PLACE FOR SUGGESTIONS
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First of all, I LOVE UrStyle.
Thank you to all working behind the scenes to create and develop an online community where both Fashionistas and Artists can share and discover. Secondly, I REALLY appreciate UrStyle’s requests for feedback and suggestions, and that you do your best to quickly meet the needs and desires of your members.
That said, I would like those at UrStyle to consider something…
Yes, you want to be a unique website, and yes, you want to attract as many active members as possible, as this helps you generate revenue from your sponsors/advertisers. The majority of former Polyvore users have not even tried UrStyle, and those who have are not as active as they were on Polyvore, myself included. And I think I know why...
Many of the features that made Polyvore so much fun and so addictive have not yet been introduced to UrStyle and I’m hoping they will be. Here are some features that I know former Polyvore members miss and I believe anyone new to UrStyle would enjoy; causing them to be much more active on the site. It’s all about “ease of use” and easily connecting to one another. Without this, there is a disconnect as a whole. That is why, I suspect, that even those who came over from Polyvore (a huge market!) are not as involved as regularly as they once were, if at all.
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TAGGING
When someone comments on a Set you’ve created, there should be a notification in a specific Feed so that we can be made aware of this. When we reply/tag them in response, they should receive a notification in their Feed as well. I do not check my sets often, and I do not leave comments, simply because there is no way for the creator to know a comment has been left unless one is constantly checking their sets AND checking the sets they’ve left comments on. -
FEED PAGES
The Notifications window would be better off formatted as a Personal Activity Feed Page, much in the same manner that Polyvore had it; where you can see who Liked, Commented, and Tagged you or your Set. This particular feed would show your personal activity where you are directly involved. Another and different Feed Page would have Sets and Collections published by those who we follow. These two different Feeds should be something we can easily check and switch back-and-forth from. -
COLLECTIONS
I would really, really love to be able to rearrange my Collections in an order of my choosing, and as often as I like, rather than have a chronological sort. It would also be VERY helpful and extremely wonderful if we could open a Collection of ours and reorganize it simply by moving the different items around.
SERVICE PLEASE! Lastly, when creating a Set, every time I click back from one Collection, I'm at the starting point of all of my Collections rather than just "outside" of the Collection I was in. That's annoying
and after awhile, I save the Set as a Draft and go back to it later. Maybe. Ease of use keeps people using. This is HUGE. It takes me more than a week to make a set because of the frustration factor. It used to take me a day. That's an enormous difference. What good are being able to use items from our Collections when we have to start at the beginning of them every time we've taken something from one and want to go straight on to another? Am I the only one who finds this a major turn-off to making sets?
- GROUPS/CONTESTS
This is one area, that when improved, is going to help UrStyle skyrocket, in my opinion. I realize you're working on this. Taking from the Polyvore model, it would be appreciated if the Groups and their Contests work in a similar way. I’m sure you’ve heard from the masses on that one so I’ll just leave it at that.
Thank you again for all the hard work, time, dedication, and attention to detail. You guys (and gals!) really do ROCK!
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@funkyjunkygypsy Excellent Suggestions, a lot of my Polyvore friends are reluctant to join or even use it much and I've tried to get them to come over or use it but they just don't want to or can't since they only use a phone. Having no official App and no contests in the groups are some of the reasons why and I think if some of your suggestions were implemented it could be a benefit for more Polyvore users coming over. I think if we could like comments made to our sets and others too and the improving the notifications as you suggested would help so much. Oh and when you tag a member in the description of a set, it would be cool if they get a notification. I make sets for my friends on here and they don't always know unless I tell them in a PM. I like them to be surprised when they see a set I made for them without me telling them.
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@curekitty EXACTLY! Without the interaction and the tagging connection, we lose something HUGE.
I just read a "statement set" posted by someone I follow who found this site too limiting and bowed out. For every one person that tells you why they aren't happy, there are nine more unhappy people who don't. This place has such potential, and I don't suggest they duplicate Polyvore, but at least use aspects of the design that WORKS to help us have ease of use and connectivity to one another!
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@gemini said in PLACE FOR SUGGESTIONS:
Idk if someone suggested this but can we have something like a timeline on our homepage ,with sets of people that we follow?
Cause I follow a lot of people and I don't see their sets unless I go to their profile.
xoxoQuoting myself + UrStyle app or better options when creating sets on mobile
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@lysianna ~ Yes, I really miss that tool. The way the creator is now, you never know if the sets are centered. Also, I notice that sets, once published, appear on our pages in all different sizes.
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@funkyjunkygypsy you have many great suggestions here, this site has years to catch up to poly, what they have done so far is amazing in a short time. I hope they ease the groups page to make submitting sets to groups easier. They are a great team so I'm sure more upgrade will take place.
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@URSTYLE @olivpear @admin So, the EU has passed Articles 11 and 13 (there will be one more vote early 2019), but can you please address this issue from your perspective, specifically how this would affect URSTYLE users from EU countries??? Because if Articles 11 and 13 will go into effect it looks like we (EU users) can lose some or all of our sets once more. This time permanently. Thank you!!!
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@petri5 The final decision about this directive will be made in January 2019. Your sets are safe and we are taking care of that. Do not worry!
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Hi everyone!
I wanted to see if there are any updates regarding templates. Is there a plan to introduce them? I miss making moodboards! They were also really great for groups. Thanks!
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@urstyle I like your optimism, I really do, and I´m sure you´re doing your absolute best to take care of our sets and user accounts. You deserve all the praise for your work on this site
That being said, I reserve the right to remain cautiously pessimistic regarding A11/13, EU parlament wants this and they want it pretty bad so it´s always wise to have some sort of contingency plan.
Thank you for your response and I hope you´ll have a great day!!! -
Thank you for all your stunning work-Just a suggestion:It would be perfect to have a notification of the comments on our sets,thank you !🧡
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It would be great if you could improve the quality of images used without a background. They are fine if used on a white background but when used on a colored background the images usually have white, raggedy looking edges unless they are PNG images. Thank you for taking the time to read my suggestion.
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I made this suggestion once before, but didn't explain why I felt it was an important change. So I will this time. I wish to request that Collections be alphabetized. I know that now they are based on when they were created. Here is my issue with this. I have over 200 collections and that number will grow. It can takes me forever to find a collection when creating a set. Which means that I'm searching constantly for the proper collection for EVERY item I use. Those that know me, know I use a lot of items per set. Knowing that it's going to take so much work to find my items is the one thing on Urstyle that makes me not want to makes sets at times. I love it here. I thank you for everything you have done to include all of use from Polyvore. Thank you for this forum where we can actually make these requests. Hope you will consider this improvement on collections.
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I'm sure other people have suggested this but I think the selection area of items is sometimes too big. Example:
The selection area of the jeans is way too big and it can be frustrating since it covers the majority of the other items that would be around it. I don't know if and how it can be fixed but I'm just throwing it out there in case other people think the same~ ^^
EDIT: One more suggestion. It'd be a lot more convenient if we could edit our set names and descriptions without having to enter the CREATE mode. It'd make things a lot faster~
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It would be helpful if we could search for our collections by name in the "Create" tool like we can in the organizer.
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I wonder if there is a way to sort the collections on? When I'm inside the creator and finding the right collection, it's annoying that I can not find the right collection because they are sorted as they were posted. Should have been sorted alphabetically. Must scroll a lot back and forth to find the right one. Also, it seems that it takes place that an item appears above the text. The elements will change as you add to the collection. It would have been easier if only the name of the collection appears. As it does on the left side. But here you can not wallow items to the creator, just organize.
See you doing a great job with this. Thank you very, very much -
a way to have groups that are thematic and only those sets can be chosen to be added. a way to delete unwanted or inappropriate sets from your groups
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@admin a way to "clone" an item once i have shrunk or rotated it.
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Just so wondering that when we were Polyvore users the items we placed in sets eg:- fashion items etc never had those sharp jagged lines around them is there anyway that #Urstyle can have them much smoother so as our sets do not look tacky... so to speak...Just asking if this coul dbe improvement for us all if possible would be so happy ... thank you and have a wonderful weekend!