Bright Journey Blog

Primary benefits: Keeping the community informed of changes to the platform. Inbound marketing to grow traffic. Community building content. e.g. Interview and feature the...

Submitted 11 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  1 comments

STAGE: Discussing


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Topics: organization, synonyms, and short descriptions

Each of the topics should have a 1-3 sentence description associated with it. Right now only a few have descriptions. We'll need to add it in for the rest.

Submitted 11 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  0 comments

STAGE: Discussing


1
Missing pages: Contact us, Press kit, Help

There is no way to find any contact information right now. And there should be a press section. Storyboard is a nice app that makes it easy to create a press kit.

Submitted 11 years ago by Chrissie Gray  |  1 comments

STAGE: Planned


1
Tour for new visitors

A simple, single-page tour needs to be created to show new visitors what the site is all about and how to use it. It could be similar to the tour that StackExchange...

Submitted 11 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  0 comments

STAGE: Discussing