Oneness & Unity

Dear ~Matthew & Mods,

     This idea suggestion is about the “friends list.”  I suggest that instead of putting so and so has this so much friends, that we put instead “Gaia has 125,000 (or whatever the current number is) member friends.  Not just “members” but “member friends”.  Whoever is online will appear on our panes highlighted (like it always have) but also those who are not our friends (per se).  I suggest, “invited friends” show on the friends pane first, then followed by other members who are online, then by “last logged in”. 

My reasoning for this is so that new members will feel welcome and not get intimidated that they have no friends or only a few friends in the beginning.  By stating “Gaia has “x amount of member friends”, this will foster oneness and unity amongst ourselves.  This way also we can quickly see other members and decide to click on their profile page and possibly read and comment on their blogs. 

Now the “friend invitations” process still take in effect here.  We can still invite or get invited although the number is hidden from others except in that page where it lists the number of friends from highest to lowest.  That will be the only page where you can see the “number” of friends a Gaia member have.

Thank you,
Samme

Re: Oneness & Unity

Hmmm….  Interesting idea, Samme.  I'll pass it along :)

~M

Re: Oneness & Unity

Thank you ~Matthew,
Okay ~Matthew here's another idea, I will just put it here instead of posting a new one.
Can the Dev team come up with a program that when you place the cursor on the word “comments” under each blog post that the comments will just roll out the same page without “page refresh” (and additional point added to the number of views)?  I think this can be done easily with Ruby, Rails, CSS, Ajax, XML, etc (yeah right easy for me to say LOL).  This is so that we have less clicking in Gaia and will make the Gaia experience “more” enjoyable and will make readers more inclined to comment.  I've read that this can be done.
thank you,
Samme

<lol>”Unity among programming languages.  One programming language to rule them all”.</lol>

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I think that's a good idea, too, Samme.  I'll add it to the request list.

~Matthew

Re: Oneness & Unity

If you use Firefox, find the CoolIris add-on/extension.  You can hover over any link and a little popup browser will appear (then you can see comments without any clicking).  I can't live without it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207

And we'll put the 'comment preview' feature on our backlog - we'll see if/how we can work it in.

Cheers,
/c

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FWIW, after a month or so of use, my favorite CoolIris setting (via the Options button) thus far is: Open Preview on Mouseover, 3000 milliseconds.  Which means you hover over any link, you don't have to do anything, and 3 seconds later, the popup window appears.  2 seconds was just a bit too sensitive, it would popup on too many unintentional hovers…

Re: Oneness & Unity

Thanks Chris!

I've adjusted mine, but I had to look up what FWIW meant!  :-P

Hugs, Lb

Re: Oneness & Unity

Oops I almost miss this one.  Thank you Chris for your response and consideration.
Yes I do have it and I love CoolIris addon. 
blessings,
Samme