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I would like to see the ability to set the classifieds to never expire.  There really isn’t anything else to add. I’d just like to see a check box or something in the admin panel that will keep it from expiring, if you don’t wan t them to.

Also, It would be nice to be able to sort the items by Date, or Alphabetically.

When you click on the articles section, all you can see are the categories. You have to click into each one, to see if there’s something there you haven’t seen before.  If you make the Articles page look something like the person’s main blog page, where the categories and tags are on the side, and the articles are there posted in order of submitted date, then everyone can go straight to the page, and see all the latest news articles, without having to hunt for them.

You can still Navigate the categories on the side with ease, but now you have something that looks a little more like an articles page should. You can configure the articles like the news, where there’s the small description text, then the substance of the rest of the article, like you do with news.

It came up as I was designing my custom profile fields. There are questions that I would want to ask of a specific group–that really shouldn’t show up in any other groups according to someones choice.  Take for instance, I would like to have a section of questions that I could make specific for a gay man or a gay woman–that would be useless to someone who’s heterosexual. I wouldn’t even want the question section to show up. Or questions for a couple–which would have little to do with someone who is single.

It could be an option in section creation– You would be able to create sections common to all, or sections only for a specific question, like Male|Female|Couple or Married|Divorced|Single.  I hope that example is able to get across my meaning.

In either the main photo section, or the profile photo section, there should be a place there to list the rules for pictures to be uploaded.  We kind of take it for granted, but I want to make sure that the people who join the community adhere to a strict code on what’s acceptable and what is not acceptable to post, and there doesn’t seem to be any place to put that. It should be right there on the upload page, so it is clear to everyone, with a means to amend or change that caption as needed.

When you are creating new fields. You have the option of including this in match criteria. The only problem is, you don’t have a choice in HOW the field fits into the match criteria. I’ll try to list an example: Let’s say you have a field called Political Party. In the match, I’m sure it automatically takes your choice and matches it to others who choose the same. So your matches wouldn’t be republicans, if you are a democrat.

But lets try to take something a little different. Let’s take a match field like sexual preference, and add a dimension to it. You could be gay, and be matched with other gay men, or gay women. But there is another dimension. There are gay men who like to be on the receiving end, and those who like to be on the giving side. Without trying to be too politically incorrect, two receivers don’t make a good match. You need a pitcher and a catcher, so to speak. The match type is different. It’s complimentary, versus similarity. You don’t have a system to define that in your match computation.  You would need an expanded match criteria section where you can look at the types of fields and mark them as complimentary or similar, and mark which fields to which within them

I thought I might want to put this out there. Most people would like to have a chat room for groups. I think it would be a good idea for each group to have a chatroom of its own as it gets created.

I know this presents a problem to users once you start having a lot of groups on your site. First off, if you have a large number of groups, then chat would be very hard to navigate as it is. I’m not in favor of letting non group members be able to see your chatroom, or browse it if they don’t belong to it.

Perhaps there is a way to Structure Ray chat, so that it reads the user’s group membership, and only shows you the chatrooms of the groups that you belong to. That way you can have a large number of rooms, but the user is not faced with trying to navigate them all. They see what applies to them, and that can also cut down on a lot of lurking in chat.